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― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

i just ate duck with oysters as a side item.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

and all i had to do was sit and look pretty and be charming for the nice tourism lady and the hotel mgr.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Jesse found the new thread right away.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have been thinking that I would like to eat some oysters. Raw.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I had an eye ultrasound, man that was weird.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Someone pick my next winter coat:

http://tinyurl.com/y9pvwu
http://tinyurl.com/y32yru
http://tinyurl.com/y7fv82

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely the last one for aesthetics.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

OMG Jesse found the new thread right away.

For some reason this feels patronizing. Like I'm a puppy or a toddler.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

hey, it's prolly none of my business, i'm totally lurking, but the first one, jeff.

― ai lien (kold_krush), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

The first one looks the warmest, the last one looks the most stylish. Avoid the second.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

The guy at the top of the thread bears a spotty resemblance to my dad. Not totally, but just in the way the facial features are proportioned or something. It's going to creep me out for a while.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason this feels patronizing

It's meant to be.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta go with the last one.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason this feels patronizing

It's meant to be.

OK YOU TWO.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Someday I will take you all to Lawrence's and we will eat fried friends from the sea.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, my vote is for the first one! I like the parka vibe better than the barncoat.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Figures. The second one is my favorite because I am entraced with its practicality. I think Jeff would look beyond adorable in that furry hood though, with little red cheeks! OMG!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

last one. or 2nd.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

2nd is horrible. first is best.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeentranced

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to say #2, too, but not in that horrible color.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, the second one isn't so bad in any of the other available colors. I'd go with black or green.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

And the third one is better in charcoal.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

i like the quilting on the 2nd one. a lot.

but still i'm strongly on the side of the last one. wool is always good.

the first one is gro

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

the first one is gro

did someone garrot jesse mid post? is it gross? groady? groantastically good?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

The reason I say #2 is a good shell jacket is a great thing.

xpost groin-grabbingly great

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago.

thanks for the fun today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

He said, cavalierly tossing a few bills on the bed.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

#1 - LIKE: It's the warmest. Has a removeable hood, even the fur is removeable. DISLIKE: Not convertible, may be too bulky.

#2 - LIKE: It seems practical. I like the full sleeve down liner, and the shell is versatile. DISLIKE: Styling, price.

#3 - LIKE: Style. DISLIKE: The removeable liner is a vest, not full sleeve. No hood option. I may still be cold in it.

I would get all of them in either black or charcoal. I don't like colors. I'm leaning towards #2, because style is probably the least of my concerns.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Man I would think that Carhartt you were rockin' the other day would be coat enough (paired with a good hat, of course).

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

This is my jacket!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

I like the carhartt, but I was chubbier when I first bought it, so I want a smaller coat. Also, the snap on hood is broken. It has been a good coat, but I'm ready for the next step.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, is that warm enough?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan - I have the same one!!!

I found it in a dusty corner of a storage room at my school about five years ago.

i love it.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

NO WAI

I got it at Burlington Coat Factory last year for cheap. It's not not warm, but I usually go for style over substance when it comes to coats (because I am dumb).

Really, it's a fall jacket that I combine with a thick hoodie, Voltronlike, to create winter wear.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Weird. Mine is also a Kenneth Cole Reaction, thick wool blend, with a collar. But other than that, same jacket.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Does it have the Michael Jackson shoulders and stripes down the sleeves?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Of course.

Hey, I got the apartment!

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

W00T

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations!

(on the jacket of course)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

mine is like this, i think:
http://www1.macys.com/catalog/product/index.ognc?ID=202585&CategoryID=4357#

except in black.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a mannequin or a model?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Thats me

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

jk i would never let my hair look like that.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Also his weird tan uniform is gross.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I need to remember not to post right at 5:00PM CST

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Still at work. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, mee 2.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Gotta pay for that apartment, dude!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Today I had to track down sponsors at the last minute. they love me.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

technically i'm still doing it (but really posting on ile)

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

My boss is a very tall and solid-framed black woman.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

My boss is in town today. She stood up from my where she was working and a fart slipped out.

On the plance down here she met a man who is the assistant coach for Tul@n3's basketball team. He asked her out for dinner tonight.

On the way back to where she's staying we stopped off at Rite-Aid and I noticed that she was buying an enormous box of Trojans.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

So, a class act all the way around.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

somehow, those four sentances just made my day.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

er, five.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I didnt' realize there were new posts!

Congratulations Kenan!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

haha thats weird.

i prob shouldnt be posting about my b0ss @ work but lets just say thats prob the last thing she's doing.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

What white male entertainers does she like?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ron Howard.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Just like all black women, duh.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

i prob shouldnt be posting about my b0ss @ work but lets just say thats prob the last thing she's doing.

Just in case your boss thinks, " I think I'll google myself by searching for 'boss.'"

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

she inspires irrational fear.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 18 October 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

My stomach really hurts. Too much coffee I think. it hurts pretty bad right in the stomach. I don't get many stomach aches. This is no fun.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

That was a great message board post.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 19 October 2006 00:21 (nineteen years ago)

I know. I thought about that as I wrote it.

How about this

A suicide note in the pocket of a man who jumped off the Omni Royal Orleans Hotel late Tuesday led police to the grisly scene of his girlfriend’s murder, where they found her charred head in a pot on the stove, her legs and feet baked in the oven and the rest of her dismembered body in trash bag in the refrigerator, according to police and the couple’s landlord.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.wwltv.com/sharedcontent/VideoPlayer/videoPlayer.php?vidId=95555&catId=53

"Not a side of him that I ever saw..."

ORLY.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:33 (nineteen years ago)

Fine, fuck y'all, I'm taking this to the rest of the board.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 01:54 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha. I broke Brian Zeg33r's brain:

Brian:oh by the way
thanks to your stupid porno descriptions
i had a dream that was a perfectly harmless dream about a performance peice by the artist Gilber & George
Gilbert and George
which turned into one vomiting into the other's mouth
and i woke up about to vomit from it
so thanks alot
me: no
you lie
Brian: for real

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

Brian: for real
they were doing this performance piece in scuba gear with all these interpretive dancers in the breaking waves of some beach
and then gilbert walked up to george and started puking into his mouth

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, Lost was pretty damn good. Even I have to admit that.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

jesse: you already played the "vomit in mouth" card. You don't get to keep it.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Although I guess you can't be blamed for that one.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

But seriously, ENOUGH

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:52 (nineteen years ago)

I played that card, and with it I won.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

I, too, enjoyed Lost. But we shan't talk about it until John gives us the all clear. He doesn't get to watch it until Thursday, I think.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

xpost pyrrhic, i say

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'll just go ahead and make it a third for enjoying Lost. Stupid television snaring me into its clutches.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:03 (nineteen years ago)

Runway was fun, too.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:04 (nineteen years ago)

I HATED this episode of lost.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it had the same problem I complain about all the time, in that there are way more questions than answers. That said, Locke is great, his backstories are better than anyone's, and that much plot weirdness makes up for not really furthering the overall plot.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have a feeling it's going to be a while before there are more answers than questions.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

yeh, me too. But in the meantime, please entertain me. Enagage me. That's all I really want.

I will miss the next Jin-Sun episode, I think, because I might start burning myself with cigarettes out of boredom during the flashbacks.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, at least there are at least things about Locke that we still don't know.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:18 (nineteen years ago)

ooh... doubletalk! I need sleep.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Why did Jeff hate this episode so badly?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

No telling. We'll find out later, I imagine, if we bug him about it.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:45 (nineteen years ago)

LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU LA LA LA LA

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

We've given away zero.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

I just thought it was all transparent and obvious. I will point out in more detail afte everyone has seen it. The one part where that guy went in that thing and did that thing so that he knew to do that thing was super annoying.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 19 October 2006 10:52 (nineteen years ago)

i saw the last 15 minutes of lost. needless to say i'm confused again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

and also, i've spent the last 15 minutes reading quotes from some kind of wonderful. that watts. they didn't have the one i was looking for though.

i'm on a quest to buy this movie.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hi y'all. I'm feeling better. Not looking forward to grading papers today, although it's nice to have FALL BREAK!

"...Something something paradise and pair-a long legs"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

(that was re: watts)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

the one i was looking for was an overly angsty watts on the verge of tears saying "all i have in this life are something, something and my drums."

it's supposed to be dramatic but it never fails to crack me up.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

amanda, i've been using the quote you mention as my gmail availability msg for the past half hour.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

haha no way. i have so many favorite moments in that movie, i don't know where to start. i really like it when the skinhead calls watts a lesbian. that part is HIlarious.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm joining netflix today just so i can watch this stupid movie.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

You would be better off going to the video store!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

the closest video stores in my 'hood feature russian and polish flicks. the one on the corner of western & augusta has the best posters in the window. i want to investigate that place.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

Go to north coast, otto.

I HATE SALES PEOPLE. This guy just came in and gave me a really long sales pitch for his company which included him saying Now, I'm not trying to sell you anything... over and over. Uh huh. Riiigghhhttt. Now, I'm going to back away slowly...

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

Who else wants to be a dirty martini for Halloween? (Not completely SFW)

Is anyone going to the Whirlaway tonight?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i forget about north coast. i think of it as that store i walk past on my way to the liquor store. i'm up for whirlaway.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

North Coast is great. DND is where we go to get overpriced cheapo brand cat food when we run out, Ben and Jerrys pints, and, sometimes, liquor.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

it's where i go when i'm drinking good beer. it's f'ing expensive though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

oh! And frozen pizza... and chips...

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Who else wants to be a dirty martini for Halloween?

Dirty women's halloween costumes = witless and dull

Filthy filthy gay men's halloween costumes = best holiday ever

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Incident at Loch Ness was pretty hilarious. I recommend it, and I still might have to listen to Zak Penn and Werner Herzog's commentary for another layer of meta wackiness.

And I, because I'm really stupid, managed to open BOTH my netflix envelopes on the wrong side. Hopefully I can tape them shut. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Good NYT article on dirty women's halloween costumes

Bugmetnot says you can log in there with grumpy/grumpy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still feeling a little under the weather, so no TT for me today. I think I'm going to make a sage cream sauce for the butternut-squash lasagna Kr made the other day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

That article is spot on, though I still think a dirty martini is pretty creative.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the martini is creative. I like the idea of dressing up as inanimate objects.

My bandmate EL has responded to the increasing sexiness of women's Halloween costumes by going as "Sexy Abe Lincoln" the last few years: top hat, beard, short skirt, fishnets.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I need an idea for this year.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Dirty Martini costums is about as creative as every burlesque revival show ever. The last one I saw had an act in which bottles of booze were poured from the cleavage, the cocktail shaker was mixed likewise, and the olive was fished out of her thong after a long grope.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

What the fuck am I doing for Halloween? I have neither a party plan nor a costume.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Tony: [describing his dream] So there I am, getting it on with this perfect female body and...
Mike: What?
Tony: I can't say.
Mike: No, you can't give a build-up like that and not deliver. you know, a perfect female body, it?s not a bad start.
Tony: But with the head of Abraham Lincoln. with the hat and the beard, everything.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and then she served the martini to someone in the audience and waited until he took a sip.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

The hobo has turned into the Hillbilly Honey.

hahaha

Isn't it every man's fantasy to sex up a transient?

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

i would totally go as ted baxter if we can get a mary richards and murray slaughter on board. i don't think we know anyone squat and bald enough for a lou grant.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

actually, maybe i'll just be a pencil for halloween.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I've never seen a burlesque show. I plead ignorance.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

i would totally go as ted baxter if we can get a mary richards and murray slaughter on board. i don't think we know anyone squat and bald enough for a lou grant.

Neither do I, but I love where you're going with this.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.simonsays.com/assets/isbn/0743249895/C_0743249895.jpg

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have neither a party plan nor a costume.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I took a Nerve.com date to a twisted burlesque show once. I think it creeped him out.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

Nerve.com dates have no business being creeped out by anything.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

if we can get enough golf clubs we could do a caddyshack thing. though i'd love to be judge smails i think my hair dictates that i'm danny noonan. and whomever gets to be rodney gets all the best lines.

xpost, what's a nerve.com?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

why am i focusing on ted knight for halloween?

MOOONROOOOOOOOEEEEEEE!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

i could wear a white sheet and be a line of blow.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

An online dating portal supported by nerve.com, the onion, and a couple of other sites...I think the provider was called Spring Street Network? Kind of NYC-centric, not as, shall we say, "relationship oriented" as sites like match.com or that creepy Christian guy's.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

not as, shall we say, "relationship oriented"

Yeah, it's a meat market. But a very cool one, as those things go. Meat that reads books.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I met Jessa on nerve.com.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

why haven't i been alerted to this yet? i thought you people were my friends. *harumph*

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

It was ultimately not a fruitful thing for me. Also, it supported my very bad habit, at the time, of sublimating EVERYTHING I was avoiding doing with my life into an obsession with dating boys. So caveat emptor etc.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan ruined my joke. I was going to find something online where J.C. used the phrase "creeped out." But then my browser timed out and I had to restart my computer. Never mind.

My friends Jon and Sara, who are now married, met on Nerve.com.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have date 2nite

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, that is super excellent. Also: FAST! I must need to get out more....

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff and I met on a web-design forum.

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

I said,

Jeff and I met on a web-design forum.

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

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

so is anyone else going to logan square for drinks tonight? jammermans? dan? jennyjeff? handymanda? cause i'm not going to uptown for my usual thursday night mind erasing but i would like to go somewhere other than my local.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny: What'dya want, a cookie?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

I've been sort of down on drinking since I pickled my brain over the weekend, so I doubt I'll be there. Also, I feel lazy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Which reminds me, if anyone wants to see the preggers dress and me dancing in it, there's a slideshow on flickr. Everyone except Otto, that is, since FLICKR WAS BANNED AT HIS WORK.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

uninvited to the reindeer games again. :(

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Fine. Here:

http://i11.tinypic.com/29dy9ud.jpg

This is from the back, but you can see what it looks like. I think we were salsa-ing at this point, but I can't really tell.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I have date Saturday

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I HAVE NO DATES. PROBABLY EVER.

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

i will have fig newtons though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

I might be up for Whirlaway but I also might have to work later than usual tonight. Count me as probable until further notice.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

You guys! Good work!

Amanda, you have quite nice legs (as evidenced by pole dancing shot) and do not look one iota preggers in that lace frock. So shut up. Beaut!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda's pregnant?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Tell everyone!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I was pregnant and drinking TONS OF VODKA and POLE DANCING! FOR ONE NIGHT ONLY!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Vodka is a powerful abortefacient.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for likin' me legs, L. I don't have much to offer in terms of T or A, so L it is.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

GOOD TO KNOW. (XP -- or not!)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

i going to beat up the IT staff and recofigure the firewall. i'll be back later.

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

Sexy male costume?

Otto/Dan, I dunno about whirlaway yet. Nick and I have to hit up a store on the way home. We might be battelstarring/flier making tonight. So in between would be good whirlawaying time.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, I made that up. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME OR YOU WILL END UP WITH A STUMPY MIDGET JACKASS BABY.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

a stout, dull, goblin-like creature?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

That's okay, should I ever find myself in an inconvenient way, I have health insurance. And more than two grams of self-respect.

Hee.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i'm drinking at the local.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

If netflix doesn't start with the BSG dvds soon, I might have to break down and buy the box set (even though I only joined nf to get BSG!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

a stout, dull, goblin-like creature?

Damnit Amanda, we have this argument everytime we play D&D. +20 strength doesn't always win.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Fair enough, Jordan. MY netflix goal is to inhale season 2 of Lost and actually watch a show ON TELEVISION with everyone else. I know, I know -- it's revolutionary.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Weird.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

I am about to engage in the most boring activity ever: grading papers at the laundromat. YUCK. Some greedy shitbag broke into our basement, robbed our washers of their quarters (and broke them), so I have to go to the laundromat now. Thanks.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Boohoo, I know, but still. You're breaking in for quarters? That's weak.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I like the laundromat.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Best Dog Costume

I don't like the laundromat beause I feel like I lose valuable life hours there. I prefer to just walk down to the basement and do a load at a time. Even though it takes forever, at least I can be doing other things at home in the meantime.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Best case laundry scenario: laundromat right across the street! Put in three loads at once, go home and shower, put laundry in dryer, go home & put on make-up, pick up dry, shrunk jeans, dress, and go out!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Best case laundry scenario: in-unit washer & dryer!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

No, you go to the laundromat and then you sit there and read! Or you go to the bank a block away and cash some checks! Or you go to the produce market across the street and get some vegetables for the week! Or you write some singles reviews!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

i used to go to the bottle for a couple of pbrs while my stuff was in the laundry at retrowash until my stuff got stolen while i was at the bottle for a couple of pbrs. now i sit there and wait. :(

but the reason for my post! chicagoist says that tecalitlan restaurant has a special on pitchers of margaritas on thursdays (not just thrusdays but for tt purposes i'm only addressing it). what is normally a $25 pitcher costs on $13!!!! i'll take a pitcher and a straw please.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Sure, I usually just went for coffee and cigarettes while my clothes dried. But there were enough nights that the jeans needed shrinking before laundry closed so I could go out later, that it's a memorable phenomenon.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I am chatting with Adam on Gmail.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Adam who?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Adam, the first man.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

God's proudest creation.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

See also: Steve.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.crazyabouttv.com/ImagesTwo/adam12.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hi to Adam!

I likes me some margaritas.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Adam "A-Shoes" Levine. He used to post on ILX once upon a time, you'll recall.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.tripod.com/~CARIART/Adam_West.jpg

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://jessicasimpson.ewestpost.com/pictures/Adam-Levine-Jessica-Simpson.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

I'm starving and I didn't bring a lunch today.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

I like the laudromat, too. I get a lot of studying done there and it's one trip up and down the stairs instead of four of six. I like having a WD in the basement of our building, though, for when I want to wash something real quick.

No TT for me. I have a nauseating amount of work to do over the next two weeks and the only way for me to keep my sanity is to eliminate most fun.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's one trip up and down the stairs instead of four of six

Oh yeah, this is probably the most important thing. I go every other week, and I can get all of my laundry done in no more than an hour and a half.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I will have basement laundry in my new place, and I see it as a blessing from on high. I would LOVE to have a locked laundry room where I can do one or two loads at a time while I go back to my comfy home and do home things.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just rarely at home for the several hours at a time required for laundry-in-the-building.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

See, and I never leave home unless threatened.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I lurve in-house laundry. There's facilities in my building, and they cost $1. Thus, quarters have become a precious commodity. This is kind of a bummer after our last place, where laundry was available to us on the weekends for free.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Only on the weekends? How does that work?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

One or both of our landlords worked nights (at their restaurant) so they reserved it for the weekdays/nights and either mom or the babysitter would do it. Saturday/Sunday were mine/M@tt's, and this led to some occasional all-day marathon sessions.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

(XP) Well, you see, there are five weekdays....

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

JOEK. I couldn't resist, after the Turkish skit yesterday.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I thought you meant it was only free on the weekends and you had to pay for it during the week.

Laurel, I don't get your joek.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

A well-meaning undergrad just stopped me on the way out of the 14th floor lounge to ask if I'd like to sign a petition pledging to not drink alcohol for the semester.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

No.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

WAHT?? Who DOES that?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Not drinking is for alcoholics.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

did you ask that nutcase why? i mean what would be the point of that? what's it anyone else's business? why would you SIGN A PLEDGE to that effect?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Those things are kind of silly, but I don't see why everyone's reacting in disbelief -- you've never heard of pledges to not drink, not have sex, that sort of thing?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I probably signed one when I was 14 to not do drugs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

why would you SIGN A PLEDGE to that effect?

Ostensibly to hold yourself more accountable. So you're more disappointed inself if you break the "pledge."

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

in yourself.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I usually type better than that, but I'm totally sloshed.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.os-iti.org/

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, of course I've heard of behavior pledges...I guess I think of them as a jr high youth group thing, didn't realize they extended their moralistic claws into old-enough-to-be-less-gullible land, ie law school.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

you've never heard of pledges to not drink, not have sex, that sort of thing?

i've heard all sorts of stupid things. that doesn't mean i ever get used to them. and i think you hit the nail on the head when you said you signed one when you were 14. it almost, ALMOST makes sense to have a 14 year old sign one but a college student?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

i was minorly ostracized in 8th grade for not signing one of those pledge deals. not to do drugs. classes got some sort of party if everyone signed. i was the only one in the school who didn't.

"can't you make a statement on your own time?" was my favorite quote.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

didn't realize they extended their moralistic claws into old-enough-to-be-less-gullible land, ie law school.

She said it was an undergrad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Undergrads are totally babies, guys.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Lately I've started to realize that a lot of grad students are too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

yup.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

First you sign a pledge not to drink, then you find Jesus, then you get invited to less parties, and before you even know it, CHICAGO ILX DOESN'T WANT TO BE YOUR FRIEND. It's tragic.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Mark, doesn't the pic at the top of the thread look eerily like Mike?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

(You know, in his younger days.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Day 1 of this looks pretty fun

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Who's in Androgynous Mustache, John?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me, on Halloween weekend I might just go to the High Noon to see my coworker sing in a Judas Priest tribute band.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

High Noon Halloween Party
Grinder (Judas Priest Tribute)
Way Off The Danzig (Misfits/Danzig Tribute)
Suicidal Squad (Suicidal Tendancies Tribute)
Yarrr!!! (Classic Pirate Rock from the High Seas)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think a good Danzig tribute band name would be Short Man Complex.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I still think the Fake Fictions should play as Wire.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Steely Danzig

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

(think of the possibilities)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

MOTHER

TELL YOUR RICKY NOT TO LOSE THAT NUMBERRRRR

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I like Wire. Also, we name check Wire (and the Wire the Wire). Or maybe you realize that already.

I am freezing!
My starvation issue, however, is under control. I went to a diner for grilled cheese and french fries. MIAM!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Who's in Androgynous Mustache, John?

Matt.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I know nothing about Danzig. Am I culturally impoverished?

Also, we name check Wire (and the Wire the Wire). Or maybe you realize that already.

I do, but I also think you could totally pull it off.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

The only Wire song I like is "The 15th."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ Dan.

Undergrads are totally babies, guys.

I'm guessing you're being facetious but working in close quarters with undergrads and even traditional law students, who are 22-25, can be an enormous challenge. The hour and a half prior to this class that I spent stuck in the WBA/SBA office with a bunch of shreiking idiots (excepting a couple of people) is an excellent example.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I am grading a bunch of undergrad baby papers RIGHT NOW!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

There was a lady at the laundromat who was grunting and groaning up a storm -- she was washing one shopping bag's worth of clothes. On her way out, she grunted goodbye to me and smiled!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not being facetious! Man, that's the second time in a week that someone's thought I was being facetious when I was actually being very sincere. Do I just give off a facetious air?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I imagine you smirking as you say that.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Heh.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

i just had to explain to a friend how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. i've got some stupid friends.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of 10 for "otto midnight" "grilled cheese". (0.17 seconds)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but at least they came to the right man.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm developing a cold. Pity me.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

john, i can see that. the face is maybe too long. but the brow ridge is just right.

does anyone know of anything to do in tulsa, oklahoma?

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

My friend Christy lives in Tulsa. She's pretty fun.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone know of anything to do in tulsa, oklahoma?

keep driving on through. that's what i did.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

If you tickle your own armpits in Tulsa, someone in San Francisco will weep a tear of mirth. Try it!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm starved of mirth.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

i don't remember if it was tulsa or ok city where i was driving with the "maybe chicago" comp BLASTING. i think it was tulsa though.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm developing a cold. Pity me.

I AM WAITING.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to tulsa to present at a conference...luckily i won't be there that long and will be at said conference for most of that time. but, i don't know, it might be fun to go to some bar on the saturday night i have there.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

man, remember when jenny was healthy and had a hearty constitution and wasn't an invalid. yup. those were the days.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.killianadvertising.com/coverletters.html

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, I just pulled the trigger on the flight for that family wedding (because my mom guilted and whined). $340, flying in Saturday afternoon, flying out on Sunday right after the ceremony.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I am an undergrad.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

And now I have to buy some Macy's kitchenware off their registry, even though they are both in their 50's and each has owned their own home for decades.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Tsk tsk, Jordan. Rid yrself of guilt!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

You don't have to buy off the registry, technically. You can get them a small token if there's nothing reasonably priced from Macy's.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Already done. Loaf pans.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

nothing says "don't invite me to any more fucking weddings" like the gift of a double dong to some golden agers starting a new life together.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Actually not, because Macy's checkout interface sucks ass.

xpost, ha

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

my family kills thread

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having trouble staring at New Answers and not clicking on the LOST thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny if it helps I think I am getting a cold too. Either that or I have inhaled way too much smoke recently (Whirlaway was pretty smoky).

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

You don't want to do that, John.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

i probably infected all you fuckers last thursday. sorry about that. it's horrible and gets worse.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

hey dan, in other punk bands reforming news naked raygun is playing a free not-so-secret secret show at the cobra lounge tonight. a friend of mine will be there but her boyfriend has band practice so... well, whatever.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff Pezzati was in Big Black? Huh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

That kind of makes it sound like you're pimping out your friend, Kevin. Unless of course that's what you meant, in that case, YR IN THERE, DAN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not doing anything other than acting as a conduit through which information flows. what others choose to do or don't do with that information is up to them alone.

i'm not going to said show however.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

John, don't read this. I liked that episode of Lost, but I didn't like that John shot Sayid because Sayid was torturing Sawyer again.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

It just rained and it's hot enough to fry your girlfriend on the sidewalk.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

All I saw were the words "Sayid," "Sawyer," and "shot." I don't even know who wrote them.
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― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, if this is the friend I'm thinking of I'm really tempted but I'm afraid I'd be a big crepe and just showed up like "HEEEEY DERE."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Are you sure you didn't read "Sayid", "Saywer", "hot"?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Stupid editing -- "a big crere (IF I, not AND) showed up..."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

aw for fuck's sake I give up

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh who cares, you can totally break that shit up.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Man she's hot. And funny.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sawyer shot Annabelle. Anabelle was having sex with John Locke. Drusilla told on her.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure you'll all recall that Kr was dating someone else when we met. At first you guys were like "Don't do it, it'll only end in tears" and then slowly everyone realized that they'd done the same thing and in some cases successfully.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure she's hilarious when she breaks your heart, too. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

There is nobody named Annabelle or Drusilla. The new characters are Nikki and Paulo, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

xp - That's not what I said.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Stop talking about Lost, I just started watching season 2.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Is it as hatchtastic as you imagined, Laurel?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently it's going to take FOUR EPISODES for Desmond to respond to Jack's original "YOU!" They're really pushing it with the plotting.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I smell pancakes and maple syrup.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Do you actually, or does this mean something else?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

(xxp) Oh yeah, that was a little ridiculous.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

xpost no, I really do

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

What should I do tonight?

- Go to the old folks bar
- Go home and watch Wondershowzen (never seen it before)
- Go out to a movie.
- Which one?

I'm kindly hungry.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

or do I?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

go to a movie.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

What movies are opening this weekend besides Marie Antoinette?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing. Go to the bar.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Actually no, go to Les Bon Temps and see the Soul Rebels, or to Chickie Wah Wah (?) and see Rebirth.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to go see a band. My feet hurt.

I could also go to a coffee shop and sit around waiting for Godot.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Go home and watch a movie.

I want to see Marie Antoinette. Is Running With Scissors supposed to be any good?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I want to see The Departed. Also, HI.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Do you guys ever get I'm Lovin' It! Crowin' like a rooster.. stuck in your head?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I want to see The Departed. Also, HI.

anyone want to hit this this weekend?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

that was obviously directed towards amanda. *ahem*

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

Amanda?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Horngry.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I know that feeling.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

"Crowin' like a rooster"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yup.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

HILTON CHICAGO 720 S. MICHIGAN AVE is where I shall be during my Assault on the Midwest.

Please tell me that this is a poshy-posh hotel with fun stuff around it. Also: wheres to FAP?

― quincie (quincie), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I sometimes get "Ba-da-bah-bah-bah, I'm lovin' it" in my head, but there are no subsequent lines about roosters involved.

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

remember when i sent out an email about the departed? amanda made a very astute joke and this was a call back of that joke.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin's bringing joking back.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

I had no idea JT was involved in that song!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't that hotel the area where a lot of rioting took place in '68? I pass it on my way to work whenever I ride the bus. Certainly looks posh. I'm not sure exactly what there is to do at that end of downtown... the only place I've ever been "out" to down there is the Hot House.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) Really? I have the whole 4-minute song on my iPod.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

(I don't know where I got it from, though.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Christ, my prose is even worse than usual today.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

That song would be v. good if it wasn't for the 'i'm lovin it' line that i can't seperate from mcdonalds.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Quincie's hotel is also just a couple blocks away from Printer's Row -- although I don't really know what you DO there when the book fair's not in season. I've been to a nice coffee shop down there, though.

Also: deej OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

YOUSENDIT, John!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

OMG. I just got an e-mail asking if anyone has photos of the following dogs that they can donate for use in the encyclopedia:

· Affenpinscher

· American Eskimo

· American water spaniel

· Brussels griffon

· Curly coated retriever

· English setter

· Finnish spitz

· Flat coated retriever

· Great Pyrenees

· Irish water spaniel

· Komondor

· Lakeland terrier

· Mexican hairless

· Norfolk terrier

· Norwich terrier

· Nova Scotia duck tolling retriever

· Otterhound

· Scottish deerhound

· Sealyham terrier

· Shiba inu

· Silky terrier

· Staffordshire bull terrier

· Sussex spaniel

· Tibetan terrier

· Welsh springer spaniel

· Welsh terrier

· Wire haired fox terrier

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I see you don't need any collies. **SNIFF**

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Photos of collies are a dime a dozen, doll-face.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

(And Sarah, sure, I can YSI once I get home.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

if it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then violence against women is funny.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose. I would have contributed one of my mother's beautiful favorite dog (RIP).

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

You may not know this about me, but I memorized the AKC book when I was about 10, in between the Summer of Stilts and the Summer of Balloon Animals. I was REALLY COOL and had a LOT OF FRIENDS as a kid!

The Brussels griffon is a funny, angry-looking little dog.

Also, haha otto.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Who needs COCKER SPANIEL PHOTOS? I have lots!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Komondors have funny hair, iirc.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jen: i haven't been able to tell you this, because it would be uncomfortable since you are gay and I'm married.
but i really do love you.
in a way i've never loved any man.
fuck my mouth.
me: uh-oh!!!!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me, I think the dude at Noodles has a crush on me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

As in Noodles & Co.?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, as in I eat lunch there way too often.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I would, too, if I worked close to one. I just went there for the first time about a month ago, to the one in Evanston, and I was impressed. Several different kinds of pasta, plus the option of adding tofu, all for a reasonable price: hell yes.

Can't wait for the forthcoming DFA remix of JT's "My Love."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

My shit is the mediterranean salad w/chicken.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Why do you think he has a crush on you? You think you're hot shit? So no noodle-slinger can help himself? Pfft.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff and I ate at Cozy Noodles on Sheffield (Waveland? one of those) the other day and it was good and the restaurant is adorable.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

No, I don't know why he would (he's a pretty good-looking tall black dude), but I just get a little vibe. Smiles, lingering glances, etc. But what do I know, I can't even tell when girls put out the vibe most times.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Renee and I used to order from Cozy all the time. It is indeed good, and they make my red curry with just the right amount of spiciness. I've only been inside once.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

LEFT, LEFT
LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT
Napalm, napalm, stinks like glue....

LEFT, LEFT
LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT
My boots are loose, my pants are tight....

These are the bellows that the Lab0rers Int'l guys are making in the hall.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

those were two different chants, but i couldn't hear the 2nd lines

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

They should sing Do Wah Diddy.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

OH. Speaking of 2nd lines:

Yesterday my boss and I were looking for convention space for |WJ's conference in May. The Tourism woman told us that doing a second-line parade is cheap in this town. The permit is $350 to close down the street for an hour, and motorcycle cops are $90 each per hour, 4 hour minimum!

This explains why St. Charles Ave. is always being shut down for tiny motorcades going from church to downtown.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

I know. :( The band has been talking about doing a real second-line in Madison for years, but it would be way more expensive than that, I bet.

I guess that's why second-lines are always four hours long!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

the katrina "refugees" on the freeway overpasses are being fined for forming second-lines without proper permits.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Uh?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

That's Jesse. He says some wild and crazy shit, man.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

OH GOD THEY'RE BACK.

THEY ARE HONEST TO GOD THROWING TABLES. AND BELLOWING.

"YER PUTTIN' MARKS ON THE FLOOR. STOP MARKIN' UP THE FLOOR. LEFT. LEFT. LEFT, RIGHT, LEFT."

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

don't mock me, dan.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

what am i missing?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

whoops!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Things I am looking forward to tonight:

1. Reading The Secret History on the train home
2. Making cream sauce for lasagna
3. Eating said lasagna with Kr
4. Watching Lost

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds nice.

If I didn't have this other stuff to do I would go see DJ Vadim tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

I miss the train. I miss reading on the train.

But when I read on the train I sometimes miss listening to music in the car. A car is just a big mobile stereo/sound stage for me.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Tomorrow better be a pay-day, because if it's not, the ATM receipt I got today makes me sad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

1st and the 15th?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

What?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Don't people get paid on Fridays?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

First monday of the month.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. I think I get paid every other Friday, but maybe I'm just assuming that because I thought that was more or less universal.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

You don't KNOW? How long have you worked there??

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

i get paid on the 20th. then the 3rd, 17th, 1st, 15th, 29th. not that i'm planning or anything.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

grumble grumble monthly paychecks grumble

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

X2!!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've been here for two years. It all goes into direct deposit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

I hate dealing with money, so I tend not to think about it, if possible -- save for the occasional glance at an ATM receipt to make sure I'm not broke.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

so does mine john but i always know exactly how close to the bone i need to cut things.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

oh boy, here we go again.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not saying it's a smart way to live.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

so i need a new book to read again, The Man With The Golden Arm was awesome but it's done. Suggestions?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, John, all my publishing jobs have had direct deposit, too...I've just never made enough $ versus my expenses to ever not know what's going on. Can't afford to be unaware when it might mean not eating until payday. Just surprised me, that's all.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.harcourtbooks.com/images/bookcovers/150/0156007754_150.jpg

Blindness by J. Saramago. Just finished it not too long ago.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

These days I can afford to go out to dinner without budgeting for it, and that's a luxury I appreciate every time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Walk on the Wild Side, by some dude. Southern lit.

If you feel like wading through it, Sound and the Fury is one of my favorite books.

Also, Dog Soldiers is pretty great (1970's--about an ennui-burdened American couple who go to Vietnam during the war and smuggle drugs to try to have a Real Experience and pay the Ultimate Price!)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

i've read sound and the fury.

walk on the wild side- check.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Kr just read Blindness -- did you like it, Dan? I was going to read it after her, but then I skimmed a few pages and got scared: very little dialogue, too philosophical/allegorical, maybe.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I want to have a book club for The Sound and the Fury. It has been sitting on my bookshelf for the last six years, but the one time I tried to pick it up, it made me dizzy. Not ideal reading material for the train.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Instead of Blindness, I am now reading The Secret History and very much enjoying it. It makes me want to read The Rules of Attraction next.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I loved it. There actually is a lot of dialogue, it's just presented in a difficult way... not a lot of quotes, more sentances/passages that begin out of nowhere with a capitalized first word to show when someone is speaking. Takes a little getting used to but it's worth it. I enjoyed it very much, but then again I am a fan of the philosophical stuff. I can certainly see why it won that Nobel thing.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

He did, you mean. Yeah, they tend to like stuff like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

The Stranger, if you've never read that.

Read some Kafka. Not The Castle though.

As I Lay Dying is good too. Easier and shorter than SatF, but just as satisfying.

Read Johnathan Ames essays. His anecdotes are kind of like what I imagine the impression I give is. (what a terrible sentence)

xpost-- I really recommend some kind of notes with a lot of Faulkner. Unless you are into working out tricky puzzles, notes make the reading experience a lot more enjoyable.

I read SatF in a class where after the first chapter or two the prof helped us out by pointing out a couple of key things (the really random stream-of-consciousness stuff is the thoughts of a retarded boy,when the retarded boy says the girl smells like trees are times when she is not sexually active, etc.) I was able to focus on the plot and the style rather than re-reading over and over.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

What also confused me was that there were 2 characters with the exact same name, but only after a quite a while was it clear that they were 2 different characters.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

A Light in August is one of the best books I have ever read.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

...and I get paid on the 2nd and 16th

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I liked As I Lay Dying -- it's the only Faulkner I've read.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

And my copy of Sound and the Fury is a Norton Critical Edition, so that's prob. helpful.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also feeling: The Reivers

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Happy hour it is, then.

Then I will watch Wondershowzen unless I meet something better to do.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Thursday, 19 October 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

I could not finish As I Lay Dying.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 19 October 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I was forced to read it in 10th grade. What a way to warp young minds. It also warps my mind a little that one of my co-workers thinks that Amy Sedaris in control-top panty hose is really cute. (see back of "I Like You" book cover.) Oh John, I love The Secret History. I've heard "Special Topics in Calamity Physics" is like it but it will probably just disappoint me.

― jocelyn (Jocelyn), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard Special Topics compared to Secret History, although I have heard it compared to Curtis Sittenfeld's Prep, which I haven't read but Kr has and checked out Special Topics from the library on that basis. She was halfway through with it when she accidentally left it at a bus stop -- I don't remember whether she liked it or not.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

I've read 31 of those books. I'm smrt.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 19 October 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

As I Lay Dying is my favorite Faulkner, but A Light in August is a close second.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 20 October 2006 00:13 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, please bring Sister Carrie with you tonight. Otto, please bring Man with the Golden Arm tonight. YOU GUYS ARE MY NEW LIBRARY!

I'm eating baked pears I made the other night. They're ok, but I put entirely too much lemon juice on them, so they're pretty bitter.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

You should check Myopic for Sister Carrie -- I bet you could get it for $2.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

(Not that I discourage sharing, of course)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

i have to clean my apartment in preparation for a wiener dog weekend visitor. i will bring the Algren book. i will be there later than anticipated.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

I know, Amanda. I could also just get it from the downtown library. I don't want to buy any more books though. We don't have any room on our bookshelves to cram another one in.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

It's cold outside.

I am dressed well today.

I feel rested and attractive.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the ugly secret of the Signature Lounge in Hancock: the drinks aren't very good. I had a mojito that tasted like it was made with powdered sugar, and it still cost $10.50. Upside: my friend was impressed with the view. (How could you not be?)

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:48 (nineteen years ago)

It's not cold enough here!! Godammit, I have schvitzed my way through this entire week, and it's practically November. And it's not like a NICE Indian summer, either, not when it keeps raining.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:50 (nineteen years ago)

when my ex roommate worked in the hancock they had their xmas party up there one year. can't say for the mojitos but the tanq & tonics were very dry and very strong. view was pretty eerie because it was one of those nights where there were low clouds off the lake so you couldn't see the ground but you could see the top of every other 60+ story building. it was kind of cool, the clouds had this blue hue to them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and K3vin. You'll all meet K3vin. K3vin was my college roommate. Now he's a lawyer for the EFF, which is like the digital ACLU. He's a cool guy.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Man, that red wine gave me a killin' headache last night. Gets me every time.

I've read 35 or so books on that list, I r also smurrt.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon

read it in about 3 hours, good but in the top 20 of all books ever written that one should read in one's lifetime? hardly.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 12:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh, nevermind, i didn't see it was broken up by century. even then it's a s t r e t c h.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie

probably my FAVORITE BOOK EVER. i should re-read this one until i can get to the book store.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh oh, so the New Orleans journalist dude last night was GREAT, and he'll be in Chicago on Sunday. Kid, from my band, will be accompanying him on trumpet again.

Sunday, Oct. 22, Kraft Lieberman Gallery
A reading and signing with photo presentation
2 - 4 p.m.
835 West Washington Blvd.
Chicago
klfinearts.com
Refreshments generously donated by Jimmy Bannos and Heaven on Seven restaurant.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

(I promised I would tell my friends)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

Speed of the Dark was much better than The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time pretty much sucked.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

i wouldn't say it sucked but it's far from a must read. i'd take Things My Girlfriend and I Have Argued About over it and TMG&IHAA is thoroughly stupid. but fun.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

goddamn gmail.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh?

I almost wish I didn't have three gigs this weekend, I want to watch all the movies.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished Tom Poretta's Little Children - a good read about people just like us but who find themselves suddenly married and living in suburbia.

http://pds.exblog.jp/pds/1/200510/10/48/e0070448_13253821.jpg

Winter coat for Jeff.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

That jacket = TOTALLY AWESOME

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Ground Beneath Her Feet – Salman Rushdie
probably my FAVORITE BOOK EVER. i should re-read this one until i can get to the book store.

-- otto midnight (effyouto...), October 20th, 2006 9:01 AM.

OK who remember the U2 song of the same name.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to convince Nick to get that first LLBEAN parka Jeff posted yesterday. SO CUTE! AND FURRY!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

That's the one I ordered.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, do it! Although I would have imagined something else for Nick...something with a little more...hmm...

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

...flair? I kind of want Nick to wear stripey scarves and a, a brown suede sport coat or something.

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

OK so quick question - my work is having this big event next weekend and i have to wear 'black formal attire.' I don't have a black suit jacket. Where do I get one cheap but nice? Whats the best place to go. ALSO. Is it OK to wear non-white or non-black under a black suit coat and still have it be 'black formal attire'? Its not supposed to be black TIE per se but ... yeah. Thanks for the help

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

(haha i feel like i'm interrupting this game of nick the paper doll)

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

It's extra specially funny because I've never met any of these people! Well, except JMZ and Eric, but they're not under discussion at the mo.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Black formal sounds like black suit, white shirt - like the first Tin Machine record.

For Nick, something more...
http://www.8ball.co.uk/productimages/20570-1.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://blog.zmapple.com/user/taha6767/RockPon/image/18347.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, Nick would be cute in something like that, but it doesn't sound warm enough...

What color did you get, Jeff? I told Nick to get blue. He wanted green. We both like black.

DEEJ, I have no clue.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

black

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

subbacultcha

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of want Nick to wear stripey scarves and a, a brown suede sport coat or something.

that would actually suit him well.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

We both like your coat then.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I got my suit at Men's Warehouse.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Curious Incident was cute but ultimately a let-down after all the raves.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

hey hey:
MON4 (9:30pm; Free!)
Mannequin Men (Swamp Angel) // Fake Fictions (The Fake Recording Co.Fresh Produce)

also see that canasty is playing shortly and califone is playing tomorrow! i still really dig califone.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Adonde?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

empity bortle

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

splendiferous

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

did you go to cobra last night? got a txt saying due to crowding issues they maybe were gonna go invite only?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

in DECEMEBER, but yeah, we're excited about that show

On the 30th (of this month), we're playing a short notice show on a MONDAY NIGHT at Gunther Murphy's with the f1ggs.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Nope. My friend S@m read on the EA bored that it was a mostly list-only affair and neither of us wanted to get down there, wait around, and then not get in.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not going out on school nights unless i can walk to and fro the venue. actually, unless it's in 60622.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, okay, this is a good game.

Nick: Brown suede coat w/ Paul Smith-y striped scarf
Jeff: Good ol' slightly-classier-than-usual parka w/ fur hood (CUET)
Sarah: Russian princess garb, OBV; long coat with embroidered hem and fur collar of some sort to surround face with floaty softness
Kevin: Green Army surplus field coat over two wool sweaters and a western shirt w/ pearl snaps
Amanda...hmmmmmmmmmmm: vintage electric blue 70s tailored ski parka and huge fuzzy earmuffs

WINTERWEAR ANYONE ELSE??

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

DO ME

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I can, because I've met you. It's really just about how I think of people.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

ME THEN

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin: Green Army surplus field coat over two wool sweaters and a western shirt w/ pearl snaps

i used to wear my dad's field jacket from when he was in the service. it was great, water resistant, warm as hell. not two sweaters today, one wool sweater and one green hoodie.

i think everyone else would look good in your suggestions. except for amandas earmuffs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

i wonder if my pop still has that jacket. i know i gave it back to him. i wouldn't mind having that thing again. of course my dad has been out of the service for 46 years now so i guess the jacket would be in pretty rough shape.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am looking at the Billboard website FOR WORK. Man, this job ain't bad sometimes. I just made a correction in red pencil that the "b" in "Sexyback" should be capped. Of course, I knew that already.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a "cherry" field jacket with a removable quilted liner in my parents' attic. I got it at a surplus store in A^2 after my old one (which was my grandpa's from either Korea or Vietnam) completely fell apart. I wore it for a year or two before moving on. I bet it still has the Dystopia back patch on it. I should remember to get that thing next time I'm home.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

You're pretty close! I have about 12 coats that I rotate through though, so it's really all about variety. I recently bought a new-old hat: a grey flannel, I dunno, boater?, with this little black attached scarf. I fancy myself a dead ringer for Julie Andrews in it, but who am I to say?

I alternate between "colorful fashion girl" and "dour old woman" in my winterwear.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Also all of my old coats smell, so I have to rotate. Last year I finally bought a nice NEW coat, and I like it. It's floor-length grey flannel with furry around the sleeves and hood. It's awfully fancy though.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Dan and John and Jenny, I'm trying but don't have as strong a visual impression of alla yous. Will see if it comes to me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I got it at a surplus store in A^2

i know that store! i got some awesomely warm socks there and a swiss army knife that i have since lost. i replaced it with a sak from a different store in a2.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

What about meeee?

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

it's common knowledge that you don't have a winter coat. sorry.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

But I do!

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Never mind. If you've seen the October WDYLL thread, you have a pretty good idea of what I look like when it's cold outside.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I did buy a knit cap the other day. Bright red. That's a bit more color than I usually do.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

i still need a winter hat, can't find mine.

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

TWO DOLLAR TOOK!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

BUY ONE TODAY

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Toque?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Nono, I've got it, Kenan: a black wool overcoat with an asymetric closure and metal buckles. Something vaguely euro and severe/industrial.

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

and a collander for a hat kenan!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

No, took. For some reason a bunch of Canadians I used to know called regular ol' knit caps "tooks".

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

apparently new englanders and canadians share a lot of common language.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

CHOOK

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

TOBOGGAN (someone had to say it)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

AND CHOPPERS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I mean "tuque." I think this is how it is spelled.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't chook some kind of dialect for "chicken"? They say it a lot in that South Africa book, THE POWER OF ONE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Something vaguely euro and severe/industrial.

Ooh. I like that way you think.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't that a movie starring some dreamboat actor like Stephen Dorff or someone?

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

No, you were right the first time, John! Witness this shot of a "toque": http://www.ocanadagear.com/graphics/toque-foldrim-oc-red.jpg

About the movie, yes. But first it was a book.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

CHOOK: Starring Steven Dorff, Corbin Bernsen and featuring Whoopi Goldberg as "Chook."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't chook some kind of dialect for "chicken"?

Nah, it's a yooperization of "toque".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

(I've heard it to refer to a chicken, too. The Aussies say that.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

"Chook a Look at Me Now": The Phil Collins Story

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Why isn't anyone friends/contacts with Dan on flickr?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

BECAUSE I REJECT THEIR INVITATIONS MUAHAHAHAHA

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Cuz he's a punk.

GODDAMN I LOVE JONI MITCHELL.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

No, seriously, I don't use it that much and just haven't poked around enough or added anyone. The only people whose "names" I know there are Jenny and John.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone been to the new restaurant Treat in Humboldt Park?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

No, but this restaurant is new in humboldt park and is excellent:
http://www.centerstage.net/restaurants/bonsoiree.html

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

JMC: Yes! Last night in fact! It's good!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

did someone say flickr?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

What's your flickr page, dan? I'll BEFRIEND YOU!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

i don't think anyone is my contact either. SCREW YOU GUYS.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

No. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

GODDAMN I LOVE JONI MITCHELL.

If I make fun of you, are you going to get all pissy?

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Really, Dan? Cool, I think Kr and I are going to go there tonight before heading over the Double Door for the Changes/Brighton MA show.

If I make fun of you, are you going to get all pissy?

Go ahead, do your thing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

do me laurel! i need pointers for good winter wear, so if you come up with something nice it could be a reality!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I just checked and I am jaymc's and Jenny's newest contact(s)!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/54797445@N00/ is my page.

Waht is your flickr sn Kevuu?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Deej's recommendation looks good too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I added you to my contact list too. I am /marshmallowy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am /x77tigersxus/

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I Am Curious Yellow

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

i found a book about that on the radiator in my old apartment building.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

. . . which prompted an attempted viewing. i fell asleep.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

I Am Curious Yellow you mean? I don't even know what it is. A Swedish porno?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's about a young woman's harrowing experimentation with drinking urine.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

The title is a bad translation, actually. In Swedish, it more closely approximates, "I Am Curiously Yellow, and Smell of Ammonia".

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://accordionguy.blogware.com/Photos/2004/11/i_am_curious_black/lois_lane_i_am_curious_black_cover.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

HI DERE, IAN

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ian Johnson has posted that to other threads before, it's an NB thing. Good find!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, it's an ILC thing first!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe that. Where was that "I Love Lois Lane" thread?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Lois Lane Appreciation Society

Only back in May, so maybe yr right. Then there's this:

lois lane - wtf?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000189M.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

COME BACK, CHICAGO.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

MES is such a troll.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

hi chicago.

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just curious: Who among us can wear jeans to work any day of the week without apprehension?

I can.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I can do it, but with some apprehension. I'm not technically supposed to. But in practice, nobody gives a fig. As long as you shave and bathe and wear clean, passably stylish clothes.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I can. And do. Every single day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, the other half of the office is not so lucky. But the "art room" is full of people who are valued for, among other things, their cultural literacy. The stodgy old company can't tell us what to wear, and they don't even try.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I could wear jeans if they were nice and I also wore nice shoes and a respectable top. Wearing jeans every day isn't really my way, though, so it's fine. I'm happy with my mostly self-imposed dress code.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can, but only nice-ish jeans and only if I dress them up with jackets and nice shoes an' shit. And I probably shouldn't wear jeans to important meetings but no one ever seems to mind.

Or what Handy said.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm wearing jeans right now. There's no dress code here, and in the summer I've seen a couple guys wear shorts. But most people tend to do business-casual by default, so I generally try not to look too slovenly in comparison. Like, I feel a little self-conscious wearing band t-shirts sometimes. The guy in the cubicle next to me often has on a wacky t-shirt, but he wears a long-sleeved shirt (with the buttons open) over it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh the Midwest.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

my dress code: http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c90/gradygillan/honolulu_harry.jpg

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

(sunglasses optional).

― researching ur life (grady), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

One of the reasons I was wondering is there is a guy who regularly wears sweatpants here (a copy editor) and as far as I know no-one has ever given him shit about it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to manda and laurel: Yeah, I can see that. I'll wear the ratty jeans with a nice shirt, or the nice jeans with Chucks and a nice shirt, but never ratty jeans and Chucks.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

If I wore sweatpants to work, my co-workers would give me shit about it. Perhaps this should happen in your office.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

weird, i'm wearing jeans for the first time ever here. there's one guy who does fairly regularly on a friday and since i fell asleep early last night and didn't iron any clothes this was the only thing that was wearable. no one's said shit to me today but that might be because i'm doing two people's jobs since we lost someone last week. GOD DAMN FAX MACHINE PLEASE QUIT CALLING ME!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Yeah but that means I'd have to actually talk to him.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

I can wear jeans all the time. I love wearing skirts though. When I first started here I dressed up every day, but then started getting vibes from coworkers that I was overdoing it. So now I tend to wear skirts or dresses at least twice a week and jeans the rest.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Just shuck him in the break room. That'll learn him.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

The other thing is that you can wear a skirt and still be perfectly casual, so as far as I'm concerned, jeans are not actually my most comfortable option.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Casual OR comfortable, I mean.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am a woman of many commitments with varying wardrobe requirements, but generally, no jeans. I work at the firm almost every day and can get away with wearing jeans there during finals or the last day before a holiday break, but I mostly don't just because I don't want to catch any shit for it. Today I am wearing...

A SUIT.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh the Midwest.

You think casual dress is a Midwestern thing?

I dunno, my last job was like this, too -- I always assumed it had to do with working in an office where you never have to physically interact with anyone outside the office, like it's not like you have to impress your co-workers or anything. Also a trade-off for the shit pay in publishing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

i was told by a former supervisor to stop wearing a tie everyday. that was fine with me. i had been told to wear one everyday by a former supervisor who was promoted and became my supervisors supervisor. he asked me about it and i said she told me to stop wearing one. he was pissed but told me to listen to her.

xpost- OF ARMOR???!?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

OF POLYESTER.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

But a high-grade polyester, I promise you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

my last job on the east coast we could wear whatever we wanted. i wore t-shirts everyday there wasn't a client coming in. if it was a vendor i'd get cleaned up a little, but only if it was a vendor i had to meet with.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

you mean OF HUMAN SKIN.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

I had to wear dress slacks and a tie when I was a temp. What kind of shit is that? The regular employees, sure... but some chump doing data entry and fixing ordered list after ordered list after ordered list? BULLSHIT

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) I.E., "BIRTHDAY"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

seven minutes later, fax machine still calling.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

That's pretty standard -- I think that in certain work environments, the lower on the totem pole someone is, the more dressed up they have to be.

Chaffeur = wearin a tux
Actor = looks homeless

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Not that those are the same work environments, but you know what I mean. Dan used to have to wear a tie to work as a receptionist while the people who were the loan officers were walking around in baseball caps.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Administrative Assistant (D. Krause, USA, 2009)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

no dress code here, except for this big event coming up.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how that superflous "E" got in there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

You think casual dress is a Midwestern thing?

Wrong-O Moose Assumption alert: that "casual dress" means the same thing to everyone.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Or how the "U" in "superfluous" disappeared.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

The first "U," I mean.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, why don't you tell me what you mean, Laurel, instead of calling me a moose?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I always dress "casual," in that clothing catalog sense of the word.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, why don't you tell me what you mean, Laurel, instead of calling me a moose?

You'll figure it out, dollface.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

hehehe. 2009 is a little early.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

I fear her point is that Midwesterners are provincial slobs. I'd rather she just say that, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Just that the "wacky" Tshirt with long-sleeved button-up shirt over it but unbuttoned is...not something I've seen in a very long time.

And I've got news for you, I spent a week in West Michigan this summer and the overwhelming impression was definitely "provincial slob". It may be a look that's popular in many insular, almost-rural places around the country, and not necessarily particular to W MI, but that doesn't change it's horribleness.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

ITS. Rats and double rats.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Wrong-O Moose is a Rocky & Bullwinkle reference!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I just hate it when Chicago gets tarred with this broad "Midwestern" brush, as if we can't possibly be sophisticated or cosmopolitan in any way because we're in the same geographical vicinity as states that have a lot of obese, uncultured folks in them (which is probably a strawman unto itself).

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

john believe it or not, everyone does not share your bias or opinion of what "Midwestern" means.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

What?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel's the one with the bias!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

My friend K3vin to me last night: "Chicago has a lot of beautiful women in it." Me: "Yeah. We're a real city."

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I can hear that resentment of the flyover treatment, John, but at the same time there's a difference between what Chicago offers as a whole city (which obv shouldn't be underestimated), and what affects individuals within/around Chicago to make choices based on or in line with the choices of their peers (or aspirational group, or whatever).

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I just hate it when Chicago gets tarred with this broad "Midwestern" brush, as if we can't possibly be sophisticated or cosmopolitan in any way because...

oh you're right, i didn't see the post where she said this. i see it now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Does that mean that we're insulated on all sides by unsophisticated fatteys?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

My last temp job was business casual. Now I work in software and all software dudes are schlubs (you can always tell the implementers & project managers 'cause they dress all fancy).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

because we're in the same geographical vicinity as states that have a lot of obese, uncultured folks in them (which is probably a strawman unto itself).

Aw shit, no you did not.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not really invested in this argument at all. I'm listening to all of the different versions of "Mack the Knife" in my possession. It's more fun.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh. That does sound fun. Which versions do you have?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

No, Amanda, luckily you have Lake Michigan as a buffer between Chi and my home state coastline! Count yr blessings. Hah.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to all of the different versions of "Mack the Knife" in my possession. It's more fun.

my favorite version was the adapted "Mac Tonight" that was used in McDonalds commericals 15 or 20 years ago. my love for mcdonalds is probably why i'm an unsophisticated fattey today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

what affects individuals within/around Chicago to make choices based on or in line with the choices of their peers (or aspirational group, or whatever).

This is too vague for me to really argue with, but whatever: go live in New York already.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait. Sorry, I thought you were my brother's ex-gf for a second there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

100%!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Frankly I'm just glad I dont live in New York.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Just that the "wacky" Tshirt with long-sleeved button-up shirt over it but unbuttoned is...not something I've seen in a very long time.

This sounds very condescending to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, "Mac Tonight"... That guy with the big moon head? Still kind of creeps me out.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Lotte Lenya (in German, swingin' version)
Lotte Lenya and Louis Armstrong (in English, duet, swingin')
Gerald Price (from Threepenny Opera)
Louis Armstrong (minus Lotte)

no Bobby Darin or Mac Tonight, but I have those in my head. The swingin' German (Moritat vom Mackie Messer) is the most jubilant so far, but they're all about bodies oozin' life.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

This isn't like 'suggest a neighborhoodie'-thread level funny or anything but i would get one that says "Fuck New York." Whats with people living in chicago and wearing "Brooklyn" hoodies? I see these all over.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of New York...

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

!!!

BORING

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Whats with people living in chicago and wearing "Brooklyn" hoodies? I see these all over.

They're probably from Brooklyn, WI.

Hi Nick!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Given the "McDonald's is making me morbidly obese" argument popular today, it's oddly prophetic, no?!??!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I remember the McDonald's "Mack the Knife" commercials. I'm a big fan of standards and Kurt Weill has always held a certain fascination for me -- I just don't know where to begin when it comes to recorded versions of some of this stuff.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Get Lenya Sings Weill, unless you can't stand her voice. And in that case, eff you.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of which, Lady Sovereign is #1 on TRL.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

And in that case, eff you.

effyoutoo?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

"If you love me, then thank you / If you hate me, then fuck you"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

deep. sounds like high school hardcore.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

That song is pretty terrible.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I just wish I could understand the German originals. The English versions are a good start, though.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea what song you guys are talking about.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm over here still talking about showtunes. :(

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

!!!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

$*%*^(^()$)(@)@(_%)*$()#*UOKL:KOWSJ OWJ V@Ggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggggg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

CHICK CHICK CHICK

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

GOD they're terrible

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Fine! Don't ask!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, what? I just had a bad concert experience 4 years ago.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Whats going on this weekend in chicago.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

river city tan lines at beat kitchen tonight.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

What, is someone pregnant/have big news? Is that what the exclamation points are about? ?!?!?!?!?!?!??!

!!!!!!!
???????

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

you're preggers aren't you amanda?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

NO.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

No WAY.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

huh, i could've swarn i read that somewhere. now i feel bad about sending that congratulatory hallmark card to your mom.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

("preggers dress" caused some confusion, methinks)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ah gee.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

by the way, amanda, that dress in your recent flickr photos is BEAUTIFUL! you look awesome & gorgeous!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Thankee! Not pregnant at all, I hope. SINCE I AM NOT PREGNANT. NOT WITH CHILD. NOT WITH ALIEN LIFE FORM EITHER. ALSO NO TAPEWORMS.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Although I am hungry.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

EATING FOR TWO????

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

You don't want the kidlets at all, do you Amanda?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

SHE WANTS A THOUSAND BABIES!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

You don't want the kidlets at all, do you Amanda?

We call them "knee-biters".

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations Amanda!!!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I WANT A THOUSAND BABIES THAT ALL LOOK EXACTLY LIKE ME TO FORM AN ARMY AND FIGHT THE FATTEYS OF THE MIDWEST.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

They are gestating right now, in my womb.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

FIGHT THE FATTEYS OF THE MIDWEST.

i wish i had a bumper sticker making machine.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

I found my dream boots. They are, of course, $350. :((((

http://www.zappos.com/images/725/7251785/985-279817-d.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Those look like Sarah's boots to me, but then, I am a dude.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

They look like they could be used for some serious ass kickings.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

TOMB OF THE WOMB OF DOOM

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Vaginal Flume to the Womb of Doom

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not proud of that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Also, practically speaking, I really need brown boots. Although while I'm fantasizing about $350 footwear, I might as well fantasize that I'm getting two pairs.

xpost - omg, Amanda you made me snort infectious snot out onto my midterm.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

best amusement park ride ever.

xpost.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

...stop being so fucking funny, Chicago. I have work to do...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Wheeee! The 7th Cervix of Hell awaits you!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Ficks, opening for the F1ggs is a plum gig! They're really good! They're really rock!

And a Monday night at the Boddle, too? Nice going, you guys.

'manda, isn't that a Ween song?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno crap about ween. maybe?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I dare someone to start a ska band.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

It just sound like a Ween song title.

My band will be Ziegenskagen.

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

So speaking of the FFs, and !!!!!!, it looks like we are playing CMJ in NYC on Nov. 3. I am worried this is one of those things where you announce good news and then it disintegrates, but for now I am excited and nervous. We have to rent a van!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, you want me to do that right here? In public?

xpost, ha

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Wiskansin

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

NICK FER REALZ??? OMG I slipped and said I was seeing the FFs next week when I am actually seeing Pete Smith's band, maybe I wasn't far off?!?!??!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Nick: CONGRATULATIONS THAT IS AWESOME!

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

In three weeks!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

CMJ!!! I will tell all my music director friends to go see you! And by that I mean one person! But I bet he'll go!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, congrats! And I know someone you could maybe rent a van from, unless you want a new shiny one.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Super awes! How did this come about??

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

INTERESTING WE MIGHT BE DOING THE SAME THING, PERHAPS IT IS PART OF THE SAME BILL IN BROOKLYN??? AND MAYBE WE COULD GO IN ON SOME VAN ACTION TOGETHER I DON"T KNOW

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

That rulez, dudez! Yay!!!

Don't worry, three weeks in plenty of time. Then we can all go on FF tour!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Have any idea of what venue?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Is it still funny that CMJ now hosts shows in Brooklyn? Next you'll be telling me they're expanding to Jersey City!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

WE don't need new and shiny, just cheap and nonbreakdownable. (Euro..something? Europa?)

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Europa in Brooklyn? It looks like a weird dance club/restaurant, but Shellac played there at some point.

and Eric, please let us in on the van deets, unless the C@nasta thing happens.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't BMA playing too, John?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

In other musical news:

* I am listening to a couple of leaked songs from the new Blood Brothers and they are awesome.

* I am so pissed Jenny Lewis beat me to covering the Traveling Wilburys.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! Congrats N + S! This could lead to you being too big to consort with the likes of us.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Let's hope so.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

YAY! (j/k)

But Yay! I've always wanted to play in NYC!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe you never have! This is so exciting.

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

me = jealous of ppl with real bands

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Europa. Apparently this is all last-minute, because N3PT4L1'S showcase at Arlene's fell apart and some bands backed out as a result.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

(And yes, BMA is playing as well.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Why do I ever share anything with coworkers? I asked this one lady about cheap places to stay in NYC and when I told her why she was a total killjoy.

Whatevs. It's Friday. I'm playin in NYC.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

John, do you know which bands are still playing?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

HOORAY FOR NICK & SARAH!! That's awesome news!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Don't know, Sarah, sorry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

That is pretty sweet, FF's.

I'm out for gigzone, peace.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, The Saps are also playing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago.

see y'all tonight. i feel sassy and slappy.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 20 October 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

deej, I'm eating a honey crisp apple and thinking of you. :D

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 20 October 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sorry, everyone :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 21 October 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

hi chicago, i have neglected you.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 21 October 2006 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Todd. What's up? We were in Madison a couple of weeks ago and I kept getting confused and thinking I was in Champaign.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 21 October 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I got it either way.
I got it either way.
You can go over here or you go over there
but I got it either way.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 21 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

That shit is genius.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 21 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I can't decide if I should get a new guitar amp.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 21 October 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

i am in yr timezone, eatin all your chicken fried steakz.

but i am about to get on a plane to g back to cali.
tulsa actually has some really interesting architecture, in a former glory reduced to bleakness sort of way. this place was probably happenin' in the 1910s and 20s. well, until that whole depression thing anyway.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Sunday, 22 October 2006 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't decide if I should get a new guitar amp.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 22 October 2006 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

A marathon woke me up :(((((((((((999999999999

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 22 October 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, they are only only on mile 5. I want to see how happy they are 15 miles from now.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 22 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm going to rent The Godfather this afternoon.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Sunday, 22 October 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I like the blue amp, Nick.

From Friday night: "The Sopranos? It's all just 'I'm gonna fuckin' kill that guy' 'No, fuck you, I'm gonna kill that fuckin' guy."

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 22 October 2006 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

The blue amp is awesome. The problems are: 1. It has to be turned up pretty loud to sound good, which can be an issue sometimes at smaller clubs and with idiot soundguys. 2. It's huge and heavy and takes all three of us to carry up to the practice space (Sarah carrying the amp, me and Ben carrying the cabinet). 3. It's old and unreliable (sounds different on different days, can't turn it off or you have to sit there pressing the power switch for five minutes to get it turn back on, reverb is now apparently broken). In any case, I probably wouldn't completely retire the old amp, I'm mainly just looking for a smaller substitute for when we play tiny venues or need more room in the car (ie, out of town shows). The amp I'm looking at is by the same company and sounds pretty similar, but is a combo amp and is thus smaller. It's also a tube amp, which generally sound better. I want it, the main issue is the $$$ aspect.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 22 October 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

get it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 22 October 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am thinking about buying a little amp so I can play my housemate's electric. My acoustic is really nice but it is also kind of boring.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

The main issue with almost everything fun and/or good is the $$$. Unfortunately.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 22 October 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

deej, I'm eating a honey crisp apple and thinking of you. :D
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), October 20th, 2006 5:00 PM.
classic

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

I bought the amp. The evil mega-guitar store gave me the smallest line of credit possible, but it was still like $100 more than I needed for the amp, so I was like boo-yah. Then we had practice and my new amp sounded awesome.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 22 October 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

n/a:

i am good. i am back in the area, taking an online class and taking care of my mom. i should hang out with all of you chicago folks soon!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Sunday, 22 October 2006 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm back after a stressful weekend.

I just went out to my favorite place in New Olreans to get a hamburger, the Clover Grill. On my way back to my car I spotted a young black man standing between two parked cars whirling his rather enormous wang at all the tourists. The Clover Grill has amazing hamburgers.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

You can beat their prices, but you can't beat his meat.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

I just wish I had ordered the hamburger there. Instead--presciently--I ordered the

Clover Weenie 3.19
1/4 pound of pure Beef pleasure
Select members of our staff are available for private parties

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

They use hubcaps as grill covers.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

Now I'm snacking on vegetarian pâté. It smells strangely like real pâté.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

It's got vegetarian liver in it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

Wonder Showzen is something different.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 01:25 (nineteen years ago)

Loooong weekend. Played six sets of music this weekend, found a great southern/New Orleans restaurant in Milwaukee and ate enough food for six people there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:21 (nineteen years ago)

What did you eat?

I have to make sure I get some grilled oysters before I leave this town.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

Saturday: 12" of shrimp po' boy, 4" of soft shell crab po' boy, fries, gumbo, banana pudding

Sunday: chicken & waffles, a little red beans & rice, crab cakes, smothered cabbage, mac & cheese, short ribs, dirty rice

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm going to rent The Godfather this afternoon.

able to keep all the characters straight?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:12 (nineteen years ago)

what kind of amp did you get nick?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit, bob mehr's last meter column was this week? he's moving to memphis to write for the commerical appeal? that's like a real daily newspaper, not an alt-weekly (i think memphis has the flyer or something like that). no more meter column?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, the free one is the Flyer.

Otto, where have you stayed in Brooklyn?? Email me.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 23 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of sweater weather: I'm wearing the grey sweat Nick & Sarah got me for my birthday. It goes nicely with my green shirt. Very nice, guys.

Also, a special shout-out to Dan for the awesome Yuper gloves he got me. I always under-estimate how cold my hands are going to be. Not anymore.

And I can't wait for that first day of playing in the snow so I can make full use of the coat Jenny & Jeff gave me. You guys are all awesome.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to work today. BAH!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 23 October 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

Me neither. And today is an INDIAN BUFFET DAY, so I will be completely incapable of work after lunch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Is Bob Mehr a particularly good critic? I don't think I've ever noticed anything special about him -- The Meter reads no different from Margasak's Post No Bills to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

i'd never noticed him to be a critic but his columns, to me, were interesting because they tended to at least occasionally mention bands that didn't hit their peak in the 1990s.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

You're welcome, Kenan, glad you like them. Don't leave them in your new apartment when it gets demolished!

Is anyone interested in seeing this movie?

http://www.sonyclassics.com/americanhardcore/

It's playing at the Landmark.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Aaaaaaahhh autoplaying audio at work that starts with "I hate my boss" really loud. DUD.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

SRY, FORGOT ABOUT THAT

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

sokay

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

This is why my speakers are always turned off. Unless I actually want to listen to something, in which case headphones are used.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, mine are off now, too. I can only blame myself.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

GAY MEN OF CHICAGO:

Have you ever been to Scot's on Montrose? It is the closest bar to Kr's new apartment, but I want to know if it's the kind of place that a hetero couple can wander into w/o feeling weird.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Unless I actually want to listen to something, in which case headphones are used.

Passive voice! Passive voice!

I want to see that movie! Will it still be playing a week from today? That's the next time I can see the light of day.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

There's nothing wrong with passive voice. As a lawyer-to-be, you should embrace it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I just revived a thread about sleep-talking because I laughed myself awake this morning. If only life were actually that amusing!

(note: I woke up at 6am, not just now.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Passive voice has it's place, such as in the business context when you want to communicate a fuck-up to a superior without blaming someone directly (The spreadsheet was deleted, but I have recreated it) or in certain types of academic writing when you need to maintain some objectivity (see Jeff for details). But because law is about actual people and the acts they performed, I think legal practitioners should avoid the passive voice whenever possible absent a compelling reason not to.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's also preferred in scientific writing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I may have meant scientific writing when I said academic writing. Jeff and I have had some conversations lately (we are a very exciting couple) about the use of passive voice in psychology stuff, so I guess that's scientific and academic.

But, still, using passive voice in legal writing tends to make already complicated communications even muddier.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't a significant number of legal documents written expressly to confuse, if not deceive?

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

My special Biology-related freshman English class was almost totally dedicated to teaching us to write in the passive voice. Yes, I used to be a Biology major.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

And just to bitch a little bit, since you guys are some of the only people I mentioned this to...

I have date Saturday

-- daniel striped tiger (thedanmarti...) (webmail), Thursday 10:40 AM. (OutDatWay) (later) (link)

STOOD UP

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

NNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

sorry daniel striped tiger.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sucks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard of Scott's on Montrose. Is that supposed to be a gay bar? Why would you think that a straight couple couldn't just hang out at virtually any gay bar?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

xpost-- That fucking sucks. Why would someone do that? Who was this person?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

That's dumb, Dan.

I've never heard of Scott's on Montrose. Is that supposed to be a gay bar? Why would you think that a straight couple couldn't just hang out at virtually any gay bar?

It's Scot's. One T. I am led to believe it is a gay bar based on the rainbow flag in the window. I don't think we can't hang out there -- I don't think we'd be kicked out or anything -- I just don't know what the mood is like. Am I wrong to suspect that some gay bars are more hetero-friendly than others?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Just tell them that you're cool with dick also.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Why would someone do that? Who was this person?

Someone I met randomly. It's too bad, I thought we kinda hit it off. Oh well, she's dead to me now more or less.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well, she's dead to me now more or less.

That's good. I think I waited too long after the 19-year-old jerked me around* before deciding she was dead to me.

*not literally

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Best biscuits in New Orleans: Oak Street Cafe. The bad news here is that I mentioned to the proprieter how great her biscuits are and she said, "They're just Pillsbury frozen biscuits, but the secret is the seasoned butter."

Way to ruin a potential mystique, dumb ass.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jen: basketball is easy.
i'll teach you.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Who would stand up THE DAN? She deserves a public booing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Reviews on Scot's look good. It is recommended by an assocation of gay chemists.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

I just remembered that I talked to Jenny around 2:30 am on Saturday, drunk (obv.).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of basketball, anyone know when those cheap-assed tickets for bulls games go on sale?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

i got out of bed around 8 pm saturday. i also got out of bed at noon and 3 or 4, but i got out of bed and stayed out of bed for more than 20 minutes at 8. La Fin du Monde hit me in a way usually reserved for gin.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I can't believe that! She's a fool. And she probably has crabs. And horrible taste in music. So fuck her.

I did talk to you, Jordan! We talked about drum and bass and maybe something else.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I spent $62 on CDs at Evil Clown yesterday, yikes. That place is pretty awesome, though. Surprisingly good dance selection: I picked up Cut Copy's FabricLive mix. Also: Harry Nilsson's Nilsson Schmilsson, Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, Luomo's Vocal City, and the Cure's Disintegration, which I'm listening to right now and enjoying.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

fuck her

NOT IF SHE HAS CRABS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I think perhaps the only gay bar that straight people would feel uncomfortable in would be The Eagle. Women are seen as either a curiosity or a nuisance there. Most are welcoming to str8s.

The passive voice is fine in places it can't be avoided. If NOT using the passive voice would make a sentence awkward, then it should be used, otherwise you're playing with dookie.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

(Also, the Cell Block might make straight people uncomfortable, but I'm not sure, having never been in there.)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard of a bar that wouldn't want more people to spend their money there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, that's not what I'm saying.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I take that back. I know of some really redneck bars that wouldn't. Those are the kinds of places where almost no-one would feel comfortable, though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

There are those 25-and-older bars. They don't want no kiddies up in there.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Why would you feel weird hanging out at one gay bar, but not another?

I remember that you wanted to go to the Starlight -- or whatever that lesbian place is in Andersonville--but you were worried about being unwelcome as a man.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I could go to Star Gaze if I was accompanying a woman, but I wouldn't wander in there with a group of guys, because I would be too self-conscious of invading the female space. I mean, that's one reason why lesbian bars exist, right? To have a space that men don't intrude upon?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you have to remember that for all my worldliness the only gay bars I have ever been to are Big Chicks and Clarks on Clark. I feel comfortable in Big Chicks mostly because there are usually a couple of women there and it's generally rather friendly. Clarks on Clark is a different story, but I don't mind going there with you because you're a big homo, and even if I'm not gay myself, I'm your friend.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

No.

You're being disingenuous.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

and even if I'm not gay myself
So are you!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

john, if you've given it this much thought is there any chance that there's anything anyone could say that would make you comfortable enough to go there?

Eazy to thread...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not gay. I'm not straight, either, but I'm not gay.

Is T's a gay bar? I'm not counting it as one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

The reason that gay and lesbian bars exist is to give those groups a place to congregate. It's not about exclusivity -- except in the case of the Eagle and other leather/sex club bars, but even there women can come in the front part of the establishment, just not into the back bar/back room -- it's an inclusive sort of place. I think maybe you've got the wrong idea.

Unless you know something about Star Gaze that I don't. I mean it is certainly possible that this particular place has an exclusivity quirk.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Eazy to thread...

Huh?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Unless you know something about Star Gaze that I don't. I mean it is certainly possible that this particular place has an exclusivity quirk.

It's nothing about Star Gaze, it's what I know (or think I know) about the lesbian community in general. I could be totally wrong, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, if that's a reference to Friday, fuck you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, if that's a reference to Friday, fuck you.

what happened friday?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

is there anything anyone could say to you that would make you less self-conscious about going to scot's? i'm curious.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Yep, if they said that it was friendly, that they've seen straight people in there, that it's just a low-key neighborhood place. Which is basically what I got from looking at reviews online, so this particular question is now moot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I get what Kevin is saying, though I don't know about the reference to Friday. I see in you a tendency to subject one or another subject to such analysis to the point that it stops being possible for you to just take it for what it is.

What you wind up with is a deconstructed mess that you don't know what to do with.

(I have done/do this too, so that's why I feel comfortable identifying it in others.)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't mean to be all YR GAY, but you're the one who's always identifying with "a fluid concept of sexuality", etc. I would think that you would be more confident about going into a gay bar, that's all.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Good point. Even if you're in a M-F relationship, you totally belong in a gay bar.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

(xxp) Huh. Okay. I think I do that with girls, maybe, but I really didn't think I was doing it here.

I mean, I didn't think it was this unusually neurotic thing for a non-homo like myself to be somewhat self-conscious in a gay bar, especially with my girlfriend at my side.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Unless you're having hetero sex at the bar, it's not like there's a sign that says she's your girlfriend. You could be bffs. Who knows? No one is going to check your party affiliation at the door.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago: a thread in which John continues to cruise for a bruisin'.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I would think that you would be more confident about going into a gay bar, that's all.

I'm totally confident about it if I'm meeting Kenan and Jesse and Chris there. The gay bar allows me to be more physically affectionate with my male friends, which I like.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

That's a good point, Amanda.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago: a thread in which John continues to cruise for a bruisin'.

Yeah, no shit. Except I didn't think this would be so controversial.

lol @ "cruise"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Did you know that ebay can do auto startup sound?

http://cgi.ebay.com/PENIS-ENLARGEMENT-ENLARGER-STRETCHER-ENHANCEMENT-DEVICE_W0QQitemZ9508984244QQcategoryZ1468QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Turn down your volume.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

John, I think you'll be fine at the lesbian bar as long as you don't use the passive voice. Dykes hate that.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Hm... Methinks I will not be clicking on that particular link.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

it's SFW.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

So... should Obama run for president or what?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. I have to consult Eazy.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

oprah says so, and maybe her minions will make it so.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Personally, I don't think so. At least not until 2012.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

how long have you been saving that one you passive-aggresive retard?

xpost.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, that is just more time for him to be overtaken by the money machine... so maybe not.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

This reminds me of an awesome conversation I had with my mom about her views on homosexuality last night. In a nutshell, gay men are genetically disposed to be gay. Lesbians are either overweight/unattractive or have had bad experiences with men so they turn to women for lovin. Moms, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

*I'm* the one being passive-aggressive? Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

OK YOU TWO.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

yes john, you are. i gave you every opportunity to deal with this friday night and you said you had no problem with me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

i say - vote for obama

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you should go back to commiserating with Hstencil and Gygax. You guys can talk about how lame I am.

(xpost) I didn't have a problem with you until I found out you had a problem with me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

back to the question at hand, i'm not sure if his relative lack of experience is would help or hinder him. so i guess my answer would be yes and then if he should get the nomination would be another question.

xpost- yes, i talk to joel and dan all the time about you. believe it or not your name has NEVER come up in any conversation i've ever had with them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I believe it. But I'm saying this could be a good topic of conversation for the three of you, something you all have in common.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

sounds like it's raining pity over john's house today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

*opens a bag of chips*

*reclines*

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm of two minds:

1. We really need the slightly lesser of two evils represented by the democratic party to take control of the White House, and putting a black man on the dem ticket would pretty much guarantee another republican win and then I'd cry.
2. People are so fed up with the republicans that they wouldn't care who was on the presidential ticket. But if Obama waits until 2012, people might be less irritated at the republicans and be more likely to vote based on race.

I'd sure vote for him.

Why don't you two hash this out over email or even better, a cold beer? It's kind of uncomfortable to read this type of argument (personal as opposed to issue-specific) on-line, plus, you know, ILX is for fun.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'm done.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, Gygax = Dan? Just checking.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Okay.

Hmm... yeah, I guess I'm jumping ahead of myself and assuming if he puts his name in the ring he'll be nominated.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Gygax = Dan. Hstencil = Joel.

or even better, a cold beer

Sorry, I'm not looking forward to getting socked in the jaw.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

plus, you know, ILX is for fun

Fun is in the eye of the beholder

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I mean whatever misgivings I have for Obama's youth and inexperience are more than outweighed by the misgivings i have for EVERYONE ELSE RUNNING.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

and putting a black man on the dem ticket would pretty much guarantee another republican win and then I'd cry

But how much would this be offset by new black voter turnout?

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Also, a black president was elected in '92.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Me and deej. are like, ONE.

Explain me more about "the new black voter turnout."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, eligible black voters registering for the first time because a black man is on the ticket.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.killermovies.com/h/headofstate/poster.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

dammit, now i really want some chips.

xposts galore.

putting a black man on the dem ticket would pretty much guarantee another republican win and then I'd cry.
an interesting thing about perception of obama is that he's african in origin, not generations of african-american. (not wording that well, but you know what i mean.) i know one older conservative who talked to me about him as an "atypical black man" (or something like that) because of his origins, marital status, and intelligence. she might vote for him if he ran, despite being generally republican-minded.

this is where i pretend i'm not related to the person i'm talking about.

I mean whatever misgivings I have for Obama's youth and inexperience are more than outweighed by the misgivings i have for EVERYONE ELSE RUNNING.

yes.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan - Ah! Okay. I thought you were referencing an existing political trend. That's an interesting consideration you bring up.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Julia, you're related to Obama??!??!!?

I am going to teach my students about him tonight! Or Wednesday, whenever we get around to it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

putting a black man on the dem ticket would pretty much guarantee another republican win and then I'd cry.

If dems use this as a reason to NOT support Obama thats really fucked up. "We won't support someone black for president because racists won't support someone black for president" = "we are racist too"

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I'm being hopelessly optimistic, but I sorta agree with whoever said on the 2008 thread that blackness in and of itself may not be as big a deal anymore, after Thomas, Rice, and Powell.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

fun is in the eye of the beerholder.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Where is that damnable Barrack Obama song?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

xp
i make the occasional mistake of talking to my mother about politics. she also feels that english should be the official language of this country, and that it's an especially important issue. i thought she was joking at first.

and i have a special talent for wording things interestingly when i'm ~~tired~~ conscious.

amanda, we're going to want to hear all about what your students think. of course.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

i think obama is a far better candidate than hilary. i think she's far too weighted by clinton history to make a successful leap into the white house.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

plus i would like totally vote for obama n' stuff.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

They really liked the lesson about Harold Washington. We're also doing the Bill of Rights tonight!

Hey Dan - speaking of students, my Turkish student has received the article about your dad and is "honored" that you would respect her English skills enough to translate. She's excited about it!

I agree about Hilary vs Barack.

I know this is stupid, but I think people would be reticent to vote for him NOT because of his skin, but because of his name. It's petty, but people are that way.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

One thing I think is true: after the previous 8 years, this country could use some real ficscal responsibility/(dare I say) conservatism. Like getting rid of tax cuts, getting out of wars, investing in our own country instead of others. Where does Obama stand on this? I haven't the slightest clue.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Behind a podium, I'm guessing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Honored"? Wow! I'm glad she is interested! Give her big extra credit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I get to expense one of my parking tickets.

Obama is a bit unpopular amongst locals in NO/S. LA because he voted against giving LA tax income on offshore oil.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

If dems use this as a reason to NOT support Obama thats really fucked up. "We won't support someone black for president because racists won't support someone black for president" = "we are racist too"

I see the logic, but there's a strategy consideration there, too. More like "We won't support someone black for president because racists won't support someone black for president" = "We want to win more than we want to do the right thing."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I agree about Hilary vs. Barack.

QUESTION! UNRELATED TO ANYTHING! In Excel, how do you put large text across the front of a document?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

For example, I have this change order I just revised and I want to keep the original but VOID or something across it in the system.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

uhm, like a big thing that says "DRAFT" or whatever? insert, picture, word art, then format the word art so there's no fill.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

and instead of "DRAFT" maybe type "VOID".

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

or "HOTT"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

or "THIS VERSION CAN GO TO HELL"

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly. Thanks!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

make this board come alive

My to-do list:

Make a to-do list

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hey guys, politics are cool and everything, but I need a Halloween costume STAT.

I was just going to stay in but I got invited to a party by this girl. The only ideas I can come up with require playing a part way beyond my abilities (i.e. Ali G or something). Help.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

HAPPY (ACTUAL) BIRTHDAY KENAN

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ramzmusic.com/news/36-coupe.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

That is a pretty good costume idea, yes.

(HBK)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to be Lizzie Borden for Halloween, which would have been fun because I was going to fill a milk jug up with red paint or similar and then whack it with an ax to get an appropriate spatter pattern. The challenge there was finding some Victorian dress that didn't show cleavage. WTF, Halloween costume industry? VICTORIAN. I probably could put it together myself for better and cheaper, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a clue about Hallween costumes either. I generally hate them, but I want to go to partiez this year.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

What should I do on Friday?

a) GUNTHER MURPHY'S

Last Alley Presents... Androgynous Mustache as T-Rex - The Bon Mots as Echo & The Bunnymen - All City Affairs as George Michael - Avalanche Rescue Team as Madonna - John Aselin & The Dirty Rugs as Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Epicycle as David Bowie - Doors, 9pm | 9:30pm Show | $8

b) BEN + RACHEL'S HALLOWEEN/HOUSEWARMING PARTY

c) BOTH

d) NEITHER

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I can do something on the Zombie Rehnquist tip. Who's died recently?

Incidentally I would pay up to $200 to leave work right now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Victorian dresses did show cleavage, no?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think day dresses showed much...more of an evening thing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

C. Say hi to Geoff, listen to some music & then see Rachel. OR see Rachel then hit the music.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

best halloween costume of a friend: Sexy Lincoln. I just loved it. Maybe you could go as Sexy Lincoln, Jordan!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Who's died recently?

Cory Lidle (costume: Yankees cap, old-timey pilot goggles and scarf, soot on face)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

C. Say hi to Geoff, listen to some music & then see Rachel. OR see Rachel then hit the music.

Priest is also playing in the T-Rex band. And I would genuinely enjoy seeing rock bands cover Madonna and George Michael songs. Yeah, I will probably do C). I think B. and R. would be disappointed if I didn't show up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

i also loved your glamburjack, john.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

We're invited to two parties, but there are a million great shows that night. A MILLLIIOOON!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks! :-D

Another recent death that could be fun: Crocodile Hunter. Pith helmet, khaki shorts, khaki shirt opened up to reveal white t-shirt, big blood stain over heart. Rubber stingray in pocket of shirt.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

yuck.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.tomtierney.com/images/periodfashion/latevictoriancostumes.gif

not so much cleavage. seemed like there were lots of high necks, poofy sleeves, and full skirts.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

lizzie borden:

ihttp://www.crimelibrary.com/graphics/photos/notorious_murders/famous/borden/Lizzie_Borden(150).jpg

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

OH BTW YOU GUYS: I went to Hidden Cove on Saturday night. I don't know why. Kr and I were having sundaes at Margie's and then I decided I wanted to get a drink. So I just started driving and we ended up at Hidden Cove. There weren't that many people there, so I signed up to do "Never Tear Us Apart." It was weird doing karaoke without a group of people cheering me on. I think the crowd liked it, though. One girl was holding up a lighter. Also, I texted this to Eazy already, but the "I don't shave my pussy" woman was there. We left before she sang, though. I think she signed up for "Need You Tonight," actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was generally frowned upon to show much of anything - in pics, Lizzie Borden is wearing high-collared black dresses.

xpost - Right!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Another recent death that could be fun: Crocodile Hunter.

TOO SOON.

Kelsey, I think you must have mentioned Sexy Lincoln before because I was actually considering that last night. What, black jacket, tophat, Lincoln beard and ??? Fishnets? I don't know if my big ol' legs can pull it off.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Tight leather pants?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Anything that makes you look like a lincoln-esque stripper?

Or, you could just go as Lincoln. Apparently boys don't need sexy costumes like we do . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

You could go as G.O.B. from Arrested Development. Or Tobias. Just wear jean cutoffs & paint your face blue & carry a bottle of Teamacil. If you went as G.O.B., you could wear quick-release pants, carry a few magic tricks & have Europe's "The Final Countdown" playing from a hidden tape recorder.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Dressing as a Lincoln stripper reminded me of the quick release pants.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

xp He'd need a Segway.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I mentioned Sexy Lincoln last week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

or you could do the tobias leather daddy look.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, Tobias would be awesome. I could wear jean cutoffs on the outside of dress pants. I think I could have a passable moustache by then too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://img110.exs.cx/img110/3069/tobias5iw.th.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to have to watch Arrested Development. Kr got Entourage from Netflix, and it was mildly amusing but not to the point where we felt like we wanted to watch much beyond the pilot episode. Actually, it was kind of like Swingers: The TV Show (ugh). I can totally see how Piven gets all the raves, but you have to sit through the antics of all those Jersey lugheads for most of the show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

i need to start watching arrested dev. it's been in my queue forever.

what is the maintenance guy using to mop the floor? pig shit???? REEEKS.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Nick and I went to a costume shop to try to get ideas this past weekend, and I heard at least two different people talking about their crocodile hunter costumes.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Or you could go as tobias dressed as Mrs. Featherbottom!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) It's like this year's version of the 2003 Siegfriend and Roy costume.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

That's EXACTLY what i was thinking of, J!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I need ideas. Give me ideas!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

If you go as tobias, you could also be a card-carrying "nevernude."

I'm all about the details.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

lyrics time:

think about it before you spray paint "don't worry mom"
on the dumpster of the nursing home they have as many
eyes as a pineapple
I am the dumbest bitch on the planet
on the second floor landing sweating buckets
my arm pits are like black moons shaking at the end of
a cord my leather daddy dancing very near
like a sweetheart would
hurting my butthole like a sweetheart would
oh, oh it's a little titmouse
ah, ah little chickadee
oh, ooh it's little ruddy duck
don't worry mom

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

someone could go as "bill nye the science guy." that would be an easy one!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

you could also have business cards printed up that say:

Tobias Funke

analrapist

I forget what else was on that card . . . but clearly "analrapist" was the essential element.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

way to kill the thread

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

oops.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 23 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Or I could go as George Michael and have people throw things to me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I just ordered a thing for my walls from Amazon. I quite like it.

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000JD4OX2.01-AWRRWPYK369LL._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V38881604_.jpg

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I just got the poster from the D1gdown/St00ges show at Fitzgerald's framed.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Also this:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B000JVV0M2.01-A2EYN7124C6CBV._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_V38710456_.jpg

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

throw things at you? i don't get it. if i were george michael i guess i would wear jeans with grass stains on the knees and twigs in my hair. and diluted elmer's glue staining my chin and tshirt.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think I can snag an 11x17 frame from the storage room here, and cut my framing costs in half. No big posters can be without frames.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

why would people throw things at g. michael?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

No Jesse, the other George Michael.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://z.about.com/d/tvcomedies/1/0/Y/-/-/-/george_michael_bluth.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

OH!

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

don't tell anybody, but i'm nervous about courtney moving here. what if i fail her? what if we ALL fail her?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nbc4.com/2006/0201/6653777_240X180.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

she seemed nice jesse, i wouldn't sweat it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

what if i've ruined her life? she sold her car. she's leaving her family! did i make her do this? i never even visited her in NC! i'materriblefriendetcetcetc

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

well it's not like you hold some svengali-like hold over her, she does have some free will so i think she wanted to move out here. it's her decision, right? even if you helped shape it, ultimately, it was hers to make?

and look at the flip side, what if by never leaving NC she had been doomed to a stultifying existance, a slow death after an unexamined life? it'll all work out jesse.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

And, it's not as if North Carolina will cease to exist after Nov. 1.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

or so the north koreans would have you believe...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

KIM JONG IL NOOOOOOOOOOOOO

TAKE S.C. INSTEAD!!!!!!!!!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 23 October 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

my time is coming to an end!!! (in NO)

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

huzzah!

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I need recommendations of new bands to listen to. I downloaded some stuff by Figurines, expecting to hate it (anticipating wispy indiemo), but I kind of like it. Stilted and uptight in a fun way.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Is that something different than James Figurine?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. It's a band from somewhere Scandinavian. Their newer album is called Skeleton.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

This review makes them sound like the most annoying band ever, but I find them enjoyable.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday a friend in Mke burned me a Field Music cd. I think it's pretty cool for what it is, and that you might like it Nick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 23 October 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Nick: maybe check out Metal Hearts?

http://www.myspace.com/themetalhearts

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Friday night at 10:30 is a 'direct-off' at Str@wdog Theater - a bunch of us are given two actors, two props, two pages from a play, and 15 minutes to rehearse. Funzone. Means missing the Sharx, Rachel's, Geoff's, etc., though.

"I feel comfortable in big chicks."

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Fat bottom girls.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://static.flickr.com/80/277030583_8cc60df80c_o.jpg

Also missing this.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

haha It's a nice fit, innit? That place.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

You people are making me download a big, high-bitrate collection of The Mamas and the Papas. Damn you all to hell.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Q why am i still at work?

A because i went home early so many times before.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Monday Monday.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Monday, 23 October 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

DOG WHISPERER WITH THE LADY WHO HAS ONLY WORN PINK FOR 20 YEARS: SHE'S A FUCKED UP WOMAN.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

actually, she's pretty normal considering that she only wears pink, her whole (entire) house is pink and her dog is pink.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan: Quarter Grocery has amazing crawfish pie.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's going to snow tonight.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:09 (nineteen years ago)

It was snowing at like 8, when we left practice.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:27 (nineteen years ago)

STFU about the weather!

j/k

NPR was telling us to "bundle up!" because it's going to get down to 48 tonight.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

ha bloody ha.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, it makes me happy that you went there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

IT WASN'T EASY.

Jordan: you could walk up to st. anne and dumain and go to quarter grocery

You see, Dumaine and St. Ann run parallel and I didn't remember the name of the place, so I drove around a lot and then pulled over and online to check our chat.

Burgundy between St. Ann and Dumaine.

I am going back for more crawfish pie. MMMMM.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ohhh, that's right. Sorry about that. Donna's is on the corner of Rampart & St. Anne, and I usually just go around the corner.

I want crawfish pie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm totally going to miss New Orleans. I wish I could smush together NO and Chicago.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 03:02 (nineteen years ago)

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago and Crackton, that's another story

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 11:10 (nineteen years ago)

The correct response is: NO!

I was such a lazy bum last night! I made Nick take me home instead of going to the gym, so I could sleeeep. Then we had practice, but I was so out of it I forgot to bring my bass. Thankfully, we had a backup bass there. Then we went to look at a van we might rent whose name is Miss Texas.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

I forgot to set my alarm last night and I didn't wake up until I had a cat on my back at 8:25. It was fantastic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

sausage biscuit time.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

This thread is boring today. WHAT GIVES?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Hello. I didn't have time for breakfast today cos I couldn't find my belt and took too much time looking. But I do have veeeeerrry crunchy rice treats from Chinatown! With dried seaweed wrapped around. Tasty.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think my lungs are ejecting all the dust, soot, tar, and resin I've taken in over the summer now that I've been running every day again. It feels oddly cleansing, if disgusting.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yah rly. My officemates are out at a meeting all morning, so I'm chillin' a little bit.

Btw, who sent me txt last night? :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

i would much rather be curled up under a blanket on my couch and watching fawlty towers than sitting at this damn desk right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny texted me your phone number, Jordan.

I have to get so much work done today and then my boss is in town tomorrow, Thursday and part of Friday. Then I have to pack and leave this fair city.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

jesse is typing

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

he sure is.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

JORDAN!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ARRESTED-DEVELOPMENT-GOBS-SCREEN-USED-SEGWAY-W-COA_W0QQitemZ140041753417QQihZ004QQcategoryZ47351QQtcZphotoQQcmdZViewItem

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, it was me to texted you last night!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

We didn't get very far into the Bill of Rights last night. We got stuck talking about the first amendment and nudists' rights. Eeeeveryone had a story about nudists. One girl was working at a convenience store when a "man who was totally naked except for his very long hair" ran in and tried to hurdle the counter. He leapt right at her, all naked and whatnot, and she furiously pressed the emergency police call button under the counter. Then the man ran into the cooler of the attached Dunkin Donuts. Then the police came and extracted him from the DD cooler. He hadn't even stolen anything. Acc. to the popo he was high as a kite. She never worked alone on a Sunday again.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Whadda country!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

and that was the last time i was allowed in that dunkin' donuts. the end.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

So did you explain that despite his bizarre nudist crime, he still had the right to a fair trial?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I was just on a conference call. I had to call the special conference call number that costs the organization money, which my boss mentioned as she was calling the conference to order. That's all fine, but I was the only person on the line, the rest of the people were all in Chicago in 1 room and I was on speakerphone at an extension I could have just called directly.

???

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

The Gmail, she's dead....

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

So did you explain that despite his bizarre nudist crime, he still had the right to a fair trial?
Indeed I did! And when the girl asked if they had a gun behind the counter, I talked about the second amendment (and its limitations.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I thought so Kelsey!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

i woke up this morning and smelled something burning so i lay there and thought about what i should throw out the window. definitely the laptop and my big suitcase. i figured i would wait until i heard alarms before i got up and started throwing things.

it was just the heat being turned on for the first time.

the end.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Silence....

Fuck this thread.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I was tipsy & talking about zombies & thus I thought of you!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

xpost In the B?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

In the M. Or between the T's.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I like the scent called "Slate" from Banana Republic. I snagged a dozen or so of the sample pads and have littered my car, office and room with them.

It smells of citrus (orange,grapefruit) and fresh air.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Aww. I thought of doing a zombie thing, but that was more Maddie's scene and I almost don't want to infringe.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

what's for lunch chicago?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Cherries and Goldens
Granola bar
Banana

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

veggie soup
PBJ
plum
grapes

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Mickey D's.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://digitalretrograde.com/Photos/manatee26js_small.jpg

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

I might get a burger from the Clover Grill or I might skip lunch. Usually I get free yummy dinners when my boss comes into town, but I'm not sure since she's getting here late.... I do want a burger, but I'm busy playing catch-up.

What to do....

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, have they started serving breakfast all day yet? I remember that being a rumor a little while back.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Gah. I have not and will not be inquiring about McD's breakfast.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

mediterranean salad w/chicken from Noodles

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Can you believe, a salad?! What is world coming to etc.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I know. I'm all healthy and shit now and it's a little embarassing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

i'm wearing TWO SWEATERS because it's so goddamn cold in this goddamn office. what the f?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

did the salad have po' boy dressing at least?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost It's the GOVERNment, MAAAAN.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, good for you. I am also eating a salad, which is a true "WTF" but good for me, too.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost Fatten up, already. I have my man boobs to keep me warm.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I just helped a girl clarify her thesis about how Harriet Jacobs "helped to unlock the secrets of white supremacy" in her book about being a slave girl. Oh dear.

I am about to eat lunch, finally. I have chicken bbq, green beans and two small rolls.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Y'all are making me sort of ashamed of my lil' lunch. I can't run with food in my stomach!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

i had a pb&j and an apple. totally BORING.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

"helped to unlock the secrets of white supremacy"

It sounds like she was writing a more entertaining paper than she wanted to.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

i had a mealy turkey sandwich on bogus dried out and crumbly wheat bread. lettuce was wilted, just a horrible excuse for a sandwich. kind of a mid-day bring down.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight on The History Channel: WE GO BEHIND THE SCENES TO UNLOCK THE SECRETTTSSSSSS OF WHITE SUPREMACY

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

Matzoh ball soup and a potato pancake HOT DAMN!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://gallery.detroitluv.com/albums/userpics/14816/Clayton_Bigsby.jpg

xpost again!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it was kind of like that. She also unraveled the truth of sexual abuse.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

you know what stupid political ad i like the best?

JUST A NANCY PELOSI WANNABE.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Explore the Exciting Possibilities of White Supremacy.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

White Supremacy and You.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

25 Things You Always Wanted to Know About White Supremacy (But Were Afraid to Ask).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Is White Supremacy Will Change our Lives? Well, it's Depend!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Should I get this coat (for me, not Nick)..???!

http://shop.nordstrom.com/S/2904349?tuid=000006cb-006f-0861-6c61-726765727669&id=6482779&largeImg=1

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Lovely! EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO DO THERE!

Anyway, here it is. I like silver best.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

i like it, i think it will look good on you.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

That coat is v. Sarah. I say GO.

Jeff got his coat yesterday. It's pretty prosh.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

fancy

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

So shiny! Of course I like shiny. Does it come with a bubble helmet?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah you'll totally need the helmet, some goggles, and a silver Vespa.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, TODD!

What's a bubble helmet?

I still want Nick to get the Jeff coat.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, TODD!

I still want Nick to get the Jeff coat.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

As you can see there, I deleted the middle line as I realized I was being dumb.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'll wear it when I travel in my time machine.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago:

Kenan already helped in this some, but if anyone can recommend me a good temp agency or other options that will keep me out of the restaurants for a while, that would be nice. I wish to transition back to Chicago in an officey position before making up my mind as to what to do. Or I might just get some unemployment.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

N0rth Br|dge St@ff|ng got me a good job for a couple of months. Then they got me a shitty job for a day. Then I got my current, real job, and forgot all about them.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Until I had to pay my taxes and was all "WTF, where did this other W2 come from" for a minute.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i may be in the market for a temp agency sooner rather than later too so...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

The temp agency I used (used ME is more like it!) was shit, so I can't recommend it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Bubble helmet:
imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/jeff2662/19_resize.jpg

Kevin: why you temping??

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I read that at first as "Kevin: why you tempting??"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha

xpost Thanks Dan.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Away, foul temptress!

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

AH CRAP I have a meeting to go to instead of going home early. Why do they poision the "slow" time of the year with these meetings?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hey 'manda, can you tell us which agency to avoid?

I'm in the market for temping too. I'm guessing there'll be more work than usual with folks taking time off for the holidays and all.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

L@keshore, I think it was called? They gave me nothing but data entry at $9/hr and filing. It was demoralizing. Filing! Apparently that's all I'm good for.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oof - I've been there.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Stay away from K3lly S3rv|c3s, too. Well, I would.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

This exchange has made me think: If I lost my job, what would I do? I don't think I could go back to temping again. I'd probably move back to MI!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

New Office Temps

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost - not that agency in particular - but stuck with filing/menial jobs. I hope it doesn't happen again. I think I'll start with BzzCo and old contacts and see if there's anything editing-related. About 5 years back I worked for a while with F1rstaff - which was in the K3lly/M@npower mode. I wonder if there's a difference between getting that kind of work at 35 vs. 25, and how it changes office dynamics.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

(i'm getting by with my grant-reviewing work, but I think a little structure and a little extra dough would help me use the flexible time better)

(maybe selling vino for the holidays?)

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I would rather have a fun job as a second income. I'm thinking of getting a holiday job at Marshall's or something, so I can stay close to home and earn some extry dough.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

New Office is the one I recommended, actually.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

i need to find a job too, but i dont think that i am going to drive into chicago to work... unless its great money

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Like $9/hr?!?!?!?!??!?!?!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I guess it's better than $6.75.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Not that any of this has to do with Todd or his driving into Chicago.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

gimme yr lunch money chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Filing! Apparently that's all I'm good for.

I have told this story before to some of youse, I think but...

I lost my fancy dot com tech writing job in the ATL and moved to NC to be with my honey. I scrambled for freelance jobs, waited tables at a redneck bar, and registered for a temp agency who found me work after a few weeks of my begging. Needless to say, I was pretty demoralized, having gone from published, award-winning writer of software installation manuals to redneck bar waitress and begging temp employee. My first temp job was as an admin assistant for a "Executive Career Counselling" firm that helped laid off six-figure types navigate the job market. My first duty was to count reams of paper into piles of 25 sheets. Then came filing. As I followed my new, bitchy supervisor down the hall, she turned around and asked me, "Are you any good with your alphabet?"

I nearly strangled her. Then I went into the bathroom and cried.

I worked there for a fucking year and a half.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I did, however, learn how to write a mean resume so I did get something out of it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

God, that is such a sad story. You told me that the first time I met you and it still stings! Oh YENNY. No one will ever do that to you again.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Now I am scared to ever leave this job.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Checkin' out Chicago. See you laters.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Bye!

I have been asked that at several temp jobs. I had one summer job that was ONLY filing. It was 40 hours a week of fucking filing.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I have been asked that at several temp jobs.

see, that's why i'm a lousy employee. if someone asked me something as stupid as that i would say something like "i'm not so good with my letters or numbers but i can do pictures real good" in the stupidest yet most believeable voice i could muster.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Vino job in my nieghborhood: http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/ret/223927343.html

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

That's the kind of thing that gets me in trouble. And yet I do it all the time! One of the most senior people in this company just asked me, "what's it like having someone in this office right behind you?" and I said, "you don't really want me to answer that, do you? It must be evolutionary, having your back unprotected just sucks" and he was like "yeah, it's horrible, I used to sit with my back to the room too" and I did NOT say, "what, fifty years ago?!?"

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Eric, you should DEFINITELY get a wine-related job. That's the kind of work that sounds like it could be pretty okay. For you, I mean. For me, I would just be panicking because what I don't know about wine could fill a truck. Or twelve.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Big fire downtown:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/custom/newsroom/chi-061024downtown-fire,1,3418546.story?coll=chi-news-hed

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

saw that when i got off the train, looked mammoth from western and congress.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

What building is that? It only says empty landmark.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

The building on fire, known as the Dexter Building, after Chicago attorney Wirt Dexter, was designed by the firm of Dankmar Adler and Louis Sullivan and built in 1887, according to the Chicago Landmarks Web site.

The structure was declared a city landmark in July 1996 because it is considered a precursor to the Adler and Sullivan firm's celebrated Auditorium Building.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

so many columbia film and photo students tripping over each other to get over there with cameras before they closed off the street

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ah.

http://www.cityofchicago.org/Landmarks/D/Dexter2.html

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

We had an excellent view of this from various parts around school.

The article says the fire broke out just before three pm... I was in class and IMing with Laurel at 2:45 and I said that it smelled like smoke, like someone had lit a cigarette in the back of the class! That's kind of eerie.

Right now I can smell smoke in my little student org office, too.

Also: LOL @ Columbia film and photo students.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

The smell of smoke is actually really, really strong. I wonder if my office is on fire...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Remember earlier today I thought my room was on fire?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

70% New York City
70% Philadelphia
65% Boston
65% Chicago
65% Los Angeles

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like that you have to pick a region of the country. That really screws up a lot of other factors.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty much any region I chose came up with these results:

70% Chicago
65% Los Angeles
65% San Francisco
60% New York City
60% Philadelphia

When I changed Skiing and Fitness to "Essential":
70% Boston
70% Los Angeles
70% San Francisco
70% Washington, DC
65% New York City

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 24 October 2006 23:59 (nineteen years ago)

And if you're not looking for love then Chicago rises in the ranks:

80% Chicago
75% Philadelphia (except the brotherly kind)
65% New York City
60% Los Angeles
50% Boston

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh Dear Christ of the Jesuits!!!

It is 500 degrees in here. The heat has not stopped since I got home and it's 65 degrees outside. I'm opening the windows.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

test

― ihttp://images.blogthings.com/whatartmovementareyouquiz/surrealism.jpg (unclejes, Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

failure.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

My old friend Di3t3r and I are shopping for sofas together online. Weird. This must be my 30s.

I am in love with this thing. And the price is so right. (Don't forget to click on "detail view" for the full acrobatics.) If money were no object, though, I'd have to go for this gorgeous thing. I mean, just look at it!

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eurway.com/catalog_images/extra_KIEL-SLP1-5si.jpg

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

*sigh* Maybe next month. I have to relax and remember that I have to have a bed before I can do anything else. And dishes. And a shower curtain. Oh, the list is soooo long.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

I like my couch. Mostly because it's long enough for me to lie down, but that's pretty much the biggest thing when it comes to me and couches.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

This thing could be a bed and a couch until you get a bed.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Dishes recommendation: Crate and Barrel Outlet on Clyborn I think, near the Trader Joe's. They had a Big Box O' (Brittle) Dishes for around $30. They're the white ones I have. Also we could take a little trip to Ikea if I get an iGo. That'll stock your kitchen but good for cheap.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

Brown Elephant for all your kitchen needs. And I mean it about the papazan chair if you want it, Kenoonan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66TFJARyX8

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 03:37 (nineteen years ago)

Crate and Barrel Outlet on Clyborn I think, near the Trader Joe's.

yeah, that's where i got mine when i suddenly needed dinnerware. i got these.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh! I like those alot!

We have tons of plates, china, etc... bbbut those are nice!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

it was worth it for the mugs alone. i also picked up a thing of the smaller bowls as well, perfect for soooouuuuuuuup. i think i'll have some soup tonight.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Those make me want to get rid of a ton of dishes and start all over, but I guess I might do that when I have a registry anyway.

Also, those mugs are awesome.

Also, I bought a dress for the New York show. Also, my mom is getting me that crazy silver coat as an early Christmas present. BOO YAH!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

People eat too much soup. What's so great about soup?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

i can't fuck up soup.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

HEY, I can come to NYC show, my parents will take the night off from me and do something romantic, no doubt.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, what's NOT great about soup? At least in winter. It's hot and you can cradle the bowl in yr cold hands, and the liquid slides down yr gulelt and warms you up from the inside out. Plus you make it in one pot, so a minimum of dishes to wash.

Maybe you've been overheated for too long, come back to Chicago and learn to love liquid foods again.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK YOU. I'VE ALWAYS HATED SOUP. MY GULELT IS FINE WITH SOLIDS.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

i actually don't hate soup. i love miso soup and split pea with ham, but i still think it's a questionable type of food.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

I love soup. Here's a soup recipe:

You will need:
A crockpot
One medium onion, chopped
Two medium sweet potatoes, peeled and cut into cubes
Optional: One lb boneless, skinless chicken breasts or thighs or both, cut into soup-sized pieces
One can diced tomatoes w/ chiles
14 oz chicken or vegetable broth
One cup frozen corn
Salt, pepper, cumin, chile powder
Option: dash of pumpkin pie spice or cinamon or similar

Put it all in a crock pot. Stir. Turn it on low. Go to work or whatever. Come home eight to ten hours later and eat it in your soup bowls that you like so much.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, that's EXACTLY WHAT I WANT. how much salt, pepper, cumin, chile powder? whenever it says "to taste" i have no idea how much to add because i never make anything so i don't know how much my taste will tolerate.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

Soup is one of the best things ever. Also, that soup looks delish, jenny.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

Also we could take a little trip to Ikea if I get an iGo.

I already have an iGo/Ikea trip planned for Saturday 4, during which I plan to get a bed (one of the cheapie pine-looking ones), a mattress, a computer desk (they have pretty slick-looking ones for about $50), and other sundries like a shower curtain and a runner rug for the hallway. Pier 1 has the living room rug I want. We'll see about that. (If I end up with a cheaper Ikea one, that'll be ok, right? Is a white rug a very bad idea, or just a bad idea?) And yes, I will definitely be hitting Brown Elephant for things like an office chair, which I can roll straight home down Balmoral.

Has anyone checked out the housewares at Target lately? There's that huge Target on Howard, and I was thinking I could get some groovy plates there for cheap.

And I will take the papasan, yes. Thank youse.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

How does Ikea furniture take to being painted? If I get something like this and, say, lacquer it, is it going to look like doo doo?

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

This is the bed I really want. I'd put better sheets on it, though.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse OTM, soup is overrated.

Hey guys, one of my best friends (and one of the trumpet players from the band) is moving down to Chicago in a few months, Rogers Park area. Does anyone have any job leads? He's done a lot of work in schools with special kidz and has pretty good Spanish. He'd like to do something in the schools but if necessary will servce offee or whatever.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

kenan, that first one won't take a laquer. it's got a melamine veneer on it it appears. that's why the care instructions say you can clean it with a damp cloth.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only person without an actual "bed"? We have a mattress that is suspended above the ground only on a cheap-ass metal frame. No bed. No matching cups either, aside from the four cups remaining from the after-college set I bought at Target. Y'all are makin' me feel chintzy.

Madonna is on Oprah and just said that the man who is the father of her adopted Malawian child is "a simple man."

Nice.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

She also talks very much like a robot.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

I want to make vichyssoise. I saw Alton Brown doing it the other night.

it's got a melamine veneer on it it appears.

Drat! Foiled again.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only person without an actual "bed"? We have a mattress that is suspended above the ground only on a cheap-ass metal frame. No bed.

no, i have no bed either. good thing too as it wouldn't fit in my bedroom if i did. incidentally, i woke up this morning fully clothed in my bed. sweater, pants, belt, everything but boots. i think i fell asleep watching something on the earth's magnetic field on pbs last night then wandered into bed sometime after midnight.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure there's some way to paint over Melamine but it would take some doing and you couldn't use a stain, you'd have to use opaque paint and lose the woodgrain. Probably have to sand the surfaces first to get the gloss layer off so paint can adhere, then a couple of coats applied. Probably not worth it for particleboard furniture. :(

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

No bed - mattress on a cheap-ass frame (comfy mattress, though). No matching cups, either, besides two big mugs that I bought at Target back in NC. Our mugs are the best of the collected mug detritus of the last ten years. The Abraham Lincoln (non-sexy) mug is my favorite. The one that says, "I don't like you" is my second favorite.

We do have matching dishes that were my grandmother's. They are green and depict pilgrims doing things outside and I love them. Oh, there are cups that match those but they are small and generally useless.

Kevin:
1 teaspoon dried oregano (forgot that the first time)
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1 teaspoon chilepowder
1/4 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice or cinamon

And it's one large (29 oz) or two regular sized cans of tomatoes, and a cup and a half of frozen corn. And I got the chicken breast tenders and cut them up because it was super mega easy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite mug is one that reads "dorothy" on it because when i first started sleeping over at my ex roommates place she didn't have a coffee pot or mugs. then one weekend i was staying over and she'd gone out to jewel and to buy a cheap mr. coffee coffee pot and mug that said "kevin". didn't have any kevin mugs so she got me a dorothy one. but that mug is kind of small. i had an awesome one from mr. pickle but i dropped it when doing the dishes about two months ago. :(

jenny: thanks, i'll update the recipe.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a bed, I have a futon mattress on a frame. Should I be ashamed of this?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've never bought a bed, I have an inherited double mattress on a raw pine platform frame (with storage underneath). I think it might have originally been a futon frame but it's been kept flat for years. I keep resisting a new bed because I want a good solid frame, and queen-sized, and it won't fit there.

My favorite bedframe ever is like $7000 and a dream, but this is my actually-plausible favorite:

http://www.roomandboard.com/images/images06/rnb/collection/image/coll_andersbed.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

I looked at the matching bedroom furniture, though, and it's not well made, it's like less tacky hotel furniture-quality. The bed is solid, the dressers are crap.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Btw: this is the rug I want. Is jute too scratchy? I don't plan to be lying on the floor much.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, just get the bed-like thing. And I think a white rug is a pretty darn bad idea. For you it is not good because you get ashes everywhere.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I started to say something about my bed but then was poxy fuled for an hour and a half.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Nah... it's still cheaper to get an Ikea bed than the sofa. And the bed is really the most important thing. If you don't have a bed, you don't have a home.

― this, however, is the crucial moment from the libertine's point of view (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, this might seem really dumb and picky, but I've walked on jute rugs in a knotted pattern in which the knots were so bumpy that it hurt to go barefoot. So if it's a flat-ish weave I don't see any problem, your feet probbaly won't mind a bit of prickly fiber but mine sure as hell minded walking over slightly pointy marbles.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Comfort is king, it's true.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

i only have one rug and it's in my dining room. everytime i dog sit i roll it up and stick it in the corner. it's still rolled up and in the corner right now. i should get a new rug for my living room.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Where'd everybody go? We don't have to talk about home decor, I promise.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

sinus headache is keeping me from reindeer games. face hurts (and killing others, i know).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

oof.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

i think maybe i should call a doctor i've had this headache behind my eye off and on for about 2 weeks now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Run-on sentences are the first sign of a brain tumor.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I had soup for lunch. Tom Yummmmmmmmmmm.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

i was hoping it wasn't a brain tumor and just some sort of optic nerve thing where i wouldn't have to lose any grey matter maybe just an eyeball then i could be sandy duncan for halloween maybe sammy davis jr if that doesn't work out though i don't want to be accused of racial insensitivity there's enough bad stuff in the world without that i wish i had that soup jenny mentioned before because i'm kind of hungry but not really so much as i had a ham and swiss on rye for lunch i'm not worried so much about falling asleep as i walked over to get a cup of coffee so i have 16 ounces of that to keep me awake and to help me wash down the aspirin i bought anyone want to meet me at tumans for a quick one tonight?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

after reading that post, i can't breathe.

i have headache drugs of the rx kind, but they scare me, so i don't take them.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

I wish my couch would get delivered. Then I can throw down for a coffee table and some bookshelves, and maybe a real bed someday.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

i used to take imitrex for migraines but i stopped when i had a gap in health insurance a few years ago. thankfully i haven't had a migraine in a while.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

*knocks wood in hopes of not damning myself to my first migraine since june*

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

I'm out of dental floss and the knowledge that there's cheese steak between my molars is driving me slowly CRAZEEEEE. I'd have to go all the way to the pharmacy downstairs to get it, though, and I might be too lazy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

i have visitors, can't be on ilx much.

thom yum and thom kha kai are OK by me.

Kenan, if you got the fold-out couch thing you WOULD have a bed, but you would also have a couch.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

It's not like I have to do much WORK with the visitors, but one is my boss and one is the replacement I'm sort of orienting, and I have to be present, stay awake and not browse the internet while they talk. Grrr.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, if you got the fold-out couch thing you WOULD have a bed, but you would also have a couch.

I know, but only kind-of a bed. I sleep poorly enough as it is.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

i just created a real health hazard for st. louis. ugh.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I gotta side with Kenan: things that are not beds are only good for regular sleeping on when you are 1. travelling or 2. drunk.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

things that are not beds are only good for regular sleeping on when you are 1. travelling or 2. drunk.

or 3. both. that hedgerow off rue st. catherine in montreal for example.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

what did you do for st. louis?

oh. wait.... are they going to bottle it and send it back to us?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Let's hope it slows them down vs. the Tigers.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Is this the most boring World Series ever or do I just not care about the teams?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

It's probably been the least noticed world series ever for me since nobody who has any impact on what I watch on TV cares about either of the teams.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Shoot. I forgot to watch. It sounds like it's just as well.

I CARE ABOUT THE TIGERS AND SO DOES DAN. AND REMEMBER, YOU HAVE A STAKE NOW, YOU SAID SO AT JOE'S ON BROADWAY.

dyke

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Really, I only care because Detroit's in it and I have a lot of friends who are really into it, like hanging on every pitch. If it was anyone else it wouldn't even be on the radar.

xpost: HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHA

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Shut your butthole.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I want the Tigers to win, but not as much because of Michigan pride, but because they were the major league's dominant team through much of the regular season, and I'll be goddamned if they lose to a team with a 83-78 record.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

.000

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I want the Tigers to win because they have a cooler name and are from a cooler city.

NICE REASONING, I KNOW.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like pointing out that you're a group of people consisting of mostly dykes and sluts.

I'm going to miss the carefree days of being on the internet unsupervised ALL. DAY. LONG.

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

sluts.

GUILTY, YO'HONNA

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

t/s: dykes vs. sluts

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like I should point out that I only care about dominance in the regular season because it's a team like the Tigers, who hasn't fared well in recent years. If the Yankees were 140-22, I'd still be rooting against them. But I feel like this is THE TIGERS' YEAR.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

"in recent years" = "in at least 20 years"

My housemate Matt thinks that the resurgence of sucky/cursed teams winning the World Series (Boston, Chicago... Detroit?) is due to some Simpsons-esque baseball conspiracy.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it has nothing to do with the fact that all three teams you mentioned changed general managers who re-tooled their clubs from the minor leagues up. i f'ing *hate* people who take those damn "curses" for anything more than amusing bar talk.

note to cubs: fire general manager.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me, I got an amusing mp3 of former Cubs GM Lee Constantine Elia cursing out a group of reporters in my email today.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

is it the "85% of the world is at work, the other 15% are here! it's a playground for the co***uckers!" one? 'cause that's classic.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think I've heard that clip, Dan.

Btw, Tigers were good for a few years after the '84 Series, too. But from 1989-2005, they only had one season above .500.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

That's the one!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

if you like that do a google search for "earl weaver" +tirade. i'm sure all the results will be blocked for me but it's pretty good.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

85% of the world is at work, the other 15% are here! it's a playground for the co***uckers!

Did the interview take place at Steamworks?

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. We were talking about mugs. My favorite mug says, "Hi, I'm Chad and I'll be you're coffee mug today."

― I got confused, I killed a horse (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

...i'm sure all the results will be blocked for me...

ESPECIALLY IF ANY OF THEM ARE ON FLICKR.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

ba-dum *tsch*

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

can someone tell me why i haven't gone to lunch? rather, why my boss and my replacement have still not gone to lunch, and therefore i haven't either?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

In a Trib article about the failure of the blue bag recycling program:

"More than half of what the city counted as recycled material was a mix of yard waste and fragments of garbage--including pens, action figures and glass shards. Much of that was dumped on farmland in Indiana."

TAKE THAT INDIANA

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

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― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

no gmail fun for me today with the exception of a photo researcher friend sending me nsfw pictures that don't come as attachments and open in the body of the message.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I love it when that happens! To other people.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

me: when is the time change?
daylight savings end
Jen: i'm hungry.
me: rage, rage against the dying of the light

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Time change is this coming weekend. Hooray extra hour!

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Boo getting dark at 5.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit. you're right.

the sun rises early enough!! omg, it's up at like 6 AM.

of course i kind of like the incredible gloom that descends on the city way too early.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago's light is so weird in the winter. We're on the very edge of a time zone, so in the coldest part of winter when the days are shortest, it gets light out at about 5 am, with full sunlight by about 5:30, and then it gets dark at 4.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

sunrise today was 7:16 i think. crossing western in the mornings has been rough between the dark, my wet hair in my eyes, and cars not using their headlights.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I know. Coming from NC which was pretty near the middle of EST, it was a shock.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

As I work or study in windowless rooms most of the time, the time change fucks with me because of the sudden and complete lack of sunlight in my life except for in the morning when I'm too tired to notice.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno about this "sun rises early" bullcrap -- it's always dark as night when I take the dogs out to poop in the winter. The only way I can see their poop to pick it up is because it's contrasty with the white snow. The sun sure as hell isn't up. Full sunlight at 5:30?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

In the winter: if your place has a northern exposure, you will never get direct sunlight in your home. If your place has a southern exposure, you will get direct afternoon sunshine, but not morning sunshine. So if you work, the only one to ever enjoy some nice sunbeams will be your cat. This goes on for months.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

My hometown in MI is actually quite a bit west of Chicago, but still on eastern time. So, I was okay with it getting dark at 5-6, but when it became 4-5 when I moved down here it really fucked with me.

Also, what Jenny said.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I still prefer the darkness to hot hot heat.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

my apartment has windows on the south for the kitchen and living room and the bedroom faces north. which is great b/c it stays cooler.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

For those of us who never wake any earlier than 8 AM unless we are catching a morning flight, there's no tradeoff for the dark afternoon. I've never liked it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

The heat, as unpleasant as it can be, does not last for months, unlike the winter. I don't personally get too bummed out by winter, but I can see how some people get really worn down by it.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Time change this weekend already?! I'm not emotionally prepared.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

The heat in Chicago does not last for months, this is true. But if you live somewhere with a shorter/milder winter or with more sunlight, your tradeoff is going to be hotter, longer summers. I'll take winter as my oppressively long season any day.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

But if you live somewhere with a shorter/milder winter or with more sunlight, your tradeoff is going to be hotter, longer summers

not san diego :(

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hey lookit, NJ Supreme Court said that legislators have to rewrite marriage laws to allow gay marriage or create civil unions so that gay couples have the same rights as straight couples: http://www.startribune.com/484/story/766043.html

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

The Trib had "NJ LEGALIZES GAY MARRIAGE" as a breaking news headline but I guess somebody jumped the gun a wee bit.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

This year I'm mostly worried that my hard-won motivation to be in shape is going to be completely eroded by winter, and that by February I'm going to be on a strict three beers per evening + frozen pizza plan.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit, my dad had dinner and drinks with E. J. Dionne last night. The old man is getting famous or something.

(Actually, he was just introducing him for a talk, but I am still v. impressed/proud. Although not as much when he did the same for Nader.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Is that better or worse than the "bottle of wine every 24 hours" plan? Because I'm headed there.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, awesome, Dan.

Wait: is the time change really this weekend, or next? I thought they changed it last year to the first weekend of November, and one of the reasons was that there'd be more daylight for trick-or-treaters.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

to be on a strict three beers per evening + frozen pizza plan.

i'm quite familiar with this diet. in fact i think i'll be dining from it's menu tonight with the champagne of beers and a frozen brick oven pizza.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Wait: is the time change really this weekend, or next? I thought they changed it last year to the first weekend of November

I'm pretty sure this takes effect in 2007.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Dan OTM. Time change this year is October 29.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

And in 2007, DST begins three weeks earlier and ends one week later.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

goddamn this day refuses to end. i need to start playing the lottery or stepping in front of cta busses or something.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

in other awesome news i haven't shaved my chin in a week and just noticed grey hairs in the growth. i am no officially a greybeard.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

To go back to my post about my friends in Detroit hanging on every pitch... my friend Bill made the Detroit News today:

http://info.detnews.com/pix/sports/2006/tigers/tigerscardsws3102406/54.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Also:

http://pasty.com/cam/2006/b1025a.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I just wanted to pop on here to tell everyone that after lurking this thread last week and reading of Jordan's netflix mishap, i had scary dreams last nite about the titles at the bottom of my que arriving in my mailbox today. Like, very unsettling dreams.

― researching ur life (grady), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Funny! For the first time ever I got a notice from Netflix saying that my choice wasn't available from my regional center and is being sent from MINNEAPOLIS. Jordan, what do you know about this??

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

(NB: If Jordan isn't in Mpls, please forgive. Somehow my brain won't hold that information.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

You have to talk to Kelsey about that business, I run Madison.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

oy, shit hitting fan, i have 7 more minutes to go. i don't care if i have to stand outside for a half hour for the next bus i just need to get out of here ASAP.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Btw Netflix is on track now, coinciding with my free trial running out. I've got the first two BSG discs to keep me company.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Dammit, I was afraid of that. I never remember that Madison exists.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

later.

I'm killing the rest of the day installing fonts. Which is kinda fun, actually.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Gmail ad of the day:

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― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

We are renting a van named Miss Texas for the trip to NYC. She has a TV and a hookup so you can hook up your PlayStation or DVD player. Also, she has a hidden kill switch to make it harder for people to steal her. Also, she accelerates and brakes really slowly and I'm worried I'm going to ram into somebody when I drive it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome. (Except for that last part.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

It'll be ok once I adapt. We'll just drive in the slow lane the whole way.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

For those of us who never wake any earlier than 8 AM unless we are catching a morning flight, there's no tradeoff for the dark afternoon. I've never liked it.

OTM. In fact, the early early dawn is really annoying because it encourages people to start making noise at unholy hours of the morning. Bad all the way around.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

It was worse our first year in Chicago, when we lived in a basement apartment that was just a couple of yards from the sidewalk, and right near a big neighborhood intersection. So starting at about 6, you'd hear people walking thier noisy dogs, or having nelly-ass gay-man conversations on the way to Starbucks, or such things. You couldn't sleep past 7 unless you'd been slipped a mickey.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

An Extemperaneous Ode to Sultan's Market Falafel
By Dan Martin

Sultan's Market falafel
you are so fine
spicy, medium, or mild --
the people will line
up for you.

Tuck the pita slice in the bottom
spread the hummus around
stuff in the falafel
and let Jerusalem salad abound.

and lo,

Add the chili sauce
(or not, if you are a wuss)
and watch as yogurt, chick pea and chile
become a delicious mess.

Three dollars and change
is what your ticket will cost
to flavor country,
where you shall not be lost.

Oh how I love falafel
shawerma and baba ganooj too
Sultan's market dudes are awesome
and they might smoke w33d with you.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Flow-etry.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

It was a really, really good falafel sandwich.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

It always is from there. And even if I were to catch them on an off day, which I heretofore have never done, it's still only $3.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in the Taste of Lebanon neighborhood now, and I don't mind it a bit. Still very good falafel.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

I've been going to a place called The Nile on 55th street occasionally. Pretty good, but different enough. They don't have the salad or the hot sauce that Sultan's does.

Sultan's Market must be one of the top Chicago threadz topics.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

Best falafels are without a doubt at COUSCOUS on Taylor

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

CousCous > Pita Inn > Sultans

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

(I do appreciate sultans, though)

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

Al Kheymeh @ Lawrence and Kedzie.

― researching ur life (grady), Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. This sounds totally worth the trip.

Located on the tree-lined stretch of Taylor Street that runs through the heart of the University Village neighborhood, Couscous is a small place with a large menu. The restaurant features the cuisine of the Middle East and the Maghreb, the region of Africa north of the Sahara and west of the Nile that includes the modern countries of Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya.

Couscous offers much that you might recognize if you’ve eaten Middle Eastern food before, including hummus, felafel, shish kabob and tabbouleh; however, there are a number of dishes on the menu that fall outside the realm of pita and dip. For example, you can try ful medames, a dip of mashed fava beans; mishwiyya, a salad of grilled peppers and tomatoes; mujadarra, a lentil and rice dish with caramelized onions; or tajines, stews of meat and vegetables served over rice.

Of course, you can always have the couscous. This staple of the Maghreb consists of grains of steamed semolina (coarsely ground durum wheat), served with a vegetable and meat stew chock full of cinnamon. Couscous offers its namesake dish in lamb, beef, chicken, shrimp and vegetarian versions.

The prices are reasonable at Couscous, with no entree costing more than ten dollars. Portions are substantial, so remember to save room for baklava for desert.

Not my hood, but I have to check it out some sunny day.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

I love taste of lebanon.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

Great, isn't it?

Does anyone know anything about Sheba Cafe? Centerstage likes it, but I'm wondering if anyone else has eaten there. Anyway, it'll be about 50 steps away from my front door.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:30 (nineteen years ago)

Lost.

I think my boss got frustrated with me today because of the limited depth of the relationships I forged with religious and community leaders in NO. I know it's OK--I was very green, not religious, and had limited leadership and input. I know that she realizes this and was frustrated with the limitations and not with me. I'm good enough, smart enough, and God is dead.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

Today I ate fried oysters for lunch and then grilled oysters for dinner. Now I'm happy.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:32 (nineteen years ago)

BUT SO VERY FAT.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

i have only had falafel and stuff when i was at school. it was very tasty. i should try these chicago places!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Dan. So awesome.

Also, I'm unexpectedly using a PC laptop and I CANNOT manage to hit the left mouse button without staring at it. LAME.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Also it won't do the two-finger scroll and I keep forgetting and trying to read down threads. It's infuriating.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm good enough, smart enough, and God is dead

Your new screen name, obviously.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

wHAT'S A 2 finger scroll?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

I don't use the left button ever. I just tap on the touchpad, much more preferable.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:43 (nineteen years ago)

i used to just tap on my touchpad, but it was too inconsistent. i now love using both buttons happily.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 26 October 2006 01:57 (nineteen years ago)

CousCous > Pita Inn > Sultans

I want to go to those places too. Sultans makes couscous on Sundays.

Another good place (more dinnery though) is Maza on Lincoln Ave.

I need to make hummus more often.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know how to complain about this properly, but it's something that's bothered me for a long, long time and it happened again tonight.

My boss, the new director and I were having dinner and we got on the subject of our favorite things and least favorite things/pet peeves. When the director guy had the floor he screwed up his face like he was considering a sip of fine wine or was preparing to ejaculate a profound philosophical insight, then said, "Twisted...bra...straps...." After that my boss shared that her favorite thing is, "The smell of earth that is freshly turned....that smells like rain: fresh, natural." THEN. The director informed us that his other pet peeves are women setting their purses on the floor and when 2 people "split poles" (walk on either side of a pole or railing)*.

What bothers me about this is that when you're having a chat like this the point is to identify a like or dislike that the other person or people may not have thought of, but that they discover that they can relate to, OR if you have a genuinely odd peeve (like the bra strap), to present it as such. The point of a getting-to-know-you conversation like this is to find things in common, whether that is, "OMG, fingernails on a chalkboard bothers me toooo!" or "Wow, we both think it's weird that you find twisted bra straps annoying!"

Do you understand? My stupid flower shop boss used to do shit like this. He came up with these delights: "I don't like to use a knife when I eat. I just use the fork," and

I just hate it when...

...women drink beer from the bottle.
...people walk out of restaurants or bars with a lit cigarette.

*He said that the purse on the floor things and splitting poles were because of his Southern heritage, which I kind of buy, because in North Carolina people sometimes stopped me from walking on seperte sides of a pillar or railing because they said that meant we would fight later.

And apparently the purse thing means that you'll never be prosperous.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Wow that was long. Sorry.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like these quirks are ratcheted up to make the person seem unique, eccentric or especially perceptive.

By way of contrast, I didn't think it was annoying when an old cranky French guy whom my ex-boyfriend and I knew threw a fit and walked away from dinner when the ex-bf refused to use different forks at an informal meal at their home. This is because he actually was a bona fide headcase who was higly sensitized to variances from table manners. You or I complaining about that would simply be assholes.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I was on Armitage and went from all the smells of Lush to all the tastes of the Vosges chocolate shop next door. Quite a rush. They have all those wasabi/curry/paprika-type chocolate combos.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 26 October 2006 04:27 (nineteen years ago)

There have been a couple of times when I have had disappointing falafel sandwiches at Sultans, but this may be because I substitute tabbouleh for the Jerusalem salad, which can make the sandwich too dry sometimes if they don't get the hummus distributed well.
The hidden gem of Sultan's Market: the lentil soup. Seriously one of the best things ever.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 October 2006 09:19 (nineteen years ago)

1. My mom (Delawarean) refuses to "split poles" because she says it leads to a fight.

2. A guy I used to date (upstate NYer) freaked out when I'd put my purse or wallet on a table because that meant I'd lose money. To be fair, it wasn't just women who labored under this prohibition. He also kept butter in the cupboard.

3. Taste of Lebanon has awesome lentil soup, too. I have never tried these other places but I sure do want to, especially after that poem.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 11:38 (nineteen years ago)

Located on the tree-lined stretch of Taylor Street that runs through the heart of the University Village neighborhood...

this neighborhood didn't exist until 4 years ago.

1. My mom (Delawarean) refuses to "split poles" because she says it leads to a fight.

my friend dave also refuses to split poles but will "split nature", meaning trees or other organic matter.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

One of the Sultan dudes remembered me when I went back there after moving out of the neighborhood 2 years earlier. He said, "Where have you been?" I love you too, Sultan dude! And your sandwiches.

BTW, it's tahini, not yogurt in the Jeruselem salad.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ok off to class yayayay. Back soon.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:32 (nineteen years ago)

Eurgh my ex-ex had the splitting poles thing. Drove me crazy, because there he'd be, insisting that it would lead to a fight and we had to walk around, while all the time we were really fighting at a low level because we didn't really admire each other and neither wanted to become more like the other or be won over. Pick a more pointless neurosis, please.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'd never heard of that pole-splitting fear or the purse issues. I generally put my bag on the floor, but that's partially because it's more of a bag than a purse and is less in the way down there.

I have NOTHING to do at work this morning except sip my tea and occasionally apply lip gloss or hand lotion. I'm listening to CSS.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:44 (nineteen years ago)

i had never heard of splitting poles until 2 months ago. i thought it was just one of dave's (many) idiosyncrasies. how did i go so long without hearing anything so stupid? luck? where does the belief that it will lead to fights come from? who started this? and are they proud of themselves?

good show at darkroom tonight if anyone is looking for anything to do.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

i don't like sultan's because that's where me and my wicker park ex went for dinner the night we split up. it's left a bad taste in my mouth since. not that i was crazy about it before either.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:47 (nineteen years ago)

That lentil soup is the best thing in the world when I have a sore throat.

Remind me who is playing at darkroom.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have never heard of pole-splitting. I've never thought about where someone puts their purse or wallet, except for my friend Ev4n who never puts his wallet (w/attached keychain) in his pocket but always on the table or on the chair. I worry that he will forgot it and he does about 40% of the time, and I end up picking it up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, found it:
Darkroom
Thu 10/26, 9 PM, Headache City, Submarine Races, Probably Vampires

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

oh man i'm jealous of these (swiped from cstb who swiped it from somewhere else).

darkroom:
Thursday October 26th, 2006: Live Music
Headache City/Submarine Races/Probably Vampires
$8 cover. 9pm-3am.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:01 (nineteen years ago)

yes that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

OK, MY CAT. Here are his recently developed/intensified bad habits:

1) Pooping in the bathtub to the exclusion of the litterbox. I'd rather he pooped there than on the carpet since it's easier to clean, but still. This used to be a once-in-a-while thing when the litterboxes were dirty.

2) I used to think it was cute when he'd climb up on me before bed, but now he needs it all night, every night. Wakes me up at 4 am by sitting on my head. I'm thinking about getting another cat to keep him company, even though he's always had social issues.

3) Started sleeping on my laptop. This is understandable, even though it took me ten minutes to figure out what he did to my keyboard functions last night. I'll just have to keep it closed when not in use.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:03 (nineteen years ago)

I used to think it was cute when he'd climb up on me before bed, but now he needs it all night, every night.

sounds like my prom night.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I almost got another cat this weekend. My mom had been trying to convince me to take this from a home where the parents didn't really want it and it was being terrorized by three little Hasid boys. I finally broke down and got myself in the cat mindset, but when the parents said I was coming to get the cat the kids were all "Noooooooooo we love him!", of course.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:10 (nineteen years ago)

Buhhhhhhhh home sick. Can't breather through nose. Wishing I had more spicy falafel.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Litter box issues: How often are you cleaning the box? How old is the box itself? Maybe get a brand new one, if you haven't recently, that doesn't smell like other cats. It could be a litter thing, too.

I'd get a new litter box and put it in the bathtub and see if he goes in that.

Sorry you're sick, Dan! I hope you feel better.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:15 (nineteen years ago)

Those are both excellent ideas Jenny, I will do it. I clean the box every other day, but it is pretty old.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Did you throw out the other boxes, Jordan?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, if you're going to get a new box, get two - put one in the bathtub and one in the regular litter box spot. I'd clean really good around the regular litter box spot, too, to make sure there's not a "foreign cat funk" lingering in the area that's putting him off.

I can't help you with the sleeping on the laptop - all three of ours do that, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

BUT I do know that cats have a hard time with change, and his crawling all over you at night is probably part of his adjusting to being an only cat and living with fewer people.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, no doubt. And yes I did, Sarah.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

OMG couch is coming tomorrow!

http://www.roomandboard.com/images/images06/rnb/product/image/436807.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have never been to Couscous, but I am going to go ahead and say that Sultan's Market beats Pita Inn on taste alone: it's the hummus and the hot sauce that does it.

Pita Inn's falafel is pretty good, but the chief recommendation there is that for $3.25 or something absurdly cheap, you can get the Falafel Plate, where they give you like four huge falafel balls, several pita, lettuce, tomato, and whatever sauce you want -- so basically you can make up to three good-sized sandwiches yourself.

I also used to like the falafel at Middle East Bakery, but I think they just too much tahini in the sauce or something. Too salty. Their spinach and eggplant pies are still wonderful, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

We should have a couch party when everyone gets their new couches. We can all sit on our couches at the same time?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Who is dressing up for Halloween?

Dan, I'm so sorry you're sick. Thankfully, today is the perfect day for it because it's rainy and cold and dreary and sleepy.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I bought the Sultan's hot sauce for use at home for my own falafel-making. It's wonderful in just about anything that can accomodate hot sauce. (soup, stir-fryin', etc.) The best part is how the hot sauce mingles with the salad and doesn't ever get TOO spicy. I am HUNGRY.

Also, I never ever ever put my purse on the floor. I heard that it keeps a person financially stable and I have been financially stable since I adopted this neurosis, so I'm sticking with it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I was just wondering what I should be for Halloween, actually. The Corey Lidle idea is appealing to me, if I can rustle up a Yankees hat and goggles before tomorrow.

What should Kr go as? I told her I would think about it today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having hot chocolate.

Congrats on couches.

Sadly, there will be a meeting behind my desk in a few minutes which means I'll have to occupy myself elsewhere. I found this out after a bit of miscommunication with the owner, who is the worst mumbler ever. I believe Seinfeld would call him a Low Talker.

Krista should be a sprite.

Maybe I'll start up that weird purse rule for myself since whatever I have been doing isn't working!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Krista should be a sprite.

Ha, funny you should say that because there is a CLASSICK photo of her from college dressed as Tinkerbell -- short skirt, fairy wings, etc. -- but with her head tilted back, guzzling a 40.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

She should dress all in green and be a snow pea.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am supposed to go to a party, but I guess now it depends on how I feel. Incorporating a debilitating headcold into a costume would be a challenge.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

My dad turns SIXTY tomorrow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

i've decided not to costume myself and not to go to a loft party with someone i don't really want to go with. instead i'll hide from trick or treaters in my apartment.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

What, you soured on the pencil idea?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Cool. I just got hot chocolate on myself.

Kevin, you should work with your hair and be a broccoli stalk.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going to a co-worker's costume party tomorrow (in favor of either watching dvds at home or going to a jazz-tronic trio show), but I might be convinced by a girl to go to a party on Saturday. If I do, I am going as Tobias.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be writing a 30 page paper on race and labor unions this weekend. I probably won't dress up for it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

No? With a little tasteful makeup, I think you could pass as William Julius Wilson:

http://www.nndb.com/people/478/000062292/w-wilson-sm.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm taking a year off from caring about Halloween.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, you should work with your hair and be a broccoli stalk.

i toyed with the idea of dying my hair red and being miss alex white. maybe i could dye it yellow and be a dandelion.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

Was LOST good last night? No details, but ... was it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it was good, john.

I must be getting old, because 60 doesn't sound old to me. On the other hand, it does sound like the age of a grandparent, which means I have until 2010 to start having kids (when my dad turns 60). He just sent me pix of him chillin' and illin' with Timmy Ka1ne.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hey, the work book club (as opposed to the dude book club) decided on The Man with the Golden Arm for next month. I also bought Chris Elliot's novel, at my own risk.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I was talking to my mom on the phone the other day, and she said she was visiting relatives recently and had a lot of fun playing with her grandnephews (my cousin Mary's kids). I said jokingly, "Does that mean you're going to be putting pressure on Mark and me to have kids?" She said, "Oh no no, whenever people ask me about that" -- and I suddenly realized, Oh man, they probably do! -- "I just say that I don't expect anything, and I'm perfectly happy with whatever happens or doesn't happen." I said, "Well good, because that's how I'm approaching it, too!" My mom's a good egg.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

That's the same thing my mom says to me. She knows.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, not word for word, but same general message.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ahahah. Maybe that's one good thing about people making their expectations clear: eventually you get over worrying about meeting them. My mother is planning her entire remaining life on the assumption that we'll give her many, many grandchildren; clearly I am not in the line of fire.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

You're lucky you're not the only child (like I am.) Considering my status, my mom is really understanding. She has never pressured me or given me shit about procreation.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

You're lucky you're not the only child (like I am.)

i'm the only son, the name dies with me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yup. I am only son, and my mom is VERY CLEAR that she wants grandkids. She will probably be disappointed, but that's nothing new.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Only son here too, no real pressure yet except from grandma. She said she wanted some "greats" last time I emailed her.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure my grandma knows what e-mail is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

My grandmother got pretty hip to the internet before she died. She even had a videocam! Also, her emails were so much easier to read than her letters.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

You should introduce her to it, John. You would probably communicate with her more since you're online so much.

Also, you could create a photo screensaver for her.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, my uncle Dennis is a big techno-geek, so he talks about computers with her a lot. I'm not certain she fully gets it, though. Also: she is in a nursing home.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

My grandpa is a big Apple geek but he never emails me. :(

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, advice? I have one of my first big post-divorce mommy-versus-daddy decisions to make.

A few weeks ago, my cousin Becky invited my mom and I and a couple of other cousins of mine who live in the area to her house for dinner. Becky lives literally four blocks away from me, but I haven't seen her in ages, and I always enjoy hanging out with her and her husband. So I said, yeah sure, I'll come.

But then a couple nights ago I got a voicemail from my aunt Jane on the other side of the family, who said that she's planning a surprise birthday party for my dad ON THE SAME DAY. I haven't returned the call yet.

My instinct is that the birthday party seems more IMPORTANT to be at, but I already agreed to the other thing and my cousin even scheduled dinner for earlier than originally planned because C4n4st4 has a show at the E. Bottle that night and I'll have to leave early for sound-check, anyway.

Argh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

How many relatives are going to the surprise party? How do you think your dad will react if you're not there? Would he be cool with you doing something else special with him for his birthday? You could email Becky or your Aunt and ask one of them to change the date to accomodate your schedule.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

If protocol doesn't prevent you from mentioning Dad to Mom's side of the family, I think it's reasonable to ask Becky to reschedule on account of Dad's surprise party. I didn't even realize that your parents were divorced! Is this recent?!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Not sure who's going to the surprise party. All of my dad's (five) siblings live in the area (or close enough -- one lives in Milwaukee), so I reckon that they'll all be there. I'm not sure how he'd feel if I wasn't there. If it was my mom, she'd definitely be hurt, but I don't know about my dad. Anyway, his actual birthday is tomorrow, so we're going out to brunch and a movie on Sunday. He doesn't know about the party, obv. The fact that it's the following weekend makes me think that there were already scheduling issues.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

The fact that I'm going to have to leave Becky's place early to go to the show makes me wonder if I should just skip it and send my regrets. Rescheduling seems like a hassle at this point. Then again, I don't know what time my dad's party starts, so it could be the same situation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

If you're already taking him out, I think you can miss the surprise party. It will be more like a sibling thing then and I'm sure he'll be happy to see his bros and sis.

NOTE: this conclusion is based on my own family dynamics (we love each other dearly but are pretty mellow as far as getting together for events like this goes). If you have the kind of family that gets all jacked up about these things, YMMV.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and Amanda -- it's relatively recent, I guess. They announced that they were splitting up in May of last year and it was made final in December.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

That's a good point, Jenny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh ok. It's just that I don't recall you having mentioned it before.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Yeah, maybe I just haven't talked about it online much. I just looked at the Chicago thread from May 2005, and we spent most of the day after my parents' announcement talking about the relative merits of various sandwich shops. I wrote a long LiveJournal post about it, back when I had a LJ for a couple months.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I am getting very good at erasing, partitioning, and reinstalling the OS on PCs. I think this is the third time I've done this in a month.

Here's a warning: if you install IE7, you CANNOT GO BACK to IE6 without terminally fucking your machine.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I don't meet many only children in real life. Is there a correlation between being an only child and internet dorkery?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

i've got two sisters so i'm not an only child. but my previously mentioned wicker park ex is an only. she's a total sweetheart too.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kr is an only child. So is my bandmate EL. And Matt, too, kinda: he has several stepsiblings, but he's his mom's only child and he mostly grew up with her.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

He also claims that being by himself a lot as a kid is what's made him intensely social as an adult: he craved it for so long.

But I've heard from other only children that they were used to being by themselves for so long that sharing spaces with roommates, significant others, etc. took some getting used to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have no trouble living with people, but spending a lot of free time with them is another story. Small groups, please.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

For Kevin:

Name Examples of Albums Where The Best Song On It Makes You Want to Have a Grilled Cheese Sandwich

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

i basically hate all of the only children i know... they are all very selfish people. however, i am positive that there are decent only children out there.

i have already been to a halloween party and i went as peyton manning in that sprint commercial where he puts on a disguise and talks about how awesome he is.

if i go to another halloween party, i will do that again.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

White trick-or-treaters in blackface: C/D?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

(That one's for Jenny.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

But I've heard from other only children that they were used to being by themselves for so long that sharing spaces with roommates, significant others, etc. took some getting used to.

Yes, this was me pretty much.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

One of my students, an almost-native speaker who is also enrolled in a g e d class, wanted to rent an educational video from the library, where we went on our field trip last night. She said she wanted to get a video about a guy with a mustache. A "racist with a mustache."

Her: "You know, about that guy? He died on 420? He had, you know, a mustache?"

Me: "Um..."

Her: "He had an army?"

Me: "Hmmm..."

Her: "He had a mustache, he was a racist? Like from a long LONG time ago?"

Me: "...Adolf Hitler?"

Her: "Yeah! Yeah, Hitler. Hitler. I wanna see a video about Hitler."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

That rules.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Haha!

Here is a txt message I sent to my e-mail to try to learn T9: i have you so much right now possessive armstropid

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

my last outgoing txt msg: "Ill just throw rocks at kids."

my last incoming txt msg: "Word."

to/from different people but i like how they mesh.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

He also kept butter in the cupboard.

My parents keep the wrapped, untouched butter in the fridge, but the in-use butter dish on the kitchen table because it stays soft and it keeps for weeks.

What I think is strange and wrong is keeping mayo out of the fridge. Gross, wrong, dangerous.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

For real!

I have since heard of people not refridgerating butter but at the time, I thought he was just CRAZY.

People, I have a beef:

Footless Tights

They are cute, sure, but it's cold outside and my feets need to be included within my legwear. Yet... the only thing available on the shelves are footless tights! And a few pairs of dusty old control top in colors I already have. I JUST NEED BLACK TIGHTS. Not control top.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

...refridgerating.

I am ashamed.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Re. Mayo: my parents do NOT do this. They hardly ever have used mayonaise for its dangerous egg-based makeup.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

For tights: can I recommend 1) Marshall's or 2) That place just W of the Belmont stop that sells accessories for the trendy clothing/shoe store two doors down from it? Operated by some nice Asian ladies? I bought some tights there recently and they have many colors and are affordable. They also have buttless hosiery, but no one is forcing us to avail ourselves of that magical product.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Congradulations on the typo, Jenny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Footless tights remind me (not fondly) of 9th grade.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I bought tights in 9th grade.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Ah... cheap trendy accessory store tights sound like just the ticket. They tend to be less tight.

I bought a pair of Spanx REVERSIBLE tights - gray and black. They were fucking expensive, but they are really thick so hopefully will last a couple seasons.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't own any footless tights. However, I've decided after careful deliberation that I am not completely against them. I am thinking they might be useful when wearing boots because then you could have the look of tights, but the comfort of thick socks. ALSO, my tight tears tend to begin at the toes, so maybe they would last longer.

That said, I would try Target or Macy's.

Ooh! I was wondering about those Spanx reversible tights. I saw them at Macys but couldn't decide if I was ready to invest that much. Have you worn them yet??

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm wearing them right now! I changed out of my torn, non-opaque navy tights before class. They feel okay so far, but all I've done is sit in them.

I should clarify: I am not against footless tights, either. I think they are 1) cute; and 2) practical under boots as per Ms. Johnson. I am just peeved that the fashion dictators have seen fit to limit my choice in such a fundamental way.

I went to Macy's today - that's where I got ze Spanx. I decided to throw down for them because it's cold and my navy tights were just mocking me.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why would your navy tights do such a thing? I love my navy tights. I have them in a cabled/stripey look and a couple in plain.

I'm trying to find a show FF can play on Nov 4th on our way back from NY since we'll have all the stuff in a van anyway. I have no idea how to go about this. I am flailing, people. FLAILING. Failing and flailing.

Also, I'm freezing cold.

OHMYGOD, I had a grilled cheese & french fries for lunch today.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Have you considered Ohio?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Tell me if you love the Spanx tights, Jenny. I'm really tempted to buy their pencil skirt with built-in smoother-outer but it's like $70 so I haven't yet.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

My family never had mayo in the house because we were, you know, Jewish.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

Psst, Jordan! There's nothing unkosher about mayo, it's just eggs, oil, and lemon juice. But it IS very America, so if your mom's cooking is more traditional Eastern European she might not use it much (or at all).

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ohio would be great. Do you know of any good small clubs there?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm supposed to go out for goodbye drinks after work tonight with my boss, new director and the union folks, but I don't wanna b/c I hate goodbyes, I have to drop my boss at the airport and I'm just tired and want to sit in my room and pray that Christ's travelling mercies be with me.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I am in full on sick mode. I took a nap, and I am still wearing sweatpants, tshirt, robe, and slippers. I highly doubt I will leave the house today. Next I think I will play some video games. Huzzah!

Sarah, you should look into places in Detroit like the Lager House or the Painted Lady. Also, you might want plan to drive across Ontario from Buffalo to Detroit if you can swing it - huge time saver, but bring passports.

xposts Or Ohio! They're cool too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I understood that mayo was French, as the name would suggest.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it wasn't that it was unkosher, I think mayo is just whitebread? I wasn't aware of that stereotype, but I also never had mayo until college.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

would mayo keep out of the fridge b/c of the vinegar? wouldn't the acid preserve it & fend off germs? i remember learning that vinegar kills 99% of bacteria. it's a great multi-purpose house cleaner on its own.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

There is always the

http://dopamine.chem.umn.edu/chempedia/images/thumb/e/e5/Mayo_1.jpg/180px-Mayo_1.jpg

vs.

http://theheartofnewengland.com/images/mayo.jpg

debate to consider.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

This movie proves that white people like mayonnaise:

http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/coverv/34/107034.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

How do you guys feel about refrigerating eggs? I think those crazy Australians don't do it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

i love that movie.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

australians i knew put them in the fridge. i think it's the brits?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

FFs: I can ask Bill the Internet Friend from Ohio with whom you ate brunch if he can suggest/hook you up with any shows. He liked your music.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I love stereotypes of white culture. (This is one of my long-standing dissertation ideas.) Watching an Eddie Murphy skit on an old episode of SNL, I learned that two other elements of white culture are Dynasty and Hallmark cards.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah -- sorry I don't have any ideas for shows! Our official band philosophy, for better or worse, has always been that it's not worth it to play shows in other towns if we're not already guaranteed of a good crowd (either on the bill with a cool band or in a town where we know lots of people). But if you're already driving back from NYC with a van, it's not a bad idea.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I've been at farmers' markets where they had eggs sitting out unrefrigerated. And chickens bottoms are not refrigerated.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Kels you are right, actually mayo is quite acidic, what with vinegar AND lemon juice. I read somewhere a while ago that what REALLY makes people sick at picnics is the potatoes in the potato salad, not the mayonnaise. Apparently potatoes often carry certain bacteria as a result of growing in dirt and it was THAT stuff growing in the heat and making people sick. I have to find the source for that memory.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

US law requires that egg producers wash them before sale. This washes off a natural antibiotic coating from the shells that would otherwise protect them, thus necessitating refriDgeration. In countries without this law, the natural coating keeps eggs fresh without chilling.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Proposed cover for my dissertation:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Hamilton-appealing2.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny droppin egg science.

I'm in meetings the rest of the day and then I'm leaving for *crosses fingers* fun times, peace.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Also I am pro-tights today because I'm wearing opaque red ones that j' simply adore.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, Where do your friends who own the record store live? (that we met at intonation?)

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

i'm coming to know how it feels to be the victim of exclusion based on race.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

i've been hanging out with my boss and the new director and many other african american people, and i get a good bit of cold shoulder. it's kind of upsetting. i definitely feel like there's a special club that i'm completely not a part of. i can't tell you how many handshakes and introductions i've been skipped over on.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

i should add, it's not been mean-spirited--i've just been treated like i'm totally invisible.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagesource.allposters.com/images/pic/145/7015Ellison~Ralph-Ellison-Posters.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I understand feeling culturally alienated, but not introducing you/shaking hands with you is pretty unforgivable.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, black people suck.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

when the three of us meet somebody new, i get skipped, is the usual scenario.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

it's just strange to me to imagine some of the conversations I've been hearing the word "black" replaced by "white."

Actual parts of conversations:

This guy is a good candidate for this job because he's a local white male. (Females were not being considered as the director because of the Southern culture of being male-run.)

I think we should go to this restaurant because it's white-run.

We need ______ to support this group because their leader is white.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Giggle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ph6b6uLDPP4

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

Plus, I sense that the idea of a multicultural project is getting lip service, and the black-brown divide continues. In talk of our conference down here the early planning (between my boss and the director) has been along the lines of having a party at the African-American museum, reaching out to A-A academics, getting A-A speakers, etc. Why are we not talking about including the fucking Honduran and Mexican people who we talked to all summer?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, black people suck.

No, people who ignore someone within a group because that person isn't of the same race as they are sucks.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

JOEKS!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

That's fine. Please bear in mind that text-based chat lacks the nuance of verbal communications, and that race is a sensitive issue, and that JOEKS!!! like that can easily be interpreted as unfounded accusations of racism and take the wrong way.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

and be taken the wrong way. Or probably better, "be taken in a way that you did not mean them to be taken."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

BUT IT'S FINE LET'S BE FRIENDS COME BACK OR DO YOU HATE MEXICANS?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

While I am YouTubing, here's a (kinda creepy) video by the Figurines, who I was talking about the other day:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClB3n05_7y4&mode=related&search=

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

You're right, sorry. When I wrote that, my initial concern was that people would think *I* was being racist. Interesting, then, that your interpretation missed the humor but also didn't take it at face-value, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think we've all learned something today.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think each of us has learned seperate, completely incompatible lessons.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait until you get back to Chicago so we can all get drunk and have a huge public row.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of coming to chicago . . .i think leaf & I will be there the 3rd weekend of november (the weekend before thanksgiving).

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

i'm going to be there for 1 night only.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

November 31.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Kels! For a second I thought you said the "3rd of November," and I was going to be sad, because that's when I'll be in NYC.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

The "I Miss Alex in NYC" thread keeps making me think of http://www.fleetteambooking.com/pix/sm_alex.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 26 October 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

I had exactly the same thought 5 seconds ago.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 27 October 2006 00:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit. I just realized that I wrote the wrong date. I will be here October 31 at about 2 PM, but I have check in at |Wj and drop off the rental car. Then I fly out to NC on November 1 and will return on the 6th.

TAKE ME AS I AM CUZ I CAN'T STAY LONG.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

Flying out at 10 AM.

You've got about 16 hours of the Jester (including nappy-time), Chica-ogres.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 04:40 (nineteen years ago)

Race, color, sex, gender identity, gender expression, age, religion, disability, national origin, ancestry, sexual orientation, marital status, parental status, military discharge status or source of income

Comprehensive.

I really appreciate the "source of income" element. (Not being sarcastic.)

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 04:47 (nineteen years ago)

The Hold Steady was great.

And now I sleep.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

dude, kenan, you should have told me you were going!

they were indeed very great.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 27 October 2006 05:54 (nineteen years ago)

Wow do I hate the Hold Steady.

I got my boss D-runk last night. She ordered a (huge) rum drink called a Houma-Houma and I jokingly suggested she get a 151 float on it and she said "Why not" and drank two. The thing is it already contained Myers, white rum, cognac and 151 as part of the mix.

We wound up sitting in my car in front of her place for an hour and a half as she spilled her guts about the organization (Jenny, see me after class for some tidbits) and she placed her hand on mine a lot as she talked about her man problems.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:07 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, what state/municipality's discrimination list is that? It's a good one.

I forgot to tell you all two funny things yesterday:

The CEO of the defendant corporation in a case we read in Snooze Orgs yesterday was named "Harry Rodd." I snickered every time our profession mentioned him by name, which was almost enough to make me think he saw the funny.

The student-on-call was named, if I could hear correctly through my boredom, "Ms. Roffle."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:35 (nineteen years ago)

That looks a lot like the discrimination list of the state of ILLINOIS. I know because my stoods and I talked about the "source of income" part and the "parental status" part. Some of them had been refused apartments based on their parental status.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

I gotta go to a workshop in Des Plaines today. : /

Workshop? Ok!
Des Plaines? Blecch.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 27 October 2006 11:41 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think IL's has the source of income, Chicago's doesn't have gender expression, Cook County's has housing status but doesn't have gender identity...

It's too early for this shit.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning.

I have been Senora Grumpypants most of this week. I'm just all tensed up and stressed out insecure. B-b-but! Today is my least favorite coworker's LAST DAY EVER!!!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yesterday, during lunch, everyone was talking about how we could really learn something from India about marriage, because even though their marriages are arranged, they don't get divorced. So then I quickly turned into a ball of rage and blurted, "Bbut the girls there don't know any better. They get married off so young. They aren't educated. They are only taught how to be wives and mothers. It is ALL THEY KNOW! They are shielded from the rest of the world!" Then everyone went back to talking about how great it is that they LEARN to love each other. Gag me with a spoon.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

Three times, make it official.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, it's Friday.
Hey, I wish I was seeing you guys at Halloween parties tonight.
I don't have a costume yet. DETAILS.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 12:45 (nineteen years ago)

I am not completely unwilling to discuss possible benefits of some aspects of arranged marriages. I have a feeling we could do with less maneuvering and insisting on getting the best deal possible for ourselves and a little more getting on with it and seeing a marriage as a machine that needs fuel and maintenance to keep running, like anything else.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I saw the Prestige last night. I liked it for the most part.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-061025jetblue,1,260885.story?coll=chi-news-hed

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

I can see that, Laurel. I just felt like my coworkers were trying so hard to be PC and cultured that they were unwilling to recognize the oppression involved in that ideal of "making it work." I'm probably just making shit up at this point, but I'm pretty sure the men there don't really have to do much in the way of compromising with their spouses. But that's the sort of talk that makes me come off as a cynical jerkwad...

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

See also, the Orthodox Jewish community.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, did you see The Illusionist too?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

dude, kenan, you should have told me you were going!

I saw you in the crowd. I was in the right balcony. Actually, I could see you for the whole show. You sang along.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I just cleaned the bathroom and BOY do I feel fine! LIVING ROOM! You are ON NOTICE!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Our bathtub is getting gross. I invested in another bottle of Soft Scrub 2 weeks ago with good intentions. This weekend, I will be a cleaning machine.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Somehow I made it to work today, but if I start going downhill I'm going RIGHT HOME TO BED.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sort of relishing the prospect of taking soft scrub w/ bleach to my bathroom floor. Seems like a problem rinsing it off, though, cos it's chalky and has to be all washed up.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could throw a bucket of soapy water on everything in the apartment at once. There are too many different cleaning products.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I really wish I liked the Hold Steady, but I really don't. I like "Your Little Hoodrat Friend" and maybe "Chips Ahoy!" but that's it. The lyrics may be great, but it doesn't make up for the utterly uninspiring bar-rock.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of which, I have a copy of Born to Run (which I've never heard) with me today. Maybe I'll listen to that later.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

So, weirdly, I could read that Trib article the first time I clicked on it, but now it wants me to register. And I never realized it was UNITED AIRLINE'S FAULT that JetBlue didn't stop in Chicago. UNHELPFUL BARSTIDS. Good. Now I can go home and go visiting more often.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

Liking THS is so much easier once you like LFTR PLLR.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

That is Howard Brown's policy.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, do I hate Lifter PUll3r.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Bbbbbut Jesse... Space Humping! Only $19.99!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what you're talking about. I just know that his stupid vocal stylings bother me.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Paid Research Study-Men Who Have Sex With Men

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

Men who have sex with men who have sex with men who have sex with men who have sex with men.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Always should be someone you really love.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

That was the LFTR PLLR song I was listening to at the time -- "Space Humping $19.99". Now it's "Cruised and Accused Of Cruising".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

I am printing out "analrapist" business cards at work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

I"m getting my first Arerested Development DVD today!! (I Googled analrapist, then I LOLed.)

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I actually DID know what you were referring to, I just didn't care. So little did I care that I verged on not knowing what you were talking about!!

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

GOT ME GOOD!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Google ads be way smarter than I ever imagined.

Huge Irish Flute Sale
We will Match and Beat Any Price on Irish Flute for 45 days-- On Sale
www.InstrumentalSavings.com
Free Snare Drum
Zildjian Snare Drum. $2,000 Value. Complete Our Survey & Get It Free!
Art-Offer.com
Irish Ringtone
Send this ringtone to your phone right now!
RingRingMobile.com

The email?

subj: most limey thing ever

sod that dour old fiscally prudent scots git - come polling day i'll be backing Champagne Charlie and his brave band of underprivileged public servants all the way RAH RAH!!! - let the good times roll, chums in power what what!

ps dog, do your your duty to society and SHOP HIM

-- john clarkson (jcclarkso...), March 22nd, 2006 12:39 PM. (link)

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand that email at all. FULL STOP.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Or do you just not care?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Six of one, half dozen of the other....

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I just e-mailed one of the higher-ups at work about this new blog that the company has started. I gave some helpful suggestions and said I'd appreciate the opportunity to continue the conversation if he wanted. I feel like this is the biggest step I have taken at this job so far.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

company blog = cog? clog?

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

Ask for a meeting.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Is this an internal blog? Can you show it to us?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I love this poem

Sow

God knows how our neighbor managed to breed
His great sow:
Whatever his shrewd secret, he kept it hid
In the same way
He kept the sow--impounded from public stare,
Prize ribbon and pig show.
But one dusk our questions commended us to a tour
Through his lantern-lit
Maze of barns to the lintel of the sunk sty door
To gape at it:
This was no rose-and-larkspurred china suckling
With a penny slot
For thrift children, nor dolt pig ripe for heckling,
About to be
Glorified for prime flesh and golden crackling
In a parsley halo;
Nor even one of the common barnyard sows,
Mire-smirched, blowzy,
Maunching thistle and knotweed on her snout-
cruise--
Bloat tun of milk
On the move, hedged by a litter of feat-foot ninnies
Shrilling her hulk
To halt for a swig at the pink teats. No. This vast
Brobdingnag bulk
Of a sow lounged belly-bedded on that black
compost,
Fat-rutted eyes
Dream-filmed. What a vision of ancient hoghood
must
Thus wholly engross
The great grandam!--our marvel blazoned a knight,
Helmed, in cuirass,
Unhorsed and shredded in the grove of combat
By a grisly-bristled
Boar, fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat.
But our farmer whistled,
Then, with a jocular fist thwacked the barrel nape,
And the green-copse-castled
Pig hove, letting legend like dried mud drop,
Slowly, grunt
On grunt, up in the flickering light to shape
A monument
Prodigious in gluttonies as that hog whose want
Made lean Lent
Of kitchen slops and, stomaching no constraint,
Proceeded to swill
The seven troughed seas and every earthquaking
continent.
Sylvia Plath

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm meeting with the dude this afternoon.

If you know what company I work for, the blog should be easy to find through the home page.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

OMG COUCH COUCH!!! It's here! It's awesome! The cats are rubbing their little faces all over it!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.msprotege.com/members/peepsalot/rick_james_couch.gif

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

(Not really, but it was the first thing that came to mind)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

CONGRATULATIONS ON COUCH

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

My new coat is here! YIPPEEE!~
And yay, Jenny!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray furniture!

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

My meeting is in a half-hour. Man, I'm so nervous. I've never said more than a few words to this guy, and I want to be articulate and impressive.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Find out his name statistics. ha ha

You'll do fine, John! It's Friday afternoon! You're being brave! You have good things to say.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

FFs -- did you manage to hear back from my friend about playing in Akron? I did what I could. I figure you guys would take it from there? I mean, you've already met and all, so it's just a matter of availability, etc.

Also, I was supastar at the workshop thanks to me WORKERS' RIGHTS MANUAL that Yenny so kindly brought me last night! It was decided that workers' rights needs to be officially added to the civics curriculum if we're to serve our students a healthy dollop of civics knowledge.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

WOW.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh my god.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

So far, I haven't found any pix of myself in my weightier days. Thanks, Nick.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

But seriously, Ugh.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

The "no fatties" rule cannot be applied ex post facto!

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I haven't heard from Dave, but maybe Nick has? He should be home soon so I'll call him.

I have crazy dark purple nail polish on today! It's very sloppy, but that makes it more Hallooweeeennnyyy, right? Like purple blood?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I thought these ads on myspace were for marilyn manson, but I just saw a full banner ad, and it's for the movie SAW.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

This dude:
http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:0km1gSZzSXkLwM:http://info.detnews.com/rantrave/images/saw_movie.jpg

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Compare:
http://www.google.com/images?q=tbn:BMvISkuI1QNRCM:http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000001Y2U.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

BFF.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, FFs, I am mildly obsessed with "Time Machine". Can I order CD online? I could probably find out from yr mice pace page but I'm lazy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

SOMEBODY IN THIS BUILDING IS LISTENING TO JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT AND I DO NOT LIKE IT ONE BIT.

Also, our building has super creaking floors, which is usually no big deal except last night our upstairs neighbor (who I strongly suspect to be the J-Love fan) was waking around in his bedroom until about 2 AM. And assuming he has any furniture in there at all, that's pretty hard to do. It's a wee little room!

Okay. Complaining over. Thank you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
Only mildly? Humph! ha ha
Here is our page with a link to cd buying and this is myspace. Also, we're supposedly up on cd baby, but I can't find our entry.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

OMG my upstairs neighbor does the same thing above my room! I think he has a big rocking chair in there.

I like that FFs song.

I was starting to feel lousier and the work was pretty much done so I came home.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

The music of JLH? "Let's Go Bang"?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

You know what's funny? Most people probably wouldn't even notice that you can buy the cd onlinebecause Ben made the "buy now" text really small and you have to scroll down on the front page to find it. It's top secret!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Meeting went well. :D

Feeling invested in my job feels awesome, even though it has nothing to do with the project I'm supposed to be working on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit, I'm sorry. It was Aril Lavigne, not JLH. That "Damn Cold Night" song, which sounds a lot like that Ashleeeeeee Simpson song and that JLH song that I've seen the video clip for.

Hey, congrats, John! Maybe you'll get a raise - just make sure it's not more than $40k/year.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever heard JLH sing. Sounds like I'm not missing out. But then again I like teen-pop. One of my favorite singles this year is by these moppets:

http://photo.sing365.com/music/picture.nsf/Aly-AJ-photo/55377A83A1440C3A4825705900096058/$file/aly-aj.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Are they the Nazis?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

No, the Nazis are Prussian Blue.

Jenny, I know you're joking and all -- the thing is, I would LOVE to make more than $40K/year, but I tend to be realistic about such things.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I have not heard from your friends either.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I am thinking of being a college professor for Halloween. So far I have:
1. Tweed blazer
2. Button up shirt, tucked into:
3. Jeans
4. Glasses
5. Maybe some kind of academic book or textbook I can claim to have written.

The only accessory I can think of that I don't have is a pipe. Any other ideas?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

A turtleneck has to be involved somehow. Perhaps instead of the button-up?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I don't own a turtleneck and I don't particularly want to buy one. Good idea though.

It's kind of a dumb costume, but I need one tonight and I am realllly lazy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

If you do the button-up, you have to wear that red clip-on bowtie.

We could try to find you a bubble pipe somewhere...

What should I be??

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Nick, you have to grow a beard before the party tonight.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

I was a college professor for Halloween '99. I put a small throw pillow under my sweater and blazer to achieve a paunchy look.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I'll be able to rustle up anything in time for tonight. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely do not buy a turtleneck for this costume. It's not really something you should have anyway, they're horrible. Well, I find them horrible.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

A bubble pipe, on the other hand, would be an investment in your future.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, in the interest of equality of the sexes, I think you should be a Naughty college professor.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Look at the way those sock suspenders go alllll the way up those pale, thin legs. So naughty!

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I second that emotion.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nopantsday.com/albums/npd2005Austin/IMG_4713.thumb.jpg

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago, i'm out of here.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, you should not go to the party and send a TA in your place.

20 mins and I'm out of here, to buy Tobias supplies and commence chillin out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 27 October 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

You should have a copy of Foreign Affairs and maybe an old Talking Heads button.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 27 October 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan and I got yelled at for taking the papazan chair on the bus. But Kenan's new pad is pretty sweet, I have to say.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 27 October 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Just you wait. Someday soon I will have MANY THINGS, and it will be 10x sweet. It's like I said the other day -- you can accumulate lots of material possessions, and they will never fill the holes in your soul, but I want to learn that the hard way.

Thank you again, Yenny. Not everyone will get on a city bus with furniture with you.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Friday, 27 October 2006 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

Haha awesome!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 28 October 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ima be in your boat soon, Kenan! Landlord just said we have to vacate by end of November...which means no trip to Chicago that week cos I'll be moving. BAH. But whatever happens, I'll be out of my current mess, I mean, place.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 28 October 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Just make sure said landlord does not allow your building to be torn down before you move all your stuff out. That's my advice.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Saturday, 28 October 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

So you know how a few days ago you guys were saying it seems like no one cares about the World Series? Here's why: both teams are playing really ugly baseball. Wild pitching, bad hitting and errors galore. I am still rooting for Detroit, and I feel sorry for Justin Verlander. But yeah, this is not pretty baseball.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 28 October 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Today was my last day of work in New Orleans. I was to have spent the day further orienting the Rev. 0sagefay S3k0u (quick description: 5'5", black, huge dreads, always in a different suit and French-cuffed shirt) to life at |WJ New Orleans, but I think what happened instead was that I got a taste of what |WJ New Orleans is going to be.

We started by strolling down Magazine Street, the boutique and antique-filled street with cute restaurants and bars and stopping for 2 beers. We did a lot of window shopping then stopped at a modern-trendy-old-fashioned haberdashery where he scheduled a shave, bought some creams and pissed off the stodgy white bitch proprieter by prodding her about what she thought of the fact that her store had been looted during Katrina.

After that store I pointed out that we were in the neighborhood of the dreaded C0@lition (aka "Alliance" -- remember them?) folks and he decided to go pay them a visit while I enjoyed a beer* while avoiding them.

He returned, having fucked with their heads a little and having ascertained that they're assholes and we went scooter/Vespa shopping then had some crawfish and Tasso ham white pizza with more beer. During this beer the Reverend S3k0u informed me that "the honeys dig the collar...I gotta make sure I buy me some fuckin' collars pretty soon."

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ooops, I forgot my asterisk

*CHEAP DRINKS ALERT

We went to Sharon's Bar, the mother of all dives which was sandwiched between a gallery and a boutique. This place makes Rossi's and Simon's and Carol's clientelle seem pretty attractive. Career drinkers sipping Bud and ponies of MGD, no TV, no music, no conversation. Just drinking.

Regular everday prices
$2 bottled beers
$1.50 cans
$2.50 well drinks
$4 top shelf

And best of all an 86-List on the wall with 8 people's names on it, topped off with

"#8 -- If Sammy fucks up one more time he's BANNED."

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

That applies to no one.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 28 October 2006 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

The alert was for Jordan, I forgot to mention.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

This is Sarah. I am a pirate a la Jack Sparrow, but without any accents and less testosterone. Nick is eating quesadillas. I had some earlier, pre-party. I pre-partied with quesadillas. And a plum, but nobody cares about plums. and then I insisted on getting rum and coke instead of beer because I'm sick of beer. I'm sick and tired of beer. Beer can go F itself. Also, pirates like r um. I don't know if pirates liked rum and coke. Probably not. But if they had the opportunity to have rum and cokes it would be hte pirate drings okf choice now.

Lucyela and TUneybears are doing well. They are funny. They had a halloween party at our apartment. They wanted one last year but we said no because we were having one and cats weren't ALLOWED. We were like CATS NOT ALOLWEDb ecause we're bitches andthen tunela nad lucela asked very nicely if they could have a party cats stylee this year nad we were like cool that is great for cats.

Also, Nick wore that Bear hat john brought over which wasn't even his last year that I conned john into leaving here and he was a bear professor. And I was a pirate, like I said. And then nick wore my pirate hat wthci was tres cuteactulcar; and I wore the bear hat which we all know is my best look I should wear it every day.

Love, Sarah

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 28 October 2006 06:28 (nineteen years ago)

Also nick is going to bed because he's sleepy.

Also, he wants to know if I'm going to bed wosooon.
Also, I probably am, but first I'm going to redo my myspace pic so it's me as a pirate, my true self.

Lvoe,me

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 28 October 2006 06:31 (nineteen years ago)

Where is everyone? It's 2:34. COME ON!

I said, COME ON!

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 28 October 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's something new. Normally it's John, Kenan, Kevin or I who is on with the post-party update. Welcome, Sarah!

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 12:06 (nineteen years ago)

I dreamed of the Dog Whisperer.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 12:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah is such a happy drunk.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Saturday, 28 October 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's all a facade (whimper).

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 28 October 2006 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

(cower)

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 28 October 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to Jewel in my pajamas. Wish me luck.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 28 October 2006 13:51 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, does Sarah beat you? That's terrible. It's very brave of you, though, to come forward and admit that you're a little wussy man who gets beat up by a girl.

Jenny, how was your underdressed adventure?

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, Flo frittata.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 28 October 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Swimmingly. I bought snack packs of fat free pudding, because what else do you buy when you go to Jewel in your pajamas?

Jesse, do you want to go see Running with Scissors?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 28 October 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, what was the place where we had brunch that one time? That was pretty good.

I made a ham omelette and watched Battlestar and drank alcoholic coffee this morning, it was great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 28 October 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Is the blue facepaint an indispensable part of the Tobias costume? I bought some last night but I kind of hate wearing facepaint.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 28 October 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see RwS, but I more want to see Shortbus, Marie Antoinette, Infamous, and Half Nelson.

But I will go with you.

Are you talking about when I return? Because the thing is that I am in town for a very short time! But I know Courtney would want to go see it.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I dreamed in French last night.

I was at a French bank trying to deposit a check but they were withholding some funds because of a traffic violation for road rage. I talked to the manager who was wearing large Blue Blockers and said, "Je ne parle francais, bien, mais j'ai besoin de votre assitance." The whole waiting room of French people agreed that I was a great American.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

For the sake of brevity I left out that while standing in line to deposit my check a woman in front of me took forever trying to get free boiled shrimp from the bank's steam table. She wanted 4 free shrimp in the V-8 juice that she was buying but they would only give her 3. While she wasn't looking I crushed all the potato chips and Doritos in the grocery bags she was carrying.

Also I was attending the Superbowl in France and I could fly around the stadium. And they were serving Chinese stir fry that included a lot of violets.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

That's abusurd.

I want to see Shortbus. Mostly to watch porn in mixed company.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 28 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff:

Carolina at New Orleans. The Saints did some of that black magic on the home field and they're gonna dismember and cook the Panthers.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.google.com/maps?num=20&hl=en&hs=GfE&lr=&safe=off&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&q=taco+bell&near=New+Orleans,+LA&sa=X&oi=local&ct=title

B and C were the only locations in the city limits, and they're under reconstruction.

I knew something has been missing from my life for the last 5 months.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad NO has got their priorities straight and have put a priority on reconstruction the TB presense in the city. Taco Bell cares about poor people. That's why they have a 99 cent menu.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 28 October 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

The poor people have had to drive out to the suburbs to get their Chalupas!

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 28 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I put pictures of my costume up on flickr. Mostly so Otto can't look at them at work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 28 October 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.quizfarm.com/1127144755bgchief.jpg

You scored as CPO Galen Tyrol. You never wanted to be a glamorous Viper pilot. You are happy knowing that without you to fix their birds, they cannot fly. You fell in love with the wrong girl, but is that so wrong? Maybe, but you don't really care.

What New Battlestar Galactica character are you?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 29 October 2006 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

I took the quiz a couple of times, trying to get Starbuck but I got Chief every time. That's okay - cuteness-wise, he's my favorite dude on the show.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 29 October 2006 03:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.quizfarm.com/1127144530bgbaltar.jpg

You scored as Dr Gaius Baltar.

You have betrayed humanity, for a blonde. However you'd rather people learnt to just get past that. After all, you never meant wipe out the human race. Luckily you are cleverer than everyone else, so no one will ever know. Even though they look at you with suspicion behind their eyes.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 29 October 2006 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.quizfarm.com/1127144605bgboomer.jpg

You scored as Lt. Sharon Valerii (Boomer).

You forget things. Are they important? You think you might be a Cylon, but does that make you a machine? Who are you? Who am I?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 29 October 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've only seen the show like 3 time and I don't know who that is, but at least she's cute.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 29 October 2006 03:56 (nineteen years ago)

It's back.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:17 (nineteen years ago)

File under Things That Suck:

Laptop farly broken.

have been k33png it n th3 nghtstand draw3r. last nght did th3 sam3. i was fast asl33p wh3n th3 drawr f3ll out takng th3 tabl3, lamp and a cup of wat3r wth it, on top of th3 comput3r.

missng som3 k3ys, including th3 fifth 3tt3r of th3 alphab3t whch r3fus3d to stay wh3n i tr3d to snap it back in plac3.

And th3 screen (oh! even though th3 rubber piece is gone, it stll responds to my fnger if i jam it!) is all kinds of fucked.

THANK GOD FOR THE INSURANCE!!!!!

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 30 October 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

i gave a woman a raspbrry in her ample cleavage two nights ago.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Aww. And you say you won't miss NO.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

and w3nt to th3 World Famos Lov3 Acts plac3 to indlg3 my bi-curiosity.

http://static.flickr.com/47/138245466_773a6148b6_b.jpg

th3r3 w3r3 no boy danc3rs, only grls and that was borng. 3sp3cially sinc3 th3y w3r3 not pr3tty, and th3y had c3llulit3.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm Chief Tyrol, too. I think what clinched it was the "fixing things makes you forget your troubles." See also: moving house! Kenan, where will you be sleeping? Or is the liv rm it? Happy new home, dude.

In my work lobby I passed a happy couple fussing over their baby and sort of hated them.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

uh oh
laptop's g3ttng wors3!!

i'm httng th3 road.

by3 by3

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

so how was everyone's halloween weekend? sarah, where was the party you went to? i almost went to one one western & potomac but actually just used that as an excuse for someone to drive me within 3 blocks of my place so i didn't have to deal with passing out on the western bus at 2 a.m.

that 2 last calls thing on saturday really played with my skull.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I went to that party with 3mma and over the course of the evening I stopped explaining the Tobias costume and just told people "blue, gay Hitler". She went as a 40's housewife and ended up as the white Aunt Jemima. Afterwards I met some of the Youngbl00d dudes at a bar to take advantage of that extra hour.

This weekend I got 40 pgs into Man w/Golden Arm (really like it so far) and discovered Donny Hathaway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

She went as a 40's housewife

huh, i met a 40's housewife this weekend. i need to stop talking to people in bars.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, folks. I'm at work early today because I need to take my keyboard in to get fixed before this weekend -- there's a couple of keys that no longer play at full volume -- and the repair shop that I like closes at 6.

Weekend report: On Friday night I went to Bourbon, which wasn't that great, although I did eat alligator that was breaded and fried like popcorn shrimp. Then Kr and I went to Gunther Murphy's and we saw some band do David Bowie covers and another band (featuring your pal and mine Geoff B.) do Neil Young/Crazy Horse covers. Then we went to Ben and Rachel's party for a little while.

On Saturday, I had band practice in the afternoon. Kr and I went to Roong Petch for dinner (the only place in Chicago outside of Alice and Friends where I've seen mock duck!!), bowled a couple of games at Lincoln Square Lanes (I beat her twice, but it was close, and neither of us scored over 100), and then met Eazy and Lindsay at the Four Treys in Roscoe Village for KARAOKE.

I sang: Jimmy Eat World's "The Middle," R. Kelly's "Ignition (Remix)," and Lindsay and I did Steely Dan's "Babylon Sisters." Eazy did a Springsteen song I forget, Bob Seger's "Night Moves," and Nelly Furtado's "Shit on the Radio." Lindsay did Paula Abdul's "Straight Up" and Norah Jones's "Don't Know Why." It was pretty fun, not least because most of the people there were in Halloween costumes. A guy dressed as a sailor who called himself "Skipper" sang "Brandy You're a Fine Girl." Some other guy dressed in black with a dozen small Easter chicks taped to his torso explained that he was "a chick magnet."

Yesterday my dad and I had brunch at Orange in the south Loop (where I had chai-infused French toast) before seeing a matinee of Little Children, which was very good and emotionally unsettling. I spent the rest of the day writing/recording singles reviews. THE END.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Nice weekend, John! I tried to talk Nick into trying Orange with me on Saturday, but he needed something salty, so we went to Flo instead, as he said upthread...

Kevin, the party was at Sharks' place in Logan Square. I'm thinking of dressing as a pirate again for work tomorrow just because I can. On the other hand, I might not be in the mood after staying up late tonight. (or... maybe it will make me just crazy enough to do it)

I started Man with the Golden Arm. I like it, but it's a hard read for me with all the accents and slang. WOE IS ME!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, where will you be sleeping?

Oh, I'm getting a bed this weekend. Not that papasan chair naps are bad things, but I can't live like that.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

the accents kind of threw me at first until i put all of sophie's words in the voice of my first landlord in oak park, rose. she talked exactly like sophie so it made it much easier on me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

soy powder milkshake for breakfast >>>> no breakfast at all

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! FF are finally on cd baby!

I love soy powder milkshakes.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Weird dream last night: I extracted a large object out of the bottom of my foot, just under the skin. I do not know what the object was. Some kind of metal and plastic... key, or something? It was a thingamajig. And I thought to myself, "So *that's* why my shoes don't fit right!" (IRL, my shoes fit fine.) It was not painful at all, but the extraction created a tiny wound that leaked astonishing amounts of a very, very vile fluid.

Why am I telling you all this?

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

all the accents and slang

So it's written in dialect? Or at least the dialogue is?

It seems like authors don't really do that anymore. Partly, I think, because of the racial anxiety when white writers did it for black characters ("but it's jes' de way we do tings 'round heah!").

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, most of the dialog is between first generation ethnic poles. the story takes place in late 1946 through '47 so there's no shortage of them on division st.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

xpost White writers can still do that for Mike Tyson.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

On Friday night I went to Bourbon, which wasn't that great, although I did eat alligator that was breaded and fried like popcorn shrimp.

Good for you. I always encourage forays into meat.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I hear Sophie's dialogue in the voice of Jennifer Jason Leigh's character from Kansas City.

(and coming off of Blood Meridian, the language in MwtGA is a breeze)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I spied The Dan yesterday at approximately noon at the Sultan's. My Dan and I popped in the door and got in line behind The Dan. We chatted. I ate falafel in record time. Dan got his food to go. The end.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

For someone that doesn't hang out with the CHILX crew very often (and understandably so!), you sure do spot us around town a lot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

They call me Hawkeye. I don't hang out very often with anyone -- it takes a special occasion, usually. Your description of your weekend made me want to take a nap.

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

Not that it wasn't rich with activity, but doing that many things in a row would make me grouuuuuuuchy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a coffee table yesterday!

http://static.flickr.com/121/283652358_3854f8ad7f_m.jpg
http://static.flickr.com/71/283652361_adfeeccc9b_m.jpg

Now if only my couch would show up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

It was great! It made me feel productive.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Then again, I put off doing laundry and buying groceries.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I spotted Amanda and Her Dan first!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I was sicky all weekend, so I did a lot of home-based things. When I went to the gym/Sultan's yesterday it was the first time I'd been out of the house since Friday afternoon! I did a heroic amount of laundry, literally everything that could stand to be washed was washed. I also cleaned the fridge and stove, my room, and went through a bunch of my stored shit and threw a trashcan worth of junk away. I tried to fix my bike's brakes but they are of such an old, fucked-up design that they confound me. I think I may need to buy special brake lines, or possibly just get canilevers installed.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I was on the Edens this morning driving behind a pink, yes pink, Lexus with a license plate that read "CHILX 2".

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

ORLY? That's why you looked so scared.

I was just listening to Cyndi Lauper (She's So Unusual) and I realized that I have dressed up as both Cyndi Lauper AND Joan Jett for Halloween. (1984 and 1995 respectively) I also wondered whether my neighbors would be embarrassed for me, a grown adult, listening to Cyndi Lauper at high volume before noon.

PS That Lexus was Jesse's.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Cyndi's on the new Nellie McKay album. I like that song.

I'm going to this next Monday. Hooray work-sponsored education!

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I looked scared?!?

CAUGHT! AT SULTAN'S!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

I went to work an hour early today because I forgot to change the time on my watch.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome! Does that mean you get to leave early?

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

I went to bed at midnight last night, which is usually a bit late for me, but waking up at 7 and having it feel like 8 made all the difference. Refreshed!

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Nah, you didn't look scared. I bet I looked hungry. I almost ate that entire restaurant.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

They're giving out free flu shots downstairs. I'm inclined to decline - give me pros and cons.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I am starving right now. Is this because of daylight savings?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm inclined to decline - give me pros and cons.

Pros: you get to leave work for a few minutes.

Cons: it might make you sick, and the flu virus you get this year may have mutated enough from last year that the shot won't even work.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kind of starving, too, but that's because I ate breakfast at 7 in the effin' morning -- jeez. Fortunately, two separate people brought in cookies today and there's also banana bread somewhere.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Pros: Might work and you don't get flu. You laugh at everyone else while they snuffle around feeling miserable.

Cons: New vaccines are creepy and usually the terrorists (germs) win anyway. Ain't no such thing as germ insurance.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Flu shots are very controversial. Some doctors recommend them for everyone, some only to people who would suffer more than most if they did contract the flu, and some advise against getting a flu shot at all. The CDC has found the shots "effective," but many others use words more like "scam," and point out all the nasty, nasty shit in the vaccine, like aluminum, antifreeze, and formaldehyde. The side effects are generally listed as being pretty much the exact symptoms of flu. And then there's that whole mutating virus business.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Cons: you might not get the flu at all, anyway. I can't be bothered, and I'm not in any high-risk category, and yeah, MUTATION.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

I get the flu with our without a flu shot, so I'd be inclined to decline, personally. But also, I have a needle phobia. Scratch that. I'm not scared of needles, just having them stuck inside my skin to either take away my blood or pump something into my blood.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

People keep coming by my desk to ask if I'm getting a flu shot and when I say no, they tell me the story of someone who had the flu last season and NEARLY DIED.

I'm not askeered of needles or shots at all, but I think I'll stick with the "until and unless I become old/immuno-suppressed, I'll just say no." It's worked for me so far. Plus, wasn't there a huge flu vaccine shortage last year? I feel like if I accept a shot, somebody who really needs one is going to go without. (My mother has a precious and heroic story of pulling all her health care field strings to get flu shots for my elderly grandparents last year.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

I basically just want all you people to rationally explain why it's okay that I feel vaguely distrustful of the entire flu shot industry, and validate the choice I've already made.

Thanks. You people are good pals.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Why is the time stamp for my post "5:05 PM"? I know I fucked up the time this morning, but I'm not that fucked up, am I?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

It's ILX. Nothing to worry about.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think the time stamp is fucked up for all of ILX.

I've never gotten a flu shot, not because I'm skeptical about their efficacy or anything, but because I'm lazy. I didn't know that it was possibly a scam.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Well, not so much as "scam" as a "specifically American hysteria".

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Little Children makes some interesting points about American hysteria.

(I just realized that the title is perhaps a reference to Lillian Hellman's Little Foxes.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

i'm generally distrustful of flu shots as well. it's the flu, ffs. if you get it you'll be miserable for a week and get over it, but it's most likely you won't get it at all. and then there's possible side effects, and the whole damn thing is guesswork on the part of the health care system because they don't know which strain of flu is going to be going around anyway (and whether it even exists yet--mutation is crazy with those viral protein coats).

fuck a flu shot. eat healthy and get decent sleep adn all of that and it'll help your immune system more than that shit. the end.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost: Wait no, not Little Foxes. I meant The Children's Hour. So maybe it's not a reference.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Happy to oblige, Jenny! I'm with J and K, it's mass hysteria.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Ah. Little Children makes some interesting points about American hysteria.

Hm. Like what?

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I agree. I have a book about various mass hysterias that have struck throughout recorded history -- http://www.skeptic.de/c/0110.gif

It's entertaining.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I have seen that book before -- never read it, though. I bet it has a chapter on the Dutch tulip craze of the 17th C.

In Little Children, there's a pedophile who moves to town, and though he's definitely a sick man, the reaction of some of the townspeople to his presence is outright panic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://valdefierro.com/mad02.jpg

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/15/Crazy_In_Love.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really like Helen Hunt, but I'd totally watch a sitcom starring Paul Reiser and Beyonce.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I used to watch Mad About You all the time. I think it skewed my perception of what marriage is supposed to be like.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Gah I hate that show. I have a special sort of loathing for "couples humor."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I was young and foolish.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

AHAHAHAH THE TIME HAS COME! MY CROCS HAVE ARRIVED!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I just read Little Children a month ago. Good stuff. It feels like a picture of 21st century Naperville-type suburbia, as opposed to postwar suburbia or the 70s suburbia of The Ice Storm.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

At karaoke at the Four Treys on Saturday night, there was a group of 8 or so Marines who had just returned from Iraq and were whooping it up. I was surprised that the biggest raise-your-glass song of the night in the room was when a Ricky Jay lookalike sang "Walking In Memphis".

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

incidentally, when i was in memphis last year i walked everywhere and never came across another pedestrian with the exception of the steady trail from the record shop to the liquor store and back.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

BUT DO I REALLY FEEL THE WAY I FEEL

http://images.villagevoice.com/issues/0219/sightlines.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think he looked *that* much like Ricky Jay, but he was definitely a portly fellow with a beard.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Chicagoers in smrt statistics/health care info-type fields: Where can I go to get some stats that demonstrate that women bear the burden of infertility treatments to a greater extent than men do? Or that the majority of treatments are designed to be applied to women, regardless of which partner has the actual problem.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Note: I have access to a lot of academic databses. Too many, actually - I don't even know where to start w/ this.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

The best part is when the fertility treatments go haywire and the woman has to bear 7 babies at one time! Boo to chemically-induced septuplets.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am sorry that post contained no advice, only bile. :(

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

When my officemate blows his nose, he does it at two second intervals for at least a solid minute. It makes me want to punch him.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, Jenny, but if a man has, say, a low sperm count, what can you do besides in vitro? Off the top of my head I wonder if men have fewer options...because their system is so much simpler that if something is wrong, it's liable to be ALL THE WAY wrong. I realize that doesn't help you AT ALL.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

i was gonna say i wish i had a low sperm count or immotile swimmers or something but i just realized it doesn't really matter anyway.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

HE IS STILL DOING IT. Now I want to go home and take vitamins.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

From Psychology Today (Mar/Apr 1996):

When a couple steps into the infertility arena today, both partners receive full evaluations—in theory. In practice, however, this doesn't always happen because technology is such that even a few sperm from an infertile man are enough for high-tech fertilization. About 40 percent of infertility is the result of "female factors"—problems with hormones, eggs, or reproductive organs. Another 40 percent is explained by "male factors"—problems with low sperm count or slow-moving sperm. The remaining 20 percent is unexplained or due to factors in both partners. There may be an immune problem, where the sperm and egg are "allergic" to each other. Advances—such as ICSI, a way of injecting a single sperm into an egg during IVF—have been made to get around this immune system clash. Advances have also been made in understanding male infertility, including treatments for low sperm motility that involve extracting sperm directly from the testes. But the bulk of fertility treatments still focus on women.

Women also tend to "carry" the issue for a couple, says McDaniel. "As much as men are invested in having children, they don't have to think about it, or perhaps be as conscious of it—because women are so focused on the problem. It makes sense, then, that when it comes to an infertility workup, men will often be the ones to put on the brakes. If both partners were running headlong onto the conveyor belt of technology, there'd be a mess. So what happens—largely because of sex roles—is women become advocates of the process, and men, who may be more ambivalent, question it and wonder whether it's time to stop."

Women will go so far as to protect their partner from the diagnostic process, as well as treatment, observes Daniluk. She says they'll even shield their partner from blame when he's the infertile one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ooo nice. Thanks!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

She says they'll even shield their partner from blame when he's the infertile one.

http://www.channel4.com/entertainment/tv/media/L/lost/ep6_6.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

John, do you have the title for that article?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

"Who Stole Fertility?" by Virginia Rutter and Tom Arma.
http://www.psychologytoday.com/articles/pto-19960301-000031.html

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, ace. You may have helped someone get her job back.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

No problem. I can't let a research question like that go unanswered.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Good grief:

The use of hormones to stimulate women's ovaries can produce two dozen eggs or more per cycle. Almost all of them may become fertilized and progress to the early embryonic stage at which uterine implantation is attempted. Doctors usually insert no more than four embryos per attempt. Others may be frozen, destroyed or donated to another infertile couple or to research -- sometimes for a reduction in the price of the IVF procedure.
“We talked about destroying them . . . but my husband felt strongly against it,” says Lisa, who had two frozen embryos after her IVF. “I couldn't donate them to another couple. The idea of someone else having my biological child is unbearable.” Lisa and her husband decided that she should return to the fertility clinic and have the frozen embryos implanted even though she has abandoned any hope of becoming pregnant this way.

(from another article I found)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan - you just need to fill a whoopee cushion and sit on it a tiny bit in response to each one of his noseblows.

I had a friend who gave up on her boyfriend when she was picking him up and saw him en route to her car doing a "farmer's blow" (plugging one nostril and letting the other one fly at full force).

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Can you say what this is for, Jenny? Whose job are you helping to get back?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Ha, that's great that there's a name for that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Some chicks just can't handle the snot rocket, man.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

(I imagine saying that in the voice of Wooderson from Dazed and Confused)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's a decided case so it's public record, but I'd rather not get into specifics here. I emailed you, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Word.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I knew he wrote the police blotter for the Chicago Journal, but this is ridiculous:

Max Brooks's Zombie Books?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

Maddie read and loved his new zombie novel.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

After work and gym tonight I'm going to make a big fuck-off hamburger and I can't wait. I only wish I had managed my netflix stuff better so I would have something to watch!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse called me. The only CDs he has with him for his drive back from NO are Xiu Xiu, the Smiths, and Wolf Parade. He says, "This is going to be a depressing ride."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's time for a classic rock radio intervention.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I do not think Jesse is the classic rock type.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

PS Brotzmann in Chicago next Thursday, for anyone who cares.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Available at any Flying J on the way home. Throw in some Jeff Foxworthy.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Ooh. I care. But I can't think of anyone I dislike enough to drag them to that show.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to see the Red Wings of Detroit clash with the Black Hawks of this particular patch this Thursday! $10 for teh cheap seats. I've never seen the Red Wings and they're my favorite team of FOREVA, so I am v. excited. No Stevie Y. anymore, though :(

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not man enough to sit through a whole Brotzmann set.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Manda, where is this show?

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Bill Clinton cares.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

My friend Sam cares. I guess I kinda do too, but I doubt I'll go.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Elastic -- above a Chinese restaurant in Logan Sq., I think? I am pretty sure that we'll be there. Dan will for sure. I am pretty sure that I'm man enough.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

I might go down in November to see Nick Payton's quintet at the Jazz Showcase.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

"Carry on My Wayward Son" by Kansas once sustained me for the final hour and a half of a Delaware to Atlanta trip that I thought would end with my falling asleep at the wheel and dying.

Who is Brotzmann?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit! That's right by my house.

Jeff/Jenny: did you make it to Xiu Xiu at Logan Sq. Aud. on Friday? My housemate and I were too busy being sick to go.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see Bert Jansch too. I might buy a ticket for that show even though it's on a Friday and I have class on Sat. morning. Eeek.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

classic rock really does have a sanity-enhancing power if you're on a long road trip.

grr my library audiobooks will not play because of fucked up licensing. WOE.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

I only know "Carry on My Wayward Son" via the Girl Talk album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

We did not go see Xiu Xiu. Neither one of us was feeling that into it, plus the thought of trying to get a taxi that late in Logan's Square was just too much to bear. We ordered Lebanese food and watched Battlestar Galactica instead.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Elastic is TINY but really nice. It's just an oblong room, basically. There's no bar. No smoking. Just music and art (on the walls). D has been there a couple of times and I've been there once.

I just bought tickets to that 3MTongues thing with Bert J. I went last year and saw Josephine Foster and it was MAGICAL. I can't wait for this show.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I would love to see Brotzmann. But as noted above, it is tough for me to make it to Logan square.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Potentially interesting: Chicago Community Area Health and Demographic Data

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

THERE IS A TRAIN RIGHT THERE YOU GUYS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

(Just kidding, but I am bummed Nebraska is so hard to reach for y'all. It's fun! I'd have a gathering but I live with one of the world's most anti-social people.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Logan Square blue line to Addison red line is a long, dumb train ride at 2 AM.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

addison red line at 2 a.m. apparently isn't very safe for the lady folk.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Is that when Ronnie "Woo" is riding?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah - I got a CAPS alert flier this morning about a sexual assault this weekend off the Addison red line stop. It happened at 3 AM.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

WOOOOOO!

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

why did i suddenly sign out of gmail? that was weird.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 30 October 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I have a new enemy at work. This rat-faced guy who is constantly walking down the center of the hallways like he owns them. Those of you who have met me know I am a large man, but not beyond making space for everyone. This fucker acts like he expects you to get out of the way. He was coming one way, I was going the other. He did not yield, I moved to one side as far as was comfortable. Our shoulders collided (rather, my upper arm and his shoulder, as he is not a large man like me). He said, and I quote "Watch it, buddy." I was speechless. I continued on to the bathroom, the rage building. I have resolved that if this happens again I am throwing down and will kick his ass after school out by the parking lot.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

(And no, I do not think he was joking, as has been suggested by someone else I have bitched about this to. His tone belied any attempt at humor.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

You should call him "Squirt" next time he mouths off at you.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's doubly amazing because he is a copy editor, and they never talk.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Punch that fucker.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

I think that dude works out at my gym too. He's always walking between the rows of treadmills, very obviously staring at girls' asses and refusing to yield when anyone approaches from the opposite direction. Given how narrow the aisles are, I bumped shoulders with him last week and he said "watch where I'm walking or I'll kick your ass". Charming.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

No way. Someone actually said that to you? Tell him to get off the 'roids.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Man, dudes who pick fights in gyms have to be among the stupidest assholes out there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, you're in a gym! If the person you're picking on isn't obviously fat or weak or otherwise out of shape... aren't you kind of heading for disaster? The next person you tell to get out of the way could just as easily break you in half without even trying.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

Well, in this case it was pretty obvious that he could probably have backed up his words... I'm not usually considered "skinny" but this dude and his chemically enhanced muscles made me look downright scrawny.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

It's doubly amazing because he is a copy editor, and they never talk.

Don't I know it. :(

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

Well, they're quiet here, for the most part.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

I want cake.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Anybody else happen to see the guy in the extremely awesome homemade Pac-Man costume in the Ashland/Augusta area Saturday night? I was too slow to get a picture of him.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Unforch, no. I was laid up with a box of kleenex, a jug of OJ, and the Chicago Fire game. They lost.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 30 October 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, the hamburger, she was too much meat for me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Halloween. I am tired and disillusioned with life. How are you?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to hear about the disillusionment. I'm tired. Debating whether or not to go see V0xtr0t this weekend, are they any good live?

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

this weekend my closest friends will be out of town so i am going to cloister myself away with books and records and do some serious apartment cleaning.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds nice.

I don't know if I can make it through the day. Stick around and find out!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

it won't be fun but it will be nice. i will spend my days with football and records and my nights cleaning on saturday and sunday.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry about life, Sarah.

Spending a weekend inside would be nice. I need to go over my apartment with one of these http://i20.ebayimg.com/02/i/03/4f/14/39_1_b.JPG

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha.

Actually, a broom really helps, Jordan.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Even with desks and wicker night tables and computers and carpet?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

What do you do when there's a co-worker who thinks she works very hard, and is quite proud of the work she does, except that she's totally incompetent and has nothing to be proud of? It's not that she has a bad attitude, mind you. She's just a colossal boob.

wicker night tables

Perhaps what your apartment really need is a de-wickering.

― joggin' with the devil (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

She's just a colossal boob.
She's just a colossal boob.
She's just a colossal boob.
She's just a colossal boob.
She's just a colossal boob.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Is wicker lame? I liked it until Wolfie started sleeping on it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Vacuum the wicker with a bruch attachment! Or am I misunderstanding?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if it's LAME, per say, but it's very... Pier 1. Like, there's no other way you have wicker unless you went to Pier 1.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Take a household tip from my former roommate Bob: vacuum the furniture. I would guess that vacuuming the wicker would get the hair out of the crevices, and then you could go at it with one of those microfiber clothes or a lint roller to get the rest.

Then again, I once saw my former roommate Bob wipe up a spill with a slice of bread, so... grains of salt, etc.

XPOST - Laurel and Jenny thinking as ONE shocka!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

This is fun. Just how long do they honestly expect people to keep their legs closed? This is ridiculous.

Tell all your friend in their 20's -- FUCK FOR FREEDOM.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Is it time to start the revolution yet?

Now?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Just how long do they honestly expect people to keep their legs closed?

some are chaste out of a sense of duty, some have a duty thrust upon them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan: Now.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Like, there's no other way you have wicker unless you went to Pier 1.

Haha. I don't even know where this thing came from, I guess I took it from my dad's house in college.

I vacuum couches for sure (when I have couches that is), but vacuuming hard furniture seems weird for some reason. But I will do it!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

JESSE ALERT: Jesse is traveling from Champaign/Urbana to Chicago today. He and I have SOLID PLANS to meet up for drinks/dinner sometime around 7 pm. Although he mentioned hating you all and never wanting to see you again, I'm sure it would be okay if any Chilxors would like to join us. I don't know any specifics, but I'm sure he'll be on line when he gets home.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

What everyone needs to do is just get married in college so there won't be such a big problem. I mean, sure, the marriages might suck, but at least... Oh wait. That's a HORRIBLE IDEA.

Jordan, I meant that a good broom works wonders on the carpet. Just bang the hell out of with the broom and then vacuume.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I can't afford dinner and drinks. :( I will have to greet him more properly this weekend, when he's back FOR GOOD.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

i am almost literally without any cash (i wish current landlady was like all previous lessors and didn't cash my damn rent check for a week or two) so i can not go. but give him my best.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

If someone isn't "marriage material," does that mean they can start having sex at 30?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Tell all your friend in their 20's -- FUCK FOR FREEDOM.

I will mention this on my date tomorrow.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I feel you, Kevin. Paying rent, fine. Paying twice rent, in two weeks... broke.

does that mean they can start having sex at 30

No! For people over 30, the government has just appropriated more funds to their Lonely Spinster Cat Lady program.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

(from kenan's link)

millions of dollars in federal money that will be available to the states under revised federal grant guidelines for 2007.

that's not funny at all.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's bizarre.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

that's not funny at all.

No. I'd argue that it's unconstitutional.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

How so?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

It's based purely on religion.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, doling out the federal education budget based on whether people comply with this xtian wingnut non-reality-based crapola?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

i missed the xtian part of it in the link. so they won't give $$$ to jewish/muslim/hindu groups who want to do the same? that would be unconstitutional i'd imagine. but if they're giving cake to everyone, regardless of religion, to further their purpose that seems like just bad government to me but not criminal.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Right.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I know I'd lose in court with this argument.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Debating whether or not to go see V0xtr0t this weekend, are they any good live?

No idea if they're good live or not, but you should go because my band is opening for them!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

REALLY FUCKING BAD GVT.

they argue that it's for public health, which is bullshit, since they aren't including education for people who do have sex (hey wow there are ways to protect yourself against disease whatever your sexual behavior). whatever. we all know that.

i don't generally wish ill on people, but i kinda wish GWB would get some sort of terminal, devastating neurological disease with no treatment.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

but i kinda wish GWB would get some sort of terminal, devastating neurological disease with no treatment

odd, because i've long suspected he already has.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

psychological delusional something--sure. neurological stuff, we can only hope.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

How can a soulless, unfeeling robut get such a disease?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

scary halloween whisper:

president cheney.... president cheney....

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

robutt.

maybe he's windows-based somehow in his circuitry.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Now?

Now.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

president cheney.... president cheney....

oh shit.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

scarier: President Rumsfeld.... President Rumsfeld....

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

If the Dems have any luck next week, here's the third in line:

http://i23.photobucket.com/albums/b396/wiggs_1973/pelosi.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.moviesection.de/v3/img/datenbank/brazil1.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

NOW.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

NOW NOW NOW NOW.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

So I saw last night that the Daily Show is in Ohio this week? I'm interested because someone related to me was essentially drafted by a bunch of scientists to run for school board in OH because there is a crazy woman (who had been previously unopposed) who is trying to get "intelligent design" into the public schools. Things are going well for this relative of mine, but I'm nervous about election day.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

"intelligent design"

NOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNWOWNOOWOWOWwwwwwwwwwwwalsdkkfjalkj09sxc8-9POQKSLD

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

fatal error

reboot

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

ABEND!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/sitespecifics/crash_run/crashrun.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Today my students asked me if I'm dressed up for Halloween.

I'm not.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sexisforfags.com/

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I told you the mask and witch's hat was inappropriate for a teaching job, Amanda...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

This is an old article, but I remember it well:

Many American youngsters participating in federally funded abstinence-only programs have been taught over the past three years that abortion can lead to sterility and suicide, that half the gay male teenagers in the United States have tested positive for the AIDS virus, and that touching a person's genitals "can result in pregnancy," a congressional staff analysis has found.
Those and other assertions are examples of the "false, misleading, or distorted information" in the programs' teaching materials, said the analysis, released yesterday, which reviewed the curricula of more than a dozen projects aimed at preventing teenage pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

At one job, I dressed up as an old woman from the sixties for Halloween. I even wore a wig. But apparently I didn't go quite over the top enough, even with my Mimi Bobeck makeup, because I had a couple of tax payers come in and act like I really was a weird old lady.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

I went as a "redneck beauty queen" on year for Halloween and suffered an inordinate amount of tit groping because people thought I was a dude in drag. There were fights.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, oh man.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

STOMACH SAYS LUNCH
CLOCK SAYS NO

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

i'm eating right now. no shame in my game.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

My stomach has been a bitch to me the past few days. Never-the-less, I need to reward its moaning with some pretzel nugs in a few minutes.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

testicle weevils

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

girl slime.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

TS:

http://www.filminamerica.com/Movies/FortyDaysAndFortyNights/40-poster3.jpg

vs.

http://kvn.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/120%20days%20sodom-765843.gif

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

While waiting for a movie to start when I was in college, the preview for 40 Days 40 Nights came on. I remember the narrator voice saying something like "Could you go without sex for... 40 Days??? and my friend Kevin, who was at the time being corrupted by my friends and I after years of christianity-induced sobriety/uncoolness, yelled "HOW ABOUT 21 YEARS?!?!" and the whole theater laughed.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

once again my shitty andecdote kills thread

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

LUNCH WILL SAVE THE DAY:

Salad and macaroni and cheese from Mac Kelly's.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Dang that sounds good. I have a salad and a microwavable Super Pretzel (tm). I flippin' LOVE those things.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

tell me more about microwavable Super Pretzels (tm)?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny's a woman after my own heart.

I have leftover pasta w/red peppers and mushrooms, but I think I'm going to wait a half-hour or so. I'm having my morning tea a bit late right now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

When they debuted sometime in the late '80s, I ate one almost every day. They are GREAT. You moisten the pretzel, apply the special large salt they give you and microwave for 45 seconds. 45 seconds later you have DELICIOUS, perfect soft pretzel with just the right amount of salt, since you put it on yourself. Goddammit I love these things. I could eat three at a time, but that's kinda gross. And a lot of bread.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think I must have eaten almost a thousand Super Pretezel (tm)s in my lifetime. They have them at Dom's. They probably also have them at Jewel. They are $2.75 for 6 pretzels. You pay $3 for ONE pretzel at the ballpark, and they're rarely salted to my liking.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

oh shit, i know what those are! those WERE awesome!!! they're still around? goddamn it i gotta run by the jewel after work...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Super Pretzels are excellent. They are one of the few things I miss about having a microwave.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

i live on/for those motherfuckers circa 1990.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. That sounds great. I do love soft pretzels, but they're always just a rare treat at the movies/ballgame.

Why don't you have a microwave, Jenny? Hairdresser-to-the-stars Leanne doesn't have one, either -- she sez she doesn't like the way most things taste when they're microwaved.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

You mean warm?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, you know how some things get soggy or whatever. I don't know. I mostly use mine for heating up frozen veggie burgers, soy nuggets, and the like.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

We had a microwave, but it was pretty old and Jeff (and Jesse) harbored some real ill will towards it. When we moved to a place with less counter space, we decided to just ditch the microwave and then never got a new one.

I don't miss it. Heating up leftovers on the stove/in the oven is a lost art with which I am pleased to have become reacquainted. It helps that I have access to a microwave at work and at school for the occasional microwave popcorn or super pretzel jones.

On preview... I have never liked microwaved veggie burgers, so that was no biggie. Also, you can heat frozen dinners, even the ones in plastic trays, in the oven. It just takes 45 minutes rather than four.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I like the way you work it.
No biggie.
I got to bag it up.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Microwave ovens are the best thing that ever happened to leftovers. Of course there are some things you can't do with a microwave. Yeah, french fries aren't going to taste right.

Someone should buy Leanne a microwave. I guarantee she would use it all the time, despite what she says now.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like the microwave because in the summertime it doesn't heat up the house to 150 degrees, particularly when the payoff is a TJ's burrito. I didn't have one for, I dunno, 6 years before we got this one, though.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure if we got one we would use it all the time, too. I am just surprised at how much we don't actually seem to need it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

The hot-oven-in-the-summer thing is no joke, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Only use the microwave for: melting butter, popping corn, and very occasionally reheating pizza or heating sausage. Really I could do without it except for the popcorn.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I got an air popper for xmas a couple of years ago, hoping to replace microwave popcorn with something a little less chemical-laden, but seriously? Air popper popcorn tastes like packing peanuts.

Alton Brown did a popcorn show on Good Eats wherein he popped corn in a large metal mixing bowl on the stove. I might try that one of these days. It involved oil, but not every much.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I make popcorn on the stove -- I mostly use the microwave for softening butter, melting cheese onto meat for sammies, reheating leftovers and making nachos. Oh, and making TJ's frozen mashed potatoes, which are GREAT because 1) they look like darling little marshmallows, 2) they are real mashed potatoes rather than bizarro potato flakes and 3) they don't require me making peeling potatoes on a weeknight. Some convenience foods win when they are real foods that just happen to be frozen.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

i like air popper popcorn if you slather it with butter and salt. that might defy the purpose, though.

i love tj's convenience foods for just that reason.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Some convenience foods win when they are real foods that just happen to be frozen.

otm.

i use my microwave for.... burritos. and.... ???

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

just that reason=amanda otm, as otto said.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda OTM thirded. XPOST! Fourthed!

Explain me how you make popcorn on the stove, plz.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

I've mentioned this before, but my popcorn method is to take normal kernels (ie. not Orville Redenbacher or whatever) and pop them in a brown paper lunchbag in the microwave, and then add salt and olive oil or butter or whatever. I've got an air popper but this requires waaay less cleanup!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

you put it in a bowl with a little oil, heat it up, let it do it's thing, try not to let any of it burn.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Pour a wee bit of oil into dutch oven or large pot.
Put in 5 kernels of popcorn
Cover and put on HIGHHIGHHEAT
Once the first kernel pops, put in the rest of the p-corn, usually about 1/4 cup for two people who want to eat some p-corn.
Pop until you don't hear poppin no more, all the while shaking that pot while wearing two oven mitts.
Salt, add whatever other seasoning (OLD BAY! GARAM MASALA! CHEEZE!) and eat.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm cheese.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

That's how my mom always made popcorn. When I discovered there were OTHER ways of doing it, I was skeptical. I'm not a huge popcorn eater but any other method doesn't taste quite right.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I like food that splodes.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm totally going to do that the next time I'm home and craving the pop corn. What kind of oil do you use? Canola? Peanut?

Explain me why Orville Redenbacher isn't regular popcorn kernels.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I like that a bag of popcorn is like $1.50 and lasts forever. I have had p-corn that got stale though. Orville is more expensive than the cheapy kind in the bag.

I use canola oil.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Use about as much oil as would cover no more than 1/2 of your palm. I don't measure it, but that's enough. Too little and you got burnin'.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

We had a popcorn popper when I was a kid. Kind of looked like this:

http://www.museum.state.il.us/exhibits/athome/1950/objects/largejpgs/popper.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

We had one of those, too!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Is there any other food that splodes besides popcorn? I can't think of any more.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Explain me why Orville Redenbacher isn't regular popcorn kernels

I just mean a jar of unadorned kernels, rather than a bag of pre-buttered/chemically preserved stuff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

pop rocks, kenan?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, we had one of those popcorn dealies too. it a hideous '70s burnt orange.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Unpasteurized fruit juice explodes. But when it does that, you shouldn't drink it.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if they still make those or if microwave popcorn has made them obsolete. It was a lot more fun to watch the kernels pop right in front of your eyes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ours was an air popper that shot popcorn out the top and had a little butter melter built in, which eventually melted itself. I've never seen one of those other ones.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Another thing I miss about Austin:

http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/1996/09/23/smallb1.html

Air poppers are terrible. Talk about American hysteria. "NEW STUDY FINDS TEASPOON OF VEGETABLE OIL LEADS TO INSTANT DEATH"

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Ours was an air popper that shot popcorn out the top and had a little butter melter built in, which eventually melted itself. I've never seen one of those other ones.

that's the kind we got when the other one shit the bed. or, more likely, one of us rotten kids broke the top. i burned myself on that goddamn butter melter a thousand times.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah we had the butter melter feature as well. Which was handy, because as we all know, butter is hard as shit to melt. I mean, how many times have you just been standing in the kitchen with a stick of that impenetrable stuff, thinking, "If only there were some way to turn this into liquid! Calgon, take me away!"

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Is there any other food that splodes besides popcorn? I can't think of any more.

The pizza in Back to the Future II?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

john called my attention to the thread since y'all are talking about one of my favorite foods. i make popcorn ye olde fashioned way (on the stove in a pot [although lately we've taken to using a more wok size pot w/ the pizza pan as the cover]) & my current favorite is this teensy tiny popcorn i found at whole foods. it's spendy, but far more tasty. and it's baby sized! i typically eat it with butter & salt, just salt, or nutritional yeast & salt. I use olive oil and the salt is from the sea. sometimes i'll use hawaiian red salt just for flair.
once i made popcorn with parm sprinkled on top & that was good too! i would love some popcorn right now . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

popped rice? toasted rice? it doesn't explode, but it swells up.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I put nutritional yeast on mine too!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Mine popcorn, that is.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Mein popcorn.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 6 of about 9 for "nazi popcorn". (0.15 seconds)

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

getting birthday wishes from an ex who clearly knows that you hate them...

c/d?

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Classic! Make 'em beg.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Classic, ignore them.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

(Also, happy birthday?)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Hawaiian red salt

Waht is this??

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

i dont think that she is begging since she is happily dating someone who i considered to be one of my best friends just a few months ago.

i am going to ignore it as best as i can.

my birthday is tomorrow... thanks for the birthday wishes!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

i dont think that she is begging since she is happily dating someone who i considered to be one of my best friends just a few months ago.

uh... Yuck. That's an awful situation.

Just because I'm curious, who do you blame more?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

I lost a friend to a girl once, too. And the girl to the friend. But it was really the friend that hurt more... The girl had always been a bit flaky, so I expected that kind of crap from her. It was a surprise from the friend, though. I was way more angry at him.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

It happened to me, too. I blamed them both equally. The hate went on for a while, but eventually we reconciled (the friend and I) over the fact that the girl was batshit fucking insane.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

that is a hard question because both of them fucked up horribly in my mind. here are the worst things about each one in relation to the situation:

the ex: she cheated on me, lied about it and then tried to blame me for it because i let them spend too much time together (wtf?)

the dude: in the past, he has credited me for basically saving him from suicide. also, the reason he was going to commit suicide was because his last girlfriend cheated on him and he was so depressed at that situation.

so yeah, i hate both equally.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Lovers be dramatic.

I wasn't sure if you hated the ex or the birthday wishes.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

You should have let him commit suicide. See? Lesson learned.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

x-post: actually i do hate both the ex and the birthday wishes. however, i do enjoy birthday wishes from people i dont hate.

kenan: hindsight 20/20 haha.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Happy almost birthday, todd!

I am a popcorn fanatic. I love stove cooked popcorn. I also love movie popcorn. I also eat microwave popcorn... a lot, but only because we don't have a movie concession stand or working stovetop at my work*.

* I say working because we do have a stove on display in the design center, but it isn't hooked up.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Do you know how in Bounceout, you get lots of points for bouncing out a half triangle all at once? Well, I just bounced one out with two other balls going off in a line to one side and made a BAJILLION points. So now I feel like life is worth living.

You probably don't have any idea what I'm talking about, but that's OK.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Birthday, Todd!

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Scorpio people are special.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Happy birthday, Todd!

JESSE ALERT: He is driving home now, but felt it was VERY IMPORTANT that I tell you all that he went out to dinner in Champaign/Urbana last night and made friends. He went out with said friends, and that's why he's not home yet.

That man has an incredible ability to "make friends" the likes of which I have never seen before.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

where did he go to dinner in champaign? i am very curious

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as "he made out with said friends" at first. Which, really, isn't too far out of the realm of possibility, is it?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Probably the Champaign equivalent of the Man Hole.

xpost - I didn't ask (and, uncharacteristically, he didn't offer) details, but I would say it's entirely possible.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse does not make out. Jesse fucks faces.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god, classroom-style pain:

Cute, nice, but way too passive professor asks if anybody agrees with the lower court's ruling in a case. Nobody says anything. So he asks why people disagree with it. Nobody says anything.

It makes me want to give him a hug. It doesn't, however, make me want to answer the question.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds familiar.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

eventually we reconciled (the friend and I) over the fact that the girl was batshit fucking insane

I missed this somehow. Is there anything more bro than talking about a girl you've both nailed?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://eur.i1.yimg.com/eur.yimg.com/ng/mo/emv/20060217/17/3387499803.jpg

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Is there anything more bro than talking about a girl you've both nailed?

is there anything less bro than nailing a girl your bro has feelings for?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

No on both counts.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

dan otm

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

C-Street! At least as close as Champaign will ever get to Man Hole. Even for a straight guy that was a confidence booster as much as I got hit on when I went to dance.

(xpost)

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i went there once... it was actually a lot of fun. it was on the "studio 54 night" they have once a year.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Five bucks to anyone who can find me a good icon (i.e. will look recognizable in 16 x 16 pixels) for "housekeeping/environment services". A good bucket or mop would be great.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

TEST

http://www.epa.state.il.us/small-business/automotive-repair-shops/bucket-and-mop.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.toiletology.com/images/mop.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fhrai.com/Benchmark/image/housekeeping_big_icon.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, but believe it or not that's too detailed, I think. It kind looks like a blur when shrunk down.

lol @ the third one

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.keepmehome.com/images/icon_buttons/housekeeping.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Those are some wee icons!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

All of them are shrunk down. I'm posting them to see how they look when I reduce the size.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.webbutler.info/photos/icons/housekeeping.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, when they're that small I have to question just how representative of anything they can be.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://guernseytouristboard.com/wheretostay/images/icons/housekeeping.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.conovercompany.com/C_Images/MECA_Icons/Custodial%20Housekeeping.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, those brooms are pretty good.

I thought 16x16 was standard icon size? At least it is where I work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I actually like that last one, but only if it were twice as big. (In other words, Dan OTM.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.conovercompany.com/C_Images/MECA_Icons/Custodial%20Housekeeping.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, maybe that's still too small.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

That last one also looks like a high heel shoe.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Quote of the day:

me: "Why would we pay for another CMS when we can use this free blogging software."
my boss: "That's the old way of thinking, everything being free."

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

What's a CMS?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I thought 32x32 was standard, but I've been out of the web game for a while.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Content Managment System

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I just made a pretty sweet broom icon in MS Paint.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Some days my job is fun. And there's even a office Halloween party in 1/2 an hour.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

More things on the modern internets should be made with MS Paint.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Let's talk about Intelligentsia. Good coffee? Or best coffee?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/56/145244355_aa69fdf85f_m.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm out of this conversation. I'll be at the bar.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Are you one of those strange people who don't drink coffee?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh dudes.

WE'RE GROWING! Ian's Pizza by the Slice and Ian's Pizza and Salad are looking for dynamic, responsible, hardworking, passionate, happy individuals to staff or manage our current operations with the chance to move to Chicago to start a new venture and be given the opportunity for ownership! We plan to have our third store up and running in 2007, and with the start of the semester now is the perfect time to apply! If you are interested in this opportunity we would love to meet with you! Please send us an email or come in and fill out an application! Thanks!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Are you one of those strange people who don't drink coffee?

I thought you guys knew this already. Yes!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

WHOA, Jordan, that's great news.

Dan, I forget -- are you like me and love coffee but your body can't handle it, or is it one of those things that you've just never gotten into, like movies?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

The latter, but more so. I like movies fine, but I think almost all of them are crap anyway. Coffee I don't have much use for at all.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I thought I knew you. But this... not into coffee? Not into movies? Will our shared love of beer be enough to carry us through?

TUNE IN NEXT WEEK.

Or don't. Whatever. Fuck you all.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, forget coffee. How about this:

How fucked up is it that I have to wear headphones in a LAW LIBRARY because people are too loud for me to study here without them? Pretty fucked up, I'd say.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

TAHT"S FUCKED UP!!!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

I seem to have misplaced my guitar. Hopefully I left it inside Gunther Murphy's last night and it is still there in a couple of hours. Hopefully I didn't leave it outside in the alley as we were loading out.

Last time we played there we left behind almost a full box of cds. Someone recovered it for us that time, so I'm hoping that bodes well for this occasion.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to see Jesse but that seems unlikely given the 3.5 hours of sleep I got last night.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

I AM RIGHT HERE

― JESSE ISHERE NOW (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nice try.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

i am seriously here. i got in a couple hours ago.

john, i have a check for you!!

― JESSE ISHERE NOW (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

JESSE UPDATE: Jesse is here now.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

me:I am here
Jen:GO HOME JESSE
me:I am home
me: ??
Jen:fuck my mouth

― JESSE ISHERE NOW (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

y'all crazy

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so for Dinner with Jesse: anyone who wants to hang out with me should come to Jenny/Jeff's neighborhood. Where? I don't know.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

< ------

― that was jesse (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

That arrow is pointing to my phone.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Gay dudes talk about other dudes they've both nailed.

I went to Boltini and then Chester Street. Then? I got losted and wound up in Urbana, then in the country.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I chatted with the bartender of Chester Street who would not tell me his age b/c he said he was "older." He was 32. Stupid youth-obsessed gay culture!

The guy was a harp performance major. You can get a PhD in that! And your dissertation does not have to make an argument. He's writing his on the collected papers of a certain famous harpist.

Also I met the HOTTEST Asian girl on the planet. She was wearing a slim-fitting dress that was unbuttoned to her sternum and no bra. She was 22 and had chunky glasses on. She looked like a more petite Margaret Cho.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

"HOTTEST Asian girl on the planet" "a more petite Margaret Cho"

does not compute

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

He's writing his on the collected papers of a certain famous harpist.

Ooooh, I want to read Joanna Newsom's diary, too!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

i mean she's not ugly, don't get me wrong

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Margaret Cho is horrible. But cut Jesse a break. He's gay. If he doesn't like Margaret Cho, punitive measures could be taken.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

Seriosly, this girl was tres cute. And the boobs..... That would change all of your minds.

― hot cunt with tits (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:02 (nineteen years ago)

I have ceded all attraction to asian girls to a bandmate of mine. He is an asian girl magnet, it is uncanny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nndb.com/people/185/000098888/rivers-cuomo-1-sized.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

amirite

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, except my friend is way less crepey.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

you think he's creepy?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:26 (nineteen years ago)

He's creepy?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also, that convo w/ Jesse is either made up or so old I don't remember it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

I made it up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh! I didn't realize you posted as Jesse. The really funny thing was that I assumed that it happened and I just didn't remember it.

Yes, that's right. That is an accurate depiction of Jesse and my chat conversations.

I'm going to go home and kill myself.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

Witness:

Jesse: so woudl yoube ok with take out ordelivery?
goddamn kenan's fucking keyboard
me: oh sure.
definitely.
Jesse: we could sit indian style and dish
about boys
me: that sounds lovely.
Jesse: and poop
me: we can poop or we can dish about poop?
or we can poop in a dish?
Jesse: and then braideach others' hair
dish about poop
or poop in a dish

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

why would you post that? everyone already thinks i talk about poop all the time.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Tuesday, 31 October 2006 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

If the poop fits, post it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

i went to the driving range today and i am golfing tomorrow. awesome!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

I do love golf. No, really.

― the real kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I cannot leave my computer turned on with this cat around. I leave the house and he's found programs I didn't know I had and error messages I've never seen before.

I don't think my friend is creepy, I think Rivers Cuomo is creepy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 01:15 (nineteen years ago)

Why do you think Rivers Cuomo is creepy?

― Jesse....... (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

the bulls look mighty good right about now

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

At first I felt very strong and enjoyed the challenge of disciplining myself. When friends asked in amazement if I found it difficult to abstain under these conditions, I answered stoically, "It's difficult, but probably not as difficult as kicking heroin". Things got more difficult, however, as my body realized that it wasn't going to get any release for a long, long time. I started exhibiting the classic signs of physical frustration: I tossed and turned in bed all night. I hung on for too long when girlfriends hugged me hello or good-bye (they had to pry me off). I spent extra time in the shower, soaping and scrubbing, wistfully. I even had my very first night-time accident, waking up and rolling over onto my back, tears filling my eyes.

I didn't make it any easier on myself by occasionally cheating a little, "accidentally" stumbling onto an adult site while surfing the internet.

"What's this??" I asked myself. "Rate-my-camel-toe.com? Disgraceful! I'd better click on some more pictures here just to make sure my eyes aren't deceiving me."

One time, I even made the incredibly stupid decision of going to a "pajama" party at the Playboy Mansion. I sat by the dance floor the whole night, twitching and drooling, slightly, as hundreds of nearly-naked women writhed en masse to the music. When a warm, wet, female mouth suddenly whispered in my ear, "Let me know if you see anything you like--I can make it happen," my glasses fogged over completely.

I seemed again to be experiencing more suffering than peace. I concluded that modern society was just not conducive to celibate living for a single, successful musician. Marriage, which once had seemed as undesirably permanent as a tattoo, now seemed to be the one, clear hope for my coming out of my longing. It would allow me to have a peaceful physical relationship with one person and continue my work in society without constantly having to fight or give in to the temptations all around. I promised myself to remain celibate until either my wedding day or the end of my vow, whichever came first, and set about trying to find a wife.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

creepy

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 02:38 (nineteen years ago)

I especially love the part where he finally understands why some societies make women wear veils and ban them from public places. It's so men can concentrate!

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

I had already read that. I didn't think it was exactly creepy.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

earlier

― SHIT, THAT WAS JESSE........ (Jeff), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nice one John, urrite.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also, :DDDD

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 04:51 (nineteen years ago)

kudos for dan.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

hey, that DID make it in there.

that was from about 8 this morning.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Four wide grins, Dan! Well!

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa. That makes me dislike Rivers Cuomo a little bit. He needs therapy, not celibacy. Anybody who gets tearful because of a wet dream is... well, in need of therapy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hi everybody! I haven't missed you at all today.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, and now I'm going home.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 1 November 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

So, back to the Clash ... I think John might be right, actually. I like a lot of Clash songs, but they are overrated in the sense that they don't really have that many "classic" songs, and they aren't as important or critical to the musical landscape as you might think. They got their cred as a punk band, but they were really only a punk band for like one album, before returning to the safety of pub rock. I'm pretty sure this was a big part of why the critics of the time were eager to promote them, because it was like "Finally, a punk band that I understand," (because they were back to playing rockabilly songs or disco songs or whatever). I will give them some credit for the integration and popularization of reggae, but that was on the verge of happening without them anyways. As far as "London Calling" goes, the easiest way to get rock critics slobbering all over you is to release a long album that toys with different genres (oh, a rock song! oh, a reggae song! oh, a disco song!). And they were probably the most humorless of any of the punk bands. Plus (your bit of useless rock trivia for today), their biggest hit, "Rock the Casbah," was the only song ever written for the band by their drummer. Take that, Strummer!

I do still like the Clash though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 2 November 2006 11:27 (nineteen years ago)

train in vain is a perfect pop song. that's all i have to add here.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

Mornin'. I brought in donuts today for everyone, but haven't had one myself yet. NOOOO!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Nick be droppin' knowledge!

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Train in Vain is great. I'm still kind of amazed that it isn't a cover (not because the Clash aren't good enough to right it, but it just feels like one).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

like a lot of Clash songs, but they are overrated in the sense that they don't really have that many "classic" songs,

i don't know if that's true. clampdown, train in vain, white riot, complete control, i'm so bored with the usa, police on my back (cover i know but...), should i stay or should i go are all classics in my book. plus there are other's like julie's been workig for the drug squad, this is radio clash, rock the casbah, safe european home, etc. that may not be classics but are still good songs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

but everything outside the music, yeah, completely overblown by critics looking to ascribe some sort of meaning to a bunch of drug addicts playing guitars.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

fuck, i now have white riot stuck in my goddamn head. plz make it stop. i guess i'm lucky itunes is blocked at work because i'd be buying up songs left and right whenever i get one stuck in my dome.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I have Clash City Rockers in my head. In the shower this morning it was Should I Stay or Should I Go.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

white riot, i wanna riot
white riot, a riot of my own.

over and over and over.

are you taking order or are you taking over?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

This picture makes me want to run away to the mountains.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

This picture makes me want to run away from the mountains.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha

The mountains are ok for visiting. I love the blue ridge parkway. I'll be there at the end of June next year for my cousin's wedding (reception to be held on mill mountain).

I had one and a half donuts. mmmm.... Also, I've gotten tons of grattitude for bringing them in. My boss even made a big deal about what a nice person I am. OH, THE POWER! Also, I'm leaving at 3 today.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

To go to New York?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

The mountains are ok for visiting.

Heh, yeah. I just explained to Jeff how I would spend time in the mountains thusly:

I'd take walks and sit on the porch all wrapped up in a blanket on cold mornings and drink coffee and make chili and read and look at the leaves and see the stars and play fetch with my dog and not hear any traffic noise and enjoy the quiet.
I couldn't take it for more than four or five days.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly.

Obviously, the first thing you need to do is get a dog.

Yep, J, to NEW YAWK. It will be an adventure, especially for someone like me who is easily excitable.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

But will it be an ultimate adventure?

That will be great. I've only made the drive once, with the band, and it is LONG. We did it all in one go, though. We played the Jam Band Game to kill time (go around the car, everyone has to name a jam band, if you can't think of one then you're out).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

The ultimate adventure is death, maaaaan.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'd have to just rent a dog at the main cabin, along with some interesting video tapes to pass the time.

http://www.neodymsystems.com/ring/r_img/remake/misc/rachel_watches5.jpg

Hey, good luck in NY!!!! Have fun!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, how often have you been to NY? I love it there. Especially Brooklyn. Manhattan is great to visit or work in, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere but Brooklyn.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny dropped serious knowledge on my students last night. Speaking of the Clash, I wish "Know Your Rights" had more positive lyrics. Then I could use it as my class' theme song.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

PS You can borrow Carl ANYTIME. Seriously. Dude loves the outdoors.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

WHatchoo lookin' at??

Kenan, I've been to New York a bunch of times. Nick and I used to go once a year, but haven't been since we've been in Chicago. His sister lived in Brooklyn for a while around Park Slope.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been to New York. But, I've been to Buffalo 9 zillion times!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I &heart; NY

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, splendid.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Last night, among many other things, I went to see a friend and his wife do their "cabeoke" gig. He plays piano and they both sing all the songs, but it's all requests that people write down on slips of paper. Fun. Personal highlights were the Seal medley, r&b "High & Dry", and a killin cabaret version of "Cry Me a River".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm in Charlotte NC y'all. And my tounge hurts. :(

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, your tongue gets into better shape after a while. Just keep eating pussy, and before you know it, it'll be second nature.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

still pissed i missed the busy signals as cheap trick at delialah's on tuesday:

http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a88/roebots/DSC00277-1.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

""" Sarah, how often have you been to NY? I love it there. Especially Brooklyn. Manhattan is great to visit or work in, but I wouldn't want to live anywhere but Brooklyn. """

A. Why do you think Brooklyn is so great?

B. What's wrong with Manhattan
B-1. Lower East Side

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

That cabeoke thing sounds like the recurring SNL skit that had the two school administrators who do medleys of current pop hits. I think it was Will Farrell and...Ana Gasteyer? I can't remember. What I do know is that I often found it amusing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't want your tongue to hurt, NEVER eat pussy that is on fire.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

That cabeoke thing sounds like the recurring SNL skit that had the two school administrators who do medleys of current pop hits. I think it was Will Farrell and...Ana Gasteyer?

"hi, i'm marty culp and this is my lovely wife bobbie mohan-culp..."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

A. Why do you think Brooklyn is so great?

It's home-y and neighborhood-y. Like Chicago. Manhattan makes me nervous.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I wish my tongue would stop hurting. Too much salty fooooood!

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

WANT WANT WANT

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Agree w/Kenan re: Brooklyn vs. Manhattan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Is it 3 yet?

The Busy signals look like lots of fun.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

They have not yet turned on the heat in this wing of the building and it is freezing. Is it 5:30 yet?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm freezing too. I'm about to pull my silver bullet coat around my shoulders.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

It's cold here too! FREEZING. An open letter to Mies van der Rohe would thank him for the windows, but kindly request some g-d insulation.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

PS You can borrow Carl ANYTIME. Seriously. Dude loves the outdoors.

I'm a little skeered of Carl... Maybe if Dog Behaviorist Caesar Milan was with us.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, he's kinda scary. But once he gets to know you (outside of his home turf) he's a lover, not a biter.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's snowing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

you lie!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

all clear in the western 'burbs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

No, there was snow swirling outside the window of my slow-ass red line train on the way to class.

My professor just said, "Potty break."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

If I were you I'd hold out for juice and cookies.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

There have been flurries on and off here all morning. I am not happy. I am wearing canvas sneakers and thin blue jeans and no hat. Which I guess is my own damn fault, but still.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

damn, it looks like i wasted wearing those flannel lined pants yesterday. sounds like i could use them today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I have gigantic, drafty windows that told me that it was snowing just a few minutes ago. It has since stopped.

I wore my Fraulein Maria hat today. Good move.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I need some insulated boots that aren't ugly. Does such a thing exist?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Insulated boots are never going to be exactly dainty. But you could do worse than LL Bean, I think.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as insulated boobs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I wore my Fraulein Maria hat today.

How do you solve a problem like Amanda?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

My boobs get really cold, I think because they stick out farther than anything else on my body. I could go for insulated boobs.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://utter.failure.org/~whitney/kittenturtle.gif

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

LL Bean has some not-ugly offerings! How about that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

i need new boots as the brown ones i'm wearing are cutting the circulation off to my feet. i don't know if they're too wide or what but if i loosen the laces (so that, y'know, blood actually flows to my feet) the boots feel loose. they're not too big, if anything they've shrunk and are a little more snug, heel to toe, than they used to be.

i would gladly accept new boobs however.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to Desmond Dekker... perfect contrast for swirling snow outside.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

My professor just said, "Pigs get fat; hogs get slaughtered." What does that mean???

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

No one has pet hogs. If you live on a hog farm, you're running a bacon factory. A ham plant. You work in the pork production industry.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Whereas there are plenty of people who keep pigs around? I dunno. I have only heard people refer to "hogs" who are referring to a hog farm, not a bunch of cute piglets.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

i always took that to mean you've got to know where the line is drawn. pigs will take a lot, hogs will take everything. i dunno, in context that's what it's always seemed to mean to me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, invest in some faaattt boot socks!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

She was using it in the context of an attorney who lied to his firm about his expenses, charging them for ballgames and exotic travel, and eventually got disbarred. She said, "This is a real example of how pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered."

I was late (stupid red line) so sat in the back of the class and there are two people back here just chatting with each other, like they are in a fucking cafe... not listening to the professor, foreclosing anyone else from being able to listen to the professor... If you're bored, fuck around on the internet like everybody else, you cretins.

I am angry at law students every day of my life.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i have some crazy thick wool ones that my sister's cats got me for christmas last year and i have some other not quite as fancy ones that i bought at an army surplus store but when i wear them with these boots my feets get claustrophobic.

bottom line is i need some new winter boots.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

well, yeah, the attorney in question wasn't happy with what i'm assuming to be was a generous payscale as an attorney and instead tried to take all he could and wound up getting disbarred (slaughtered) for it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

to be was? do i even speak english anymore?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Did her cats DIY them out of kitty fur?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

no, apparently her cats can use the internet because they also sent me an amazon gift certificate for my birthday last year. she has some very intelligent kitties.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Is it spring yet?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

would anyone be up for free beer tonight?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Well...we're having a fambly pizza party for Junie's birthday. He's 14. Go ahead, mock me. I don't care. My cocker spaniel is a good boy, he's 14 and I'm going to celebrate with homemade pizza and frosted sugar cookies.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

PS Junie's not going to eat pizza or cookies. Only the people. He gets a birthday chewie.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

linus turned 10 two days ago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Is he going to eat pizza?

xpost, if I were Junie I'd be all kinds of pissed at you

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Does the dog get to eat pizza and cookies?

xpost!

Wait, Junie's going to eat the people?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Junie might get a nibble of cheese. He's lived this long because he doesn't get to eat pizza! Or cookies.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Carl eats people, Junie eats dogmeal.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me -- one of my favorite stupid Halloween CDs of "scary sounds" has like 100 tracks on it, and one of the tracks is "Chopping Up People for Food" and the next track is "Eating Chopped Up People." Hehe.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda: I found some cute boots & shoes at Land's End. They are quilted-looking & come in various colors. I say "boots & shoes" because they have a winter boot & a winter shoe that are similar to one another.

also, i love carl. i miss carl.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Carl will be waiting for you when you come back to visit later this month!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

HOORAY!!!!!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 2 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Do you ever just keep restarting the opening screen in spider or bounceout or what-have-you until it looks a little more promising?

The puppy pizza party sounds fun.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm at T minus 45 minutes.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

OMG! Yay!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure I've mentioned this before, but Nick and I met and got to know each other at CMJNY in 98, so now this is like we've come full circle, playing in a band together at CMJ.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Now if only we were getting married together on stage too...

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Have fun. Did you get an inbetween gig?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

getting married together
I'm obviously high on candy.

Nope, Jordan, but s'ok. It was very short notice.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Good luck Ficciones! I didn't know that you met at CMJ. That's sweet.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Weirdly I just got a call from a quiet-voiced, African-sounding dude from NYC. I might be subbing for a jazz/r&b gig this Saturday (in Madison). Sounds really fun if I can hack it, I haven't played drumset since you guys were up here. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

You didn't ask, but... Quick recap:

My birthday my senior year of college was one of the worst days of my life. I had the worst flu in the history of the world. My little beta fish died (he was a trooper! I had him for a long time). I can't remember everything else that went screwy, but my bf of all of college broke up with me unexpectedly.

So then I was severely depressed.

By Friday I decided to get out of bed and go to the college radio station music listening session. All the djs would get together and listen to bits of new cds that came in and decide what should go on heavy rotation. I didn't know anyone there, so it was a way to get out of the dorm room but not talk, you know?

And at listening, they said that it was the absolute last day to get in your money if you wanted to go to CMJ in New York. And so I did one of the only crazy things in my life (well, crazy for me) and decided right then to go. I didn't know anyone, but I was sad and needed to get away from the campus. So I went to the bank and took out a bunch of money on the spur of the moment.

The actual trip was a couple of months later. Anyway, he started talking to me on the trip. Then we just so happened to be the first people from our station to show up at this one show where everyone was meeting up, Built to Spill & Modest Mouse. He called out my name in the crowd. I ignored him, because I was in New York and there are Sarah's everywhere. He made his way through the crowd and stood by me. We were both dead tired. He squatted down to rest. I joined him. So there we were surrounded by denim and I really noticed him for the first time.

I'm sorry. I tell that story all the time. I like it.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, did the band call it quits?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I like that story. I thought you only started talking on the bus on the way back, when he sat next to you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Well, not quite, but we did do a LOT of talking on that ride. Everyone was lugging their stuff up to the school van for the long ride home, half-asleep, but Nick was like, "Sarah Johnson, I'm sitting next to you and talking to you all the way home, like it or not." And he wanted to know everything, so I started telling him my life story. The rest of the van, except the drive of course, slept through the whole thing.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I had a dream last night about a marching band that played the theme to Star Trek the Next Generation and would occasionally do little drum interludes during which the non-drumming band members would act out battles. Also, Peter Gabriel was in my shower singing a song that went, "Ooo I made a lot of mistakes (female background vocals: I made a lot of mistakes)" (but wasn't Chicago by Sufjan Stevens, more like Shock the Monkey only different) and I was grooving so hard to the song that I didn't even care that Peter Gabriel was in my shower and I couldn't get ready for work.

Oh, I ran into the marching band while I was walking from our bedroom to the shower, which was considerably farther apart in the dream than it is in real life.

xpost - I like that story, too. It's supah sweet.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I remembered the bus story.

Jordan, did the band call it quits?

Haha, no, we just don't have any gigs! And I don't have the church gig or any jazz gigs anymore.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hopefully, when Nick gets back, this thread will be too long for him to read in its entirety, so he won't get too embarrassed.

Crazy! I had a dream last night that a middle school marching band opened for us at CMJ... and they opened with a cover of Summertime! It sounded really good with horns and glockenspiel.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

You could still have band practice!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I put all that in my blog, where it belongs.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

bye!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

drive safe, call us when you get there!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely drive safe, I90 across NY is fucking insane.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hoping that I'll get to drive the first shift tonight and then sleep for most of the night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Definitely drive safe, I90 across NY is fucking insane.

aw, it's not so bad, i drove it from boston to buffalo in one 9 hour stretch. fairly uneventful except that the roadkill was livestock (goats, sheep, etc.)

xpost.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Do you mean 80, Dan? No reason to be on 90 if you're going straight from Chicago to NYC.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Bye, kids! Don't forget about us when you're famous!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

90 is the new york state thru way, it goes from chicago through michigan skirts the lakes through buffalo then becomes the mass pike before reaching it's terminus under the prudential building in boston's financial district.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

As you walk on by
Will you call my name?
As you walk on by
Will you call my name?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I drove from Boston to Buffalo (and BEYOND) one time and I swear no-one drove in the right lane the entire fucking way. It was one big line of bumper to bumper cars with the cruise set at 90 mph. Kind of scary at times.

Do you mean 80, Dan? No reason to be on 90 if you're going straight from Chicago to NYC.

No, I mean 90. Cutting across Canada is way faster than screwing around going south around the lakes through PA and stuff, if you're going to upstate New York. Looking at the map now though, it is definitely more direct to take 80 to NYC, it's a lot farther south than I had assumed.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

but yeah, that would be a roundabout way of going to nyc now that i think about it.

xpost.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

. Cutting across Canada is way faster than screwing around going south around the lakes through PA and stuff,.

can't do this anymore, not with gear and merch and without passports.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm sure it'd be a hassle if you were a travelling ROCK BAND.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.whysanity.net/muppets/fozzie.JPG

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://pool.dylantree.com/img/gallery/teamlogos/2304_drteeth.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.studio41.com.br/Midi/creed.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Movin' right along...

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

SQUEEEEE! Amanda, I love that movie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Sweet mother, so do I.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I once subscribed to Muppet Magazine.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

i can't wait for season two of the muppet show to come out on dvd. season one was AWESOME.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

YOU HAVE IT TOO?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Movin' right along...

I can't get this song out of my head right now. I hate you people.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

of course i do.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

This is just wrong:
http://www.hand-craftedcreations.com/wedding_bridal/garters/Theme/032Muppets/Mup_Kermit01_blk_LG.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

is it creepywrong that i find that TEH HOTT???

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

A little.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm fine with that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone interested in seeing Red Wings v. Blackhawks tonight? Looks like my friend has two extra tickets.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

i have an offer of FREE BEER on the table, a friend won a party for for like 50 at a bar with free draughts and well drinks so i'm gonna do that. i extended an offer to y'alls but nobody took me up on it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I missed that! I'll go after the game! Where is it?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

somewhere on fullerton, don't have the address.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

You know what's sad? I'm excited to go sit in the library for three hours after work because I promised myself I could get a grande skim two-pump extra shot pumpkin spice latte to drink while I studied. That's how important coffee is to me.

I for some reason I thought the Blackhawks were an Atlanta team and I couldn't fathom how anyone would be able to drop everything and go to Detroit tonight.

Can't drink free beer - gotta drink expensive coffee. Oh and study for some law thing or some shit.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

The Atlanta Hawks play in the NBA.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

That was the very reason for my momentary confusion.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently Atlanta does have an NHL team, though! I just looked it up. They're called the Thrashers. I thought they were still hockey-free after the Flames picked up and moved to Calgary.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the Thrashers started up a few years ago. The NHL has far too many teams.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

should be NEW YORK, BOSTON, PHILLY, DETROIT, TORONTO, AND MONTREAL.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

No Chicago? They were original six.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am currently schooling myself on the NHL, specifically which of these new teams are expansion teams and which moved from other cities. This is the kind of shit I knew in junior high, when I pored over the Information Please Sports Almanac, but a lot's happened since then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Carolina Hurricanes = Hartford Whalers
Colorado Avalanche = Quebec Nordiques
Phoenix Coyotes = Winnepeg Jets
Dallas Stars = Minnesota North Stars (biggest travesty of a team move EVER)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

fuck, philly wasn't and i knew that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I remember a time when the only team south of St. Louis was the L.A. Kings. Now there's Atlanta, Carolina, Florida, Tampa Bay, San Jose, Anaheim, Dallas, Phoenix, and Nashville.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

(biggest travesty of a team move EVER)

Why, because a presumably big hockey state like Minnesota was without a NHL team for most of the 90s?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

biggest travesty of a move ever would be when the baltimore colts moved to indianapolis. THEY DID IT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT!! they backed up 18 wheelers and cleared out the team offices and announced they'd moved the franchise the next day when they were safely ensconced in their new hoosier-state home.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

WBEZ had a little piece a few days ago where they went to Hammond, IN, to gauge whether people there were Bears fans or Colts fans (this in light of the fact that the two teams are the only undefeated teams in the NFL, possible I-65 Super Bowl, etc.), and most of the dudes there said they were for the Bears, partially because Hammond's just a hell of a lot closer to Chicago, but mostly because they were Bears fans long before the Colts came to Indiana. The way they talked about it ("upstarts," etc.), they made it sound like the Colts moved from Baltimore in like 2003. The reporter asked how far south you'd have to get for it to turn into Colt country, and the guys said "probably Lafayette."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 2 November 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Breaking news: Barberton, Ohio is known as the Chicken Capital of the World.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 November 2006 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hey there, Mr. Hockey Hair.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 3 November 2006 01:46 (nineteen years ago)

grrrrrrrrrrr.

I come in late, freezing and exhausted, to find that once again, Jesse's entire apartment reeks of cat urine. This time they chose his luggage to make their own. So while I'm discovering that, this godforsaken bird-animal-thing is making shrieking noises in my ear, and... well, I came within an inch of killing every living thing in this apartment. Even the ivy.

But I didn't. Instead I had a sandwich.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Friday, 3 November 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am so fucking glad that I will never have children. If I ever tried to live in a house with a child, the last you would see of me would be on the news. "What a tragedy," said one witness. "He seemed ok, but then I guess he just snapped."

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Friday, 3 November 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

That makes coming home to cat vomit all over the place seem a little nicer.

I didn't end up doing that r&b gig because the original drummer got out of jail, although I did meet the dude in a Blockbuster parking lot and had a nice chat.

Now, to catch up on some sleep or watch the Battlestar season 1 finale?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

LET'S
GO
RED
WINGS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago fans are pathetic. Instead of chanting "Let's go Hawks" when their music plays, they say "Red Wings suck" ... they can't even cheer for their own team, they're so bad.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

I feel ashamed that my half-drunk posts from last night are still the terminus of the thread.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Better than my seething hatred of animals and children. That's reeeeeal attractive.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Where is everybody?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

N, S, and J(MC) are all off to NYC, no?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Just got back from picking up the car from the garage. We were hit with a HUGE bill and it sucks.

I wanna read Courtney Love's book. And her mother's book. I'm obsessed with the Paula Fox-Linda Carroll-Courtney Love-Frances Bean legacy. Is FB the chosen one? Will she break the cycle of illegitimate children given up for adoption and heartbreak? This is V.C. Andrews-level family drama.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I am having a busy morning at work. It's kinda nice actually.

I can't believe I watched 5 eps of BSG last night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I bet Kev is hung over! :) I kind of am too, we spent a bunch of time in the Four Stars bar in the west Loop before the game.

xpost

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, where are you in the series now? Jeff and I just finished season II last night. Now we just have to catch up with a few DVRed/torrented eps and we'll be current.

Phew.

I realized last night that I am a little too emotionally invested in the characters on this TV show. I haven't gotten this wound up about TV since I watched the entire run of Firefly in like three days.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

is s2 worth finishing? i started getting annoyed with it after juliana from homicide showed up as the admiral, but everyone says to stick with it.

i am making a spectacular run of losing at poker. luckily it's not real money. i'd never trust myself to gamble with real money.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I had a horrible morning. I woke up and couldn't find my glasses for about 15 minutes. When you're as blind as I am, that's terrifying. Then I got on the train just in time for a big stack-up at the clark junction, and spent an hour getting to work.

But then I got to work, and there was both a paycheck and a kind note from the department head praising me for my work yesterday. And there was coffee. So I'm in a fine mood again.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I just finished season 1 (where Commander ***** gets SHOT OMG!!) and should have the beginning of season 2 within the next few days. I expected season 1 to last me through the weekend, not knowing that the last disc only has one episode on it!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I mean I'm seriously contemplating taking them off my queue and just buying the boxset(s?) after work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

the dan martin, OTM.

didn't go to the free beer thing (i can not believe i just typed those words) but did stop off to watch the wvu/louisville game. chatted up a girl and thought it went well, we talked for almost two hours. then i left without getting her number. because, in case any of you have forgotten, i'm an idiot.

then i got a call from my friend lisa saying she and her husband were going to pick up a mutual friend of ours at the airport and to meet them at mac's in an hour. so that's what i did.

my hangover is way way out of proportion based on the number of beers i had.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Gettin' old, man. Gettin' old.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

all i know is that in 72 hours from now i will be in a plane and i will be getting the fuck out of chicago for a week. can. not. wait.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, did Valerie B. cut your hair yet? Wait, where are you going?

Julia, I think season two is worth it. I know the point at which you got annoyed and it does get considerably better. Like way better. And then a little worse. But then better!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

no, still no hair cut. i think i might get one tonight or tomorrow? but not from val obviously.

i'm going east to see my friends play brooklyn and boston. originally the plan was to meet up with them in nyc then drive with them to the boston show then the two montreal shows then to toronto and back to chicago. but i decided to bail on the canadian portion so i can go see my folks. when i was back east for the christening last month it was the first time i'd seen my parents in years. at some point in that time my mom went from being an old lady to being elderly. it was kind of shocking and kind of unsettling so i thought i should make some time to see her while i can.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

morning everyone! i think today is going to be a glorious slow day at work. last night we had our largest event of the year (which i planned) & i think it went fairly well!

i cannot wait for the weekend. seriously cannot wait! i'm going to sew a potholder!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Have you seen any of season 3, Jenny? I saw one ep on tv before I started watching the series proper, and it was good but WAY DIFFERENT. As in the story has obviously progressed a lot, it was focused on the resistance on Caprica and a lot of characters I didn't recognize, and no ship.

I'm excited about this in the same way that I am not excited about Lost.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

We haven't seen any of S3 yet. My understanding is that they do eventually get back into space where they belong, dammit.

That's a big trip, Kevin. And I know what you mean about the shock of aging parents. It's not like we don't know what's coming, but it's still kind of alarming.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

leaf & i are currently watching veronica mars. i am really enjoying it so far. it's dialogue dense but smart & reminds me of buffy.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 3 November 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

it's not too big jenny, i'm not putting any extra emphasis on it. i'm just going to see my folks.

it was weird though, i KNOW my folks are old. they're in their mid/late 60's and i know the health problems they have and all but my dad still looks like an old guy whereas my mom looks like an elderly lady. she stopped dying her hair, she's way tinier than i remember and kind of frail. it kind of threw me.

luckily my dad is still this big, gregarious, offensive sob. if he'd morphed into some polite old dude i would've been crushed. imagine me, weighing about 120 lbs more, and having an even poorer sense of what's appropriate and inappropriate and you pretty much have my pop.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

My parents are going through that "We complain about everything" precursor to hardcore old-peopleness. They're constantly outraged about something and spend most of their time discussing and measuring their outrage.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

my all time favorite dad moment was when we were waiting for an elevator where he worked and this red-headed kid with downs syndrome comes up to us. he sees my dad's id badge and says "Hi Tom!" my dad looked over said "hi corky" as we were stepping into the elevator.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kind of glad my parents are 30 years older than me. This way for every big milestone birthday we can suffer together. Both of them seem pretty well, still, although when my mom stopped dying her hair it totally threw me, too. It seemed like she instantly morphed into a younger version of my grandmother.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

The dude on the other side of my cubicle wall is SINGING in a droney r&b style, and it is driving me crazy. Should I throw something over the wall?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

between her turning into a cotton top and the fact that she was a lot smaller than i remembered (me and my sisters all tower over her) it gave a very ancient appearance.

xpost the woman in the office across from my cubicle has f'ing CHRISTMAS MUSIC at a volume that reaches, clearly across her office, across the cubicle in front of me, through the partition, to my desk. everyone else with an office has the door closed, due i'm sure to the music.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

my mom started going gray when she was 20, so i've never known her without gray hair. now it's all white. it's weird seeing my dad's hairline receding and going gray though. they seem so young otherwise (they went all fitness crazy in their mid 50s).

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Moms is gray and balding, but she wears wigs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

All this talk about momses is making me miss mine. I think I'm gonna call her right now.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Okay I told him to cut it out and it was fine. He was listening to his iPod and apparently didn't know he was singing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Was he singing "Trapped in the Closet"?

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Trapped in the Cubicle

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

"AND THEN I PULLED OUT MY GUN...!"

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Friday, 3 November 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

If only.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I am on the couch with two cats, both of whom are snoring away.

Snoring cats are funny.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Cats snore?

Whinyhead and pissybritches will be parting ways tomorrow afternoon. I wonder if they'll miss each other. Somehow I think not.

― black sabbath just makes me want to take a nap (kenan), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Does everyone have NYE plans yet?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

no.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

2x no

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I do have right now plans though: PIZZA LUNCH FOR TEH OFFICE!!!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to be in Edinburgh for NYE! This is the first time I've had NYE plans in years. So excited.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

nye plans? yeah right.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'm guessing my plans will involve moderate overindulgence in alcohol which will leave me just drunk enough to get stay on the right side of maudlin about being in chicago on new years and being by myself and etc. etc. then i will get a little bitter about not having anyone to kiss at midnight. then i will probably throw something, preferably something glass, like an empty beer bottle, and break it on my living room wall.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, and this movie usually ends with drunk dialing or drunk txting, neither of which will be particularly effective on nye.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Do cats ever snore! Ed and Francie are both snorers, and one of my Mom's cats, Imor, will sleep on his back, propped up on a couch pillow and saw logs like a lumberjack. This is even more awesome if my pop is also sleeping propped up on a couch pillow and snoring away right next to him.

Jeff and I are contemplating seeing Girl Talk on NYE, but are reluctant to purchase tickets due to our tendency to crap out at the last minute.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I ask because Girl Talk is playing at the bottle. I was severally bummed that I missed the last show he played, and was strongly considering this one. Just wondering what everyone else was up to though.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, what she said too.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa whoa whoa

... Girl Talk is a guy?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

THE MOVERS NEVER SHOWED UP.

We called another company who referred us to another company who was able to show up short notice. Thank God.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a Mexican place for lunch and ate all the chips in the world (partly because service was really slow and it was something to do). I feel gross.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I also feel gross, I ate too much office pizza party pizza. But man, ARTICHOKES! They're like the crack of pizza toppings.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

i ate too much chocolate.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 3 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Then we're in agreement.

I stopped by the record store over lunch and had the following exchange. I was looking for Bill Withers cds and didn't see anything in r&b or pop, so I asked the dude there if I was missing it.

Him (after finding the empty section in pop): When did it come out?
Me: Excuse me?
Him: Did it come out, like, this week?
Me: Uh...in the 70's???

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I had to read your post twice, Jordan, because I read it as "Carl Weathers." Geez. Time to get out of here.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 3 November 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so bored today.

What would people "think" if we served cookies for dessert at our wedding? do the people need cake?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 3 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I would totally buy a Carl Weathers record.

The people do not need cake. Also, I was just talking with some friends about the feasability of serving pizza at their wedding.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Battlestar Galactica: Season 2.0: Disc 1 Shipping Monday

netflix why u brake hart

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

we may serve pizza at the 'reception' we hold in chicago. since our wedding is so small, we want to have a booze-heavy blow out with friends.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 3 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not really "people" in the sense of someone who judges couples' worth by their weddings, but if you served cookies at your reception, I would think, "Hot damn! I love cookies!" Because I do.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 3 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

IMHO

cookies (especially if there is a variety) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> cake

/IMHO

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, cookies are great.

I once played a wedding where they had a Ben & Jerry's ice cream bar (w/sundae toppings) instead of cake.

I had to do some religious affiliation stuff for work and I started a religion called "Jewishism", and I'm waaaay too amused by myself.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 3 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago, be good to each other. and to yourselves.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 3 November 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Always am!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 3 November 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hey yo, am I supposed to tip the delivery guys when they deliver my couch tomorrow???? Jenny/Jeff?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

I tipped our delivery guys. I was going to give them $10, but they had to part two blocks away and carry the couch down the street and then take the door off our apartment and I felt bad so I gave them $20.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:38 (nineteen years ago)

Here - these people say $5 to $20.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 4 November 2006 03:39 (nineteen years ago)

i won 57 bucks playing poker tonight. booya

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 4 November 2006 07:07 (nineteen years ago)

JESSE AND COURTNEY UPDATE: They are in Tennessee. Kenan, have you cleaned up the cat pee yet? There's not much worse than coming back from a two-day road trip and moving into a trashed apartment that smells like cat pee.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 4 November 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

thanks for the cookie validation. i think that if we don't do it for the wedding, we WILL do it for the Chicago reception thingy. Which basically means that y'all get my cookies.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Saturday, 4 November 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't have any cash for the delivery dudes and I felt bad. :( On the other hand the whole thing took less than 5 minutes.

I just cleaned a bunch of shrimp for this recipe.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 4 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Bring me shrimp and grits, please.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 4 November 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

i'm at tuman's watching football. will be here roughly 8 more hours. someone come join me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Saturday, 4 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Tennessee should be a lot easier driving than we had through West Virgina.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 4 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

oh chicago, why you gotta be so mean?
you destroyed my house way down in new orleans.
oh chicago, oh chicago, oh chicago
why you gotta be so mean?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Sunday, 5 November 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

"""Tennessee should be a lot easier driving than we had through West Virgina. """

It was nice to have a truck that did not bounce and sway if you went faster than 50 MPH. It was a 16 footer and a few times we found ourselves going 80 MPH, even in the mountains. Anyway, we averaged around 70-75 most of the way.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 5 November 2006 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Shrimp n' grits were off the hurrk.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 November 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I know that living in a place usually means not staying in hotels there, but any suggestions for a cheap one near Wicker Park?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

There are none.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Cool.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry bro.

Can we have a general moratorium on revealing any major plots points of any TV show/movie/book on this thread? I think anything even closely revealing a spoiler should be saved for a thread specifically for that show/movie/book. It's hard to avoid accidentally reading posts on Battlestar or Lost or whatever when skimming this thread.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

I hope I'm not coming across as a sourpuss on this issue.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Can we spoil music? Like, the endings of tunes?

The only cheap hotel that I know of in town is the old Heart O' Chicago.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

NICK... how as the show? Tell us or I'll spoil BSG from here to hell and back.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 5 November 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really feel like writing out a long detailed description now, but everything went just about as good as I could have hoped. Easy travel, good times, good eats, and I was very happy with how we played, so I'd say it was a successful trip.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

Also, we met Laurel. Hi Laurel!

Brooklyn gave me a much more positive impression of NYC than Manhattan had. I mean, I had spent some time in Brooklyn before, but I guess I didn't realize it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yay for good things!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse's apartment is un-trashed and pee-free. Thank you for your concern.

― internet downpause (kenan), Monday, 6 November 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

I totally baked some stuff last night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jewish stuff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

You wouldn't understand.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lil-fingers.com/purim/poppyseed.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I believe I have strung myself out to the point of making myself sick. It feels like forever since I had an honest-to-god fever, but I sure got one now. And the fact that my muscles are sore from moving makes the fact that my muscles are sore from being sick that much worse. I am a rotten collection of physical shortcomings today.

Pity me.

― internet downpause (kenan), Monday, 6 November 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Borat but I'm not going to spoil the ending by discussing it on this thread.

My bff from Akron was supposed to visit me this weekend but she wussed out and is not coming to visit me for the SECOND TIME this year. I am not pleased. But really, not that pissed either since that's just a waste of time.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

(being pissed is a waste of time, not her visit)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I also saw Borat, and will also not discuss it. I will also not dicuss anything else interesting for fear of ruining it for someone else.

Just kidding. I never discuss anything interesting anyways.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Nor do I. Duh.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

jordan--are those amantashen or however you spell that? i have only had those once (the poppyseed ones) and they are AWESOME. how did they turn out?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

PS I loved Borat, but I had never seen the gag before the movietrailer came out for moviefilm of same name of Borat.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. I ALSO saw Borat.

My coffee tasted like chemicals this morning and yet I drank the whole thing anyway. Gross.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Poppyseed hamantaschen are my favorite dessert ever anywhere. That is cool that you had them, Julia, since poppy seems to be a rare flavor, except in my house. Like at Ashkenaz they only have fruit or chocolate ones.

I made the dough last night and then got tired, so I just tossed in the fridge. Tonight I will bake them and let you know how it goes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I loved Brooklyn, especially Park Slope. I had the best weekend ever.

HIIIII.

John, did you stick around for the saps? I felt bad for them since we were all told to load our stuff out before they started playing...

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

So, do you all recommend seeing BORAT? In the theater or should I wait for dvd??

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Theater, for maximum larfs when people get uncomfortable.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

We might go see it tonight.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to see it because I would probably be the person getting uncomfortable.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Park Slope rulesss.

I stopped in at Tower Rcrds over the weekend - 30% off everything, so a good time to get the 3-CD In A Silent Way sessions.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to see it because I would probably be the person getting uncomfortable.

Nah, you hang out with Jesse. This will be a breeze.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'M KIDDING. Hi Jesse!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

See, I found Park Slope to be teeming with white people and babies. Not really what I imagined Brooklyn would be like. I didn't much care for it, though it was attractive.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, it was nice if you can afford to live there, but I dunno. The main drags that I was on felt like Brooklynland: The Movie. I realize that Park Slope =/= Brooklyn, though. Right?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, almost everyone I know in NYC lives in Park Slope.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I like white people and babies. Actually, I really didn't notice a lack of diversity in Park Slope, though it was definitely more upper class and seemed safer than the area in Brooklyn where we played.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Chicargo. Tomorrow is election day!

Here are some handy resources:
Check your registration and find your polling place: http://chicagoelections.com/onlinepage.htm
Find all your candidates, compare viewpoints, and then print out a ballot guide to take in with you! http://www4.vgt2004.org/a-chicagotribune/index.go
Independent candidate guide: http://www.modernvertebrate.com/elections/2006-illinois/index.html

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

There's lots of third party Green candidates running if you're fed up with R/D idiocy and feel like getting all socialist.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I got nothing against white people OR babies, for the record. It's just not what I want out of a trip to New York. I want to hear 100 different languages as I walk down the street and eat food I can't identify.

Thank you for the voting guide! I need one.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am looking forward to voting tomorrow. Unexpectedly my work said "if you need to leave work to vote, do it, don't worry about it."

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

Almost everyone I know in Brooklyn lives in PS too, except for one person who lives on 52nd? I think? I don't know the name of the neighborhood.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I know some folks in Greenbush, that's it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Park Slope was exciting for me, but we did also get to drive through Chinatown and 34th in Manhattan and then wander around Soho for quite a while. I got the New York experience.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

NOT I, SAID THE CAT. (XP to Armando)

Although I'm seeing an apartment tonight and might live closer to Park Slope than I current do, it still won't be in PS.

Met Nick & Sarah on Sat, very sorry there wasn't more time to hang out. Sadness.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

It was good to meet you too, Laurel! My sister and her bf had come up from DC to see the show, so I felt the need to give them all my attention. Also, we didn't want to make the guy we were staying with wait any longer for us. BBBUT I need to come back to NY again next year. I miss our annual visits.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Did you eat anything good/interesting?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

If that link says I am active, do I need to bring anything with me besides ID to vote? Also, where do I find polling hours?

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I ate as much as I could.
We first ate at a diner near the club, where our waitress said FAWGETTABOUT IT and YOUS GUYS alot. After the show, we went to this yum Thai place. Saturday Nick, Ben, and I ate at a french breakfast place. We lunched at BEN'S PIZZA in Soho. Hev's bf had raved about it from when he lived in NY for a summer. I was tempted by a street vendor's soft pretzels but was too full.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Park Slope does = Brooklynland: The Movie, in the sense of Smoke, Blue In The Face, The Squid and The Whale.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the map(s) telling you where the ward boundaries are are FOR SHIT.

(not at Jenny's link though, that looks like quality stuff)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think you only have to bring ID. Jeff said he thinks the polls open at 6 AM. There's a number to call on that Chicago elections page.

Oh god, ward maps are such a headache. We're right on the boundary between two wards, so I just called each alderperson's office and asked.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I can still taste that tainted coffee after having a muffin, water, and a breath mint. It's kinda freaking me out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I never realized ('til reading this weekend J. Franzen's introduction to Paula Fox's Desperate Characters, which I didn't like much but is set in Park Slope in the late 1960s) that genrification is related to 'gentry'.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

JENNY: Just tell me which judges to give the boot to.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.voteforjudges.org/homepage.htm

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc, sorry I didn't make the Europa gig; I got to the L platform but train didn't seem to be running and it was getting too late.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Do any of you peeps know anything about Word Perfect? Besides the fact that it fucking sucks?

This document is putting an extra space between footnotes and I can't figure out how to make it stop.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

SARAH: No, I saw a few songs by the Saps and then left to hang out with my friend Mike, Tehresa, and Ken L (and Laurel, too, but she had to leave early).

xpost That's cool, Dr. M. Another time!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't used WordPerfect since like 1997.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason, many law offices cling to Word Perfect, despite the fact that MS Word is light years better. Light years.

Somebody in this office is making something that smells like bacon.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

John, did it seem like other people stuck around for them?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I figured out my WP problem. It feels so wonderful to have obscure troubleshooting knowledge of an outdated, useless computer program.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah if anyone needs help with Illustrator 8, I'm your man!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Our office uses Word Perfect too . . . it drives me CRAZY.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 November 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Kelsey! Cookie away! I loved the pies at Jenny&Jeff's wedding reception. IT IS ALL SUGAR. Mmm... We're doing cupcakes, so we can have a variety too.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

general poll:

do those of you who are married or engaged feel like there is this period of sudden domesticity upon 'settling down' with someone? I know that Sarah is cooking more & then, this past weekend, I sewed my first potholder & Leaf made cookies. Unfortunately, I didn't have the potholder finished by the time the cookies were baked otherwise we could've taken it for a test drive.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

i actually like the cupcake idea b/c it's still cake, but cup size and brimming with variety.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't get more domestic when we got married but that's probably because 1) Jeff and I lived together for years prior to getting married; and 2) we got married while I was in my second year of law school so there's no fucking time for sudden domesticity. These days, we eat more frozen pizza and cheese toast than ever in our lives, and I'm lucky to clean the toilet every two weeks.

We probably domesticated-up when we first moved in together, especially since we lived in the suburbs of GSO, NC and there wasn't anywhere to go out to, but I can't really remember for sure.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, I'm disgustingly domestic already. I think living with someone/"settling down" would just give me a helpless victim to cook for/sew for/pet/smother.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Nick and I have lived together for most of our going-on eight years together (Nov 19th!). I mean, we were basically already living together by the fall of 99. I've become all lot more domestic since then, but then was just post-college and my lifestyle was a bit different.

I'm mostly learning to cook because I somehow never did and it's fun, but also I feel bad that Nick has been the one cooking all our meals most of the time we've been together. I've been like the typical lazy hubbie in that scenario who doesn't even know how to boil water.

Nick did not do any baking, however. I am charting new territories there.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I was always waiting for an excuse to cook for someone, so living with D (we moved in three years before we got married) gave me what I needed. The quality of my cooking has grown over the years, but my urge to do it hasn't changed much. (Except for when I was working full time + school + Saturday class -- that was harrowing.)

Beyond that, I do not enjoy cleaning any more now than I did before we lived together/got married. I enjoy cooking the same amount: a lot. I didn't really feel a surge of domesticity upon getting engaged or married, though. Moving in, yes. But that was long before the other stuff. Yours (K) is all coming at once, so it makes sense that you're feeling different, I suppose.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

That's a good point, the whole living together thing. Plus, we just moved into a new apartment & it's a place I actually care about. The old apartment felt as transitional as it looked.

I think I may try to make another potholder this week. It was something that was challenging enough without being completely frustrating.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Honestly, I think most of my increased interest in domesticity has been in anticipation of maybe having a kid. I'd like to get my own life in order as much as possible before bringing another person into it.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff has just informed me that we lived within the city limits of Greensboro, which I knew, but there were no sidewalks or like, businesses, and we lived in an apartment community nestled in the midst of a bunch of housing developments so it felt like all the bad parts about the suburbs.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

We were walking distance from a church, though, I'll tell you that.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Well shit you've gotta have your priorties straight.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah you need a recording contract before you can have a kid.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

No way, Sarah. You can have BOTH!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so I got stood up again this weekend. By the same girl as I previously was stood up by... For the second time, excuses were made relating to this girl's grandma. I want opinions on whether I should continue to buy the excuses and keep pursuing a date with said girl, or give up and chalk it up as her loss.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Her loss.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, fool me once, etc. etc.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

Lame. Cut her loose.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I'm thinking too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Stupid Pisces me, always the fool! :P

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Is she making these excuses over the phone?

King of Empty Promises

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Did she stand you up & make an effort for a plan B or just stand you up w/o any attempt for future plans? That would be key for me. If she offers up an alternative plan, fine. Otherwise, she's out.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Haha yes! Well, once. Once over email. Always after the fact. There is also a "lost text message" in there somewhere, which she claims was her notification she couldn't do anything. Not sure what to think about that.

xpost: no effort, except for aforementioned lost text

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

O-U-T.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

That's baaaaad.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you, o wise chilxors, for confirming what I already believed. You're all so good at that! :)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

A text message! Oh man. Welcome to Dumpsville, population: her.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Also, thank you for that CITH link, Manders. I love that sketch.

xpost: "Dumpsville" would imply that we went on more than one date, or, rather, had more than one drunk-ass makeout session.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Always after the fact.

thirded. she sounds like an inconsiderate flake.

xp fourthed then!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I posted the KITH link, Dan, but I don't mind being occasionally confused for Amanda.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK, I'm sorry. The posts were coming too fast.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

And "CITH"? What the fuck, me?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Everything's gonna be alright now...

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Come baaaaaccckkk!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm writing about infertility. Conclusion: If Jeff and I are unable to naturally conceive a child, we're getting a dog.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

No adoption? I hear it's a LOVING OPTION.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, an optional course of medical treatment that requires someone to fill your uterus with saline or inject dye into your uterus just during the diagnostic phase? No. No thanks.

xpost - I wouldn't mind adopting, but we'd have to consider a lot of different things first.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

My biggest adoption related fears include getting attached to a kid and then not being able to complete the adoption and adoption a reasonable-seeming kid who turns out to be fucked up beyond what we are willing/able to deal with.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think Leaf would prefer to adopt, but I kinda want to pop at least one out first.
Leaf's actually doing research for a professor on various donor things. Sorry I can't be more specific, it was more complicated.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, given no other choice I'd adopt, but who am I kidding? I can't even get a date.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

oh dan! don't get down on yourself because of one dumb flake!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Better a drunk-ass makeout session than a drunk ass-makeout session.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose that really depends on who you're talking to.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Charlotte, NC was AMAZING. I spent pretty much my whole time there being completely amazed. What is incredible (amazing) about it is how it is a "major city" that covers an enormous amount of land but it has absolutely no center, no heart, no soul, no there-there anywhere. At all. It is like 10 Schaumburg's.

Courtney told me that there are absolutely no non-chain coffee shops or restaurants and she was pretty much right, except for in the really artsy part of downtown (which in the early 90's they renamed "Uptown" but which the city council is considering renaming "Center City" -UGGGGGH- nothing is not preplanned) where there are a couple trendy glitzy restaurants.

They also have a warped sense of distance. Courtney told me that there was a bar (a chain bar called Midtown Sundries) "next door" to her house "about 60 feet away." It was about 3/4 of a mile away. Also, the Budget Truck guy told us that they had moved "2 blocks north." In fact they had moved over 1 mile away, but because there were only 2 streets in between, he considered it 2 blocks.

Charlotte is home to the nation's busiest Target. It is so busy that another Target went up "2 blocks" away (Courtney's words) -- again, actually about 1 mile, but.

The concentration of wealth in that place is dizzying.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

That was a pretty well-timed post, considering.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

OR IS IT

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I should rephrase - getting stood up after a drunk-ass makeout session is better than getting stood up after a etc. etc.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I missed a LOTSA messages-- I was (x)posting to Jenny's thing about Greensboro.

Yeh Dan, I wouldn't fuck around with her. If she starts pursuing you, fine--otherwise forget her.

That is really shitty and it sounds like you know that she's being flakey and not just the victim of shitty circumstances.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Also, xpost-- STFU, all of you.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

DAN WHEN ARE WE GOING TO HAVE OUR MOVIE NIGHT IN THE EBERT THEATER

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what Courtney's doing. She's been at her job interview for a looooong time. She has another tomorrow morning at 9. It seems like her recruitment agency is doing their job very well. They gave her a pre-interview prep session to help her get to know the company she's interviewing at (M@n Financial Services).

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sponsor of the M@n Booker Prize.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of cooking/baking, we're going grocery shopping in T minus 45 minutes. I'm going to take a look at Recipes and Songs, but if anyone has any other great ideas, let me know. I NEED INSPIRATION. Also, our pantry is pretty bare bones right now.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Further criticism of Charlotte, NC: the "Uptown" bars are a $60 cab ride from where Courtney and her friends lived.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Why can't I find Recipes and Songs? I am a DUMBAROO.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I recommend the hamantaschen recipe on the inside of the Solo can label.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

what is that link? i forgot it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

chilx blogspot com

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

I want to be domesticated a little bit. (I would not be quite the trouble-prone slushy that you see before you if I had a husband. I mean I would still be a lush, I'd stay in more and would have someone to keep an eye on me.) During my last LTR the BF cooked a good bit. I would like to do that again, except not with quite such drug-devouring party animal.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

i went thrifting yesterday and got an awesome set of 8 glasses for like $4.94. steal of the decade. they have yellow and orange flowers on them and are very pretty. they would've gone well with my red kitchen in my last place. my new kitchen is too small to have a theme.

also, on my flight today there was a girl who looked so much like my exgirlfriend that i had to get up and walk past her just to make sure it wasn't her. it wasn't but same hair, skin, glasses, and gigantic forehead.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

gigantic forehead. sounds hot.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 6 November 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

christinaricci.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

I believe it's called a fivehead nowadays.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago, get me a job.

I'm having a little moment of doubt here....

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, Why can't I find your sour cream waffles recipe? Did you post it in a thread at some point?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

actually, we called jen's an eight head because her's was twice the normal size.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

courtney and i are going to a brew and view at the vic. talladegah nights.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

here it is, Sarah

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm going to make a bacon veggieburger tonight. Oh the ironing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks!
Any recommendations for vegetarian indian food? I love vegetable biryani.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Any reason not to use this one? And do I really need yogurt?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Funny sentence I just wrote: Doctors perform these surgical procedures on an outpatient basis under general anesthesia.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

DAN WHEN ARE WE GOING TO HAVE OUR MOVIE NIGHT IN THE EBERT THEATER

AS SOON AS THE THEATER IS NOT BOOKED EVERY SINGLE WEEKEND UNTIL THE NEW YEAR

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, i typed the word "colorectal" about 500 times last week.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Also, as soon as my friend can, after the bookings end. In our inebriated state (when we came up with the idea) we underestimated the amount of work necessary to pull it off.

Did I mention I discovered the place is like a block away from Old Timer's?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

There's this dude who works here who's constantly throwing the single fist held up about chest height "solid" gesture everytime we stand around talking. I can never tell if I'm supposed to bump fists with him or not. I'm thinking not, because that'd be a lot of skinship time.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

Next time he does it, give him a huge hug.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 6 November 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

a peck on the cheek maybe.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ugh, EVERY hotel in Chicago seems to be booked this weekend. Even the Heart O' Chicago.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:09 (nineteen years ago)

Any suggestions for inexpensive hotels would be welcome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know any inexpensive hotels in Chicago. The only visitors we've had who stay in hotels are our parents who either use Priceline or don't care.

I do have a picture of our cats on the couch, though:

http://static.flickr.com/114/291014187_81db70d526.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 00:19 (nineteen years ago)

JORDAN YOU CAN TOTALLY STAY AT OUR PLACE

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see this play: http://www.thefactorytheater.com/shows/Operation/Operation.htm

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

And this play: http://www.blindfaiththeatre.org/gorey3.html

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

Aaaaand this play: http://www.timelinetheatre.com/childrens_hour/index.htm

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

NICK THAT IS REALLY NICE OF YOU but there will be two other dudes with me. Also we will probably be drunk.

(although seriously, I will e-mail you tomorrow if I can't find a hotel in the city)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

How about the Viceroy?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

^^^ joke!!!~!~

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

Why was it 125 degrees inside the school where I voted? I thought I was going to pass out halfway through the judges. Which was the part where I was really disappointed in myself for not studying up more on before I went in.

And what happened to the "I Voted" stickers?

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

I still need to see a play in Chicago.

Jordan, one of you could sleep on the futon in the "guitar" room, one on the couch in the living room, and one on the floor. TA DA! What night(s) would it be? I actually just got all the ingrediants for sour cream waffles last night.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, kids. I'm still sick, but damnit, I'm at work anyway. I am really going to have to get used to the train noise. I thought it would be no big deal, but it seems like it can be. I was sick last night, kinda feverish, and I lay in bed for maybe an hour before I woke up sweating like a Samoan because the landlord did not adjust the heat to account for the fact that it was 50 degrees outside. So I had to open the windows wide, and then of course listen to a train ROAR by every 10 minutes. I had fever dreams about trying to sleep on the train (with pillows and everything), and missing my connection, and other such unpleasantness. Man, I slept like doo doo.

― internet downpause (kenan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

My coworker got an "I VOTED" sticker. I have to go after work today. I just could not get up at 5:30 am this morning, especially not after going to sleep around midnight.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Did you go with Jesse & Courtney to see Talladega Nights or were you studying?

Nick and I got to Borat an hour early ON A MONDAY NIGHT and it was already sold out. CRY!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

studyingstuydingsudugyingt

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I predict being able to interface with actual people in approximately one month.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, we eagerly await your undivided attention. And speaking of attention...

EVERYONE, PLEASE NOTE: I FOUND A NEW APARTMENT LAST NIGHT!!! Two other roommates, clean place with nice details, no pets, slightly better neighborhood, wine and giggles and dance parties late at night all seem to be in the offing. I am happy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

We're still having Thanksgiving dinner though, right? November 23rd is pretty soon.

Yay, Laurel!!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Also, they said they liked me! One roommate said, "Is that your bike outside? You're in." Which was funny cos I got that bike for free and it's thoroughly unnoteworthy. But it's nice to be liked.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Boo to a month, TT this week!?!?!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

WTG Laurel, n1.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

See, I read Dan's last post not as internet speak, but as an internal reference to a footnote. [u]44[/u] WTG Laurel [i]supra[/i] note 1 at 420.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMG BBCODE LOL

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Apartment pics:

http://flickr.com/photos/giganticmag/tags/apartment/

Weird, weird day yesterday. My boss got fired. Maybe it has something to do with the fact that he's really unhealthy and would miss weeks of work at a time? Anyway, it's too bad, since I really liked the guy. But it freaked me out, because as I was hearing this news, I was home sick myself. I did not feel very secure. My coworker/work friend Lisa (who looks a lot like Liz Phair, incidentally) had to call me in the afternoon and cool me off.

Anyway, all is well. I am loved and trusted around here. I'm just not good at accepting that fact.

― internet downpause (kenan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

he's really unhealthy and would miss weeks of work at a time

That sounds... unlawful.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Nice bed, btw. Whaaaar'd you get that?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

I love the twinkly lights!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds... unlawful.

Well, the official reason was layoffs and cutbacks, not illness. So they're covered, I guess.

The bed, sheets, and duvet cover are all Ikea. The lights are Albertson's cheapo on-sale Xmas lights. I couldn't resist.

― internet downpause (kenan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Whaaaar'd you get that

Ha.

Re theatre in Chicago: Do y'all remember the gal at Squeezed who was workshopping a play about her Polish grandmother? Well, said play has opened at a small theater in Ravenswood, and I will probably be seeing it sometime this month -- it runs Fridays and Saturdays through December 2. More here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Here's my couch in its natural environment: http://static.flickr.com/117/290726866_d6c8400d14_m.jpg

And here are my baked goods before they go into their natural environment (ie my stomach): http://static.flickr.com/104/291198335_1d42d1169d_m.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Those both look great, Jordan!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I want hamantaschen. Apricot ones.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

i've had fruit ones but the poppyseed are sooooo gooood. those look awesome, jordan.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel: maybe within a couple of months you will have girlpile-level sistren. Congrats on the new place!
Congrats on the new couch, Jordan!
Congrats on everything, everyone!

Election day makes me NERVIOSA.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

GIRLPILE.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Has such a better ring to it than MANPILE, doesn't it?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

jordan, i thought the exact same thing.

and actually i don't know what i thought but the word GIRLPILE was definitely in all caps in my brain. i think i would like a girlpile for my birthday.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Has such a better ring to it than MANPILE, doesn't it?

I like manpile! It has a certain kinda Jackass ring to it.

― internet downpause (kenan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Right now, I am learning that if I'm going to be a solo practitioner, I'm going to need an accountant and how.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Can you be an LLC? Doesn't eliminate the need for accounting, just wondering.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney update:

I think it sounds like Courtney is a lucky/hireable bitch who got a (great) job on her very first 24 hours in Chicago. She was all but hired based on her resume, had a 2hr 45min interview and has a call-back today!

I was just reading that Chicago's unemployment rate is at a record-breaking low.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

What line of work is she in?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny hire me as your accountant just kidding.

Amanda: Courtney has worked pretty much in purchasing and management. The job in question is with a financial firm on La Salle. It sounds great and I want that job (admin assist). Great pay, 3 weeks vacation, working with Englishmen and women, free doo-dads.

As for me, I had a list of jobs to apply for on my favorites on my laptop. My laptop is not with me. I am starting afresh. Also, my resume was on the laptop. Though I think I can find it in cyberspace....

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was just wondering. Although I have to admit that I have no idea what "purchasing and management" means. Managing what? Purchasing what? Once you manage or purchase one place, are you qualified to do it elsewhere? Oh, the many questions I have.

You don't have to answer them, they're just questions I have.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Calls to Dell's customer service go to India. When you call a person with a relatively light Injun accent tells you his name is "Archie" or "Rick" or "Heather," and this last guy said "God Bless."

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Fear not. I have a copy of your resume, little duck.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Purchasing: finding stuff that a company uses in its operations. Courtney bought everything from sanitary napkin disposal bins to cleaning services for their offices. It sounds like a job I would like because it is basically shopping all day.

Management: being a manager in a company.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

But did she ever manage purchases? Or purchase managers?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Next semester, I am taking the following classes:
Feminist Jurisprudence*
Labor Arbitration*
Employment Discrimination
An externship w/ the EEOC

I am also going to audit something, either IL Civil Procedure or Civil Rights, the former being a useful bar class, the latter being just plain fun and potentially useful in my future practice as an impoverished people's lawyer.

This is a very nice schedule after this semester. Plus no class on Fridays and no class before 1:30, although I'll have to work every day at 9, I am sure.

*Both taught by my favorite professor EVAR.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Those sound like super classes!

And Jesse, for the love of Pete -- I know what a manager "is"! I just don't really know what a manager DOES other than compile spreadsheets of my shortcomings.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda answered her own question.

― internet downpause (kenan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I told you that no one had to answer my "question"!!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

IL Civil Procedure

I Love Civil Procedure

I just voted the hell out of some voting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I just ordered this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I will not be voting today.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Because I've said it before and I'll say it again, democracy doesn't work.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I just signed up for yoga. Sunday morning at 10 AM. I hope I won't regret that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

I totally voted for a Republican today for the first time in my life.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://manero.org/images/i-voted.gif

...a few weeks ago, by absentee ballot. I really need to get my IL residency finished up one of these days. It's been two years for fuck's sake! :D

xpost: what for, John?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

You know, if you don't mind saying.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Governor? Just a guess.

― internet downpause (kenan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I'm trying to be optimistic here.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to work in marketing/advertising, but I fear the legendary competitive nature of the field. Is it really as bad as people say?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, that was a Kent Brockman quote from the episode in which the comet comes at Springfield. It is actually, "...democracy simply doesn't work."

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Depends on what you do in it. I do artwork. It can be a lot of fun. However, sitting in on marketing exec meetings is creepy. They really do blithely talk about manipulating people, and are very matter-of-fact about it. There's something not unlike Orson Welles' speech in The Third Man, where he's going on about "Would you really feel bad if one of those dots down there stopped moving forever?" We don't kill people, obviously, but we do deal in dots.

― internet downpause (kenan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

My time in marketing:

Not the people who write or draw, but the idea people who tell the people who write or draw what to do, are empty inside. And a little dim. But rather than address this, they speak in corporate buzzword nonsense so that only other marketing people understand them and thereby convince themselves they are smart and important. I worked in the marketing dept. of a bank and had to deal with the marketing dept. of a software company and I found the whole endeavor dreadfully pointless, in an "I'm spending over 40 hours of my life every week doing... this? So these rich people can get richer? WTF?" kind of way.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

pwned

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

To quote my friend Karen (you know Karen, Jesse): I would rather live in a cardboard box under an overpass than ever work in marketing again.

Also, the marketing-related jobs I had were the kind where I had to go to a lot of meetings to hear people yap at me in corporate buzzword nonsense and I was supposed to be all cheery and GO GO CORPORATE OVERLORDS YEAH and I was often scolded for having a bad attitude when I refused to show the appropriate level of enthusiasm.

Can you tell I hated that shit? I hated that shit. I can't even be objective about your question, Jesse, I hated that shit so much.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

There was a period where The Universe was sending me signals to go into advertising--my co-worker was saying that I would be a great copy writer, a couple bar friends said I would be great for it-- but I don't want to make shitty money while working my ass off to claw my way around a pile of frustrated creative folks.

My problem is that, as Elastica put it, "if I can't be a star I won't get out of bed." This was a focal point of my time in therapy.

Some career directions I see for myself:

Non-profit, especially HIV/AIDS activism, advocacy or (as an foot in the door) casework.

Advertising/Marketing -- writing brochures, flyers, table tents, etc.

Technical writing, but NOT MANUALS -- similar to advertising/marketing.

Organizing -- I liked my foray into organizing this summer, but it's at the bottom of my list because of the gruelling hours and especially because of the weird fucking Organizers' Ghetto/Clique that comes with it.

Ideally I would like to combine writing, organizing and AIDS into a delicious and decent-paying bouillabaisse.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

AIDS-Boy Boullabaisse.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Not for governor. As much as Blagojevich ain't a very attractive choice, the thought of voting for Topinka makes me shudder. And voting Green seemed like a wasted vote, even if Whitney wasn't all about the decriminalization of handguns. So I bit the bullet and voted for Rod the Bod.

No, my Republican vote was for Tony Peraica (Cook County Board President). I watched him go head to head with Todd Stroger on Chicago Tonight a couple of weeks ago, and Peraica mopped the floor with Stroger, who's clearly unqualified. I don't like the nepotism involved in Stroger's candidacy, and I justified my vote by considering that a Republican at the top of the Cook County Board might be a good check against the Daley Machine. Granted, I know next to nothing about Peraica's views, so Jenny will probably come along and set me straight, but whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds pretty reasonable to me, John. I do like how you seem to consider me an expert in local politics, however misguided that is. I'm more of a one-hit-wonder w/r/t my knowledge of issues and politics.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't do any research on the candidates, and having spent the past 5 months out of state, I wasn't even exposed to any advertising (which would have probably inspired me to do some research).

It's a bad excuse.

― It's got a funky beat and I can bug out to it. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.marketingfx.org/Flash/index.html

does this seem like a really cheesy marketing company?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Also, in the AIDS-soup: working in a doctor's office. I think there is a position like Medical Assistant?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

WE ARE THE FUTURE OF MARKETING.

WE OFFER A SIMPLE SOLUTION: US.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Marketing is kind of repulsive to me, but my mom does marketing for a health-care network, which doesn't seem so bad, even though she does shoot me dagger-eyes if I deign to compliment a competing hospital's logo:

http://www.sacc-usa.org/chicago/Images/Company/swedishcovenent.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

There are a ton of people who do marketing and technical writing where I work. Answering RFPs, documenting the software, etc.. It's actually what I applied for before they put me in QA.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

RFP?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Requests for Pussy

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. Also proposal.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

There are some marketing jobs open here right now, but they all require advanced degrees. I'd like to think our marketing department has some vestiges of their souls left (being that we are, ostensibly, a non-profit) but they probably don't.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I was interested in advertising for a while a long, long time ago because it sounded like a creative field. Ben's brother is in it and knows the guy who came up with WAZZZZUUUPPP?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

RFP.

The LA Lt. Gov's office changed that to Request for Results.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ben's brother should seriously maim that person.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so....

First step: Get a job that pays the bills one way or another (bartender at Crew would be great)

2nd step: finish bachelor's degree
and/or get another/advanced degree in something else
-public health
-public policy
-communications

3rd step: take her in your arms and never let her go

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

There was a gigantic WHASSSSSUUUUP banner on the ceiling of the redneck bar in Fremont, Ohio, I was at the other night. There were also no fewer than six Tim McGraw CDs on the jukebox. But the corn fritters were tasty, and a 20 oz. glass of Miller Lite cost $1.88.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Her?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you had a bachelor's degree.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

how can they sell it for $1.88?! Why not a buck fifty or just straight two dollars? $1.88 is weird.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I thought so, too, but we kept a tab, so we didn't have to deal with change in pennies throughout the night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I have almost-a-bachelor's. I am 3 credit hours short (!)

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

""take her in your arms and never let her go"

it's from that song, you know

"dontcha know, step by step/dontcha know step by step, you'll win her love" or something.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I want you to get a job bartending at crew and then get a masters in public health.

There's a seminar offered next semester called "Law and Emotion" and that's had me singing Lost in Emotion all day but with different lyrics.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

THERE IS NO PLACE FOR EMOTION IN LAW. Any questions? End of seminar.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and:

Ben's brother should seriously maim that person.

Seconded.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I second that e-motion.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Lost in Emotion? I always thought it was Fraught With Emotion. We're talking about the "que sera, que sera" song, right?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Debbie Gibson, dude.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK. I mean Lisa Lisa.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

One of my coworkers has the stomach flu, as does one of our subcontractors. NOOOO!!!

Anyway, I would only want to be in advertising if I got to be the Idea Person AND got to pick what I was advertising. I make up jingles all the time. Also, I'm funny. (I'm FUNNNNYYY!!! DON'T YOU DARE SAY I'm NOTTT!!!)

T minus 30 minutes until I leave for a tasting!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Tonight on Lifetime, Debbie Gibson, Dude, the true story of a pop prince

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

No, Lisa Lisa and the Cunt Jam (as Jenny K, my friend when I was working peeling logs and building fences at the US Forest Service called them).

xpost

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

I first heard that song when I was in 7th grade and I have been thinking "fraught with emtion" the whole time.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I was listening to "I Wonder if I Take You Home" by Lisa Lisa and was seriously bothered by how flat she is on it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I WAS IN NEW ORLEANS AT A RITE AID ON MY WAY OUT OF TOWN AND I ASKED THE CASHIER IF THEY HAD AN ATLAS. SHE SAID, "WHAT THAT IS?"

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

I had the Head to Toe single. You know, I just downloaded bunch of LLCJ stuff on a nostalgic trip and GUESS WHAT.. it's not as good as I remembered it. I mean, I would listen to Head to Toe over and over and over again in my bedroom.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=%22lisa+lisa+and+the+cunt+jam%22

Huh.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

WWWWWWAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUPPPPPP!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

WWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAXSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUUUUUUPPPPP?????????!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

WWWWWWAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUPPPPPP!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

SHE SAID, "WHAT THAT IS?"!

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

WHHHHHATTTTHAAAATIIIIIIISSSS1!!!!!!

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

WWWWWWAAAAAAASSSSSSSSSSSSSSUUUUUUPPPPPP!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

She didn't know what an atlas was. So I said, "AN ATLAS" louder. She said, "What that?" and I said "A road map of the United States." She said, "Who dat? Who dat? Who dat say they gonna beat dem Saints?" Then we locked lips and I felt her deep crawfish passion.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

WAAAAAAAAAASAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAABBBBBBBBBIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

(xpost) That reads like a Donald Barthelme story.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

It was pretty funny when the "WAAASABI" version of those ads came out, and this jackass I worked with (the restaurant owner's son) didn't know what it was and decided it meant "Hello" in Japanese. God DAMN that dude was stupid.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry... IS stupid. He is still stupid. I know this.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

I mean... they SAID "Konichiwa" in the fucking ad, didn't they?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to do the whole "Your search - 'wasabi rabbi' - did not match any documents" LOL thing, but it actually did produce one hit, on something called DailyJews.com.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

LOL

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

I have missed two calls from 000-012-3466. Weird.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

It's the Call of the Wild.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

PUSH POLLS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

(I read a lot of news blurbs today about GOP push polling)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

What that is?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

godammit courtney's interviews are long! todays is now at 2.5 hours and yesterday's was 2.75

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I guess they weren't push polls per se, but large-scale robo-calling of voters to discourage them from heading to the polls. Saying they'd be arrested, or misrepresenting who/what was being voted on, things like that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Saying they'd be arrested???!?!?!?!? What the fucking fuck? How is that legal?

Still, what's a push poll?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

A push poll is a political campaign technique in which an individual or organization attempts to influence or alter the view of respondents under the guise of conducting a poll. Push polls are generally viewed as a form of negative campaigning. The term is also sometimes used incorrectly to refer to legitimate polls which test political messages, some of which may be negative. Push polling has been condemned by the American Association of Political Consultants

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I like the orange Flintstones push polls the best.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the link to the "you'll be arrested" thing in The 2006 American Midterm Election Day Thread.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

The bit about the GOP candidates in MD bussing in homeless people to distribute sample ballots indicating that their candidates were actually Democrats was just about the worst thing I have yet heard during this Election Day.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Man, chocolate is scrumptious when it crunches.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

I voted. I sure did voted!

Voting was not that easy. Many shuffling around by pretty dumb people.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:27 (nineteen years ago)

I voted, too! With Jesse! I felt like I was taking my grandfather to the eye doctor or something.

Courtney has set the land speed record for moving to a new city and getting a job. Holy shit!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't vote! i feel like a shit heel! but i did go record shopping and got a free harmonica and ate pizza for the 80th time in the past 3 days. and i will be leaving shortly to go see 3 awesome bands which will be fun.

god, i think my liver is going to file a restraining order against me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, they didn't give out stickers this year so you didn't miss anything.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

I am eating a salami sandwich. My internet connection it at last up and running. I have been torrenting music at a very rapid speed.

I think I could be friends with Nellie McKay. She's just annoying enough. We'd be friends and when she was being annoying, we'd all say of her, "Oh, that's just Nellie being Nellie." And we'd smile because no matter what she does, everyone knows she's ok deep down.

The landlord has, as of 8:10 pm, not turned the heat on yet. I hope this trend continues. I must remember to ask him if there is any way I can turn the heat off if I really need to. There must be something I can do. A knob or something.

― internet downpause (kenan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, is the furnace pilot light lit? That was the problem with our place. At first we thought the thermostat did noooothingggg!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

Xpost

Courtney took Chicago by storm. Tomorrow she's going apartment hunting. And now she's talking about the possibility of moving to London to work (M@an Fin@ncial is based there, it is named after the Isle of M@an).

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

WYCC has election coverage by C0lumbia College students. It's cuet.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, is the furnace pilot light lit?

I don't understand. The heat is on, works just fine. Works wayyyyy too well. And I don't control it. I guess there's a pilot lit somewhere, but not 'round these parts. And there is no thermostat, no sirree.

xxpost Good lord, go Courtney! How awesome! Does she want to live up northside way? The apartment service I used did me right.

― internet downpause (kenan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

You have radiators, right? There should be a knob on them that you can turn off, although ours would leak when we turned them off. So keep an eye on it if you do that.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 02:57 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I just checked all that out. The one in the bedroom is missing the knob. I'll need a monkey wrench or some shit. This should not be my responsibility.

― internet downpause (kenan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, if the biggest issue you have with your apartment is having to use a wrench to turn the radiator on and off, you're way ahead of the game.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

Granted, I know next to nothing about Peraica's views, so Jenny will probably come along and set me straight, but whatever.

Well I hate to say it, but he's kind of a documented homophobe. What tipped me to vote for the admittedly really really lame Stroger. (Should've been Claypool.) Also has some yucky bedfellow history with grade-A Chitown scumbags Betty Loren-Maltese and Fast Eddie Vrdolyak.

― literalisp (literalisp), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost You make a fine point. And I do so love this place.

― internet downpause (kenan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

Man, can't believe Wisconsin passed the anti-gay marriage referendum AND the death penalty one. I hate us right now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 04:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand.

Ah shit, my fault. I thought you were saying that it wasn't on at all, but rereading it I realize that wasn't the case. Your situation sounds like something out of one of my nightmares.

Bart Stupak wins again in Michigan's 1st district.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't think you're off the hook, voters. You're the ones who made this bed and you're going to have to move over so a homosexual couple can sleep in it."

I *heart* Stephen Colbert.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 04:57 (nineteen years ago)

Chanting, "Let us in," Cook County Board president nominee Tony Peraica and dozens of supporters stormed the County Administration Building early today, insisting thousands of votes risked being stolen in his close race with Todd Stroger. Sun Times.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

THe nursing home I voted at had a calendar on the wall with special themes for each day.

Some of those themes included:

Leif Erikson Day
Name That Nut Day
Bologna Day

BOLOGNA DAY.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Name that nut day? That raises so many questions.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Like "can very old people taste the difference between a pecan and a pistachio?"

Saddest Day Award is between Name that Nut and Bologna.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Are they decorating nuts as little people and giving them names? Has someone given them the honor of naming a newly discovered nut? Can old people even [i]eat[/i] nuts?

I imagine a lonely old woman with a shelf full of walnuts with felt feet and googley eyes talking to the attendant: "This is Fred, after my late husband, and this Eva, like Eva Garnder, and these two are Tom and Jerry..." And now I'm sad!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I pictured them having a fiercely competitive taste test.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

I also didn't vote. I feel bad about it! Instead, I went to a tasting and then to see Borat.

The tasting was alright, but somehow I didn't convey to HB that both Nick and I are vegetarian. I mean, I did a long time ago, but we were emailing with someone different then who no longer works there. So then I felt really bad when they brought out this fancy chicken and our salesperson was all smiles saying, "Wow! You won't need dinner tonight!" and we were like "umm... umm... the thing is..."

I thought Borat was pretty hilarious, but also it's the kind of movie I couldn't possibly recommend to anyone for fear that they would hate me afterwards. Also, I didn't realize any of it was REAL. Nick told me that afterwards. I'm sure I wouldn't have enjoyed it so much if I had known.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hey. what's happening to frograbbitmonkey? Why the sad farewell thread?

― internet downpause (kenan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny posted on the admin section that she's too busy to maintain it these days.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

ah. fair enough.

― internet downpause (kenan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

I feel pukey. I thought peppermint tea was supposed to soothe your stomach, not the opposite. WTF.

Anyway, I wonder if nursing homes, at least the nicer ones, aren't actually kind of fun. I mean, usually really old people end up cooped up inside their homes and all alone with just a cat and a tv. At least this way they get to hang out with people their own age without much difficulty. When we used to go visit my dad's mom, there would be six women all sitting in a living room space together chatting away. On the other hand, my dad's mom wasn't one of those people. She just told us, "Don't get old," all the time, groaned alot, and said she wished she were dead. So, never mind.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

In other knews, I know it's going to be somewhat warmer today, but a lady at my bus stop was wearing sandals.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

In other KNEWS... I am pukey and brain dead.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

What's KNEW with you?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I slept last night. Hooray! The heat was off all night, and I turned the ceiling fan on, and closed the windows, and was comfortable. Woo hoo!

― internet downpause (kenan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

no offense to jordan, but wisconsin can suck it. that was really sad.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Tammy Baldwin won. :-D

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Tammy Duckworth lost. :-(

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm speaking to the gay marriage ban & the death penalty.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Illinois Green party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney got 11% of the vote, qualifying the Green party for easier ballot access and participation in the primaries. So that's a pretty cool.

-- Party Time Country Female (rabbitrabbi...), November 8th, 2006 9:34 AM. (pullapartgirl) (later) (link)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I know, Kelsey. It's sad.

I just mentioned it because the benefit we played in Madison was for Tammy.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Leaf & his friend, Sarah, went 'door knocking' in WI yesterday to try & get people out & voting no. they were both tired & frustrated last night. sarah moreso because her family lives in WI.
sometimes i think that madison = all of WI when I know that isn't true. argh!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

but overall, i'm quite happy with the election results nationwide & even statewide. i don't support pawlenty, but hatch wasn't terribly fantastic either. and, the independent candidate i voted for in the 5th district came out just ahead of the republican candidate, so that is a success.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Bob La Follette, we hardly knew ye.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Agreed, Kelsey.

Tammy Baldwin won. :-D

Now maybe we'll get some gigs in D.C.

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― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

It feels weird to not be up on Chicago politics.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats to Amanda's dad. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Did he run & win in Ohio?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Whuzzup OBOE -- you gots a new member!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray for non-paying positions that required tens of thousands of dollars in campaign money to protect OH schoolchildren from God!

Seriously, hooray. I'm happy, regardless of how ugly the campaign got.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

This photo of Santorum's family is still cracking my shit up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

I feel really bad for that girl.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

It's not her fault that her dad's an asshole.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

That photo is so great!!! It almost looks fake or staged or something. Wow.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

I just made it my desktop wallpaper. I'm going to be giggling all morning long.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey -- why did you vote for Tammy Lee over Keith Ellison? I know nothing about either, except that Ellison is becoming the first Muslim representative. And admittedly, it would've been awesome to have Tammy Lee, Tammy Baldwin, and Tammy Duckworth all representing the Midwest.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Tammies in da House.

Or not. I remember this girl who was in a day care with me once, her name was Tammy. She put pink rollers in her doll's hair that I coveted like I had never coveted anything before. I remember seeing the pink rollers in the grocery store and begging my mom for some for my own hair.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I may have mentioned this before, but there was a chart in A Matter of Taste (the baby-name study I was reading a couple months ago) about girls' names given based on the mother's socioeconomic status (income, education, etc.), for most of the 1970s and '80s. Names given disproportionately to babies in high socioeconomic families included Elizabeth and Lauren, whereas the two names at the bottom of the chart were Tammy and Crystal.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

I voted for Tammy b/c when they were giving speeches, she struck me the most. Ellison tried to appeal more to the emotional side of people & Tammy was straightforward & down to brass tacks. She sold herself really well, highlighted her strengths. Plus, she was the candidate most closely aligned with my opinions on 'the issues.'

it's not that i don't like ellison, i just felt he was not the strongest candidate. he's probably my second choice, though. jay pond is my third.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Good on ya for getting into the local politics of your new state.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Any interesting reactions from the right?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Who do I look like, Ned Raggett?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have a question: how important is it for the House or Senate to be MAJORITY one party or another. If the Senate is still majority Republican but it is say 50-48 is that not pretty close and therefore far better for the Dems than 80-18?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

This sort of answers my question, but feel free to shed more light on it.

"""They easily retook control of the House and made enough gains in the Senate to have a chance to cobble together a majority with Republican moderates on some issues."""

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. So sez a friend of mine on mice pace:

"Lots of people wrote me yesterday claiming that they didn't get a sticker when they voted. In response I have started a political action committee (PAC) called "America Wants a Sticker". This PAC will work to ensure that every American that votes will see that action rewarded, not with sound public policies in Washington D.C. and the state houses across our great nation, but with stickers. I firmly believe that perpetually low voter turnout is due to non-uniform sticker policies from coast to coast. If our parents wanted us to do something, did they say "Jacob, if you clean your room, I promise to ballence the family check book and make sure you get to school on time"? No, they said "Jacob, if you clean your room, I will give you a sticker. I feel that same ought be true with our democracy. Call your congressmen/congresswoman. Tell them that Amercia wants a sticker."

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

If the senate is 50-50, then Cheney gets to cast the deciding vote. Happened a lot in '00 and '01, I think.

I just downloaded bunch of LLCJ stuff on a nostalgic trip and GUESS WHAT.. it's not as good as I remembered it.

Whereas LLCJ stuff - as in LL COOL J - is as good.

"Farmers! Farmers! Get ready! I think I'm gonna bomb a town!" (is he saying 'farmers'? I hope so.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, some pundit last night said that having a mere majority in the House is way more important than having a mere majority in the Senate. As long as the Dems have at least one more representative than the Republicans, they have control of what issues are raised, they get to chair committees, etc. In the Senate, however, you really need to have at least 60 seats for the majority to be meaningful.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, Laurel -- Kr voted at a polling place for the first time yesterday (she has previously only voted absentee) and was grumping about receiving a receipt but not a sticker.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

120 Days are good. I am bummed I missed them at the Bortle last weekend.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I got a sticker! We also have paper ballots & are in the minority on that front. Maybe paper ballots & stickers go hand in hand?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

We had paper ballots, too. Connect-the-arrow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

"120 Days are good. I am bummed I missed them at the Bortle last weekend."

Encouraging, I picked up thier album on a whim the other night, but I haven't listened to it yet. From what I've read they sound like they'd be right up my alley.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

My car has a clutch problem. It's going to cost $1200+. There may not be a xmas this year. I'm fucked.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

they get to chair committees
This is the secret Most Important Thing About American Politics acc. to me pops. You have that? You're in business.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Ouch, Dan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

We had paper ballots too, and I got no sticker or receipt. Some people at work were making their own out of post-it notes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, have you had another estimate? Maybe someone else would charge you less for labor. I got totally screwed on labor costs recently and it's enough to make me want to look for another garage.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel's friend OTM. I love the children's chore comparison. It's kind of painfully apt.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm trying to source some reccomendations for other garages now. Now that I actually know what's wrong with it, specifically, it seems like there must be someone who can do it cheaper. Plus, I took it to M|d@s, so they're probably on the high end of the spectrum...

FUCK. I hate my car right now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

If stickers mean that the city is going to spend a bunch of money on sticker estimates, proposals and committees, with lunch and coffee and danishes for the committee members and a committee to do oversight on the committee and determine if they are giving a fair shot to each sticker contract proposal and stickers that cost $5 each to compensate the committee members for their time, I'll pass on the sticker.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

A mechanic I liked in Chicago was O & J Auto. They have kind of weird hours but it's because the guy who owns it has a family. I think his name is Omar? I can't find their number. He was great.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

No mo Rumsfeld.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

haHA! byebye.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I just called O & J... without even seeing my car he quoted me 500 less than Midas for parts & labor.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel's friend is a doll and good on politics but bad on spelling. Still, I'm confident he'll do just fine as our future chief policy-maker/arbiter in the Middle East.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if the Sunni & Shiite voters will get different stickers? Depends on the results of partitioning, I imagine.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I saw Cococoma & Headache City last night and they were both fab. I don't get to straight-out rock and roll shows very much, being an indie schmindie pop sort of girl, but I see the light now.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I enjoyed Cococoma when I saw them at Ronny's. Makes me want to be in a punk band again. Too bad I'm too old and slow to play drums like that anymore.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Naw, Amanda, Daley will just give the sticker commission to a cousin or some shit.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Well then, that's acceptable.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://pictureserver.funnyjunk.com/pics2/rumsfield.jpg

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

"Don't you fucking move those hands."

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I like the fireman.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think it'd be better if it was J.K. Simmons' character from OZ.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, that's awesome! Omar is really nice. Once I stopped by to ask him about my gas tank cover thingy & he just came out & looked at it & gave me the advice I was looking for & that was that.
I wish Omar was in Minneapolis. I literally had just established a relationship with a reliable mechanic & then moved. let him know you were a referral if you take your car in. i think he likes hearing that stuff.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, actually one of the first things he asked me was "who told you about me?" and I had to struggle to remember your last name! Thanks for the suggestion.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

The shop is rather hidden, in a way. Glad you're having good luck with them. I think they are a well kept secret.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

oh chicago i don't want to come back. i'm sure you're glad of that but really, the past 3 days have been so much fun. i just spilled beer on my keyboard.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Where are you? San Diego?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

What a wacky day. In a good way.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

That's intriguing. Say more!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

* Dems win big time
* Rumsfield retires
* Raped by wild boar
* Britney + K-Fed split

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

I like your resume, Nick.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

i'm at laguardia right now, waiting for a delayed flight to boston. i have no cash left, i've over drawn BOTH bank accounts. i have no idea how i'm going to get through the next 48 hours.

but i got about $200 of records. priorities, priorities...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, right right right! I remember now.

You're going to visit your parents, right? They'll feed you, won't they?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of wish I'd voted for Peraica, but the dude is fucking nuts and far to the right. He does come across as knowledgeable and vaguely charismatic, in a self-assured way, so I'm sure (esp in the conservative vacuum of IL politics) he's got a future.

What I really should have done was written-in Forrest Claypool.

― deej.. (deej..), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, That's how I felt after going on that little road trip to New York this past weekend. I didn't want the adventures to end. And now here I am back at work clock-watching and feeding my addiction to bounceout.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

OH! I saw this young man walking down the street today holding a Peraica sign. His chanting went like this:

"No! No-no! That's a no-no!"
to
"No! No! No!"
to
"No for this guy!"
to
"Hell no! HELL NAW!"
to
"Fuck this guy! Hell no!"

I think he was high.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

my "get the fuck out of chicago" jones is rearing it's ugly head again. unrelated but there's a passenger named "kenneth starr" who was just paged to the podium on my flight to boston. i'm checking to see if it's who i don't want it to be.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

To make money you could start charging people to check their email on your computer. Maybe charge extra if they would like you to compose a response to any email they receive.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

i was at the airport bar earlier surrounded by republicans. i'm lucky i'm not arrested. there was some shouting involved. fuck them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man I want to hear that whole story.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

I want to have been there.

Kevin, come back and let's go to some republican bars and reenact.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Now that's got me thinking: What bars could be considered Republican?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sniff the air for fine cigars and rich mahogany.

― internet downpause (kenan), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not going to go into the whole ghting but they're douchebag fucking dickheaded mtoherfucking smallbrained morons and they should be allowed to fly on our nations airways because they probably spread the stupid.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

er, excuse the spelling errors and it should be "they should NOT be allowed to fly..."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

There's a bar that the Clarendon express bus travels past that looks like the kind of bar American Psycho-type yuppies would hang out in, but I can't remember what it's called.

When I think republican bar now, I think redneck. Thanks, family!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

these 'pubs were definitely not redneck. elitist priviledged fucks who got my irish up (and not in a "sounds like prom night" kind of way).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

K's Dugout might be a good contender.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I take that back. There's a bar on Foster as you head west & I can't remember what it's called, but they literally had a sign up for "Freedom Fries" for a LONG time. They also have an Elvis impersonator on Saturdays.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, didn't we all get a mutual upcoming.org signin at some point?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

When I think republican bar now, I think redneck. Thanks, family!

I would too, if I had only lived in Houston. But having lived in Austin, where half the rednecks are old-school Texas Dems, I had to revise that.

But whatever. This is a HUGE red-letter day for Democrats, whether they're drinking from snifters or aluminum cans.

― internet downpause (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 02:41 (nineteen years ago)

so, who is going to see charalambides at the empty bottle on the 18th? i think that i may

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:21 (nineteen years ago)

I saw that. I think I will be there, too. I will see Kelsey on Friday, and Tom and Christina on Saturday. I wonder if they'll recognize me. One of my better friends from college was their roommate for a while, and I was over a lot. I doubt they remember me as a person, though. Probably just as the nebbishy little guy that showed up a lot to hang out with their spindly roommate.

― internet downpause (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:45 (nineteen years ago)

I do not know if I am ashamed or proud of the fact that during my senior year of high school, my friends and I (often including the spindly one) showed up at every Mike Gunn show we possibly could, and showed up as spectacularly fucked-up as we could manage.

― internet downpause (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I'm proud, I just decided.

― internet downpause (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, best news of my day: the 0ptimistic may be opening for a R0ck Star Supern0va ex-contestant in a cuople of weeks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to my upstairs neighbor's iTunes library. Mostly to laugh at her.

"You Don't Have To Call Me Darlin" by David Allen Coe. Mmmm... classy.

All the hits from David Grey. Nothing to add here.

Something off the sound track to Grey's Anatomy... WTF?

"Cat's in the Cradle." Daddy issues ahoy!

A lengthy call from the Jerky Boys. George Michael ahoy!

"One" by Metallica. Left me with a bag of chiiiiips...

"Forever in Blue Jeans" by Neil Diamond. Ok, I love this.

"Something in the Way" by Nirvana, only it's mislabeled as "Depressed". Limewire, obviously.

The "very good beer" song by Homer from the Simpsons. This, I also approve of.

That Gary Glitter song, labeled only, "Jock Jams." Haaa-aaaay!

"Somebody Just Pooped" by Goofy. Oh, that's fun at parties. Who WOULDN'T download that?

"Sweet Home Alabama". I also once heard ol' Neil Young say that nobody likes a hick bimbo.

Something called "Holy Shit It's Christmas."

I can't go on.

― internet downpause (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:28 (nineteen years ago)

To her credit, not even a whiff of Dave Matthews on here. Though I suspect that's because she has all his albums, and does not copy things she owns to her computer.

― internet downpause (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:34 (nineteen years ago)

I do tend to underestimate people, though. My friend M4rcy helped me move in the other day, and I'd never thought much about what she listens to because she's... you know... old. (She's 41.) But once I got my computer hooked up, she sat down and (as payment) started burning discs from my collection. The first thing she burned was 1300 megs of Beefheart. Then she went on to all the Boredoms I have, and by this point I was apologizing for not having more live stuff. And then she started talking to me about music for probably the first time ever, and she was telling me about the Brotzmann show and the show coming up with Thurston Moore leading a band doing a tribute to Sun Ra, and I was thinking the whole time, "Kenan, you really should have asked what kind of music she likes."

― internet downpause (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 07:44 (nineteen years ago)

I like Jock Jams.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I do too, if they include the Queen songs.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Which one, Jordan??

I have another day of doing nothing ahead of me. I might just read more Poisonwood Bible.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Talk to me, kids. Otherwise, it is going to be a very, very long day.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Patr1c3 P1ke. Have you heard of her? I got hooked on the first series for a week but I haven't seen any of this one.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, no I haven't. I'm glad you guys have another show lined up though.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

what bar should we meet people at on Friday? i think the duke of perth is too tiny & crowded for any kind of "gathering" . . .

edgewater? is that too typical of me?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, thanks.

I wish I could read at work. I fell behind in Man with the Golden Arm (even though I really like it).

The Gentleman's Digestive Association has our inaugural meeting tonight (for Blood Meridian).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

leaf loves cormac mccarthy and when i told him what you said (here) about it, he agreed with you completely.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

edgewater? is that too typical of me?

Maybe, but you know it'll work. Last time I was there was for Jesse's going-away soiree in June.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

I just changed the evite so it says 'edgewater.'

actually, i should invite leaf to his own life . . . apparently i forgot to put him on there. he's going to HATE the photo i used.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was wondering about that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I like Edgewater. If it ain't broke...

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Leaf is obv a gentleman.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

That Grey's Anatomy soundtrack is mostly responsible for Snow Patrol's popularity in the U.S.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Lawyers be gettin' sworn in today. What that means to me is that this time next year, it will all be over.............

I feel weird today.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I feel weird today.

if by weird you mean hungover then me too.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I had pizza for dinner last night and then had nutella pizza for pizza.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
you were wondering about the photo or why i didn't invite him to his own life?

yesterday i ran over 3 miles, on a WHIM, and then made black bean veggie burgers from scratch.

i think i'm on some kind of crack that i would like to continue using. this is the life i want.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Aw.

I was wondering how he felt about the tongue-wagging photo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm just at a point of work saturation and social isolation that I am either going to lose my shit completely, or push through it and have some sort of outrageous moment of clarity and THEN lose my shit completely.

Explain me nutella pizza.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

i'm shockingly not that sore today. i think my new health plan is working.

it's not his favorite photo, but it's still up there if that says anything.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Also, call me a WAAAAAAAAAAH-mbulance.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0007NB9G4.03._SS400_SCLZZZZZZZ_V1107939332_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Good for you, Kelsey.

3mma and I went to this joint that tries to do super-authentic Neopolitan pizza, and we got a dessert pizza. For dessert. It was just thin crust, nutella, and another layer of then crust on top. Pretty simple but tasty. I saved most of it and then ate it on the drive home. For pizza.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

3mma??

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I am sorry. But it will all be worth it for the moment of clarity. You'll be a prophet, carrying the news of salvation and employment law reform to street-goers everywhere from your very special corner on Michigan Ave.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

Emm4 is this girl that I am seeing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Aww. Emma is a very nice name, AND she has her own Fieldmice song.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

xpost all the way back to Jenny crying for a waaahhhmbulance... Me too! You just wait, 'enry 'iggins! You just wait.

My face, just like this time last year, has - wham! - overnight become red, leathery, and completely dried out. Last year, it was also often accompanied by total swelling of the face, which fortunately didn't happen today. Anyway, my cheeks feel like they are on fire. Also, I feel like a fattie. Also, I don't feel cute these days. Also, I want fans.

I had coke & pizza last night at the ice factory.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, why face swollen?? Is it a dry weather thing? Do you take a multi-vitamin and/or vitamin E capsules? Use a heavier night cream? Maybe it's all in my brain but when my skin feels like paper and raw, I make a point of eating some nice fatty fish like salmon and a sesame seed bars. Somehow I have the idea that those things contain good oils that my body will use from the inside out.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I am a HUGE proponant of flax seed oil. It's a miracle.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan: I like that name, too -- at least while it's still fairly uncommon for peeps our age -- and am happy you are seeing someone!

Kels: Tell me more about flax-seed oil and its uses.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

What can I do with flax seed oil? Can I cook with it? Do you consume it straight? WHAT GIVES?

I don't know, Laurel. Last year, I went to the doctor a few different times, but we couldn't figure it out. I haven't eaten anything new or used any new face products. I use lotion every morning and night (Dove). I wash my face every morning and night, but I have for years. The weirdest thing is how suddenly this dry red soreness hits.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

My face turned weird and leathery and it turns out I am allergic to various cleaning products. Not facial cleaning products, but like Comet and 409. Could you be allergic to something and then touch your face afterwards? That's what happened to me.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

It actually happened several times and then I finally realized that it always happened after a cleaning binge. From now on I am wearing gloves and a face shield of some kind, like a bandito bandanna.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I love that name too. It's also a fantastic movie.

Amanda, maaayyybbeee. I don't have any new cleaning products though. Also, I clean year-round but this has only happened in early winter. I'm wondering if maybe I need to clean some sort of filter in my apartment? Maybe having the heat on for the first time of the season kicks some stuff out into the air which attacks my face?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

That said, I should get some cleaning gloves just in case.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Amands: whooooah, that's harsh. I mean, those cleaning products are tres dangerous, there's TONS of toxic stuff in them that people don't know about or realize they're putting on their kitchen floors. Have you considered switching to natural/safe cleaners like the Method ones, or just vinegar or bleach water? I still use the modern chemical bonanza ones but every time I feel like I could have done better.

Ummm, Sarah, the filter thing strikes me as quite likely. Could even be mold or mildew that you're allergic to, that's formed in the screen or ducts over the summer? Do you have forced air heat or steam?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

John, when was Emm4 at the height of its popularity, reigning over all other names?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

We have forced air heat. I've only ever removed one vent and there were several cats worth of hair under it. Most of the vents are up high on the walls. Also, the humidifier is right by my bed. Maybe I need to clean it with something stronger than water...

So far on my To Do list:
* Invest in some cleaning gloves
* Clean vents
* Clean out the humidifier with Something... vinegar?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Also, maybe I should move the humidifier to somewhere else in the room.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I got a second opinion on my car, and it is $300 less! Thank you Kelsey! I owe you a beer or five.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

The only reason I mentioned the cleaning products was that you said "leathery" -- my face was distinctly rough and leathery, which is decidedly unlike how it normally is. And you have such nice skin, S, that it's probably alarming when it's not nice. Another thing I did to help was apply some steroid cream that we had lying around for something else -- maybe another weird rash or something.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Flax Seed Oil:
Helps to regulate various systems in your body b/c it helps your cells be more efficient & make better use of water in your body. At least, I think this is what my health/nature lady told me. All I know is that it has Omega 3's, which us vegetarians don't get much of since our fish consumption is little to none. It helps regulate a woman's menstrual cycle. It does all kinds of great things.

You should NEVER cook with it as heating it up will destroy all healthy properties. I mix mine (about a tsp or so) with chocolate soy milk & shot it down. You can use it in fresh salad dressings if you like & eat it that way. I have yet to try that, but I bet it's tasty. John Robbins has a flax seed dressing recipe on his web site.

Cleaning products:

Now I'm stepping on a soap box. I realize this. BUT, we live in TOXIC environments. The inside of our homes can be more toxic than the outdoors because they lack the natural sunlight (which breaks down a lot of toxins) & the ventilation required to rid our homes of toxins.
Cleaning your home with natural products can be cheap & easy. I basically use two major things: Dr. Bronner's & Borax.
Borax is primarily made of boron & can be found in your laundry section of your grocery store. The Jewel has it. Whole Foods has it. It's a mild abrasive, so it's great for cleaning out your toilet bowl, sinks, countertops, ovens, etc. You could probably use baking soda the same way, actually. I think that Borax is more antiseptic (naturally) so it's better for getting rid of the germs.
Vinegar is fantastic for this as well. Vinegar kills 99% of bacteria. Vinegar is wonderful for adding to Borax for making an antibacterial scrub, but a lot of folks use it on windows & glass. The smell can be overwhelming for me, which is why I use Dr. Bronner's. It's scented naturally with essential oils & lately I've been hooked on the Tea Tree oil one for the antibacterial properties but I've also used lavendar & eucalyptus.
There is absolutely no need for those god-awful chemicals. i have found that after almost a year of cleaning naturally, i notice more often now how irritating conventional cleansers are. they are too harsh (although I am not someone who prefers everything to be absolutely germ free b/c i think a few germs here & there are healthy for us).

Okay. Sorry. I just feel really strongly about this stuff on a personal & environmental level.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

I am not scared of germs -- I am scared of my slimy shower. I use Dr Bronners on my body, but never thought to use it to clean the floor. Hm.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the compliment, Manda. and the explanation, Kels.

I think I still have some face rash cream from last year, so I'll check and see if it's still good. I'll also invest in some flax seed oil.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

John, when was Emm4 at the height of its popularity, reigning over all other names?

Years Emma was in the top 10: 1880-97, 2002-05.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Oops, didn't googleproof.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't know they made non-body soap either.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's all the same? You're supposed to use it for everything, even shampoo.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Does she know about ilx, jordan?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

borax will scrub your shower slime away.

the only thing with natural products is that they often require a bit more 'elbow grease' since there aren't chemicals in there to do a lot of the breaking down for you.
according to the new blue cross/blue shield ads, this can count as a workout if you do it three times a day for 10 minutes each time.

i use the dr. bronners you can use in the bath, but they do have some version of it in the laundry section for laundry stuffs. i think it's called 'sals suds' or something like that?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

No, she doesn't, thank god.

Thx John. I'm surprised that it was in the top 10 so recently.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

sorry to derail into the world of cleaning jordan. emma is a lovely name & how exciting for you to be seeing someone! do you always date women with great names?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, right now it's the #2 girls name in the U.S., behind Emily.

borax will scrub your shower slime away.

I like. Sexy time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, right now it's the #2 girls name in the U.S., behind Emily.

Which is why I said "while it's still uncommon" -- because in a few years, boy howdy, they'll be taking over.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

No, no, please de-rail, my business doesn't need to take over the thread. Yes, it is a fun & sexy time for me, carry on. :>

do you always date women with great names?

Yes, this is a requirement for me. Except for "Amy" and "Stacy". There is an Evelyn back there though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not a fan of Evelyn, to be honest. I went to grade school with an Evelyn, and she was pretty cool, but the name just sounds too much like an old witch to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not a fan of Evelyn, to be honest. I went to grade school with an Evelyn, and she was pretty cool, but the name just sounds too much like an old witch to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh oh, Bon Ami is a good scrubber, too. And safe/inert.

Sarah, I think cleaning that stuff out is an EXCELLENT idea. Run vinegar through dehumidifier, yeah, and then do another run of clean water to rinse (much like de-scaling one's coffeemaker).

I looooove vinegar for disinfection needs AND it's good for your hair & body, too! Bodies naturally keep the pH of skin slightly acidic, as a first defense against germs that land on us, but soap and related cleaning products are actually BASES and defeat that end. A quick rinse in a diluted vinegar solution can restore a better pH balance on skin (good/safe ratio would be 1 or 1.5 cups in a full bathtub). Plus one cup of vinegar to two cups of water is an awesome rinse for hair that's accumulated product residue: pour it all into yr hair and work it in, then wash and condition normally. Will also REMOVE HAIR DYE, so beware.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, it's totally a grandma name.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hey sorry for the double-post. QUESTION: Where can one get a cheap yoga mat in this godforsaken city? I have one that I got from Whole Foods -- I don't remember how much it cost, but I imagine they can be found elsewhere for less.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

CitraSolv is good stuff, too. Baking soda doesn't rinse off for shit, so it's not as good for scrubbing. I like to use vinegar when I clean the bathroom and CitraSolv when I clean the kitchen. I have always kept a can of old fashioned Comet around, but I think I will try the Borax.

Another good one for shower slime is this Sun and Earth (I think?) brand shower spray with hydrogen peroxide and citrus oil that smells nice and gets that weird orange slime out of the cracks in our tile.

John - Target, surely.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Are you thinking of Eve, the original evil temptress?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

There's a wholesale exercise equipment store on Elston just north of Webster. I don't know if they have yoga-specific mats, but I would bet they have at least a few different options that might work.

xxpost

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, you might be required to buy a dozen mats. But then you could start a mat ring and deal black-market yoga mats to your classmates.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I suspected Target but wasn't sure. Kr and I signed up to do yoga at 10 AM on Sundays for the next six weeks! It's thru the Discovery Center, which is also the place where you can sign up for classes on unleashing your secret sexual energy and reading tarot cards and cooking with mushrooms and stuff like that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

I took a "Neighborhood Tour" through the Discovery Center which turned out to be a four-hour trip on a SCHOOL BUS guided by a man who wanted us all to take his real estate development course. Horror. WHORE-OR.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe John's yoga instructor will give sales pitches in a calming, low voice while everyone is in a meditative state.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

oh no

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I actually really like Eve as a name, but once you add the "-lyn" it ruins it for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Some of us are taking a co-worker out to lunch (he is endearingly doofy and proudly redneck, writes books about tractors, etc.), and...we are going to Hooters.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Evil Lynn

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

What about Evie a la the folk pop songstress who sang to children?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

OH yeah, I also totally luuuuurve hydrogen peroxide for clearing up (non-fungal) skin irritations. It's drying, though.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hahah, Sarah, my mother loves Evie and has the piano songbook somewhere, and tapes of her albums. "Come on, Ring Those Bells" (a Christmas song) stands out in memory.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

We had a few of her records growing up.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

TS: Evie vs Melanie.

I vote Melanie.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Because I have never heard Evie. And I like Melanie.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, if you're going to H00ters you know you've got to get teh wings.

I used to date a Melanie. She was crazy.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

We just heard a story in class about an attorney who spanked his secretaries and got the nickname "Spanky" in the legal community.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

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― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I will, Dan. Even though I had wings on Tuesday ('cause the band meets for wings every Tuesday) and may have more tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been, and probably never will, but I have heard good things about H00ters wings.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Melanie could really belt it! She was a little bit Crazy Cats-and-Caftans Lady, but her voice is interesting and weird and I like it.

Will I see any of you at the Brotzmann show tonight? Did anyone see him at the Hideout last night with V5?

Hooters wings are grossly OVERRATED.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

are the hooters overrated?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I went to Hooters once with my (male) boss back in VA, his buyer's agent (also male), and my boss's 4 year old daughter. The busty waitress kept leaning over our table and talking baby talk to his daughter.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna try to GIS The Hooters (the band) but stopped before it got me in trouble at work.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I can't remember the name of the dudes in that band but I do remember that they were brothers, one was blonde and the other had brown hair.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

They were from Philadelphia! We in the Delaware Valley were aware of the Hooters long before they blew up with that stupid song. They were named after that melodica that they played.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, I just ate a fun-size Kit Kat, and now I want MORE.

I have never heard of Evie or Melanie. Are they anything like Buffy St. Marie, who I've never actually heard, either?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hooters wings are grossly OVERRATED.

NOOOOOO LIED TO FOR SO LONG

I could never love wings from anywhere other than Buffalo anyway. My family would kill me.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Confession: My mom and I LOVED THE HOOTERS. We bought every tape of theirs that we could find. That equaled: 2. But we listened to them incessantly.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thehooters.de/miscfotos/band4.jpg

Cower before their overuse of mousse.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I've got a brand new pair of rollerskates.

What a coincidence. I have a penis.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Blowie and the Hooters

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dang, they weren't brothers, I just thought so because of their similar use of mousse. I liked them.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I only come here to bitch nowadays. Here's today's whinge, and I'll make it short: sore throat gone, but now ears filled with fluid. Random, cold nature of universe never so clear.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Melanie is nothing like Buffy St. Marie. Sometimes she sounds like Joanna Newsom's mother and other times she sounds like Janis Joplin. She goes from one to the other within a couple of words.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

David Uosikkinen? I smell a Finn!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

OK, what is Buffy St. Marie like? I appreciate your vast knowledge of non-rock vocalists, Amanda.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard that many songs, and I haven't heard them in a long long time, but I thought -- and I could be wrong!-- she was sort of like Claudine Longet-- a soft-singing, vaguely folky, but mostly easy-listening type. I could be totally wrong about that, though.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Claudine Longet! Man, you kill me!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

By which I mean, that ref only underscores my envy, since I have no idea who she is, either! Being serious here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard of Claudine Longet, and her wikipedia entry is pretty damn interesting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno. I would place them both in the category of '60s ladies who were neither true soul goddesses nor were they trying to be and they weren't Joan Baez or Judy Collins type "folkies" -- they were like, I dunno, soft-focus folkies.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

The name sounds sort of familiar, but then I wondered if I was thinking of the Longines Symphonette.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Or maybe:

http://www.baseballcardproject.com/Topps/R/1979/574.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

That's her! JaymC OTM.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.edsmart.com/stamps/images/3426.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.overstock.com/f/102/3117/8h/www.overstock.com/images/products/muze/books/0590227637.jpg http://images.quizilla.com/S/swishthetoad/1048379304_resclaudia.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://files.myopera.com/rato53/albums/72543/thumbs/Claudette%20Colbert%2000.jpg_thumb.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Kenan. I'm sorry you still feel crappy.

My face got worse (!). It's amazing. I look like I've been burned. How could it get worse when I'm not at home with all those diggity darn toxins?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

They could still be on your hair/clothes/hands?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Buffy sounds exactly like what you'd expect from a folk singer on an old record. I love that kind of sound, but she might be iffy on you, J.

I agree with everything Amanda said about her.

Has anyone else heard the new Joanna Newsom thing? I overheard it in a stationary store. I said to Leaf, "Wow. This sounds like Joanna Newsom singing some kind of opera or something." I then asked the clerk if it was Joanna Newsom. Yes, yes it was. It's crazy.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

maybe work toxins are worse?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Just a thought -- assuming that's even the problem in the first place! But either way, cleaning filters & appliances will give you cleaner air to breathe. My parents have forced-air heat and it spreads dust like NOTHING I've ever seen.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've been washing my hands quite a bit. I don't think I should get naked at work, but that's probably it. I'm going to try putting some antibacterial gel on my hands & arms.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

maybe take an oatmeal bath later? or a warm epsom salt bath? the salt might draw out things but oatmeal is more soothing . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Joanna Newsome but didn't like her -- too frail and faffy and thready-voiced for me. :( Amanda and I might finally disagree about something!

Sarah, try a steroid cream, as someone (Amanda?) said earlier. You probably need to remove the irritant but also give your skin some TLC and soothing protetion. Can you get to a drugstore from where you are?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. I can go after work. I'm going to try the oatmeal bath! By tomorrow, I'll be irritant-free, both in mind and home, and smelling faintly of oatmeal.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

both in mind and home
Hmm... I'm not so sure about that. It would be nice, but I meant to say body and home.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

My parents have forced-air heat and it spreads dust like NOTHING I've ever seen.

Also, forced-air can be very very very drying. It always fucks up my sinuses and skin.

Could you just be drying out, Sarah? (Admittedly, I am late to this conversation so if that option has been explored... ignore me)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

You can buy oatmeal bath stuff (I believe Aveeno makes some) or just toss oatmeal in your bath. maybe a sachet made from cheesecloth so the oatmeal doesn't clump up?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone else heard the new Joanna Newsom thing?

Yar, and I like it. I can burn you a copy and give it to you when you come visit, K. Along with anything else you might like.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

My skin gets drier with each passing winter, it seems. It doesn't swell up or anything, but I've got rough patches all over, and my shins itch like crazy. I just tend to slather on the lotion more than usual.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Please do, John!!! Throw anything you think I'd like along with it. You know what I go for.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Nick gets crazy crocodile skin.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

he probably gets it b/c he doesn't eat at hooters enough.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Remind me what Joni albums you have, Kels?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, M D-down for two nights at the G. Mill in December, hey!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 9 November 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

My skin has been getting really dry this fall too, to the point of rashiness. I'm tryin to moisturize y'all, I'm tryin.

Hooters was, well, what I expected. The wings were pretty decent. Our socially awkward birthday boy successfully fended off all attempts by the waitresses to make him hula hoop or do other stupid shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hey!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hey!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

to make him hula hoop

What?

Incidentally, I have a friend in Madison who makes his own hula hoops.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Help for dryness: put on lotion as soon as you get out of shower, while skin is still damp. Buy a thicker lotion or one for "severely dry skin". Use a gentler cleanser, or alternate normal soap with Cetaphil or something innocuous. Exfoliate regularly. Humidify living/sleeping space if possible.

What am I forgetting?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Our socially awkward birthday boy successfully fended off all attempts by the waitresses to make him hula hoop or do other stupid shit.

Haha awesome. I bet at first this only encouraged them more, but as it went on his awkwardness overwhelmed even the most energetic of the waitresses, leaving them bewildered at the abject nerdery.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Out of what, John?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I would spot-treat rashy or scaly areas with vitamin E and a clean cotton glove or Tshirt or etc wrapped over the affected area to keep it warm (and keep the smeary oil off anything important). Don't forget that your 6-8 hours of sleep is an EXCELLENT time to coat yourself in the hermetic seal of lotion and let it all soak in.

OH THAT REMINDS ME: Sarah, maybe try putting on a clean pillowcase tonight, one that hasn't been sitting out in the house...?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Jaymc, if you don't already like/know them, I think you would like Pentangle. Don't be afraid of their vaguely Satanic-sounding name -- they're jazzy folk in a vein that sounds like something you would like. I have been meaning to mention this to you for months.

I have to use that super mega cream that's made of petroleum if I don't want to dry out in the winter. I get the generic kind.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dan OTM.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Out of what, John?

No idea. I haven't seen him in 8 years, and this hula-hoop thing is a new hobby for him.

Jazzy folk def. sounds like something I would like. Thanks, Amanda!

Laurel = http://i2.ebayimg.com/03/c/00/c1/c6/ef_9.JPG?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

OH, also everyone probably already knows this but hot showers are super drying. Try the warm kind for a while (altho I know when you are bone-cold in a cold house, the hot HOT shower is often beautiful).

Pillowcases are my nemesis, cos I don't wash my hair that often and stuff collects grease. I change pillowcases about twice as often as the other sheets, buy extra sets of 'em.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking the other day that I should buy this:

http://www.singers.com/jazz/jazzimages/LambHendRossHottest200.gif

AKA the Manhattan Transfer it's okay to like.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Annie R0ss was at that jazz festival we played overseas. If she had it, she ain't got it no more.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

I thought she had it in Short Cuts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm big on changing pillowcases and even on sneaking my pillow into the industrial size washers at the laundromat.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

She was in Superman III and overdubbed Britt Eckland's singing in Wicker Man! I had no idea. I would have asked her about that stuff, and she would have ignored me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I'm listening to some live Pentangle performances on YouTube, and it's pretty cool but maybe a bit too madrigal-style for my tastes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I love washing pillows.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

As my dentist always tells me, I have very healthy saliva glands.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

can you wash down pillows in the washer? i should probably take them in if I can't . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: i started taking a hula hoop exercise class on saturdays.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Do you get dizzy?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I love connecting things.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

I like illuminating them.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

fuck washing a pillow

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, no doubt. I don't think I'm an outright SLOB or anything, but when Jenny said something yesterday about being lucky to clean the toilet every two weeks, I thought "you're supposed to clean it more often than that??"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Nobody thinks they're an outright slob. It's like how everybody is a good driver.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have this thing about hygiene.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I read somewhere that after, like, 3-5 years of regular use, a feather pillow's weight is about half composed of shed skin and body cells. I can be pretty oblivious but that grosses me right out, considering the number of mites and things that thrive on skin.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

HALF?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

You can use pillowcases, folks!

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Just kidding, but seriously who washes pillows???

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

You have GOT to be kidding! I don't even want to tell you how long I've had this pillow . . . I love it because it's mushy!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

My mattress won't fit in the washing machine. ;_;

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.realtechnews.com/posts/1969

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, reading suggests that washing pillows shortens their lifespan overall, cos you can't replace the natural oils in the feathers that give them body and resilience, apparently.

From Yahoo questions (and I've heard stories of my great-grandma washing down this way):

"Before modern detergents and washing machines... this is how my grandmother used to wash feather pillows.
She would open the seams of the pillow, remove the feathers and hand wash them in a bucket in mild shaved Ivory Soap flakes (NOT detergent), rinse in several washes of warm water, then put them back into a clean, washed pillowcase ticking, sew the end and line dry it. She fluffed the pillow many times during drying outside.

Modern detergents strip off the feather's oils. It's ok to use a modern detergent on the outside of the pillow after the feathers are removed... add some white vinegar to help remove the cat urine odor, or use a product like Odor-Ban (sold in gallons at Sam's Club). You can use Odor-Ban on the feathers too as you clean them separately.

You can also take the pillow to the dry cleaner, but no guarantees there. Best actually is to throw out the pillow and buy new, and get your cat checked at the vet for urinary tract infections."

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey, stop ruining life.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I have a feather pillow. It's probably synthetic.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I know this isn't all about me... but... If you had a feather pillow, you'd know, right?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

i know i have a feather pillow.

Sorry to ruin life, Jordan. Have a cookie, okay?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

don't eat a cookie with olestra, though. you'll have anal leakage.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, yes? Unless it was one of the down-substitute pillows that's made for allergy sufferers. I think my duvet isn't real down, tho it seems/feels like it is.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh i see what you're saying, sarah. sorry. um, i guess i don't know. i feel like it would be obvious with regards to a pillow filled with cotton or batting or some kind of fiber, but synthetic down pillows feel quite close to "the real thing."

if your pillow still has tags on it, they may know.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just really sleepy, and all this pillow talk was making me more sleepy, but now I feel like I will die if I sleep on Ol' Dirty (my pillow).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I bought a feather pillow a couple months ago and really can't get used to it -- my head feels like it's sinking into it and pushing all the feathers out to the sides.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I think being quickly smothered by a nice, clean pillow would be an ok way to go.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

John, you might prefer one with more "fill", meaning more down per cubic inch. Also, you can get various percentages of down/white feather mix, which is a little stiffer, or down on one side and feather on the other, for a base of support plus a soft top, or a baffled pillow with a feather or foam core and down around the outside (again for softness). There are many MANY OPTIONS!!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I KNOW, BECAUSE I BOUGHT NEW DOWN PILLOWS ABOUT TWO MONTHS AGO, FEAR MY RESEARCH!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, you can wash a feather pillow unless you are planning on passing it down through generations of your family. Just take the ticking off of it and make sure you dry it all the way before zipping it back in.

Washing pillows is no big deal. You just toss them in at the laundromat in the big washer. It sure beats buying new pillows ever however many years.

If your cat has PEED on your pillow, just get a new one.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

I've never really bought the pillow-smothering scenes you see in movies.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/141481~Pillow-Talk-Posters.jpg

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

i knew what you were saying, Jordan. I just wanted a reason to write about leakage of the anal kind.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

I feel a little sick. I've NEVER washed my pillows.

There.

I said it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I also only wash pillows every six months/year when it's time for the Big (Semi? Bi?)Annual Wash Everything That Isn't Tied Down Event.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I AM NO GOOD WITH OPTIONS!!! I freeze up when faced with multiple varieties of a given consumer good, esp. when they all have different prices.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey, it's fun. Try it! It's like awesome clean sheets feeling but totally eXXXtreme.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I've noticed, and that's perfectly valid. But hey, you don't like your own pillows, so YMMV. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

I freeze up when faced with multiple varieties of a given consumer good, esp. when they all have different prices.

In Soviet Russia, different prices have YOU

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess I just figure it's something that I have to live with, like shoes never fitting me or whatever. No biggie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

I will! This weekend! Can I literally just throw them in the wash? I use natural detergent which is mild to start with, can i use that? also, can i put them in the dryer? do i need to put a tennis ball in there for fluffiness?

I'm totally going on a rampage this weekend & washing anything that crosses my path. beware hubcap! beware pancake!

(they hate baths)

does jeff know that he married the most stellar woman Of Our Time?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey, are you sure you don't just feel sick from talking about anal leakage?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

If your cat has PEED on your pillow, just get a new one.

Yeah, I'd probably kill my cat if she did that too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

(I'm trying to take up Kevin's slack in the peanut gallery since he's not here, but damn it's hard)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

anal leakage

I'm so glad we're all friends here.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

It's your choice to live in discomfort or force your brain to wrap around the logic problem, depending on how much you value that particular branch of life-quality/comfort. This is how I feel about 401Ks and taxes and etc but no one has offered to let me off the hook, sadly. And I doubt I'm qualified/disposed to marry an accountant.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone can marry an accountant.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

And not commit murder/adultery in short order?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh God, don't even get me started about 401Ks. That reminds me, I have to go pick up some benefits forms.

do i need to put a tennis ball in there for fluffiness?

Tell me more. I am intrigued.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

my cousin is an accountant! she's great!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kels, I just pop mine in the washer. I have successfully washed all of our pillows EXCEPT... one foam pillow that just ain't quite right since the first time I washed it. But the feather one, the other foam one, and the two fake down ones (primaloft or something) come out smashing. I never put tennis balls in the dryer, but that is probably a good idea. If I can, I put the feather one out in the sunlight to make sure it's all the way dry and then it's all sunny and nice smelling. Sometimes the feather one smells a little funky (like wet feathers) until it dries completely.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

403b for me!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yr supposed to put a couple clean tennis balls in the dryer when you dry anything down so that it stays fluffy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I have an IRA since I haven't had a job with retirement benefits in years.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

An IRA that was born when my 401K from my last job with retirement benefits rolled over into it and that I have thus completely ignored ever since, that is.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

My head hurts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

Roll that pain into an IRA and stick in the wash with a tennis ball.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny: you're the best. I'm totally washing the heck outta some pillows this weekend.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Reading this thread just made me sick.

PS -- I was afraid it would be too madrigal-y for you, but it was worth a shot. I like that shit a lot.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Now let's talk about Rock Hudson and Doris Day.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Roll that pain into an IRA and stick in the wash with a tennis ball.

And then there were rofflez.

xpost - okay. Rock Hudson was gay.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Doris Day wasn't really all that cute.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

"Pillow Talk"... more like Pillow Biter! Zing!

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Doris Day never did it for me, either. Now Grace Kelley... hubba hubba.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Childhood fantasy... during the scene in My Fair Lady where Liza is screaming and carrying on because they're making her take a bath, I would imagine her naked, and relish the thought that under her clothes she was all grubby and tomboy-ish.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'll take "Movie Stars That Kenan Would Schtup" for $300, please, Alex.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

OMG I hate Grace Kelly. In "To Catch a Thief" I like the common feisty village girl SO MUCH MORE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

I love her in Rear Window, wearing her crazy high-dollar dress and arguing with Jimmy Stewart that YES SHE CAN CROSS THE HIMALAYAS.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

I need to see more old movies. Kr and I were at the video store a few weeks ago because neither of us had any Netflix movies at home, and she scotched my suggestion to get Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (We got Antonioni's The Passenger instead and both fell asleep inside of 45 minutes.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

once when i was temping i was SO BORED & had no internet but had windows paint program. so i made a comic panel about a seal named Mr. Whiskers who found a peppermint candy on the ground & rolled it into his 401K.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

That's some katamari shit right there.

I love MS Paint.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

ha! Someone just pointed me to this blog. It's horrific, but I can't look away. It's like some terrible accident.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:00 (nineteen years ago)

Am I missing something?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

That's not like nails on a blackboard to you?

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

sigh.

I know. I'm a big meanie. But people who write like that... fuck the writing, people who take themselves that seriously... grrr.

But then, I size up people's personalities based on their iTunes playlists.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

Today:

- I became re-employed at good old Snatch 35 (The Chum Bucket).
- Courtney and I went apartment hunting with The Apartment People. She will be living RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM JEWEL at 4432 Sheridaan where it meets Broadway and Montrose. Great location, good price, nice apartment.
- We have a LOT of TV to watch (2 Losts, Grey's Anatomy and all the Arrested Development we can fit in).

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

The blog is called "awfullyserious." :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

That blog is pretty bad. I hope it's written by a gothy senior in high school.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

That's okay, Kenan, eventually she'll grow up. Well, she'll either grow up or die, and either way, we win.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

There's a lyricism to it that I like, nice and rhythmic. Maybe I just have a high tolerance for that sort of thing having sat through lots of friends' poetry readings in college.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's hard to stop reading! It's embarrassing, like when people on the bus start quoting and explicating Smiths lyrics.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

I can't find the archives...?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 9 November 2006 23:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Courtney lives right in between us!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:29 (nineteen years ago)

On the way home I saw a woman eating ranch dressing out of a wide-mouth bottle with her fingers.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:34 (nineteen years ago)

I actually thought "why isn't she just drinking it?"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:35 (nineteen years ago)

Was she homeless/crazy/hallucinating crudite?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know! She might have been talking to herself a bit, I couldn't tell.

I bet she was saying "mmmmm... ranch."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:45 (nineteen years ago)

It really wasn't so much the eating raw ranch that got me, it was the method of eating it. Oh well.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:47 (nineteen years ago)

Crudite?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 10 November 2006 00:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I had to look it up too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

Crew-dit-tay

Look at this little piece of incestuous Christian oppression disguised as loving god: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYX-N3Ms7hQ

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 01:10 (nineteen years ago)

It's that kind of thing that makes me glad I'm male. We get to be slutty any old time!

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

401k's are great.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 10 November 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

But what about 403b's?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

I know what a crudite is, but I didn't see how that applied to a crazy person. Oh wait. She was hallucinating that she was eating crudites.

Here's Courtney's apartment.

http://static.flickr.com/106/293358370_925b616f66_o.jpg

It has a nice mantel.
http://static.flickr.com/118/293358368_ba0ae3e4c8_o.jpg

The view.
http://static.flickr.com/109/293358366_14d27e7f75_o.jpg

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:06 (nineteen years ago)

Top left. Cool windows.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

Kewl. <@:)

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

do you have pics of the outside of your place?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:11 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago Bulls are hurting me in my feelings area tonight.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Friday everyone! I'll be seeing you in a week!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 10 November 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse -- I do have pics of the outside of my place, but not with me. It would be just as easy for you to come by, really. I'm about 6 blocks up Broadway.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, how is face today?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

For Kels (from a thread that lists all the boards ever created on ILX):

57 - Chairman Meow--best cat name? (deleted)

I remember this: Someone wanted to start a thread with this name, and accidentally created a board instead!

-- mark grout (mark.grou...), November 10th, 2006 1:46 PM. (mark grout) (later) (link)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I have no problem with that. It probably IS the best cat name, and therefore deserved an entire board.
-- teh_kit returns! (kittenslikemil...), November 10th, 2006 1:48 PM. (g-kit) (later) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

I like the name "Robocop" for a dog. I think Jenny came up with that.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I just encountered a super stinky crazy man on the train. He ran in as the doors were closing (although I did learn from him that if you want to get on a train as the doors are shutting, you can't just stick your arm in between them like on an elevator. You have to grab and push them back open again) and then proceeded to hang from the plexiglass panel between the seats and the doors and shout/babble incoherently and smell incredibly bad.

xpost - no, somebody on Metafilter has a rabbit named Robocop. It wasn't an original, just an opportunistic adoption.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I blame society. Society made him what he is.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

More car bullshit this morning. Now they want to replace the master cylinder. They're not charging me labor, but they want another $130 for parts. WTF can I do? The worst part is I went there intending to pick the thing up and drive it to work, and then I had to go back and get on the train, and because of that I couldn't catch the Metra from downtown and had to take the slow-ass 6 bus and be an hour and 20 minutes late.

I feel a very strong desire to drink whiskey.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

That sucks, Dan. I hate car stuff.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

You should drink whiskey right now. Don't fight it. Whiskey solves all your problems. Whiskey understands you.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

This is a list of good things today:

Neil Young, On the Beach
The Douchebags thread on ILX
Coffee
xpost - Whiskey

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Coffee with whiskey in it.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Words of wisdom from my dear friend, A. Rolland:

"You don’t acquire a taste for whiskey. Life beats you down. Then Whiskey finds you and you listen to Whiskey and you know everything he tells you is true."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Julia and I were drooling last night at the Bailey's commercial with the new flavors -- I can't remember them both, but one has a hint of caramel, and I was like, "Ooooh." But then -- and I will never get this -- they show someone pouring over ice and drinking it straight. The madness of this ad campaign has gone on long enough, I think. Everyone with any alcoholic beverage experience whatsoever knows that that is NOT how you drink Bailey's, and doing so will make you look like some kind of trendy yuppie fucktard. Put it in coffee. It's happy there.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Similarly: amaretto.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

There are commercials for hard liquor now?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

A favorite, simple concoction: amaretto, Kahlua, and warm milk. Add fireplace and soft love jams, and stir.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Well, liqueurs, anyway. I don't know that I've seen them for anything over say, 60 proof.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

No, there are those, too. Like those stupid Tanqueray ads.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

one is caramel, and one is vanilla. the bailey's flavors, that is.

OMG AMARETTO CONCOCTION.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

I was under the impression that commercials for hard liquor and for cigarettes were banned from television and had to be relegated to clever spot-the-Absolut-bottle and guess-what's-under-the-Crown-Royal-bag print ads.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Commercials for hard liquor hard liquor were legalized about 2 years ago. Are there not vodka ads?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha

i only meant to say hard liquor once.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

You see liquor ads after 10 and on cable.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

But but but...the AMARETTO SOUR!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, there's so much sugar and flavoring in it, it hardly counts as alcohol...but that doesn't mean we can CAST IT COLDLY ASIDE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

The amaretto sour is indeed a wonderful thing.

For girls.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

;)

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

I just looked it up -- they were legalized in 2002. You can tell how much TV I watch.

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

i love amaretto sours with a great passion. i don't care what's in them.

xp pbbbth.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Say what you like, sweetheart, this girl drinks vodka. But I have to credit the amaretto sour for giving me my start in this business, y'know?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I was shocked when I first saw a hard liquor ad.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

I just don't care for sweet and sour mix, is all. There are lots of colorful "girly" drinks that are kind of un-fuck-with-able, though. Like vodka and cranberry juice. Simplicity itself, and if you think real hard, you can rationalize that it's good for your urinary tract.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I have no problems with amaretto sours, conceptually, but I dislike sour mix.

A regular at the redneck bar where I worked would always order a Miller Lite and an amaretto straight up. Fucking redneck.

I was sort of stunned w/r/t the hard liquor ads, too. I just grew so accustomed to not seeing them that it felt like I stumbled across someone doing something deeply, undeniably wrong, like if you find your uncle crouched behind the couch eating dog food right out of a can, or something.

I forgot about those stupid Tanqueray ads.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of like the one where people start floating around the room chasing bubbles of the floating liquor, though. For some reason I find their zero-grav fantasy compelling.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I think I've had an amaretto sour a grand total of twice. It was good, though, as I recall.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, something tells me there's a lot we don't know about your childhood.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe it's the way whenever family issues come up, she always says she'd rather email the conversation than discuss it on-board? Just a hunch!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.worth1000.com/entries/259000/259020XDFC_w.jpg

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ha!

I have some weird uncles (mormons, preachers, thieves, hornballs, and pederasts), but unless I've suppressed it deeeeeeply, none of them ever hid behind furniture to eat pet food.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Although I can think of a couple cousins that would have.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking of the guy in that Errol Morris episode -- Julia knows the one -- who reports on eating pet food. Dog food, he says, isn't so bad, almost nearly palatable. But cat food is "nasty". Full of little bones and spiny things and foulness.

The last two bags of dry cat food I've bought have contained a small sample of Fancy Feast brand cat food. Not only does kitty LOVE it, but it smells much better than regular wet cat food. I can't say why.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha.

i love that episode. i think he described cat food as "prickly".

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

What film is that from?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

i was buying cat treats for the cats i live with and looking at reviews, since my fluffballs are finicky bastards.

there was some pet owner who tried one particular brand of treat and said it really did taste like chicken. i don't believe i'll ever be that devoted to a pet.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

an episode of "first person" called "once in a million trillion"

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

An Interview with Rick Rosner
What do you do when things don't quite go your way? Give up? Move on? Try something new? Not if you're Rick Rosner. Obsessed with "getting it right," Rick went back to high school. Not once, not twice, not three times. Four separate times. In fact, he kept going back until he was 34 years old using a combination of fraudulent IDs, wigs, and prosthetics. You might consider him an expert, not on make-overs, but on do-overs. Now a bouncer, a nude model, and a cosmologist, Rick has taken that same commitment to repetition to the television program, Who Wants To Be a Millionaire. You see, Rick was on the show, and he lost to a bad question. With his record-breaking IQ, he didn't take it too well. After two years of exhaustive statistical analysis, looking at every question in every version of the game, he has ruined his very own life. Now on the edge of sanity, he is advancing a theory of cosmology in which the universe is seen as trillions of years old. "Why so old?" you might ask. To give it the opportunity to endlessly copy itself.

he also ate pet food.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Did not know dude had a TV show, huh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

don't they have people taste test the pet foods? i thought i saw that on a list of "weird jobs" or something. it was probably in my hotmail menu bar.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think those nasty Quiznos beef brisket subs look like they are made with canned dog food.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Quiznos is horrible.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Compare:

Quiznos Smokehouse Beef Brisket

Alpo Price Slices with Gravy

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Barf.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 10 November 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Just in time for lunch!

I've been super busy today at work (I know. Weird, huh?).

My face - thanks for askin' - is much worse. WTF, indeeeeed. The oatmeal bath last night was delightful, as was the cream I put on my face, as was the extra lotion I put on it this morning... I'm just trying really hard today not to touch it, but, more specifically, not to rake it with my claws.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

Did not know dude had a TV show, huh.

I think it's about 5-6 years old. Check it out on netflix. Good stuff.

xpost It couldn't happen to a nicer face. That's terrible, Sarah. If it makes you feel any better... oh, nevermind. It won't.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you should see a doc, Sarah.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

A documentary about faces?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Shouldn't you be comparison shopping for pillows or something?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

Moi?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'd see a doc.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

*sigh* I guess I should. It's just frustrating, because when this happened last year I went to the doc three different times, but we couldn't figure out what was going on.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

By the way, Nick and I are going to the Empty Bottle show tonight, if anyone is interested in hanging out. We've never heard of any of the bands, but their descriptions sound cool.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 10 November 2006 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

Three more hours. I can't wait for this week to be over. I'm going to see Borat and Stranger than Fiction tonight. Shotgun-stylee.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going home to alter my highland vest and painstakingly sew incredibly stiff silver braid to the whole thing, which ought to take me right up until we go onstage tomorrow night. AAARRGHLLGHGHGL!!!!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't had a Starburst in forever! I am tasting the muhfuggin rainbow!

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Is the juice on the loose? Oh, no wait. That's Skittles... or is it?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Skittles is teh rainbow. Starburst is teh juice. Thank u intertron.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

All things considered, I prefer Starburst.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

If you hold a Starburst in your hand long enough you can press it into a translucent sheet. No can do with a Skittles.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. Also, Skittles are a little too sweet.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

ooh... translucent sheet! I just so happen to have that kinda time this afternoon.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sugar is a fun drug.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like GREAT WEATHER for driving tonight. Is it supposed to be crappy in Chicago all weekend too?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

According to Google, tomorrow and Sunday will be sunny but chilly.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Weather Channel says sunday will be sunny and 48, but tomorrow morning we'll get a bit of snow.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Friday, 10 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Guess I'll pack the hoodie and hope that the freeways aren't too bad tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Listening to Serge Gainsbourg's Histoire de Melody Nelson for the first time -- man, Beck totally ripped him off on "Paper Tiger," didn't he?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh I just learned that one of my Detroit homiez is in town this weekend. I thought I felt my liver aching with anticpation...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's soooo dark outside. :-(

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 10 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

2x :-(

I have the lightest jacket today. I'm going to get soaked and freeze. I don't know what I was thinking.

OH WAIT. I was thinking I was going to pick up my car and drive today! Fuck those garage guys, again! This screwjob is never going to end.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

i was listening to serge gainsbourg last night.

Ro-ro-ro-rollergirl rollergirl
ro ro rollergirrrrrrlllll...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

Bye, guys. Call Nick or I if you want to hang out any time this weekend.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ok!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Jordan keep us updated on you and yours' progress tomorrow night. I'm down for some beerz.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Will do. I probably won't have internet access over the weekend but I have Nick's and Jesse's digits.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 10 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

This afternoon seriously raises the question:

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onionmagazine_archive_50a.jpg

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

I want to know why Addison floods so much that you have to walk in the middle of the street.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 11 November 2006 01:03 (nineteen years ago)

Nice 2 hour commute home today. The Metra electric trains were fuxx0red by the wind.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 11 November 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

You'd think a city known for its wind would have a studier regional transit system.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 11 November 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I suppose I should have said that I could have walked back to 60th and caught the bus, but it was downpour the entire time too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK YOU CHICAGO. FUCK YOU AND UR CRAPPY WEATHER. THANKS TO YOU I SAT WAITING TO BOARD FOR 1.5 HOURS, THEN PUSHED OF FROM THE GATE AND PROCEEDED TO SIT ON TARMAC FOR 2.5 HOURS BEFORE RETURNING TO GATE.

2.5 HOURS!

I LEFT HOUSE AT 3:00 THIS AFTERNOON AND RETURNED AFTER 9! I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE IN UR CITY AT 6!

FUCK YOU CHICAGO!

― quincie (quincie), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

That said, my Chicago schedule is now completely fuxxored and FAPing opportunities have dwindled to NADA.

However, I will be back in ur city next month, unless I am successful in convincing work ppl that meeting in Chicago in December is the most retarded thing ever.

FUCK YOU CHICAGO

― quincie (quincie), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry about that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:34 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, plz don't blame the people. We're victims, too. My pants are still drying on the radiator.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

I do not blame chicagoians. I blame American Airlines and the entire US airline industry.

So, is it generally better to fly into Midway? Because maybe I should do that tomorrow instead of O'Hare.

― quincie (quincie), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:39 (nineteen years ago)

Why are you all interneting on a Friday night? I have an excuse as I am sitting here on hold with travel agent trying to get new flight booked :(

― quincie (quincie), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

Shorter train ride in/out maybe? I've never flown from there.

xpost: waiting for my friends to get out of teh Blackhawks game

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

My excuse it that the weather was too shitty to walk to the movie theater. Sunday will be nicer, and hey, bargain prices in the afternoon. Meanwhile, I'm enjoying my cat and soul classics from the 70's.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

Betcha by golly wow.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm writing about the impact of workplace contractualism on minorities and that's boring so I am also interneting some to break up the monotony.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:46 (nineteen years ago)

So, business as usual.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:47 (nineteen years ago)

You know, it's funny, hearing you TALK about the things you're writing is fascinating. You're passionate and informed. But it seems like writing papers takes the life out of you.

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:53 (nineteen years ago)

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney and I left the house at noon today and as we reached the end of the block Courtney suggested we return for warmer outerwear. We didn't.

Then we walked to the Sheridan red line stop, which seemed surprisingly close, but think about it: Argyle to Sheridan??

Then we went to a soup restaurant on Chicago Ave then to Marshall Fields and Lord and Taylor for Ct's back-to-work outfit. When we emerged from the store it was DARK and it was only 4. After that we went to see Stranger Than Fiction which was WAY better than I expected.

Now we are sitting in the house watching Law and Order and I made a really very nice potpurri out of cinammon, nutmeg, lavedar, cayenne, coconut rum and chamomile. It smells nice and warm cozy in here.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, and I just added old Diet Coke to the potpurri and it made it even better.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

I got roped into volunteering to help set up a dinner for a bunch of radical lawyers to honor this guy's attorney and I just realized that it's a long-ass bus ride away (CTA website puts it at over an hour so you know it's bad) at Wilson and like, Edens Expressway AND it's going to be 29 degrees tomorrow night BUT at least I have an occasion to wear my new boots that I bought on sale for $40 yesterday.

http://www.zappos.com/images/723/7233202/985-246611-d.jpg

Anyway... I think it's rude of the progressive lawyers to have their annual dinner practically in Iowa since you know none of these people can afford to own cars or take cabs.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

Also, let's go here and eat paella some day.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:17 (nineteen years ago)

HOLY SHIT OK

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Yay!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:42 (nineteen years ago)

Where did you get those boots?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 03:46 (nineteen years ago)

It was lighting that shut down the Metra, BTW.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 04:03 (nineteen years ago)

Annie Sez on State St. It's like a more well-organized Filene's. I also got a sweater for $50 that was originally $230 because it's some brand name.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 11 November 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

I decided not go to Milwaukee tonight because of the weather. I stayed home, made a double veggie cheeseburger and watched two discs of Battlenerd. It was great.

See you in the morning, Chicago.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

That paella place has something called "Sopa de Viagra," a soup with lotsa virility-pumping seafoods.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 07:08 (nineteen years ago)

*cue opening notes of "Let's Get It On"*

― carbon neutral (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Daerest O'Hare,

Remember all the fun we had last night? Let's try it again today.

All my love,

P.S. FUCK YOU!

― quincie (quincie), Saturday, 11 November 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

OK so I'm arriving this afternoon, supposedly. Is it really going to be that cold this weekend? Perhaps I need to re-think my packing. . .

DC weather is currently fantastic, btw :(

― quincie (quincie), Saturday, 11 November 2006 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

The weather here is not fantastic.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think flying into Midway is preferrable. Compared to dealing with O'Hare--especially on departures-- it is A PLEASURE.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

That sentence didn't go like I wanted it to, but you get the idea.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know why you don't like that sentence.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I have been up since 4. There is no good reason for this. As I was just explaining to the early-rising Jenny, I woke up, figured it was Saturday so I didn't have to force myself back to sleep, and I'm still awake. More than ever, really.

I'm downloading movies off of a damn cool torrent site that a friend invited me to. My first downloads: "Xiu Xiu aka The Sent Down Girl", and "Stroszek". Stroszek will be mine in about 15 minutes... Xiu Xiu will take about 4 more hours. It's not well seeded.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Stroszek is a great movie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

I know.

I did a search for Herzog, just to test out the site, and came up with everything he ever filmed ever, including shorts. And him eating his shoe. This is my new movie home.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I meant that it is preferrable at all times, but when we're talking about departures it's a pleasure.

Forget about that.

I have a question: WHY?

Why is it that the radiators have been on every day that the temperature was around 60-65 degrees and I've had to open the windows, but last night, when it got down to 34, they didn't come on at all??? WTF?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

because your landlord is feeble and mentally unsound

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

That would only speak for the case against her going to the basement to fiddle with the heat -- well, the feeble part anyway.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Also, WHERE IS THE BICYCLE I LEFT IN THE BASEMENT THIS SUMMER????

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Delivery of my repaired laptop was attempted yesterday. That's not bad turn around. I sent it in a week ago yesterday, in the late afternoon.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 11 November 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer O'Hare to Midway. I do not like a 15 minute walk through a breezy parking deck to get to the airport.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 11 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Our heat doesn't appear to be working. Fortunately, it's not freezing in the apartment, but it is cold enough to make me want to stay in bed all day.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 11 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I prefer Midway b/c it's way less busy on the runways, the lines in the terminal are interminable and the walk to the gate is long. And the walk to AirTran? OMFG. They even have signs on the way that try to make light of the fact that their gates are so remote, like "We have comfy seats on our planes, and you're going to need a seat after the hike you're about to go on."

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 November 2006 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

You love for Midway makes me sick. I'm going to go be sick now.

Bye.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 12 November 2006 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I just listened to Juicy for the first time out of the non-Girl Talk context. How disappointing and uninspiring.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 12 November 2006 02:55 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Chicago. I finally arrived in your fair city, which is not nearly so cold as your Tribune led me to believe when I checked it before leaving DC this a.m. Tribune claimed it would be 27 tonight, which it most certainly is not!

Have just arrived back to hotel room after long meetings/quick dinner. Am now v. tired. G'night!

― quincie (quincie), Sunday, 12 November 2006 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

I accidentally got drunk with a professor last night.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 12 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Whoops!

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Sunday, 12 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm watching Bridge on the River Kwai on my puter. Beautiful high definition transfer. Real quality. Happiness.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Sunday, 12 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

You know what is a really bad movie? Xanadu. Xanadu is a really bad movie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 12 November 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Put your camel to bed.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 November 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Jordan

I enjoyed hanging out with you last night. I am sorry for anything that happened for which it is appropriate to be sorry. There's a good chance that this apology is not in vain.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

No no nonononoono, Jesse. That's "Midnight at the Oasis" by Maria Muldaur. TOTALLY different.

So we just saw someone, screaming and strapped to a stretcher, taken away from the Jewel by ambulance. Not a good, fun kind of screaming either. More of a "haunt your dreams because this person saw the Great Old Ones in the cereal aisle and will never be the same" kind of scream.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 12 November 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

How often does someone on a stretcher do the fun kind of screaming?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 November 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

As hard as it is to believe, this is the first time I've ever witnessed a screaming person strapped to a stretcher so I honestly don't know.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 12 November 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

It was nuts. It's amazing living next to a grocery store. It is the fabric that binds us. Rich, poor, employed, homeless, sick, healthy; everyone has to go to the grocery store at some point. Jewel is where worlds collide.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 12 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I used to live next to a gas station. Same kind of thing. What's better was the gas station was across the street from a bar, a really shitty meat market kind of bar. Saw a lot of lovin' and a lot of fist fights go down in that gas station parking lot.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 12 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/graphics/gymnast.jpg

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 November 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney and I ate at Hey Sushi on Clark Street. We sat at the sushi bar but they had a long conveyer belt with little plates with pics of sushi on them and the rotation was really fucking with my hangover and making me dizzy and sick, so we moved to a table.

It's a cute place but the sushi was not very good. The seaweed was tough.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 12 November 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

I wrote an epic poem. I assassinated the prime minister of durkadurkastan. I one the nobel peace prize but then decided to give it back back it just didn't go with my shoes. I clipped my toenails.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 13 November 2006 00:50 (nineteen years ago)

I am back in Madison + 1 Ikea bookshelf. I had lots of fun riding trains and getting drunk in Chicago. I ate at Tweet's this morning and I am still full. Jesse, your apology is accepted.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Borat and a coupla times almost peed a little bit. Then I saw tranger Than Fiction and... um... kinda liked it. But no big strong reaction or anything.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 03:32 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, your apology is accepted.

Uh-oh.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:01 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:07 (nineteen years ago)

I love it when my friends are drunk dicks. Takes the heat off of me for a while.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

(Until the next time...)

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:08 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of which, where's Cunningham? I owe him a big hug.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hey jaymc, you didn't happen to be at the Harrison station this a.m., did you? I saw a dude who looked eerily similar to a pic I saw of you on the WDYLL thread and had to ponder whether or not it was a good idea to go up to dude and be all "hey I'm quincie from the internet! You know, the internet!"

― quincie (quincie), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:15 (nineteen years ago)

Also, will someone please explain me el fare? Like I put a couple of bucks onto a card, figuring I could add more if I needed to when I got off in Evanston, but when I got to my destination I just strolled through the turnstile? Like I didn't have to run my card through again? I was very confused! Is it really the case that it costs the same amount no matter how far you go?

How does cta manage to get ppl around for so much cheaper than DC metro? Granted, DC metro is somewhat more poshy-posh, but who really cares?

― quincie (quincie), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:18 (nineteen years ago)

Also also: thank you Chicago for the nice weather. I wish I could stay longer :(

― quincie (quincie), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's all the same, no matter where you get off.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:20 (nineteen years ago)

Srsly? This is truly stunning to me! Is NYC subway the same deal?

― quincie (quincie), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

I ended up with 4-5 metro cards today because I kept buying new ones instead of putting more money on the same on.

I just put up some flickr photos from yesterday.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

The NYC system is the same I think.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:45 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Jordan--Justin told us that Big Chick's went back to smoking, but I don't understand what he meant about that being the reason that Tweet no longer serves dinner (they only do brunch now). Explain?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

My friend from SF was confused by this as well, the way you don't have to check your card in again when you get off. I explained that the Chicago train system, for all its merits, doesn't go to as many places in Chicago as maybe you'd like it to. And that the CTA is largely correct in assuming that wherever you're coming from, you're mostly just going to the loop to work, or a a few stops away in your own part of town, and back. And the other thing is, Chicago is very divided between the north and south sides, and I don't know anyone who regularly takes trips between, say, Belmont and 47th street. Granted, a lot of this is *because* of the way the transit system is laid out, but still.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

Could Rumsfeld's departure mean Cheney might be the next to go? Not so, said Bush and analysts agreed it was highly unlikely.

From this article.

I don't understand. Can a president dismiss a VP that easily?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

The VP has to be impeached, like the prez, per Art. II, Section 4.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

and I don't know anyone who regularly takes trips between, say, Belmont and 47th street

You don't, eh? :)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

just a quick update on friday night's spicey pork burrito that you may have heard about as i apparently sent a txt msg to everyone in my cell phone: 2 hours later it wasn't as good of an idea. 8 hours later it was clear that it was, in fact, a bad idea disguised as a good idea. but at the time "spicey pork burrito" sounded so right.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Chicago.

The not having heat thing lasted all freakin' weekend, so I spent most of that time under two comforters shiverin' me timbers.

And speaking of Peruvian food, Nick and I watched about half of Fitzgeraldo last night and are watching the rest tonight.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I have no idea about the Big Chick's situation. I don't think I was paying attention at that point in the cab ride. I'll ask Justin the next time I talk to him though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

sarah, are you listening to the dead boys today?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

and I don't know anyone who regularly takes trips between, say, Belmont and 47th street
You don't, eh? :)

-- daniel striped tiger (thedanmarti...), November 13th, 2006 2:23 PM. (OutDatWay) (later)

What about Jarvis and Sox/35th?
I have so much work to do today that I was having anxiety dreams about it at 3:15AM. Yet still, here I am.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

What about Jarvis and Sox/35th?

Truly I say to you, the cock will not crow until I have denied you three times.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, do you mean Fitzcarraldo? I've never seen it but I do have Burden of Dreams on my netflix queue.

Speaking of which I finished Battlstar Geektacular season 2.0 last night and AHHHH I don't want to wait until Thursday or whatever for 2.5 to arrive.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, OTTO. DEAD BOYZZZZ.

Yes, Jordan. I mean the Herzog movie about a guy trying to bring the opera to the middle of the Peruvian jungle.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Fitzgeraldo is about a disgraced mustachioed reported who can't get an interview in the Peruvian jungle. Different movie.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

reporter.

typos spoil the funny.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, so which one is the one with the boat and the mountain?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I also have to ask why a cab from Lawrence and Broadway bound for the Gold Star would be taking us by Big Chicks?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm thinking Aguirre, but I'm not sure.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I guess that is Fitzcarraldo.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Fitzcarraldo: boat goes up the mountain.

Aguirre: Kinski goes nuts, everybody dead.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Trivia: Just1n's uncle did the artwork in the men's bathroom in Big Chicks (and some other stuff there), and apparently the oatmeal on the menu is named after him.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

As long as they're about jungles and mountains, I'm still severely lacking the motivation to see them.

http://www.filmpoint.it/public/Apocalypto.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I explained that the Chicago train system, for all its merits, doesn't go to as many places in Chicago as maybe you'd like it to.

Where would you like it to go?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't make the orignal comment, but for the simplicity of my life's sake I'll just go ahead and say 60th and Stony Island.

Metra gets it done, though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

(And quincie, yeah, NYC subway is the same deal. There are no zones.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, well, we must have quite a bit of Fitz left, because no boats have been lifted over mountains as of yet.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen Aguirre. I remember lots of cool scenes of people and animals traversing up and down mountains, so I figured maybe I missed a boat in there somewhere. Ha ha. I missed the boat.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Fair point, Dan, but Kenan seems to be saying that the CTA would be more likely to have zones (at additional fares) if the system were more extensive -- which I'm taking to mean lines that go FURTHER (like out into the suburbs).

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

well, a number of lines (green, blue, purple, yellow) already do run in the suburbs. perhaps service south of 95th st would help people down there? i know it'll never happen as they are mostly poor folk down there but it would seem logical.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Metra gets that done too, though they're not as frequent as CTA trains (and their delays are much longer). If/when RTA goes to a single fare card it'd all be a lot easier.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think people have been trying to get the Red Line extended to 130th St. for a long time, while the city takes on other projects instead.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Where do I want the CTA to go?

http://www.gapersblock.com/detour/a_cta_map_for_2055/

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I kind of love that map every time I see it. Still, would you propose new fare zones for that system?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Still stays out of Hyde Park huh?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Structurally, the CTA system isn't that different from DC and London (which have fare zones). There is a central zone from which various lines extend outward (in London this is roughly delimited by the Circle Line, in DC it's Metro Center and adjoining multi-line stops, in Chicago it's the Loop). So if Chicago doesn't have fare zones now, it's not because it doesn't make sense structurally to do so. All you'd have to do is charge extra to go beyond, say, Belmont on the Red and Brown Lines going north, Sox-35th on the Red Line going south, Western on the Blue Line toward O'Hare, etc. -- regardless of where you're coming from. I mean, I don't know about DC, but the way fare zones work in London is concentric circles (or rectangles) emanating outward from the city center. This could be done very easily in Chicago, so the lack of fare zones only indicates to me that the city has decided to keep things simple.

http://www.frostnet.net/chris/newton/washington/overview.gif

http://pearcemayfield.typepad.com/patrick_mayfield/London_20Tube_20Map_small.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

Feel free to ignore the following which has nothing to do with CTA.

I STILL HATE A COWORKER! GRRR!

I was told by a nice coworker this morning that I am in charge of Secret Santa this year. Also, I was told to please have everyone draw names ASAP so they could start shopping and to please send out an email ASAP to stop by my desk and get your name! Also, the upper limit would be the same as last year, $35.

I did all that. We wondered if we should include the coworker on maternity leave. Everyone said ok... Then we found out we had to include the coworker who retired because she'll be there too (at our holiday party).

So, ok. Fine. Whatever.

Then COWORKER I HATE came up to my desk and flipped out. She said I needed to send out another email and clarify that everyone MUST spend $35. It is not an upper limit. It's not fair for some people to spend $35 and receive something worth less than that. URGH! Also, she said it was rude for us to pick names before the coworker who retired comes back to the office to visit. WTF?!?!?!?

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

sarah, tell her in your sweetest voice possible to go fuck herself sideways.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fadtoys.com/images/Richard%20Petty.jpg http://www.conversationswithtompetty.com/images/tpcover_thumb.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I should also mention I hated the coworker who retired.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, yr office sucks. I'm sorry.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps she'd like to opt out of the Secret Santa System, and give and receive nothing?

Also, this is something straight out of The Office, which is to say out of real life.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I should also mention, in case it wasn't clear, that it's your coworkers who are being petty, not you.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, god forbid I ever visit your office or I will maim all the co-workers. How can you REQUIRE people to spend $35?! If you're so obscenely small-spirited that you must POLICE your life and the lives of others against you ever not getting your "fair share" , don't join the Secret Santa pool. After all, what if you travel further to the gift store than someone else does and your gas bill is bigger? WHAT THEN?!?!?!????!?!?!??

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

i would hope to draw the hated co-workers name then buy $35 worth of peanut butter jelly beans, world renown as the worst of all jelly beans.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

$35 worth of milk, which all expires in a week.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Lumps of coal. 30 lb sacks of bird feed that she'll have to carry home. Cinderblocks, those are cheap!

Hhahaha, x-post to Jordan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

yes, $35 worth of pea gravel in a burlap sack.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I know a guy who could easily provide you with $35 worth of cow shit. Makes great fertilizer for the do-it-yourself organic gardener!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

(By the way, for several years I, along with my dad, would regularly get a load of shit for my mom's garden for Mother's Day. Usually about a pickup's worth.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Go the hardware store and get, like, $35 worth of roofing nails or metric bolts or something random and HEAVY.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

but then you'd have to carry it to the office!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

metric bolts and a standard socket set.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Or just piss her off with a really, REALLY cheap gift. Like a kazoo.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, i got a free harmonica in brooklyn. i am going to be annoying the holy shit out of my neighbors shortly.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

You could get her a gift certificate to this place for a free testicle-based dinner:

http://www.centerstage.net/restaurants/casa-samuel.html

(which btw is where my friend Tomas wants to go for his birthday dinner tomorrow)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I know, John. It's really just the one coworker I am annoyed with right now. She flared up like a hemroid. For now on, I'm referring to her as Hemroidal. I know she's pissed about the retired coworker because said hated excoworker is her BFF, which is NOT MY PROBLEM. She doesn't work here any more. Get over it.

I don't spend $35 on my friends! I mean, ok, maybe 2 friends, but that's it! I am not Miss Moneybags.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even spend $35 on my friends! That's horrible. Tell her that once you get a raise, you'll consider spending a $35 maximum.
what a piece of work she must be!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

Thirty-five bucks is insanely high for an office pool, I think! $15 would be plenty, or $20 max.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

xpost 1: dan, while i was in beijing some friends went to a restaurant that only served penises of various animals. apparently, none of it was "bad" but the urethra was particularly tasty even. so, should you go & have the opportunity . . .

xpost 2: i'm with you, laurel.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I will mention something at lunchtime when we are all supposed to discuss it as an office. I hate coming off as a cheapskate, especially when I am the lowest ranking/paid member of the office!

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, you have every right to bring it up. I think $35 is really high for an office gift. ESPECIALLY for secret santa. isn't the point something little & cute & thoughtful?
Also, as the lowest paid person, you are the most entitled to point out the money issue.
good luck to you . . . if it helps, maybe do an internet search on office gift amount 'averages' to back yourself up.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, fun story from the past about HEMROIDAL. Her daughter goes to a fancy pants private school. All the kids in the class got the teacher an end of the year present. This translates into meaning that all the parents put in money for a pressie for the teacher. It was something lame, expensive, and engraved. Anyway, a couple of the parents contributed less, so she said their kids shouldn't be allowed to sign the little card to the teach. She is fracked up.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

I hate people.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Also, as the lowest paid person, you are the most entitled to point out the money issue.

^^^cosign

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

HEMROIDAL was so upset at me just now (everyone's at lunch) for suggesting the upper limit be lowered that she said, "You know what??! I think people should spend more than $35. That should be the lower limit. That's hardly anything. Most of us will be buying gifts over that amount." So I said I don't spend that much on friends and she gaffawed and was like, "WHAT!? Give me a break. You don't spend that much on friends?! Come on!"

Then we started each saying what we would like to receive. Someone suggested one of those room deoderizers where you place sticks inside a nice oil. When another coworker said, You know you can get those at Whole Foods for about 20 bucks, Hemroidal said, "But you'd have to add something else to that! $35 dollars minimum, people!!"

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like taking this outside.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Why is the rest of the office letting her bully them? Does she outrank everyone? Is she sleeping with the boss??

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Post her phone number, we can all call her and tell her to fuck off.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, for Pete's sake, this is a CHRISTMAS TRADITION, it's about being nice, the thought that counts, etc. She is clearly making baby Jesus cry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know this woman, and yet I feel totally secure in my own mind in labeling her a cunt. Sorry if that offends anyone but it's true.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

So much, in fact, that I'm starting to think calling her "HEMROIDAL" is an insult to hemroids everywhere.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Remind me again why no one in the workplace has told her to fuck off yet?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

Let me just guess here (not to try to answer Amanda's question): She's in sales, right?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

She's clearly terribly insecure about money and class, to be going on like this. Even if she has a lot of money, she's behaving like she grew up in a barn. Actually wealthy people don't go around bullying people about money. They don't even talk about money. It's gauche.

xpost to Dan -- good guess! We have scads of these people in the downstairs office. The minute they get some money, they go out and buy a really expensive car.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am pleased that I never associate with people like that, and that I work in publishing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

There are insecure assholes in every profession! When Jenny came to speak in my class this lady waltzed into my room and looked at us like we weren't supposed to be there and she said, "Are you supposed to be here?" And I was like "Yes, we are a civics class and this is our guest speaker, so is there something I can do for you?" and her response was, "Are you my coworker?", rather derisively (this happens to me a lot) and I had to stake my ground and say, "Yes, my name is Amanda. Yours?" and I shook her hand and now I smile at her every time I see her but secretly I know she's a giant jerk.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I hate people today.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I meant I am glad that I work in publishing because people here aren't haughty about money, since it is not a particularly lucrative field. They may be haughty about other things, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

No one backed me up! Well, one woman said, "Ok, well then maybe everyone should just spend what they can up to $35..." and HEMROIDAL busted out with, "NO! Give me a break. $35 is MINIMUM! MIMIMUM!" Then another coworker said, "Personally, $35 is fine with me. I like you all very much and would gladly spend that much on each of you." That ended that discussion. Obviously, I'm the hateful one. I got all red in the face. The owner was sitting there too. I was so mad I had to cut my lunch short and come back up to my lonely cold desk.

This woman is an accountant, but yeah, I don't think it matters what she is.

I totally feel like the office reject, up here typing away to you guys when everyone else is laughing together in the break room, possibly about me since I'm the only one not there. But seriously. I couldn't take it any more.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL KILL

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

"Yes, well, YOU GOT ME! I don't like you all that much. That's why I want to lower the amount." I really want to just take my name out of the whole thing, but I'm worried everyone will just see it as me not being a team player or some shit.

― Thomasina Kitten (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

MAN DON'T YOU KNOW XMAS IS ABOUT SPENDING MONEY FOR 'MERICA'S ECONOMEE YOU CHEAPSKATE SOCALISTS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think it is horribly insensitive of them. Is there anyone you could take this matter to privately? An HR person? Perhaps even your boss? I would explain that at your pay scale, you find ways to make do without spending a lot of money & even choose to do things like make gifts for people in your family (something that obviously would not go over well with le cunts). On top of that, you're planning for a wedding & have just had money on the brain & are trying to cut corners whenever possible. It's not that you're unwilling to spend that amount, it's just that it is a lot of money for you at this point in your life.

Or, I guess you could just drop it since your office workers are insensitive asswipes.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, DAN! I haven't spoken to Caroline in YEARS but my mom was in GR last weekend and went for coffee and CS saw her and they chatted!!! Mr S is terminally ill, apparently, which is a huge bummer since as you know he is smart and good.

Sarah, why do you keep this job? Can't you do what you do for someone else?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to make it into a bigger deal. The owner was there. He could have said something.

Laurel, I don't know. I mostly like my job. I just have problems with coworkers sometimes, namely this one. Most of my coworkers have alot of mula which creates a rift between us sometimes as they often blame people for being cheap and rarely seem to consider someone might not be able to afford any better. I guess I'm mostly referring to their daily critique of weddings and parties they've attended, what people wear, their lack of understanding for why anyone would take public transportation... Anyway... I haven't stayed anywhere for longer than 2 years. I get paid more here than anywhere else I've worked. I like what I do...

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

At some point, I've got to answer that old question of What Do I want to Do with My Life. So, there's THAT... But also, I do really enjoy administrative stuff in general.

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Mr S is terminally ill

Ah shit, that's terrible. Going back to conversation from last week, my own parents getting old is not something I'm terribly ready to deal with.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

How is it that I used "terrible" twice in two sentences? I swear I'm getting dumber.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Well, okay. Obv no one likes EVERYONE they work with, but most of the truly odious people at my company work in deparments only tangentially related to me, so while get some good stories, it never affects me personally. Yours seem so much more in-face! It's a miracle you can keep your mouth shut and not feel terrible -- do you find yourself reminding yourself that YOU AREN'T THE CRAZY ONE?? As someone who fled the homogenous and mostly conformist community I grew up in, I have extreme reactions to being surrounded by bad atmosphere like that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just got a raise!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

And since I know you'll ask, I'm still making less than $40K. :-D

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

I hope you're happy with the raise amount regardless!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Why the $40K figure? Do most ILX salaries go far above this amount?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I said something a few months ago about how I couldn't imagine myself making more than $40K and still being happy, since most jobs that pay that much aren't jobs that I'd want to have -- and then Jesse got all "WHY??? that is ridiculous" and then it turned into a joke somehow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

he's concerned that if he makes more than 40k, he might start being an asshole about the dollar value of christmas gifts.
xp

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, congrats, John! Maybe you'll get a raise - just make sure it's not more than $40k/year.

-- Party Time Country Female (rabbitrabbi...), October 27th, 2006 3:37 PM. (pullapartgirl) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

ha!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think I would be perfectly happy to be making more than $40K. I wouldn't mind the additional responsibility, either. What's holding you back, J?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I know you're joking and all -- the thing is, I would LOVE to make more than $40K/year, but I tend to be realistic about such things.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), October 27th, 2006 3:42 PM. (jaymc) (link)

What line of work could I possibly do that would pay me such a handsome salary?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

I would guess that you're not that far in the field you're in from making that money. I mean, you now have how many years of experience under your belt? It probably depends on circumstances outside your realm of control, to a certain extent, right? I got a pay 'upgrade' when I moved out here just b/c they saw me as someone very experienced for this position. I think tweaking the ol' resume is key.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

If I made $40K+ at this job I'd be so much more productive.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

You say that now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but I mean it. There's all kinds of shit that needs doing here that no one is going to do, like documenting our work processes and stuff. And if we were ever able to get a real raise (i.e. not the inflation rate 3% or whatever that everyone at the U gets, or something that would raise our pay grade -- which is so much red tape it's impossible to even conceive) then I would do all that kind of stuff cheerfully. But it won't ever happen, so I sit back and chat with you fine folks instead.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

Can't you do what you do for someone else?

This is one of the central questions of life, I think. I know I've been thinking it today. I've worked here for several good, hard months, and I have no work to show for it. I have designed and built two entire websites that I was later told could not be used. They want me to build another site, but they are also telling me that it must conform to the "look and feel" of the other company websites, which I had nothing to do with. (The look and feel, by the way, is what I call "hot garbage".) It occurs to me that I need to put together a portfolio, like, now. I've been cranking out beautiful stuff for months that no one is ever going to see. I give this place another six months, tops.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Hah. I make John's magic number in salary, but my rent is about to become 40% of my take-home pay. OW.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's about where I'm at with rent. That's not too bad. Pretty standard for city livin'.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

i just realized how much $$$ i could save if i quit drinking/bad habits. it's a LOT. like a shocking lot. i've already weened myself from records (except for the binge in brooklyn last week). i need a plan.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps. Or maybe you would spend all that extra time you would have been drinking buying fancy faberge eggs.

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Kenan, but you live alone. :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

xposts And that is why I live in Logan Square. It's about 20% for me, though I make a couple of G's less.

Kenan, what is wrong with that site, aside from all the moving crap?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Is Jesse out there?? I need Courtney's email.

Yeah, Laurel, mine would be 40% too if I lived alone.

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

But I'm going to be sharing with two people, albeit really loves ones.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

mine used to be over 40% but i had a huge awesome place and wasn't making as much. now i'm making slightly more and paying way way less yet still not saving any money.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think mine's about 30% now.

I thought a lot about moving to Chicago while I was there, as I always do, but I am a huge sell-out and I like having a good salary and not-outrageous cost of living.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, what is wrong with that site, aside from all the moving crap?

You must be joking. How about the music, for starters. Or the confusing, redundant navigation. Or the scrolling thing at the bottom which isn't even clickable. Or that sparkly crap in the header. Or... THE CODING. It's really amateurish, to the point that when coworkers introduce me to new people and say that I do all the web stuff for the company, I quickly correct them.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

Last time I calculated, rent was about 40% (I live alone), so the raise will help out with that a wee bit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I just did the calculation. My rent is exactly 38.75 percent of my take-home pay.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have the pay stubs with me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh I didn't hear any music. Say no more.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Kenan, but you live alone. :)

You damn right I do. It's the only way to fly.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Ha! 19%! I'll take that over not being able to get a cab!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ours is 33%, with just my salary.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I pay 38.75% for a neighborhood that is right on the lake, racially and economically mixed, and very beautiful. Historic houses and apartment buildings set off by a background of modernist residential skyscrapers. I went for a walk the other day right at dusk, and the glow from people's windows high above me looked so... COOL. And I understood exactly what people still see in those 60's buildings. They can be very beautiful, in a Space Age Bachelor Pad kinda way, even though a lot of them are showing their age. (Also, they make me think of The Bob Newhart Show.) Anyway.

I like architecture.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

AND WE CAN GET CABS AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

There's a cab outside our apartment building right now. I'm in the loop and yet I am confident in this fact.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

"""Is Jesse out there?? I need Courtney's email."""

I am back at my job (making over $40K, btw, but somewhat unexcited to be there) where there is no internet for me to play on.

I will email you her email. Or IM it.

Courtney went to work today too, btw. Apparently IM's are forbidden at this job too, and it seems to be a standard for the financial sector because of the sensitive information they are dealing with.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Are we talking about % of your gross?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

No. Take home.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Oh really? That's hard to figure....

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I pay 28.7% of my gross in rent. I take home (ouch) 74.07% of my gross.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I think I pay around 20%, but I'm struggling with the maths.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I also think my % will be higher (slightly) once I start getting stuff deducted for benefits & such.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

BAD NEWS: The laundromat on my block is closed and I have to walk all the way down to the Spin Cycle where Jenny says a crazy nasty drag queen hangs out. The other one was so close that I went home during the washing and drying. Fuck.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

That is a hard ball of suck.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Based on the NO job, my rent would have been 26% of my net. Based on this job (Catch) I am not sure at all. I hope it's no more than 20%.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

I love shell scripting. I wish I could write a shell script to do dishes and take out the trash. Life would be EASY STREET, I tell you.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

ok, let's line up according to who pays the least in rent, expressed as a percentage of their take hom- zzzzzzzzzz....

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Of course, then we'd just be one step closer to Skynet.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

OTTO OTM

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

When we were hanging out with Jordan's friends we did that. It's hard not to do.

I swear if that cross-dresser crosses me I'm going to mace him.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Heh. SORRY I SAID ANYTHING.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

The age thing, I meant. And Jordan is not the cross-dresser.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/squarebubbles.jpg

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

That's how I feel about it.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, talking about money is nothing but depressing for me. I'm worried that I won't have any classes in January, which is totally stressing me out.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

My problem, not yours.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

No, I rather agree.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

squaresquaresquaresquarebubblebubblebubblebubblebubblebubblebubblebubblebubble

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

It's ok, Amanda. I made my gripe about the Secret Santa limit everyone's problem. Gripe away!

I am freezing cold. I can't wait for this work day to be over with so I can go to the gym and sweat away my troubles to Justin Timberlake, CSS, and Dead Boys.

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

it's a monochromatic wasteland out there chicago. if i look out the window behind me it's grey sky against a grey slate and beige cement buildings. with bare trees and low clouds it finally looks like november in chicago. or springtime in chernobyl.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and while we're on the subject of christmas presents and being poor, judging from the state of my bank accounts it would appear the only thing i can afford to give this year are hand jobs.

so glad i won't be seeing my family this year...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really like to talk about that sort of thing (money woes). I would rather suffer in silence. That way, I can pretend that it's not happening!

xp - gross

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Who is this band, CSS? Are they web designers? Would I like them?

xpost: You cheapskate. For people you really care about you should at least give a blow job.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

you're assuming i really care about anyone.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Not even puppy dogs?

http://alva.matusiak.org/imgs/puppy_alva03.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

SUCKING OFF YOUR FAMILY: C/D?

("tobias, you've been sucking off this family for too long.")

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I have to go do vomit-laundry now.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

God damn that picture makes me want a dog.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

i think i just realized i don't have anyone to buy xmas presents for this year.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

I started watching Arrested Development (first three eps of S1) and I like it, but I am worried that Kr does not. After the pilot, she said something about it being like Curb Your Enthusiasm where it's hard for her to enjoy the show when nobody is sympathetic -- but then she did chuckle a few times, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

I am glad to be employed during the busy time of year for restaurants, but for a while there I was having a lot of financial anxiety. I need to re-assess my life and figure out a way I can live cheaper b/c I am not going to be a waiter forever. NO I AM NOT.

xpost-- George Michael is very sympathetic. I feel for that poor kid. It reminds me of CYE as well, but shorter and a little less awkward.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

That's how my dad feels about it too.

George Michael and Maby are kind of sympathetic, though?

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I found George Michael & Buster to be sympathetic.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I find CYE too uncomfortable to watch, but AD has so many rapid-fire lines and genius setpieces that I've never felt that way.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

I like them both a lot, but if I had to pick... Curb.

Kevin, what about yer sister(s)?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Michael's sympathetic, too.

Buster breaks my heart.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Curb grates on me.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

Buster is pretty sympathetic, but George Michael is more normal. He's more of the straight man off which all the others are contrasted. Michael tries but falls short a lot.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

but Michael is also v. cute, which helps with the sympathy.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

my younger sister and i don't exchange gifts because we are both poor (though last year i did send her a bottle of jameson which we polished off while i was staying with her wednesday night), my older sister and i both refuse to tell each other what we want for christmas because she won't take gifts from me because she has $$$ and i don't. i won't take gifts from her because she has $$$ and i don't. growing up dirt fucking poor has fucked with each of us kids in it's own way.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

I think that the show sets you up to think of Michael as the sympathetic one, but he's really an asshole just like the rest.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

he turns into more of an asshole as the series goes on, that's true.

so cute, though!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

Also Kr didn't know who Jason Bateman was, but I am chalking that up to age differential, since she was prob too young for The Hogan Family and Teen Wolf Too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

should i skip my yoga class b/c i'm tired?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

xpost! I think when AD first started, Michael was supposed to be sympathetic, but then they started messing around his character, especially through his reactions to Anne.

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

hee. those are some of my favorite Michael moments though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

No, Kelsey! Don't skip it. I'm going to the gym even though I'm cold and bitter, which means everyone has to do things for their well being.

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to lift, even though I know it's going to feel like my arms are being pulled out of their sockets.

Also, I am very happy to have come across this thread: TS: cornish pasties vs jamaican patties

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going, to work off all that Chicago beer and food.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, what are the odds that my nearly full 60GB iPod would play two Suicide songs in a row on shuffle?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

ASTROFUCKINGNOMICAL

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

i feel like i'd rather stay in & bake lasagna.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

sorry. i'm totally being all 'woe is me' for no decent reason.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I can feel the seasonal affectiveness disorder creeping in. It's going to be months of gym-going Jekyll vs. pizza-eating Hyde.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

I love Suicide. Love. I first heard them on a punk comp, and of course they stuck 'em at the end. Every Suicide song is the closer to a punk comp.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

a week ago i was sitting in a hotel room on the LES eating pizza and drinking gatorade in preparation of going out drinking. it seems like both yesterday and forever ago.

xpost- i was listening to "Night of the Living Dead Boys" last night. sounds f'ing great.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

my body needs the stretching. maybe i'll simply feel more awake & alert after i step away from my computer.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

guys, are you freezing? I'm inside and the heat's on and everything, but I'm freezing.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I like Suicide, too. They don't strike me as punk at all, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

They're not, not anymore than Talking Heads, but you know... teh whole CBGB scene.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

*backs slowly away from the "what is punk?" debate*

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

What is PUNK? / Baby don't hurt me / Don't hurt me...

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

I'm outie.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

i'm gonna be here all goddamn night. i forgot to put an out of office reply on my email, i had close to 800 unread messages when i got back today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

All night turned out to be a scant 22 minutes apparently. f this, i'm going home. see you later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney reports back from work: "Bubble gum Jesus." I can't get out of her what that means.... And she bought the head of the London office a pack of Marlboro reds which he smokes in his office because he's English and won't hear of going outside to smoke.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 13 November 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

Do the Americans in his office want his dead? If I lit up in the office, you'd find me somewhere beaten severely.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:08 (nineteen years ago)

At my old job, when I had a meeting with my boss, she'd sometimes offer me a Marlboro Light and we'd smoke it in her office. Everyone turned a blind eye to it because the president of the company was a chain-smoker and he smoked in his office, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

They've tried asking him to stop, but he won't. He only smokes in his own office. They told Courtney that if she has a problem with it she can try bringing it up with him, but it wouldn't do any good.

I guess the bubble gum Jesus is just a tall Jesus made of pink (unchewed) bubble gum and he sits in the office.

I wish I had stories from my first day back at work, but it was kind of like I never left. Except that 2 people I hated no longer work there. That's about it. And they have better artwork, but it's still all ads from Leo Burn3t and their partners. Yup. That's it.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 01:52 (nineteen years ago)

So which is better... the first Suicide album or the second?

Something to fight about in the morning. Night, guys.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 04:53 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. Let's not talk about suicide.

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I need a new name again. My current jokey name makes me bitter.

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning! Let's talk about...hm. All I have on the brain is punk rock, moving plans, and glittering, glittering jewelry that I'm going to see at lunch.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

i want to see "stranger than fiction" this weekend but the will ferrel factor makes me hesitate. it will either make me laugh until i herniate myself or bore me into hibernation.

also, on friday at vertigo an amazing band with a terrible name (scr3aming y311ow z0nk3rs) is playing. they're intense and loud and remind me a lot of the older (or younger i guess) noisier sonic youth. and saturday is dan the fan's birthday party.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Chicago! I am depressed because I just found out that my Chicago meeting next month is at the HILTON O'HARE, where I will also be staying :(

― quincie (quincie), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

blue line can get you into the city in 30-45 minutes from there (depending where yr going). it runs 24 hours so you can go out as late as you feel you can handle it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck. I thought I had $14 in the bank, but I forgot about a check I'd written for a dentist appointment. It just got cashed, so now I'm over $100 in the hole. :-(

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

it will either make me laugh until i herniate myself or bore me into hibernation.

eh. Neither, really. It will try to teach you big life lessons.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

If you want to herniate, see Borat.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

i forgot i paid my bills before i left on my trip and wound up overdrawn for the first time in years. worth it though. in hindsight i suppose i could have been happy with just $100 worth of records.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I could be happy with $9000 worth of cocktail ring:

www.ruthtaubman.com

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

a friend called me last night to go see borat but i told her to go pound sand. partly because of my above post.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

morning all. i went to yoga like a good kid & also made lasagna. tonight i am aiming to go running.

laurel, i have a sewing machine question for you. should i ask you here, on the sewing thread or via email?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

ask it here, no one has anything to talk about.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ask away! I'm bored.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning. I went to the gym too last night, and then I practiced and read comic books.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey? I'm bored. And impatient. Sewing??

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I went to the gym last night too. We're going tonight too!

By the way, a woman who is higher up in the company stopped by my desk this morning to say she'd heard about what happened yesterday (she was the only one not at lunch at the time). She apologized profusely on behalf of the company saying that people come to her office ALL THE TIME to shut the door and complain about this woman. She is a bully and I shouldn't let her hurt me. It was embarassing to relive yesterday at all, but I'm still glad she went out of her way to say I was the good guy.

― Miss Moneybags (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

HEEEEY, that was really nice of her!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that's really nice. At least you don't have to feel alone in hating her cunty butt.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

sorry laurel! i was pulled into a last minute meeting . . .

so, i was sewing last night & i think there's a problem with the bobbin that sews that "back." it kept getting clumped up, so on this potholder i'm making there are nice threads on top & clumps of knots on the bottom. i suspect it might be a tension thing, even though my manual says that bobbin tension is hardly ever a problem. i have a very old machine. i played around with the tension. i think it helped, but now i'm slightly paranoid it'll start up again. ?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray! Someone Sarah works with doesn't suck!

Hi. I went to the gym too. My checking account is empty too, or nearly so, because of my clutch, but I don't think I overdrew it. Tonight or tomorrow I will probably cash in my change jar to get groceries.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I will probably cash in my change jar

i did this 9 days ago, it paid for my cab from the airport to the hotel as well as my first slice of pizza and a pack of cigarettes.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I just ate some questionable chicken from a salad I bought for lunch last Thursday. I can't wait to find out what happens.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

First idea: Has your machine been in for service anytime recently? You only VERY rarely need to adjust bobbin tension and it's easy to fuck it up, but if yrs is old and hasn't been tuned, it's possible that was the problem. I would say if the problem comes back again, find a service/repair outpost and have it cleaned & oiled. Even good new machines need cleaning now and then, since little bits of thread and fiber dust collect over time.

Second idea: Did you wind that bobbin yourself? Did you maintain even speed and pressure while it was winding? A good bobbin should look as smooth as a new spool of thread, so try to keep that foot really steady for the whole winding...changing speed changes the thread tension and will make bobbin tension uneven while sewing, later on.

Third idea: Before you start sewing make sure the bobbin and top threads are pulled diagonally out to yr left and behind the presser foot, so they can't get caught in your new stitches...sometimes the loose bobbin end is what gets bunched up underneath.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hahah, Jenny. So exciting! The suspense!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

i hope it works out better than my undercooked eggs fiasco of saturday afternoon.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Or the spicy pork burrito of text message legend.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Why is there a photo of Kenan at the top of the ZUNE thread on ILM?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney gave me her sewing machine. Jenny, get ready to do some teaching.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Brenda the Enormous Waterbed is drinking out of Courtney's water glass. I think this might account for some of the swelling Courtney's been experiencing lately....

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I had the machine serviced & tuned about a year ago, since I wasn't certain when it was used before that. Your #2 & #3 may be DEAD ON. The bobbin I'm using was wound a while ago & I can't remember whether I was good about winding it or not, but the bobbins I've wound myself recently have been fine, so it could be that. also, I keep the threads behind, but not to the left. This could be huge.

THANK YOU!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

We are not as far from a Chick-fil-A as one might think.

http://www.chickfila.com/cfa.asp?transaction=search&country=us&template=map_search&address=&city=&stateProvince=&postalCode=60640&radius=150

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I dare you to make a post without mentioning Courtney's name. GO!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

oh jenny, the eggs came AFTER i sent you the next day message, so you can imagine the results.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

eat my poop.

courtney.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

I think the leftward thread tails thing is just for convenience, actually -- they do have to be BEHIND the foot, but it's usually easier to pull your sewn piece out the left side than the right (unless it's a weird shape or a tube or something), and easier to snip the threads on the left, too. So I wouldn't count on that! But you know, if I've just re-threaded the needle, sometimes my top thread doesn't get re-run under the presser foot, and it gets caught up and starts to pull from the back as I sew, things can go horribly wrong...dumb shit like that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

For reals. I know more about this person I have never met either in person or on the internets than I know about people I see and talk to every day.

She is a bully and I shouldn't let her hurt me.
She is a bully and I shouldn't let her hurt me.vShe is a bully and I shouldn't let her hurt me.

and again, She is a bully and I shouldn't let her hurt me.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I did that at least 15 times last night. I just wish I wasn't working on a gift. If it's for me, I don't care as much about "pretty." Oh well. I'm hiding the bad stitches with hand covers. She's my best friend, she won't care.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

that was a massive xpost. sorry.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to sew the following:

- curtains
- hems on pants
- taking in sleeves on long-sleeved T-shirts that have gotten baggy. Is this an advanced procedure?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

hey, it looks like my bank actually charges lower fees than my credit union for overdrafts.

WITHDRAW
(ATM 280 BEDFORD AVE. BROOKLYN NY 11-08-06 03:36 1796)

I REALLY NEEDED THOSE RECORDS!?!?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Kels, you can't rip out the bad threads? I know it's a tangle, but try snipping very close, horizontal to the surface, with your littlest embroidery scissors? There's got to be a way to pull the old knots out!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and

- a vest with tits.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

I don't get it. Was that 3:36 AM?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

Also, that sewing question wasn't rhetorical.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I can rip out the bad ones, but it's like almost the entire thing. I'm worried about the integrity of the fabric. the front side looks fine, but the back side (which will be hidden by hand covers) is a mess. We'll see . . . I don't really want to go through the whole thing again. Also, I have a seam ripper that helped me out a lot last night.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Why is there a photo of Kenan at the top of the ZUNE thread on ILM?

haha Because I am clearly enjoying my portable music player! Though mine is an iPod. Because Zune is a stupid idea.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Also: Wrinklepaws. Say no more.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Wrinklepaws?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

He started the Zune thread and put my pic at the top of it. For some reason.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I noticed that. I guess I never knew Wrinklepaws was a "real" ilxor.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

i would think tits would be difficult to sew. i had a nightie thing that was a horribly badly-fitting schmatte of a piece of satin. i wanted my roommate to alter it but she said the complication of taking it apart and bust darting and all of that wouldn't be worth it.

taking in shirtsleeves, if they weren't the cuffed kind...you'd still be dealing with the tapering of the sleeve fabric, so that might be more difficult than hemming.

if you can sew, hemming pants is supposed to be quite easy.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

That's a parody wrinklepaws I think.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

That's a pic of Kenan in my house.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

it's a cuet picture.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

It is a cuet picture.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

HOW DID KENAN GET IN MY HOUSE?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://myspace-786.vo.llnwd.net/00688/68/73/688273786_m.jpg

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Robin
June 4, 2006 12:21 PM
Whoa dude, that's my house! WhentheWhattheHell?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse: I didn't tell you, but I broke in. That's me giggling after pooping on yr floor.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

in ur apartment, poopin and gigglin

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

TS: "My dog ate my paper/Grandma died" vs "I have a chemistry test later and I needed to study for that instead of write a paper for your class"

I mean sometimes, I could live with a little less honesty. An artful lie makes up for contrition because it can't be refuted. I can't tell if your grandma died. I'm not going to scour the Lincoln, NE obits looking for her. I do know that this paper could have been written LAST WEEK and revised over the weekend instead of attending that aaaaawesome kegger and studying for your chemistry exam at the last g-d moment. College students. Hmph.

/rant

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

Agreed. There are times when it is more considerate and kind to be lied to.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

aw. that's one of the most frustrating things about teaching in the humanities, too. students' chem exams always come before their English papers.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

This is especially true at a tech school. I sent out a stern email after class, I did.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Right. Because they figure they can always bullshit their way through English.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I did it that way, too, but the difference was, I was actually adept at English.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's the diff. I have half a class of international students and the other half were native speakers who had poorly written entrance essays, so they were placed into my class.

They definitely don't want to be there. And now they're endangering their grades. Way to go, bozos.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

But I'm totally not supposed to be talking about this. So I'll stop.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

my most frustrating students are the stealth-brilliant ones. they turn in bs papers all quarter and are totally silent/bored-looking in discussion section, and then, for their final paper, they actually try because they figure it matters, and they turn out something really special. makes me crazy. where were you when I needed you all quarter?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I think I still don't really understand quiet people and that's the whole trouble.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

for reals! i basically had a conversation with one student today. no one else talked.

i understand quiet people well enough, particularly the ones who don't want to appear to be knowitall blowhards in the classroom, but there's no excuse for looking bored.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

i am married to a quiet person. i am often a quiet person in the classroom (when i'm the student).

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

i was one of those sci majors who relied on bs to get through humanities courses. my grades were good, but i wish i'd put in more effort, because i don't remember shit about literature or philosophy.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think they don't even realize how they look, and the degree to which their teachers are desperately scanning their faces for signs of life. On occasion, a bored-looking student has commented to me on how she/he enjoyed the class, so I think there's this weird student protocol that settles over a lot of them.

I am a bit of a loudmouth generally, and definitely was in all my classes in college. now that i'm teaching the quiet smart kids and can recognize which ones they are, I sort of want to shake them. b

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

(I don't mean to sound so intolerant--many of my friends are quiet people! I just don't really get it.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

to be specific, I have tried not to be a loudmouth in class, but when people start saying stupid shit, I always have to say something. Quiet people's ability to tolerate these situations amazes me.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

I was always the obnoxious, attention-seeking smart kid. Class clown of the honors program. I never had a teacher who didn't at some point tell me to snap out of it, or that I was wasting my potential, or some analog of same. I really wish I had been quiet.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

surely there's a happy medium! (I often wish I had been quiet, too, but there doesn't seem to be any help for it.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Although I'm generally a quiet person, I always tried to participate in class unless I hadn't done the reading (which unfortunately was VERY OFTEN).

Emm4 had been talking all week about this big paper she had due Thurs. and how she wanted to do write a really good one, and then she realized this morning that it was actually due today (and how of course her prof thought she was lying about not knowing the due date). Oh well.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

I tend not to mind students not getting in papers on time unless it becomes a chronic problem or happens at the end of the quarter. It's not like I always grade them in a timely fashion.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

See, if I don't tell them that they're going to be docked a letter grade for each day that they're late, they NEVER turn them in on time. It also punishes the students who are diligent enough to turn in all of their work on time. If they can turn their papers in any old time, there's no incentive to get them in ON TIME. I try to grade quickly because the day they turn something in, there's a new paper assigned.

Sorry if this is boring everyone.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

who's Emm4?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

The new girlie!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

3mma??
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), November 9th, 2006.

Emm4 is this girl that I am seeing.
-- Jordan (jordan...), November 9th, 2006.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

DUH. We discussed this a couple of days ago along with the popularity of the name Emm4, which has enjoyed a renaissance in the last few years acc. to our resident statistician!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

The Milkmaid, it sounds like you're in a different (and much harder!) teaching situation than I've ever been in. your rationale seems completely right-on.

sorry, too, but I love talking about this stuff!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

(I love the name Emma! also: my favorite Austen novel)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I like the name Emm4, too. Congratulations on the rebound person! (poor girl.)

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

In spite of all of this, I still love teaching. Today I got to talk about generating ideas for an argumentative essay. That was fun.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

You're not boring me so much as making me envious, but carry on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

You said that you were waiting for a time? Maybe this is the time. It's not hard to get a teaching degree if you go to school at night. You could keep your day job. Think about it.

I don't really have much else to add except that I hope someone takes pity on me and gives me more work come January.

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

jaymc, I've often thought you'd make a really good teacher. your powers of recall would stand you in good stead.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Amen to that.

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

Haha. Yeah, uh, Madd1e was a "rebound" after my previous girlfriend and that lasted six years, so I have no comment.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan is addicted to having a girlfriend.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

The pain must be extraordinary.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

;)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I was generally quiet in class. In grade school, I was just plain bored. Once they decided I was "gifted" I started getting my own exciting projects to work on instead of having to listen to the teacher. Seriously, I would be handed a huge math assignment during something like English and be told to work on this instead to pass the time. Later, they started taking me out of class to go hang out with the other gifteds so we could learn about interesting things, like architecture.

I was also bored stupid in high school but there was no escaping it, so I would do things like make up excuses to leave class and wander the halls. I still turned in everything on time and got great grades. The teachers liked me. I talked to them quite a bit, but only outside of class. I didn't talk in classes most of the time because it seemed to me that the kids that talked did so more to kiss up than anything else.

In college I didn't talk because I actually had to pay attention.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc, I've often thought you'd make a really good teacher. your powers of recall would stand you in good stead.

Interesting. Btw, there are MANY reasons why I would be a good teacher, this being only one of them.

I was talking the other night to my friend Jody, who is a second-year high-school art teacher, and she said she came to the realization recently that the first couple years are going to be hard, as she settles into things and learns from her mistakes, and how that's kind of scary, because the kids only have her when they have her.

It made me wonder if this constant "waiting for the right time" thing I've always said is kind of bullshit, because there's never a RIGHT time, you can never be COMPLETELY prepared, you just have to plunge in.

But I still think you have to commit to it, and I don't know yet whether I want to COMMIT. Night classes would mean I'd have to quit the band, for instance.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously though, I intended to stay single for awhile just to make sure I had my head straight, and I feel a little guilty about not doing that.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

I always liked talking in class, unless it was about something boring or over my head. But I mean, that's like half the fun of being an English major -- it's just sitting around discussing books.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Btw, there are MANY reasons why I would be a good teacher, this being only one of them.

I'm sure!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

John, You already dress like a teacher!

Jordan, I understand. I tried to be single after my last boyfriend, but it didn't happen.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

I've said it before and I'll say it again: boobs are a powerful force.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

Since Nick is your fiance now and not your boyfriend, isn't he your last boyfriend?

I've said it before and I'll say it again: boobs are a powerful force.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sure!

Sorry, that came off all conceited! I guess I just meant that I don't usually think about my "powers of recall" as being the primary reason why I want to teach.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I intended to stay single for awhile just to make sure I had my head straight

OTM. I'm glad I have done that, because I would have probably ended up treating whoever else I got mixed up with next like absolute shit. That girl did a number on me.

xposts 3x boobs

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

no, it didn't come off conceited. I meant it: I'm sure. your powers of recall as displayed on ILX are directly related to your genuine interest in other people=most important attribute for a teacher.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose you're right about that, Jordan.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Since Nick is your fiance now and not your boyfriend, isn't he your last boyfriend?

I don't get this. I've heard it from other people, too, like when I make reference to someone's girlfriend and he goes "Ahem, my FIANCEE." I'm like, "OKAY FINE, but she's still your girlfriend." You're both, right? In my mind, being a fiance is not a completely separate intermediary stage, it's like "boyfriend-plus."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

you are so right about the plunge. i've thought about this many a time. 'right time' to try & lose weight, exercise, learn something, etc.

xpost

by the way, horseshoe, who are you? are you a chicago person or a non-chicago person on the chicago thread (such as myself).

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

yes, fiance and husband are both boyfriend-plus.

I am a Chicago person.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Hearing Amanda's stories of teaching makes clear many similarities between her situation and that of my parents (who teach social sciences at a tech school). You're not alone!

I could never teach, I don't think. Just knowing there are probably more people that don't care than do care would keep me from it. Either that or I'd just kick them all out and get fired.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I kid, as far as I'm concerned he can still be your boyfriend when yr married.

I think I like tofu now???

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

Also true. I tend to refer to Nick as my bf still anyway, since I feel silly saying FIANCE all the time.

Kelsey, Nick and I met horseshoe once at Sultan's!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

Sultan's: where chilx worlds collide.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I am not sure about still being boyfriend/girlfriend when married. Hmmmm.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan is addicted to having a girlfriend.
-- The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (showdown@wormtown.com) (webmail), Today 1:15 PM. (The Milkmaid) (later) (link)

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The pain must be extraordinary.
-- The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (showdown@wormtown.com) (webmail), Today 1:15 PM. (The Milkmaid) (later) (link)

i can tell you that withdrawal is a bitch.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I like tofu sometimes too! It surprises even me, and I've been veggie for 12 years now. I used to HAAAATTTEEE it, but Nick might make some sesame tofu for us tonight, which I actually love.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

no, you still are boyfriend/girlfriend when married.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I like the idea. It's just all so NOVEL!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

(I am pretending a certainty on the matter that I don't really have. a friend always calls her husband her boyfriend, though.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kr made some great tofu the other day. I'm always lazy when I make it, and just chop it up and throw it in the stir-fry skillet at the same time as my veggies. But she pressed it first to remove water, and then she marinated it with some sort of seasoning. Then it was thrown into a salad with soba noodles, red cabbage, and homemade peanut sauce. It was fucking delicious.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know how I feel about straight tofu, but I've been having it seasoned + cooked in salads at Noodles and I really like it.

I bought some home once before realizing I had no idea what to do with it. How do I shot tofu??

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

That does sound good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Marinated and fried til crispy is my favorite.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

Kr knows what she's doing it seems. That's the way my sister does it more or less and she's a fucking MASTER.

Completely unrelated: Harold's Chicken Shack === TEH HOTTNESS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I love Harold's Chicken Shack!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think she just learned on the fly, too, since she has had to cater to my non-meat-eating ways. She said she picked up the technique from some cooking show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Horseshoe, which number Shack do you go to?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

the one in Hyde Park, which number is that?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of cooking...

Nick made Jordan's Sour Cream Waffle recipe this weekend. It was delicious! I had leftovers for breakfast.

Also, I made Julia's recommended lentil recipe last night when I got home from the gym. It was also great. We were out of cumin, so we subbed with some curry powder and corriander. It was also yum. I had leftovers from that for lunch.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno. I just think it's funny that they all have numbers.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/pdf/060414/060414_harolds.pdf

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Over the years J.R. ran a couple different
shacks, which helps explain the
chain’s disordered numbering system.
No. 11, his first shack, closed in the
mid-90s, but its number was never
reassigned; No. 56, his second shack,
now operates under a different owner
but its original number. As other
stores opened and closed over the
decades, some were renumbered and
some weren’t. The original No. 1,
Harold’s first shack, is long gone;
the current No. 1, at 7139 S. State,
used to be No. 6—though it appears
to have closed last week. No. 92 is in
Milwaukee, No. 94 is in Minneapolis,
but there’s no longer a No. 93. For
that matter there’s no longer a 16, 42,
43, 44, 45, or 78, though there could
be again someday."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Oh -- I don't think I ever mentioned this, but Kr made Julia's "green crack" dip, which was awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, my sis says that the pressing, marinating, etc is the way to get the most "meat-esque" texture/flavors out of it, although I prefer to not think of it that way.

Yeah, Harold's is pretty awesome. I like the home-grown aspect of it. I've only been to the one at 53rd/Woodlawn, but I'm going to probably try the one on Milwaukee next. It's SO BAD for you though! They use beef tallow. Definitely a once-in-a-while kind of thing.

xposts: Hyde Park what!?! I don't know what number that one is either. Their wikipedia entry made me crack up a little.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, they cook their chickens in beef?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Half beef fat, half veg oil, according to the wiki entry.

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

McDonald's used to make their fries in beef, right?

Sarah I'm glad the waffles turned out. :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

53rd and Woodlawn is the one I meant. apparently it's "better" than the Wicker Park one, but I've not been to the WP one yet.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

nice to meet you, horseshoe! sorry i didn't get a chance to meet you before i moved out west.

i press the tofu. leaf just bought us some Soy Vey! to marninate it in. we'll be tossing that shit in salads in no time.

jordan, it wasn't pure beef, but there was a beef additive in the flavor coating they put on the fries before they were flash frozen.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

McDonald's used to make their fries in beef, right?

Yeah, IIRC the practice was stopped in deference to the market in India. There may have been a lawsuit.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ Soy Vey!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

nice to meet you, too, Kelsey!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

also lol @ photo of creators of Soy Vey:

http://www.soyvay.com/eddie.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

SCREECH!

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

i'd never seen slim goodbody with clothes on before.

wait, that sounds wrong...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

anyone going to the i-go holiday party?

and i suppose the real question: will there be booze?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

An i-Go driver cut me off while I was bringing my car back from the shop. He then ran two stop signs in my neighborhood right in front of me. I wanted to chase him down and tell him to get some fucking driving lessons before he got back in one of those things.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

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― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

i heart soy vey.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
last night's Conan appearance made me apprec the value of my "red pubis" to Kazakhs.
-- Dr Morbius (wjwe...), November 2nd, 2006 3:44 AM. (Dr Morbius) (link)

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

Up there where Kenan talks about the power of boobs? I read it as "power of books" and 1) couldn't figure out what that had to do with anything and 2) couldn't understand what Dan meant by 3x boobs except that maybe his ex had something going on of which I was unaware.

Hi horseshoe!

I talk a lot in class. Blah blah blah. Except this class because I hate it hate it hate it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

For an e-mail thread about curly hair yesterday I got "pubic hair removal".

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I got an obscene e-mail from Jesse today about curly hair.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

i had no ads when I wrote an email involving the word "anal" . . . hmmm.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.messengersoffaith.net/Mary.html

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Not even "Santorum '06"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I dropped out there. I was tutoratin'.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

wtf, did that mary doll contract malaria or something?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Mary looks like an 80's GI Joe factory second. She needs a machine gun.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Mary looks like a pre-op trannie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

No wonder she's a virgin.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

AW SNAP

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

lol at Slim Goodbody.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

He looks like Martin Short in this pic:

http://www.riotgrrrlink.com/SlimGoodbody.jpg

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

This is not Slim's first appearance on this thread -- I can't remember why or when he came up before, but I remember larfing about his little suit.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Who is he?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I am a disturbed person. I look at Slim Goodbody and I think, "Target practice."

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Me too. Mostly because we blew the shit out of my and my friend Gabe's Visual Human toys (or whatever those were called) with pellet guns when I was about 12.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I had a 1.0 GPA in college. I was awesome.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Who is he?

He's... that guy. He teaches you all about physical fitness and nutrition. 80's style!

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

On PBS mainly, IIRC.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Looking healthy apparently wasn't very pretty in the 80s.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Most disturbing random website visit today: bachelorette.com. Ew. Just... ew.

What do we think of this site:

http://www.bebetterguys.com/

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

I already know how to cook. The rest, upon a cursory view, smacks of metrosexuality. Or were you talking about the mechanics of the site and not the content? The two should not be separated, in my opinion.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, it's all right, I guess, tho kind of boring. Dan, why do you say "metrosexuality"? Because there are grooming tips about, like, flossing yr teeth and keeping yr skin clear? Or did I just read the wrong sample articles...?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

I only looked hard at the front page, and barely read anything. I agree, those are not necessarily metro-centric activities, but the picture of cufflinks that said "HOT" was what made me drop the m-word.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

also http://www.bebetterguys.com/images/stories/bbg-nbc4.jpg amirite

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

And why would anyone need tips on flossing? Don't you learn that from the dentist when you're like 9?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I like the site's design. I was talking about the content. It's another one of those "ask men" type sites. Some of it's a little metrosexual, I guess, though I don't think "Try to dress well" is really a poor tip for anyone. But some of it goes overboard. Always give up your seat on the bus for a woman? Really? How about, no? The sick and infirm will get my seat. The vadge does not entitle you similarly.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking that it's pretty light on prescriptive-type style tips, and more in the "things every person should know, but you might not if you were raised by wolves and/or think that civilized living is unmanly/undude-ly".

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

All I know is my new roommate tried to carry my washbucket down the hall for me the other eve, and while I was a little disbelieving and more than a little amused at the idea, it's awfully winning in retrospect.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I definitely know some dudes who could benefit from this site. The problem is it's hard to help the unwilling.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

On further exam, it still seems restrained and smart. The home/furniture section says (paraphrased) "we don't have decorating tips for you because we are not the Queer Eye guy, but you should have basic stuff that you need to live like a human being. Ikea and second-hand shops are good for these purchases" which is more sensible than, like, anything!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

I thought it seemed kinda metro as well, like the part I glanced at about getting facials and a poll about feeling comfortable doing so.

I'm into the idea of taking care of yourself and all, but there's still something offputting about that site (maybe the remedial tone?).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

"things every person should know, but you might not if you were raised by wolves and/or think that civilized living is unmanly/undude-ly"

True. And even if you do know, sometimes you need a reminder. Farting, I sometimes forget, is only fun for one person in the room.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

haha otm

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Although I consider myself a feminist, I am easily swayed by chivalrous attempts. I think maybe I've just been spoiled by my dad who has opened doors for me my whole life. Sometimes after spending time with him, I forget not to wait for Nick to come open my car door.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Farting, I sometimes forget, is only fun for one person in the room.

We hang out with some very different people. My friend Tomas and I have a habit of saving them up and farting on each other. BFFs!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

I definitely know some dudes who could benefit from this site.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

My dad also pulls out chairs for women, but this is not as fun for me as it requires more maneuvering than should be necessary.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

i wrote a big long post about food because i was really behind on this thread, but meh. yay pressing and marinating tofu, boo fake meats, yay for people trying and liking my recipes.

i giggled at jordan's mention of men getting facials. i am immature.

OMG you know what? you don't have to be a man to be courteous and open a door for someone. i like chivalry, though i don't expect it.

pulling out chairs seems awkward.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost Haha, wonder what they would say on that subject. "Things you do with your best guy friends while drunk are not things you should do in polite company."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I'm all for decorum, but if you can't be stupid with people you know and love then what the fuck good is life? Otherwise we'll all end up clones of some stupid website.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's nice to be nice to teh ladiez. But I still maintain that making an effort to always give up your bus or train seat to the nearest woman is just trying to hard. Besides, I'm trying to read here.

I'm finding the checklist of things you need for each room of the house pretty useful. Yes, I DO need a dish rack, come to think of it!

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

The pulling out of chairs thing does make me crazy. Once I'm seated in the chair, it's way too far from the table...and is the gent supposed to slide the chair in with me seated in it? That's just silly, plus will scratch the floors.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

I too appreciate the gentlemanly guestures. My friend, Matt, always opened doors for me when we'd go to lunch together & stuff. Leaf, on the other hand, doesn't. Along with what Julia said, I open doors for people all the time!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

you don't have to be a man to be courteous and open a door for someone.

OTM.

I like chivalrous gestures, but there's absolutely no reason why it should only go in one direction.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I agree about the chair thing, never did get the hang of that.

I open doors, although it's kind of awkward when there's an outer door and then an inner door. Like, I'm not going to rush ahead to open two doors, so it usually works out that I open the first door and they open the second. Which is fine, really.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also opening someone else's car door has always seemed really weird to me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

What about ordering for a date? That got me to home base once on the first date, but no-one else I've ever met has appreciated.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, also when you (generic) go through a door, it is a nice gesture to hold it open for the person walking behind you. Um, yeah. What everyone just said (xposts...).

That's the worst thing about being helped into a chair. It's awkward because you are trying to lift yourself up a little to scoot in the chair while someone else is trying to push you and and and.. it's bad. I hate it when waitors do that at restaurants. I never know what to do.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: er, ...appreciated it.

(And to be honest, I've never really tried again.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Jordan: Maybe because they're already sitting in the car for several seconds while you go around the front to get in the driver's seat?

What about ordering for a date?

Yeah, this strikes me as weird. She has her own mouth, innit?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I'd say if you know this restaurant, you could suggest things to your date, but I wouldn't order for someone else unless they asked me to do so. It reminds me of when I worked at Golden Corral and the old men would usually order for their wives. It's not like they would discuss it beforehand. I'll have this huge steak platter and the lady will be having a baked potato.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Always preface with, "...and the little lady will be having..."

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Unless there's a language barrier or one person specializes in the cuisine or some other prohibitive circumstance, DO NOT ORDER FOR DATE. I find that totally feudal and weird.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Wait wait: Are you talking about ordering for them without their input, or having them tell you what they want and then repeating it to the server?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - Yeah! I forgot to say little.

I almost always order for myself. Nick might have done so a couple of times but only because it was easier for one reason or the other, like maybe we were both getting the same thing. I'm sure I've done the same.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

OR if one of us is in the bathroom...

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's not the point though. All the other customs described here could be performed by the date, too, right? Unless they have no hands/arms/etc.

xpost: And I would never do it if it was not wanted. I asked first.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Is anyone making crafty presents this year? I might just have to go to Michael's or Joanns and brainstorm.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Just to be clear, I'm not asking for advice on this one. I know that a lot of people would find it distateful. Just want to know your opinions vis a vis opening doors etc.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Of course, Dan -- I didn't think you were ordering her a baked potato and some broccoli against her wishes! Just...I'm surprised your date wanted that at all.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe because they're already sitting in the car for several seconds while you go around the front to get in the driver's seat?

I guess that's not so bad, I was thinking about getting out of the car. Like, you're driving, you park, and then you get out and go around to the other side of the car and let them out. My mom would do this sometimes, just not get out of the car, and I'd be all "WTF MOM?!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

However, suggesting dishes to a date is fun. Part of the whole "take her to a place she's never been and pretend to know everything about it" pose. Better yet, DO know everything about it. Appear smart. Hopefully by the time she catches on that you're not, she'll like you for other reasons.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

My distaste for that site can be summed up in the three-word title of one section: How to Be.

Fuck you, website. Who died and made you boss?

Also otm re: gender-neutral courtesy. And I love to open car doors for people!

And on preview, Laurel otm re: ordering for a date. I mean, what kind of reaction would you het menfolk have if your female date piped up and ordered for you? (Aside from circumstances in which you can't pronounce menu items or want your date to order a shared dish or your jaw is wired shut.)

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck you, website. Who died and made you boss?

LOL thanks for that

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, are you trying to be a better guy?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Because if so, I suggest learning how to Be.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

I read that as "or your jew is wired shut"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - oh. Not so much opening car doors for a person sitting in the car, just as we're both walking towards the car. I do this for men and women.

I have opened doors for random men only to have them go WAAAAAY out of their way to take the door out of my hand and let me through first. Similarly, I hate the gender-based courtesy elevator shuffle in which it would be far more convenient for the man right in front of the doors to get out first but he rearranges everyone like squares in those mix-up slidey picture puzzles so a woman, any woman, can get out first. I have actually said, "Just get out of the elevator. It's okay," and gotten dirty looks in response.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost That'll be the next Borat joke.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, speaking of wired Jews, my friend Rachel (Mountain of Heebs) and I spent all class trying to formulate the dirtiest synonym for "piercing the corporate veil" possible. We finally settled on "penetrating the corporate back door cherry with the rock hard cock of justice."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

i've been talking to my roommate a lot about gender roles, because she's started dating a girl who's all butchy but not adhering to Lesbionic Rules about such things (which is good). i had no idea that some lesbians had really strict beliefs about what butchy and femmey people should do and how they should be and such. i guess i assumed that girlz who liked girlz wouldn't be uptight about gender roles since they're all the same damn gender.

people are narrow-minded shockah.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, Jenny, I think that men's site is really sensible! It tells people to do things like change your dish sponge every once in a while because that shit gets gross, or that if you want some incidental stuff for your decor you should try the Salvation Army, or that it's desirable to keep your skin free of cuts, bumps, or burns and that products for doing so should only cost as much as a glass of booze (which is basically, like, $5-10, right? regular drugstore cheapie stuff!) I mean, these are seriously basic human guidelines. I think it's boring, and I'm not sure that an audience so incapable would be reading up on hygiene in the first place so maybe they're not pitching the tone quite right, but I got no probs with the content.

Haha, I HATE IT when a guy ahead of me moves out of the way to let me through unnecessarily, and then stands there to usher me in (happened this morning at a revolving door). I usually roll eyes, sniff audibly, and march onward.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

"penetrating the corporate back door cherry with the rock hard cock of justice."

i like it.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Lindsay Wagner is The Lesbionic Woman.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

mean, what kind of reaction would you het menfolk have if your female date piped up and ordered for you?

i would love it because IT WOULD MEAN I WAS ON A FUCKING DATE. /bitterness.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

bummerz wishlist

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

So for jaymc, then?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Not all dates are fucking dates.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I didn't think you ordered for her without asking! I'm sorry if I implied that with my G.C. story.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I HATE IT when a guy ahead of me moves out of the way to let me through unnecessarily, and then stands there to usher me in (happened this morning at a revolving door).

the small part my grandmother had in raising me (we stayed with her one summer when my mom was in the hospital when we were kids) does not allow me, to this day, to board a city bus before a woman. i don't care if it's raining, if i'm sick, if i've been standing there for ever... if there's a woman at the bus stop i can't get on before she does.

sorry. blame grandma.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Not all dates are fucking dates.

if they're not then you're just out for drinks.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

HA! (to Jenny!)

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I didn't think you ordered for her without asking! I'm sorry if I implied that with my G.C. story.

No worries! No problem. I was more interested in the hypothetical situation rather than my own experience.

To tie up loose ends, she said it made her feel ladylike and old-timey classy, or something to that effect.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Well, that's what voluntarily assumed roles are for at their best, I guess -- to evoke the roles we ENJOY playing at that place and time, instead of ones we're forced into. So congratulations to you both for getting good things out of the exchange.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

The Cold War Unicorns came today!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

and there was much rejoicing.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

JOHN!!! where did you order them from? i NEEEEEED to get those for my brother in law.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

I have a friend for whom I always order when we're at a restaurant. I did it once a loooooong time ago, at Bob Evans I think, and he laughed. He said that he felt like my bitch. Now I always do it and it's our little joke.

He just sits there while I tell the server what he'll be having. Sometimes I put on fake extra bossy airs to ratchet up the fun.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

KEVIN: http://www.mcphee.com/items/11674.html

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

10-Q

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

byebye chicago see you laters

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

later gator.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

There's a guy at my work who I like but who is really big on holding doors open for other people, which is fine, but he'll do it even when it makes things more difficult, like when there's a bunch of people in the elevator and people have to move around him holding open the door to get out. And he ALWAYS holds the door open for everyone else.

Did you know that when going through a revolving door, the man is supposed to go through first? I guess the theory being that he is providing the force to make the door revolve for the puny woman.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

just as a man precedes a woman down the stairs but follows going up. that way if she falls, she falls on him. NOT BECAUSE HE'S STARING AT HER ASS.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Right.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

(wink)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

(nudge)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

(squirt)

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Gross.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Wedding is off.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

What? I WAS SHOOTING HIM WITH A WATER GUN!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, did you forget to come pick me up? LITERALLY?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

He's standing outside holding the door for you.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

HA!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Nick needs to be more chivalrous at the gym, because there should be no reason for me to break out into a sweat.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, fuck opening doors, we dudes ought to be right there with a towel.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

No Sarah is right, he should be running on the elliptical for her.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

And a cool-down sponge! I hate sweatiness. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Granted, like all women, I don't sweat. I glisten.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I read a really depressing article this morning about an attorney who saved money by quitting her gym and getting a second job loading boxes onto Fed Ex trucks for exercise and extra money.

Speaking of the gym and stuff.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

she should've joined ups, THEY'RE UNION.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

why is that depressing? i mean, other than the fact that she's probably never home & her down time is FedEx.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Because I don't want to have to get a second job loading trucks when I'm an attorney!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm too wussy for heavy lifting.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

ya right

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

i'm thinking about getting a second job again. i could load trucks, i used to unload them (15 years ago. oh my god).

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

It'd keep you out of trouble! And just think of the potential for GUNS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

You won't need an extra job!! Don't worry! Plus, maybe she wasn't in a two income household, like you now are.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

No, she was just in a lot of debt above and beyond her student loans. We just have the oppressive massiveness of student loans but no car, mortgage, or consumer debt, thankfully.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

It'd keep you out of trouble!

that's exactly what i was thinking. i need to find something for like, 4 or 5 hours a night from 6 to 10 or 11 a couple nights a week. not even for the money, mostly, just to keep busy. and warm.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

of course, i don't seem to be able to leave this job on time ever so the point is moot.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 14 November 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone want to see me and Matthew Perpetua being interviewed by Ted Leo about fruit?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:01 (nineteen years ago)

As I was walking from work to the train, I saw a woman wearing what I can only describe as "Ugg Slippers" -- they had open heels, but otherwise looked pretty much the same. I feel kind of weird noticing something like this, but after the discussion of the topic here I couldn't help but think "OMG UGG SLIPPERZ!"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. You weren't kidding.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

How in the hell did that dude stay outside all day when it was 97 degrees with a black tshirt on? Oh wait, VIP. Probably had some air-conditioned hut to go eat his fruit in. ;)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:05 (nineteen years ago)

John, that was the role you were born to play, baby.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 00:42 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha Oh, the fruit. That brought me great joy.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I think I don't much care for honeydew melon, even at its sweetest. It's a little bit... not there. Bad cantaloupe is quite bad. But GOOD cantaloupe rivals even watermelon in its pure goodness. But you always know this going in: melon is a risk.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 04:52 (nineteen years ago)

I am sorry that melon season is over. I was all into melons this summer in NO (not referring to the bosom-raspberry) but then I moved in with the Jesuits and it was all over.

The pulling out of chairs thing does make me crazy. Once I'm seated in the chair, it's way too far from the table...and is the gent supposed to slide the chair in with me seated in it? That's just silly, plus will scratch the floors.

I work with a guy at Catch who does this for all of his guests that he can get to. If he's seating a man and a woman he does it for the woman first, then the man. He also does it for 2 men who are having a business lunch. It's painful to watch. He's very hungry for attention, especially the attention of straight men, so this is only one of his many quirks. VERY surprisingly the men seem to very open to it.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

I was all into melons this summer in NO (not referring to the bosom-raspberry) but then I moved in with the Jesuits and it was all over.

I am enjoying re-reading this sentence, particularly when I imagine it divorced from its context.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/img/bad_reaction.gif

YOUTUBE IS DOWN?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:49 (nineteen years ago)

That's what it says. Do you doubt it?

BTW: I have 4 OiNK invites if any of you are feeling hardcore enough to download and share music ALL THE TIME.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

i can do it but i need to get your help to set myself up for success.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah. I had no trouble forwarding your ports correctly when I was there. I still have the instructions bookmarked, actually:

http://portforward.com/english/routers/port_forwarding/2wire/1000hg/Utorrent.htm

But I'd be happy to come over sometime soon to help you set it up. I still have to give you back your cashmere sweater (I swear I thought it was mine! I used to have a sweater JUST LIKE THIS! Only... much cheaper.) and your blanket, and you still have some pricey-ass vitamins of mine and some protein shake mix. We should make a date.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

I have some other stuff of yours. Including socks and underwear. And a blazer. And that cock-ring Jenny and I saw.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh... I like that blazer. The cock ring is played out. No fun anymore.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:05 (nineteen years ago)

You know... kinda like your giant purple dildo.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

Which is still under the bed.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

You will not fucking believe this but I already did all the port forwarding on my own yesterday without these instructions!!! SMRT

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:08 (nineteen years ago)

And when you test it it tells you they are forwarded correctly? Good on ya!

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:09 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't test it.

BUT:

FISH SAUCE:ASIAN COOKING::CUMIN:MEXICAN COOKING

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

Wait... now I wonder if the settings just carried over from my computer. The setting are in the router itself, and only reference a spot on your computer. Assuming you have uTorrent installed in the same spot that everyone does, maybe the router just assumed it was the same shit and went about its business.

Anyway, yay!

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:11 (nineteen years ago)

FISH SAUCE:ASIAN COOKING::CUMIN:MEXICAN COOKING

Meaning that people make too big a deal out of both, and they're generalizations about a very large country and continent that have a huge variety of styles of cooking and ingredients?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

Which maybe is to further say: I can really live without fish sauce. Forever.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

I was ranting about this the other day: I will not miss the smell of Argyle street one little bit. It had gotten to the point where it made me the very opposite of hungry.

I still want to go to that place that has live crabs and lobsters, though, and go home and do some terrible animal cruelty involving hot water, and have some nice fresh seafood. That sounds like a fun night.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i119/mindywirth/AnnieHallLobster.jpg

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 06:32 (nineteen years ago)

i was just reading the intimate relations thread and it reminded me that none of my friends believe that i have a penis because they have never seen it.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

you really are drunk.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:42 (nineteen years ago)

it's ok, i'm really tired. I've been to bed and back. It's like going to hell and back, only cushiony.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:43 (nineteen years ago)

It's ok, though. I bought a crappy razor that's been cutting the shit out of me, but tonight I not only took a hot shower, I soaked a towel in scalding water, wrung it out, and put in on my face for about 5-6 minutes. Then I shaved with the crap razor. No cuts, and the best shave I've had in a while. Hm. Maybe it's not about the razor.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 07:54 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like any single-entendre melons.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 11:15 (nineteen years ago)

Meaning that people make too big a deal out of both, and they're generalizations about a very large country and continent that have a huge variety of styles of cooking and ingredients?

STFU

What I mean is that my stir fries -- which are quite a frequent dinner since moving to Argyle Street -- always laced a certain je n'asian sais quois until I realized that many, many Asian dishes include fish sauce. Also key has been regular use of corn starch and toasted sesame oil. In fact a good stir fry can go as follows:

- Veggies
- tablespoon of toasted sesame oil in a wok
- soy sauce
- garlic
- a few dashes of fish sauce
- tablespoon of cornstarch mixed with water, added at the end to coat veggies with sauce

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

always laced

That is, they always LACKED. Attempt at cleverness ruined by typo.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Honeydew sucks 99% of the time. However, I still eat it for that 1% chance it will be like having jesus in my mouth.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Cantaloupe with balsamic vinegar is nice. And I'd like to try cantaloupe with port wine.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

However, I still eat it for that 1% chance it will be like having jesus in my mouth.

if i had access to coffee i'm sure i could somehow tie this to the red eye cover story of this morning.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of things people have that I would like returned, Jesse or Kenan: one of you (it was at Jesse's apartment) has a red, velvet throw that I loaned Jesse a million years ago that I would now like back because we have a couch worthy of it. If there's bird shit on it, please have it cleaned first.

Thank you,
Jenny

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

also note: any other type of shit is welcome.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I love honeydew and cantaloupe when they are ripe. The problem is that most places throw unripe melon into fruit cups, so you get used to having bad bland melon.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

And John, return my Aguirre.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Keep the lube.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

mark aguirre? what's he up to these days? i'm guessing about 3 bills.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

As much as the CTA and Metra annoys me sometimes, I really miss being able to take the train to work. A little mist, not even full-fledged rain, and it took two and a half hours to get here this morning. Le sigh. If only I didn't have to drive to meetings so often.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff is OTM about melon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

chicago, what good is today? does anyone have anything going on, a reason for today to even be? is it too late to just cancel it, call it off and just make it thursday instead?

short of that, i would love some coffee and perhaps a pastry or muffin right now.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Today's all right cos I'm going to a potluck dinner party after work and making mac'n'cheese from scratch with some kind of pork product on top.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

i didn't need to hear that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

You asked.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

touche.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny: I have no knowledge of a velvet throw.

Pork is good. Porky pork pork. Pork all day and pork all night. I don't need anything but pork.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

And love. I need love and pork.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

A coffee. I don't need anything but love and pork and coffee. And this lighter.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

And a Thermos.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

And this chair.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I'll stop.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sex with you is all I want.
Sex with you and sometimes food is all I really want.
Sex with you and sometimes food and maybe a movie or a play is all I really want today.
Sex with you and sometimes food and maybe a movie or a play and sleep,
but not too much at all, is really all I want.
Sex, food, movie, play, sleep...
Shower! A shower with you and some shampoo would be oh so good.
Sex with you and sometimes food and a movie or a play,
Some sleep, a shower and a shampoo with you is all I really want.
Really.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

My Aunt Matilda went on a trip, and in her suitcase she packed...

love
love and pork
love, pork, and coffee
love, pork, coffee, and this lighter
...

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

Sex with you is all I want.

Jenny! Jeff would kill me.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://snltranscripts.jt.org/86/pics/86fwish.jpg

If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season, it would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace.
If I had two wishes that I could wish for this holiday season, the first would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of harmony and peace ... and the second would be for $30 million a month to be given to me, tax-free in a Swiss bank account.
You know, if I had three wishes that I could make this holiday season, first, of course, would be for all the children to get together and sing ... the second would be for the $30 million every month to me ... and the third would be for all encompassing power over every living being thing in the entire universe.
And if I had four wishes that I could make this holiday season, first would be the crap about the kids ... second would be for the $30 million.. the third would be for all the power ... and the fourth would be to set aside one month each year for an extended 31-day orgasm, to be brought about slowly by Rosanna Arquette and that model Paulina somebody, I can't think of her name, of course my lovely wife could come, too. She's behind me 100% on this, I guarantee you.
Wait a minute, maybe that sex thing should be the first wish! So, if I made that the first wish, because, you know, it could all go boom tomorrow, and then what have you got? No, no ... the kids singing would be great, that would be nice. No, no, who am I kidding! I mean, theyu're not gonna be able to get all those kids together! I mean, the logistics of the thing is impossible! It's more trouble than it's worth! So, we reorganize: here we go. First, the sex -- we go with that; second, the money. No! We go with the power second, then the money, and then the kids. Oh, wait, oh geez! I forgot about revenge against my enemies! Okay ... revenge against all my enemies, they should die like pigs in Hell! That would be the fourth wish! And of course, my fifth wish would be for all the children of the world to join hands and sing in the spirit of peace and harmony. Thank you, everybody.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Classic.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I used to have that King Missle tape.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Missile. Pronounced like a Britisher.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have your velvet throw. It has been in a box in the closet. A box where I put my bird shit.

Kenan-- do you think maybe you took a black long sleeved button-up dress shirt of mine by mistake? I need that for work.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm.

I already ruined one of my new H&M shirts with chicken wing sauce last night.

huge xpost probably

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

xp Hm... I'll check in the laundry. I don't think so, though.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I have never heard King Missyle apart from that penis song, and I feel that I have heard enough King Missile to last me for the rest of my life. The lyrics, the music, the band, the band members, the band members' personal lives -- all just a dick joke, no?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh... How did that go?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

"Detachable penis..."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

The song Jenny referenced was on an earlier record.

/CRED

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

Actually it wasn't even really a song, now that I think about it.

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

Haha.

I just downloaded my bank transaction record from TEH INTERNET. Amazing times we live in, friends.

Right now I am paying 42% of my take-home in rent. Next paycheck, though, it goes down to 40%.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

yay!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

So, kevin, did you get cookies? I had "C is for cookies" on my gmail message all day yesterday, but never actually had any cookies. :-(

I DO have peppermint patties now though. MIAM!

I just updated my Amazon wish list. I'm a happy camper today.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

no, no cookies in any way shape or form. no prospect of cookies any time in the near future. cookies may be gone from my life at this point but they're still in my thoughts.

i should update my amazon list, i'm sure there's stuff in there i no longer want.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

What kinds of cookies do you like?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Also, are you coming to Thanksgiving?

These two questions may or may not be related.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

no percentages today, please, in any money-related way.

i had cannoli for breakfast this morning. it was less exciting than i'd anticipated.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

no, it doesn't look like i'll be coming to thanksgiving but thanks for the invite. i need to rsvp that thing.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Are you going to fam it up?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

i'll be with blood this turkeyday.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

My next-door neighboor (i.e. football girl) left a plate of sugar cookies outside my door. It was nice but they're not very good, so I took them into work today.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Since both sides of my family live in-state, I'm pretty much always going to be with them on T-giving. I decided that I'm going to go down to Peoria this year with my mom because I was with my dad's family last year.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

In sixth grade, I baked chocolate chip cookies for my (first) boyfriend. I put them all in this huge mason jar and tied a christmasy bow around the top. A few weeks later I found out he didn't like them, so he gave them all to his fattie friend Jeremiah who ate them all in one sitting.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

This bf is the Jeremy I refer to here.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I just got a voicemail from "Agent Tyrese calling from Juan Juevas."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

Must be Nice.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Jeremy sure sounds mature!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I mean "calling FOR." (xpost)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Jeremy was awesome. Oh, no, wait... Jeremy was an asshole! He terrorized me all through middle school. I'm sure I've mentioned him before. He would do things like give me dead daffodils on Easter and a heart-shaped chocolate box with a destroyed valentine and a pushpin inside.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Jeremy was emo!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

cookies, is there anything situation they CAN'T make better?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

That's weird Sarah, I thought goths loved cookies.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

he's clearly insane, this Jeremy, if he doesn't like chocolate chip cookies.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

They were freakin' delicious cookies. I was more mad that I didn't get to eat them than the fact that he didn't.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Middle School Emotional Abuser: Next on the Lifetime Network.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

he's clearly insane, this Jeremy, if he doesn't like chocolate chip cookies.

my ex just sent me a gchat message asking what kind of cookies i wanted for christmas. i felt myself blushing as i typed "chocolate chip".

i can't even remember the last time SHE gave me chocolate chip cookies.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

aw. I'm glad you're getting cookies!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

NO COOKIES FOR ME.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, the actual meaning of cookies went totally over my head. :(

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

it was a reference to a sports column, ally made it the week 10 thread on the nfl board. it degenerated from there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Mine too, apparently. If "chocolate chip cookies" are a euphemism for something, I'm not sure I want to know what.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

I like pink frosted cookies.

http://www.supereggplant.com/archives/pink%20cookie-thumb.JPG

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

ACHTUNG FUCKERS: Drinks after work tomorrow at Old Timer's.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

OKAY>

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

― Achtung Fuckers (Jordan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

can't, literally no money.

i think i'm off the booze for a while anyway.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

Will I see you bozos on Sat. night at Kelsey's thing? I'm going to the EB on Friday night, so three nights in a row is not my style. I will probably skip Old Timers.

(SHOCKA!)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

This bozo will be at Kelsey's thing, yes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

can't, literally no money.

i think i'm off the booze for a while anyway.

I second this whole post. Why you do this the DAY BEFORE PAYDAY?

I'll see you all this weekend, anyway. No biggie.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know anything about a saturday night thing so i'm guessing no. friday i'm going to bar vertigo. oh, wait, saturday is d@n the f@n's birthday party. sunday is reserved for football.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Nick and I were going to kelsey's thing on FRIDAY.. Is everyone going to saturday instead? Saturday we are going to the Ice Fact0ry to see Mannequ1n men & sharx & dr1ftless pony club.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

DPC have to change their name:

http://www.ilikemusic.com/images/article_images/full/newyoungponyclub_f.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Is that a joke or for reals?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to Old Timer's tomorrow.
I am doing laundry on Friday morning.
Jeff and I are going to the Duke of Perth for dinner with Kelsey on Friday.
I am getting a hair cut on Saturday.
I am videotaping Jesse and The Good Emily and me as we perform a mediation simulation on Sunday.

That is the sum total of the things I will be doing outside of my apartment this weekend. I will be studying or sleeping at all other times.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

? It's a band from the UK called New Young Pony Club. They have a single called "Ice Cream." I like it:

Despite boasting a name that sounds like a posh rapper's clothing imprint, NYPC have a winning disco-punk flair, and "Ice Cream," with its semi-detached vocals, innuendo-laden lyrics, and steady 122 BPM, would make a good DJ-set companion to the DFA remix of Le Tigre's "Deceptacon."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Disco-punk? Gag me with a fork.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Better than regular punk.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

[/fighting words]

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

So today I engaged in a new (to me) way of causing myself pain in the name of maintaining an oppressive beauty standard: threading. It's like high-speed plucking and it hurts but it's not as potentially painful as waxing, particularly since I often have a bad reaction to wax.

Anyway, threading. It's the hair-ripper-outer process of the future. And the past.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

threading is very good for eyebrows.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Ooooh I'm pretty sure that has been discussed here before, but we might need to consult the spreadsheet.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

So now Edgewater after DoPerth, Jenny?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I paid someone to employ this technique on my eyebrows.

xpost! Yeah, I liked it much better than waxing. It made me sneeze about a bazillion times, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

No Edgewater, just DoP. I have to call it an somewhat early night so I can get up and do schooly stuff early in the morning.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I pay people to do it, too. It makes my eyes water in some reflexive-sinus-cavity way.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

My preferred hair removal method:

http://www.ssb4.net/users/19163/dsp_weed_wacker.jpg

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I won't see you then! I'm not Duke of Perthing. Cry!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Where do you go, HS?

I'm sorry, Sarah! I miss you! :(

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

a place off of Devon on Western called Bibya. I recommend!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Myspace is being a big bitch.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

So was ILX up until a few minutes ago.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

INTERENTS BEING A BIG BITCH, FILM AT 11

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

don't they know that between 2:30 and 3:45 are my prime goofing off hours?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

i'm breaking internets all over the place today.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 23:04 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago. going home.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 15 November 2006 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Chicago...I had many xposts yesterday, but i was poxy'd off. and i was super busy at work, as i will be today. but! i am way excited to see you tomorrow! apologies for the over-the-top emails about DoP.

love,
kelsey

one xpost: sugar cookies make me think of amanda b/c one day we went shopping & then on a quest to end all quests for a frosted sugar cookie. as for me, i'm more in the chocolate chip oatmeal cookie camp, but i honestly won't turn down any cookie.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

I had a frosted Halloween sugar cookie in NO that makes me feel sentimental even now, it was so good. The cookie was not too sweet, very buttery, soft but not chewy, and the icing was creamy and sugary with a hint of vanilla. It was so good that I might put up a posting about to find its friends on Craigslist's "Missed Connections" section.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

A sugar cookie like that doesn't come along twice in a lifetime; for most, not even once.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

chicago, i woke up in the best mood today. how is everybody doing this morning? i almost had to go down to one knee this morning to avoid being blown over by a particularly strong gust of wind. i was in the middle of western ave waiting to cross right outside the old ComEd building. that thing really funnels the wind.

anyway, hope you all have good days.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm feelin' good too, kevin!

I hear you about the wind. My hair was all medusa-like so I couldn't see anything on my walk in.

I made oatmeal raisin cookies last night with walnuts in them. They were and still are basically perfect. I brought some in to have after lunch today.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't had a chance to look to see what my hair looks like yet. not exactly going out of my way to make time either.

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

I had some crazy dreams last night. I can't remember them now though, which is a shame, especially because I think kittens were involved. I wish I could go home and get back into bed so I could go back in to dreamworld.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

I love oatmeal raisin cookies with walnuts in them.

I was at work until after 8 last night and then I watched a whole disc of Battlestar.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Battlestar rules. Nick and I were supposed to go to Ben's every Friday to watch it this season, but his gf is way behind in the episodes. So we went there and watched a little, but she had to hide in the other room the whole time so she didn't see any spoilers. AWK-WARD. So there went that plan. I guess we'll just have to wait for this season to come on dvd now.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of dvds, we watched the Strangers with Candy movie last night. It was better than to be expected, I mean, if you're a fan of the show anyway. Sadly, I thought some of the delted scenes belonged in the movie and would have made it a little more well-rounded.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

DELETED, not delted

Over all, the movie was a little too tame I think, but it still had lots of laugh out loud funny parts, especially with Steve Colbert.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah I'm going to take a break and wait for season 3 to come out on dvd (although Justin did tivo + burn them for Cam!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.knitemare.org/cats/cookieday.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.knitemare.org/cats/1155731300679qq1.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

those are the SCARIEST "cute" kittens i've ever seen. i didn't know cuteness could be so frightening.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

The text on the second pic looks like it belongs on a gangsta rap album cover.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Have a nice day: http://www.knitemare.org/cats/

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff and I have watched the first two episodes of season three of BSG and I have come to the conclusion that it is better than Lost. Much better. Also, I was kind of ambivalent about Starbuck at first but now I love her.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Whatever.

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

Jenny OTM.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.knitemare.org/cats/270917403_1ae736f6c5.jpg

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

HI! I upgraded your RAM!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

That cat could totaly be my roommate's, and she would make a little sound like "burrr" and give a head nod. I swear she does this all the time.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff and I have watched the first ~~two~~five episodes of season three of BSG

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS MIGHT I REMIND YOU THAT YOU ARE WATCHING A SCIENCE FICTION SHOW.

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

What's wrong with Sci Fi?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

OH SHIT I AM? THAT'S IT I'M THROUGH WITH IT.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

There's nothing wrong with it, if it's A.I. or Quantum Leap.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

A.I. the terrible, 45 minutes-too-long movie?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

45 MINS OF MY LIFE I CAN NEVER GET BACK?!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I do find some of the production very sterotypically SciFi channel, but otherwise it's a pretty good show. I just haven't been there from day one like I have with Lost.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Those are some weird-ass choices for "sci-fi that's okay to like".

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

A.I. was awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

45 MINS OF MY LIFE I CAN NEVER GET BACK?!

Ha, you're baiting me, right? I've talked about how I hate this phrase?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

OMG! I'm still back staring at the SUP cat. I can't stop laughing.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, he looks like he's ready for a few cold ones.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Other sci-fi I have enjoyed: Minority Report, Gattaca (I don't remember the latter that well, but I think I enjoyed it). The mystical elements of Lost and Twin Peaks are part of what makes them two of my favorite shows ever, but I don't know if that makes them sci-fi. Dune is prob. David Lynch's worst movie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

No, while we are being huge nerds, the secret marketing backstory/investigative game at www.cloudmakers.org was awesome. The movie was deeply underwhelming by comparison.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, is thirsty thursday still going on?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

John there is good sci-fi that has not been touched by Spielberg.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

I also liked Twelve Monkeys, Donnie Darko, Back to the Future, and 28 Days Later. It could be argued that my favorite movie of the decade, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, is sci-fi.

Classics I would like to see: Blade Runner, Alien.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah definitely put those on the ol' queue.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

John, I'm not saying for sure, and I don't want you to be alarmed, but you make have terrible taste in science fiction. You might want to get that looked at.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Re Blade Runner: Director's Cut or no?

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

Classics I would like to see: Blade Runner, Alien.

Absolute musts. Although Alien is really more of a horror movie in space. But whatever, it's f'in great.

xpost Definitely Director's Cut.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, what makes you say I have terrible taste in science fiction?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I take it back. Twelve Monkeys is pretty excellent. And I think Eternal Sunshine is sci-fi, sure.

I still think Donnie Darko is garbage. There. Now you know.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

I typed that "terrible taste" thing back when all you had listed was Minority Report and Gattaca. Hoo boy do I not like Gattaca.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, that's fine (re Donnie Darko). I don't love it or anything. But I do like that it's a mood-piece rather than being plot-driven (its plot is nonsensical), and I'm a lot more apt to embrace sci-fi when it's "weird things happening in our familiar world."

(Like I said, I don't remember Gattaca except for walking out being pleasantly surprised that I liked a sci-fi movie. I saw it in England, when I went to the movies like three times a week and was largely indiscriminate in what I saw.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Dearest Otto Midnight:

I will be at Old Timer's at approximately 5:30 today. I'm guessing Jesse and Courtney will get there a little earlier, but I can't say fer sher.

Love,
Jenny

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I would bet that John has never seen Star Wars, but would love Solaris.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

i will try to get there for a singular beer. though i haven't made it home before 7:15 this week so who knows. i will try to be there though.

Best wishes and warmest regards,
otto midnight (on the pipeline)

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I saw the first three Star Wars movies when I was in elementary school -- they barely left an impression on me, except as pop-culture references. I also wrote an essay about Episode 1. For the same reason I didn't bother with the second and third installment of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, I haven't seen Eps 2 and 3.

I'm interested in Solaris. Which do you prefer, the Tarkovsky or the Soderbergh?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Tarkovsky, but I like 'em both.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Soderbergh, but that's because it has George Clooney and I never forgave Tarkovsky for Stalker.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I had that feeling you described while leaving Soderbergh's Solaris: I was pleasantly surprised to have enjoyed a Soderbergh movie.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

What? King of the Hill and Schizopolis and Out of Sight and The Limey are all great, and I don't remember hating sex, lies, and videotape or Traffic or Erin Brockovich, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I've only seen the Soderbergh version. It was in a hotel room in Metairie, LA during a rainstorm, falling in and out of sleep. I remember the whole afternoon as really surreal.

I saw The Limey a looong time ago and remember being disappointed.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I should be making it to Old Timer's as well, possibly somewhere around 6-6:30.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I remember hating Traffic.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

I rescreend The Limey a couple years ago and was surprised at how thin the plot is. It's a short story, really. But the off-kilter editing is beautifully innovative (I think Soderbergh tried it out in Out of Sight but goes full-on in this one), and all of the gauzy memories and flashbacks lend a poignant mood to the proceedings. Plus, I could just watch Terrence Stamp all day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Is the work of Steven Soderbergh the most overrated thing ever?

(yes.)

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

Nick and I will not be in attendance. Instead, we will be at the gym and then band practice. Also, I need to save my wee funds for Christmas pressies. It is for the best.

John, you are one of those few people who can pull off calling a movie "screening" it! :-D

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I remember liking Traffic and then, later, hating it despite having only seen it once.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I stole that from Alfred Soto!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I know, I was just about to ask what the difference is between rescreening and watching that shit twice.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

John, you are one of those few people who can pull off calling a movie "screening" it! :-D

I submit that nobody can pull that off.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I make fun of him for it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

many many many xposts

this was the quote in salon that made me finally queue 'the wire' in netflix:

"Battlestar Galactica," the new remake of the cheesy '70s series, is the most thrilling and trenchant dramatic series on TV at the moment (except, of course, for "The Wire"). Maybe you still haven't given it a shot because you just can't believe a show set on a spaceship could possibly engage you when you can watch the simpering narcissists of "Grey's Anatomy" instead -- in which case, you are an idiot.

john, you have to see the director's cut of blade runner. and i love alien--i didn't see it until fairly recently.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

Am I supposed to know who Alfred Soto is?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

No, Jenny, you're right. I think the producers/directors/promoters of a film can "screen it" in order to reach audiences, but I don't think the audience "screens" the film by watching it. Not that I know anything about the world of film production.

Ahha, Julie, I love that quote!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, JULIA. Typed too fast.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I submit that nobody can pull that off.

Seconded, unless they have an actual theater to watch said movie in at their leisure.

xpost OK, thirded.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I stand by my belief John is into his movies enough that he can use the word "screen" without sarcasm.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

It just seems like it fits with his personality.

WHATEVS. No biggie. I'm off to look at more cat pix.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/112/294810319_9cc4de9d0d.jpg

Francie turned on the stereo and started a CD at 6 am this morning. THANKS FRANCIE.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, I WAS using it with sarcasm (although that was probably only apparent to me). I even used it in a blog post parodying Alfred Soto, an alarmingly intelligent gentleman from Miami who posts on ILX and writes for Stylus.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Francie! SO! CUTE!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

laurel, you can call me whatever you like.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

She wedges herself into that basket for the better part of the day. It's even cuter because that dresser is tall so she's about face-height for me and when I try to turn on the light, she pipes up MEOEOEOEOEEEEWWWW but stays put in her little basket.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Um, Francie, not Julia or Laurel.

Have I ever mentioned that sometimes I wish we hadn't named the cat "Francie" because I think that would make a keen name for a hypothetical daughter? Can I name a baby the same as one of the cats?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

And Laurel:

screen vt (15c) 5 a (1) to present (as a motion picture) for viewing on a screen (2) to view the presentation of (as a motion picture)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, I say you do what you want. I feel the same way about Lucy. I want a daughter named Lucy. I also like Francie. I only want daughters. Boys names are dumb.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Of course you can! Is the next question, "Will people think we're weird and creepy"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Can I name a baby the same as one of the cats?

seriously, should i ever have a son i'm totally set on naming him linus.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

My number one names are Louise and Walter but I'm also partial to Francie and Bonnie as alternative girls' names.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Many xposts. Oh, man... I have watched Grey's Anatomy, and I was never pleased with myself for it. It's quite a bad show.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose one does "screen" applicants, in which case the action is from the same direction...maybe I think the implication is that one screens a great number of similar things in pursuit of a final goal? Which I guess applies to films but only if you take your role as a viewer/screener VERY SERIOUSLY...? Like kind of wank-fest seriously? Unless you are ACTUALLY IN CHARGE of selecting video options for a festival/conference/library/etc.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

it went from entertainingly bad to excruciatingly bad. oh well.
xp

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I like Grey's Anatomy, except for the lam-O voiced-over morals at the ends of episodes. The characters may all be stereotypes, but they're so SATISFYING! Stereotypes had to come from somewhere! and The Nazi makes my subconscious happy. NB: I have only seen first season.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I like Bonnie too, but it makes me sad because it reminds me of the cute little Bonnie Blue Butler in Gone With The Wind.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/8a/180px-Cammie_king_1939.jpg

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

the name bonnie makes me think of the mom on One Day At A Time.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I know a Francie, she crazy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Julia I came across that quote too, and thus the Wire is deep down in my netflix queue. After I finish BSG I want to actually watch some movies before obsessing over another show.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Do you know what's superkillyoucute? The other day Nick was flipping around channels and we saw E.T. was on in Spanish. Imagine tiny Drew Barrymore saying something in a little baby voice but dubbed in espanol.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

After I finish BSG I want to actually watch some movies before obsessing over another show.

I was thinking about this, too, but I just started Arrested Development. I watched the rest of Curb Your Enthusiasm S5 last night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I've become concerned about my addiction to TV-on-DVD. I'll find myself opting not to watch movies because I know they won't feed my insatiable appetite for narrative. that seems unhealthy.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

At least I know that I have fulfilled one of my New Year's resolutions from this year, though ("watch more TV").

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Arrested Development is pretty quick though, the eps are like 20 min long.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't watch any of the teevee shows you guys watch, but I have watched the entire first season of the WIRE and I LOVE IT. I am trying to resist holing up and watching the next two seasons. The only thing preventing me from doing this is the MOUNT EVEREST of unread papers that I have to wade through before the end of the semester.

ALso, I agree with Laurel about wanky specialty terms for watching movies. I extend this to people who prefer "film" over "movie." GET OVER IT. It's a movie.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

totally! in academia sometimes you get "filmic text"!!! it's a mf'in movie!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Even sometimes when I was watching The Wire I got that "these are actors" feeling and it made me enjoy it less. That happens to me a lot. It's why books work out better for me in the long run. Julia Roberts is NEVER in the books I read. Neither is Sandra Bullock or Toby Grace or whatever that guy's name is.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am really starting to like this 120 Days record. They are like Junior Boys if they played rock instead of pop, or something like that. Some of the lyrics are pretty Scaninavian-English cheesy, if that makes any sense. Overall, one of the better new releases I've heard in a while.

/ILM

xpost 'manda OTM on Wire, "film", books.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Bonnie is my mom's name (Bonita, really, but I like just Bonnie) so I don't know if Jeff would go for it, but I think it's an adorable name for a little girl.

"Filmic text" makes me a little furious. I also like TV shows on DVD because it's easier to take a forty-minute brain-shut-off TV break than it is to dedicate a full two hours to a movie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

The great thing about watching Freaks and Geeks and Lost is that Kr and I were equally into it, so there was never any doubt when one of us proposed watching an episode, that the other would say yes. Discrete movies feel like more of a crapshoot -- although I guess this hasn't necessarily been the case for movies we've seen in the theater.

Even sometimes when I was watching The Wire I got that "these are actors" feeling and it made me enjoy it less

Robotsinlove to thread.

They are like Junior Boys if they played rock instead of pop, or something like that

::raised eyebrow:: YSI?

Neither is Sandra Bullock or Toby Grace or whatever that guy's name is.

I think you mean Topher Maguire.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

"Filmic text" makes me a little furious

Out of context, this is a little ridiculous, but I can imagine a situation when it would be appropriate.

Jenny OTM about TV shows being less dedication.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

Bonita is the name of my first principal. Sister Bonita. I liked her. She was followed by Sister Ruth.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I sort of enjoy the "these are actors" layer, because I have made up personalities for so many celebrities. I realize this is sad.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

no, really: filmic text is never appropriate. it's not necessary.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny OTM about TV shows being less dedication.

Yeah, but it's also more investment in a way, too. You can't just watch one episode, not over all. They're like Lay's.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Makes me think "microfiche".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am watching Standing in the Shadows of Motown tonight, I think, anyone seen that?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan also OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I second that! TV shows are TOTALLY more investment. That's why I can't touch them. I made the mistake of touching The Wire and now I find myself wanting to go to the video store when I should be working. I don't need more distractions from doing what I should be doing, y'know?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I hear that's amazing, Jordan. it's on my netflix queue.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I'm without wireless at home so not on here much, but there's Old Timer's tonight?

I'm going to see a good friend from high school give a lecture at Columbia C. at 6:30, and if we don't go out afterwards I'll stop by.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Haven't seen it, Jordan, but Kelsey and I have a friend who worked as a production coordinator on it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

but since it's not part of a 22-part sequence, who knows if I'll ever bother with it?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Tom Dowd and the Language of Music is another good music doc - all about the guy who engineered everything from "Giant Steps" to "Layla" to "Respect" to others.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

::raised eyebrow:: YSI?

blogged for whoever's interested

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

no, really: filmic text is never appropriate. it's not necessary.

What if you want to foreground the textuality of it, though?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh that sounds good, Eazy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen SitSoMT. I liked the subjects, but as a documentary, I found it unspectacular.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I also liked that Jonathan Lethem novel set on another planet, with the invisible miniature deer.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc, I'm not sure how to say this succinctly, but I'm not sure what the concept of "textuality" gets you. do you mean talking about how there's a language involved in shot sequences and editing? I think the fact that the movie is a "text" is sort of a given and unremarkable.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:34 (nineteen years ago)

More overall investment, but easier to absorb little bits at a time, I guess is what I was getting at.

ERIC I was just speculating about you this morning.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I also liked that Jonathan Lethem novel set on another planet, with the invisible miniature deer.

And the puberty.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Roz, I think he was joking. Clew: verbing "foreground".

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

heh, sorry. people do that shit all the time in earnest all around me!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

(to be fair, I use foreground as a verb a lot.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Why?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Note: I "ism" a lot of words - essentialism, contractualism, unionism, stfuism.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

it's quicker than "place in the front of," I guess? I think I've internalized a sense of jargon-that-gets-something-done and jargon-that-doesn't, but I don't know that I have clear criteria for the two categories.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

What is your job?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

All I mean, horseshoe, is that I think that "textuality" can sometimes be a useful way of approaching the interpretation of aesthetic objects, especially as a way to bridge the gap between various disciplines, and that "filmic text" might make sense if you want to talk about a movie strictly in terms of its function as a locus of interpretation.

I've been out of the academy for more than six years, though, so I haven't had the experience of running across headache-inducing jargon much lately -- I will say that the obtuseness and insularity of the ivory tower is one of the reasons why I turned my back on it, though.

Also, I do think that the concept of textuality can be overly analytic and/or logocentric, ignoring the ways in which art is received viscerally or emotionally, as "encounters" or "experiences."

xpost I wasn't joking. What's wrong with "foreground"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh, "job"--would that I had one! I'm a grad student in English lit.

jaymc: I just think anything artistic is available for interpretation; it doesn't need to be identified as a text to do so.

yeah, I think if you're talking about literature, it's hard to avoid "foreground."

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Whee! This is like being back in my rhetoric classes!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

I just think anything artistic is available for interpretation; it doesn't need to be identified as a text to do so.

Yeah, this is a fair point. I meant to say that when you claimed that a film's status as a text was a given.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

But what about, for instance, Murray Jay Siskind in White Noise, who studies supermarkets? What interests him in breakfast cereals is not whether they taste good, or whether they'll feed his family, but what they say about our culture and what subliminal messages each box conveys -- in other words, he is interested in the products' textuality.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

1) Murray Siskind is the object of DeLillo's mockery, no?

2) it's really just the word "textuality" that I find unnecessary, not necessarily the use of objects to talk about culture. I would say Siskind is interested in the cereal box as cultural artifact.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

NB: I realize the novel lampoons academic postmodernism. XPOST

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

i wish this thread was something tangible so i could firebomb it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

You mean that you wouldn't develop a pet theory about it and invent words to describe your pet theory in order to get tenure and alienate people? You would just call it cultural anthropology?! BLESS YOU, LADY.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

heh. I'm trying to figure out what I want to say about that strand of academia that gets lampooned in WN. I do think cultural studies has potential, and I don't want to say that there are no circumstances in which studying cereal boxes could be useful. Smart people doing that under the aegis of English departments depresses me a little, though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda (it's Amanda, right?), a big issue I have with the last, say, 15 years of academic English is that it's just been reinventing anthro's wheel with different language.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry otto, and everyone! no more academic talk.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

It's Amanda. And I like you.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh thank you, thank you Amanda, for that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

(The cultural anthropology bit, that is.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

aw, thanks! I like you, too.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I still think textuality is fairly benign, compared to some academic concepts. I'm usually on the other side of this argument, I swear!

Whee! This is like being back in my rhetoric classes!

I know, it's like ILM in 2003, it's great.

Smart people doing that under the aegis of English departments depresses me a little, though.

Ha, I gave up on doing post-grad work in English because there weren't enough places that would let me do that instead of decoding fucking Milton. I didn't really know what I wanted, though. More likely what I wanted was an academic discipline where I could investigate a theme or concept as it manifested itself across several cultural sites: literature, art, film, advertisting, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

shit, talk about whatever you want i'm no arbiter of sparkling conversation. i've got nothing to put in it's stead either so keep on keeping on.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc, you could totally do that in many English departments! (don't listen to me; I'm a fuddy-duddy.) Cultural studies is where it's at in a lot of places: it sounds like that's what you would be interested in.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

there's no money to do this in the current academy where there's dwindling support for the humanities, but ideally I think English and cultural studies would split off from each other.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Yeah, and then you can write your thesis on a particular episode of Buffy. Or maybe Lost if you prefer.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

You mean that you wouldn't develop a ~~pet~~ marketing theory about it and invent words to describe your ~~pet~~ marketing theory in order to ~~get tenure~~ attempt to convince people that you're smarter than you actually are and alienate people?

Leverage that synergy!

Also: hugz to you, english lit grad student, from a law student.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

I am smarter than I actually am.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I am making sexy real estate advertisements with Flash.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was pretty keen on cultural studies for a while. My main problem with it, though, is too often it's content to analyze cultural artifacts through specific theory-filters (Marxist, psychoanalytic, etc.), rather than come to any understanding of how actual people in the real world use and respond to said artifacts. There are some exceptions here: Janice Radaway's Reading the Romance and Ien Ang's Watching Dallas are seminal studies of consumers (of romance novels and soap operas, respectively) that basically blew a hole in the Frankfurt School-style top-down models of cultural reception. (I want to say John Fiske at University of Wisconsin challenges this view as well.) But overall, I want my cultural studies to be tempered with an appreciation for functionality and aesthetics.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

understanding of how actual people in the real world use and respond to said artifacts

Welcome to anthropology, mon frere.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I love that Radaway book. I do think there's growing support in the academy for that kind of consumer-oriented aesthetically-conscious cultural studies. I know it's happening in English departments; maybe it's also happening in anthro?

xpost: yeah, this sounds right up anthro's alley.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

also maybe falls under social history, so you could do it in some history departments?

or you could just write a book! (this is what my mom always tells me when I fret about how I'm never going to get a job and my life is going down the toilet oh woe is me. "I think you should just write a book!" me, too, mom. me, too.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

My problem with anthropology is its scientific rigor, which has usually meant a devaluation of the personal, but I have a feeling that is changing, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Well, right, you wouldn't want your "understanding of how actual people in the real world use and respond to said artifacts" to be clouded by your own biases, theories, and presuppositions, would you?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

That seems like an essential part of any discipline aimed at analyzing things. Without scientific rigor what do you have? Unqualified opinions. And you can have those for free without going to grad school.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

What Dan said.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

(sorry, as the son of two anthropologists I feel I have to defend the discipline, especially when compared to the cultural studies lot... checking out now)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, horseshoe, when I broke the news to my academic mentor that I wasn't applying to grad schools, she said I could always be a ... oh, what's the word? It's like freelance or at-large but sounds fancier. Anyway, a ________ critic. And I was like, "I can BE that? Yay!"

Well, right, you wouldn't want your "understanding of how actual people in the real world use and respond to said artifacts" to be clouded by your own biases, theories, and presuppositions, would you?

Yes, I would.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Without scientific rigor what do you have?

Squishiness.

xpost John, please don't tell us that science cramps your style. Life's too short.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

did she tell you you could be a "public intellectual"? sweetest job ever, if it were actually a job.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

sigh

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Without the scientific rigor, you've basically described "blogging."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Ie "music criticism"? (Haha, XP!)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I think the typical expression of humanities grad student malaise=wishing we could write for the new yorker.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

(multi-xpost) Wait, I don't exactly mean that. It's good to challenge one's biases, theories, and presuppositions, obviously -- but I would rather present the narrative as a personal one, without the kind of forced objectivity/detachment of the traditional scientific method.

Cf. Jane Tompkins's essay "Me and My Shadow" for ways in which even literary criticism faces this conflict.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I think the typical expression of humanities grad student malaise=wishing we could write for the new yorker.

OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

And you can have those for free without going to grad school.

Which is maybe why I haven't gone! Seriously, I almost applied to the California Institute of the Arts program in writing, which was great because it encouraged intersections between critical and creative writing and I was like OMG I WANT, but then I realized that if I was so keen on doing that kind of writing, I should just do it. I didn't want practice at it, I just wanted the opportunity.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, I wanted practice at it, but I wasn't looking to be TAUGHT, necessarily.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

then I realized that if I was so keen on doing that kind of writing, I should just do it

No kidding. I majored in journalism. Why? I dunno. If I wanted to work at a newspaper, I should have just gone and got a job at a friggin' newspaper.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

See also: Masters in Publishing! It would be more accurate and simpler (altho not as lucrative for Columbia & assorted grad programs) if they just called Production and/or Editorial entry positions what they are: apprenticeships.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

sigh. I am so done with my twenties. fuck education and apprenticeship.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

How old are you?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be 27 soon. so little to show for it. :(

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

ZIP IT, GREENHORN.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

27 was THE BEST YEAR OF MY LIFE!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

heh. you have a job, Amanda! but yeah, that's enough self-pity out of me.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

It was up there for me, too. 28, on the other hand, has been pretty much for shit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

all I ever want to be is an old lady, honestly. not to give a shit about anything and feel free to be loud and obnoxious.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be 27 soon. so little to show for it. :(

Sounds like me, 8 months ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

jaymc, I'm becoming increasingly convinced we're the same person. except I dig Milton and you dig cereal boxes.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Horseshoe, can I call you by your real name and if so, what is it?

I feel strange calling you Horseshoe.

Also, obnoxious old lady-dom is attainable at any age. But I found that turning thirty was liberating in that I really stopped caring much what other people thought of me and so truly embraced obnoxious old lady-dom.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

yay! maybe I will follow your lead, Jenny. old ladies rule.

I know, "horseshoe" is lame, but my real name is weird and very googleable. you could call me "roz" like Lauren did upthread; I kind of liked that.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

I can't turn thirty until I start looking a little older. I'm still in my mid-20's, as far as the rest of the world is concerned. Hell, as far as *I'm* concerned.

I should start smoking pot again.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I've always wondered what the significance of the "rosalind" in your e-mail was.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

You could come to TT and tell us your real name, and then we could continue to not use it online. Just a suggestion.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, aren't you already 30?

Okay, Roz, I can do that!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

I like Dan's suggestion, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

i don't remember the significance of any of my internet handle ridiculousness (seriously, horseshoe? wtf?), but I think it might be because of As You Like It? but that's really a very vague guess.

xpost: what is TT?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, aren't you already 30?

Technically, I'm 32. But when I tell people in the office how old I am, they don't believe me at first.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Thirsty Thursday, a semi-weekly (i.e. when we feel like it) afternoon excursion to a bar. By default: Old Timer's, 75 E. Lake St.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

oh, thanks! that sounds lovely...I could make it tonight.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to decide whether or not to come, since I wanted to save some $$$ for the weekend -- but the prospect of meeting Horseshoe is awfully enticing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

Today's TT line-up of esteemed panelists includes yrs truly, Dan Martin there, maybe Kevin, maybe Eric, Jesse (who has been working since you've been regularly posting), and Courtney who does not post here. And John? John are you coming today?

xpost - come on, John. I haven't seen you in a brazillion years.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and maybe Jeff, to whom I am married.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

This word I can't think of is absolutely killing me. I feel like maybe it begins with a C. Also it has maybe a "jack of all trades" connotation.

Oh wait: ITINERANT!!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I am an itinerant teacher. I thought it meant "moving from place to place."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think that it had a "jack of all trades" connotation. Just that the noun it was attached to had no discernible home base.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

John, xpost from the WDYLL thread, Cam put up a number of good pictures from the weekend here. I do like his photos.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

i'm about 80% certain i'll be there for one drink and one drink only. unless old timers takes visa. in which case i'm in it for the long haul and may head to uptown after that...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I will be at TT in spirit. Tomorrow can be called Thirsty Friday?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

You're right, Amanda. I'd gotten all confuzled.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

NO TENURE FOR YOU!

;)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

what time are y'all going to be at Old Timers'?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

6ish for me.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

i believe jenny said she'd be there 5:30-ish, i'm aiming for sometime between 5:30 and 7:00.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'll be there between 5:15-5:30.

I look like this:

http://static.flickr.com/109/298276645_d08e25f8d6.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

If I go, it'll prob. be around 6:30.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

We should all have our own playing card.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

I will shoot for 5:30. nice glasses, Jenny!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

and i look like this:

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c97/effyoutoo/preparedforbattle.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone knows that I look like this but with a bigger nose:
http://boortz.com/images/angry_weasel.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks. That is a terrible picture of me, but a classmate took it yesterday so it's pretty accurate.

xpost - HAHAHAHA

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I know, "horseshoe" is lame, but my real name is weird and very googleable

I'm so excited that Alpana Signh has joined the ILX Chicago community.

In the ideal world, my friend Alec will be up for breakfast tomorrow and I'll come to TT's around 7:45. Jenny, I'll call/text you when I know what's what tonight. (P.S., you look like a sexy DEA agent busting a penthouse drug den in that photo)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Eric, that is just one of the many reasons why I *heart* you.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

I should go and say hi to everyone, even though I have (literally) about twelve cents. All in pennies. I get paid tomorrow.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

ihttp://ericzieg.com/ez/ezbakers.jpg

That's me.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

LAW AND ORDER: SPECIAL BITCHY UNIT

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Reposting EZ's photo:

http://ericzieg.com/ezbakers.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Eric flatters himself. He does not look that much like an IHOP.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i knew what jenny looked like but etc etc blocked at blah blah blah.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, Kevin.

http://static.flickr.com/45/132756303_ae01215335_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, John. I'll never get the hang of HTML. That photo is hard to look at, in a good way - someone should paint it onto a 8'x12' canvas.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

It wasn't the HTML as much as the fact that there was a superfluous subdirectory in your URL.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

kenan, what was the place near old timers where you went to get smokes? 'cause i'm out and fitting.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

From my sister... thought some people here might enjoy this:

The Washington Post's Mensa Invitational once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, orchanging one letter, and supply a new definition.Here are this year's winners:

1. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realise it was your money to start with.
2. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly
3. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating. The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.
4. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.
5. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
6. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.
7. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
8. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.
9. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.
10. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)
11. Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the Earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.
12. Decafalon (n.): The gruelling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.
13. Glibido: All talk and no action.
14. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.
15. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you've accidentally walked through a spider web.
16. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.
17. Caterpallor (n.): The colour you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you're eating.And the pick of the literature:
18. Ignoranus: A person who's both stupid and an asshole.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

xpost White Hen @ Lasalle and Lake, I think.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

thanks my man.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

grooooooooaaaannnnn

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

200 n dearborn, dearborn & lake. i'll pass it coming from clark and lake. i was thinking, damn, isn't lasalle in the other direction?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

The law student who claimed in the space of five minutes that Fidel Castro has been dead for a year and is currently alive, but dying, is an ignoranus.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

no shit?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

guess, what WE'RE ALL CURRENTLY ALIVE BUT DYING.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

please ignore the odd comma placement. thanks.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm here now.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I should say "actively dying."

This reminds me of a bolt-out-of-the-blue phone call that I got from my biological father once and when I asked him if he called me because he was dying, he said, "We're all dying, Jenny" and I was like, can we just go back to the estrangement because that was generally better.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

There is a hostess at my work whose name is Chineze.

That's pronounced shi-NAY-zay.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I was sort of surprised that one of the managers forgoes her stupid, stupid name and just calls her Shaniqua.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

hilarious

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

One of my friends has a girl in class named Prekius (or similar), pronounced Precious of course. I think I've already mentioned Pharmacy (Phar-MACE-ee) and Clittoria.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

And somewhat insulting. As in "You have a stupid name so I will just call you something stereotypically black HA HA." xpost.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

I know this one guy named... get this... "Kenan."

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

Jennifer? What a stupid name. I'll just call you HANNAH.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

You tell Chineze I can put her in touch with an employment discrimination lawyer.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha!! Hannah! HAWNAH. HAWNAH WITH THE ENORMOUS LAHBIA.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to tell Chineze that you said to change her stupid, stupid name.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

I like Hannah. I don't know if Hannahs are supposed to look like sexy Bitch Squad officers, tho.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

All Hannahs look like Mia Farrow to me.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's sad, but I can't get as upset about that kind of thing as I used to, I can only giggle at ignorance.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny and I knew this girl in NC whose name was pronounced HAWNAH and I saw her labia on a drunken tubing escapade.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so glad you explained about that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

LAHBIA! What a beautiful name! How do you spell that?

I like Hannah, too. I was just trying to think of a stereotypically white name, the caucasian equivalent of calling someone African American "Shauniqua" because you dislike her actual name.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

i guy i work with went to high school with a girl named "chlamydia". i'm sure this was dad's attempt at a pre-emptive strike at the dating years.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

My cousin's name is Hannah, she's a redhead.

xpost "Lawbia"?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Danish, pronounced Duh-nish.

I think Hannah and Her Bitch Squad Sisters (B.S.S.) is a million-dollar idea, now that Fox and UPN have merged.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

this girl i was dating had a roommate named hannah and she was (and probably still is) a very sweet person. i have nothing but good things to say about hannahs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

See also: one of the freaking ATTORNEYS where I work who, on hearing the not totally unusual but traditionally African American name of the new clerk, "Whatever happened to 'Mary'?"

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

Palindromes in the top 1000:

GIRLS
Hannah 7
Ava 9
Anna 23
Ana 146
Elle 505
Eve 674
Ada 798

BOYS
Asa 638

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

French, pronounced 'Fresh'.
Latvian, pronounced 'La-teev-en'.
Nepalese, Croatian, etc.

I know a Hanna with a long 'a' who is a sweet gal and an English professor.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Put the word "said" in my previous post somewhere for more sense-making talk.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Whatever happened to 'Mary'?"

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Jackeeharry.jpg/250px-Jackeeharry.jpg

"Marrrrrreee!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

The only Asa I've ever heard of is Asa Barber, who wrote the 'Men' column (alongside Cynthia Heimel's 'Women' column) in Playboy when I was 14 or so years old.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

You just read it for the articles, right?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

i knew a lot of asa's in mass/nh/maine. my best friend in middle school's middle name was asa, named after his dad.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

of course jenny, why else would a 14 year old boy be interested in playboy? oh, right, that other thing.

the totally unabashed dictionary.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I think there was a famous football coach named Asa?

*checks* No, I guess I'm thinking of Ara Parseghian.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

I did read the articles and the interviews with Pete Rose and Fidel Castro and all of the clever things the Girls of the Ivy League said, like "I like warm baths and soccer." I got my $4.99 worth!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.internetweekly.org/images/asa_hutchinson_card.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

there is a longstanding character on the soap One Life to Live named Asa. he is an old, old man.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

I want my sugar cookie back.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I really do think about that cookie a lot. I think it came from Winn-Dixie.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

btw, i made sugar cookies like that recently and they were divine.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

i made frosting for the first time.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

OH DAMN I never told you this, Amanda, but your god damn toffee cookies were also divine. I ate two on the train between Jarvis and Argyle, and Jeff and I ate the rest that very night while waiting for our pho.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

COME HERE NOW.

The frosting....it was not fondant, it was like wedding cake frosting (as opposed to buttercream).

I really have learned the literal meaning of wanting to "have my [cookie] and eat it too."

I miss my cookie.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

that's also why amanda comes to mind when i think about sugar cookies.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

oh! jenny! DoP is going to be full of attorneys-to-be. we have a friend that is coming who goes to kent. plus you plus leaf. brooke works as a paralegal...it's a night saturated in fried things & The Law.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

leaf also started asking me really specific things about what you are doing these days. kind of to the point where i rolled my eyes & said, "dude. you'll see her friday. you can talk about the law together." so he may be asking you about your work. be warned!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

hi horeshoe on the thread.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yay Jenny! That was an original concoction. I'm proud of it. Glad you like.

Kelsey, now that I've made my own sugar cookies I don't need to go all around Chicago looking for them! I was thinking of making some this weekend, so if I get my shit together, maybe you'll taste one!!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Or six.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

that's awesome! leaf is trying to perfect an oatmeal/chocolate chip cookie recipe. to the point of baking them every single weekend changing things around slightly until he gets it perfect. last weekend was the "less butter" weekend. i can't eat this many cookies! i mean, i CAN as in I am able & willing, but it will be a disaster to my womanly figure!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

It would be a pleasure to talk to Leaf about anything.

I wish I'd gone to Kent. *sigh*

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Byebye Chicago -- have fun at Old Timerz. Fear my cookies.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Do you really? Why? Granted, I know nothing about law schools. I do know that leaf applied to kent but then we mutually decided that we wanted to try living here for awhile.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

bye amanda! can't wait to see you!!!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Jenny but all Hannahs are Jewish.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

whenever i see kelsey's login name or email i hear a line from "100,000 fireflies" but i hear the superchunk version of that song.

that's a great fucking song, i should dig that 7" out.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

the awesome hannah i know/knew is! she works for a jewish community relations council.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

i've never heard the superchunk version, but i agree. it's great.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but now it's the 7th most popular name in the U.S.!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

No way Jordan, I have some WASPeriffic cousins named Hannah.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

one of my cousins has a daughter named hannah. neither of them are jewish! she's (my cousin) an energy healer!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.knitemare.org/cats/youeatedcookie.jpg

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Err...I must be spacing, but what does "Sweet Tater" have to do with "100,000 Fireflies"??

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

i think it must be the 'starry' in kelstarry?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

sweet tater is my self-imposed harmonica handle...

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but now it's the 7th most popular name in the U.S.!

Srsly? So we're going to be overrun by Hannahs and Emmas???

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

John, how popular is my name?

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

you won't be happy with me
but give me one more chance
you won't be happy anyway...

fuck, i need to find this goddamn record.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Dear D.C.,
Have any of your thread titles come from Random Hearts yet?
Yrs in Chicago,
Eric
P.S. Or The Contender?

-- Eazy (chicagoflaneu...), November 16th, 2006.

Dear Chicago,

No.

― Dude That Spends A Confusing Amount Of Time Focusing On A Band He Hates (Mr.Que), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

OUTLANDER

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Superchunk DESTROYS Magnetic Fields, in general, and in that song. (Actually, that song, it's pretty close. The MF version is pretty sweet.)

― Dude That Spends A Confusing Amount Of Time Focusing On A Band He Hates (Mr.Que), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I love Superchunk, who's with me?

― Dude That Spends A Confusing Amount Of Time Focusing On A Band He Hates (Mr.Que), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

I"M WITH YOU!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

John, how popular is my name?

The only time it's ever been in the Top 1000 was in 1997, when it was #968. "Keenan," however, has been on the list since 1958, enjoying its greatest popularity between 1990-97:

1989 480
1990 392 In Living Color debuts on TV.
1991 358
1992 362
1993 379
1994 394 In Living Color ends its run.
1995 381
1996 396
1997 354 Good Burger released in theaters.
1998 458

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

Also "Forged It" is pretty sweet.

― Dude That Spends A Confusing Amount Of Time Focusing On A Band He Hates (Mr.Que), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, the drum sound on that are great, the guitar sounds amazing and mac's nasal whine is at it's best.

er, xpost.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i'm pretty easy to please on the 'chunk. Fader Rules from the lounge ax relocation benefit cd is pretty f'ing awesome too.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Fader Rules, I'm eh. But: Otto, we both like the oblivians, we both like superchunk. Awesome.

― Dude That Spends A Confusing Amount Of Time Focusing On A Band He Hates (Mr.Que), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a few minutes of Good Burger and it made me want to see the rest sometime.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know why I haven't bothered to hear more Superchunk. I like everything I've heard -- which is essentially just Come Pick Me Up and "Fader Rules."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

you said you have that track of the monkey, right? if you listen close at the end just before greg introduces mr. quintron you can hear me screaming for "big black hole".

which the did not play.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

seriously jaymc I would try On The Mouth.

Otto: what's your favorite version of Big Black Hole, fast or slow? I'm fast. YEEAAAAHH. On the Sympathy Sessions CD?

― Dude That Spends A Confusing Amount Of Time Focusing On A Band He Hates (Mr.Que), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'll take either, fast is good but slow was the first one i knew.

that record cover...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'm gonna go home tonight and listen to soul food and 9 songs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, "Precision Auto" is somehow on my iPod. Listening now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

my stolen superchunk story:

in high school my friend, brian, invited superchunk to his graduation open house thingy. superchunk wrote back, apologized for not being able to make it & congratulated him on graduating. nice guys, that superchunk!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

YES! But you need to follow it up with From The Curve--the second song from On the Mouth!

― Dude That Spends A Confusing Amount Of Time Focusing On A Band He Hates (Mr.Que), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to jaymc sorry

― Dude That Spends A Confusing Amount Of Time Focusing On A Band He Hates (Mr.Que), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

and i drove.....
DRIVEWAY to DRIVEWAY drunk...

(precision auto is a personal favorite of mine john).

and like a FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL....

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Hah that reminds me of the time a garage named "Precision Auto" opened in town, and my radio co-host and I welcomed them with that song.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

i'm out, see you at TT's.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 16 November 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, "Precision Auto" is somehow on my iPod. Listening now.

It's from my 1993 mix.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

I suspected as much. And I'm sorry to say, I wasn't in love with it. I like the lushness on Come Pick Me Up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, this is no surprise to anyone.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 16 November 2006 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hi again, Chicago. While you're all out having a ball, I'm sure, I'm home smoking like a chimney and pacing and waiting for a reasonable time to go to bed. I'm too tired to go to sleep now. I won't nap, I'll sleep for 9 hours and wake up at 5 in the morning.

Also: listening to Sade. I will never give up Sade. I just finished making a "on the way to work" mix with these ingredients:

1. Animal Collective - Leaf House
2. OOIOO - Umo
3. Liquid Liquid - Optimo
4. Pere Ubu - On the Surface
5. Can - Vitamin C
6. Suicide - Shadazz
7. Laid Back - White Horse
8. LCD Soundsystem - Yeah (Crass version)
9. Boredoms - Super Coming
10. Can - Future Days
11. Fujiya & Miyagi - Photocopier
12. Voight & Voight - Roxy
13. My My - Pelourinho

It makes me v. happy.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

I think I listed those tracks just to make sure you knew I don't just listen to smooth jazz. I am pathetic.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 01:35 (nineteen years ago)

ATS is way better than UMO.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 November 2006 02:36 (nineteen years ago)

The whole thing's great. I picked a track based on length, really.

― aesthetically pleasing, in other words 'fly' (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

jenny/jeff if you tried to put money in my pocket it wound up on the floor of old timers. holes in the lining of the jacket don't you know. i told you to keep it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

m i ok wildman

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 17 November 2006 05:13 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, this is no surprise to anyone.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), November 16th, 2006. (jaymc)

no surprise, but still disappointment, yknow?

― Smegma Pi (plsmith), Friday, 17 November 2006 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

We ended up sticking the money in the blind guy's dog's pocket.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 17 November 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

i don't feel bad about saying this: i'm totally disappointed that we didn't steal the blind guy's dog. that was an awesome dog. i know we would've been best friends.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

am i the only one who set his alarm clock last night? where the hell is everyone?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm here. I didn't go out, though. Tell me what I missed, aside from the dog.

(btw, there are plenty of needy dogs out there! i'm sure there is one waiting for you to be his best friend.)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Here, but sick. Can't take sick day cos boss is out. Brain dead.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

amanda, you missed meeting horseshoe. she's awesome and was one of the last to leave so that was an impressive thirsty thursday debut. you missed courtney's fantastic boots (they really were great boots). you missed me and john playing nicely in the same sandbox. you missed the greatest f'ing dog ever.

laurel, sorry you're sick. i'll see if i can ysi you some chicken soup.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

dang. i missed a lot.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

4 things in 3 hours. something would happen then we would sit in silence for 45 minutes. then "Hey look at that dog!" followed by another 45 minutes of silence.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

That's my kind of outing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

am i the only one who set his alarm clock last night? where the hell is everyone?

I did. I mostly ignored it though. Woke up at about 5 after dreaming that my kitty was sick (a popular anxiety dream for me), got up, smoked a couple cigarettes, went back to bed and dreamed about sex. Muuuch better.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

there was no outing, everyone already knows jesse is gay.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I was...delayed this morning. But it's okay, because the phones and half the network is down today so I can't do much actual work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I got no boss today, we're missing the most senior coworker, and it's payday. Life is good.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh! Donut holes! Just keeps getting better.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I was...delayed this morning.

uh HUH.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I just got here. I went to bed EARRRRRLY (i.e., before midnight) and am still tired, wtf.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I went to bed EARRRRRLY (i.e., before midnight)

ha. I went to bed at 10.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I was...delayed this morning.

uh HUH.

I just caught that. Heh. And here I thought dreaming about sex was fun.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I went to bed at 11, but I was ... delayed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I must be a complete idiot, because I didn't catch onto the fact that that dude was blind, even though HE WAS ACCOMPANIED BY A DOG and HE WAS WEARING DARK SUNGLASSES INSIDE A BAR.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

it's sad that i'm the only one who makes myself late anymore.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm here too. It took me forever to catch up on the thread, even though I barely skimmed all the rhetoric at the top.

So we went to the gym last night, then I made black beans and rice. mmm... Ben couldn't practice, so instead we watched Earl and Office, read, and then took hot, lazy baths.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

You and Ben?

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha. No. Pepper.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, is your heat working now? Also, is it better for your back to sleep on your back or your stomach? I'm asking you because you have that paper about back health on your fridge.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

hi Chicago! it was lovely to meet (some of) y'all last night.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Likewise!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry I missed out on the fun last night, but it didn't make sense once we got home to change and then go back in the loop again. Plus, I'll be drinking and socializing tonight at Edgewater and tomorrow night at Ice Factory. Be there and there or be square.

Jordan, you can sleep on your back with a pillow under your knees or on your side with a pillow between them. Personally, both options suck as far as I'm concerned, but when my pain was at its worst I found that putting something under my lower back helped, like a small pillow.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Also, our heat is back on! The landlord sent someone out Monday morning to fix it, so we've been livin' it up with heat. Regardless, I tend to be freezing cold the entire winter long, so I love hot baths.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I looooooove sleeping on my back with a pillow under my calves. It's the only way (barring a new, awesome mattress which might eventually happen when the Blue Fairy makes me a grown-up and a real girl).

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I've never heard of the pillow-under-the-knees technique -- what does this help with, exactly? On my back is the only way I can fall asleep.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

My entire lower body is sore from workin' it on the stair climber. I even have a fear of stairs, but I did it!

In other news, Hemroidal has been out sick for a few days now, which makes me sooo happy. Also, we're having a triple birthday party at work this afternoon.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

I can only fall asleep on my stomach. I think it's bullshit that you're not supposed to sleep on your stomach OR your back, I've never fallen asleep on my side.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I sleep on my back or either side, depending on circumstances that I do not fully understand. Never on my stomach. That's seems very uncomfortable to me.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

i can fall asleep in any position. but i hate it when i wake up twisted, like my upper body on my back but still with my legs facing down or on their sides. this usually happens in the summer when it's hot and i'm guessing i thrash in my sleep.

my bed is the one luxury in my life.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am a big time side sleeper. Also a big time side sipper.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Pillow under the knees helps relax the spine/lower back and is good for some kinds of pain there. Ditto tipping your head further back, which is why I've switched to feather pillows. I can't explain it except in terms of frame geometry: for whatever reason, those things make my back happy.

Pillow between the knees is good for side-sleeping, esp for women cos our legs connect to our hips at a different angle and the pillow helps keep that angle from collapsing. Never stays in place when you roll over, tho I've seen some gimmicky ones that strap over one leg.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

For some reason, in the early morning, I like sleeping on my stomach, but I can't fall asleep at night that way.

I don't really understand sleeping on the side at all. There's less surface area there -- how can it be comfortable? It's better when someone else is in the bed with you, but I'm only really able to spoon for a few minutes before my shoulder starts to feel all misaligned.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Try a thicker/firmer pillow, J! It could preserve the distance between head and supporting shoulder.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

It's partially because I have fucked-up shoulders, but even when I was a kid, it seemed like a really weird position to fall asleep in -- it's like if you decided to stand in line for something while constantly keeping one foot off the ground.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

I can only fall asleep on my stomach, but I like sleeping on my back in the early morning. In other words, I'm the AntiJohn.

Sadly, I've hardly gotten any sleep all week. Something about going to the gym has made my heart all aflutter.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit, the sun is out! when was the last time that happened?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

I can only fall asleep on my stomach, but I like sleeping on my back in the early morning. In other words, I'm the AntiJohn.

Bizarro!

http://dailytitan.fullerton.edu/issues/fall_03/11_20/images/bizarro.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

John, sleeping on side is the only way for normal people NOT in vat of supportive gel to sleep in the fetal position, which is arguably the most "relaxed" position for your back. Think about it: you can't sleep curled in a ball on your front or your back! Plus it conserves body heat because it protects the front of abdomen; when it's very cold, sleeping on my back feels totally unnatural.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I agree w/John about side-sleeping.

I can only fall asleep at night on my stomach, but naps = asleep on back for some reason.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

You better not be implying I'm the chicken kid, John!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

I sleep hanging upside down from a bar in the attic.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

petermurphy_coachella.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite sleeping mode lately: heat blasting, window slightly open so there's a cold breeze, ceiling fan running, blankets piled on high. It's like a hot tub in the snow.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

So Jenny do you use ankle straps or do you find that hanging by your knees ("classical style", as I like to call it) gives better support for the rest of your body?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.moviepoopshoot.com/toybox/images/mar18/bizarro_5.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I just grab on with my prehensile toes.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

i can't concentrate this morning. i want either a gigantic breakfast from the maple tree or a huge serving of garlic chicken from new pot. and if i had a car i'd have either/both at lunch. but i don't. so i'll probably have a turkey & cheese on wheat again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

I never get to leave the office, as I've mentioned, because I have to be here in case the door buzzes up front. But guess what?! Today I get to leave to go get treats for the bday party with my favorite coworker. I will also be getting some grocery shoppin' done since we're going to Dominicks! WOO HOO!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

FRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEDDDDDDOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Did something just happen in Michigan? This lady just called for the owner and said she wanted to find out if something was going on in response to what happened just now in Michigan.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Michigan football coach collapsed? AP link is broked.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Former Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler collapsed Friday during the taping of a television show and was taken by ambulance to a hospital.

That doesn't seem like anything that would impact someone's house, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

ha!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say: Firearm deer season just opened?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

THE FORMER MICHIGAN FOOTBALL COACH COLLAPSED! HOW WILL THIS IMPACT THE DELIVERY DATE OF MY NEW COUNTER TOPS?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

Firearm deers? Is that a Michigan-specific breed?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

No, but it is pretty much a state holiday.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, they shoot back. Hunting really means something in Michigan, see.

XP: My high school used to suspend anyone who was absent on opening day, otherwise there'd have been half-empty classrooms and not enough teachers to cover them.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I should have mentioned she said they went to Michigan together.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

See my school was the opposite. There was a blanket 2 day excused absence for everyone who was hunting. Also many of the teachers were gone for some (and in the case of the assistant principal and some others, all) of the 15 day season.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Do you all have Thursday & Friday off? I'm so happy about that.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

YES

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

i've got thursday off.

isn't there a punk band from columbus called the dead schembechlers?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I am going to ask for someone's help and explicit collusion. The guy from the printer is giving out gifts today in the form of frozen turkeys. The gas to my oven is not even connected yet.

There's no emergency or anything... I can always leave it in the freezer for a while. But if someone wants to loan me their oven, there's a lot of free poultry in it for you.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

XPOST!!!!
Did you guys see the thing in I think it was Red Eye, about the Ohio punk band called The Dead Schembechlers? Apparently they dress up like former Ohio State coach Woody Hayes when they perform.

http://deadschembechlers.com
Official home of the Dead Schembechlers! Columbus, Ohio's 'Wolverine Hatecore' band, dedicated to overthrowing the evil Michigan Wolverine football program.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Do you all have Thursday & Friday off? I'm so happy about that.

I've got Thursday off, and I have to take an upaid day on Friday because Digd0wn is playing at the grand reopening of a MALL in Milwaukee that day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

i haven't read any of the links but was bo still the AD at UofM?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh, and i would gladly take friday off but half the office already put their requests in so i'm part of the skeleton crew on friday.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know about Friday. I'll probably take it off, but I don't know if it's a vacation day or a holiday. Whatevs, I get paid anyway.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I just checked, and I do have Friday off, woo-hoo.

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

No one's jumping at the idea of taking a day to cook 21 pounds of bird? How shocking.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Michigan football fans. I also hate Ohio State football fans. I think I am supposed to like MSU because I went there for a while, but fuck it, I hate them too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, if I were here I'd do it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, those would be good times. We could cook bird, drink beer, and fart on each other. Another time, perhaps.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

you can use my oven, kenan. laura is working so much these days that she wouldn't be around to be offended at the smell of cooking flesh.

i am going to be good and refrain from making crude comments about my roommate's flesh preferences.

i don't know if my oven would be big enough...i know nothing about turkey cooking.

(xp no dice if you're going to fart on me)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

dan, don't know if i'm going to vertigo tonight, i think i'm going to a house show in rogers park?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray turkey! Maybe we can do this the day after t-giving. Thanks, Julia.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

nevermind dan, houseparty show starts much too early for me to get up there. vertigo is where i'll be.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like Kr and I are going to NACIONAL 27 tonight so we can both redeem Lettuce Entertain You gift cards. Menu looks yummy, too -- anyone ever been?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

No, but Nickums and I are going to Green Zebra Sunday night for our anniv.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

That menu does indeed look lovely.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

bank accounts? BACK IN (the) BLACK!!!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Message from Jessa on cooking a turkey: "It's, um, hard. It looks simple, but it's really hard. Good luck."

Oh fuck this. I think maybe someone just gave me a huge pain in the ass for t-giving.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ really hard. There's instructions on the damn wrapper, or at least there should be.

Making a souffle is hard. Baking fluffy croissants day in and day out is hard. Being on Iron Chef is hard. Doing a standard turkey is not hard unless it's too big to fit in your (or in this case, Julia's) oven.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Now, making the turkey, stuffing, gravy, potatoes, cranberries, pies, and what-have-you all in the same day for a dozen or so people, yeah, that can be hard too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

grr

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it's not like she doesn't know how to cook. She's really hard on herself. If the turkey turns out a little dry, she considers that whole thing a catastrophic failure. So maybe she means that it's really hard to get it *perfect*.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, I can see that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

a Christian pregnancy-counseling organization that regards the distribution of contraceptives as "demeaning to women."

I honestly don't even follow that logic.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I don't understand why a man is/was the head of something called "A Woman's Concern".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

The name was intended to be ironic, obv.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I think I know where the logic is coming frrom: early feminist reformers were anti-abortion, because abortions allowed men to benefit from the sexual transaction without equal benefit (motherhood and family and men's accountability) to women. Obv the whole equation is FUCKED, but claiming that contraception demeans women is almost certainly rooted in the same idea: that sex ought to result in stable alliances and offspring, both of which benefit women. Supposedly. I know, Jesus, don't kill the messenger.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

you know jesus?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Not unless he reads this thread.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

i know jesus.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/leagueofordinarygentlemen/images/turturro2.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

that sex ought to result in stable alliances and offspring, both of which benefit women

This was a time before the female orgasm, I guess.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

The what??

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Meaning that the idea implicit there is that men have sex to sate their animal desires, but women only have sex to have babies and entrap men into marriage. And that there's no reason a woman should want to have sex without wanting to have babies.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Obviously. And men should pay for their sex in the form of taking up the mantle of responsibility/fatherhood, rather than dragging their molls off to the nearest back-alley turn-of-the-century abortionist. From Wikipedia:

Both Stanton and Anthony believed that abortion was an imposition of the patriarchy upon women and that if decisions about abortion were placed into the hands of women, it would happen far less often (or cease entirely):

"Much as I deplore the horrible crime of child-murder, earnestly as I desire its suppression, I cannot believe that such a law would have the desired effect. It seems to me to be only mowing off the top of the noxious weed, while the root remains. We want prevention, not merely punishment. We must reach the root of the evil, and destroy it." --Susan B. Anthony

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

well, yeah, general awareness of female orgasm is relatively recent. and in a deeply unequal society, many women were dependent on marriage to survive, so..

none of this is true anymore, but Laurel's account makes sense to me in terms of how it came about.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Of course at the time the abortion procedure was hugely unsafe and put women's lives in danger from injury and infection, so making your mistress/girlfriend have one was pretty much saying you didn't care about the risks to her life and health. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

i wish post-lunch siestas weren't a fireable offense here.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I just had birthday cake AND mint chocochip ice cream. This was after my leftover black beans & rice. Ay carrumba.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

what time will people be at edgewater tonight?

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

i'll be there at not o'clock.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

If I go tonight, it'll prob. be late, since Kr and I are thinking about seeing Stranger Than Fiction after dinner. Sorry, I know I'm being all MR. NONCOMMITTAL JONES recently.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I went grocery shopping over lunch. I was going to make jalapeno veggie burgers tonight and then thought HEY, FUCK IT, LET'S MAKE PIZZA.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

i had combos and hummus for pizza last night.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno. The invite says 8ish. I'm guessing later than that.

I think Nick's making pizza tonight.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

Someone say something, PLEASE, before I fall asleep at my desk.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

I have just eaten many double-stuff oreos. but that's barely conversation, Sarah!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

When Nick makes pizza dough, does he add sugar & salt along with the yeast in the water or after the yeast proofs? It's been awhile.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

you people are so fancy with your making of pizza dough.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure if I'll make it out anywhere tonight. I am still low on duckets and I don't feel like I really ever woke up today. If I can maintain verticality I might do something, but I'm not making any promises right now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'm going out, not sure about staying out though. i'm hoping that the band i want to see is not headlining.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to Sigur Ros and it is making me sleeeeeeepier.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

maybe i should put some more music on.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, Jordan. I haven't learned how to make the dough and I haven't paid attention. I should do that tonight I suppose.

horseshoe, food always makes for a great conversation, IMO.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't use sugar in my dough, just a little sprinkle of salt before kneading. Sugar?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized it's been more than two years since I made pizza dough. Perhaps making innumerable 30lb. batches was enough for one lifetime.

xpost Condensed milk, anyone? In the dough I mean.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

i want tater tots.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, Maddie always used a little bit of sugar. Probably not necessary.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

What would condensed milk do for the dough? The only extras I've put in are cheese and red pepper flakes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

AFAIK it helped the crust crisp up nicely. Our dough recipe was very specifically tailored to be crispy, almost cracker-like, and to be cooked directly on a slate at high temp.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, i like crispy crust. i don't have special pizza oven though. stupid pizza stone broke after i used it ONE TIME.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds good. All my homemade stuff has been on the thick & bread-y side.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, anyone know where i can get some tater tots in the wicker park/east village/village area? i'll go to bucktown if i have to.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jewel?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Get the "extra crispy" kind! They are extra fried and so yummers.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

a fast food joint?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I am currently baking a pumpkin pie.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I made purple frosting for cookies.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if that Aldi on Milwaukee has bulk tater tots. You could be set for life!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

i don't wanna make 'em, i just want to eat them. it seems like the kind of thing the beachwood inn should have doesn't it? but they don't. i want beer and tater tots and someone to drive me home and tuck me into bed because i'm beat and two beers will turn my lights out at this point.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, would that there was a Sonic nearby.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

But if you're at home all you need to do is put them in the oven. Then you eat em. Lots of em.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't there a McDonalds or Hardeez or some crap in our hood? They have hashbrowns.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, Small Bar's got them on their appetizer menu.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

There's no Sonic anywhere in Chicago, looks like. Maybe not even in the region. Raise your hand, Midwesterners, if you have never had a Sonic tater tot.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.immanuelstpaul.org/ILCCC/handup.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

there's a mcdonalds at milwaukee and western and one at chicago and damen. i don't know if they'd be serving hasbrowns. amanda's got the right idea but the second i hit my apartment i'm heading straight for the big empty and saw some logs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

There is a Salvation Army bell ringer outside the Jewel.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost Aw! So saaad.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

i'm heading straight for the big empty

The what? Did you see "Brick" too many times?

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

if by too many you mean zero then yes.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

I was addicted to the limeade at Sonic.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

xpost No, that's way too few. It's great.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

I have never had Sonic anything. I do have a craving for these now:

http://www.spaceshipnofuture.org/pix/ore_ida_tater_tot_bag.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, so southerners and east coasters know about Sonic. That's good.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to buy Brick, I loved it that much.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

i'd never been to a sonic until last year in oklahoma or missouri or wherever the hell we were.

xpost- yeah, a friend of mine raved about it. i never got around to seeing it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I know of Sonic's existence as a fast-food hamburger chain, but I was never lucky enough to have the chance to sample their wares.

What about Rally's? Anyone? Maybe that's a Detroit thing, although I see there are some in the south burbs.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

I remember seeing lots of Rally's, but not eating there.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

should anyone be looking for me between 5:30 and 7:30, it's a good bet i'll be here:
http://www.planet99.com/pix//14829_1.jpg

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, anyone know where i can get some tater tots in the wicker park/east village/village area? i'll go to bucktown if i have to.

If you expand your area to include Pilsen, you can get them at Skylark.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

xpost No good reason to do so, they're totally nasty. Maybe not White Castle nasty, but close.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think you all are fully appreciating the ramifications of a Salvation Army bell ringer outside the Jewel. Right next to our apartment.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Go give him some hush money.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

shit, looking at that picture made me realize thai village is only two doors down. screw the beer, screw the (tater) tots, i'm getting some garlic chicken and maybe some fried tofu.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

go grab his clapper jenny, that will quiet him down.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think there's a Rally's in Madison. I think I had a milkshake and an argument there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Think of it as another part of the evolving case study of human life that the grocery store provides.

Or, go out and throttle them!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, how quickly the lowly tater tot is forgotten.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

small bar is kind of expensive for drinks though. they have the BEST sweet potato fries though, so so SO good.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though though

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I think I've had Sonic once. My family was driving down to New Orleans in the summer of '97 and we stopped for a snack somewhere in Arkansas or Mississippi, and I'm pretty sure it was a Sonic Drive-In. Absolutely no memory of what I got or if it was good.

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

I didn't know they have sweet potato fries!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

they do and they KICK ASS sarah.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

The drinks are somewhat dear, yes. This is what has kept me from really attempting to become a regular at the Logan Square branch.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I used to be a big fan of Checkers, esp. the spicy curly fries. I think they had some kind of tasty BBQ burger, too.

Wikipedia is telling me that Checkers and Rally's are the same thing. I've never heard of Rally's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

I have never eaten at Sonic. Sayjal appears in a Sonic commercial but not in Chicago.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, did you just call Kevin "dear"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

not unless he was saying the drinks at Small Bar are somewhat Kevin!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Newspaper blurb for a Jamaican buffet I want to go to:

For the vegetarians, there is excellent jerked tofu, but for meat-eaters the highlight of the jerk store is the jerk steak.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Exactly.

Kevin's a cool guy and all, but I don't like him that way!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I can't stop eating these little black licorice blobs I bought at TJs. Anyone else like black licorice?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Holy shit I LOVE black licorice. LOVE LOVE LOVE.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

you guys=crazy

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

These blobs are INCREDIBLE. Have you tried them? They're soooooooo soft and good.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Webster's 11th informs me of a definition of "dear" that I did not realize until now!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin's a cool guy and all, but I don't like him that way!

if i had a dime for everytime i've heard this from age 13 on i wouldn't need to work. and if the damn menu at thesmallbar.com wasn't in flash i'd post it here. tater tots, hand cut sweet potato fries.... i might say fuck the show and gorge myself on potatoes.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

(Also, I like black licorice. Like coconut, I've never understood the hate.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

black licorice is gross! and I like many, many types of candy.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

coconut is delicious, though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

No love for the black licorice from me. Bring on the red vines!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

the food at Small Bar is really good.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Black licorice, when not disgusting, is soooooooo good. You can taste the molasses. It doesn't taste synthetic like red vines or whatever. YUM. I like sambuca and aguardiente too. YUM X 10.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

hate licorice

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I will opine on any and all foodstuffs!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

and if the damn menu at thesmallbar.com wasn't in flash i'd post it here.

I'm just pissed it automatically resizes and moves my browser window. HATE HATE HATE that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like many types of candy, but I love black licorice.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

the food at Small Bar is really good.

agreed but i don't think i've been there since early summer. i hate the places on division with the sidewalk seating. i really have a seething, irrational hatred of them and their pedestrian-impairing ways. now that it's winter the sidewalks are back to normal size i suppose i can go there and not feel like a hypocrite.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

the logan square one is much nicer than the wp one, I think.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

(still ranting about the small bar page) Furthermore, there is absolutely no reason for that site to be made with Flash. What abject wankery.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

What kind of licorice blobs are those, Amanda? I like Panda licorice but these are my favorite.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

they are sold at TJs in the frozen aisle (with the other candies) and look just like this:
http://store.aidacandies.com/graphics/00000001/capture_104_std.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

When my housemate Matt came back from Germany he brought a big bag of Euro candy along. Included in the mix were those salty black licorice things that are so popular over there for some reason...

worst
candy
ever

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Urgh. I'm getting to the point, in the last couple weeks, where around mid-afternoon I start to get a headache that I think is maybe vision-related -- but we just switched insurance carriers, and I don't think my vision plan kicks in for a little while.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

(still ranting about the small bar page) Furthermore, there is absolutely no reason for that site to be made with Flash. What abject wankery.

I don't understand how it's easier for people to learn to use Flash than it is to learn to make simple web pages. I mean, Flash is pretty easy to use, but easier than HTML? And that page doesn't do anything even remotely special. It's just weird, but I see it all the time.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe businesses require flash because it's the 'hip' thing?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

John, go get 'em checked anyway. If your new insurance is anything like mine, it'll take them at least a month to get around to approving any claims. Grrrr...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

I am now also eating licorice. It's my favorite kind of candy. My second favorite candy is crystallized gigner or ginger chews, either one. I love all things gingery.

http://www.gingerpeople.com/images/chews_travel.gif

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna say! These licorice blobs are second only to GINGER CHEWS for their palate-cleansing qualities!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Some candies just make me want to eat more more more more candy. Those candies are very satisfying after one or two candies, making me think that they are obvs a superior candy. Candy candy candy I can't let you go.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

It hurt me real bad when you left.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad you got out, but...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

I want me some frackin' ginger chews, stat!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh god dammit guess which song i have stuck in my head now...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, Nick and I sing that all the time.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

That's because it's the best duet evar.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, are you referring to candy, like that kids eat, or "candy"?

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I once had a friend who was so bad into the candy that he got evicted from his apartment. It was sad.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i started thinking about other songs to get that one out of there and lo and behold, rolling through my melon right now?

"midnight at the oaaaaaaaaa-sis..."

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno. I just thought about how many times I said candy and that song popped into my head and now I want to hear it. You know I'm not into any candy that goes anywhere but my mouth and my belly.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

heh heh, "send your camel to bed".

HEY NOW!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

The thought of Amanda on coke makes me lol.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

KEVIN STICK IT IN THE FRIDGE

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

One of these days I need to bookmark the Chilx blogspot page. Please give me the link again. PLEAASSEE!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit jenny, no joke 1000% serious i just yelled "FUCK!" in my office. across the hall "WHAT?!? Are you ok?" and then i started giggling.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, you're two-thirds of the way there already.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, have you ever had chocolate-covered crystallized ginger? it's amazing.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know any jazz clubs in Chicago besides the Green M1ll and the Jazz Showcase? I'm trying to book some gigs for my New Orleans trad band and 3/5ths of the band lives in Chicago, so...

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

chilx dot blogspot dot com

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

(Just add a dot-com.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

martyr's would probably accomodate you. not exactly a jazz club but...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan -- Green Dolphin Street?

Do they have to be exclusively jazz-oriented clubs? The last jazz show I saw was at Ice Factory.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but I'm not that into chocolate. I like it. But I'm not nuts for it. I like my ginger plain.

Try Hungry Brain? Velvet Lounge?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Geez. I found it.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

sometimes when I'm cooking with ginger I'll just pop a chunk of it in my mouth. which freaks my sister out.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Don't have to be jazz clubs, just places that would book and suit a New Orleans trad band.

xpost thanks, I will check out those places

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe not the Velvet Lounge, since this band is the opposite of avant garde. I played there once and a had great time, even though it was to an empty house (except for three Japanese tourists and Fred And3rson).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

Abbey Pub, perhaps? One of the guys I work with plays sax and has gigs there occasionally.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

I like Hungry Brain's site a lot: http://hungrybrain.org/

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

Is the Ice Factory the kind of place where you need to bring your own crowd, and even if you do you may not make much money?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hungry Brain is my favorite bar.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

Hungry Brain = #1 A++++ will drink there again

xpost all right!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

You don't need to bring your own crowd because they have jazz fans (and are jazz fans themselves).

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

I add a pinch of sugar to the water and yeast. I get the idea it's supposed to "activate" the yeast?

They had Checkers at one of the W&M dining halls my freshman year. So so so bad for dumb kids who don't know who to eat a good diet.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been to a jazz show at Ice Factory but whenever we've played there it's been packed with kids I'd never seen before. I think they kind of have their own crowd that just comes to everything.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Cool.

xpost thx Nick, that rings a bell

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

I wish kels' thing was at Smartbar avec sweet potato fries.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been to a jazz show at Ice Factory but whenever we've played there it's been packed with kids I'd never seen before. I think they kind of have their own crowd that just comes to everything.

when i saw you guys there i ran into 3 people i knew. none of them knew who was playing but were friends of aaron & seth i guess? weird when world's collide.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

sarah, call in for an order to go! or are you going north straight from work?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going there straight from work. I don't know yet what I'm doing between now and then. Right now, I'm totally stuffed from lunch and birthday fixin's.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

Why have I never listened to Motorhead before? This is awesome.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Why have I never listened to Motorhead before? This is awesome.

i can't answer that for you. i'd assumed everyone has at least heard motorhead before. what are you listening to?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Just random songs I have managed to download.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

ace of spades?
i'm so bad baby i don't care?
overkill?
orgasmatron?
r.a.m.o.n.e.s.?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, "Sacrifice" is some good shit (both the album and the song). I need to get my hands on a copy fo that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

byE!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

later gator, i'm gonna be here a while, don't think i'm gonna have a chance to get those tots. ":(

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

Even I like "Ace of Spades"!

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 17 November 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

YOU WIN SOME YOU LOSE SOME
IT'S ALL THE SAME TO ME.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:07 (nineteen years ago)

i'm finally fucking out of here chicago.

later.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 17 November 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

WHY DOES RICK B4YLESS TALK LIKE THAT?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

Because he's actually Lyle, The Effiminate Heterosexual.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Saturday, 18 November 2006 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

I just discovered a text message on my cell phone... did someone set Nick on fire last night?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 18 November 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Which of you fine upstanding citizens who are unrelated to me by blood would like to go on my IL bar application as a character witness?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

You know, I've been TERRIFIED by this character and fitness application but having now taking a close look at it, it's not that bad. It's going to be hard to remember everywhere I've lived since I was 18, but the Mean Dean of Student Affairs told another "non-traditional" (read: old) student to just do her best and not worry too much about it. The employment stuff only has to go back ten years, which at least cuts out all the random one-day-then-quit college jobs and only snags the tail end of my hardcore wandering days. I do have to figure out every bill I've been over 60 days late for (sheesh) BUT I pulled all my credit reports and I figure if I can't remember it, and it's not on the credit report, I'm pretty clear. I was stressed about having to put my parents' names and addresses on there because there's always stress (emotional and logistical) involved with contacting my bio-dad but he randomly emailed me so I've got that covered, too.

By god, I might actually make it through this stupid, soul-eroding process yet!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 18 November 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Ummm... if anybody has heard from Jesse between 5 AM this morning and now, could you let me and/or Courtney know?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 18 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse turned up. He's on a bender.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 18 November 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

It was not exactly a bender since it was only one night but GAWD it feels like I've been on one. Talk about a JFK hangover.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a going-away house party which was a pretty amazing success: it even attracted an Irish guy who riding by in a cab but stopped the driver b/c he said he had never been to an American house party and wanted to go to this one. He had the impression that house parties in the US were all "like the house parties in American Pie."

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Saturday, 18 November 2006 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

I talked to a former co-worker who is now the manager of the Co@ch dept. at M@cy's. She said that the store has seen a big decline since they changed from Marshall Field's. The Co@ch dept. alone is $40,000 below last years sales for this year. And the employees are bitter and angry and they're trying to drive out folks who have worked there forever. Fuck Macy's.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 19 November 2006 05:42 (nineteen years ago)

WHO WANTS TO PARTY?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!?!?!

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 19 November 2006 07:01 (nineteen years ago)

Nick you should be Andrew WK for Halloween next year.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 19 November 2006 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

PARTY TILL YOU PUKE.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 19 November 2006 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse! Are you excited about the mediation simulation today? Aren't you going to be sad when I graduate and you don't get to star in all my skills class simulations?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 19 November 2006 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like that Jesse's alive.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Eh, whatever.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 19 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

I now have the phone number for central booking, however, if anyone needs to determine whether someone was arrested. I'm thinking of adding it as a contact in my cell phone.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 19 November 2006 16:05 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I found a DVD called "Russian Teen Orgy" by my TV. I bet that's yours.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 19 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone know any jazz clubs in Chicago besides the Green M1ll and the Jazz Showcase? I'm trying to book some gigs for my New Orleans trad band and 3/5ths of the band lives in Chicago, so...

Negro League Cafe I think it's called? Some of my interns went there when they were in town.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Sunday, 19 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I found a DVD called "Russian Teen Orgy" by my TV.

I suppose. Jeff gave that to me. It's pretty awful. No one even gets naked for 30 minutes. And then both the camera work and the sex are so clumsy as to make it totally un-jerk-off-able.

Throw it away.

― dutch girls must be punished for having big boobs (kenan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have your DVD set of The Office. I will not throw it away.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

You should come over, hangover boy. We should trade stuff.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

To provoke, or sustain, a reverie in a bar, you have to drink English gin, especially in the form of the drymartini. To be frank, given the primordial role played in my life my the dry martini, I think I really ought to give it at least a page. Like all cocktails, the martini, composed essentially of gin and a few drops of Noilly Prat, seems to have been an American invention. Connoisseurs who like their martinis very dry suggest simply allowing a ray of sunlight to shine through a bottle of Noilly Prat before it hits the bottle of gin. At a certain period in America it was said that the making of a dry martini should resemble the Immaculate Conception, for, as Saint Thomas Aquinas once noted, the generative power of the Holy Ghost pierced the Virgin's hymen "like a ray of sunlight through a window -- leaving it unbroken."
-Luis Bunuel

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan: there's the New Apartment Lounge on the south side:
http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/entity.php?id=5885

You guys should play a show with whoever that brass band is that plays on the street in the loop, or maybe you have already.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 20 November 2006 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

Man, Green Zebra was so good that it makes me kind of sad that I can't afford to eat there under normal circumstances. Still, a good time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 November 2006 02:40 (nineteen years ago)

We went to the Green Zebra for our anniversary, too! It was crumbelievable.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 03:31 (nineteen years ago)

I'm back from Florida. It was pretty good all things considered. I met my uncle's boyfriend Fernando and my great-uncle's boyfriend Matt, and I ate breakfast on the beach this morning.

Nick, why didn't you...eat the flame?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 04:26 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and thx, Eazy.

We've never really interacted with that band...they're kind of on their own scene, don't improvise, etc.. Didn't they move to NYC?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 05:14 (nineteen years ago)

Man, Green Zebra was so good that it makes me kind of sad that I can't afford to eat there under normal circumstances.

Still never been to G.Z., but I had a similar thought after the amazing meal Kr and I had at Nacional 27, where half of our check was already paid for. We ordered off the tapas menu and got ceviche, squash soup (with fresh mushrooms), truffled plantains, pumpkin and goat cheese croquetas, chile relleno, BBQ'd lamb tiny tacos, mushroom and goat cheese arepas, shrimp adobado skewer. Highlights for me were the soup, croquetas, and shrimp.

In fact, I liked the shrimp so much that Kr and I decided to make a garlicky shrimp and angel-hair pasta dish last night for dinner, which was also yummy.

I was reminded of this day in the summer of '98 when I decided to go vegetarian but then was stymied by the popcorn shrimp in a buffet at, like, Shoney's. It took me another six weeks before I fully committed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 05:40 (nineteen years ago)

Man, Green Zebra was so good that it makes me kind of sad that I can't afford to eat there under normal circumstances.

The perfect recommendation for any restaurant, I think. I will HAVE to go there. I can't believe I haven't already been, as much as I've heard about it.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 07:49 (nineteen years ago)

Went to bed at: about 10:30

Woke up at: about 1:30

Listening to: Aja

Smoking: yes

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 07:55 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT I HAD:

Shaved Artichoke Salad, parmesan, preserved lemons & red pepper foam
Crisp Chickpea Pancake, toasted pinenuts, basil and marinated radish
Parmesan Caraway Gnocchi, brussel sprouts, mustard, chanterelles
Apple Butter Beignets, riesling reduction, caramel thyme ice cream

WHAT SARAH HAD:

Some kind of crazy homemade honey spice soda
Spiced Squash Soup, with meringues and toasted squash seeds
Crispy Sweet Potato Dumplings, fresh water chestnuts and dandelion miso broth
Roasted Squash & Apple, Tart, aged blue cheese, shallot compote, black pepper syrah
Black Walnut Cake, sassafrass gelee, ginger foam, creme fraiche

Although it doesn't sound that impressive on paper, I think my favorite was the chickpea pancake. Also I have learned that the problem isn't so much that I hate mushrooms as that I only enjoy really fancy, well-prepared mushrooms.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 November 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Which of you fine upstanding citizens who are unrelated to me by blood would like to go on my IL bar application as a character witness?

your husband isn't related by blood (i hope). if he won't do it just show them my initial myspace comment for you and you should be fine.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I moved! I woke up in new apartment! My walk to the train is longer but nicer, and I don't have to transfer anywhere. ALL LIFE WILL BE DIFFERENT.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

congratulations. how are the sinuses?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

What? Sorry, I can't hear you through the haze of infectious green mucous.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

if it's any consolation it feels like my sinues are filled with wet cement. and it also feels like someone has stuffed cotton in my lungs or i have a lead apron on my chest. breathing is laborous this morning.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

oh, but you know what happened this weekend? I GOT MY OLD GLASSES BACK!!! when my friend jay moved to her new place her boyfriend found a pair of glasses, originally he was going to chuck them but she said they must belong to somebody so she held onto them. on friday between bands we were talking about the last time we'd been to her old place and my friend amy said "wasn't that the night you lost your glasses?" then jay asked what they looked like, i told her they were black plastic frames, and she said "i think i have your glasses." the next night at dan the fan's b-day party her boyfriend came up to me and handed me my specs. hopefully this means the headache i get over my right eye after a few hours of looking at a computer is a thing of the past.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Check out how my mom ended her latest superlong email to my sisters and I... She makes me laugh every day.
love to the daughters (fist twice to the heart, swinging the hand out). yomomma

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

so what did everyone do this weekend? what was up with nick's cryptic txt messages friday night? how did jesse's bender turn out?

inquiring minds want to know, I WANT TO KNOW.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't do anything. Having no money sucks.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Show at EB on Friday was supergreat. Steve Mackay's band had like 10 people in it, two drummers, four horn players, one guy who twiddled knobs and whacked his head with a cymbal and tons of NOIZE. It was awesome. Will Oldham was standing behind me when Bert Jansch performed -- we were right up by the stage -- and I sneezed 6 times and he (WO) tapped me on the shoulder (TAPPED ME ON THE SHOULDER) and said "Bless you." OMG I almost died.

Saturday I hung out with peeps at the Kelsey-Leaf Summit 2006. John was there and we talked about the shrimp mentioned upthread. I have already told my WO Sneezing Story 4x and the thrill still isn't gone.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

My first day on the schedule at my new old job, and I got a phone call telling me I had been cut for this shift--no surprise since everyone is due a cut when business is slow and if you've been away then everyone else has already had theirs and you are due one, but still, I want to work. Oh well, more time to run errands and write my cover letter(s).

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, good weekend for me. Friday = Nacional 27 + Stranger Than Fiction (meh) + Edgewater Inn, ostensibly to see Kelsey, but I talked to Kenan for most of the night.

Saturday = went downtown to the Art Institute's Holiday Art Sale, where all the students sell the paintings and photos and ceramics and stuff they've been producing all year, except it still costs as much as art usually does. Then the aforementioned shrimp dinner, then K's Dugout for beerz and friendz.

Sunday = yoga, band practice, messed around on GarageBand, recorded a podcast review, watched Arrested Development.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

how did jesse's bender turn out?

I WASN'T ON A BENDER!!!

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

You know what? For the first time in 6 months I am living alone. Last night was my first night without a roommate. I kind of feel weird.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

That doesn't sound like a very good bender.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

recorded a podcast review

Wait a second, is this a review in podcast form or a recorded review of a podcast?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

xpost It was one night of (concerted) drinking that started at 11:30 and went to about 5. If we're going to call it something, let's call it a binge. Or a bingette.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry I was so chatty Friday night. I was probably being a little... I don't know... Kenanish.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

A review in podcast form. Once a week, I do a two-minute review of some usually horrible international pop song, and it's used to introduce the song in the Stylus Singles Jukebox Podcast.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Did you like Stranger Than Fiction, John?

Man, when I got to my hotel in FL on Saturday I went for a long run and my legs are still soooooorrrre. Apparently using the elliptical is wildly different/easier than running outside (also I wore my street shoes cause I forgot to pack sneakers). Can't hardly walk.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

jesse, i'd call it a late night, that's all. i got a txt msg saying you were on a bender.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Apple Butter Beignets, riesling reduction, caramel thyme ice cream

That sounds pretty damn good, esp. the riesling reduction. I'm having a hard time imagining caramel and thyme together in an ice cream.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I'm glad you are ok.

John, when were you at edgewater?

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.msigeneralstore.com/images/gender_bender_robot.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan-- Did you stretch?

Kevin-- I think Jenny called it a bender because I was asleep at 11 AM and didn't feel/hear my phone vibrating, and this after Courtney called me at 5 AM and I told her I was going to be coming home soon.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but it was only token stretching, not good stretching, 'cause I only had an hour before dinner. :(

GETTING SORES IN YOUR LEGS FROM HAVING TOO MUCH RUNNING: C/D?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

On the plus side I did have a fucking crab & spinach omelette w/pancakes on the beach yesterday morning. It seems surreal now.

Sarah your moms is funny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really do benders, and when I have tried they have been 3 nights of drinking interrupted by 2 days of brunch. Some argue that that is not a bender. Interestingly, my forays into "benders" have coincided with visits from Jenny's friend Mark M@guire.

So Chilx--What do you think a constitutes a bender?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

GETTING SORES IN YOUR LEGS

That sounds gross.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

xxxxpost-- Is Gender Bender holding a can of Pepsi?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Did you like Stranger Than Fiction, John?

It was kinda cute, I guess, but ultimately not worth seeing it in the theater. It was like The Truman Show, where big comedy star tries his hand at a more serious role, but it's still light and airy. I'm all for branching out and stretching, but I did miss Ferrell's usual antics. Also similar to The Truman Show in the whole dude's-life-is-scripted plot. As Kenan pointed out, Queen Latifah's character is completely superfluous (not to mention: publishers contract out assistants to crack the whip on authors with writer's block? I don't think so.) -- but Dustin Hoffman is consistently amusing. Maggie Gyllenhaal and her bicep tattoo were CUET>. Wondered if we should've seen Babel instead.

I showed up to Edgewater at about 12:15.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

for me a bender is a 72 hour period of drinking interupted by occasional naps/passouts.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Not as gross as: Getting sores in your penis for having too much sex: c/d?

I don't think I've ever been on a bender!?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I can't even remember what time we left now.

Anyway, yeah, Green Zebra was the highlight of my weekend, though I did do lots of other fun things, including starting my christmas shopping.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I think the only real bender I've been on was Spring Break in Myrtle beach my senior year of high school.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

(xxp) Neither have I. I think the closest I've come is the Memorial Day weekends I've spent in Michigan, where some of my friends rent a couple of cottages on the beach and buy a couple of kegs, which sit out on the porch for the entire weekend. You start drinking pretty much right after breakfast, but I usually pace it out throughout the day, so I'm pleasantly tipsy the whole time but never raging drunk.

Sarah -- I was told that I missed you by about 15 minutes. Nick sent his cryptic text at 11:55.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

I guess there was New Year's '05 but that was more a matter of carefully maintaining a buzz (bonsai-style), like John describes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

highlight of my weekend was seeing an awesome new-to-me band and listening to a guy from bordeaux try to articulate his feelings on rock 'n' roll and how hard it is to find good bourbon in france. i wound up leaving the party around 6:30, got home about 7. almost went to church on my way home but realized i was so fucked up they'd probably call the cops on me or worse, try to convert me. but the music was good so i stood outside and listened for a while.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

The dumbest! :-( We were sad we didn't see any more of the crew. Of course, it was lovely seeing Kenan.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Remember that interactive Googlemap list of bars that Jenny emailed around? Does anyone know of one of these that show free wi-fi? I googled "free wifi chicago" and the results were way short of comprehensive.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

this weekend:

Friday: sat in 2 hours of traffic trying to get to the getty in order to see a film, a fake documentary about the Mayas; met up with people in Westwood for sushi; drove across town to Akbar, danced a bit; went to the Shortstop in Echo Park.
Saturday: Bonfire at Corona del Mar beach; came home and got stoned, played insane games of Pick up Sticks
Sunday: Softball, read some of Dialectic of Enlightenment.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

if you're in my neck of the woods, tuman's, mac's, and empty bottle all have it for sure. as does old timer's if you're downtown.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I consider it a bender if I continue to drink long past the point where being drunk is fun. When you're drinking just to avoid the awful, depressing comedown, you're on a bender.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

xpost The Green Eye at Western/Milwaukee has it too. Also the Map Room, Armitage/Hoyne.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Like, I have said to myself on Sunday afternoon, "What I really want right now is to be totally sober and to have a nice meal. But to get to that point, I have to go through hours of hangover and sick. So instead I'll have another beer."

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, the benders I've had.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I do not recommend this, btw. It makes the comedown much worse with every passing ounce of alcohol.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Friday: hung out at home and watched North by Northwest (thumbs up)

Saturday: Shortbus (thumbs up (actually, maybe a whole fist up....)) then Courtney purchased Arrested Development which we watched at home

Sunday: participated in Jenny's fake mediation, ate a portobello sandwich at Holiday Club.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

holiday club is good to me.

speaking of that, there's probably no thirsty thursday this week, eh?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

I suspect the key to a ending a bender successfully may lie in Xanax. Isn't that what they use in rehab for people with DT's?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

TT = Turkey(less) Thursday.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

there's probably no thirsty thursday this week, eh?

Ya, eh. It'll be at a location yet to be determined in Houghton, Michigan. All who can make it are welcome, call me for deets.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Note: said location may end up being my parents' kitchen.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

i will be in my semi-secluded underground bunker watching football and eating mashed potatoes and grilled cheese sandwiches. it's gonna be in the 50's for thanksgiving!! i remember last year was the first brutally cold day of the year, i went outside for my morning cigarette and it was in the 20's with powerful winds. then i walked to cafe ballou for a coffee and they were closed. that's when i remembered it was thanksgiving.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping to the end because:

I think Jenny called it a bender because I was asleep at 11 AM and didn't feel/hear my phone vibrating, and this after Courtney called me at 5 AM and I told her I was going to be coming home soon.

I called it a bender because when I finally talked to you on the phone, you said, "I'm on a little bender."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

BENDER BENDER BENDER

I want a Tofurkey.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

whole foods usually has tofurkeys but i'd get one quick if i were you as they sell out on this particular holiday.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Btw my pizza on Friday turned out pretty well. The crust was a little spongey but it worked. Emm4 and I watched Wet Hot American Summer and it continues to get funnier every time I see it (pls to not line up by how much we like WHAS again).

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I saw them there the other day. I guess what I mean is I want a Tofurkey for T-Day, but I think it's poor form to show up to my cousin's house and be all, "Cook this." Oh well -- at least there'll be mashed potatoes and cranberries and whatever. Hoping the stuffing ain't tainted by meat drippings.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

or you could just eat it anyyway, mr. shrimps. it's a slippery slope out there...

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

I was wondering about the slippery slope, but nah, I don't think so.

― Mr. Shrimps (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Shrimps are delicious and good for you. Does this mean jaymc eats fishes, too?

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://seafood.ucdavis.edu/organize/Prep/baked.jpg

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

I saw jaymc eating a fish once.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

ooh... I want some fish for lunch. Where do you get baked fish?

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

The best shrimp video you'll watch all year.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad you're okay, too, Jesse!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

You got that video from Wait Wait, didn't you?

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I wondered if you would pick up the reference!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

OMG did I enjoy eating seafood by a coast over the weekend. There was a blackened grouper sandwich that was just perfect.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

Seafood tally, 2006:

1. Mussels at Hopleaf
2. Half a tuna sandwich at Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
3. A few bites of pecan-encrusted salmon at Dan's friend's party
4. Grilled shrimp at Nacional 27
5. Shrimp and pasta at home
6. Didn't Jenny give me a few bites of some fish she ordered somewhere?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like that shrimp video. One of the main virtues of shrimp is that it's hard to actually imagine them as animals.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

See, you've eaten so much fish you've already lost track.

You are a fish-eater! Admit it. It's good for you. Seafood is good.

I didn't much care for that shrimp video either -- it made shrimp look like bugs. Yuck.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

Shrimp as live animals are totally buggy and gross. The have huge creepy eyes and they jerk convulsively and skitter around like roaches. That said, they were delicious in my pasta last night.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

PS One of my students is a buser at Green Zebra. He says it's a nice place to work.

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

One of the main virtues of shrimp is that it's hard to actually imagine them as animals.

Not when you get them whole!

(I haven't watched the video b/c I'm at work)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Most live seafood is either buggy and gross, snotty and gross, or fish. And frankly, live fish give me all sorts of the creeps always swimming, swimming, swimming. There's just something so precambrian about them, like looking in their big dead eyes is like looking through time.

Jeff ate a whole shrimp, head and all once.

Eric Z's tall redhead friend works at the Green Zebra, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

7. Sushi at that one sushi place a couple doors down from Gunther Murphy's. It wasn't a good experience, though. I know it's going to sound dumb, but I forgot that sushi was raw -- or maybe I thought that some of it was, but not the ordinary maki that everyone eats.

HEY GUYS CAN YOU STOP TALKING ABOUT THE EYES OF OCEANIC CREATURES PLEASE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

people be havin' phobias

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have eaten more than a few whole smelt, just out of the creek.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.elasmo-research.org/education/classification/class_images/coelacanth.gif

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

I ate a ton of sushi last week.

I have eaten more than a few whole smelt, just out of the creek.

But this, I'm not sure I would do.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

People be not consumin' animals for eight years, give a guy a break.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I hear Richard Linklater is making a movie where at the end, they show the horrific spectacle of a man catching a fish, throwing it into a cooler, and closing the cooler. Early screenings had people turning green and leaving the theater sick.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

people be havin' phobias

I eat a lot of seafood, but I have to separate "fish as meat" from "fish as animal" or else I get the heebie jeebies real bad. I don't have to do that as much with land animals, which are arguably cuter and more aware, for some reason.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

(XP) So, ah, a guy goes fishing? That's nothing, there was a children's picture book called Arlene Sardine in which our title character actually DIES halfway through and ends up in a CAN for someone's BREAKFAST.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't understand what's so revolting about the mere act of throwing a fish in a cooler and closing the lid. I mean, what do people usually do when they fish? Watch it flap around and die in open air? Violently stab it to death?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Hit it on the head with something solid.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Or, you know, live wells or whatever. But the end result is probably the same.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and as for the smelt... if you want to go smelting, you pretty much have to do that. Because the people you'll be smelting with will probably force you to. It doesn't matter though, by the time that comes around you'll probably have consumed enough Old Milwaukee that you won't care.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

Gone smeltin'

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

STR8 SMELTIN

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't understand what's so revolting about the mere act of throwing a fish in a cooler and closing the lid.

I was being sarcastic. And alluding to the real-life slaughterhouse footage at the end of Fast Food Nation, which apparently IS really fucking horrible.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Kenan was making a funny? I find Richard Linklater more revolting than a floppity fish by a pretty wide margin.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

The point being that fishing seems totally natural, compared to shooting a deer or something similar. It's pretty straightforward, simple, and somehow without a whiff of cruelty (to me). Even cleaning a fish is somehow un-horrifying. I mean, it's fish!

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Killing and cleaning a chicken, on the other hand, could give a man a right good case of the willies.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I remember going to Isle Royale as a kid, probably about 6 or 7, and "catching" (quotes because my dad probably did most of the work) my first lake trout. For about a minute I was disgusted by the cleaning process, and then I discovered the joy of throwing fish guts to the seagulls. Never been a problem since, except I'd probably be kind of rusty at it these days.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it would probably be worse if they made screaming noises as soon as you pulled them out of the water. the slowly ebbing sound of it's death throes in an igloo cooler is bad but not as bad as, say, the anguished screams of an animal dying.

xpost to kenan.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

The sound of them occasionally flopping around in the cooler is the sound of FRESHNESS.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I wouldn't like to do it (wring/behead/pluck chicken). But my Gaga had to if she wanted to eat dinner, and by all accounts she was a very modest, reserved little thing who married at 16 and cd already keep (and feed) house. So between killing chix and not eating? Eventually I would be shamed by the memory of my (apparently much flintier) forbears.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I went fishing as a kid with a friend's family a few times. Enjoyed: being in the boat, eating snacks, catching bluegills and reeling them in, eating fish later. Did not enjoy: taking the fish off the hook, touching floppy fish, watching/participating in cleaning.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I find Richard Linklater more revolting than a floppity fish by a pretty wide margin.

Aw, but slocki said he's a "total bro"! Just like Soderbergh gets a free pass from me for King of the Hill and The Limey, Linklater's responsibility for Before Sunrise and Before Sunset absolves him of any misdeeds in my mind.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think I could kill anything knowing that I was going to eat it, but I come from a long line of hunters and am accustomed to seeing animals in various states of dress. I would actually like to kill (or, really, watch someone kill since I wouldn't know what the fuckola I was doing) and then eat a chicken because I think it would taste wonderful.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've never been fishing, and I used to get grossed out at seeing raw chicken or ground beef thawing on the kitchen counter when I was a kid, so this goes back further than the last eight years, I reckon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

i've been fishing a bunch of times, i haven't cleaned a fish since i was a teen though. i do feel bad at the wriggling and thrashing but that doesn't last too long. i'm sure i could (with proper instruction) kill, clean and prepare a bird. not so sure i could deal with the entrails of anything that weighs more than me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I second the "weighs more than me." That's more than I could stomach.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of things that are hard to stomach:

Meet Chicago's Dirty Dozen -- a collection of troubled eateries shut down by inspectors after posting the most critical health code violations in the city.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

i saw that this morning on gaper's block. they also had a link where you could get the inspection results of establishments by name or by a range of address. there were no eateries with a "failed" status on division from 1600 west to 2400 west, though the jimmy john's was listed as "pass with conditions". there were also several "unavailables" listed.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I called it a bender because when I finally talked to you on the phone, you said, "I'm on a little bender."

Yeh, but I was drunk, so I didn't know what I was talking about.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Logic!

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

So when you've been fishing you just throw the fish straight into the cooler? Why do you think bait and tackle shops sell little clubs? They're for clubbing the fish to death.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Are they next to the rock section? Because I usually just grab the fish by the tail and bang its head on a rock, but you can never find a good rock when you need one.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

"pass with conditions"

In my experience, most restaurants get this. The reason is that the food code changes yearly, sometimes more, and places cannot keep up with it for whatever reason, be it intentional, neglect, or simple ignorance.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

I wish my everything bagel didn't have caraway seeds. That's not part of "everything" and they're gross. They are in the licorice/anise family that makes me feel ill.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

That's not part of "everything"

I don't know why this makes me laugh.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Licorice is supposed to be good for stomach aches.

I dreamed this morning that I reunited Whitney Houston with either her long lost daughter or long lost mother, and that I was eating a handful of pennies.

WHAT DOES THIS MEAN?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

You want Whitney to give you some of whatever she's smoking for cheap.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:25 (nineteen years ago)

...but it makes me love Jesse! (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Is licorice good for stomach aches, too? I know anise is, but I hate it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

it means you are destined to perform socially meaningful duties for meager recompense, obviously.

― otto midnight, dream interpreter to the stars (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Socially meaningful duties like reuniting drug-addled pop stars with their relatives? So I'm going to be the next Jenny Jones?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

I feel nauseated. It's funny how nausea has an element of drowsiness to it.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

no, jenny jones made money.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

I would totally watch any talk show that J.B. hosted religiously.

I can see it now: "Today on Jenny -- Transvestite Wal-Mart exectutives who are against paying living wages to their non-transvestite employees"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, that other thread.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

Where is the best place to look for a job? I'm feeling pretty down today. I was hoping to relax a little at lunch, but instead spent the entire time having all my joy killed by a coworker.

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

The hemroid?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

I always look at University websites.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, that other thread.

You brought that other thread on yourself, John. I don't have a lot of sympathy for you at this point. There's a time and place to make those types of arguments and I'm still puzzled as to why you thought that was an appropriate time and place. Sometimes you need to put a cap on arguments for the sake of arguments or some sort of semantic purity.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

sarah, apparently you are "fuzzy":

MON4 (9:30pm; Free!)
Mannequin Men (Swamp Angel) // Fake Fictions (The Fake Recording Co.Fresh Produce) // Shopping
Fantastic local ensemble MANNEQUIN MEN play another of our popular 'free Monday' shows, playing material from their debut longplayer Showbiz Witch. They'll be joined by fuzzy popsters FAKE FICTIONS, who will play second, and virulent lo-fi punks SHOPPING, who open.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I always look at University websites.

jobs.uchicago.edu, Sarah!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, guys. I'll check those out.

No, it wasn't Hemroid. It was a different one. We had a nice one-on-one lunch which began with her asking about my weekend.

I started telling her about green zebra because she's a foodie and loves trying out new restaurants. As soon as I mention it's mostly vegetarian, she said she and her husband would never go there then. She totally stops paying attention.
I ask why she wouldn't want to check it out. She seemed really interested before.
She said, if I'm going to spend a bunch of money on food, it sure as hell isn't going to be vegetables.
Me - bbbut it's not just vegetables. All the dishes are very complicated and they do have some meat dishes, they are just free range, and .. never mind.

That was the beginning of a downward spiral during which she said lots of discouraging things to me, including suggestions for me to get a better paying job, quit the band, and give up hope for having kids in the next several years because, let's face it Sarah, you could never afford a sitter. The least you can do is start trying to save up money. Wow, thanks for opening my eyes!

― Cookie the Cat (coco), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

I think I would've thrown a drink in her face.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Does your office have some official policy regarding hiring complete assholes? If so, how did you ever get a job?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Or sometimes I have to realize that people are always going to be kneejerk about calling someone racist on a message board, and it's not worth it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I like being called Fuzzy. It makes me happy.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

I like being called Cracker.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

there used to be a great band out of boston called fuzzy. the extra lovely chris toppin was on guitar and vocals and winston braman (formerly of come) on bass.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

there used to be this great band called cracker with dave lowery...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

Damn, beat me to it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's not part of "everything" and they're gross. They are in the licorice/anise family that makes me feel ill.

Jesse O.T.M.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Caraway seeds are good on rye bread.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

To the anise-fearing:
Don't flava hate!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

I stand united in caraway hatred.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

I know I'll probably incur some wrath for this but:

I think "Everything Bagels" are TOO MUCH.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

That's right, I am a bagel bigot.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

TS: "Everything" vs. "The Works"

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

Favorite bagels:

--Egg
--poppyseed
--sesame
--cheese
--whole wheat
--tomato (sun-dried, don't dry that shit any other way)
--chocolate chip (although you can't really put any toppings on these, can you?)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

ONION BAGELS UBER ALLES.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sesame is my default.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I like my everythings to have:

poppy seeds
sesame seeds
salt
onion
that's about it.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Otto OTM

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think you can get a cheese bagel in NYC. Not like the ones in Muskegon, anyway, with cheddar & herb or swiss baked right in.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Although I've had good experiences with sun-dried tomato ones too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I love everything bagels the best of all bagels.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

I like plain bagels with regular cream cheese the most. It's kind of embarassing.
I also like cinnamon & raisin bages with melted butter.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Spinach Florentine

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

i think i may have spent some time in a photo booth on friday night. the wdyll thread just reminded me of that.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's just... the everything bagel, it's good in theory... but if I wanted a bunch of extra shit to fall off my bagel and get all over the place... I'd order an everything bagel, I guess. But I don't, so I won't.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have much time for sweet bagels, like cinnamon raisin, or sweet cream cheese, like strawberry. If I'm craving bagels, I'm craving a savory sensation. If I don't often get everything bagels, it's because I'm getting herb-garlic or chive cream cheese.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. I just spoke with the hostess of the party on Friday and she called me "Shower-Peer." What do you think that means?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I forgot that the "everything" also tends to burn when toasted. Also, it falls off in the toaster and then gets repeatedly burned.

I've really thought about this a lot. I don't even really eat bagels any more.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

ONION BAGELS UBER ALLES.

Gross.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I do want bagels now, however.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

I have given my love to bialys, actually: they're chewier, denser, more savory, and a much more reasonable size for daily breakfast.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

sesame is my favorite.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

I like bialys for sandwiches, definitely.

Huh. I just spoke with the hostess of the party on Friday and she called me "Shower-Peer." What do you think that means?

I don't know. What do you think it means?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am now officially craving chicken salad with provolone cheese on an everything bialy. THANKS CHICAGO ILX THREAD.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

was it pronounced as in "Pier One Imports" or as in "He's the one who took a leak in the shower, he's the pee-er"?

xpost- i had another ham and provolone on wheat BUT i also bought a 16 oz. coffee to keep me awake.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe she said "au pair"

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Clearly she meant you are her equal in the social stratum of... um... the shower.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

She probably meant the two of you share special insight and opinons into the nature of showers. You are shower peers.

Or, you got drunk and peed in her shower.

xpost: Damn it! Beat to the punch again.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

What it means was that she and I shared the bathroom: she using the toilet, I the shower.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

somehow that makes less sense.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

(My recent re-reading of Eats, Shoots and Leaves has me using a LOT more semi-colons and colons.)

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you mean RE-PAGING?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, there's a comma missing from that book title.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ "re-paging"

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

My recent reading of Blood Meridian has me using far fewer commas colons and semi-colons and punctuation in general.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ "re-paging"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, there's a comma missing from that book title.

Eats, Shoots & Leaves

Actually, that's the title, with an ampersand, not "and." Anyway, the joke wouldn't make any sense if it had 2 commas. After all, you wouldn't say "a panda is vegetarian: it eats shoots, and leaves," would you? The joke is that ONE SINGLE COMMA CAUSED A SHOOTING.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

BUT THE SERIAL COMMA ARGLLGHGLGLG (cue gnashing of teeth)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

ANOTHER REASON WHY THE BRITISH ARE DUMB AND WHY SERIAL COMMAS MAKE WAY MORE SENSE

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

The serial comma is fine if you want to use it, but there's no reason to, and any gnashing of teeths results from a violation of an expectation resulting from a habit.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://webzoom.freewebs.com/panthersxtreme/Pink%20panther%202.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I like everything bagels, but then again, I am an infamous maximalist.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

The serial comma is fine if you want to use it, but there's no reason to

This is bullshit, and you know it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well, more notorious than infamous, really.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

It's a personal feeling that the verbs "eats," "shoots," and "leaves" are on equal footing in the sentence and should be punctuated equally per their shared roles/status. I know it isn't necessary, Jesse, I work for a publishing house that doesn't prefer it!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I feel sorry for people who get sincerely worked up over grammar and punctuation.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

But Nick, you're in a three-piece band and you don't like tomatoes!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

THIS IS MAKING ME LOL

http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j29/JGH_Photos/?action=view¤t=LubeOil.flv

BACK TO YOUR REHASHED COMMA TALK

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

I have never seen such a thing!!! There are garages with permanent holes in the floor? Isn't that an INVITATION TO DISASTER??? "DAER DISASTAH, PLS TO ENTER HERES."

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Have you ever gotten your oil changed at one of those "Qwik Lube" places? That is (part of) how it is done so "Qwik".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't decide which of my points Jordan was arguing against there.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Your claim to be a notorious maximalist.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

No, we always changed my oil in our garage at home. It has a solid cement floor, no funny business.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Aha. Back when I had access to a garage I did, too. In fact my dad's garage actually has a little foxhole thing cut in the floor and covered with thick (yet removable) boards for ease of oil changes and other fixits, sans jacking or crawling around on your back.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

if the person driving the car isn't a complete jackass it's actually safer/quicker than putting it up on a hydraulic hoist. i stopped changing my own oil when i started making more than $25,000/yr. it wasn't worth the inevitable burns and/or skinned knuckles when i'd lose the grip on the oil filter wrench.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

i always used a creeper, my dad never did and called me a pussy for using one.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Never changed my own oil in my life, wouldn't even know where to begin.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

Your claim to be a notorious maximalist.

Yes

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

It's "rewarding", J. And easy! And cheap! (With the exception of getting rid of the old oil, sometimes... depends on your access to recycling/disposal)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

Work pits! Wow! No, we'd drive it up on ramps for that stuff. That or Dad has a big plastic mat that rolls up and is slippery on top, so you can scoot around and not be on the cold floor. I think it used to be a blanket for an offset printing press, it's got some kind of image burned or stained into it.

XP: You couldn't GET a creeper under my old VW, I had to decide which way my head was going to be turned BEFORE GOING UNDER cos I couldn't move it during.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Haha my GTi was the same way. Man I miss that car sometimes.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

waht is a creeper?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

I discovered this TOTALLY CLAUSTROPHOBIC LACK OF SAFETY MARGIN at a truck stop parking lot while trying to brace part of my exhaust system into place with a wire hanger from the diner's coat rack. Not sure how much good that did, but at least nothing fell out on the way home from North Carolina.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

you guys, i e-mailed adam today, he and i both hate socks!

the end.

― i've dreamt of rubies! (Mandee), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

waht is a creeper?

http://www.comparestoreprices.co.uk/images/cl/clarke-car-creeper-with-adjustable-headrest.jpg

...and a very nice one at that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

looks like a gurney

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

You couldn't GET a creeper under my old VW, I had to decide which way my head was going to be turned BEFORE GOING UNDER cos I couldn't move it during.

yeah, that's how it was with my v-dub too. how it is with most imports and most american cars post-1983.

waht is a creeper?
basically a board on casters that allows you slide under a car without shredding your back on road gravel. \

holy fuck, i did this once too and the coat hanger wound up rubbing against the inside of the my right rear tire causing a blow out at 60 mph. TEH HORRAH!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

In the sense that both are meant for rolling prone human bodies around while keeping them level, yes. (XP)

VW pride, man.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

i can assure you my creeper was not that nice. it did have red padding though. i never trusted jack stands so i didn't mind not being able to turn my head when i was underneath.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

i miss my car. i gave it to my dad when i moved to chicago. he said the clutch gave out 6 months later and then he DONATED IT EASTER SEALS! which means it got parted out. R.I.P. Red Menace.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

anyone here ever go to SPYBAR

i'm thinking of seeing m.a.n.d.y. there but ... you know, its SPY BAR where everyone makes more money than me, is tanner than me and more muscular.

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

The only jack we used was a rolling hydraulic one! The little cranked ones worry me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

its SPY BAR where everyone makes more money than me, is tanner than me and more muscular.

yeah, hi, that's everyone in chicago.

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

if i needed a jack i'd borrow one from a friend, my dad always used jack stands unless he was changing a flat. i was always sure they would collapse due to metal fatigue or somehow suffer a catestrophic failure while i was under the car so i never ever used them.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

dan, re: changing oil. did you top off the new filter prior to installation?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

LOL of course! My father went to great pains to instill that in me.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

people in Chicago are tanned?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

If by "top off" you mean "lube the top surface with a little oil" I mean...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

no, some dude told me that you're supposed to actually put oil in the filter or else when you first start the engine you're running w/o oil for a few seconds. i never knew that and never did it. and had never heard it until that dude told me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, hi, that's everyone in chicago.

haha uhhh was that a zing??

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

people in Chicago are tanned?

not all of them have my translucency.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, sorry deej, that one was aimed solely at myself. but if the shoe fits...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

haha well probably the pale thing yeah

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

xposts Wow, weird. I've never heard that one.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i was wondering how you even did that?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:39 (nineteen years ago)

later chicago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

Word from the mechanic is that he's asked around at dealerships for years and all the authorities have said they don't think it makes any difference to run dry for those few seconds (even the BMW motorcycle shop says as much). Plus, pre-filling with oil is fine if yr filter screws in from the top -- but not so much if it's on the side of the engine and all dumps out (d'oh, good point). So there you have it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say... I'm no engimaneer, but would those brief moments w/o oil really matter? It's not like you're revving the thing up to 7500 then.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

Also, wtg Laurel on the research.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 20 November 2006 22:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm out of here. I'd like to give a very special shoutout to Michael Richards for making this day much more interesting than it would have otherwise been.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Monday, 20 November 2006 23:17 (nineteen years ago)

Dads are good for things! (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

like making sure you come into existance. i suppose postmen could be good for that too.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 00:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bryerpatch.com/news/africa2000/birds/stork.jpg

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

i stopped changing my own oil when i started making more than $25,000/yr. it wasn't worth the inevitable burns and/or skinned knuckles when i'd lose the grip on the oil filter wrench.

But sometimes doesn't it feel GREAT to do something for yourself? Just as sometimes it feels GREAT to get it done for you. I used to enjoy the sense of accomplishment and self-sufficiency. It took about the same amount of time it takes at a Jiffy Lube (not counting the buying of the oil and filter) and for a saved around $20.

Also I was very good at changing my brake pads (and still am, I'm certain). The pads only cost around $13 and one time I changed them in the parking lot of the laundromat while I washed a load of clothes. Savings there was probably around $75 or so in labor.

What I hated doing was washing and waxing, so I could use the savings for that if I felt like it. But usually I just let the car stay filthy.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I would use ramps or run one wheel up on a curb to elevate that car. Except on my BMW which had enough clearance to just scooch under it.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

The serial comma is fine if you want to use it, but there's no reason to
This is bullshit, and you know it.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), Today 3:48 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

Uh-uh. 6 of one, 1/2 dozen of the other.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 05:10 (nineteen years ago)

But sometimes doesn't it feel GREAT to do something for yourself?

Not really. I've changed the oil in a car more than enough in my life. I'll gladly have someone else do every thing car related from now on.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 12:01 (nineteen years ago)

Including own the actual car.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

seriously chicago, the a-side of the turpentine brothers 7" get your mind off me is maybe the catchiest song i've heard all year. so god damn good.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

xpost: you two are hilarious!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hooooo boy I'm late for work.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

late or "...delayed"?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Kelsey - Maybe we should take this shit on the road.

You know, I realized this morning that how my commute goes has a huge impact on my mood. For example, yesterday I just missed the Addison bus, just missed a red line, decided to switch to the brown line and waited for 20 minutes and then gave up and got back on a red line and was five minutes late for work and just grumpy as hell. Today, however, the bus was at the corner, they train was pulling in as I got to the top of the escalator, there was a brown line waiting at Belmont and I got a seat. I was 20 minutes early for work and had enough time and money for an Americano instead of having to drink the terrible free coffee at work and I am like on TOP OF THE FUCKING WORLD now!

I resent that something over which I have so little control has so much control over my mood.

Also, since we're cleaning house and sentencing corrupt city officials to jail time now, I'd like somebody to investigate Frank Kruesi because last year he was crying that he'd have to cut CTA service if IL didn't cough up enough money and when they got the money, they jumped into these huge construction projects and NOW he's all like, "WAHHH if we don't get more money we won't be able to finish the projects and the trains will be slow forever!!!!" and frankly, I'm tired of all these ultimatums. Since this is Chicago, I am sure there's some hanky panky going on with that budget and dammit, I want answers.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'll submit the FOIA request, but somebody else is going to have to look at the numbers.

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

the problem, as i've heard it, is that they gave him capital money but not operating funds. but when they got the capital money (which is supposed to be used for things like construction, renovation, upkeep, etc.) they had to convert it to operating funds (salaries and such). they did this under the somewhat commonsensical notion that it wouldn't matter if the slow zones were fixed if they couldn't pay anyone to operate the trains.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

I'm still suspicious.

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

suspicious of something that marries politics and construction, two of the most honest and virtuous institutions in america?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

And in Chicago, the most honest, corruption-free city in America, to boot! I am nothing if not cynical.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I had been "delayed". Nope, just didn't turn the ol' alarm on. So I drove to work... The Ryan is a lot better these days but I still hate it. I'm not looking forward to the trip home. The moral of the story is: Jenny totally OTM about the ratio of commute/mood.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

i think it was studs turkle who said chicago was no more corrupt than any other city, it's just more theatrically corrupt.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Similarly, I heard someone on Wait Wait Don't Tell Me analogize politics in Chicago to theater in New York.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

"theatrically corrupt"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've winnowed my top singles of 2006 down to about 30, which means I have to cut another 10 to make my list for $tylu$. I'm listening to them all right now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

my top single of 2006 is jack oblivian's "black boots" on shattered records. rapidly closing is the aforementioned "get your mind off me" by the turpentine brothers on alien snatch records. by far the two best 7"s of the year that i've heard.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

My coworker and I have spent most of the morning looking at pictures of Scottish Fold cats.* These are some of my favorites. Note that the "I eated your cookie" cat originated there.

*We realized that all opposing counsel has to do to stop the juggernaut of justice that we will unleash in the courtroom is show us a picture of a kitten. SO YOU JUST THOUGHT YOU COULD HIRE PEOPLE AND NOT PAY---awwwwww lookit the wittle kitty boo..........

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Did "We Share Our Mother's Health" come out in 2006? If so, that is my single of the year. If not, fuck all ya'll.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

My top single of 2006 is Girl Talk - Night Ripper. The whole thing.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am horrible at remembering singles. Albums I can figure out, books I keep track of, singles no way. All I can think of right now is Beyonce.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

My top single is "Let's Make Love & Listen to Death from Above" by CSS.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Did Love is All come out this year? Ok, never mind. I don't know my fave then. I also love the new Junior Boys. Crimeny.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Intensely disturbing video for aforementioned Knife single: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=617ANIA5Rqs

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh! Knife!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm such a threadkiller today.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Today I smell like "strong black tea and milk with white pepper, ginger, honey and vanilla, spilled over the crisp scent of clean linen." This makes me very very happy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I could probably spend $50/month on BPAL smellies.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Whoah, Jenny that is WEIRD! I just ducked in to say that I haven't been very posty this morning because of work and perfume shopping online. But I have never seen or heard of this fascinating stuff!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Niiice. Was that on purpose? I mean, is it a perfume? or is just the natural Jenny scent?

Also, how did you end up liking the spanx reversible tights? Review?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Did "We Share Our Mother's Health" come out in 2006? If so, that is my single of the year. If not, fuck all ya'll.

Yep, and I just cut it from my list! Sorry. :(

"Let's Make Love" is almost certainly going to be in my top 20.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Those perfumes sound really exotic. How did you hear about them?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Soon I will smell like EITHER "jasmine, citrus and sandalwood, a fresh blend with hints of bamboo" or "mandarin, oakmoss, rose, iris, vanilla, pachouli, clove, and amber" or "rose, wild flower, pear and peach". I don't know how to make nifty hidden links, tho.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

It's an oil called "White Rabbit" from BPAL's "Mad Tea Party" collection. I few weeks ago I ordered a 5 ml bottle of that (lovely lovely) and little sample bottles of Jack (very nice), Queen of Hearts (good), and The Red Queen (a little too much like cough syrup, but I'll have to wear it one day and see what happens). I don't remember how I heard of that site... I've known about it for a while, and a friend from Texas sent Jesse and I a package of little samples that she didn't want last summer (I got Delight, Wings of Azrael, and Grandmother of Ghosts out of the deal. I don't remember which ones Jesse kept). Wings of Azrael is apparently magic because after a looooong ten-hour day of running around and being me, Amanda said that I smelled "fresh."

But the site design appeases my inner goth, and I love that you can buy little bottles of oils for really cheap. The little bottles last a long time, too.

As for the spanx: I have worn them on both sides a number of times and found them to be very comfortable despite their "shaping" qualities. I usually find control top tights to be too tight and to basically just squeeze my fat out over the top. These do neither. They are also very thick, making them good for cold days, and totally opaque, which is nice. All in all, I deem them totally worth the money. I'd like to get another pair, but the only other color I saw was black/brown and I don't need brown tights right now.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh.. You can order 6 sample vials for $20. Variety!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

LAUREL does that mean you are ordering from BPAL??? What are the names of the oils you're buying? This makes me happy. It also makes me wish I had posted that site a long time ago!

xpost - I know! The 6/$20 is a sweet deal.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Although at $15 for only 5 mL, they're no bargain (I take that back, Sarah's got the goods!). I'm bookmarking it for future use/gifts -- so literary!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

No, I ordered big name-brand scents today. But awesome ones, that I haven't been able to find/afford in real-life shopping.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

I like to smell like nice things. I am particularly drawn to things that smell edible. Very floral scents tend to give me a headache.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

on a good day i smell like old spice. on a bad day i smell like acrid sweaty dude-smell. my former room mate got me some cologne one year for my birthday, i probably wore it twice. i don't remember what it was called but it was allegedly the male equivelent of what she wore. smelled way better on her.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

history tells me that women who smell like vanilla or lilac have a, uhm, pointed affect on me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I bought new deodorant the other day.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

I ran out of deoderant the other day. Fortunately it just turned cold here!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't like cologne on men, but I do LOVE to smell Jeff's neck after he uses sandalwood shaving soup.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

He shaves with soup? What is he, a Chinaman?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh shit! SNORTOL!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

i had to buy some when i went to nyc because i forgot to pack mine. so when i got back i had my regular full sized thing, a travel sized one i forgot to pack, and a travel sized one i had to buy.

did i ever tell you about my ill-conceived notion about being too hot sticky and sweaty in my bedroom and applying anti-persperent to my legs thinking that it would make me more comfortable? turns out it doesn't work that way.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

He shaves with soup? What is he, a Chinaman?

you racist cracker.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Jenny, the scent descriptions on BPAL are pretty...steamy. HAWT.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

you racist cracker.

It's a near-verbatim quote from my high-school Spanish teacher.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

God, I love the story of John's Spanish teacher because, I mean, was there ever even a stereotype that Chinese people take baths in soup? Or was that just a totally random racial slur?

I also love Kevin's story of putting antiperspirant on this legs because face it. We've all thought about it at least once.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

I ordered from BPAL! I was totally charmed by their site. I got the 6 samples deal: Venice, Amsterdam, Cheshire Cat, King of Hearts, White Rabbit, and Lolita. WOO HOO! I love a variety. If I like them I might order some vials for Christmas pressies.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I like cologne if it's a little subtle, unlike my high school bf who wore so much Obsession you could smell him before you saw him.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

Eight grade at a "skate and dance" and there I was, dancing my first slow dance with a boy who was wearing enough Polo to choke a pony and I, romantically, could not stop sneezing and had to go sit down next to the pizza counter until I could breathe again.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, please to post review when you get your samples! We can present a united olfactory front of black tea, ginger, and vanilla.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

i was just informed that i wore something called "allure homme", which, naturally, i called allure for homies.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

now i want to eat pizza and own a polo pony.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

I want to make and eat everything on this slideshow.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

My dad & stepmom are doing a non-trad Thxgiving dinner, Southern-style. I'm making the biscuits, anyone have a good recipe?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

You could make cheddar biscuits or sweet potato biscuits.. or maybe just traditional fluffy biscuits... Mmm.. Biscuits...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

I'll ask me mumsy.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was thinking cheddar. Mmmmm.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I have an easy breezey drop biscuit recipe to which I have successfully added cheese. It's on the CHILX blog.

I have decided that for my Thanksgiving tamale presentation, I am going to walk around N&S's house with an igloo cooler, saying "Tamales... tamales..."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

I just had Potbelly's for lunch, and it was by far the best Potbelly's I have ever had. It was actually quite good. I think the secret is getting the "skinny" because the bread comes out crispier. And then getting gardinera because then it's crispy and greasy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I popped in to say one thing:

I love smells. I kept a perfume archive for a while, of the various perfumes and colognes of people I knew. It included shampoo and soap. But in moving to one state/apartment or another, it got chucked. I still have my own high school collection though.

I am wicked busy today.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

I love gardinera. Love love love it. Best on pizza.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Pizza??

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVE sweet peppers on pizza. And subs. But that seems to be a delicious option unavailable outside the Delaware Valley.

I feel like gardinera on pizza would be too greasy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, pizza. You can order it that way from the place I would ususally get pizza from, or just buy it in a jar from the store and put it on yourself. I have come across one brand where the oil tastes way too much like your standard Italian vinaigrette and that's kind of nasty.

xpost: If I put it on myself I use a slotted spoon or a fork to drain off excess oil, but yeah it can be a lil' greasy. I think the place I've ordered it from in the past has some low-oil stuff 'cause it's always much drier.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not talking about the relishy, ground up kind of gardinera, but the more chunky kind.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm skipping class to go Christmas shopping! So long, suckers!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

YAY! So jealous!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Talk to me, kids. What kinds of brilliant holiday presents have you come up with so far?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm giving my parents my $100 in free books from the Press again. Other than that the only presents I've worked out are for myself. :D

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea, yet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I found someone's purse in my motel room over the weekend, and of course I took pictures of it before handing it over to the front desk:

http://static.flickr.com/103/302948246_d69c3fc6e1.jpg?v=0

Colloidal silver + cheese-its??

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

goddamn it, doesn't ANYONE use photobucket anymore?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have no idea, yet

Yeah, typically I don't start to think about Xmas gifts until 'round about Dec. 20.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Otto it is a to-do list that says:

Colloidal silver

Ice
cheeseits
snaks

TAKE 9 A.M. PILL

I have more pics but I've reached my flickr limit for the month. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

people be workin'?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

I got nothin' to say about shoppin' or that purse and also I be workin'.

List of beverages brought to me at the writing center so far this semester:

(1) pineapple Faygo
(2) Starbuck's frappucinos (cold)
(1) Welch's grape juice
(1) Naked strawberry smoothie

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

which one was your favorite?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Ellen Allien and Apparat, "Way Out"
Aly and AJ, "Rush"
Booka Shade, "Night Falls"
Calle 13, "La Jirafa"
Cassie, "Me & U"
Ciara ft. Chamillionaire, "Get Up"
CSS, "Let's Make Love and Listen to Death From Above"
Fergie, "Fergalicious"
Field Mob ft. Ciara, "So What"
Nelly Furtado, "Promiscuous Girl"
Gnarls Barkley, "Crazy"
Steve Holy, "Brand New Girlfriend"
Hot Chip, "Boy From School"
Junior Boys, "In the Morning"
The Killers, "When We Were Young"
LCD Soundsystem, "45:33"
Luomo, "Really Don't Mind"
Lupe Fiasco, "Kick Push"
Midlake, "Roscoe"
MSTRKRFT, "Easy Love"
New Young Pony Club, "Ice Cream"
Omarion, "Entourage"
Panic! At the Disco, "I Write Sins Not Tragedies"
The Research, "Lonely Hearts Still Beat the Same"
Sapporo 72, "Architecture of Love"
Sally Shapiro, "I'll Be By Your Side"
Sonic Youth, "Incinerate"
Justin Timberlake, "SexyBack"
T.I., "What You Know"
Carrie Underwood, "Before He Cheats"
The Whitest Boy Alive, "Burning"

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

to the best of my knowledge, i've never heard any of those songs.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

not even crazy?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

is it a patsy cline cover?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I have only heard the rap/r&b ones.

xpost Otto yr craaaaaaazy

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

nope. but it got a ton of radio play. i think you must've at least heard it from passing cars. it was that kind of song.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard 6 of them. Of those 6, 3 are actually what I would call "good".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, I wanna know which, Dan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

i've only even heard of 7 of those bands.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Gnarls, Junior Boys, and LCD.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

It's weird that the LCD is eligible as a "single." I had to ask to make sure.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

i find 'sexyback' catchy whilst working out.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

i think you must've at least heard it from passing cars. it was that kind of song.

In the grocery store!

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

xpost yeah a 45 minutes single wtf.

I don't really even like it that much.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Apart from that, though, that's a fine list.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Cassie, "Me & U"
Ciara ft. Chamillionaire, "Get Up""
Field Mob ft. Ciara, "So What"

I think only one of these should make the cut, and I'm leaning toward "So What."

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

Although I still want to hear CSS, and I've been too lazy to track down a copy of Rather Ripped.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

No Mike Jones, John? For shame.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite was the smoothie.

I have heard 4 of those songs.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

MIKE JOWENZ

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

i will say that i haven't heard of a lot of these people & even the folks i've heard of, i can't say i've listened to the song.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I've heard OF a lot of them, but have not come even remotely close to hearing the song.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Or that "Everyday I'm Hustlin'" song? That was a good one, and by good I mean terrible but somehow still good -- in that Miami bass way.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Who did "I'm in love with a stripper"?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Because that song ROOOOOOOOOOOOOLZ

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Mike Jones ft. Ted Haggard, "What You Know About Meth"

Seriously, though -- did Mike Jones the rapper even have any singles in 2006??

"I'm in Luv with a Stripper" = T-Pain (and yeah, underrated)

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

i just discovered a playlist on my ipod called "workout lite" . . . it basically has madvillain & big mama thorton on it. wtf?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome.

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

Faves from yr list: Gnarls, J.T., T.I., Ciara

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Or that "Everyday I'm Hustlin'" song? That was a good one, and by good I mean terrible but somehow still good -- in that Miami bass way.

Rick Ross? I don't think I've heard it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, though -- did Mike Jones the rapper even have any singles in 2006??

I don't know, I can't keep up. I do know that before we moved into our new place (and had cable and all that) we'd turn on BET (that somehow got rebroadcast over the air) in the mornings and just let it play in the background -- and they would ALWAYS play Mike Jones. So, I assumed it came out this year.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

I think only one of these should make the cut, and I'm leaning toward "So What."

I was going to say that before I even finished reading that sentence.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Singles of 2006:
"The Gate" - Sam Roberts (2-nite at Double Door)
"Standing In The Way of Control" - The Gossip
"Cray-zay"
The Katrina song by the World Saxophone Quartet

I played at the bar at the House of Blues last night and afterwards heard, from the main room, whoever does this b-96-type song spelling out s-e-x. Sounded great live.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Re MIKE JONES: Wikipedia says he had a couple of "featurings" this year, but "Still Tippin'" and "Back Then" were both 2005. (Actually, I think deej claims that "Still Tippin'" came out even earlier.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hi.

Something big seems to be happening at Block 37.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

something big and good or something big with screaming sirens and bleeding civilians?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

Lots of long diagonal metal. Actually, diagnoal on its way to being vertical.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeh, and the winner of the Gmail targeted ad of the day contest:

Donkey Punch Clothing
Donkey Punch Clothing has Donkey Punch hats, and t-shirts.
donkeypunchclothing.com

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

what the fucking fuck.

"Yeah, and I'll also take one of those anal rape beer holders."

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

ewww, i don't want that beer anymore.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

Add "donkey punch" to the list of things I don't get; it can go right under "Eiffel Tower".

It occurs to me that maybe I should hang out with peeps other than noise boys from time to time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was going to say: you hang out with those dudes, they have to know what that means! None of it's real, anyway.

Nothing beats the "Louisville Plugger" though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

xpost There's always Chicago. You can hang out with maladjusted dweebs. Oh, wait...

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Argh, Basement Jaxx's "Take Me Back to Your House" and Phoenix's "Consolation Prizes" are too good to have been cut.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Work is SO GAWDAMNABLY COCKSUCKINGFULLY BORING.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

(xp) AS IF PROVING KENAN'S POINT WITH MY LISTMAKING GEEKERY!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't really distinguish between "noise boy" and "boy."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Basement Jaxx's "Take Me Back to Your House" and Phoenix's "Consolation Prizes"

Both fantastic.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

They won't tell me. I could look it up, but I always forget when I'm at a computer (plus, assuming VNSFW -- or possibly VNSFEyes).

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

yr better off not knowing. while both are misogynistic at best, the donkey punch is just downright violent.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

I guarantee you won't like it. It's pretty much something you can only find funny if you're a drunk college-age male. See also: "Dirty Sanchez".

"Louisville Plugger" on the other hand, that is a smart piece of satire.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

BTW, the email that featured Donkeypunch Clothing said "STFU" in it, which was probably the reason for the ad.

What is the Louisville Plugger?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Someone tells me there exists a picture of me being teabagged while I slept on the couch at Friday night's party. I wonder if that's true.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

i can find humor in almost anything but scat really doesn't do it for me.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

SHOO BA DOO BA BOP BOP_BOP_BOP SKEEDLY DEEDLY WOW

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

It's pretty much something you can only find funny if you're a drunk college-age male.

Change that to "stupid asshole," and you're OTM. Still, naming a clothing company... ugh.

I wonder if that's true.

God, I hope so. See, now THAT'S humor.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

wtf happened to amanda?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

SHOO BA DOO BA BOP BOP_BOP_BOP SKEEDLY DEEDLY WOW

David Lee Roth impression?

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes I was totally scatting.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

i'm so congested that when i tried to stifle my laugh my nose made a weird honking noise like an injured goose.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

That was adorable. Amanda, you are on snow globe list.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

multi xpost to jesse:

Dan Savage sets it up in the second bit here (the question about "the pirate"):

http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/SavageLove?oid=20179

Then he waits for people to ask what it is, talk about it, whatever. Then he made the reveal, which unfortunately I cannot find (the actual column where he wrote about it) but the definition is here:

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Louisville+Plugger

Just fucking ridiculous!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

WEEEEEEE TWEET TWEET TWEET SCOOBITY DOOT DOOT DOOT POW! ZAM! WOW!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

i think more tourette's sufferers should be pointed in the way of performing scat. that would seem to make sense, no?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

totally just changed my gmail availability msg again.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

oh. Xpost after some googling

From SavageLove

To demonstrate how easily a disgusting, fictitious sex act can be invented and disseminated, I've made one up myself: "the Louisville Plugger." It's too disgusting to describe even here. If anyone out there would like to know what the Louisville Plugger involves, send an e-mail to plugger@savagelove.net.

Unrelated, but also from SavageLove, and funnier:

Shit? You think? Right up there in your boyfriend's butt? Are you sure, WABN? I mean, it could have been a braille dictionary you felt up there—they're pretty rough and uneven. Or an almond croissant. Or a twice-baked potato.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

flaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa ba dadda booby ding dong a BING BONG whoop whoop YEAH flabbity BOOP a SCOOP a DOOP DANG DING FLIPPY FLING WANG ZIP

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ok I'm done.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39111

Zombie Corpse Of Scatman Crothers Speaks Out Against Telemarketing Scams

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

at what point should i stop being entertained and start worrying in earnest for amanda?

xpost, nevermind then.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

And then, in the style of Jeopardy, let me add the question:

...we both found pleasure in anal play. However, last time I was fingering him, I felt something different than normal. Instead of soft flesh, I felt something rough and uneven inside him. It took a moment before I realized it was probably a turd! ...Was that actually shit in him? Is that normal? —WARY ABOUT BUTTS NOW

WTF.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

well i'd like to know because i, probably like you and most others you know, shit out my ears.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Rough and uneven? GERBIL CLAWS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

ROD STEWART'S HEAD

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

Braille dictionary is comedic gold.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

xpost So that's what "Tonight's the Night" is about...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I just realized that at work I am currently making sure expectant seniors will receieve proper medicare coverage when giving birth.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

High school seniors? THE ELDERLY?

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

THE ELDERLY

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

http://www.danacountryman.com/csm/back/Number27/27_Shooby.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Senior Reprint Associates?

XP: Oh.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

WHY ARE THE ELDERLY GIVING BIRTH?

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://img518.imageshack.us/img518/6291/ididitll5.jpg

Stolen from excelsior thread. LOL.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

because they are sexy, sexy women who know how to please a man kenan.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

ELDERLIES WHY U MAKE BABEIS

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, of course I've heard of women using fertility drugs to have their first children in their late 40's or whatever, but seniors? Honest-to-God, Social-Security-drawing, Ed-McMahon-insured seniors? That's too much.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Today at work lunch we were talking about Russian dude who got radiation poisoning, and I theorized:
a) Poisoning seems to have gone out style, which I attributed to today's go-go, fast-paced lifestyle. People just don't have the patience for a good poisoning anymore.
b) If I have learned anything from cartoons, when he swallowed the radioactive material, you could see his skeleton.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

(no grandmas are actually having babies, just my fakey test patients)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

oh. I guess I don't understand.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

People just don't have the patience for a good poisoning anymore.

But apparently they do have the patience to wait days for the perfect Louisville Plugger.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

oh. I guess I don't understand.

The worlds of reality and software testing don't often meet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

this morning i was reading about a russian spy who was poisoned in london with thallium. apparently it makes your hair fall out, wracks your cns then attacks your internal organs giving you a long painful death. allegedly the orders came from the kremlin to keep the guy from talking about some stuff he did back before the fall of communism.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's the dude I'm talking about.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I am up on current events.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

Why not a quick death then? Unless the first thing it does is inhibit your ability to speak.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

yes, it pretty much destroys your central nervous system.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Nick's right, you don't hear about many slow domestic poisonings anymore.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

pizza poisoning

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also, thallium apparently has an antidote: prussian blue. So maybe the reason you don't hear about this kind of poisoning anymore is that there are far more reliable ways to kill someone.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

you don't hear about many slow domestic poisonings anymore

I don't know. My parents' marriage may have qualified.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

rimshot.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Poisoning is still totally in vogue in the former Soviet Bloc

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viktor_Yushchenko#Dioxin_poisoning

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh I have a book on poisons at home, it's all about the history of poisoning and why certain toxins have been popular (or not). I think another reason it's sort of off the table these days is that a lot of the motivation for poisoning deaths required that the (un)timtely demise be accepted as natural (for reasons of inheritance, eligibility to remarry or etc), and Science has done its job too well in providing us with reliable tests an' shit to prove foul play.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

prussian blue

The singing Nazi preteens?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

So maybe the reason you don't hear about this kind of poisoning anymore is that there are far more reliable ways to kill someone.

That's the great part about poison, though! It makes it into a game. Let's play Find the Antidote!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

prussian blue

the oft-talked about, seldom heard steely dan bootleg session tapes?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

"Ze antidote...for ze diamond."

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

prussian blue

the winner of the 1964 kentucky derby?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

prussian blue

the river west eatery?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Wikipedia, you smartasses.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

prussian blue

The UK's finest Blues Rock band?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not talking to any of you until you stop having adolescent giggle fits about how much you can flake out of this conversation.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

There was a conversation?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

almost time to go... it can't come soon enough. i want to crawl into bed and sleeeeeeeeep. these are the days it sucks living alone.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

LAUREL'S PATIENCE WITH MALE ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR IS COMING TO AN END, PEOPLE.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

pull my finger.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

ugh, i have to run an errand before going home and crawling into bed and dying in my sleep. BIG BOO HOOS.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

later gators, i'm out of here.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

Don't call me gator, cracker.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

i was going to go to the gym tonight, but leaf is feeling ill & let's face it, i kind of am too. i'll go tomorrow morning (really!) and then on friday & saturday to meet my 3x/week goal. then in one more week the 3x/week gets upped to 4.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:40 (nineteen years ago)

why does 'chinaman' work? i mean, i can't snap back at kenan, "what are you? a russianman?"

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

You could always call him a "Borscht-gobbling Cossack".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

No, but "russiaman" would work.

I'm going to go to the gym in a little while, I think my legs feel healed enough to handle it today. Then, meeting the dudes for chicken wings, just like every Tuesday.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

borscht gobbler has a nice image. especially so near thanksgiving.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:46 (nineteen years ago)

i wish i met up with the bitches every tuesday for something (not chicken wings). there is no female equal to 'dudes' that sounds good to me. bitches it is!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

GRILLS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

hos?

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really feel the need to reclaim "ho" that badly. "Bitch", okay, maybe.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

grills is okay, i think i might actually like 'bitches.' mostly b/c my friend, megan, always calls our time together our "bitch time." not in the sense that we are venting about anything...

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

haha

xpost, I like "bitches"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

let us please not reclaim 'ho'

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

how are the dudes, jordan? do they include that guy in "that shitty band"?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, no, all of "those" guys are in your city. The dudes are good though. The band that eats wings and reads books together, stays together.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

that's terribly cute. what book(s) are you all reading?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

oh my god! it's finally 5! i'm out!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

We're doing In Cold Blood next.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:01 (nineteen years ago)

at the charalambides concert on saturday, i stood next to will oldham and he told me that i made a good decision by buying the lichens cd. i was a little starstruck.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT IS UP WITH WILL OLDHAM APPROACHING CHILXORS??!?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:29 (nineteen years ago)

Must be because we're hott.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 21 November 2006 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

The Fertile Octogenarian

Let it be know: I am way over Victoria's Secret as a place to buy bras. It looks like a fucking strip club now, and they never stock sufficient sizes or colors of their basic, quality, comfortable, regular, normal, non-stripper, non-push-yr-boobs-together-right-under-yr-chin bras. All I want is to support my tits and eliminate superfluous-nipplage in neutral-colored comfort.

So I ended up spending two hours of my lovely shopping trip trying on bras in Macy's instead of just ducking in and out of VS's with my two-year bra supply. DAMN YOU... I don't know... PATRIARCHY! CAPITALISM!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

FOR NOT WITH

Also, by the time I was done, I was like, "Fuck this! I'm drinking a beer." But I had one more errand to run and it was unsuccessful and I walked a few blocks trying to find beer and there was no beer but there was a red line so I just came home.

I did get some x-mas shopping done, and I did buy some bras so all was not lost.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:28 (nineteen years ago)

I would like a beer still, though.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:33 (nineteen years ago)

Beer is plentiful.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

For pete's sake, woman, you live next to a grocery store.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but I already took my pants off.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not going to touch that.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

As well you shouldn't!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's been documented that you've gone to the store in pajamas already.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Reb1rth Brass B4nd played at Ed Bradley's funeral. Weird.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Jesse:

Living where I currently live (cheap 1 bedroom) vs. living in a fair-sized studio right next to a Jewel--take a side.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 03:35 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. That's a tough one....

I'm seeing greener grass next to that Jewel....

― Jesseeeeee (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 03:36 (nineteen years ago)

It can be v. v. v. v.v .vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv noisy next to the Jewel. Don't do it if you ever want to sleep with a parking lot facing window open.

If you intend on having AC, then 100% JEWEL. Just start DVRing Small Space, Big Style and you'll be all over that studio like your mom on a ham sandwich.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

I AM SO SORRY ESTELLA. I WAS NOT TALKING ABOUT YOU SO MUCH AS A THEORETICAL JOKE "MOM."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, what is the name of your poisoning book? It sounds fascinating.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 11:14 (nineteen years ago)

Company potluck day!

I made Amanda's BBQ recipe.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I was blessed by the hand of the Bonnie Prince
His blessing fell not on deaf ears
But the purchase of Todd Swiss
He did come to kiss
Our love! It was doomed, as I feared.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

On a more pleasant note, Yay bbq!!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but I already took my pants off.
-- Party Time Country Female (rabbitrabbi...) (webmail), Yesterday 6:41 PM. (pullapartgirl) (later) (link)

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I'm not going to touch that.

sounds like my prom night.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

what should i have for thanksgiving?

i'm thinking maybe chinese food?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

No that's for Xmas.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Chili?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

i'm thinking of staying with my grilled cheese and garlic mashed potatoes idea. but the chili thing is intriguing. all i know is that i'm going to the jewel on milwaukee and paulina on the way home for supplies so it would be nice to have an idea of what i'm getting.

anyone have any plans for tonight?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Fixing a flat tire so I can head to my mom's tomorrow. Anyone know if Pep Boys is open the usual hours today?

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I have to work tonight, but I suspect that attendance will be LOW. Like maybe 2 people.

I am going to email you a shopping list for chili.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

is tonight TT for the holiday weekend or something?

leaf is getting really sick & today i woke up with a sore throat. i think it was you, Chicago, who brought this upon us! (to say nothing of closing down two bars & smoking our poor lungs to death. do you know how weird [and gross!] it is to smoke inside?)

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I owe you the recp for mac and cheese. Will dig it up later!

NO, KELSEY, I DON'T. BECAUSE I CAN'T. ANYWHERE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel: it's REALLY WEIRD. and i only moved from chicago a few short months ago. going back for a visit & coming home smelling like 12340091584 ashtrays rubbed deeply into my clothes/skin/hair makes you really be grateful for no smoking in bars.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

bury me in an avalanche of recipes.
smother me with shopping lists galore.

if anyone wants to grab drinks tonight my friends bill & lisa are spinning records at delilah's. they have a record collection that would put some college radio stations to shame.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I made quiche again last night & used 1/3 less butter in the crust & it turned out just fine. i'm trying to cut down on the unhealthy things.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, the smoking ban is +++++.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I was okay with the smoking ban over the summer when it was okay to be outside, but now that it's turning fuh-rEEzing I'm less sanguine. So for any more smoke-free comments, just assume I shot you a death glare over my book of poisons. It'll save us all a lot of time.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

if i'm still here in a year, when the ban finally goes into effect, i'm totally going to light up a cigarette when i've finished my last beer. what's gonna happen? throw me out? I'M LEAVING ANYWAY! i suppose they could call the cops but my local tries at all costs to avoid police activity.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Don't hate me for saying this, but:

“Tobacco contains a sharp-tasting liquid called nicotine, which is a quick-acting and deadly poison.”—Winfred S. Hall, Ph.D., M.D., Elementary Anatomy, Physiology and Hygiene for Higher Grammar Grades (New York: American Book Co, 1900), p 71.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

wait wait wait.... cigarettes are poisonous? DOES ANYONE ELSE KNOW ABOUT THIS??!?!?!?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

hehe
I knew that would annoy you.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Otto, in NYC at least if a customer is caught smoking in an establishment, THE ESTABLISHMENT gets the ticket. So it's not doing your favorite publicans any favors. :/

Poison book:
http://www.amazon.com/Poisons-Hemlock-Botox-Killer-Calabar/dp/1559707615/sr=8-1/qid=1164206762/ref=pd_bbs_1/102-0648909-2264159?ie=UTF8&s=books

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm, good point. i'll do it at the gold star but not at tuman's then. or hell, i'll just go to club foot, that place usually still has from the previous a low cloud of cigarette smoke around knee level when they open. i can't imagine anyone would even notice someone smoking there.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Morning, working people. I'm off work today. Who wants to touch me?

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Stay back, Kenan, I've got hot coffee and I'm not afraid to use it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T WASTE THE COFFEE!!!

don't you know there are sleepy people all over the midwest who would really really really like a cup of hot coffee right now but because they are covering for someone else today they can't walk across the campus to go get some? i'm guessing there are people like that anyway.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I've got cranberry juice, and it's delicious.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

and warm sunshine coming through the window. and a little orange kitty.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

and cigarettes.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Is that ignore function working yet? Anyone? ANYONE?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I cannot be ignored. Like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

omg. i have only a few more days of open enrollment left. do i want long term disability? a flexible spending account? short term disability?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I like the sound of the words "flexible spending".

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

take long term disability. i dispensed with my short term because i have 6 weeks of vacation time saved up and then another 200 hours of sick time so that would cover me until the long term kicks in. i don't bother with the FSA here because it's a pain in the balls filling out the paperwork and my time is worth more than whatever pre-tax savings i would see.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/1069/football2nz5.jpg

Morning, working people. I'm off work today. Who wants to touch me? I've got cranberry juice, and it's delicious. and warm sunshine coming through the window. and a little orange kitty. and cigarettes. I cannot be ignored. Like Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

oh Country Female you make me larf

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

also: last comment on smoking bans . . . does nyc have many outdoor patios? minneapolis is full of them, so much so that certain ones are almost so enclosed. many are packed with heaters, so you don't need to deal with the cold.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

No, hardly anywhere here has them, K, and even places with decks or patios almost always close them for the winter. I have mixed feelings about heating the outdoors, anyway: it seems horribly wasteful. CAUGHT IN A TRAP! OF LOGIC.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

that IS fantastic, Jenny.

as far as flexible spending goes, i don't have any regular Rx thingys, so i wouldn't even know how much to put down. it used to be easy when i was on birth control b/c then i just knew that i'd drop $20/month or whatever on pills.
this is more info than anyone ever cared to know, i'm sure.
i should note that i am not off b/c i intend to get knocked up. i am off b/c they make me crazy.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

It can be v. v. v. v.v .vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv noisy next to the Jewel. Don't do it if you ever want to sleep with a parking lot facing window open.

If you intend on having AC, then 100% JEWEL. Just start DVRing Small Space, Big Style and you'll be all over that studio like your mom on a ham sandwich.

I can deal with noisy living. You've seen me in deep sleep.

SSBS is on my MyDVR and I've visited their website and drooled. I want to loft a place. I loved the loft idea that I saw at Ikea.

Also, you spelled my mom's name wrong.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Kelsey, if you have regular expenditures for prescription or OTC medications, the flexible spending account will allow you pay for those pre-tax - so if you get scrips for BC and Alavert and regularly buy Prilosex OTC, you can figure out about how much you spend on that in a year and set aside that much in your flex spending account. If you don't get regular prescriptions or have chronic health care needs, it's probably not worth it at your young, healthy age.

xpost - since you have to use your flex spending money in the year that you save it, and you don't have regular prescriptions, I would say you can forgo the account at this point in your career.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

PRILOSEX OTM

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I mean OTC

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

i am off b/c they make me crazy.

this topic, in general, has been covered here i'm sure. with our fsa we could use it for over the counter stuff like tylenol, cough medicine, allergy meds, band-aids, etc. but you had to submit copies of the receipts and mail them in and then wait and it was a huge pain in the ass.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

xpost--

Patio heaters are not that wasteful since they use radiant heat. I don't think that makes as much sense as I want it to. What I mean is that you're not heating the outdoors, you're heating the objects (people) themselves.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

thank you for saying that. i think i just need to hear that i can forgo savings. i tend to always want the savings.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Prilosex! What could be on my mind, I wonder?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

it's little and it's purple, that's all i know.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

oops

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlLA/original/grimace.jpg.gif

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Color me disturbed.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

wow. i have never really looked closely at him. he really looks like a gumdrop. on legs.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing's creepier on men than childbearing hips.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

trilosex

http://www.nmsu.edu/~geology/zuhl/trilobite.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Nothing's creepier on men than childbearing hips.

this man never thinks it's creepy when childbearing hips are upon him. from what i remember.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

(xxxpost) I think he's supposed to be an upside-down milkshake.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

But why "Grimace" -- wouldn't you want your purple gumdrop milkshake man to have a name with more pleasant connotations? Like Gumby. He's not named Glumby for a reason!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNY

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

OMG HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNY

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

yay! me and jenny aren't the same age anymore!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANDMA!

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, thanks! And respect your elders, son, or I'll kick your ass.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

HBJ!

Do you usually give thanks for yourself the next day?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

do you get a senior discount at the mall food court now? or is that next year?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't realize it was your birthday!!!!!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

YOU kept that awfully QUIET, young lady.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

JENNY IS THE BESTEST.

No, really.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

everyone's always quick to crack on jaymc's spreadsheet but i'd like to take this opportunity to CELEBRATE it as without it, would we have known it was jenny's birthday?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

what spreadsheet?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I like that Jenny is not only a Scorpio like me, but also a cuspy person like me.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ailx.wh3rd.net+jaymc+spreadsheet

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm, cuspy.

"spreadsheet" = There's a longstanding joke/meme about how I know lots of trivial things about ILXors because I keep a massive Excel spreadsheet filled with info I've gleaned. In reality, it's a combination of me being curious enough about certain people to learn about them, and then the ability to remember these details.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

OK. I thought that you had an actual spreadsheet & I thought to myself, "why does jaymc need a spreadsheet?!"

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

riiiiiight... long standing joke. *wink*

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

The only spreadsheet I have is the one that lists all 700+ movies I've seen since 1992.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

WHATEVER, OCD BOY.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I have a spreadsheet ... IN MY MIND.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

THE HAPPIEST OF BIRTH DAYS TO JENNY!!!1~~!~@

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

I've had my chart done and the sun had edged over into Sagittarius by the time I was born, but I identify with my Scorpio brethren and sistren. Kenan, are you a Libra/Scorpio cusper? Jeff is a Virgo/Libra cusper. I'm sure this explains something, but I couldn't say what.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm Leo/Virgo.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

No shit, really? Four little cuspers, all in a row...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

ALL PISCES HERE, PEOPLE

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, are you a Libra/Scorpio cusper?

Yep. Cusp people are supposedly like their own kind of sign.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

What constitutes a cusp person?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

you're near the divide between two signs.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm only barely a Scorpio -- the cutoff is something like mid-day on October 23, and i was born at 4 in the afternoon.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I always say I'm on the cusp because I was due on March 20 (Pisces) but came out on the 25th (Aries), but I don't know what it would mean to "technically" be a cusper

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

technically -- within two or three days of the cusp.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

So you count! You can join our little club.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Then I guess I am a cusp person as well. (birthday 2/23, Pisces starts 2/20)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

In any case, I am off the cusp by just a few extra days. OH WELL.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

xpost yeah, you'll slide by.

We should get together and do special cusp things that NO ONE ELSE IS INVITED TO.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I'm drawing up blueprints for the treehouse as we speak.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

i am fully and squarely a capricorn.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

i am full on Sag.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Did I ever tell you guys about the treehouse I had when I was a kid? Boy, I miss that treehouse. Grandpa was a carpenter, and he built it between three big old oak trees. The place was *spacious*. And it had stairs leading up to the door in the floor, which had a lock on it (to keep girls out? I guess). I used to bring my boom box up there with my tapes and listen to Steve Winwood and Huey Louis like there was no tomorrow.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

I should take a picture of the ridiculous lighthouse fort in my parents' back yard while I'm home this weekend.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

I kind of had a charmed childhood, looking back on it. I mean, apart from my parents hating each other and emotionally scarring me and dooming so many of my future relationships... I had it ok. I had a treehouse. Hell, I had a fucking pony.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

wow, most parents would just get their kids a riding pony.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahaha

gross.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think I saw a video of a fucking pony posted on a noize board thread or something not that long ago.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

DID NOT CLICK

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I am a square Aquarius.

(no room 4 squares)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

You cannot read comic books with us, then.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I just listened to a song from the new Joanna Newsom album and she sounds even MORE like Melanie now. I regret passing over the motherlode of Melanie LPs at a thrift store a few years ago. There were like 30 of them. A superfan's collection. Not being a superfan, I thought I should leave them for someone who is. I guess I did the right thing.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

A superfan would not have sold them.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Not unless s/he died.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

why am i even here today?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I'm wondering that, too, and I'm not even at work. It's more of an existential question.

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. I had a lot to read.

Sexy back is a great workout song.

I was born Sept 6th, which I believe makes me a FULLFLEDGED virgo.

I didn't have a treehouse, but I did have a playhouse until I was 11 and we moved and the farm terrors began. It was made to look just like a baby of our big house (ie: same style/paint color/even a little porch with columns). Hev & I would have sleepovers out there, but I don't think we ever made it through an entire night without going back to the house. We had electricity, so we'd listen to tapes out there, mostly Tiffany.

But most importantly, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, JENNY!!!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Wasabi dusted almonds are teh TASTY.

xposts I know why I'm at work: because someone else took the day off. Not that I wouldn't be here anyway, but I would be getting out earlier... :(

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't have a treehouse but my across-the-street neighbors (i.e. my sometime babysitters) did. They listened to Anthrax and Megadeth and had appropriate logos/graffiti scrawled all over the walls.

I thought they were bad-ass and I was crushed when I was a high school metalhead and I encountered one of them working in a video store. He had cut his hair and listened to college rock and, like, Hootie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I just posted a Melanie song to the blog.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

nice. thanks!

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Unfortch I think it's in that shitty itunes format. Sorry about that. I put a pretty photo on there too.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

I had a giant tree house at my grandparents. It was great, and we had a zip line. We used it way past it's prime though, up until it disentigrated and fell. It's amazing we made it past that first chapter of our lives.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

*cue Daniel Stern voiceover*

― Noilly Prat (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

we had a tree house at our cottage. dad put in a zip line made out of bicycle handlebars that landed in the sand pile.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

We had...a sandbox. And an old tennis court that we didn't use for anything except riding our bikes around on.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I have a sandbox now. The cat pees in it.

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

I R JELLUS OF ALL THE ZIP LINES

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

we had a swamp at the end of our dead end street. we'd play in there year round. there was also a cave over there but we didn't really do much there because it was so cramped.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

if it makes you feel any better, i think i appreciate it more as an adult...

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

I R JELLUS OF ALL THE ZIP LINES

Me too, actually. I once wired my upstairs bedroom so I could send Luke Skywalker action figures down the stairs on a thread, but that's as much as I got.

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm jealous of all the everything! I had a nice backyard with nothing in it but snakes. And no one to play with ;_; BOOHOO

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

But it made you the wonderful person you are today!

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Whereas I had a pony... and JUST LOOK AT ME!

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

We had (actually, still have) a giant pile of mine wasterock about the size of a city block from the mine that used to be across the street from our house (120 years ago or so). Many, many days were spent crawling over that thing, finding abandoned beer, porn, etc. Good fucking times.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

A favorite childhood thing: walking into the woods for about a half a mile, and visiting the old cemetery. There was still red carpet on the ground, and the rose bushes were out of control. As were the Crepe Myrtles.

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Goth-O-Rama!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

No joke.

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

LOL @ the message from the Director of the Press telling us that we were free to leave at 3 today -- that showed up in my inbox marked as Junk Mail.

Also, laughing with bitter regret that there's no way I can leave at 3.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Commiseration, dude.

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

i'm leaving at 2:30 b/c i was in at 8.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

. . . and b/c we were also told to leave at 3 and i usually start at 8:30.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

What does it say about us that all we want from work is to not do it?

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

i don't mind being here or doing the work or whatever . . . i am just having the jitters that come from having time off.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I want to do the work, so I can go the home!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

i ate lunch but i am still hungry.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

GOIN HOME NOW XOXOXO

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

JEALOUS OVER HERE BOSS.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

luv ya too

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/Id_Hit_It_-_McDonalds_banner.gif?

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

i know this should have been obvious, but don't buy canned tuna salad.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmmm I made some delish tuna salad sandwiches the other night. Dill pickles are so key. Capers are tasty too. It's a wonderland of flavor.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have to stay until 5:00 (and really I should stay til 5:30 'cause I took a long lunch, but screw that), but who cares, today is Friday!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

i make a great tuna salad with artichoke hearts in it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I just ate the last piece of Mixed Berry Crumble Pie from this place.

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

how was it? they look awesome. and, you are practically a rock star just from eating their food it seems.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

There's a lot you don't know about me. I fucking ROCK.

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

And it was very good pie, thanks.

― sinshine (kenan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I am wearing a Sarah skirt on my birthday.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't realize they had a restaurant??

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Also, yay, Jenny! I'm so glad I could spend my wonderful fashion sense to the rest of the city. ha ha

Well, a coworker gave me permission to leave and then left herself, so I'm THE ONLY PERSON HERE. I tried calling Nickarama but his cell went to vm. If I don't hear from him soon, I will begin walking I suppose. Or.. I could just read more of Poisonwood Bible. hmmm.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

why not just take off? read yer book in a coffee shop or something? i am considering leaving 30 minutes earlier than i planned b/c i am very restless!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

spend= spread

Maybe I will...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JENNY.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

i think my thanksgiving plans just changed. from a friend of mine via gmail... Then I’m going to meet up with a flight attendant friend who has a long layover downtown. She’s the wildest woman I know. We were in Baltimore together. She’s the one who taught me how to party, so I can’t wait to hang out with her again! So I thought that I would see if you wanted to join us...

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go hooooooooooohohohohohome. There is a Wii to play with there!

xpost: "wildest woman I know" -- be wary of these words, mon frere

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

dan, you know the friend who sent the email. she also mentioned that her boyfriend would be with family in michigan. so it looks like i'll be partying at a hotel somewhere downtown.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

this weekend has "overdose" written all over it.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

r u ok wildest woman i know?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

OH NO

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Dan you have wii????

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Housemate has Wii, but he is teh GONE HOME.

I don't know if I'll be able to mess with it tonight, though. I have tentative plans to go out for a bit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Happy Bday Jenny. Green bean casserole is way easy to make. If I had realized just HOW easy I would have been making it all year round and would certainly not have bought it frozen like I did last summer. I had a treehouse too. No pony, but I did have a horse once. And another time I had a mule. My dad kept a few mules during my early years. I miss the riding. Happy Thanksgiving.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:22 (nineteen years ago)

Cusps.

I am not a cusp. I'm all Taurus.

*snort*

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:23 (nineteen years ago)

According to that, I'm not a cusper. Too late.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 22 November 2006 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

too late for what?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 23 November 2006 00:37 (nineteen years ago)

Happy bday Jenny.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:02 (nineteen years ago)

Scorpio is the sign of sex and death, the beginning and ending, and they explore these ideas from an emotional standpoint. Libra/Scorpios strive to create balance and harmony between self and other through investigation and probing. They are often strongly intuitive and penetrating.

WATCH OUT, LADEEEZ. I'M STRONGLY PENETRATING.

― sinshine (kenan), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:29 (nineteen years ago)

Two days too late to be a cusper. Born on the 25th.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 23 November 2006 01:44 (nineteen years ago)

I have been in my pajamas since 7:30.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

We went to the grocery store after the gym after work today. Bad idea. I kind of went crazy there for a little while. So I needed to unwind. Hence two beers, hot bath, pajamas.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 23 November 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

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