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Hello!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:30 (eighteen years ago)

hi

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

So. Come here often?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 01:33 (eighteen years ago)

I almost want to make a new account.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

Notification emails???

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

POST FLOOD

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

Oh hi peoples.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah what genius wants everything on the Chicago thread mailed to them?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:32 (eighteen years ago)

eh?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

HELLO

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

SUP FLAPJAWS

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

cut it out or i'm gonna go jackballs upside yo head.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

Are we taking attendance? Present.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't the real question: who's email addy did Yenny have notis sent to?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:38 (eighteen years ago)

So happy togetheeeeeer...

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:38 (eighteen years ago)

ARGH WHOSE. Wine and mashed potatoes made my brain tired.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 03:38 (eighteen years ago)

Nobody's! I left the email notification unchecked.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wow. Hi.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

hi jessjess

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:11 (eighteen years ago)

I knew I shouldn't have napped. I just couldn't stay awake, though. I napped really hard for about an hour, and now my night's sleep is fucked.

Also, my top lip is sweaty. I don't know why. I'm not hot, and nothing else is sweaty, but for some reason my upper lip just won't quit. It's grossing me out.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:17 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I shouldn't have done a bunch of sit-ups. I KNOW better, that's the funny thing. I know that exercise makes it harder to go to sleep, but I thought, no, my body will defy all common knowledge and I will go to sleep right after this. That was two hours ago.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

OK, RealLX might be back, but it's sloooow.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:25 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not noticing that at all. Could be your connection. I have slow times sometimes, too. Doesn't mean anything.

I just spent my Amazon Xmas gift cert on a 300 gig internal hard drive, and DVDs of Alien, Blade Runner, Brazil (Criterion), and Naked Lunch (Criterion) The latter purchase was inspired by the Cronenberg thread on TheHold, and made just to spite the haters. I freakin' love that movie. Also, stories of personal interactions with Peter Weller from Julia's roommate will not dissuade me. He may be the world's biggest cockmunch IRL, but why should I care? HE'S FUCKIN' ROBOCOP.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

I want to get a dog who I can name RoboCop.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 06:57 (eighteen years ago)

Laura, Julia's roomie, works at the Goodman where Weller was (or is?) starring in a play. Apparently he's testy, unreasonable, harassing, and just all around psycho. Is it wrong of me to think that that's just the way I want him?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 07:00 (eighteen years ago)

Is that the Frank Lloyd Wright play?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 07:06 (eighteen years ago)

yep.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 07:08 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord he got old.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/cc/Peterweller.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 07:09 (eighteen years ago)

He looks more like Burroughs all the time.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 07:11 (eighteen years ago)

Anybody remember this guy?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=R_FmYOk-h4I

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=YCJzL02l1hY

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 08:06 (eighteen years ago)

The first one one is great but totally abstract. The second one is abstract but about a dog.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 08:10 (eighteen years ago)

I really don't see the point of sit ups or abdominal exercises in general. They're torturous and you're not going to see any immediate/short term results. A six pack isn't going to magically emerge until your body fat percentage decreases.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 4 January 2007 12:51 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone has a six pack under that belly fat, if you try to increase that muscle size now, the belly is only going to get bigger! Sit ups only seem to affect people who are have a low BFP and are toning/tweaking their muscles.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 4 January 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

That's all I needed to hear! Fuck sit ups!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

Sit ups and torso strengthening is good for lower back support, though. Immediate benefit #1.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think i can afford tt tonight, i waited on the platform for 32 goddamn minutes waiting for a train this morning and had to take a cab for the final leg of my journey.

fuck a cta.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Sit ups and torso strengthening is good for lower back support, though. Immediate benefit #1.

They can also put a lot of stress on your lower back and can lead to injury if done improperly, which many people seem to do because doing sit ups suck and they are stretching and straining to complete their ab classes. If forced, I'd rather do crunches

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I didn't know we were differentiating between sit-ups and crunches. What's the official difference?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

I weighed myself on Sunday for the first time in a long time. It made me sad. I could lose 20 pounds and still have a "normal" BMI, which also makes me sad.

I go to the gym. I was thinking of doing sit ups every day. Maybe I should do jumping jacks instead? What's the consensus on jumping jacks?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

i am actually frightened at the thought of weighing myself. luckily i do not own a scale.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to guess that I outweigh Kevin by...let's see. Thirty pounds. Possibly more.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Sarah, don't be sad! You're not out of shape!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to guess that i outheight laurel by... let's see. six inches. possibly more.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Did Regular Roundups ever line us up by weight? I hope not.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Jumping jacks: hard on your knees, all that off-center force being applied. Suggest walking or eliptical, instead. Also, please please do not be sad about your BMI; considering that I am technically "obese" I don't recommend taking it seriously for one second.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone heard from amanda? is she back or when does she get back?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

i just calculated my bmi and i could gain 20 lbs. and still be underweight.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

I thought you just said you were scared of weighing yourself?

I do the eliptical. I was just trying to think of something I could do to exercise at home in the mornings, other than walking which I do already.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

i guessed on the weight and put in what i weighed when i was last weighed. which is (i'm guessing) off by 5 to 10 lbs now.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Are there multiple Kevins here?

Sarah, srlsy, you are slim, tall, and beautiful so don't fear the BMI calculator.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, leave that to us short and fatties! : D

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

BMI will forevermore be known as ButtMunch International.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

i still think of the mobbed-up waste hauling company based out of jersey when i see BMI. i think they became Waste Management after some RICO activity. i'd wager they're still mobbed up.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

If forced, I'd rather do crunches

That's actually what I do. Fuck a full sit-up.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Great. Now I'm sick. Woke up with a fever and a sore throat.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Somebody please take care of me! I want soup and crackers.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

I think that's BFI, isn't it, Kevin? Browning-Ferris? Unless BFI (in the midwest) were BMI wannabees.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

BMI Waste Management rings a bell to this Mid-Atlanticer.

Product recommendation time: I want to buy a thermos so I can bring coffee with me from home and save the expense and environmental impact of buying coffee at coffee shops. It must be large enough for a coffee addict but not so large as to become prohibitively heavy. I got one at Target a couple years ago and it leaked everywhere. Any suggestions?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

But seriously. Chicago Kevin != Otto Midnight, no?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin is Otto.

Where's my soup, bitches?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

no, jenny, i think ez's right, i can see the BFI logo now that i think of it. though BMI sounds right. i don't know. what do i know? nothing.

i got a kick-ass coffee maker for xmas so i'm bringing my old, non-kick ass one in to the office.

xpost- yes, it's me.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

hey, who the hell is that guy?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Tell me about your new kick ass coffee maker. I would like a new kick ass coffee maker so I can fill my as yet unfound kick ass thermos with kick ass coffee.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Did anyone watch the Bill Plympton dog movie that I posted? That thing makes me larf and larf. Especially the addition of Ronald McDonald.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

well, it's comparitively kick-ass. compared to the one i bought at target two years ago for $9.99. the new one is a 12-cup instead of a four cup, has a gold filter instead of the plastic basket dealie, is programmable, has a built in water filter, gives notification when you need to decalcify it, is adjustable so that it will brew stronger coffee or if you're brewing less than 6 cups, and the heat plate temperature is adjustable. but my favorite part is that it makes great tasting coffee.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan - I was grossed out by the nose hair one so I didn't watch any more. Did he make a short about a guy who drops toast on the floor butter side down and eats it anyway?

Wow... that's a fancy pants coffee pot! Mine is like half-assed fancy. It's programmable and has an adjustable heater thing but makes shit coffee. I'd rather have no fancies and good coffee. I have a French press but it isn't big enough and the coffee gets cold by the time I get to it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

i have a couple of french presses that i do not use anymore.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe you should give them to me and I'll just make three pots at a time and learn to enjoy cold coffee.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

The dog one is not gross.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

ICED COFFEE!!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

i am eating lancashire cheese and drinking tea!

― giboyojimbo (skowly), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

reading this makes me hungry.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

God I want to eat barbecue in Texas again.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, Smoque! I heard a raving reccomendation of that place from a guy who knows his food. I am generally distrustful of places with trendily-spelled names like that, but it sounds super great. Smoque for brisket, Honey 1 for teh pork... TIME TO GET FATT

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

I think the last thing I had in Chicago that called itself barbecue was at Smoke Daddy. That place is bullshit. When your brisket doesn't have a smoke ring in in any bigger than the thickness of your toenail and your pulled pork is actually chopped and maimed pork, you can just fuck right off.

(Have I ranted about this before? I can never keep track.)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, but you're right, that place blows.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

hi Chicago!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hiya

― Chicago (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan:

10 GOTO "HONEY 1"
20 END

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

What was the place that had a kiosk at Intonation last year that served, oh my god, THE BEST pulled pork sandwich I've ever had? I can't remember the name of the place, but I would go out of my way for it if I could. I have had dreams about that sandwich. I'm not even kidding.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

now I am hungry for brisket+Lancashire cheese+iced coffee. none of which I have at hand.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

i like smoke daddy because it is within walking distance of my house. a bowl of chili and a burger at smoke daddy followed by drinks at gold star is a favorite mellow friday.

i can't wait to go back to memphis in 2 weeks because it means a trip here.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

I want all that, too. And a side of macaroni and cheese. And beer.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Why do you keep going to Memphis, Kevin? Or am I confused due to your jet setting lifestyle?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Bring a drink of water Leroy, bring a drink of water no
If I could get to the mercy man, he'd give me some I know
I got a gal in Vickburg, Bertha is her name
Lord I Wish I was tied to Bertha, instead of this ball and chain
I'm goin' to Memphis, mhm
I'm goin' to Memphis

But like a bitter weed I'm a bad seed but when that levee's thru and I am too
Let the honky tonk roll on, come mornin' I'll be gone
I'm goin' to Memphis
Well I've never been to Chicago but it must be a mighty fine place
I couldn't get past Tennessee with Mississippi all over my face
I'm goin' to Memphis, mmm
I'm goin' to Memphis

Just like a bitter weed I'm a bad seed but when that levee's thru and I am too
Let the honky tonk roll on, come mornin' I'll be gone
I'm goin' to Memphis

Well I brought me a little water in a Mr. Prince Albert can
But the bossman caught me drinkin' it and I believe he broke my hand, hmm
Another boy is down the shovel burned him out
Let me stand on his body, to see what the shoutin's about
I'm goin' to Memphis, mhm
I'm goin' to Memphis, mhm

Like a bitter weed I'm a bad seed but when that levee's thru and I am too
Let the honky tonk roll on, come mornin' I'll be gone
I'm goin' to Memphis yeah
Memphis bound
I'm goin' to Memphis, mhm, hmm

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

with Mississippi all over my face

???

Mississippi bukkake?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

some friends are playing down there and i have like 60,000 airline miles and i haven't been down there in a while. so add all that up plus the fact that two of the best record stores in the world are there and it takes very little to get me to go.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Hahaha, I dunno, but I guess one shouldn't really trust random internet sites for Johnny Cash lyrics.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, maybe he's writing from the perspective of a black man?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

a bowl of chili and a burger at smoke daddy

That sounds fine. Just don't bother with the barbecue.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe he's so obviously a southerner that it's written all over his face and he can't travel outside of the south and be taken seriously.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a jackass bigot, Jenny is right.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

maybe he passed out at a frat party.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, yr not a jackballs bigot. Yours is a reasonable interpretation, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Enh, I know... just a knee-jerk response to the chain gang/bossman bit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

honey 1 was pretty ace when i went there last winter. zero ambience is almost always an indicator of heavenly ambrosia or cheap horrible shit.

― giboyojimbo (skowly), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

zero ambience is almost always an indicator of heavenly ambrosia

OTM. see also, new pot, oak park, il.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Similarly, Tank Noodle on Argyle.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

and a lot of the curry joints over here

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

ab exercises: crunches are better than situps. for a while i had washboard abs from doing crunches, obliques, and reverse crunches: 10 of each, every day. i was also skinny at the time.

situps/crunches don't build up muscle to make your stomach stick out more, that's a myth. the muscles become harder and stronger rather than bulking up like other muscles can.

this exercise info coming to you from a formerly-fit person who is currently stuffing herself with bacon.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^ DID YOU GUYS KNOW I'M IN ENGLAND

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

now i want stuffing and bacon.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

NO. What are you doing in England? Have you seen Amanda around anywhere?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

i am visiting my family, and have been doing since xmas. here until the 12th.

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

WAHT, WHERE IS ENGERLAND AGAIN?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

i haven't seen amanda, though i have seen a bunch of bad haircuts, tracksuits and crooked teeth.

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

CHEERIO, PIP PIP

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Otto is OTM about iced coffee at home. I did this after New Year's day, i.e. when I made a ton of coffee in expectation of having friends over and then lapsed into the hangover negative zone.

I like doing crunches/oblique stuff. It makes me feel like I could take a body punch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Evan that is cool!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, thanks! I'm going to London in about 4 days, which will be fun.


And by fun, I mean really fucking expensive.

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

though i have seen a bunch of bad haircuts, tracksuits and crooked teeth

wait, are you in england or the ukrainian village?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

HEY-O!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

this exercise info coming to you from a formerly-fit person who is currently stuffing herself with bacon.

AWESOME.

And you're a formerly fit person who then got way too skinny, and should really fatten up a bit. I think you're on the right track. :)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

OMG the socks and tights that I ordered with my Christmas money have arrived!!! I am going to go home and put all of them on.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I do that every time!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

zero ambience is almost always an indicator of heavenly ambrosia

Zero ambience + powerful smoky bbq smell = yes.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

That may be a big problem with Smoke Daddy, actually -- it's decorated like a TGI Fridays. And everything costs $9.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Right after Honey 1 opened I walked past there over into Bucktown and the alleys and streets for about a block and a half all around were cloudy with smoke from the place. The yuppies were pissed.

Also Kenan, they have the "Texas style" spicy sausages. I'm such a huge fan of this place it's ridiculous. It's so good and the owners are so nice.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

oooo socks and tights--what do they look like? i was so excited to see my roommie wearing stuff i'd gotten her from sock dreams for xmas. i now totally adore that website, even though i rarely even wear socks myself.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

There are few things in the world more cozy than brand spankin' new socks. Actually, I'm at a loss to think of anything more cozy.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Vaginas, I guess. They're more cozy. But in a really different way.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

sigh

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

XXP: Some of the sock dreams knee socks are too tight for my calves. :(

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

in my extensive bathrobe collection, i have a couple that are that cozy. comparable to new socks, anyway.

yes, i have an extensive bathrobe collection.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

The blue bathrobe rivals any sock, I agree. I wish I didn't look so hilarious in it, or I'd steal it.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

(No I wouldn't.)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Doing crunches can reduce the appearance of a fat gut by tightening the muscles and--when done in tandem with lower back excercises like they should be--improving posture, thereby decreasing the prominence of the belly.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

I find that the prominence of the belly causes back pain. At which point I have two options: lose weight, or increase my abdominal strength to offset the back pain. I choose both.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

To continue alternating between crunches and BBQ - I like Smokin' Woody's near Lincoln and Montrose. I have a distinct memory of eating some pulled pork there and then seeing a terrible three-hour play nearby, but it was not so bad because it was like I had a smokehouse in my mouth for the entire show.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

the next chicago thread shd be called 'that old car might be worth money'

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

strengthening the whole core (all those torso muscles) helps with the prominence of the belly, back pain, and the ease of everyday living movements (when lifting stuff or stretching to reach something or whatever you're less likely to get injured if you have a strong core).

OMGBBQ do these places do takeout?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

crunches + bbq, cat vomit + fine liquors

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

Also stronger stomach muscles = you can suck in your gut for longer!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

alternating between crunches and BBQ

Ain't that always the way.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

I bet most/all of them do, Juulia. The pulled pork at Smokin' Woody's comes with sweet potato fries.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

These socks:

http://www.sockdreams.com/_shop/image_upload/product_variety_3082.jpg

And four pairs of tights: orange, green, navy, and these beauts:

http://www.sockdreams.com/_shop/image_upload/product_variety_1033.jpg

I have freakishly large calves, but that just means that the socks don't go up as high on me as they do in the photos. Like the thigh-high stripes will probably be over-the-knee, but that's okay.

Deej - good thread title!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

It seems I like blue.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

strengthening the whole core

Yes! Hence my newly-reinstated regimen of push-ups. They work a lot of muscles.

Julia and I argued the other day about boy push-ups vs girl push-ups. My argument was that being on your knees defeats the whole purpose, because you're using half the muscles at best. Her argument was that I don't understand how female bodies are built.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

ohhhhhh sweet potato fries. awesome.

those socks look great, jenny!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

A whole body stocking made like those socks would be cool. Or warm, in winter.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

OK, so there is a E. Lakeview Edition TT in the works, we just need to name a place. The time is around 6:30. Food is necessary.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

This is lame of me after making Lakeview suggestions yesterday, but I've got a rehearsal at 8:30 and so prolly can't make it.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, I got this this Nik Bartsch record last night and I think you might really like it. John too, maybe. It's like Steve Reich scored for jazz instrumentation, super restrained (10 min songs with no soloing to speak of).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Or rather, Lakeview/Buena Park/Uptown.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

push-ups from the knees use the muscles considerably less, yes, but a woman's center of gravity is in her hips, which ...would make me either have to bs or look up some physics to explain properly. the essence is that for women, that weight distribution makes the exercise a little bit different.

ones from the toes are still better, if you have the body strength for it.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

ooh. Thanks. That does sound up my alley.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to jordan

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

OK folks, it's Bar on Buena. http://www.baronbuena.com/

It's just west of Broadway, on Buena.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Nick, Sarah, Kenan?

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

My center of gravity is different than it used to be. Or maybe it's just my GRAVITY, full stop. When I was in the 7th grade I did 70 push-ups in a stretch and wiped out everyone else in my PE class. But I weighed 120 pounds then.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse... when exactly?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

I think around 6:30? Jenny (and maybe I) is/are going to yoga at 4, so after that.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no, I can't do today. I'm a big sickie. Woke up with a fever = do not drink.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

I will be the one wearing new tights.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

hey y'all.

i'm here for a few weeks and need to get my hair cut. i'm sick of going to big hair since they started getting inundated with folks a few years ago and upped the prices to $20 (i don't mind paying this much but not for 'tude and a crappy cut).

so where can i get my hair cut in the city for under $35 that's pretty good?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

p.s. hi everyone!

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Hey! Do you want to come have drinks with us? I'll cut your hair if you buy me a beer.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

I go to Supercuts on Berwyn.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

when are you going für drinks?? can you cut my hair BEFORE i buy you the beer??

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, Courtney, possible Jeff, and I are going to Bar on Buena at approximately 6:30. I cannot actually cut hair. Or, well, I technically can but you really don't want me to regardless of my state of intoxication.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'd go to Supercuts before I went to Jenny. (No offense.)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

None taken.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

SOCKS: Jenny, I also thought that my calves might just make the socks a little shorter, but some of their varieties actually CAN'T BE STRETCHED more than 16" or so inches around the the calf. They do sell *some* "larger" varities too but those have bigger feet as well as bigger calves and I only wear a size 7 shoe ferchrissake. I hope your tights fit supremely well and you are tres tres happy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

On second thought, maybe I will try to entice Jenny to cut my hair sometime. My haircut is REALLLL easy. And I just need a quick trim and a back-o-the-neck touchup.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Just to repeat: I do not cut hair. I was joking with Ama.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

oh.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

fine, i'll do it myself.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.channel4.com/media/userpages/accepted/71204_BadHaircut.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

the next chicago thread shd be called 'that old car might be worth money'

Ha! Although I think it's "Is That Old Car Worth Money?" I saw the commercial the other day, and I don't know why I was surprised that it's still on the air. If it aired in 1986 and 1996, there's no reason it wouldn't air in 2006 and for the rest of eternity.

What was the place that had a kiosk at Intonation last year that served, oh my god, THE BEST pulled pork sandwich I've ever had?

Wishbone, maybe?

OTM. see also, new pot, oak park, il.

I've gotten takeout from New Pot before, and the place looks a lot nicer than most Thai places in Chicago...?

I like Smokin' Woody's near Lincoln and Montrose.

I walked by there the other day, and it smelled fantastic. I can't eat most of the actual BBQ at BBQ places, but I love the cuisine: mac and cheese, mashed potatoes, pecan pie, etc.

Bar on Buena

Ooh! I have been there. It's nice. I will join you.

Hi Amateurist!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff got me some Sock Dreams socks for my birthday that are tight but doable. Also, the striped ones are bigger (I have monster feet to match my freakishly large calves) so I should be cool. And the tights claim to fit women who are six feet tall and 200 pounds, and I am neither so I should be cool. If not, I'll send them back. And kill myself.

XPOST! Yay John!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Also, there's a bunch of year-end stuff on my blog, including my annual mix filled with crap I'm not even sure I like anymore, after listening to it so much.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm cool. No biggie. I'm cool. No biggie.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Amateurist!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

i'll try to make it if you tell me where bar buena is. also, hi j0hn. when will you be arriving?

j0hn, any haircut tips?

hi t0dd--how ARE you doing?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

i am doing just fine... plugging along.

i think that i am going to find a job soon or at least look for one.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'm gonna try to make it to Bar Buena, possibly with my Yooper/Alaskan friend D3r3k in tow. Might be a little later as I gotta go home first and then figure out how to get my ass up there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

910 W. Buena Ave. It's on Broadway and Buena, a few blocks north of the Sheridan Red Line stop and a few blocks south of the Wilson stop.

Drivers: there is parking around there.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I think I may come tonight, too. Jenny, I owe you a belated post-finals beer!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

dan, it's about a block north of the holiday club.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yay HS!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I ain't driving up there. Not after having to cut a good night short last time I was in the neighborhood for fear of not being able to contain my drunkening. No, it'll be CTA for me.

xposts yay everyone! :D

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

i think i'm going to try to make it as well as this day has been one long uwe von schammann soccer-style kick to the nads after another. plus if things go late i'm right near the hc. god i should probably just stay in.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

SOME parking, not ample.

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=910+W+Buena+Ave,+Chicago,+IL

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

any reasonably inexpensive second-hand places in lakeview area aside from flashy trash and the white elephant or whatever it's called?

sorry for all these questions.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Are you a man, Amateurist? If so, the Belmont Barbershop is good. Young punky guys running the place, but old school all-around. Hot lather/razor on the neck and all.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

john -- will you zip up your year-end mix and send it to me? a disc at a time will be fine.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

How are you liking/hating Madison?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

reasonably inexpensive + lakeview? does not compute.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

I probably won't get there tonight until 7 or so.

Am, I get my hair cut for exactly $35 by a woman named Leanne at Orbit Salon. I don't know how full her schedule is, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, and if you get your hair cut at the Belmont Barbershop, you can walk up to the Village Thrift at Roscoe and Hoyne afterwards.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Kenan, I can zip. Remind me if I don't do so within the next few days. Audiophile warning: some files, if I didn't download them from Limewire, are 128kbps.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

I recommend Gabby's for a haircut. $12 and they do a good job. Go to Kathy or RJ. Clark Street just north of Diversey. Google it.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

I first heard of the Belmont guys when they added me to their myspacepage.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

hm, clark and diversey--that's about where i'm heading anyhow. nice.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://maps.citysearch.com/map/view/3735841

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

No pool table, but it's more on the beaten path.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

john -- email me.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

very long overdue xposts:
Sarah, do not fret about BMI. Seriously. Also remember that as you exercise, your muscles develop & stuff. They're heavier. Also, I've seen a couple different versions of BMI calculators, so I don't really trust in BMI b/c I don't think it's always standarized.

Yay Socks!

re: Amanda . . . I think she gets back on the 6th? She had an autoreply on her email & I think it said the 6th.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to see Babel tonight, did anyone like it?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, Kels.

Is this an accurate TT count?: John, Courtney, Jenny, Jesse, possibly Jeff, horseshoe, Dan, possibly Dan's yooper friend, & possibly amateurist (!). Otto?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i'm gonna be at work for a while but i think i'm gonna try to go.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

Jeez louise. If amst is going to be there, and also everyone in the world, maybe I should drop by and say hello.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, I liked it but with reservations. I was also not in the most emotionally stable place when I saw it, though, so I don't feel as confident about my opinion as I otherwise might.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

You know what? Who am I kidding. I'm not going to be there.

I do like you people, though.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

what does TT stand for?

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

thirsty thursday.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

tourist trophy

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

Titchers of Teers.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

hey, fuck the rain. i may bag it if it rains.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Pussy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

2x

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

oh, i'd be there for that but the rain. can't stand the rain.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

So.. I ordered these 2 presents for Nick on a popular website where you can buy books, dvds, whatever you want... back in NOVEMBER. I never received them. I called today and they said I should have gotten them 2 weeks ago, so they're resending. Then just now a postman came by my office and delivered the package. I was like wha wha whaaaa? Sure enough, it's the original package. Immediately afterwards, I got an email from THATSITE saying my replacement order just shipped. One of the two items was supercheap but the other would be worth @$30. I guess I have to tell them and send back the second one, huh?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.classic45s.com/images/annpeebles5.gif

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

(I know EZ will appreciate that.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yes.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

That's a tough one, Sarah. I guess I would start by sending them an email saying that you recieved the package in the mail but two weeks past the due date is ridiculous. I would apologize for the mix up & for their having to send out dual packages, but that you would like some kind of compensation.
Or, if you're not feeling honest, you can either: return package two & ask for a refund or take contents of package #2 to a store that doesn't require receipts (like borders) & go to town.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Also quite frankly if you were expecting them as Christmas presents you might consider just keeping the 2nd shipment. I ordered from REI for xmas and, even though my items happened to arrive in time, because of weather & air travel the company PREDICTED that they'd be late, so they sent me $25 credit anyway. Don't think I'm not going to spend that credit just because the package arrived!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

can we have tt at my office? would you guys mind picking up some beers and coming out to the western 'burbs? 'cause i could really use one about now and i don't think i'll be getting out of here anytime soon.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

It'd be totally awesome if Kev's work blocked all those websites and forbade office xmas presents but was just fine with a bunch of random people showing up and getting drunk on the premises.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i'm guessing they wouldn't be so cool with it actually. we'll need to hide out in the big conference room or downstairs in the file room.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

hey, there's a chase bank on one of the irving/sheridan corners, right?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

What's that cocktail lounge between Forest Park and Oak Park, just south of the last stop on the green line? That would be a good place for TTs.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

I might send a grumpy email or do nothing. I guess I should wait and see if I really do get the second package first. Since the first package was officially 'lost in the mail' and they didn't require a signature, I think they would be none the wiser. BWAH HA HA.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

xpost I seem to remember, hazily, you finding a worthy bank when we were up there once before...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

omg grades are starting to come in. Thank god this afternoon consists of yoga and then beer or I would probably have a heart attack.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

uhm, if you mean the "nutbush" i don't think it opens until later. i've been there, turns out it's a gay bar. i was hoping it was a roadhouse whose name was some sort of homage to tina turner but no, apparently it's referring to pubes.

erm, xpost to eazy.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

There is this ATM outside of the Holiday Club...

http://img366.imageshack.us/img366/6272/301533860e13e3c075emu1.jpg

LOL at Nutbush

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

Note: I uploaded that to image shack so Kevin could see it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

me and dan know that atm. it gives you yr money in $10 bills!!

but i need to make a deposit, actually.

thank you for using imageshack jenny.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

I assumed EZ was talking about Hala Tahiki in River Grove.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

Were you and Dan the ones punching it?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

I want to see everyone, but also I have negative dollars and shouldn't be out spending money and drinking. Also, it's rainy. Also, it's far away. Also, I'm lame.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Kahiki, rather.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

we should DEFINITELY GO TO HALA KAHIKI!!!!

it's an awesome place, sarah would like it because all they serve are fruity drinks. they do not serve beer. they do not serve food. the "dr. funk of tahiti" will knock you on your ass.

it was also the place where me and towga went on our first date. :(

still, i wanna go. we should definitely go in spring.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

I have been known to punch a machine now and again, but I can't say I've ever punched that one. We were both pretty close to punching a dude in that bar that night, though!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Were you and Dan the ones punching it?

no but we were there on friday.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit, i forgot about that.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I have wanted to go to Hala Kahiki for a while. I think New City had some article about the 40 Best Bars in Chicago a few years back, and it made the list.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

i remember jen telling me we were going to her super secret bar that no one knows about. then the morning we were going to go it was featured on the nbc5 morning show. when we showed up that night it was packed, on like a wednesday. it was never like that before, she said. always been packed every time we'd go back.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Kevin, Nutbush is the one I meant - it always looked like an old cocktail lounge, and I thought it was an Ike and Tine reference too. Hmm. TTs at a gay cocktail lounge in Forest Park, anyone?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of bars that I can never remember the name of, I went to one a few weeks ago right by the Rockwell stop on the brown line. Feels very much like a small-town bar, wide range of ages and ethnicities, pool and a good jukebox, and, on a Saturday night, $5 pitchers, though all they have on tap is Miller Lite and Michelob Dark.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

there are a ton of bars on madison in forest park. i guess this is left over from the days when oak park was dry. it was still dry except for poor phil's until a couple years ago.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Mmm... Fruity drinks...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 4 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

Another ambitious TT idea would be to take the Metra up to Highwood, where we could start at Froggy's and then go to the Nite 'n' Gale.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah and I may or may not show up tonight. We're deciding after the gym. But probably yes. But maybe no.

Good band name for a sleazy stoner rock band: Vice President.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

I thought Oak Park was still dry? I remember having to go to a bar in River Forest or Forest Park after band practice -- this would've been in summer 2005. Also no beer at the Jewel on Madison/Ridgeland.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

I kind of want to do this, but also it would be crazy, bbbut also, I could be SO HOLIER-THAN-THOU!
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/thecompact/

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

there is now beer at the dominick's on lake st. poor phil's openend in like '79 or something and was the first place to have a liquor licence in oak park. a bunch of other restaurants have them (flat top, this place that used to be on o.p. ave that was wicked expensive and not very good, you can get beer at gepettos, hemmingway bistro, winberie, lalo's, etc.). the avenue ale house opened in 2001 or 2002, it used to be more of a bar than a restaurant but it's since been expanded. there's a wine bar opening on lake street a couple doors down from flat top. it's not dry but i don't think there are any real bars either.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

actually, beer, wine, liquor at that dominicks.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

they still buy food, right?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

To go beyond recycling in trying to counteract the negative global environmental etc.

Ha, wouldn't you have to start recycling first? LOL Chicago etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

later chicago, see you at the bar.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Dear cat hair,

You may soon be seperated from your host cat, Chief Petty Officer Brenda Waterbed. See, you're fuzzy and make Brenda cute, but you get on my blankets which is way worse than just getting on my clothes because of the tremendous amount of hair that can collect on so large an area. The result today is that there are rolled up balls of lint and cat hair studding all of my garments. They are tough wads with the tenacity of the burrs you pick up on your socks during a hike.

Also, as hot as this apartment is, Brenda will be warm enough without you.

Jesse

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

WOO SHOPLIFTING!

Today I got: a regular, boring, but perfectly serviceable edition of Carrie for $9.99.

Also, a two-disc deluxe edition of Double Indemnity that would ordinarily cost $50 for exactly $0.

The savings are obvious.

Why don't more people shoplift from Borders? I mean, come on!

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

This shoplifting trip, btw, is dedicated to Jenny and Jeff, who very much love the two movies I ripped off. Here's to ya.

(wink)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

That tears it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

Exactly.

You know, I'm glad I stole this. Disc two is nothing but a watered-down "TV" version of the movie. WORTHLESS.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Still have never shoplifted in my life. I'd probably feel really guilty if I did.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

That's why you're a sissy girl who needs a dress and needs to dance around in the dress and say, "I'm a sissy girl who dances around in a dress."

Meanwhile, I'm risking jail time.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

(joke, you understand. Because that makes me the guy who dances around singing, "Oh, please put me in jail!" etc.)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

But I do get a lot of free shit like this.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

C'mon, you're doing it because you want to be in jail in a dress. Or you're a movie buff, I guess.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

I want free things.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

Remember those ads against pirating that were like, "You steal music, but you wouldn't actually steal a CD, amirite?" I'm like, actually, I would.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Carrie is such a great movie. DePalma never did better. I guess some people would say Scarface, but those people would be rappers and murderers. Certainly not people who like movies.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 4 January 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

Rappers and murderers don't like movies?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

pretty sure my high school buddy Dave's roommate runs Belmont Barbershop. They were to have free beers and pool there while you waited, but ran into licensing difficulties.


Important Observation: families are embarassing.

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Friday, 5 January 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

Rappers and murderers don't like movies?

No. They like Scarface.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 5 January 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hi, drinking tonight was fun.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 January 2007 07:15 (eighteen years ago)

omg hangover

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 January 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

David Lynch is going to be at the music box. He has bad teeth.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Hello, polarbear. Do we know you? Velcome, Velllcome.

That cosmo was up my alley.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Spur of the moment decision, I'm going to New Orleans today. Just called into work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

WaiT WAHT??!?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

WOO HOO! Anything in particular going on there this weekend, Jordan?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

There's a funeral and second-line for this musician and I'm going to go with one of the other guys from my band.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

My WOO HOO! seems rather inappropriate now. Hopefully, his funeral will be more of a celebration of life than the funerals I have attended.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, When you were speaking of BBQ... My mom took us to Central when I visited her, though I obviously didn't get the full effect since I'm vegetarian. I did drink a lemonade and take in the ambience though.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

HI SARAH IT'S ME, WE'VE MET BEFORE

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

I need to take a random spur-of-the-moment trip sometime soon, it's been too long.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

Polarbear = EVAN

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

I feel mildly hungover today. I am drinking a lot of JUICE.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Big ol' pic of the Fake Fics in the RedEye today, BTW. Same one you've seen a million times before.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I saw that on my way to the el, Nick! Congrats. There's also a photo of one of EZ's poker buddies in the Reader. He's a sound engineer, but he's not in the paper because of that.

Tonight my plan is to stay in with Kr, order some takeout, and watch some Netflix. This idea sounds so perfect to me that I wonder why I don't do it more often. Fuck restaurants and bars.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

That's what Nick and I do most weeknights, except we cook our own food and watch dvds from N0rth C0ast instead of netflix.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Which sounds more fun - San Francisco or Seattle?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

San Francisco.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha. Hi, Nick.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Woah, RedEye, eh? You're gonna have to change your name to Fakey McBlowinup, which I just accidentally typed as Fakey McBowlingup.

Both cities are fun, Sarah, and different from Chicago. Both are surrounded by gorgeous landscapes, if you can get an hour out of the city.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

And if you took three days and drove up the coast from San Fran to Seattle, it'd be the trip if your life, if you like pretty outdoors.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

As a possible travel destination, I feel like I should pick Seattle, because I haven't been there since 1993 (whereas I was in SF three years ago), but I don't know anyone in Seattle and a couple of my best friends from college (not to mention all-around good chap Adamrl) are in SF.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Vancouver

Failing that, San Fran.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

Vancouver's, what, a two-hour drive north from Seattle? Or a ferry ride?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I was thinking a Seattle trip would include a minitrip to the Butchart Gardens, and a San Fran trip would include a minitrip to wine country and the redwoods.

I'M READY TO BE MARRIED ALREADY! GEEZ!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

I want to visit san francisco

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I don't care about wine country.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

I have been to vineyards. They are boring.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

But pretty maybe?
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/72/175749289_21c132efb5.jpg?v=0

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

also: wine!

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

1 hour north of SF:
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22point+reyes%22&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=

1.5 hours north of SF:
http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=%22alexander+valley%22+-wine

Two hours north of SF:
http://images.google.com/images?q=%22mendocino+county%22&svnum=10&hl=en&lr=

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

What does being married have to do with trips? Are these possible honeymoon destinations?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.co.mendocino.ca.us/sheriff/images/sheriffbroin_sm.JPG

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.btinternet.com/~englang/images/the-sherlock-holmes-museum-1.jp

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

That sheriff looks familiar.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

1 hour (if I remember right) from Seattle:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snoqualmie_Pass\

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, these are possible honeymoon locations, John.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

I believe Twin Peaks was partially filmed in Snoqualmie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

You are correct sir.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like eating some delicious cheese.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.msstate.edu/Images/Film/GrandDayOut_8.jpg

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

wensleydale!

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

I want a big fat cheeseburger for lunch.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

I want a small salad and 5 ginger snaps. BOO YAH!
Oh, wait, no. That isn't fun at all.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

I am tired and haven't eaten today because of 10am meeting which was CALLED A BREAKFAST BUT IN FACT CONTAINED NO FOOD AT ALL so the end result is that I'm feeling more than a little bit manic and inclined to poke the bear. I don't know what the bear is, necessarily, but today I would poke it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

I want a pita sandwhich with chips & guac on the side. I wish I could check out Karyn's (not cooked, been there).

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Dan's friend Katie gave us a ride home and while we were at the intersection of Broadway, Montrose and Sheridan waiting for the light I said to Dan, "Tell Katie when it's OK to go" and it was funny.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

it's funny because we were waiting for a green light and i told dan to tell katie when it was ok to proceed.

― pens, action figures and glass shards (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

How else would she have known?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

You're retarded.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

I ate a hamburger.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

I just put my iPod on shuffle, and the first song that came on was "Skeet Skeet" by Hot 8 Brass Band song. ;_;

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

(Dunno where that extra "song" came from.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

The new Explosions in the Sky album is totally rockin' my ass, goddamn.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

I like that one, too. I just put it on my mp3 player!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

hey chicagy!

― 69 (plsmith), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Pete Smith!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, Pete!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what to do tonight! I want beers but I'm sure I will fall asleep with my face in one so maybe it's not a social occasion.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Also on my iPod shuffle: a cover of "50 Ways to Leave Your Lover," by someone called Platinum Pied Pipers, who sort of sound like Herbert or Gnarls Barkley. Very interesting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

(1) sorry for not coming out last night. it was pouring, and i got into a minor traffic accident.

(2) i just saw that fake fictions article in last week's reader.

(3) so when is the show again? and who's going?

(4) CONGRATS!

(5) CONGRATS!!

(6) sotto voce: n/a and sarah, email me.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks! and DONE!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Pretty sure that PPP song was from Jordan. That's where I got it anyways.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Traffic accident! Is everything okay?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

yup, except one corner of the car.

― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Well, good, except for that one corner. I'm glad you weren't hurt and sad you did not make it to the bar. The atmosphere was soggy with drunkenness.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

I've been playing video games for like 2.5 hours.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

VIDEO

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

GAMES!

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

My iPod on shuffle is playing the Homosexuals.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

but through the stereo.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Hey does anybody have any Nyquil? If you do, can you look and see what the recommended adult dosage is in ounces?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 5 January 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

yawn

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 5 January 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

take diphenhydramamine instead!

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Saturday, 6 January 2007 01:06 (eighteen years ago)

I needed to know so I could figure out what the BAC of a male of average US weight (189) would be after taking the recommended dose, not for personal consumption.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:21 (eighteen years ago)

Look it up online.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

You are invited.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

By ██████ to do ████████.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:31 (eighteen years ago)

But seriously folks, you are invited to go to Sayjal's improv show tomorrow night. She got me and Courtney comps, but if it were one or two other people were joining, I would be happy to split the cost. I think the show is at 8. Details to follow anyone's expression of interest.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=10252006

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

chicago, i am drunk and mildly in love!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Saturday, 6 January 2007 07:54 (eighteen years ago)

T.S., that plexiglass between you and the dancer will not come down.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 6 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

I did another one of those mixes last night where you pick enough random songs to fill a disc, then arrange them into some kind of running order that makes sense. This is the coolest one yet. Also, by far the loudest.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I posted to the mod forum about how I can connect to ilx through the laptop, but not the PC, even though they share the same internet connection and router. That's just strange.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

I'm feeling a little better, though by no means great. I keep sneezing. I wonder if it has to do with my computer. When I popped it open last night to install my new hard drive, I blew it out with a can of air and stirred up a horrible, grey, foul-smelling cloud of microdust the likes of which I'd never seen. That made me sneeze like mad. But that was last night, and I had the windows open all night, and I'm STILL sneezing. What gives, sinuses?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Also weird: I had the windows open all night. It was, like, 50 last night. I think I need to check the calendar.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

I did look it up on line. BAC calculations are so situation specific, it's hard to make a solid estimate.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, I will go with you to Sayjal's improv show tonight.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

I would be interested in going to the show too, but I am hangin' with teh yooperz tonight. However, if anything is goin' down after the show, give a call, we could all meet up perhaps?

Also, I was just reading the thread via my housemate's Wii. I considered posting but it would have taken too long.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have to draw the letters in the air or something?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, Jesse.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dammit! Nevermind.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Santorum would make the saddest elves, wouldn't he?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

I made one with Jesse's face but didn't do whatever I was supposed to do to save it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

I think I might have two cats now. I've had Jessa's cat for about 5 weeks now, after the four week agreement expired and after Jessa got back from Argentina, and Jessa does not seem eager to pick her cat up. This is a sure sign of someone who does not love her cat enough, I think. I asked the other day on chat, "Do you miss your kitty?" She responded, "Theoretically." WTF FUCK YOU I KNOW THE THING IS EVIL BUT IT'S YOUR CAT!!!

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Cat schmat. Get a nice upholstered ottoman, they puke less.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

I love her kitty even if she doesn't. She also said something vague about being out of town all the time, which is true, and about her cat being unhappy a lot of the time, which is also true. Maybe she has her kitty's best interests in mind. I can take care of this cat better than she can, that's a fact.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Explosions in the Sky is great, and thank you for recommending it.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

In an attempt to get my character and fitness together, I am going through old journals to try and verify dates/jog my memory about addresses and jobs. Of course, I was to free spirited to date my journal entries, MAN, so it's not helping much BUT I did read this little gem about a two-week temp stint as a receptionist for Executrain or some shit:

All they want me to do is answer the phones and laminate things. Righty-o. . . . I re-laminated my driver's license yesterday and now it looks fake.

This low chair is made of fake leather and makes my ass sweat like fucking day old cheese sitting on a table in the sun at a lower Delaware fire hall wedding reception. Also I have to pee.

That's one of the jobs I need dates for, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

"Other things I have laminated besides computer tip sheets and my driver's license are: a tissue, some post-its, most of the business cards in my wallet, and a piece of my shoe that came off after 45 minutes of hard-core boredom-inspired picking."

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

makes my ass sweat like fucking day old cheese sitting on a table in the sun at a lower Delaware fire hall wedding reception

This is very funny.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

Somebody put this to music:

It was cold when I went to bed last night
but today it's 72.
I've got a nice front porch and a case of beer
but I can't stop thinking of you.
You said you never meant to hurt me
but I don't believe that's true.
It's a nice day for an all day drunk
and that's what I'm gonna do.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

That was entitled "Prelude to an All Day Drunk." Also undated, damn my eyes.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

I hear banjoes and a jug.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

Are you in West Virginia?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

These Chicago threads always get so huge before I even click to read them.

― Ivan G (Ivan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Somebody help. "Body of an American" by the Pogues keeps making me cry. Listened to it three times, cried every time. I think I'm sick and sleepy. No matter, though. Crying is crying.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

I think you're sick and sleepy. Take a bath and go to bed. Or just have a cry, sometimes you need to.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 6 January 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

My mom had my Truckee, CA address! I am doing a happy address-finding dance!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

oh lord. i just woke up on the sofa, not knowing where i was or what day. i am a goddamn wreck.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

You're a mess and a half!

I bought new shoes.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 6 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Hey. HEYYYYY!

Here is the Allstate commercial filmed right here in Chicago, USA, and right across from my work. http://youtube.com/watch?v=2yYMbljXD8M

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

This making-of is really cool. http://youtube.com/watch?v=tZgI0za4uco

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

OK, one more. This is the 60-second spot!

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

And, the link for said spot: http://youtube.com/watch?v=sQ2vu8tIr9s

It's amazing to me how flattened the car was from hitting the water. They had that car sitting out in front of Catch for a while this summer, I hear.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.chicagobusiness.com/images/random/allstate.jpg

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'm on the sofa, but I've fallen dead th' fuck asleep on the sofa one too many times this week, including today, so I have an alternate plan:

I have laid the couch back into bed mode, gathered my pillows, grabbed the very warm blanket that belongs to Jesse but that he simply won't stop by and pick up (thanks, Jesse!), and ordered a pizza. I am right here for tonight, blanket, laptop, pizza, and all. I still feel sick, but I feel a certain sense of victory over the crap that is life.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

Suddenly I am also surrounded by two prime examples of warm, furry feline-ness. Oh, cats. You're so charming even when you don't mean to be.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Saturday, 6 January 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

Great. You're giving my blanket the Native American treatment so when I get it back I'm going to die of Kenan Pox.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

haha

Your symptoms will include massively increased beard growth and massively increased propensity to be an asshole online.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

Obama is talking to Tim Russert, and he's just talking about his kids. Talk about something else, plz. Talk about Hillary. Anything.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

Why is it that no matter your sex, being able to accomplish the incredible, mind-boggling, totally staggering MIRACLE of MAKING BABIES is somehow the most impressive thing you can ever do?

I hate people.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 00:52 (eighteen years ago)

that poem is an awesome poem, up there.

xp name something that you've done that's more impressive

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 7 January 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

I pulled out.

That's way more difficult.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

no, it isn't.

having a baby is no better or worse than not having a baby. the annoying pricks are the people that think they're doing everyone else a favor by doing either one. right now, you're an annoying prick.

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:24 (eighteen years ago)

i'm an angry drunk, sorry

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 7 January 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

having a baby is no better or worse than not having a baby. the annoying pricks are the people that think they're doing everyone else a favor by doing either one. right now, you're an annoying prick.

I agree with this.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 05:41 (eighteen years ago)

What is it with me and Sissy Spacek? It's not like she's smokin' hot or anything. And yet, she is. I'm watching Badlands.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 06:11 (eighteen years ago)

It's those little moments of dialogue.

"What a nice place."

"Yeah, the tree makes it nice."

"And the flowers. Let's not pick 'em."

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of dialogue:

The story was written in the 1930s by James M. Cain, the hard-boiled author of The Postman Always Rings Twice. A screenplay kicked around Hollywood, but the Hays Office nixed it for "hardening audience attitudes toward crime.'' By 1944, Wilder thought he could film it. Cain wasn't available, so he hired Raymond Chandler to do the screenplay. Chandler, whose novel The Big Sleep Wilder loved, turned up drunk, smoked a smelly pipe, didn't know anything about screenplay construction, but could put a nasty spin on dialogue.

Could he ever. God, I love this movie.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 07:48 (eighteen years ago)

I completely agree with what Kenan said about parents' need to talk about their offspring. Why do people I don't know at all believe others should care about their kids?

You're excited because you reproduced, great, but why the fuck do you assume that I might care and want to hear about the progress of your spawn or see photos of it, look at, or even hold it?

More to the point, though I didn't see the interview Kenan refers to, I doubt his kids are important enough to be a subject in an interview, except becasue the cult of the child makes this a selling point for a politician.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Sunday, 7 January 2007 08:57 (eighteen years ago)

The Germans have a word for what I think we're talking about here, it's Kinderfeindlichkeit.

The Germans have a big scary word for it: Kinderfeindlichkeit. It means being unfriendly to children, and it is very serious and real. When my kids take the bus to school, they are regularly shoved, squashed and denied seats by older Germans; if they laugh or joke aloud, threatening scowls reduce them - or try to reduce them - to silence. Being Americans and having lived for six years in fun-loving, children-friendly Spain, the kids now regard this sour behavior as simply aberrant. That it also happens to be a majority sentiment does not trouble them overly.

Children who visit Germany may not have the time or experience to come to this dialectical conclusion, so they and their parents are best warned in advance. ''The Germans are crazy about their cats and dogs,'' Liselotte Funcke, a Social Democratic politician told the Children's Protective Association in Hamburg awhile back, ''but their kids get on their nerves.'' German children respond accordingly, holding their heads in dutiful silence as they sit in restaurants, developing a numbed, wordless lack of spontaneity that an outsider can mistake for insolence.

The only way for a tourist with children to handle the prevailing Kinderfeindlichkeit is to ignore the natives. If old men try to glare your kids into silence, just glare back. Behave the way you always do and let the Germans regard you as subversive anarchists. As my kids say, they're the strange ones, not us.

Germans are fond of sticking on their cars a little red heart that says ''A Heart for Children,'' but their aggressive driving habits result in frightful child fatalities on the streets and highways. Children have to be careful crossing streets and should, like the Germans, respect the stoplights and only use pedestrian crossings.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Sunday, 7 January 2007 09:11 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Jesse, make a baby. Does not work

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― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 7 January 2007 09:12 (eighteen years ago)

The Germans are crazy about their cats and dogs, but their kids get on their nerves.

You have no idea how hard this made me lol.

OMG I think I'm German.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, re Pogues, I was hoping to find a video of Rosie Grier singing "It's All Right To Cry", but all I could find under Rosie was this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=irQf50m5Jvw

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 7 January 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

Being an asshole is not something to be proud of.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, I am kinda glad I have this second disc of Double Indemnity. It's a made for TV remake from 1972 starring Richard Crenna. It's not just bad. It's SPECTACULARLY bad. It's butchered and ground and heaved up from the deepest guts of movie badness. It's fascinating, really. I haven't seen anything this bad since Police Academy.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

I think the only way I could watch this whole thing is on a dare.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Good thing you shoplifted it, then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yep.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

Btw, Kenan, I just realized I have no idea how to zip my mix. The only things I've zipped have been albums, so I'd just go to my external hard drive, find the artist, find the album, and then click "Archive." Presto. But these 110 tracks all come from different albums, and I don't want to re-tag them all as "JMC's Mix," because that would then fuck with how the songs are organized on their respective albums. Help? Some dude in the UK who I don't know wants me to do this for him, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

I do not own any books. Well, like, 5. I have a bookcase in my room that's almost totally empty. It's sad. What do I do with this thing? Buy knick-knacks? Trinkets? Baubles?

I think I will have a large library of movies before too long. Stealing or not. Maybe I'll have a bookcase full of DVDs? That would be kinda cool, I think.

I'm still delirious.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

John -- make a new folder on your desktop or wherever, then select all the songs in the playlist and drag them into the folder. It will copy all the songs without messing with the library. Then zip that folder.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

John, my guess: make a new folder and put COPIES of the files into it (not the originals). Then I usually add numbers to the file names to put them in sequence, then Stuff.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, XP :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Also include an m3u playlist in the folder, so we can get the right running order.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Being an asshole is not something to be proud of.

-- n/a (nu...), January 7th, 2007 6:29 PM. (Nick A.) (later) (link)

sorry

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure he was talking about you.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I'm not sure which of us assholes he had in mind.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

pretty sure it was you

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

:D

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

It was a general statement.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.noidearecords.com/bands/releases/covers/assholeparade_saygoodbye.gif

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Also include an m3u playlist in the folder, so we can get the right running order.

I don't understand the point of these. Whenever I've been sent a zipped file that includes an m3u playlist, I drag everything into iTunes and wind up with duplicates of every song.

I don't know how I would go about creating such a thing, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Export playlist.

And I know the duplicate problem, but if you don't make a playlist, you'll be sending people a folder of unfiled songs with random names. No way to make heads or tails of it.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

You could, alternately, rename each song with a song number, one at a time.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not renaming each song. I hate that.

Do I need a script of some sort? "Export" only allows me to export as .txt or .xml.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

(I could, alternately, just give you a physical copy.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

That would make things easier, yes.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I'm not smart enough to understand some of this stuff.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yr so dumm.

I just called you.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oh!

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

You did not call me back. Was it something I said?

I have GOT to stop relating my sexual fantasies over phone messages.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't kidding, though. I really do want to feel your furry little belly against my own.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm back. I'm very glad that I went. I didn't sleep last night. I spilled beer on my camera and I think it's busted, but the memory card is good and I'm uploading some pictures now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 7 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone heard from amanda? is she back or when does she get back?
-- chicago kevin (blablabl...), January 4th, 2007.

HI DERE. A few days ago I was driving along the coast (near the coast, actually) in Scotland and saw this castle by the side of the road. It was open, so we went inside.
http://i3.tinypic.com/2hx0bxh.jpg

Now I am back in Chicago. Herro.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry about the huge photo. I am getting ready to organize and post to flickr.

I have many things to say. Namely that I do not want to be back here. But I guess the dream has to end sometime.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Welcome back Amander!

I am at work somewhat early because I took my friend D3r3k to Midway this morning. Poor lil' guy has 10-11 hours of travelling in front of him. The drive along 55th street from the airport to work was kind of nice, though. A section of town that I've never really seen before.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 8 January 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yay, welcome back, Amanda! I'm looking forward to more pix.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and I have sooooo many but I am wondering if there is an easy way to resize them all at once? Because resizing this many photos one at a time is not sounding very appetizing right now. Help please. I have Photoshop.

PS nice article in the reader, FFs!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, you should be able to do a batch process thing in Photoshop. I don't know how that works, exactly, but you could maybe look in the help or email Jeff, who definitely knows how that works.

Welcome home! I'm glad you're back, even though I understand why you wouldn't exactly be.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Photoshop Action Sequences. There is probably a pre-existing one for resizing and/or saving for the web. Check the help topics but try Window ---> Actions to get the Actions pallete on screen, then there is a folder called "Default Actions" to poke through. Kind of looks useless, though...

You basically open an image, press "record" in the Actions window, do your business (resize & save the new image), and then press "stop" when you're done. You should then be able to open all your other images and press "play" in the Actions window, and it'll take care of the rest.

This feature (in Illustrator) saves my life at work on a regular basis.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, so like a macro. Handy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

WONDERFUL. Thank you.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Oh sorry, forgot to mention that you'll have to press "play" for each image. There's probably a way to do a big bunch at once but I don't have a clue how.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, I totally missed that Amanda was going to Scurrtland.

I put up some of my photos from the weekend here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hotbeatz/sets/72157594465856116/

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

OMG

Look at the list of professional affiliations of the author of a paper I just started working on (googleproofed because this guy may just be insane):

Manager of Din0saurs, Tr33s, Religi0n and Ga|axies, Inc.
Manager of A French @merican Museum of Chicag0
Utility Clerk at D0minick's as other work does not generate enough income

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Is he crazy? Is his paper crazy? I just googled the name of the first company listed and I think he's crazy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

crazy? = yes!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Is his crazy paper being published somewhere? In a crazy journal, perhaps? And I want to call something--band, song, bar, novel, child, something--"Din0saurs, Tr33s, Religi0n and Ga|axies" because it's kind of awesome.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 8 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

He's submitted to us at least once before. Believe it or not, he's not the craziest author I've encountered since working here.

I'd snag a copy, except I'd be committing horrible, horrible, credibility-ruining copyright infringement.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Should I be concerned that this pair of headphones that were enclosed with a Walkman that Kr gave me have a big ol' warning on a tag affixed to the cord that sez "The State of California has determined that this material is a carcinogen. Wash hands after use!" I have another pair of headphones at work, but the input is finicky -- I have to twist it around the iPod jack just so in order to get stereo.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

No, you should eat them. Or grind them up really finely and snort the dust.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

So this bar application process was going along like gangbusters when suddenly WHAMMO. The uniform customization company I worked for in 1997 has all records before 2000 shrink-wrapped and stored in a trailer somewhere.

FUCKERS.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

The trailer was probably used as a meth lab in the interim and is now completely toxic and rotting in a desert somewhere. SORRY, LAW SKOO.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

I just let flickr resize my images.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 8 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Photos are up if anyone wants to see them.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

link plz?

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/marshmallowy/sets/72157594467477565/

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Nice. It's like you're Japanese, what with the shots of food.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

HI DERE WORLD'S CUETEST COUPLE

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Tee hee!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

My work holiday party was last night at North Beach. I rode the mechanical bull, and I am good at it, but it hurt my thighs. Also I put on a fat suit and did some sumo wrestling.

We were only allowed 2 drink tickets, but one of the (creepy, weird) managing partners started handing out extra ones. I tried to get some but he said, "No. I'm only giving them to the girls. We wanna get the girls drunk."

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

hi chicago
where can i go for wi-fi at oh 11pm or so that will be open and indoors.
any recommendations are appreciated

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

weird. i just posted then went back to look at another thread and all i got was cat pics and the message "This is I Love Everything
We're down for maintenance for a little while (10 mins hopefully)."

but when i go to ilx.wh3rd.net it works. but when i try to go to "new answers" in the other window, i still only get cat pics and that message.

weirdomglolroff;alsdkjf;klfj

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Monday, 8 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

deej, it's free at:

the Map Room
the Green Eye
Old Timer's

...all are bars, so they might want you to get a beer or something.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

thnx, thats what i needed

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Argo Tea and Panera also have free wifi.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

And the Daley center, part of which is indoors. The City has a number of free wifi areas.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

can you think of anywhere in west town or ukranian vill? I'm looking for a place to go in late evening, when most cafe places are closed and i don't like filter. plus they charge for wi fi (wtf)

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

tuman's and the empty bottle. good (and free) show at the bottle tonight.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

also, mac's on division.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Is everyone asleep? Or just getting back to work, seeing as how it's Monday an' all?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in a class through Wednesday.

Today I feel like Ed Norton in Fight Club when he comes to work with all those bruises.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

i'm here, feels like i've been hit behind my left ear. i think that's from falling asleep on my hard as a rock couch yesterday though.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm here too (HI DERE POSTED A BUNCH ALREADY) but busy due to being short a co-worker. He got to go to the AAS conference, and I got stuck doing work. :( Oh well, at least I don't have to sit around with a bunch of boring old scientists and editors.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

On the bright side, there's no one at the office to bother you. (I hope. I just made that up.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

I was "busy" posting photos and looking up recipes. The semester is late to start this year, for some reason. I'm not complaining.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, tell us about the trip to NO. Did you fly? God, I hope you flew, b/c that's a hell of a drive. Pics?

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, nevermind, I just went to your Flickr page. What church is that?

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, I linked to my pics above, they're here.

I did fly, I spent nine hours in the Cincinnati airport (long layover + flight to N.O. delayed by 2.5 hours). Stayed up all night on Saturday, flew back at 6 am. I'll e-mail you details.

xpost, Fifth African Baptist Church on Robertson

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, in your Florida pictures, is the person in the silver dress...the bride?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

OMG, that's one helllll of a layover. I mean even a 6 hour layover would be bad! And in Cinci's airport it's not like you can really get out and see the city.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Haha no, that's my wacky aunt Valerie. She lives in NYC.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

She's, like, living the crazy New York singles life at age 50-something.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, yeah.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Not that there's anything etc.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

No, no, not feeling defensive at all! She's just...is she awesome? Hilarious?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Yes!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

This is an excerpt from one of her e-mails to me, don't worry about context because it was a complete non sequiter:

no matter what one may be the lonliest number, we are taught that two people in love become one... and if love is blind, how can their be love at first sight? go figure

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

She's wacky, all right!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

i love when people use semantics or jump through linguistic hoops to try to justify and or/make them forget about their situations.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 8 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

a sob story about whisky, by me:

we had this wonderful single malt whisky in scotland -- macallan's? --and we were going to buy a bottle, but didn't because it would have been about $50. We thought, well, $50 is an awful lot to spend on a bottle of booze, so we didn't buy it. WE DID NOT BUY IT. [note: i wanted to buy it but my conscience told me it was not a frugal decision]

so i checked to see if this whisky was sold in chicago. it is.

for $499.

WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

Are you sure it's the same age and everything?? There might be a "Special Reserve" or something that's aged for like 20 years, hence the FIVE HUNDRED DOLLAR TAG. Yowch.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

All I know is that what we had was 25 years old and the stuff in the store in Glasgow was the same. I can't believe that I am feeling such remorse about this, but I am.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:09 (eighteen years ago)

I can get the 10 year old for much much much cheaper though, I think. That will have to do. For chrissake WHY WHY WHY.

I didn't hesitate on the awesome early '70s brown suede miniskirt though, and I can feel good about that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

I may not have come home with whisky, but I came home with some nice clothes.

http://i3.tinypic.com/2z6sdbr.jpg
I got the boots at an Oxfam store too!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

Somebody did her shopping!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

OMG Those boots are AWESOME.

I'm watching Guess Who's Coming to Dinner. It's really good. Kenan, who said it wasn't good, is clearly nuts.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Monday, 8 January 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

I told my friend Mark, whom some of you know, about my book of annotated Grateful Dead lyrics that I got for Christmas and he replied:

How do you annotate Grateful Dead Lyrics??

1. This song was written by other people and had been played more skillfully by dozens of other artists for decades prior to Jerry, in a haze from multiple speedballs, decided to co-opt it.

2. These lyrics were written by Jerry when he woke up on a toilet from a diabetic coma to find himself in mid-dump.

3. This song's about a junkie girl from the midwest that Pigpen gave genital herpes.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 02:59 (eighteen years ago)

Hee hee.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

There were a bunch of us at work hobbling around because we had all ridden the mechanical bull. That shit is hard work. My thighs are killing me, and I only rode it once.

I want to do it again and again.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 04:33 (eighteen years ago)

In "things I am surprised I care about" news, I was kind of upset when I read in the Red Eye that Marilyn Manson and Dita Von Teese divorced.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I watched Open Water last night, which was both pretty fucking terrifying and not as bad as I thought it would be.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I saw that movie in the theater and thought it was hella scary.

I'm not sure I care about Dita and Marilyn, but in old school hotties news, I saw the Bettie Page movie on the plane and it had full nudity in it! And I watched it on A PLANE! It was kind of boring aside from that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Weird.

I also started watching Freaks & Geeks. I can buy the main girl as a high schooler except when she smiles, then she looks 32.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I just hoped that MM found true love and she seemed like someone nice and weird enough for him. Note: I am not a MM fan, don't own any records, couldn't name three songs he did (I can name two - Beautiful People and the cover of Sweet Dreams. OH and that Cake and Sodomy song, but not because I've ever heard it - only because Jesse sings it a lot). I think I was rooting for the weirdos to defy the Hollywood odds.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

fuck. fudge fudge fudge.
opportunity is knocking and i don't think i can answer the door.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

in a word...


PROVOLONE!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's nice to hear you with some GOUDA news!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

And I want to call something--band, song, bar, novel, child, something--"Din0saurs, Tr33s, Religi0n and Ga|axies" because it's kind of awesome.

It has to be like the original: "Din0saurs, Tr33s, Religi0n and Ga|axies, Inc." - but that was absolutely my first thought too.

The fan in my laptop is dead, so I'm computerless for the next two weeks or so, though I'll have to use something to work on my work - but I'll be around less.

Welcome back, 'manda!

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

hi hi hi hi hi hi

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

I also started watching Freaks & Geeks. I can buy the main girl as a high schooler except when she smiles, then she looks 32.

I was about to be all "whatever, she was 18 when the show was on" but I just looked her up and she was 24. That makes me kind of sad, because I like how the show is all "true to life" and shit, and that in my mind entails no Gabrielle Carteris mischief.

I know what you mean about the smiling, though: I think it's just major laugh lines.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

While I was watching the first disc I was actually thinking, "man, I bet John Cunn1ngh4m loooved this show."

(I like it too, enough to bump the rest of the series up to the top of my queue)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

It's not known yet whether Von Teese plans to ask for custody of the couple's two cats, Lily and Aleister, and dachshunds, Greta and Eva.

I am having trouble imagining MM having pet dachshunds.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, I do love it, Jordan -- but I am wondering what makes you say that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://poetictruths.blogspot.com/

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Word.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

One of the secretaries here, who is known for farting in the reception area and spraying lysol to cover it, just announced that she has an upper respiratory infection, a kidney infection, and shingles.

OH GOOD.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

One of the secretaries here, who is known for farting in the reception area and spraying lysol to cover it, just announced that she has an upper respiratory infection, a kidney infection, and shingles.

huh, that's weird because one of the admins here just announced sickle cell enemia, rubella, and cervical cancer. which is odd because he's a 52 year old male. who's had a hysterectomy.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Does he fart in his chair and spray Lysol to cover it up?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

I bet he poops in a box in the storeroom and then tapes it up.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

omgomgomghahahaaa

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIrOtkhDajI&eurl=

(listen with headphones if you're at work)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://clearification.com/

It's a little viral site for Windows Vista that doesn't really have anything to do with Windows Vista at all. It's just Demetri Martin sitting on a log delivering a stream-of-nonsense. Like about his workout plan for only the right side of his body, so he can appeal to chicks who like buff guys and chicks who like skinny indie rocker guys at the same time. It's very Steven Wright.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

If I test Vista here at work, I get a hot new computer (because our current computers can't even run the damn thing).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously?

I don't have the video card to do everything it claims it can do, but it runs just fine.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't it need like 2 gigs of ram?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Wow. No way. I'm sure it will run on 512. I have a gig though, so I don't know that for sure.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

A Windows Vista Capable PC includes at least:

* A modern processor (at least 800MHz1).
* 512 MB of system memory.
* A graphics processor that is DirectX 9 capable.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not saying you're wrong, but from some randomly googled techie site: RAM: 2GB is the ideal configuration for 64-bit Vista, we're told. Vista 32-bit will work ideally at 1GB, and minimum 512. However, since 64-bit is handling data chunks that are double the size, you'll need double the memory, hence the 2GB.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

64 bit windows? shit, i remember trying to learn 64 bit DEC-UX 10 years ago, why they just getting around to it now?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, does this signal a shift in focus at ms or is this just a forray to try to grab some of the business market back?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

I am Pandora-ing today. It's a little alt-country heavy, though -- apparently it compares the Lucksmiths to Mark Geary and someone called Fingers Cut, but I think both are a little too twangy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

In case any Lynch fans didn't know:

http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/inlandempire.html

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh we know, all right. I'm planning on seeing a midnight screening of Mulholland Drive either this weekend or next, as well.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Know what I have in the oven right now?

No, not bun(s).

PASTIES!
http://www.fco.gov.uk/Files/kimage/Cornish%20Pasty.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

Ooo. Is this something you learned how to cook during your visit to the motherland?

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Well, not really, but we ate some while we were there. I looked up an authentic Cornish recipe on the internets when we got home and I'm trying it out. So far, so good! I'll email it to you if you want, but I have to warn you that it called for lard. I used crisco + butter mixture instead.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, I would use lard I guess, but I don't even know where to get it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not too good for lard.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

Lard comes from the butcher, I think. Or a good meat counter.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe next time I'll go full-on with the lard.

I am impatient for these bitches to be done cooking. Usually when I make calzones, I cook the chicken first, shred it and then just put it in the dough with the other things and bake until the dough is cooked and the cheese melted, etc. These required raw meat to go inside, and it cooks inside and makes GRAVY. Good Lord.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

I have a sudden craving for Tastykake Butterscotch Krimpets.

Naw, sister, you can get lard in the grocery store, over where they keep the tortillas and the Mexican cheese. Alternatively, you can get it in your local Mexican grocery store. I'll bet the fruit market near you sells it, Amanda.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'm reading a Vermont Country Store catalog. They sell bread in a can.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, you're right! I think I know where, too. Near the dried fish. I try to avoid that area.

Have any of you ever cooked with lard? Be honest. I haven't. I've eaten the hell out of things made with it, though, so I shouldn't fear it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

I have not cooked with lard, but I have been in the same room with my in-laws, who cook with lard.

My mom was never a real big cook and by the time I started cooking myself, lard had fallen out of favor in white food culture so I ain't never tried. I understand it's no worse for you than butter, however.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

I really want to try an apple pie crust with lard, actually. One of these days.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

I should say that I have cooked with my mother- and grandmother-in-law while they were cooking with lard. Not like just hanging out with them.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Eh, you've been in the same room as people who cooked with lard, you have lard-cred.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

2007: Year of Lard

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

How to cook eggs, per the family: Spray pan with Pam until it forms a measurable layer. Melt about three tablespoons of lard. Fry eggs in subsequent lubricant.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

What, no scoop of bacon grease from a scurvy coffee tin under the sink? That's what I do!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, mine is a Nescafe jar and it's behind the dish tray thingie.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry I haven't been around. I have been asked to copy and paste the email addresses of every single realtor in the chicago area mls. It makes me sad. You have to click on a little envelope gif to get to the email addy, click on it to copy, go to excel to paste...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

The Pam is there to make sure the lard doesn't stick.

Ha! We sure had the scurvy bacon grease from a coffee can under the sink! I just use pan spray now. :(

I understand that pie crust with lard is superior. I have also eaten my fair share of dumplings (the slippery, Delaware kind, not the buscuity kind) in my life, which are usually made with lard.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

Does lard make the crust flakier?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe next time I'll go full-on with the lard.
sounds like my... nevermind.


They sell bread in a can.
hey, if it's brown bread, that shit is the bomb. melts some butter on it and go to town. goddamn, when's the last time i had brown bread? too long.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

I love Freaks & Geeks too.

My grandma just sent me her recipe for peanut butter pie.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

2007: Year of Lard

Is this an Infinite Jest reference?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I have ever had peanut butter pie, but it sounds amazing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

When I was 14, I wrote a song about how I had never had the pleasure of tasting key lime pie. I since have.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

I know lard makes crust a little gamy, more savory, Amanda. I don't know whether it flakes better than other shortenings, I kind of think they flake the same if you keep them all cold enough while you're working it...? I wonder if they brown up differently. This is a really a question for I Love Cooking!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Like I've read The Infinite Jest,. Nope, it wasn't a reference, it was a promise.

[whips cape around face, disappears in cloud of smoke]

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm GLAD it's not an Infinite Jest reference. (Oh shit, I think that was an Infinite Jest reference.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

Friends! If you find yourself in need of a three-ring binder, call me before you buy. I'm having an end of law school close out giveaway on three-ring binders.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

why are there only three-ring binders? why not four? or five? does it have something to do with the tensile strength of loose leaf paper?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

Man, James Brown was kind of awesome, huh?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

oh jaymcpaws

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, should I watch Barry Lyndon? It's three hours long and I kind of feel like sending it back to get on with Freaks & Geeks (unless I'm convinced otherwise).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 9 January 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, I've never really LISTENED to him, ya know?

I've never seen Barry Lyndon, but I'm under the impression that it's a film about natural light more than anything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm.

What record are you listening to?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

The greatest-hits one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.malaco.com/Images/Items/Full/905/image._default_.png

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

That's great, I wore that record out in high school. I think if you had that, http://www.djouls.com/groove/images/James_Brown-In_The_Jungle_Groove_b.jpg, and http://images-eu.amazon.com/images/P/B000001DWX.03.MZZZZZZZ.jpg you'd be set.

(some may disagree)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

A couple days after JB died, they re-ran an interview with him on Fresh Air. They played the original version of "I Feel Good," which Brown apparently didn't like and decided to re-record. Listening to the original, I thought, "Huh, that's not so bad." Then they played the version we all know, and suddenly I found my head bobbing away from my shoulders -- I could just feel it more.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

Here's the NPR story on the funeral I went to: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6735417

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

PASTIES! I am impressed.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 01:46 (eighteen years ago)

I thought those were a strictly Michigan speciality.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/102/312632582_852b865662_o.jpg

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 05:34 (eighteen years ago)

nifty.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 07:00 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc, jb's career is amazing. listen to the different era's with the different backing bands, the differences are subtle but noticeable. how he went from a mostly traditional blues/jazz dude from the late '50s and early '60s to the soul of the mid '60s to the funk of the late '60s early '70s is an amazing tranformation.

get a copy of "say it live and loud: dallas '68" and you can hear the jb's at their tightest. it was a little under a year before brown fired them all because they had the temerity to ask for a raise. compare that recording to "live at the olympia, paris 1971" that featured his new band (which was a cincinnati band called the pacemakers with brothers bootsy and phelps collins). that band wasn't as seasoned as the jbs but they were more aggressive and it lead to a more raw, primal sound. that band was the foundation for the funk hits of the early 70s.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Cool.

I had a dream about that photo, btw. I was walking along a cliff somewhere, like the Mulholland Drive of Chicago or something, and realized that that's where the photo had been taken. Then I DJ'd a NYE party for my high-school graduating class.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

That would be funny, if all of a sudden we found a scenic overlook in Chicago.

Tastykakke?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

A Philadelphia-based snack cake company with regional distribution only. In the Delaware Valley, they were far more prevalent than Hostess or Little Debbie. They also have one of the most infection jingles ever, that I have actually been humming since I had the errant Butterscotch Krimpet thought yesterday.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Krimpets. Butterscotch are my favorite but Jelly Krimpets are pretty fucking great, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin OTM.

I'm also kinda fond of JB's disco/80's stuff on this record (but it's a lot of stupid fun as opposed to killer bands). I heard 'Too Funky In Here' on the radio the other day!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

i have the paris cd somewhere here at work but it's not in my pile of cd's and i can't be bothered to go searching my cubicle for it. i'll look for it later though.

i need an end table. hopefully i'll have some time to go thrifting on milwaukee ave on saturday. any of you northsiders have any opinions about the places on broadway? i haven't been up there in a couple years, there was one place that had some cool stuff but it was pretty pricey. where's a good place to go up there?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

Good interview, despite Terry Gross: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6723074

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, I'm fond of the Children's White Elephant on Halstead/Lincoln/Fullerton. I was just in there yesterday and they had some nice furniture. The Brown Elephant stores (one on Clark in A-ville and one on Halstead and Addison which is a block west of Broadway) have a lot of stuff but HOLY SHIT their furniture is waaaay over priced. There was a nice little narrow table that would work really well as a night stand in our narrow bedroom that cracked and rickety with the top held on by one nail driven through the center of the top that was going for $45. If it were marked as $10 I would have haggled, that's how crappy it was.

In conclusion, none of those stores are on Broadway. The end.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

thanks jenny! there used to be a st. jude's place on lake st. in oak park that always had AWESOME stuff for fairly cheap. it would get all the stuff that the richy rich's in o.p. and river forest no longer wanted. but it closed years ago. i still miss it. there's supposed to be a place on kedzie and north or kedzie and fullerton or kedzie and diversey that's pretty good but since i'm obviously unsure of where it is and don't feel like spending all day riding the kedzie bus i think i'll wait on this one.


also, i found the jb disc and catfish collins is melting my head with his solo during 'make it funky now'.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

actually, now that i think of it, it's only what, a mile and a half from north to diversey? maybe i'll go for a walk through logan square. if i don't find anything decent on milwaukee i can take the 56 bus up to the square.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, you have to see this video (I think it's the right link). It's that band in Paris doing the same set but it's a different show, different solos.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0fn-xyaGHE

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK YOU, TERRY GR0SS RULZ!!!!!!!!!!

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

I've never seen Barry Lyndon, but I'm under the impression that it's a film about natural light more than anything.

NO.

It's likely one of Kubrick's 4 best films, and his last truly great one.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

youtube blocked at blah blah blah...

i decided i'm definitely going to uncle fun this weekend. i haven't been there in forever either.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Brownstone Antiques (On Clark, not Broadway) often has good deals, but it's small so it's hit or miss. It's at Clark just north of Foster near the Cheetah Gym.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

It's likely one of Kubrick's 4 best films, and his last truly great one.

I'll try to watch it this weekend but it may be netflix defeat waiting to happen.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I never knew the name of that store, Jesse, but if it's the one that puts stuff out on the sidewalk I like it a lot.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

i think i'm going to walk down to ashland & milwaukee and start from there. i'll walk north up milwaukee and hit those places for furniture, then there's a brown elephant a little further up and on the other side of the street. after that i'm going to uncle fun. and if the trip has been a dud i'll go to roscoe village for antiques/resale crap.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

if anyone wants to come along let me know. i will be making a (few) stop(s) for beer at some point.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, do you know and/or like Mark Ronson? He's the guy that did the cover of Radiohead's "Just" with the Dap Kings horn section. His MySpace page features similarly horn-laden versions of Coldplay's "Got Put a Smile" and Britney Spears's "Toxic" (ft. ODB).

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

mark robinson of teenbeat records/unrest/air miami?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ronson: No "bi." He also produced the Rhymefest album.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, I'll check it out at home. That Radiohead cover was really good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

i can't read.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

would anyone be down for a superbowl party of some kind? this is carry over from ilnfl.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, maybe. I don't care much about football, but I like parties.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ditto John. I am indifferent to the Superbowl unless the Eagles, Panthers, or now, Bears are involved but I like getting drunk, eating snacks, and yelling at the TV with other drunk, snack-eating people.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in, like I said on ILNFL. but I will force you people to care.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to a bar.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Damn you, I thought you were inviting us over for a party.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

Well, shit, I'll invite people over for a party, then.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

i was thinking about it but no one will care about the game except me and the 'shoe so screw it, i'm going to a bar where i can wager and yell, and perhaps most importantly, smoke indoors.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'll probably care about the game if the Bears are in it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

I was also thinking about hosting, but it's a little delicate because I'm blowing off a Super Bowl party that my sister's friends are throwing. so if I then turn around and invite a bunch of people over, my sister might be a little sore.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

my realization that i can smoke at a bar trumps all so please forget that i ever mentioned a stuporbowl party.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I also barely care about football, but I am down.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

all you people who are indifferent to football are totally unAmerican.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, I just prefer baseball. Part of the reason why:

Pro football ... has traditionally resisted statistical analysis. Again and again, someone, like fine sportswriter Allen Barra, has tried to match Bill James and write a football abstract, and, again and again, the enterprise has failed. One might think that the betting interest in pro football ... would lead to an ever more avid appetite for numbers, but the kind of analysis that Barra et al. are able to do is, although powerfully suggestive, weakly predictive. Football analysis is trickier than the baseball kind because football really is a team sport: every baseball act is colored by the context in which it takes place -- the stadium and the situation -- but football acts are the context in which they take place. A running back whose team wins every time he runs for a hundred yards is almost certainly busy running out the clock in the second half; he runs for a hundred yards because his team has already won. Unlike in baseball, all eleven guys on the field are involved in every play, and who deserves the credit or blame is harder to know than it looks.

--Adam Gopnik, "The Unbeautiful Game," The New Yorker, Jan. 8, 2007

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

that's exactly why i perfer it to baseball.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

I would rather eat onions than watch football OR baseball, and I HATE onions. Am I still allowed to live here?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

(I think I'm the only one being fascist about football, Laurel. Kevin seems very live-and-let-live.)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

(He's pretty nice that way. Unless you piss 'im off.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

(hating onions is complete crazy talk, though!)

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

Let's keep in mind that I don't actually enjoy watching sports all that much, but I'm fascinated by baseball statistics, trivia, and lore -- no other sport can really match it for that kind of stuff. I was fact-checking an article about the year in baseball yesterday and got really interested in how the no-hitter drought between Randy Johnson's perfect game in May 2004 and that Marlins rookie's no-no in September 2006 was by one measure the longest drought in baseball history (if measured by number of total games) but by another measure only the second-longest (if measured by the number of game DAYS -- given the fact that there were fewer teams competing during the dry spell of 1931-34).

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

(I hate onions and their stealth-crunch ways. And if they're not crunchier than their surroundings, it's because they're slimy. LOSE/LOSE.)

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

in seriousness, I like the team effort nature of football and I have no head for statistics. I would like to start watching baseball more, though. other people's love for it makes me wistful.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

Team effort also means there are no personalities. I prefer character-driven narratives to plot-driven ones.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

there are personalities!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

I just found out, though, that that Tomlinson dude on the Chargers set a whole bunch of records this year. That must have been fun to watch.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, no personalities like mcmahon, or hollywood henderson or bradshaw or matuzek or riggins or how is he not the first name to come to mind - CLINTON FUCKING PORTIS!!!!! god, his press conferences are better than most redskin's games.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

The personalities in football only exist off the field, though, since onfield, it's a mess of helmets and padding.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, he's unbelievable.

xpost with Kevin: yeah, and I can think of a few "colorful" coaches, as well.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

The personalities in football only exist off the field, though, since onfield, it's a mess of helmets and padding.

???

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I should refuse to rise to this bait!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Does football have the equivalent of unique batting stances or batting-box routines or pitching deliveries?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

does that mean idiosyncratic ways that people do routine things? yes.

also, there are end zone dances.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Icky Woods, so much to answer for.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously, though, I think I just prefer baseball because it's the more "literary" sport.

I'm sure soldiers have idiosyncratic ways of killing enemy combatants, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Does football have the equivalent of unique batting stances or batting-box routines or pitching deliveries?

so you watch baseball for batting stances and pitching deliveries?

xpost- ok, time for me to go.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

XP: And with that, this conversation is over!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh look, mind meld.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

John, have you read The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

I just said, I don't really watch sports much at all. But I like that Craig Biggio and Frank Thomas have weird stances, and it was always fun to watch side-armers like Dan Quisenberry and Charlie Hough. My point is that they're *individuals*, they're not huddled indistinguishable masses all moving around at once (which was the real point of my military analogy, more so than the "football is barbaric" cliche).

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff, I read a long excerpt from it in the New York Times Magazine a few months ago. It was the part that focused on Michael Oher, though, so I haven't read any of his insights on strategy or anything. (The book was also mentioned in that Gopnik piece I quoted upthread.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, I started the football debate! I was joking, though!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, I know. It was something I was already thinking about, though, after having edited something about baseball yesterday and then read Gopnik's article about football on the way home from work.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

John, I think problem #1 is that the description of football players as an indistinguishable, huddled mass is your perception. You're writing as if it's a rational conclusion, but in fact lots of people who watch football, basketball, hockey, soccer, or many other team sports are perfectly capable of distinguishing players from their jersey numbers, heights, positions played, or any number of things. I HATE football, but even I'm really disinclined to follow the rest of your posts when take your own conclusions for granted.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm willing to buy that to some extent. But it's also true that during a typical football play, it's hard to follow what each of these players is actually doing, because of quick movements, pile-ups, etc. Keeping track of jersey numbers is worthwhile, but you're still not going to get a good look at their face unless the TV cameras zoom in a lot, and even then there are face-guards in the way.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

I don't watch basketball, either, but it seems a bit more interesting given the fact that their uniforms consist only of a sleeveless shirt and shorts, and there are only five dudes on the floor at any given time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Five dudes per team, that is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

1) I don't watch or know much about football

2) I can see why people like football

3) I hope the Saints go to the Super Bowl

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am also looking forward to Prince's halftime show.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

I'm rooting for the Saints, too! Saints+Prince=fun Super Bowl.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

But the real question is: will there be nipple?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I saw a rugby game over the summer and even without ANY padding to obscure people's faces, I couldn't follow a single thing. But when you know who's running which direction in certain plays and what the players' objectives are in running a certain direction, it makes as much sense as black scribbles on a page make to those of us who larnt to read.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

god, still TWO MORE DAYS until pay day. i needs to go to ye olde grocery store and get some staples. out of bread, milk, oj, superpretzels, etc.

pasta for dinner? DO NOT WANT.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

I've been eating home-made quiche for lunch for three days, now. It's excellent, but I'm a little tired of quiche.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

monday's lunch: chili
tuesday's lunch: rice and beans
today's lunch: tomato soup
tomorrow's lunch: the lining of my stomach.
friday's lunch: something sumptuous.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

gmail targeted advertising of the day:

NY Face Lifts - Dr Kwan
Preserving Asian Identity Through Cosmetic Surgery.
2 NYC Locations!
www.AsianSurgery.com

i have no idea why this would be targeted towards me.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

I'm into watching any sport as long as it's a playoff or a championship, or a pickup game on the street.

Other than that, I like watching horseraces. We should have an outing to Arlington sometime.

I'm trying to imagine Kevin with his Asian identity restored.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

srsly, i wonder what my nationality was (is?)!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

Blablabla sounds potentially South Asian.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

I am up for a party. I didn't know Prince would be playing! I will be there for the food, folks, and fun. So, um, when is it?

Have any of you ever tried putting Emergen-C in hot water? I'm imagining it might be like hot Tang...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

I'm imagining it might be like hot Tang...

i'm guessing we have VASTLY different ideas about what that's like.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

ha. Also, Kevin, I feel you on the hunger woes. As Temple of the Dog said, "I'm goin' hungry, I'm goin' hungry... YEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH...!"

I'm not really starving, but our menus are looking the same. Tonight will most likely be a pasta night. Last night was Sultan's though. mmm...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

As Temple of the Dog said

awesome.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

last night was breakfast night, i was going to make a frozen pizza but instead i made waffles, sausage, eggs, and biscuits.

oh yeah, i'm out of eggs too.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

I just remembered we have eggs and frozen waffles... hmm...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

and i still have that frozen pizza! though i may save that for tomorrow.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Hot Emergen-C does not in any way taste like hot Tang. It tastes like Bad. Actually, the flavor isn't too horrible, but it smells like hot vitamins.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm about to brew up some Airborne, since Kr is home sick with a sore throat. I will not use hot water, however.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

You should come home wearing a protective mask.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

My favorite two Realt0r surnames so far doing this project have been SUNSH1NE and SUPERF1NE (in fact, that last one shares my first name).

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

born with the name or legally changed to it do you think?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

The day I got back from New Orleans I had my first frozen pizza in many months.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Doing a quick search, it looks like Superf1ne is a last name.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

I have no interest in any sport (except when certain teams are playing, eg, Saints this summer and if they go to the Superbowl), but I really wish I were into them.

Courtney and her brother and I were talking about how it is a big disadvantage for a guy to come from a non-sporting household. Her brother has it worst since he is a straight Southern boy who doesn't give a damn about any sport, which diminishes his role in guy conversations considerably.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am perfectly willing not to have conversations that require centering around sport. I can keep up with lots of mechanical/woodworking/construction/general wrenching talk, but no sports. None of the men in my family follow any pro sports at all (unless Nascar counts), and altho we are not Southern, we are from the country and they still seem to do all right.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I just wish it were a topic that was accessible for me. One reason is that the kind of guys I would like to meet are into sports, so that would be a good in. The other reason is that I would just like to be into them because it seems like such a fun pastime for others. Alas, I pursued this interest and found out it wasn't an interest at all.

The thing with her brother is that most of his friends are into sports and he gets left out of that chunk of conversation.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

Same here. It's weird though, my dad was/is into football and most other sports, but I never watched games with him or anything.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Courtney and her brother and I were talking about how it is a big disadvantage for a guy to come from a non-sporting household.

weird, i was talking to my friend jeremy about this last saturday night. he was from the sticks in georgia and he said "my dad was an engineer who probably never even looked at a football let alone picked one up". jeremy has no use for sports either. he was shocked when i said pro football was up there with rock 'n' roll of things i love.


xpost- my earliest memories of my dad are of falling asleep on the couch with him watching college football as a wee one.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, most of my brothers' friends are into skateboarding, bikes, making movies/special effects/CGI, punk bands, and video games. We all get along juuuust fine. Last time we all went out to a crappy Whitehall bar w/ friends, we spent hours on programming languages, extreme survival scenarios, and the relative merits of gothic and Bauhaus architecture. Nights like this are why I love going home.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

mechanical/woodworking/construction/general wrenching talk

http://www.kidzworld.com/img/upload/article/a970i1_snoring2.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Urge to strangle John: Above Average.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

pretty much my only good memories of interactions with my dad involve watching Bills games. so that explains that, I guess. it's also the whole being from Buffalo thing. I am not a boy, though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

i can all but guarantee that i am the sole sports fan amongst my circle of friends (with the exception of j0e w0lfe but he's with his fiancee more often than not) so the topic never comes up. conversation usually revolves around obscure music, obscure records, where to find obscure records, and the relative merits of those places.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

It feels like my lack of interest (and worse, my complete, persistant ignorance of how any of them even work) creates a huge void in me as an American male, especially as a resident of Chicago.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

I was kidding about the unAmerican thing, Jesse!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

jesse, for what it's worth, with one or two exceptions, the people i know who do not follow football are a much better class of people than those i know that do.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha, Kevin drunk at Brooklyn show keeps almost schtum all night until I am having-to-go-home wasted, and then someone asks him about obscure punk records and suddenly I'm the quiet one and he wakes up for the first time in hours. I enjoyed that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Thanks, guys. Group hug?

But really, sports are something I see as a club I would like to be a part of but am blocked from by my short, short attention span. I actually can and do care and understand for about 1 play at a time in football, but then I get distracted.

This summer during the Saints' big return and subsequent afterglow, I watched the games and actually had a number of conversations about them, which gave me the warm fuzzies. I want that back.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

If a whole game ran about 45 minutes, I think the whole world would be better off. (I have sad memories of games in overtime ruining regularly scheduled programming, and watching the clock slooowly run out.)

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha, Kevin drunk at Brooklyn show keeps almost schtum all night until I am having-to-go-home wasted, and then someone asks him about obscure punk records and suddenly I'm the quiet one and he wakes up for the first time in hours. I enjoyed that.

i have no recollection of this. i have no idea how you made it home. i don't remember much between talking to you and thalia before the show and my mad dash to find an atm at 3:30 a.m. to buy records.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

This summer during the Saints' big return and subsequent afterglow, I watched the games and actually had a number of conversations about them, which gave me the warm fuzzies. I want that back.

this is what you need to get into sports, I think. an emotional identification. once that's established you find yourself just enjoying the sport for its own sake (I don't need the Bills to be good to love love love watching pro football.)

but there's nothing wrong with not watching sports!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

especially to vindicate some masculinist bullshit.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't care about sports at all until I was 10, and then something went off in me, and I was rabid about them for about three years.

I started collecting baseball cards, I kept score at my brother's T-ball games, I bought a sports almanac, I read baseball-centric mystery novels, I tried to start a Rotisserie league among like-minded 12-year-olds (didn't catch on), I played one season of Little League (I was terrible), and I watched a hell of a lot of MLB, NFL, and NBA games.

By the time I got to high school, though, I'd sort of lost interest. Part of it, I think, was that I labored under the impression that being a sports fan and being an artist/intellectual were antithetical. The fact that I was never any good at playing sports, which made me uncomfortable and not very confident during high-school gym class, didn't help matters.

I started paying attention to baseball again in 2001, when I worked with a couple of guys who were huge Cubs fans. Baseball was always my first love, so it didn't take long for me to get back into it. We'd put on Cubs radio broadcasts in the office, we'd ask each other trivia questions, etc. I loved how all the residual stuff I picked up when I was 12 was still with me. But I never managed to get interested in anything besides baseball. Hstencil still disdains me for it: he had to endure my weird self-consciousness when I watched a couple Bears games with him in 2001. I couldn't get over the fact that I was actually hanging out with guys, watching football.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

I have sad memories of games in overtime ruining regularly scheduled programming, and watching the clock slooowly run out.)

I think the original cause of my sports disinterest was because I would need a ride to a friend's house or to the video store, and my dad would say "fine, there's only ten minutes left in the game". And ten real minutes later I would learn about FOOTBALL TIME.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Technically I rode my bike, home, but I'm not really sure how I got there, either. I have NEVER biked that drunk before or since. Also, it was pouring rain.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

tater tots, i remember tater tots, too.

this time will be different, there will be too many shows for me to get shit-house wasted at all of them. that friday night is going to be crazy though, everyone will be there by then. remind me to pack a spare liver this time.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

People, there's a pic of Buscem1 in this month's ChiCAG0 S0CIAL. (Also, I saw his name on MLS..)

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

What is ChiCAG0 S0CIAL? (Or MLS, for that matter, besides "Major League Soccer" and "Master of Library Science"?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, this? http://www.modernluxury.com/ml-web/images/subscribe-chsocover.jpg

I've seen that in boxes but have never picked it up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

this is what you need to get into sports, I think. an emotional identification. once that's established you find yourself just enjoying the sport for its own sake

Yes!

I sort of care about the Cubs, but not enough to follow their meanderings unless they give me something big. Saints did that this summer, and if I were a resident of NO I would definitely be following them and probably watching their games. If the Cubs or Bears could make it into the play-offs or save be the mascots for our dying city....

If the Saints are in the Superbowl I am going to watch it, even with limited understanding.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

i just had my first cigarette of the day and wow.... man, that reminds me of why i smoke in the first place.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

MLS is the database realtors use to list houses, condos, etc. MULTIPLE LIST SERV.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

I saw that photo in CS! Classy!

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

It cannot be 31 degrees outside. It feels like 1 degree.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

wow, 31? i was just out there and it didn't feel much warmer than the 19 it was when i left for work this morning. today was the first day my hair froze in ages.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

xpost I know what you mean. For some reason 20-30 feels much worse sometimes than 0-10. Perhaps this has to do with the fact that the relative humidity is higher at 30.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

It wasn't too bad when I went out for lunch at 12:45.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

OH, that reminds me! OLD NAVY is having a HUGE SALE. Everyone should go! TONS and TONS of SHIT for CHEAP.

I stocked up on knit caps (.97) and scarves (1.97). Today I am going for some more jeans (9.99-17.99). They have a SHIT TON of jeans on sale.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

Once again, when the temp is around 20+, my heat does not come on and I'm chilly. When it dips to around 17 and under, it comes on full blast and it's like a sauna in here. Weird.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

oh shit, DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN FIND LEATHER VAN SEATS???

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have a van?

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

no but i'm slowly remembering things and i remember they would go really well in my apartment beneath my windows.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I love sports. If any wants to hang out and watch pretty much any sport, let me know. Except Jesse, because I don't like explaining things to them.

We're going to see bulls/nuggets in march.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

This is the only time I can remember playing a real sport within the last few years. It's the inaugural Digd0wn all-star basketball game:

http://www.ewedding.com/images/customer/69388/3x1114274.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

(and I clearly look like a pansy)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda took this one of me playing kickball: http://tinypic.com/al0ww0.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

That has to be the cover of your electronica project, J. No text anywhere on the LP.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Not a bad idea.

I just had a weird moment when I went looking for that photo and found it in a Gmail conversation with a girl I went on a couple of dates with in the summer of 2005. Weird reading it in retrospect.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, John or me?

XPOST

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

That's a cool pic. Wasn't Nick there? Did he play?

More fun realtor names:
-last name BIGMAN
- VA (as in the state) ENGLAND

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

Also, if any one every wants to play tennis. TXT ME. or email.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

I just got spam from "Hiltrud Lauderdale."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

That has to be the cover of your electronica project, J.

Does this exist btw? I still think we should collab on a couple of tracks John, beats & keys.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

I will play tennis with you. I am trained in tennis, but will need a quick refresher, as I haven't played since '97.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Collab you two, so that the basketball game can be on one side of the LP and John's photo on the other.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

How should it work, Jordan? Who should lay down tracks first?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Do like bum-tadda-tadda-bum-bum-tadda and then you go doo-weeee-doo-ohhh-doo-weee

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh oooh oooh I got a book about Reason and a small midi keyboard for xmas, to complement the copy of Reason that I "acquired". If anyone (who has an ear for melody, especially) wants to make some trax after I figure out how the drum machine etc, I'd be v. interested.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't matter. I could send you a finished track of beats as a wav file and you could put stuff on top, or vice versa? Or you could send me short sections of melody/bass/etc. and I could cut them up and structure them over beats.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

I just looked at the "most searched" tab on the new york times & the #1 thing is "saddam hussein hanging video." does that make anyone else feel a little sick inside or is it just me?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

I tried to watch it. I couldn't.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

I watched the short video that does not include his hanging. This may have come out before the full length one or something. In any case, I don't care to see the actual hanging.

I wish Borat could come help make sense of this.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't want to watch that.

I want Reason!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

I declare this work day officially over. I've been frying my brain drawing and labeling freakin' floorplans for the last two days. I am done, and none too soon. Tomorrow I will do something else. But not today.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Never got the hang of Reason.

John do you have any program to record direct (keyboard > computer)?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

I can do that with GarageBand, but I haven't figured out to use the keyboard's tonebank instead of GarageBand's limited palette.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

Granted, I haven't fooled around with it much at all. Maybe I'll post something I recorded later.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oh so you're using your keyboard like a midi controller?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah. I wish I had an audio-in on my computer, because I think all I'd need in that case would be a 1/4"-to-1/8" cable.

I could also just record onto the computer microphone from an amp, I suppose.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

You could get a really cheap USB preamp, like one of those M-Audio ones.

I could also just record onto the computer microphone from an amp, I suppose.

Never know, that could sound nice & durrty.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

The midi thing I have is from M-Audio.

Never know, that could sound nice & durrty.

Yeah, that's what I was thinking.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

The midi thing I have is from M-Audio.

Oh yeah, I think I remember a discussion about that. There's got to be a way just record it as an instrument rather than a controller?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

I am also looking forward to Prince's halftime show.

Waaaaaaaaaaaaaay xpost - I am now excited about the Stupidbowl.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 10 January 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

Argh, I have been reading the court transcript of Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District for the last hour or so. I need to go home.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

The keyboard I got is from M-Audio. It is USB. I plan to use it as an everything-controller because I can't play piano/keys worth a shit, but I wanted more than just drum pads.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

I posted a new recipe on the blog! Yeah!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

jesse needs to get out of here.
and he's lying.

― Courtney Maher (cmaher), Thursday, 11 January 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

Is he telling the story again about how he once killed a man for money? I think that one's true.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 06:28 (eighteen years ago)

Happy Birthday Kevin!!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:06 (eighteen years ago)

Back to football. Since my team is out, I will be rooting for the Chargers to win it all. I did go to NC State for a short time, so I'm a big fan of Rivers, he was one of the most awesome college players I've ever seen. Other than them, I'd want Philly to win. Chicago lastly. Anyone else can fuck right off.

Concerning football and statistics. Football is certainly lagging behind other sports as far as the statheads go. The problem is that with football, you need to focus on situations more than you do player contributions.

Basketball is further along. I read gameflow stats every morning. The wages of wins blog has some good stuff everyday too.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I grew up in a non-sports watching household, yet somehow developed into a fanatic. This is probably due to my peers. Most people in eastern NC develop their sports allegiances very early on, like in kindergarten.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

I am so tired and so not looking forward to another day of working registration at the Troom, but here are some amusing surnames of people I registered yesterday:

Pop
Dumdum
Krumptruck

Also, happy birthday Kevin!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 11 January 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ Krumptruck

HBK

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

thanks kids. hopefully it will be a happy one.

and jeff, i have totally talked myself into the pats winning on sunday despite the fact that their biggest weakness heading into this game is their run defense. specifically their perimeter d, if LDT gets to the corner he'll be gone because the pats linebackers are too slow to run him down before he gets to the edge and the pats are playing two backups at safety, and they were backups for a reason. but if they can hem him in, make him run between the tackles, they have a chance. i think this game will come down to special teams and defense. punt coverage and kickoffs will be key, the team with the better field position will have a huge advantage. and though this isn't really different from any other game i think it may be even more true in this particular one, the team that doesn't turn the ball over will win.


xpost- yeah, i love that name. it sounds like a refuse disposal vehicle for the keebler elves or something.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Happy thirsty birthday, Kevin!

Chicagoans - Let's TT at Old Timer's.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

pats game is the last game of the weekend, 3:15 sunday central time. 3 days away. i can't wait. i wish this were friday so i could go out and get so goofed up that i slept away all of saturday and then when i woke up it would be game day. but it's only thursday. but it's a thirsty thursday! or, as jenny put it, a thirsty birthday.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Happy birthday Kevin!

...

Jenny (or anyone else smarter than me when it comes to legal affairs): Is there any reason why the plaintiffs in Kitzmiller would be referred to as "the state," as in "The state called so-and-so witness to the stand"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

(Does it have to do with whether the lawyers are state-appointed?)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you to EZ and whoever else mentioned Electrelane's Axes, I enjoy it!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

In criminal cases, the "plaintiff" is always the state (State v. Dahmer, for example), but Kitzmiller is a civil class action suit so they should just be referred to as plaintiffs, not the state.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome. Thanks JB.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Dan, glad you like it! It'd be fun to see them live sometime.

I'm teching a little play at Open End tonight, probably can't make TTs.

If someone murdered someone in a national park, would it still be the state vs. or would it be the United States vs.?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

My happy fun day:

The free laundry people came and took our laundry.
I had toaster waffles with Marmite and delicious coffee for breakfast.
I watched Arrested Development while I ate. (Julia loaned me disc one!) (I'm bagging up at the George Michael/Cousin thing. "You stay on top of her, George Michael. Ride her." LOL)
I'm going to WASH PILLOWS and since I don't have any homework I get to read books while I do laundry!
Then I'm getting my bangs cut so I get to see my dearest Val B.
Then I'm having drinks at OT.

This is Kevin's best birthday for me ever.

xp - Yup, Eric, for federal crimes, it's US v. Blahblahblah.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

HB, K.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha the housekeeper taking the rack of furs on the bus.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

I watched Arrested Development while I ate

I finally got the first disc of Season 2 last night and watched the first three episodes. I was giggling to myself on the way to the train this morning, thinking about Martin Mull as "Gene Parmesan."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Master of Disguise.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

I watched the Freaks & Geeks w/the band audition last night, so funny.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

paul feig was the older, non-speaking guitar player in that episode. have you read kick me or superstud? both painfully good.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

The part where he describes his kit to the dudes is classic.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

Happy Birthday, Kevin!

Nick put a ton of new-to-me songs on my ipod this morning. I lurve Jens Lekman, new Sloan, & Camera Obscura.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

wow, i don't think i've listened to sloan since "underwhelmed" came out 15 years ago. i loved that single though.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

I love that F&G episode. Have you guys seen the one where Nick plays a song for Lindsay??

Sloan was awesome when I saw them play at Double Door last year (with Nasta!).

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

happy birthday, Kevin!

I don't think I can make TT tonight, but I am not 100% sure yet.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

they were a good pop band, i'm not sure why i never quite got into them. i think i bought the follow up disc to 'smeared' but can't remember any of the songs off it. i can still remember all the lyrics to underwhelmed even though i probably haven't heard it in at least a decade. i wonder why i can't remember stuff like that anymore. i mean, remember new stuff like that.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Best Sloan song is still "Money City Maniacs," mostly for rhyming "joke is/awoke is/Coke fizz."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Have you guys seen the one where Nick plays a song for Lindsay??

"Lady L"? that was the who concert episode, no? where ken smashes the guitar before nick can play it for her saying (correctly) "you'll thank me for this some day"?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

have you read kick me or superstud? both painfully good.

No but I'm looking them up now.

It's so perfect how when Nick auditions for the band he's not over-the-top horrible, he's just obviously not good. In the exact way high school rock drummers are not good.

Also the girl who plays Kim is hot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yep.

Kevin, I need to give you your book back because I just couldn't get through it (at all - I read a few pages). I'm sure it's great but I've just got a million other things I wanna read right now.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

That Yep was to Kevin. Ha ha.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Gene Parmesan is my least favorite character on the whole series. Second is the magician played by Ben Stiller.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

no worries sarah, it is kind of obtuse at the beginning. it took me forever to get through the first 50 pages then i went through the next 300 in a couple days. i'm kind of having the same problem with walk on the wild side, i've picked it up and put it down without reading more than 6 or 7 pages at a time until yesterday. on the commute home i finally found a groove in it and knocked out 30 pages.

jordan, jason seigel had to learn how to play drums for the role so the fact that he'd only been playing for a couple months added to the realism.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Jens Lekman

That first record is so good. I almost forgot about it. Where are they now?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Second is the magician played by Ben Stiller.

Come on. That's gotta be first.

STOP HIRING BEN STILLER EVERYBODY RIGHT NOW.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Also the girl who plays Kim is hot.

Huh.

My biggest beef with Freaks and Geeks, as Kr will tell you because she's sick of me complaining about it, is that Busy Phillips is technically considered a guest star, even though she appears in the show way more than Seth Rogen does. Like, there are whole episodes that Ken doesn't even show up in, while Kim Kelly gets major subplots.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Busy? Her name is Busy?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my god, I totally hate that.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

hi chicago
i have a friend coming into town this weekend and i'm looking for things to do saturday...daytime or evening. let me know whats good

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Weird.

Is Undeclared close to as good as F&G?

xpost, she is totally a Busy

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Gene Parmesan is my least favorite character on the whole series

I've always had a soft spot for Martin Mull, and seeing him pop up in silly costumes makes me laugh.

I like that we're talking about TV shows that I have seen.

Ben Stiller was mildly amusing as Jason Segel's dad on Undeclared. But otherwise I agree with Kenan.


― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Is Undeclared close to as good as F&G?

Short answer: no.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.wwsm.co.uk/toys/products/0749852437.gif

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Busy Phillips is technically considered a guest star

I think this was because of contract issues. they hadn't planned to use her for more than a couple of episodes, but she turned out to be so good, they kept her on, but they hadn't hired her as regular cast, so she kept having to be reintroduced as a special guest star.

Undeclared is kind of sweet, kind of funny, but it's no F&G.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Kim Kelly's ski jacket makes the character.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Deej, Sat. night there's short-plays/DJ/booze (i think) at a gallery. Free, but make a reservation. Deets at http://collaboraction.org/

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I don't HATE either Gene Parmesan or what-his-name Wonder (Stiller) but they bore me.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

have a friend coming into town this weekend and i'm looking for things to do saturday...daytime or evening. let me know whats good

playoff football saturday afternoon, saturday night is a great show at the beat kitchen.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

hah right well i dont plan on missing the bears
thanks for the recommends

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

you know what someone else was telling me about this gallery thing, i think i might check it out. i know suzan lori-parks' stuff

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm directing one of them, so if you go and see a John C. Reilly looking fella, that's me.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, you guys met on NYE 2005/06.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc'd

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, at that party in Wrigleyville, right?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

lol

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

At your party in Wrigleyville.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think it was his party. But it was a lot of his peeps.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, how is Walk on the Wild Side? It's on my list after how much I loved Man with the Golden Arm.

There's a bunch of stuff I want to read right now but I've gotten mixed up in this 500 pg biography of Patricia Highsmith. At least I feel justified in skimming the parts that I'm not interested in because it's not like it's real writing (novelistic writing?). Does that make sense? It reads like a really long term paper.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

I am intrigued with Suzan Lori-Parks's husband. The photo of him in the New Yorker makes him look like a bad-ass.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, how is Walk on the Wild Side?

i'm just getting into it, i think the story is about to start. the first 70 pages were background which i'm sure is setting the tone for what's to come. i definitely know where dove is coming from now and i have a good idea of how and what he thinks but nothing has really happened plotwise yet. too soon for me to say but it's getting more interesting so i'm sure i'll be reading more of it. i'll let you know.

incidentally, i found out the nelson algren society is based just up the street from me, i've walked past it a thousand times and never knew it was there. i'm going to try to find out more about it, what it does etc. and check it out.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

yeah that was at my friend E's place, I remember. Good times.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc et al are you gonna go to this thing too?

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

And then it was 5 AM, and some dude was showing me photos of my former boss on a laptop at Dunkin' Donuts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd kinda like to go to Open End. I just found out about it myself.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Make a reservation if you go, 'cause it's going to fill up since it's free. J., I think you would know folks who are going on either night.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

this is apropos of nothing, but, man, I hate Cameron Diaz.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v719/gofugyourself/72959353.jpg

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

What the HELL??

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

is TT happening tonight?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

I know, right, Laurel? even though I hate her, even I can concede she's got a great body. why is she wearing a goth cupcake liner around her waist?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Cool, I just made a reservation for Saturday night.

I was planning on going to TT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

happy bday, kevin!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

I know the dress is questionable but I might be okay with it -- I was really thinking about the BLACK HAIR.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm reminded of something Lorelai Gilmore said about dark hair really bringing messed-up faces into relief, and how you shouldn't mess with it if you aren't prepared.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Old Timer's ahoy! Any time in particular?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Goddamn, I was just going to say something about her looking like the Gilmore Girl daughter.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know what time i'll be out of here, i've left after six for the last week or so even though i'm off the clock at 4:30. if i leave at 4:30 i'll be there by 5:20-ish. i'll likely be there closer to 5:30 or so.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'll stop by OT after work, but I can't stay a long time and get plowed or anything. I just started being able to digest food again. But I'd love to see you guys. And even Jesus said that a little wine is good for you. (Presumably because he didn't have beer.)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Best sick drinks:

greyhounds
tequila
?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sick in what sense? You forgot the screwdriver and the hot toddy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

If you mean sick in the "flu upset stomach" sense, then any citrus juice is RIGHT OUT.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

Drinks to drink when you're sick or recovering from being sick (I guess I'm thinking cold/flu). Those are good ones.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

my grandmother used to give us irish whiskey when we were wee one's and got sick. that's probably why my sister's and i have a tolerance for jameson.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

The owners/managment of the bar I used to work in swore by blackberry brandy when sick.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

(they are a bunch of raging alcoholics mind you)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

I was gonna say -- water is better than any of these things, unless of course avoiding alcohol would make you even MORE SICK. Which is a sad, sad state of affairs.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Courtney, Jeff (I assume - he said last night he was leaning towards going, but I know he doesn't like to commit to social outings until the last minute so we'll all have to wait and see won't we), and I are going to TT. I am getting my bangs cut at 4 pm and will come over after that.

I HAVE A BOOK RECOMMENDATION: All the King's Men by by Robert Penn Warren. Jesse gave it to me because it involves a fictional analogue to Huey P. Long but it's really more about Jack Burden, the HPL analogue's go to guy. I just finished the part where Jack describes his horrible failed marriage, which he ends with a benediction: "Goodbye Lois, and I forgive you for everything I did to you."

It's a total dude book, too, and it's set in Louisiana (or similar - they don't really say but HPL was from LA so you can kind of assume) so maybe it will be a good book club book for you, Jordan.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe kingfish would like it, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

By "dude book" I mean that it's from a male character's POV and definitely looks at conflict/plot development through a masculine lens. It's not all smacking broads and oppressing dames and canonizing motherhood, though. I probably wouldn't like it so much if that were the case.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

You forgot "skirts".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

...and chasing skirts...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

...hollerin' at split tails...

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i just didn't want to be sitting at old timer's drinking a lonely beer.

jordan, my gmail status msg is from the beginning of 'walk on the wild side'. it's something i could identify with so i co-opted it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Once again, I prob. won't be at OTs until 6:30 at least, just so ya know.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

so maybe it will be a good book club book for you, Jordan.

I want to read it. Unfortunately I think the dude's book club is no more, one member just moved to Chicago and one is getting married. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

and married people can't read?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Married people can't hang out much, if they happen to be married to this woman.

(actually that's not fair, as the book club was a fiancee-acceptable alternative to weekly beer & chicken wings hangs)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

(I should really not be discussing this on the internet)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Dear ILX: I love Arrested Development.

It was one banana. What could it cost? $10?

ROFFLES FOR ALL.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 11 January 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Dear ILX: I love NoMeansNo

0 + 1 = 2

ROCKnROLL FOR ALL

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

I'm out, I've got meetings and then I'm going to an audiologist to find out how deaf I've gotten and to get custom earplugs (yay!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

i think i'll go to a used car lot this weekend and ask if they have any krumptrucks.

― okay, who greased my weiner? (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i just didn't want to be sitting at old timer's drinking a lonely beer.

I'll be there about 5:30 having a lonely cola.

:(

See you there!

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

i'll be there cheech!

― okay, who greased my weiner? (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

i out of here, BEER ME CHICAGO!!!


tread gently kids.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Today at registration I learned that we have a student named Hitl3r Guzm@n.

Sorry I can't make TT -- I would like to be able to be there but it's not gonna work out tonight.

Today a fellow teacher asked me, "is t-h-r-u the correct spelling of through in this circumstance?" WTFF. You are native speaker. You are English teacher. Come on, man. I would be sympathetic if this dude weren't such a total wiener. And they won't give me more classes because....?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

It's English Lite.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

i just got back from our all-staff bowling party & i have 20 minutes left & i am simply ready to leave now.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, is your student Venezuelan?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/weekinreview/07romero.html?em&ex=1168578000&en=43c9420e77194ab8&ei=5087%0A

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno -- he's not my student. The teachers were just gabbing about names and ol' Hitler came up.

English lite. HAHA. That's funny. I wish I had thought of that when this guy asked me for help -- he's a total clown.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

There's this dude whose LiveJournal I read sometimes. I don't know how I know about him -- I think maybe he posts on ILX occasionally. Anyway, his LJ is cool because it's mostly just illustrations that he does, in a comic-like style.

This one made me think of EZ:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v485/Suedey/flaneurcleanbw3sm.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

that's fun. i wish i drew (a) well and (b) often enough to have an illustration blog. sometimes i look at this video bloggy thing where this guy draws a monster a day. they're kinda fun & cute monsters.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 11 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'm back from the audiologist. It was really interesting, I got to see the insides of my ears on a big flat planel monitor and get my frequency response tested. Apparently I've lost low end, which is the opposite of what I expected. My ears are shot around 1k but otherwise pretty good.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 11 January 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

Why would that be the opposite of what you expected, Mr. Bass?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

I have come around to Jesse's way of thinking. I hate Scrubs. It's like this acquaintance, maybe like a drinking buddy, that you'd see every once in a while, and he was amusing enough, good company, an ok guy. But then he starts hanging around more and more. And then ALL THE FUCKING TIME. And if that's not annoying enough, one day he reveals himself to be a real asshole and starts doing things that are simply unforgivable. (This last part of the story is analogous to the "new" episode that I just watched, which was neither new nor good in any way.) And then you decide to cut that friend out of your life totally. That's where I am with Scrubs.

I have a feeling he's going to keep calling, though.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 02:31 (eighteen years ago)

Because you don't usually think of loud bass being as damaging to your hearing, at least I don't. It's the cymbals and the snare and the trumpet that seem cutting and painful.

OTM about Scrubs. I kind of hate it now and yet I keep watching at the gym, because it's always on.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 03:19 (eighteen years ago)

Zach Braff: Voice of our Generation

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 12 January 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

man he sucks so hard

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 06:56 (eighteen years ago)

I really wish I still knew how to sleep.

I think Comedy Central made a miscalculation in purchasing Scrubs. Or at least a miscalculation in running it 24/7. It had a cute, ingratiating, and innocuous couple of seasons, but this has gotten real old real fast.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:16 (eighteen years ago)

SERIOUSLY THAT SHOW SUCKS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:17 (eighteen years ago)

Nowadays, it seriously does. At first, like I said, it was cute enough.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

YOU WANNA FIGHT ABOUT IT?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:28 (eighteen years ago)

nope

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:34 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't think so, bitch.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

In this corner: SUCKS!

And in this corner: CUTE!

do not want.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:38 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone see the letters page in the Reader?

I like the flaneur drawing.

Hey, these short plays at Open End are turning out pretty good.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 07:43 (eighteen years ago)

It's so perfect how when Nick auditions for the band he's not over-the-top horrible, he's just obviously not good. In the exact way high school rock drummers are not good.

This is literally the exact same thought I had when I rewatched this episode last month. That scene is (for me) one of the most cringe-inducing things I've ever watched on TV.

Ben Stiller sucks, but he has guest-starred in almost every single one of my favorite shows. It's weird, he's such an obligatory guest star. I'm waiting for him to turn up in Battlestar Galactica. I was actually pretty amused by him in Arrested Development.

The new Sloan album is really good, though very overwhelming - 30 songs in 80 minutes is a lot of power pop all at once. Also, through Swygart's best-of on Stylus I found out about this weird Danish band called Oh No Ono. Terrible name, and I think nearly everyone on here would hate them, but I am intrigued. They are very Sparks-y.

Proper context for "thru" = "drive-thru."

I saw the letters page in the Reader.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 January 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

If Ben Stiller shows up in Battlestar Galactica, it's over. Unless he is destroyed mere seconds after appearing on the screen.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Friday, 12 January 2007 12:45 (eighteen years ago)

I was watching some Seinfeld the other day and thinking "I wonder how it feels to have your dad be funnier than you, Ben Stiller?"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno how meaningful that is, though; it's hard to fall off the floor.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

why was going out after tt ended a good idea again?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno how meaningful that is, though; it's hard to fall off the floor.

True. But still, who isn't funnier than their dad?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

me. my dad's a riot.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Touche.

For the first episode of Freaks & Geeks I thought the guidance counselor was Chris Elliot. He's really funny but I still wish it was Chris Elliot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I don't hate Ben Stiller. In fact, I used to really like him. Now I just don't care.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I still love scrubs. Braff is adorable. Uh huh. I said ADORABLE.

I'm funnier than my dad, though it is kind of funny in a sad way when he's really angry and says something like "GREAT SCOTT!"

Flickr peeps, check out my new kicks! (sorry, kev)

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

I want to show you something from What Do You Look Like On NudeIlX. It's NSFW. http://badgas.co.uk/griffnut/back_tattoo.jpg

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

I still love scrubs. Braff is adorable. Uh huh. I said ADORABLE.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Ooops. I got all excited.

Anyway: WTF?!

It's over between us.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

For the first episode of Freaks & Geeks I thought the guidance counselor was Chris Elliot. He's really funny but I still wish it was Chris Elliot.

This dude appears briefly on Arrested Development in the episode when Lindsay decides to protest the war, and the protesters get put in a cage. He's one of the protesters. Because when your hair is that long, don't be surprised if you get typecast.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Between you and Braff or you and me, jesse??

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

what's happening on the letters page?!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/letters/2007/070112/

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

The letter was easily longer than the article itself.

Look at my shows! LOVE THEM!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha. I meant SHOES!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Who will be at Eric's thing tonight?
Who will be at Schuba's tonight?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

All I can determine is that M.D. is a M@x Br00ks crony who's posted on ILX a few times. I also smell Dartm0uth education.

I will be at neither thing tonight. What is at Schubas?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit dudes!! do you know that guy or is he just a compelled fan? is this how you know you've made it?! that's amazing! i'm so impressed & floored! AND PROUD OF YOU!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

i might go to schuba's if i can't find a way into the mission of burma show at the double door.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. Ponys. Yeah I don't care.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

What's up with that dude dissing the "Nordic sweater"? Otherwise, a victory!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and I loathe Zach Barff, for the record.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

In case we're still lining up.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Harhar.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Certainly no serious attempts at anything were made whilst sporting a Nordic sweater.

xpost: While I have yet to see scrubs, Braff irritates me & I do not find him attractive.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

That letter is kind of amazing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

i think we discussed this last night but the only time it's acceptable to write a letter to a publication about a feature on a band is when you're an 11 year old girl. if you are not both 11 years old and a girl then you really shouldn't be writing about what's being written about music.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

why not?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

also, did the nick & sarah's of the world brainstorm a place to eat?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Morning guys.

http://www.poormojo.org/pmjadaily/archives/013491.php

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Do I look like this guy, or am I flattering myself? (Actually someone else said I resemble him, but this picture makes him look ridiculously hot.)

http://handson.provocateuse.com/images/photos/david_krumholtz_02.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

It's good for us though. MORE PRESS! Also, I think Max (yeah, it's him) is an amazing writer.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, Max = Mark? Pen name?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

You do not look FORBIDDEN, Jaymc.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Because this suggests they're different people.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

I can't see the pic, J.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, sorry Amanda, the picture shows up for me:

http://handson.provocateuse.com/images/photos/david_krumholtz_02.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

sarah, are you guys going tonight?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

the last email i sent was a request from a Dr. Bong. the one prior to that was to Ms. Dong, whom I am now calling "the donger".

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Don't know. Might go to Eric's thing. Might go to Schubas. Worried won't be able to get into either.

i think we discussed this last night but the only time it's acceptable to write a letter to a publication about a feature on a band is when you're an 11 year old girl.
This seems mean spirited to me on many levels.

Anyway, we think it's Max.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

J, that is forbidden to me.


sarah, i agree with you on the mean spirited thing.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.google.com/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&q=%22david+krumholtz%22&btnG=Search

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

There is a resemblance.

Orange peach mango juice = pretty good!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, there are similarities..

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Re meanspiritedness, I think Kevin is just talking about how Jenny wrote a letter to Circus magazine when she was 11 because they dissed one of her favorite metal bands, and how perfect it was, because 11-year-olds can really get passionate about stuff like that. I don't know that he really believes that they're the *only* people who should write letters, but I'll let him fend for himself.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Kr and I are kind of addicted to this mango lemonade:

http://www.bolthouse.com/graphics/MangoJuicebg.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry. I know I'm just being sensitive. It's just that the idea of my friends all sitting around a bar mocking this glowing letter about my band hurts.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

sarah! i'm with you, dude! i totally agree! even though i'm hoping kevin meant that statement in jest, or mostly in jest, the timing was bad (sorry, kevin).

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think any of us had seen your letter last night at all. I read it on the train this morning.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think this is a case of anything more than accidentally crossed signals -- relax, people!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

no, i'm totally serious. writing about music is bad enough but writing about writing about music is retarded.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://ilx.p3r.net/newanswers.php?board=2

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

exactly.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.canastamusic.com/about/john/john.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

It's retarded to participate in a discourse?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

"Mark" = Max.

That guidance counselor guy is also on a new Comedy Central show with David Koechner that I haven't seen yet. T BOne and Naked Trucker thing. He is a naked trucker.

Kevin's just being a whiny bitch because we missed his bday party, boo hoo.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

T BOne and Naked Trucker thing.

Oh yeah, the commerical for that are terrible.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

(s)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'll have to ask "Mark" why his Latin America blog lists both "Mark" and "Max" as contributors.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

T BOne and Naked Trucker thing

Every time I hear the name of this act I think of the Seinfeld where George wants to be called "t-bone".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe Mark doesn't know about Max and vice versa.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

did you guys make it home ok last night dan?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin's just being a whiny bitch because we missed his bday party, boo hoo.

wait minute, THERE WAS A PARTY??!?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, aside from watching two express blue line trains (one of which had a frieght car carring some kind of backhoe or crane thing!) roar through the Damen stop where I had already waited for a long time, the trip home was fine for me,

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of Jason Bateman, this movie could be alright. Although how great would it be if the "Vegas magician turned informant" was Gob?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

this movie could be alright

I hope you're right, but I feel you're wrong. The trailer looks goofy. And the poster is ugly. These are bad signs.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

I know. :( I'm just trying to be optimistic these days. And I want JB to be in a decent movie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Common plays someone named "Sir Ivy." Huh.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Wonder if he's a british?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

And I want JB to be in a decent movie.

http://www.impawards.com/1987/posters/teen_wolf_too.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

or a girl?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Who is the poor schmo who's getting email notifications every time this thread is updated?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Teen Wolf / Teen Wolf Too (Double Feature) has been added to your Queue at position 61.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

xpost I know wtf

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think anyone is getting emails. This board is just buggy.

Bring back search function plz. Google is for shit with this site.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

to tune of Ed is Dead...
THREARD! IS! DEAD!
Oh... Thread is, yeah thread is...
THREAD! IS! DEAD!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

It's not like I have anything interesting to say. I sure don't.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

I like... stuff.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

I like italian sandwiches from white hen. And I like potato chips.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

I need to figure out lunch.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.answers.com/lunch&r=67

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

I had a greek salad from Corner Bakery, which was yummy, though I was surprised that they used goat cheese instead of feta.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Goat cheese is better, IMO. Not that feta is bad. But smooth, creamy, and rich > crumbly and briney.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

i had a boring sandwich & now i'm eating tings.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

pitty tings.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

i haven't eaten these in ages & now i'm remembering that the reason why they tasted better in the past was b/c I would douse them in nutritional yeast!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

I went to the deli/market to get a sandwich and as I was walking up to the counter to pay approximately nine hundred grade-school age kids flooded the place and clogged everything up, wanting to buy one piece of candy each. The sandwich was good though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Dan: You only have to hurt the first one.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

wow. i just imagined that scene in willy wonka as i read that.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

this morning at the alleged convenience store at the forest park blue line stop a girl in front of me bought a bag of cheetos. then she opened the bag and paid an extra dollar to get melted nacho cheese ladled into the bag.

that almost tipped the scales as far as which direction my hangover was going.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

That is the most disgustingly hilarious thing I have heard in a long time. Thank you, Kevin.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

bleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeccccccccccccccccchhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh


― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

dan it was so bogus. also, i think i need to cut my thursdays shorter. 7 hours in a bar is no good.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

i mean, for a thursday.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

SUNDAY? NO PROBLEM!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

DAMN IT DUDE you really had my hopes up.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

melted plasticheese on cheetos?! that is so disgusting & so hilarious. I can hardly believe it!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

Wait does "so bogus" = made up? If so, I stand by my previous comment. If not, doubly awesome for being impossible to believe.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

now i'm remembering that the reason why they tasted better in the past was b/c I would douse them in nutritional yeast!

There are no two more appetizing words in the English language than "nutritional" and "yeast".

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

i know, i know. but it is delicious!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I cannot believe I forgot to tell you guys this:

The other day I was in the faculty room and this ancient GED teacher was grossing me out beyond reason by talking about her skin graft gum surgery WHILE eating cottage cheese, little bits of which were flying out of her mouth at random (but key) intervals.

I had to remind her that other people were trying to eat and maybe gum grafts could wait for another time, PLEASE.

Then she started talking about this teacher at Malcolm X who was assaulted, and was like, "What if I'm next?" This somehow led the conversation in the direction of, "We should know if our students are recently paroled, in case they might be violent." Everyone agreed.

She then told us about a student she had last semester who was getting into all kinds of trouble. See, he had been fooling around with some of the girls in the class.

He got not one, not two but THREE girls in his GED class pregnant over the course of the semester.

The end.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

No doubt about it, she's a charmer!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

So's he!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Play on, playa!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

at my mom's highschool a girl was caught giving three boys blowjobs in the boys bathroom. no one got knocked up, though.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

dan, it's true but i'm using bogus as disgusting. not a proper usage i'm sure.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

I'm just glad to know it really happened

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Was the cheeto girl hot? Because I'm thinking she might be the one.

I had a veggie burger (spicy black bean + provolone cheese) and Ikea cookies for lunch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

I had my usual dish from Tokyo Lunchbox (tofu teriyaki). The sriracha kicked my ass today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

I think someone around here must have made the same kind of burger for lunch, but it's freaking me out because I keep thinking the smell must be emanating from me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

she was a high school kid so i wasn't even thinking in those terms. i loathe all those kids at the end of the blue line who go to proviso west. large packs of unsupervised teens are the biggest pains in the ass when you're trying to catch a bus.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

what would one name that concoction?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

i think ipecac is already taken so i don't know.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

there is a girl scout cookies order form on the table next to the color copier downstairs. and it's pay day. coincidence?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

OMG GIRL SCOUT COOKIES!!!!! if I were you I'd buy a thousand boxes, Kevin.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

if you were me you could afford maybe two boxes.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

have they changed their recipe to omit the hydrogenated oils?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

FRUITY NORDIC SWEATER

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

dunno, but hey sarah, schubas is sold out.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

FRUITY NORDIC SWEATER

This has got to be a future FF's song title.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

From the new LP Future Fake F1ct1ons of America.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

jordan, thanks for saying "who are you people" when someone said that king of queens was comedic genius.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad you're with me, I loathe that show even though it's got Jerry Stiller and the wife is kinda hot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

oh god. it's awful!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hate. Hate. Also up for hating: "Everybody Loves Raymond".

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Equally hated

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

yes! I doubley hate that one!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

what's the spin off one? "Till Death" or something? I would like to puke on it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

the wife is not kinda hot. she's kind of (and by that i mean very) annoying.

i would like to win the lottery so i could buy the distribution rights to KoQ and ELR then never licence it to anyone.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Everybody Loves Raymond makes me want to kill. so depressingly sexist, among other things.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

I saw a recent episode of the American Office last night for the first time (on someone's fancy little iPod, even) - really well-done.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that show pretty much pwns.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Everybody Loves Raymond makes me want to kill.

You have more self control than I.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Please nobody ever develop the land where I buried them all.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

I agree, Eric! I feel like it really came into its own after the first season. The first season felt like a hugely lacking word-for-word delivery of the original.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

It has a slightly emo undercurrent I'm not sure I like that much though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

The only episode of the American Office I've seen was on a plane, and I thought it was great.

I know in my heart that all these shows -- ELR, KOQ, etc. -- are horrible, but I don't really encounter that many people who like them, so it's hard to get worked up about them. I feel like I knew people who thought that Home Improvement was genuinely hilarious, though, and boy did I seethe. Worst show ever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Nick and I got in to the EZ show, so it's all good.

I know Nick thinks that the wife on KOQ is cute. I'd prefer for him to only have crushes on female celebrities that look at least KIND of like me.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost It's awkward, but not the funny kind of awkward that show thrives on. Fortunately the funnies far outweigh this phenomenon.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Nick and I got in to the EZ show, so it's all good.

I RSVP'd via e-mail (for Saturday) but didn't get a reply. Should I assume I'm in or what?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, KOQ wife played a minor character on Saved by the Bell and I'm pretty sure that's where my goodwill comes from (if only subconsciously).

I still haven't seen American Office yet!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

I think, if you're a big AD fan, you'll really like it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Crushes on female celebrities follow no known logic. Don't try to understand.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

I know Nick thinks that the wife on KOQ is cute.

Yeah, so do I -- but then again, I would.

I'd prefer for him to only have crushes on female celebrities that look at least KIND of like me

This is ... weird, but I don't know exactly why.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

I agree with you on HI, but my dad loved that show & it was such a show that my dad would like that I ended up having the tiniest soft spot for it.
Didn't ELR win a handful of awards & people were saying how it was this well done throwback to old sitcoms?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Crushes on female celebrities follow no known logic. Don't try to understand.

Because being on tv makes them hotter, see? It just does. Don't question.

XP: I don't find that weird one single bit, Sarah.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, you will totally love The Office. My suggestion would be to watch the british version first, then netflix seasons one & two of the american office.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

John... Because then his excuse could be that he's attracted to them because they remind him of me?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I'm doing anything tonight except sit home and wonder why it is that I never learn my lesson about going home at a reasonable hour on Thirsty Thursdays.

― Booze Werewolf (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

"I find your complete opposite really attractive" might not NECESSARILY mean "gawd, why do we go out, again?" but it's not a hell of a long jump.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

is that where the wife on KoQ is from?! she always looks so familiar to me!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Re ELR: I think because in like 2002 it was the only sitcom that was still on the air. Reality shows and CSI/Law and Order spin-offs killed the sitcom, ohno.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen Britishes Office, it's great but I don't think I could sit through it again.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

People are attracted to a lot of different people. I don't have eyebrows like Ian Somerhalder, but I don't lose sleep over it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, John, re: tomorrow, I would assume you're in unless they write or call you.

With the Office I saw last night, I liked how it took the British comedy staples of embarassment and humiliation and made them everyday-American. (This was the episode where the boss defends calling a gay guy "faggy" saying that he calls everyone that.)

And the resolution on the fancy iPod was pretty amazing too - I hadn't seen that before.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

does the 'being on tv makes them hotter' apply to skeezy dudes in bands (being on stage makes them hotter). because i seriously can't see why anyone would want to rub up against mick jagger, for example. or tom petty.

xpost: then jordan, you will esp. like the american one, i think.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

i generally do not get crushes on celebrities.

speaking of crushes i need to meet new people.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

booze 'wolf; me, dan, and amy went out for more booze after we left old timers.

shit, that reminds me: DAN, AFTER GETTING MONEY OUT OF ATM FOR CAB DID YOU NOTICE IF I TOOK MY ATM CARD FROM THE MACHINE????? i went to go take money out at lunch and my card isn't in my wallet.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

I totally love the British and the American Office. To-tall-lee. I have a celebrity crush on T/Jim. Both of them. Actually, on the characters moreso than the actors.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

i don't really either, kevin. i will sometimes think about how hot somebody is whilst watching them in a film, but i don't leave the theater with newfound lust.

actually, that did happen once, but now i've forgotten who i was lusting after.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

I will put it on the queue.

I have no idea what I'm doing tonight. Watch the one episode of Freaks & Geeks I have left at home, go the gym, then...drink alone?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

does the 'being on tv makes them hotter' apply to skeezy dudes in bands (being on stage makes them hotter).

Absolutely.

I can't think of any recent celebrity crushes. Sometimes I'm blown away by someone's chops, like Julia Stiles or Michelle Williams or Jamie Pressly, which makes me think they'd be good to get to know and maybe eventually bed. That's how I think of Alanis, I guess.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

I can't decide if "bed" as a verb is classy or skeezy!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

xposts to kevin: Oh, that sucks! I don't remember seeing you do it, sorry.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

you're too cute eric. i love how you say "maybe eventually bed" . . . that's very dear.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, Kelz, I dated a rock star and except for once or twice when I must have been temporarily out to lunch, it was never really an attraction. Maybe it helps if you like his band?

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

i'm hoping it's in my pants pocket. my atm card.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i could remember the lust bunny. i remember heading home incredibly worked up & how new that felt to me (lusting after a movie star, that is).

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

does the 'being on tv makes them hotter' apply to skeezy dudes in bands (being on stage makes them hotter).

I've heard that said about this dude:

http://myspace-156.vo.llnwd.net/00472/65/13/472453156_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who that is.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

i think sometimes if i'm at a show or something & the lead dude is sort of okay looking i'll sometimes have a crush for the duration of the show & have to ask myself "am i only crushing b/c dude is on stage?" usually the answer is yes.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

Kels: was it...?

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/1573623989.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

he's not my b or b anymore!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

he is so on the totally barf side these days.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

am i only crushing b/c dude is on stage?" usually the answer is yes.

Of course it's yes! That's the whole point of being on stage!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

I heard Jamie Pressly on Loveline without having any idea what she looked like, and thought she was so smart and down-to-earth, which I might not have thought if I had first seen her on the cover of FHM.

I think if Jaymc's photo dude and Will Oldham were working together at a Kinko's that photo dude would get more crushes.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Are we admitting celebrity crushes?

Fiona Apple. More and more with each passing year.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

is jamie pressly on 'my name is earl'?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who that is

He was the singer in the band between the FFs and C4n4st4 when you saw us at CMJ.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

he actually looks kind of like my hs boyfriend except his nose looks normal.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

i hope there's someone attractive on the bus tonight, i'm too tired to read and i could you some daydream distraction.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Kels. Also in many movies I haven't seen like Poison Ivier.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. I missed most of that set.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

that's what i'm talking about!! will oldham - perfectly good looking guy but if he just worked down the hall from you, you might not really think twice about him until you got to know him.

eric: she's totally hot.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.citybeat.com/2005-04-06/soundadvice-1.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

hey now!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

KELSEY HAD A CRUSH ON ONE OF THOSE TWO MEN

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Poison Ivier.

OMG is that what the sequel is called??

I think Kelsey and I saw the original once upon a time.

We also saw this:

http://aolshop.com/media/coverart/dvd/cov150/drt500/t576/t57697vk8om.jpg

Which is interesting because the star is a celebrity crush I had in like 1998-99 that I'd pretty much forgotten about until very recently, when I had the opportunity to crush out again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

AND IT IS NOT WILL OLDHAM!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

Did he ever write you back over friendster, e?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

My last two celeb crushes that come to mind have been on macho blonde girls, which is not usually my type at all (Busy Philipps and Starbuck!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

john, we did? i only remember the one with ivy in the name... poison ivy? it was shit.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Although both their characters are kinda slutty, which is my type.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Busy Phillips is totally a "macho blonde" -- that's a good description.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

No, he didn't. (I wrote to him to matchmake him with Kels.)

I made up Poison Ivier. I think it was just Poison Ivy II. Never saw it. But I did see The Crush with Alicia Silverstone (in Amsterdam!), which has the same plot.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

who is starbuck?

i'm still trying to remember movie lust boy. i'd love to say it was someone like justin theroux but it was probably matt damon or something.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Poison Ivy was the one with Drew Barrymore and what's-her-teeth from Roseanne, right? Predictably awful.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Starbuck on Battlestar Galactic, played by Katee Sackhoff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to sack her hoff, if you catch my drift.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

damn.

i mean, i'm not married yet, right? plus, leaf cannot see why or how i have a crush on him so i think he'd take it okay. what's that little game people play? the one where if you ever had a chance with so-and-so you basically get a free pass? i think leaf would be more willing to give me a free pass on sweeney.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

oh, john.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Officially grossed out.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe you should write his full name here, Kelsey, in case he's drunk and googling himself some night.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

jenny, did they take you out for lunch?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

I did a Gmail search on "kelsey crush" but all I could find was M. Sweeney, Ed M@m0u, and someone on ILX.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

ha!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

No one has a crush on Kelsey Grammer?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

I think I once admitted on ILX to having a slight crush on David Hyde Pierce, and everyone basically recoiled with disgust.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

12 Ways To Crush Your Own Testicles In Your Own Home

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

GrammOR

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

i can't believe there is an hour & 1/2 left in this day.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

I know, right.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

That's like 2.5 hours for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

.5 for me!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

doing a gmail search on "john crush" brought up some conversation where i was trying to pawn my condoms off on you.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

if i didn't like you so much, laurel, i would probably hate you right now. i wonder why i'm having such a hard time being here today . . . maybe it's because the work is so slow for me.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but I also got up an hour earlier. :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

jenny, did they take you out for lunch?

Yes to the Italian Village and I have half of my risotto Florentine to prove it. I got tiramisu!!!!

I, too, am ready to go home but that's because this is my last day at work and I'm not really doing anything anyway.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

doing a gmail search on "john crush" brought up some conversation where i was trying to pawn my condoms off on you.

Yeah, I got that one too. Eep.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

I just got home from the laundromat. I'm reading My Cousin Rachel by Daphne DuMaurier. It's pulpy and mannered. I love it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Some celebrity crushes (where I especially liked them as their characters, not necessarily what they look like in real life):
* this one is a little young for me
* mm hmmm
* same movie

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

See also.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

2x Donnie Darko the character. Also Ron Weasley, which I recognize makes me a little creepy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I just publicly admitted that I have a crush on a fictional 14-year-old wizard!

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

i to take a nap to recharge my batteries and then go marinate in drunk sauce again.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

2x Donnie Darko the character.

I do not know you people. Do I not brood enough? Is that my problem?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Please don't answer that.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

At least you didn't call 14-year-old Emma Watson a "babe in training," as Ebert did.

2x on Joseph Gordon-Levitt. So hot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, that was an x-post to Jenny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

The part about Emma Watson, I mean.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

VETO on moody teenaged boys

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

At least you didn't call 14-year-old Emma Watson a "babe in training," as Ebert did.

Come ON. We all know Dakota Fanning out-babes Watson any day.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

VETO on moody teenaged boys

Yes plz. I've been a moody teenage boy before. IT DOES NOT MAKE FOR GOOD BOYFRIEND.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

What you need is a moody, emotionally arrested MAN.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Give me wizened old bastard over moody teenager anyday

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

ebert said that?! i guess it's not that surprising since he gives all angelina jolie movies a thumb up.

don't worry too much about the age, sarah. i looked at imdb & paul dano was born in '83. that makes it slightly less creepy, right?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

My latest (tho I'm not sure you can count being on the supporting cast of Mythbusters "celebrity"...

http://www.babytrollblog.com/archives/images/kari_byron_01b.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think that celebrity crushes have anything to do with what they'd be like in a relationship.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

In case anyone was wondering, in that second pic from Brick, I was talking about Lukas Haas, not the other dude, though he was funny.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

that picture didn't work for me, but I do remember lukas haas playing ryan white in the tv movie about ryan white.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

That third pic didn't work for me, Sarah!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

my friend amy had a huge crush on paul dano after we saw "little miss sunshine".

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

You sure you guys actually have a sexy-type crush on these moody little boys? Or do you just want to give them a blanket and a bowl of soup? I can't imagine moody teenage boys are exactly hott in bed or anything.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

There would be wayyy too much apologizing.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

What was that name of that movie - from the 80s I think - in which a woman goes back in time to see how her life would have changed had she had sex with the mysterious moody guy?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

i think my celeb crushes tend to be men i would never crush out on in real life. for instance, the dude in 'the transporter' was kind of hot but not stimulating in any kind of intellectual or charming way.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

You sure you guys actually have a sexy-type crush on these moody little boys? Or do you just want to give them a blanket and a bowl of soup? I can't imagine moody teenage boys are exactly hott in bed or anything.

They're pretty. Isn't that enough?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

in which a woman goes back in time to see how her life would have changed had she had sex with the mysterious moody guy?

Peggy Sue Got Married. It's actually a good movie, IIRC.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

dan striped,
i told my gf about my crush on mythbuster girl -- and of course she totally didn't get it. she's spunky!

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

His character in Transporter is like sophisticated and urbane and keeps a lovely country house! I'm sure he's very smart and well-read. The character, I mean. Jason Statham is just hott.

Keep yr pretty boys. I like eye crinkles and laugh lines.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

she's spunky!

And she knows how to make explosives!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

OTM, Laurel.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

you have a girlfriend, mark?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

I have a mild crush on this girl who works at the Ace Hardware below Lincoln Square Lanes.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah talks about her celebrity crushes like ALL the TIME but if I happen to mention I find some celebrity attractive she gets upset.

The attractiveness of the woman from King of Queens fluctuates pretty wildly from episode to episode, or even scene to scene sometimes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah talks about her celebrity crushes like ALL the TIME but if I happen to mention I find some celebrity attractive she gets upset.

Ah, so you understand the rules.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

That girl from Mythbusters seems kind of ... fake to me. Like she's some typical actress and they just give her lines that make her sound like she knows what she's talking about. Actually, I feel that way about all of the assistants on that show. I am prejudiced against attractive people.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

My male celebrity crushes:
http://img.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/050930/111658__hoffman_l.jpg

and

http://www.throth.com/images/Caetano-Veloso.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

But they're not serious or anything.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

I see what you're saying Nick, and I thought the same thing for a long time. It seems like there are two "hott" assistants and two "real" assistants (one each, male and female). The hott ones are eye candy, act goofy and occasionally have some brilliant moments, and the real ones do real science, set things up, etc. The female "real" assistant is a master welder, for example.

At any rate, she is really cuet.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, I don't know who the second one is, but I approve in a big way.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

I am listening to "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" by Robert Palmer for the second time in a row.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

I think I have a lot more female celebrity crushes, to be honest.

The most enduring:
http://www.hurrellphotography.com/Hurrell/sherilynfenn.GIF

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, I've only seen that show a few times. I don't remember a female welder.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

I have a crush on Audrey Horne a little more than Sherilyn Fenn. but she was the beautifulest for a while there.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

See, I STILL LOVE HER.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

am listening to "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On" by Robert Palmer for the second time in a row.

That's a good song. I prefer the original by Cherelle, though. Mariah Carey also does a version of it in Glitter.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

I think Kari is cool. What I really wish is that they would hire a woman with a hard science background as a personality for Mythbusters.

xp - Kari has a sculpture background and worked as a model maker for Jamie's company before being hired on the show. She's not Grant Imahara with a vagina, but she's not just eye candy, although it seems like they cast/edit her in that role sometimes.

Also, Tory comes across as more of a doofus than Kari, I think.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

she was on Dawson's Creek for a couple of episodes and it made me sad how she kind of looked like a different person.

xpost about Fenn

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

What the fart is Mythbusters?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, Tory is totally a jackass.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Sherilyn Fenn is on Gilmore Girls now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Is Mythbusters something that comes on that new-fangled 'cable' dealio?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the only time I've seen it was when I was dating Renee. And maybe in a hotel room once.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

make love not war chicago. i'm out.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could like the Gilmore Girls. I don't. That said, I would watch it if I could only see scenes that contained SF and there was no dialogue.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

How did I never visit this website before?

http://www.acadian-cajun.com/hebert.htm

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i could like gilmore girls too, but i also don't.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

GG has been kind of annoying for a while now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

KIND OF?!?!!?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

it is very, very bad these days by all accounts, so you're probably better off.

Lauren Graham is a good girl-crush, though. sort of Sherilyn Fenn-esque, actually.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

Sherilyn Fenn plays the mother of the girl who's basically the Olivia to Rory's Rudy Huxtable.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.impawards.com/1993/posters/boxing_helena.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

(I never actually saw that)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

why is the green m & m a girl?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

I did not approve of her blonde phase, but I did watch the interminable Elizabeth Taylor tv movie because she was in it. Also, she was playing ELIZABETH TAYLOR.

Off-the-charts glamoor.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Lauren Graham is a good girl-crush, though.

Oh, definitely.

fuckmeSantafuckmeSantafuckmeSantafuckmeSanta

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

Mythbusters watchers - Do you ever watch Dirty Jobs? I have the crush on Mike Rowe. I think this is okay because I'm pretty sure Jeff has the crush on him, too.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

she had a blonde phase? way to not understand the sources of your own hotness, Sherilynn Fenn.

Audrey Horne-era Fenn would make a good Ava Gardner, too.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Yay! Done with work, goin' home. And a 3 day weekend to boot!

Jenny: I have seen it, but I haven't gotten too into it. Honestly I liked him better as the narrator for Deadliest Catch. But that show just ruled on a whole other level.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Why 3 day weekend?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

But he's so smug and handsome...

MLK day.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

I prefer Rowe to the mythbusters, actually. They're too much caricatures of themselves for me.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

However under duress I have been known to prefer the beret-wearing one. Jamie? A good Scottish name.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

I am so glad we get MLK off here. I never had it off before!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Adam posts on Metafilter and seems like a very normal, slightly irritating geek-type guy.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. I don't get off for MLK day. No paid holidays until May.

Do the rest of you guys have the day off?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

Courts are closed, but the law office is open but I won't work there as of Monday. Classes are suspended from 11 - 3, which is kind of retardulous, but there you have it.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

I've never had MLK Day off. This year is no exception.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

did y'all hear about the possible romance between m4rilyn m4nson & ev4n r4chel wood?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yes and she's 19? I'm a little oogy about that. Altho actually I don't know anything about her.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

it's very oogy! she starred in the movie "thirteen" no too long ago!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

did y'all hear about the possible romance between m4rilyn m4nson & ev4n r4chel wood?

Wha...? I heard that Manson was dating a teenager, post-divorce, but nobody mentioned anything about EVW!

Laurel, she was on the TV show Once and Again and has been in several movies, including thirteen.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

A source told People that Wood and Manson's relationship was a factor in Von Teese filing for divorce Dec. 29th. Wood and Manson reportedly met when he asked her to be in his upcoming horror film, Phantasmagoria: The Visions of Lewis Carroll. Manson has also painted a watercolor of Wood which was shown at the Halloween '06 opening of his Hollywood art gallery. According to his website, Manson's other artwork includes a painting of Jon-Benet Ramsey and a piece depicting a nude Adolf Hitler with breasts and a drooping penis.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

How edgy.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

the official website is a headache.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

i saw his painting of angelina jolie today & i don't mind his style or use of color . . . but yeah, how edgy.

i feel like the whole appeal of marilyn manson died after like 9th grade or something and he was just never notified.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

Marilyn Manson Now Going Door-to-Door Trying to Shock People

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

i don't mind his style or use of color

I really like his Lewis Carrol stuff.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

fuck. ERW is going to be in a movie directed by julie taymor. i don't get her (ERW) appeal at all.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

that onion article is awesome.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

have nice weekends, all!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

My heart is breaking over this latest Marilyn Manson news.

― Party Time Country Female (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:25 (eighteen years ago)

I get MLK day off.

I love Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs. We probably watch the discovery channel more than any other one.

Celebrity crushes:

Joan Cusack
Eva Mendez
Monica Bellucci
Kate Hudson

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 13 January 2007 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

Kate Hu-?--I'm sorry, I must have misunderstood.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 13 January 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

Ooof... ate fondue tonight = excessive amounts of cheese. And wine.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 13 January 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

Celebrity crushes:

Joan Cusack

HANDS OFF, MOTHERFUCKER--that sweet lisping mouth is MINE.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 13 January 2007 08:05 (eighteen years ago)

Hi, kids. Who's awake? I'm cleaning the bathroom this AM instead of brunching or watching foreign movies from the comfort of my bed. It feels pretty good, actually.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

hi, i am in america

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Saturday, 13 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Evan is Coming to America.

Another celebrity crush: Nathan Fillion

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

no, i am already in america, jenny. in minnesota. waiting to go back to montana.

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Evan is Going to Montana.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

I kinda like Joan too.

I should be cleaning today, but instead I watched Barry Lyndon and it was pretty good. I think I have a taste for boring movies.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 13 January 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

I just ordered a really expensive pizza, and when it arrived, I couldn't find my wallet. I checked every pair of pants I own, I tore my bed apart, moved my couch, and basically totally freaked out while the delivery guy waited outside the door. I was worried that I had lost my wallet on the train, that it had been stolen, everything. I sent the delivery person away.

About 45 seconds later, I found my wallet on the bookshelf. Of COURSE! Because that's the last place I would look for anything. It's the place that I pay the very very least attention to. I don't read. Not books, anyway.

Then I sat on the floor with my wallet, extremely hungry and with my blood sugar at an almost all-time low, and clutched my wallet, and cried for about ten minutes.

For the love of God, if you know anything about ANYTHING, don't ever date me. DO NOT DATE ME.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever even MET anyone who has as many emotional problems as I do.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

And I'm really, really, REALLY hungry.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

dude, that doesn't sound like it has anything to do with emotional problems. you're just hungry. get some food!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:01 (eighteen years ago)

The trouble is that when I get this bad, I forget how to feed myself. So it's a catch-22. I need...

Maybe I need to get married so someone will be around at least enough of the time so that I won't get like this anymore.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:03 (eighteen years ago)

That's a disgusting reason to want to get married, isn't it?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

Food is paramount. Micro-analyzing justifications for self-loathing (or not) can come later (by which time it'll almost CERTAINLY seem a lot less important).

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

You're right. Thank you.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 01:37 (eighteen years ago)

oh see, i thought you were kidding about the crying for ten minutes

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 14 January 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

I've met some guys on the street that seem to have a few more emotional problems than you do. Maybe you just need to be less cognizant of them.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

Get more crazy!

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 14 January 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm working on it.

Meanwhile, I unknowingly bought the best shirt ever yesterday. BEST. SHIRT. EVER. I thought I was buying a plain ol' green plaid shirt, which is fine by itself. But no, this shirt is lined. It has a soft heather grey cotton lining. It's two shirts! It's even better and warmer than two shirts, because the layers remain at a constant distance from one another, and trap heat more efficiently. This is a total farmboy shirt. This thing is crazy warm. I am so happy. Next week when it's 10 degrees, look for me in this shirt.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 11:32 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I didn't tell you all... I scored on Clark street today. With a combination of Alamo Shoes and Brown Elephant, I got 2 pair of shoes, two pair of pants, four shirts, and three sweaters for about $120. One of the pair of pants is very superior to the other... one's pleated and a little too short. Whatevs. I will wear it in a pinch. The other pair of pants is perfect all the way around. And the sweaters and shirts yielded some bold and new color combinations. Look for me in teal.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 11:37 (eighteen years ago)

This is how close I live to the train. Out my front window:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/front_window1.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Sunday, 14 January 2007 12:11 (eighteen years ago)

Looks like the year 2050, when there will be just one long L train the length of the entire track.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 14 January 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

Hey - there are links to The Disintegration Loops up on the blog. Jeff did all the hard work. Thanks, Jeff!

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 14 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Before I download ... what are the Disintegration Loops?

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

Oh google answered me. Nevermind.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

You can tell the Bears are playing. Every once in a while the sound of shouting/cheering leaks into the apartment from somewhere up or down the street.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Is THAT why it's so quiet around here? Jeez. I'm going out to buy "storage solutions" for various rooms in my house. And possibly some curtain tie-backs.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 14 January 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

What's Laurel got against Kate Hudson? Have you not seen her in her underwear?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 14 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

The Bears won.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

I am very excited for them.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'm indifferent. Go Chargers.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

i am bored. my parents are suggesting that we do something for my b-day (Tues), but I can't really think of anything. I'm exhausted from three weeks straight with them. Mostly I just want to fast-forward to tomorrow so I can fly back to my life.

Maybe we should go see Children of Men?

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 14 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Kate Hudson: too many celeb magazine photos of her being very pregnant, wearing short shirts and lowering her waistbands to under her belly so that her whole mid-torso was bare, and with Ugg boots on her feet. I'm sure I would think the pregnant belly of anyone I knew was really beautiful, but as a public display while running errands in and around LA & NYC? Not so much.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Evan: prob should go see that movie. Parents are exhausting and will give you something to do "together" that doesn't involve them actually focusing on you, or vice versa. Although speaking of pregnancy, someone I know said the movie made her want to get knocked up ASAP and that it ought to be labeled as dangerous pro-rising-birthrate propaganda.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Right now I am watching the Producers. I didn't know Uma Thurman was in it!

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Sunday, 14 January 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

I wrote two "songs" today.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 03:25 (eighteen years ago)

I did not step foot outside of our apartment at all yesterday.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 15 January 2007 11:01 (eighteen years ago)

I just drove back from Milwaukee this morning because the snow was so bad last night. FUN.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh Disintegration Loops.

"songs"?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Mornin', Jordan.

I'm working today.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Sarah. Me too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Nobody is here today.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Have you heard about anything going on in Chicago the first weekend in June? Nick's mom offered to help us with hotel bookings and she sent me this frantic email this morning saying everything is booked up??

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe it's conventions that reserve rooms in big blocks? Like that time I tried to get a hotel a couple of months ago and every single place said they were booked solid until a couple of days beforehand, then suddenly there were lots of rooms open.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oh lord. I spent two days doing those floor plans last week, and then this morning is a NASTY email from a person I have never spoken to, informing me that this is NOT what he asked for, and that he SINCERELY HOPES that I did not do too much of this work, because it's all wrong. Well, ok. Communication is important. But seriously, dude, I don't know you. You could start by being nice. Grow th' fuck up.

Sales agents. God. Assholes, the lot of them.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I am loving this record:

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=21286

Throw in some Satie, an introductory two-minute nod to the Necks, some Japanese taiko ritual music and a little syncopated Chopin, and you have... well, not jazz, maybe, but something very special.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh sweet, I'm glad you like it. I like it too, I've been falling asleep to it a lot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Some of the loops and syncopation are a little dizzying. Perfect!

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, some of the polyrhythms get pretty serious, esp. near the end.

Hey guys I shot GUNS this weekend!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

"songs"?

GarageBand compositions that aren't quite finished. It doesn't look like I can have my keyboard go straight into GarageBand with the MIDI set-up I have, but Kelsey is going to send me a gadget that turns allows you to use a USB port as an audio-in. I also tried putting an amp up to the internal mic, but the amp I have is kind of fucked (and not in an interesting way either). I ended up breaking a string on my guitar, too.

BUT there is melodica, and there are awesome GarageBand beats, and I sing a little.

J-Dawg: I want to work on stuff that you can build beats around, but I have to be conscious to give you space. The first piece I did is based around pounding clavinet chords in straight eighths -- but ideally, I'd like to have something a bit more open-ended. I thought maybe melodica chords would be cool.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Wow, that Bartsch album sounds fucking awesome -- the review namechecks James Brown, Steve Reich, Erik Satie, and Dave Brubeck, all of whom are totally up my alley.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

John, Do you have Logic Audio? Because we have these programs at home that it came with for playing Midi through it, but we never use them...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

J-Dawg: I want to work on stuff that you can build beats around, but I have to be conscious to give you space. The first piece I did is based around pounding clavinet chords in straight eighths -- but ideally, I'd like to have something a bit more open-ended. I thought maybe melodica chords would be cool.

Melodica! Sweet. I'm excited.

I will try to YSI some Nik B4rscht stuff tonight.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

guns = Cam took me to a shooting range. It was kind of surreal but fun.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have Logic Audio, or know what it is. I really feel in the dark about knowing how to record music. I mean, I've been recording music since I was 16, but with one or two exceptions, it's been on a handheld cassette recorder lying in the middle of the floor. If I've wanted to have multiple instruments, I've played them simultaneously and positioned the tape recorder somewhere between them. An ex-roommate had a 4-track, so I played around with that once, but I guess you need special 4-track tapes or something, because the recording ended up being super-quiet. I'm kind of envious of all y'all that have music rooms set up in your apartment. Mostly I just miss being creative, though. New Year's resolution in full effect.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

I assumed "guns" was a euphemism!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

No, I shot a real gun for the first time ever. I was a little terrified at first but relaxed after a little while. Now I'm just terrified of people with guns out in the real world.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah -- the only thing I can find that's going on the weekend of your wedding is the Gospel Music Festival, but I can't imagine that that draws so many people that every hotel in town is booked. Where is your wedding actually being held? Maybe there are hotels outside of the immediate downtown area that are available?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

It's being held here.

I'm not really freaking out about the hotel thing yet. I just found it curious.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

No, I shot a real gun for the first time ever.

What kind? I've never shot a handgun, only good ol' country boy shotguns.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

That venue looks perfect, Sarah.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks. It was the first thing we decided on!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

It was a 9 mm I think.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

There are tons of conventions. People sometimes book rooms in anticipation of all the fun that they will have at last minute conventions.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

This not working thing is pretty sweet you guys, you should try it! :)

I fired a 9mm one time when I was about 13. My grandpa set up a bunch of cans on a wall and I blasted the shit out of them. I also shot the wall and the ground a bunch because I couldn't control the thing. In retrospect it was probably really dangerous, but also very fun.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 15 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Guns don't kill threads, people do.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

It's snowing!

― Ivan G (Ivan), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

And how. Supposed to go like this until tomorrow morning.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

If you have a band myspace page can you have a personal one w/the same e-mail? Does anyone know how to do it?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry Jordan, I don't know. Myspace seems to be pretty stupidly coded, so I would be inclined to say no.

Guys, I am having problems deciding what to do with myself for the rest of the day. So far I have cleaned house a little and done some laundry. It sucks outside, but I don't want to just sit around home all day either. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Get drunk.

And remember, don't ask what will happen to you if you help someone. Ask what will happen to that other person if you don't help.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Heh. Believe it or not I thought of that one already! Maybe later I will crack open a bottle, but not yet. Right now I am kinda considering HOT DOUG'S.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Don't ask what will happen if you don't go to Hot Dougs. Just go to Hot Doug's.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 15 January 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

Go to Hot Doug's. I want a bite-by-bite commentary.

I just got a call from a friend who has off work today and is going SLEDDING.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

OMG so sleepy. Saturday night just caught up to me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hungarian Pork Sausage with Smoked Paprika-Bacon Mayonnaise and Harlech Horseradish Cheese --- not really sure it was worth it... The line was really long, although I guess it is a holiday. Still, at 1:30 in the afternoon I thought there wouldn't be much of a wait.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

Going to stew a chix for broth, and for coconut-milk chicken & shrimp soup. Got three new (mostly melancholy! rats.) CDs: Hem, Dusty, & the one Stars LP I didn't have. As a side note, I cannot believe how much the Virgin Megastore DOESN'T have: no Hefner, no Orange Juice, no Sodastream, no Hot Chip, not the ONE Electrelane album I wanted. WHAT GOOD IS THAT??!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I've never heard of Sodastream, and I can't imagine Orange Juice is in print in the U.S.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

I stand corrected: there's a Domino comp from 2005.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Funny: http://xkcd.com/c210.html

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Haha.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I think I forget to remember that when you get musical recs from ILM-types, you're headed for a lifetime of having to order rekkids online and/or troll specialty stores. I was hanging around Union Square and wanted to kill time, thought I'd fill in some gaps in my listening. Think again!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 15 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Those are very funny comics. Good alt text.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

xkcd is funny....nerd central

i am buying a guitar today, i think, in case anyone is wondering

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I am surprised at the lack of Hot Chip, for sure.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get the math jokes in that comic.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Wasn't someone in this thread talking about Electrelane recently? I just read their Wiki page, and they sound pretty rad. Sort of like my reaction to Nik Bartsch: if your list of influences is pretty much just throwing together a bunch of my favorite artists ever, it can't be too bad.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

EZ and Jeff recommended them, I picked up their latest, and I agree they're pretty good.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

I hope band practice gets snowed out tonight, I'm in no condition.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Who's up for an impromptu Golden Globes party at my place tonight? Pizza and ice cream and THE NIGHT ALL THE STARS GET DRUNK!

Looking through the nominee list, I can honestly say that I have no idea who's going to win anything. I'm rooting for Alec Baldwin as Best Comedy Actor, though.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, you know what I'll be doing. Mmmm... ice cream.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

What channel is that on?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

NBC, 7pm

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

I would totally go if I didn't have band practice tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe it'll get snowed out!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ha. Not likely, since we cancelled rehearsal last night for some reason I still don't fully understand.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Virgin had that Orange Juice comp when I was there over the weekend, but it was $18.99 so I left it alone. Hi dere Amazon. They did have the What It Is funk boxset for $53 though, nearly twenty bucks less than regular price.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not watching an awards show in the company of friends.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

Whyever not? That seems like the best place to do it. They're boring with nobody to talk to. Not that that will stop me.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

The only OJ at Virgin was a "You Can't Hide Your Love Forever" Japanese edn for some insane price. Do not want.

XXXP: Please! One needs an audience for snark, after all.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

True. The only time awards shows are worse with company is when people aren't into the show as much as you are, and they talk over the whole thing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oscar parties can get annoying like that. Snark + some modicum of interest is the prime combination.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

With certain groups of friends, sometimes I feel like I'm competing for a spot on Best Week Ever, actually.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

I take that back. I'm not going to watch award shows because I don't like watching awards shows.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

I do need to make something for dinner though.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

meatloaf. motherfucking meatloaf.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

muhfuggin.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

I've never had good meatloaf. We weren't a meatloaf family. But I think I'm ready.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I made a cook turkey meatloaf one time, I just didn't make enough of it. It was a pathetic little half loaf. I think I'm going straight from The Best Recipe book tonight.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

My aunt made a turkey meatloaf the last time I visited. It was, um, unfeasible. I think the turkey was too lean to get the consistency right, it was kind of bland and falling apart.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Meatloaf has a lot of range. It could be really good or really bad.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

Before someone else gets to it:

http://newmedia.10thst.com/meatloaf/myspaceimg/loaf.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

I was gonna let it lie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

Cat loaf:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/9/74907033_cc03827b0e.jpg?v=0

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Ed.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Monday, 15 January 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

Surprisingly, I only had to get 3 things from the store to make meatloaf. Hooray for a well stocked kitchen.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 15 January 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK EVERYTHING, I am taking tonight off and ordering pizza and watching television.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:01 (eighteen years ago)

Some one call my phone, I can't find it.

I WILL NOT ANSWER IT IF I FIND IT.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

I called.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, didn't hear it.

http://imagegen.last.fm/ScarlettJohansson1/recenttracks/corpse.gif

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

Calling.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

Aha, it was in the change bowl.

I love you both.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

JMC, listen to Electrelane's "Two for Joy" - I've always thought that this is how 'nasta would sound given the A1b1n1 treatment:
http://myspace.com/electrelane

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 00:55 (eighteen years ago)

i don't wanna go to work tomorrow. can anyone find me a sugar mama?

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

I uploaded a mix to the blog.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:32 (eighteen years ago)

Yay!

I haven't listened to the disintegrating music yet. I think I need a few hours and some downers.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

Aha, it was in the change bowl.

I knew this.

I came home on a cold, cold night to find a handsome man making a bacon wrapped meatloaf in the kitchen. I'm almost tearful with amazed gratitude.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

Somehow a man cooking you dinner is always going to be the best-looking guy in the world.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

I think I like cooking for that reason. It makes me sexier.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:19 (eighteen years ago)

I think we've been over the ground that competence makes everyone sexy! So get yr kitchen skills down to "workable" and get comfy with a couple of stand-by recipes. Bonus points for any potentially messy food eaten with the fingers. :D

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:23 (eighteen years ago)

Is that sexier?

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:28 (eighteen years ago)

I make good steak sandwiches. And pasta dishes. And stir frys. Are these things sexy? Tell your female friends!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

I order a hell of a pizza pie.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:32 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think meatloaf is a sexy dish by any stretch of the imagination. That's why I wrapped it in bacon.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:33 (eighteen years ago)

Bacon-wrapped sex, hot and fresh out the kitchen.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

Slurping balsamic vinegar and lovely drippy ripe tomatoes off your fingers is both sensual and sensuous. I highly recommend it. Dan: haha, shall I tell C and have her spread the word? Everyone I know lives on the right coast!

Bacon is like cowbell: it makes EVERYTHING better.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

This comic is true for me on levels likely unintended by the artist.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel, that does sound goooooood. I think it moved a little.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

Especially considering that I'm sitting here eating ruffles and french onion dip right out of the container.

Ugh. I need water.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 02:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in Michigan. There was a shitload of ice and snow on my drive up today and I saw an *amazing* accident--a mini van rolled over and was smashed to bits. I am driving a red Chevy M0nte Carl0.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

Chevy Monte Carlo

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

and I can't imagine Orange Juice is in print in the U.S.

the one good thing about virgin is they usually have a lot of imports. the vinyl section at the one on michigan avenue used to be almost a hidden gem, they had TONS of good records but when i was last in there around thanksgiving it was about 1/3 of the size it used to be and the 7" section was an even smaller fraction of it's former size.

on an urelated topic it was 14 degrees when my blue line train passed the bank at oak park avenue this morning. and i heard the *crump crump crump* of snow under my boots for the first time in ages. DO NOT WANT.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

Fire up the krumptruck.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

I was in the Virgin store last night and 100s of Japanese import CDs (of English-language bands) are on sale for $9.99. Maybe I should go back and look for some early Style Council.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

i'm stepping out to get some coffee, let me leave you with this:

midnight at the o-aaaaaaaa-sis
send your camel to bed....

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Them's fightin' words.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

hey guys and girls
i am in pressing need of a new job.
any advice/recommendations would be really helpful.
thnx in advance

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

i have a b.a. degree in a humanities field. i know, i know

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Don't worry, we're not Jon Williams.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

that's why none of you are clocking crazy dollars!

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

it's my birthday! i've been up since 5am! waaaaaaaaht!

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Do what I did with a liberal arts degree, luck out and get an IT job anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^2x

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY EVAN!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

HAAAAPPPYYYY BBBBBBDDDAAAAYYYY.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://newmedia.funnyjunk.com/pictures/rockitten.jpg

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

happy birthday capricorn.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

i want that picture to be real

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Happy happy happy birthday! What are you now, 23?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

xp Who says it's not?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

25?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

FIFTY SEVEN?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

i am a 26 year old

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

:/

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

:/


this makes me want to slap you.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

It also makes me want to pinch you.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

i may as well just lay down and die!

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

HBE

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

This is why my girlfriend hates all of you people.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

BOO HOO YOUNG PEOPLE

Go cry into your fruit roll-ups.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry, your "mega fruit blaster quencherz".

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

This is why my girlfriend hates all of you people.

?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Read that as "this is why my girlfriend hates you of all people"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

She's just self-conscious that all of my friends are like 10 years older than she is.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

She just doesn't want you reading our writing when you could be knocking boots.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

"knocking"!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

A subcontractor yesterday guessed that I'm 32, which wouldn't be so bad except that you KNOW he must have been trying to underguess so as not to make a faux pas.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

She's probably be more self conscious if all your friends were 10 years younger than she was.

Knocking.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Jeez, they're just some kids I tutor, what's the problem?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't even thought about Kr's age when hanging out with her - she has the poise and grace of a woman in her mid-20s.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

I agree.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

u r datin a teenager???

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's only when people get all "OMG YOU'RE 23?!?!?! WHY WHEN I WAS 23 THE INTERNET DIDN'T EXIST>" etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

That reminds me of an interview I saw with the Arctic Monkeys where they were asked about the influence of Blur on their sound, and the main guy said, "We were 9 years old when their big record came out. We were busy climbing trees and stuff."

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

Or Pulp - it was Pulp.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

have any of you been to montreal or quebec city?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

i have been to montreal. so has jaymc. my friend Bill has been to quebec city and says it's kickass.

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

i've been to both.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

I've been to Quebec City as well, but not for 12 years. I don't remember a whole lot about the place, except for the fact that it was the first time I had capers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

omg i am so full of coffee my head is going to explode from caffeine

ahhhhhh

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.antiquesintheberkshires.com/catalog/Chaplin%20Comic%20Capers%20Cover.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

it's a possibly choice for our honeymoon. yay? nay?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I lived in Montreal and Quebec City for the better part of a year (that's where I was when I was 23, which feels like a long time ago).

The "old city" of Quebec City is storybook beautiful. The city is a lot smaller and less international than Montreal. Not as much to "do" as Montreal if you stayed longer than a few days, especially if you don't speak French - but for a honeymoon it'd be perfect (and I could even recommend a B&B).

Montreal is just plain fun and international, if you're looking for a getaway.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

The "old city" of Quebec City is storybook beautiful.

SRSLY!!!


old montreal is nice too though not as "storybook beautiful" but on the whole montreal really can't be beat. when are you going?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Happy birthday Ev-man

I've been to Montreal and Quebec City, too. My dad got hit in the head with the puck at a semi-pro hockey game in Quebec City, causing a bit of confusion with the Francophone arena medical staff. They're great places to visit, for sure.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

our wedding is on june 30th, so we'd fly out shortly thereafter.

my main criteria is for us to do a trip that will feel special & maybe even to some extent "foreign" but is nearby enough that we won't feel compelled to wake early every morning & soak in all the sites. I want a place where it's okay to sleep in, if that makes sense. A place that is easy enough to go back to if we want to down the road...

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

2x ^^^^ co-sign OTM etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

oh! and evan! Happy Birthday!!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

In Austin I once took my gf at the time to a nice bed & breakfast right in the city. The whole weekend was *about* sleeping in. It was totally fun.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

My dad got hit in the head with the puck at a semi-pro hockey game in Quebec City

^most Canadian injury ever

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

I think I may do something like that for Leaf after his finals...

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

happy birthday Evan!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.travelwithachallenge.com/Images/Travel_Article_Library/Canada-Quebec-Accommodation/Chateau-Frontenac-Autumn.jpg

If you want to splurge, you could stay at the Chateau Frontenac in Q.C.

Q.C. and Montreal are only about 3 hours apart by train/bus/car, so you could do both easily. (And Burlington, VT, is only another 2 hours south of Montreal.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

perfect time to go. i'll echo ez and say if you're going for a few days i'd choose montreal but whatevs, you can't go wrong with either.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

It seems like the temperature will be that pleasant blend of warm but not hot at that time of year. I hadn't considered taking the train between the two cities, but that could be lovely! And sort of romantic! Can you bring booze on board Canadian trains?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

23 aint that young
ps should i bother applying for city jobs? or is everything really as corrupt as i suspect

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

I completely forgot that I lived on Rue Hebert in Q.C.

What kind of work, Deej? (I'm heading out the door but will write later.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Change brewing on bar cars

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

it doesn't hurt to apply but yeah, unless you have a sponsor good luck. you'd be better off looking for federal employment and the feds are the largest employer in chicago.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

I completely forgot that I lived on Rue Hebert in Q.C.

:)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

is there a single site for federal jobs?

i have a lib arts degree so i can do a fair amount of stuff...for my current job i've done writing, editing, administrative, research, customer service-type shit, etc. Only major limitation is I don't speak spanish i suppose.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

^^^my resume

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

deej, they don't really care what your degree is in so long as you finished with one. they want to know you can follow through more than anything else. fed job site: the office of personnel management.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

looks like they re-designed the site since last week. the field where you narrow the search to within a radius of a zip code seems broken, unless urbana, il actually is within five miles of the ukrainian village.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

awesome, thanks so much

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

deej check yr mail

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

Obama just announced he's forming a presidential exploratory committee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

but he will announce on 2/10 whether he is officially running, right?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

There was some sweet rightwing propaganda I saw the other day comparing him to Ahmedinejiad because he didn't wear a tie a lot of the time.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

UH

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't see the original source of that propaganda, but I saw it mocked on Colbert.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Oh really? Shit I missed that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

People still surprise & shock me.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

His middle name is Hussein. That's true.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

dan -received. exactly what i'm looking for! thanks. also as an ilxor i was enjoying 'Position is mostly sedentary'

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

UCP Jobz Pimp in full effect

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

UCP Jobz Pimp in full effect

ahem, remember our conversation at bar on buena or whatever it was called?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Hot Girls who I'm after from the UCP
Wodie I got that fire, so holla at me

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oh shit Kevin, I forgot!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

something i should be worried about?

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Nah dude, no worries.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/sweet/202672,CST-NWS-sweet09.article

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

hott

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

hey hey.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

i know! i meant to tell you that there is a clip up on youtube now too.

looky: http://youtube.com/watch?v=WtSYQAtK6RY

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I'm holding my breath for Low-level IT Drone

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for the Youtube link, I've wanted to check out his work for a while.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

There is no profile for the ideal candidate for a WORK documentary — other than the subject must be a hard worker — so the field is wide open.

i'm out.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

IT Drone (2010)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

What a great project!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I want those documentaries on dvd and in my netflix queue. STAT.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm so impressed with Dan. Leaf & I both thoroughly enjoyed Sheriff. I love that he's taking that & running with it. So great. Also, one can't argue with Studs as inspiration.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I want those documentaries on dvd and in my netflix queue. STAT.
Please tell [distribution company] that we're ready. Actually, netflix does a distro deal and apparently there are talks going on, but who knows. Getting that shit out there is a pain in the rear. But the enthusiasm is spirit-buoying!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Dang it I was just coming for a rare from-work ILX posting to try and scoop everyone (well, probably not Amanda) on the Chicagoist story.

The first person who spots the FF reference on Pitchfork today gets a guest list add to the show of their choice.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

pitchfork, like flckr and youtube blah blah blah...

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

when are you guys playing here?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

# with the Fake Fictions

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Coworkers are weird. I know this coworker was just trying to be friendly, but she walked up to my desk and handed me a list of exercises and said, "I made a copy of this for you, because we both hate going to the gym but really need to..." I mean, there aren't even descriptions of what the exercises are...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Shit, I didn't click on any of the [MORE]s, even though that's a far more likelier place for there to be a FF reference than in the Alice Coltrane tribute.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously thought about quitting the band again last night, because of another personnel shake-up. I think I'm going to stick it out this time -- success could be right around the corner, and it'd be horrible to quit now and not know what we were capable of -- but man, it's frustrating.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

good show at ronny's tonight, cause co-motion opening for tyvek. i saw tyvek at the big horse this fall, they were really good. plus i heard ronny's has a p.a. now. only downsides are it will be single degree weather, it's a school night, and it was in the reader.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

^^^ dudes I totally found it, they're opening for a band from Scotland called Frightened Rabbit

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah. Someone you barely know gave you exercises because you "need to" go to the gym? Is she now distracted by her "need to" remove the sharpened pencil from between her 2nd and 3rd metacarpals?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, seriously.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

i love it when people tell me what i "need to" do in my personal life. i really really love that.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Did someone else quit the band, John?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Like get a haircut? (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

This is how it went down. At lunch, she was like "I'm going to the gym tonight!" and another lady was like, "me too!" and I mumbled "yeah, me too" because I was half asleep. And then lady 2 looked really shocked and said, "Sarah, YOU are going to the gym?! That's great!" Then coworker 1 brought me that list this afternoon.

I've been going to the gym for quite some time now. And do I look like I NEED to go to the gym, to the point that everyone would be really happy for me that I decided to start?! Crimeny.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

Just to play captain save-a-coworker... could it have been you mentioned wanting to exercise more, or something similar, and they think they're maybe doing you a favor? I've mentioned things in passing before that for some reason co-workers have held on to and repeatedly referenced -- like one time I said I wanted to check out this bar, and one of my coworkers goes there sometimes and now mentions it just about any time something even remotely related comes up.

Either that or they're just really socially inept and deserve a good pencil-hand-stabbin'

xpost well that answers that I guess! Stabbin time!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

depends on who that comes from laurel.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Did someone else quit the band, John?

More or less. The new guitarist is taking on a new job that will basically prohibit him from touring. He can rehearse and play local shows but can't do anything more -- and since we need to tour if we want to be taken seriously by pretty much anybody in the industry, and have already made that a priority for the next few months, he's decided it's best for him to step down. We're also in the midst of transitioning pianists. Even though the guitarist has promised to do everything he can to make the transition to someone new as painless as possible (including holding auditions himself), it still feels like a major impediment to progress, and I've felt like most of the five years in the band has been full of impediments to progress.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

not that I would ever tell anyone they "need" to go the gym, because I was not raised by wolves, but you certainly don't Sarah. that coworker is crazy.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Are you sure she wasn't like "YOU need to go to the GYM? You're so TALL AND SLENDER AND CLEARLY DO NOT NEED TO WORRY ABOUT GYM"? Because I have a really really really hard time believing that anyone would be all like "good for you fattey" to someone who's tall and slender like you.

I mean, either that or your coworkers are 100% blind.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Ha. I used to work with this gay dude from Macedonia, he meant well but kind of obnoxious. We were standing in a buffet line at the Xmas party, he was talking about going to the gym that morning and I said something about how I hadn't made it for a few weeks. He was all, "Yeah, it shows!"

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

In a way, I feel like quitting would be the brave thing to do (especially since I've been threatening to do so for years), and there's something poetically satisfying about unburdening myself and starting anew at the beginning of the year, but I also feel like this is pretty much my only shot in life at being a rock star, and though I never consciously desired it, it would be kinda cool to try out that lifestyle for a while.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

wow. sarah. your co-workers are still crazy!
You certainly don't "need" to go to the gym at all. Maybe she reacted like that b/c she knows that you don't NEED to go to the gym but maybe shes does and seeing how someone who doesn't need to go to the gym is going to the gym, well, maybe that just puts more pressure on her. i'd think of her comment as a way for her to feel validated not as a way to put you down (at least hopefully not!).

basically what amanda said.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

good for you fattey

this is totally going to be my catchall response to stupid questions or statements from now on.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin: try it, and see what happens.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

John, Is M. leaving too then? Do you have a general tour planned out? East Coast? West Coast? All Over?

Amanda, I think the ladies I work with live under the assumption that all us women need to be going to the gym more, we hate our husbands (but hey, they gave us our kids!), chocolate is a sin but so tasty!, and every day is a struggle in general.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know how you manage to sit and eat with people like that every day!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

AND NOT KILL.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

oh god Sarah, you poor thing.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

...So clearly you cannot take ONE WORD they say to heart, then, right? They're obviously facing life with a completely different worldview than we/you are. So we might as well be on different planets than the one they live on. Therefore, they should be observed scientifically, not emotionally.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah, maybe you need to get out of there?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it also means that if one of them tells you you need to got the gym, it's completely not personal, because they're all speaking in platitudes ALL THE TIME.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

You're like an anthropologist! Write a paper on the social bonding behaviors of the Middle-American would-have-stayed-a-housewife-if-not-for-house-payments!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Therefore, they should be observed scientifically, not emotionally.

OTM, I love experiments such as this. Poke them and see how they react!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Precisely.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

It's not as bad as I make it out to be, though it's true they always scrutinize what I eat. That's mostly because I'm vegetarian though and my cuisine mystifies them.

One coworker always mumbles under her breath, "Vegetarianism simply is not healthy... is NOT healthy.." and shakes her head whenever the issue comes up (ie: someone asks me why I'm vegetarian, etc). I think she pities me mostly. She means well.

John, I think I understand some of what you're feeling, but you also have to keep in mind that you aren't that old. You still have years and years left to be successful, whatever that might mean to you. Also, even if you quit now, you'd have alot of great memories. I'm not saying you should do that necessarily... What about this - At what point would you feel like, Ok, I'm a real rockstar now. I've reached my goal.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

John, Is M. leaving too then? Do you have a general tour planned out? East Coast? West Coast? All Over?

Yes, she is. She's moving to Michigan once she finishes school this summer.

We have no tour planned out. We've been trying to hitch ourselves to a couple of small tours through this booking agent we know. But scheduling is, as always, a hassle. Matt was going to make one last-ditch attempt at doing the booking himself and focus on late February, but when Br started considering this job, it threw a wrench into things. Pet peeve: people who say "Just book it yourself, man!" An old high-school classmate who's now in a no-name L.A. punk band said this to me when he came to see our Dec. 30 show. It's a lot easier for punk bands to do this, though, because there's a whole scene of basements and house shows and kids who will come out to see anything hardcore/emo/whatever. I mean, I think we realize that in the past we may have been too picky about touring, only wanting to play with good bands that will promise us a good draw, and I've been the one who's said "Let's just do it and not worry about it too much" -- but even putting together a small tour, at small clubs, is like a huge amount of work, what with negotiating among several different club owners/bookers at a time, who may say "no" to such-and-such date "but what about this other date?" but you already have a hold on that one elsewhere, and you're still waiting to hear back from this dude in Iowa, etc. etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah OTM. Although the real dividing line for me is holding a year-round day job or not, i.e. I wonder if I'll ever make the choice/get the chance to tour with a band more than two weeks out of the year (besides weekends). Is your band thinking of trying full-time for a while?

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

i'm sure i'm pointing out the obvious but if it was easy everyone would do it john. for all the trite cliches, there is a kernel of truth in the phrase "paying your dues".

all that aside i hope it all works out for you and you can get something positive out of it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

I would hate to book a tour. I can barely handle booking local gigs myself.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

John, I think I understand some of what you're feeling, but you also have to keep in mind that you aren't that old. You still have years and years left to be successful, whatever that might mean to you.

I'm not saying this is my one shot in life to be successful. It's my one shot in life to be a rock star (i.e., a moderately successful musician), because I sure as hell don't have the drive to start another band by myself, and even if I wasn't the motivating force, I'm not sure I want to put in another five years for such little gain.

At what point would you feel like, Ok, I'm a real rockstar now. I've reached my goal.

The problem is, I don't have a goal. I never wanted this in the first place, I just got tugged along. It's more like: now that I have it, I'd like to see where it goes. I don't even know if I'd be happy in a Decemberists-level band, but I'd like to know if that level is possible.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Is your band thinking of trying full-time for a while?

I don't think that would be feasible. This has come up in the past, and while EL is probably the second-most committed member of the band, after Matt (she basically said last night that she would stay in the band no matter what), she's also the most scared of doing something huge like going full-time, because she has a high-paying job and a condo and an upcoming wedding, etc. -- I don't think she's willing to live for cheap in the event that things don't pan out as planned.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

tell her i'll take her high paying job

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

It's in health insurance. Still want?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

depends. how much time would she have to waste on internet message boards.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Evan - happy birthday!

Deej - go to law school.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

I skipped everything to post those two VERY IMPORTANT MESSAGES.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

i think it would depend on how high paying to go into healthcare.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, health insurance. insurance is way worse.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Deej, what's wrong with your job now? Don't you just sit around and edit transcripts of Melvin Van Peebles interviews and shit?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

sorry, health insurance. insurance is way worse.

Sadly, they're the same industry.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

there's a HUGE difference between care and insurance, although I think I know what you mean.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

I envy the sweet job EL fell into. Perfect example, in a good way, of having an assistant job with a few random additional projects, one of which gave her some experience and contacts in a specialty, which led to someone thinking of her to do that specialty full-time. Sweet, and good for her.

If 'nasta paired up for a tour with Brighton and the Fake Fix, and you guys hired a publicist, I bet you could get some attention.

OR if you would just play shows where you were the least conventional on the bill instead of the most conventional (i.e., playing with mainstream bands instead of indie bands - I know may mean holding your nose), I bet things would happen pretty quickly.

I still think you guys could be one of the more interesting bands in the 93XRT/Poi-Dog world instead of one of the more melodic and traditional bands in a feeling-not-technique and fashion-y scene.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yeah. Where there's health care, there's the sticky fingers of insurance. All over it. Making it all slimy and gross.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

I know you're all about thinking conceptually, EZ, but it doesn't really help me any unless you're going to have a serious talk with Matt about it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't mean to dis EL's job. Honest. I'm really happy for her & I think it's been a great move for her to make in her life, career-wise. I just did a brief stint in medical billing & have been running far away since.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I'll get him up to the Village Tap for a few beers soon, J.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

. . . give him a good talkin' to & a couple o' finger wags . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, let me know next time you're coming to a show and I'll get you in.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

My work is all about health insurance and billing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

I think Canasta should fire Matt.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

just kidding, I just think that would be funny.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

It would be like David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

My work is all about health insurance and billing.

Huh. When you say you're a software tester, I always imagine it's about finding bugs in PC versions of Mario-Kart or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

PC versions of Mario-Kart

haha there'd be LOTS to debug there

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

BTW Nintendo emulators can be rly cool.

Also, thanks Nick!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I think John needs a SIDE PROJECT.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Cunning and the Hams.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

JC's Magic Tea Party

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

The Three Lone Rangers

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Dilly of a Pickle

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

the Y Wood Eyes.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

The Socks

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Three Circles and a Square

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

The Wrath of Skahn

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Two Eggs Over Easy

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Toby and the Mules

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

The Sales Clerks

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Ruffian Soup

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

Eerie Canal

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

The Old Chicago Barnraisers

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

(I always wanted to call something Eerie Canal.)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

Hope and Prosperity, Inc.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Jamz E.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

The Flying Discomfort Brothers

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Gato Perdido

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

On the House

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Prolapse
(metal band)

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

John Rammerjammerham.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Pancake vs. Waffle

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

xxxxpost- speaking of eggs, after the beat kitchen show saturday night i was lucky enough to snag a ride home but said ride was going to an afterparty that i had no interest in attending so i slipped away. on my walk back i stopped at the golden nugget pancake house at diversey & western. i had the best eggs, french toast, and bacon anyone has ever had at 2:30 am for under $6.

i sent a txt msg to the effect that i was contemplating marrying a plate of bacon.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

HowwouldIknow

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Too Many Oboes!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

It would be funny if the FF's fired Nick and continued on as a duo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha... ehh... ha

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

Desiderata Arnez

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

Penelope Snooze

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

John has a side project, we are going to make traxxx! We will be called I Was Contemplating Marrying a Plate of Bacon.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Talkies

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

OK, well I'm spent.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Foliage

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

These are all great. It reminds me of that thread where people listed things about me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Too Many Oboes!

It's funny because it's true.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

These are all great. It reminds me of that thread where people listed things about me.

Because it's basically me posting to myself for a long time?

Oh Jeff - I listened to your mix today, it was good. I was hoping for new music and there it was.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

Ha Ha Eh Ha

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

what thread was that?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

JC & the Spread Sheets

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

also on that walk home i walked over the river on western just south of belmont and was watching steam rise off the river into the cold air. then i was struck with the thought "y'know, this is probably how all those drunk tourists fall into the river and die all the time." then i got a wicked case of vertigo and literally had to hold onto the barrier to keep from toppling in. it was pretty intense. that was why i stopped at the diner.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Mmm... Diner...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

I made a mix last night and it's deeeeepressing. I was thinking of uploading it and callit it "Walking On Sunshine!" or something, and then SURPRISE! it's like, an hour of Ian Curtis moaning outtakes.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

He once ate 3,000 steamed crayfish in two hours.
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"Jaymc" is short for Jay McDonald. Jaymc owns 2/7ths of the McDonalds Corporation.
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He once saved me from plummeting into a prairie dog hole.
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 12:55 PM. (Nick A.) (link)


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It's become gel, or Jel.
I used to say j-e-l, but I introduced myself as this at ths sinister vs ilx match and some people didn't know who I was.

-- jel -- (freeduni...), September 28th, 2004 12:55 PM. (jel) (link)


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Jaymc once donated so much blood that he had to receive a blood transfusion from NBA champ Chris Webber in order to not die from blood loss. As a result, he is now 31% Chris Webber.
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 12:56 PM. (Nick A.) (link)


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He sings like a teenage Alanis Morisette, and dances like he has a caterpillar in each shoe.
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 12:58 PM. (Nick A.) (link)


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Or is it the other way around?
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 12:58 PM. (Nick A.) (link)


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He once challenged Vincent Gallo to a cockfight, but left the interpretation of "cockfight" up to Gallo. This proved to be a mistake.
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 12:59 PM. (Nick A.) (link)


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Jaymc lives in a dried-up well on the edge of town.
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 1:00 PM. (Nick A.) (link)


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Jaymc invented the "Purplesaurus Rex" flavor of Kool-Aid, but was fired after attempting to introduce "Pop That Cherry!"
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 1:01 PM. (Nick A.) (link)


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Jaymc is why they have that warning on the aspirin bottles.
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 1:02 PM. (Nick A.) (link)


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Jaymc is a no-talent crackfiend.
-- ryan battttttttttttttista (istillgotthebear...), September 28th, 2004 1:02 PM. (Oops) (link)


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He once told me that the dictionary is bourgeouis, but that the thesaurus borders on the divine.
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 1:03 PM. (Nick A.) (link)


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When adventuring in Cambodia he contracted a rare disease of the foot that has come to be known in medical circles as "Jaymc Syndrome".
-- nickalicious (nickaliciou...), September 28th, 2004 1:03 PM. (nickalicious) (link)


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I think I had too much sugar today.
-- n/a (nu...), September 28th, 2004 1:03 PM. (Nick A.) (link)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

People die in the river? Like, regularly??

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Golden Nugget... so many drunk mornings there last summer

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Also, while looking for that thread, I found this one: Where to take a date in Chicago?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

OMG

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

LOL @ Dan only actually posting twice on that thread

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

You guys just took over! :D

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

wow. vintage postings.

i still laughed at kenan's dick jokes...

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

actually, it was the finger fucking that got me. it came out of nowhere!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha we totally didn't end up going on that date!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

Good thing. That movie sucked.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

what? the incredibles?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ Chris Webber

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Tarnation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Never saw it.

I didn't realize it was Dan who started that thread!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

Nick is kind of brilliant.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

I agree!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

Nick should consider quitting his job to try this funny posting thing full-time.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

(or just go back to temping)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

Dave King quote:

“In a way, I’ll always be looking around to see if someone’s behind me who’s really the person they’re cheering for,” he says. “I’m superproud of my shit, but I’m not proud of it like it’s better than anyone else’s. I’m proud of it because it’s mine. It is better, though, than, like, Third Eye Blind. Anyone, other than AC/DC, with a rhythm guitar player. Jesus, my music trumps that shit.”

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

later chicago, keep warm.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ contradiction

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

Nick is the best at automatic writing.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

actually, it was the finger fucking that got me. it came out of nowhere!

ILX out of context...

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Tuesday, 16 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

i can't keep up.


i would just like to say that i am playing We Could Destroy You at full-blast because it is my birthday and i heartz it

― underwater ghost ship picture (skowly), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

GUESS WHAT'S ON RIGHT NOW? THAT'S RIGHT, DIRTY JOBS.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

Meh. It's no Mythbusters.

― every week is Shark Week (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

i totally thought those mythbusters guys were gay. i was trying to figure out which one would be on top, but then i googled it and apparently theyre both married to women.

― phil-two (phil-two), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't mean you can't be gay for them.

― every week is Shark Week (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

I just Googled "Tina Fey scar," knowing I would not be the first one to wonder. I figured there'd be a simple answer. Car accident, probably. I figured it would be so simple that I'd never really wondered before. Anyway, it's a mystery. She won't say. It's from childhood, and that's all we know for sure. There's even a whole blog dedicated to finding out, which if you ask me, is a little gross.

She's so hot.

― every week is Shark Week (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 03:54 (eighteen years ago)

ooh... O'Reilly on Colbert tonight!

― What mask (personality style) do I wear in the area of sex? (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

Nevermind. That's tomorrow. Why was he talking about it tonight?

― What mask (personality style) do I wear in the area of sex? (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 04:34 (eighteen years ago)

Thursday. He'll be on the Factor that night too.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

Why am I always so wrong?

― What mask (personality style) do I wear in the area of sex? (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 05:06 (eighteen years ago)

You're just a blockhead, Charlie Brown.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 12:42 (eighteen years ago)

Arrrrgh!

― kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Mornin', Jenny, Blockhead.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Threads I dast not click on today include "I have never had sex" and "Share yr most banal conversations with the world" or it could turn Carrie-like around here.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.depauw.edu/photos/PhotoDB_Repository/2006/8/Billy%20Joel%20Stranger.jpg

Kenan's name reminds me of this record.

I have to see this art show, likely the opening (5-8 pm today), in case anyone's interested:

Final Meals is a video installation of volunteers eating meals
requested
by Texas death row inmates. The piece is based on the Texas Department
of
Criminal Justice website, listing the last meal requested by each
prisoner
executed by the state since December 1982. Lucky Pierre prepares each
meal
according to its description and then videotapes a volunteer eating the
meal. The piece has been in progress since 2003,
to date we have completed 145 of the 378 presently listed meals.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Did Rocky pre-date The Stranger vis-a-vis pugilist/artists?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

So it's not the prisoner eating the meal, it's an unrelated volunteer?

PS We saw Rocky Balboa and it ruled.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I think they're 'actors' except they're not acting, they're just eating.

I'd like to see RB. I remember feeling so manipulated, in a good way, by the earlier ones. Triumph, etc.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I could do food-acting. I would feel wrong about eating someone's last meal though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

blurry, too-dark picture from sunday of me and my new haircut. also please note how my specs are on crooked as i spent most of the afternoon in and out of consciousness on my couch watching the bears game. you can also kind of see my playoff beard.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c97/effyoutoo/Haircut.jpg

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing will top the Karate Kid II fight scene for me.

Kevin, You look like Jordan now!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

heeeeey nice haircut!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

you should sell the choppings to a wig company.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I saw that photo and thought "Hey, Jordan, you look like Kevin now!" but it turns out that the opposite is true.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot to mention that looking like Jordan is a good thing, but you probably already know that.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, and here I was just thinking "damn, Kevin is looking gooood"

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord! Nice glasses.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

I wondered how long before TEH HAIRCUT REVEAL

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

ILX is full to the brim of good looking folks.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Rocky was 1976. The Stranger was 1977.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/81/Billy_Joel_-_The_Stranger.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/55/LaurieAnderson_BigScience.JPG/200px-LaurieAnderson_BigScience.JPG

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Helvetica thin is eternal!

― kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Also: get on up. Kevin is a sex machine.

― kenan (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin needs to go to Rush Street and make a reservation in a crowded restaurant under the name 'Ruffalo'.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

saturday night several people did not recognize me.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

laurel, those were the specs that i lost in june that were returned to me in november.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

SPILLED COFFEE ON OFFICE PHONE OH NO

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

I'm using that as a lyric.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

I know, Kevin! That's why I said. :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

we need a fashion critique on ilx or something.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hearing it in Tim Harrington's voice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Yo: Kr and I are going to the Green Mill tonight to see Kurt Elling. Anyone else wanna come? It's like $7 or something. Show starts at 9, and we're probably going to get there early to score seats, and because it's a school night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

I think LK and I are going.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds fantastic! Does he play every Wednesday?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Cool. I remember someone at the GM (might have been one of you dudes but I don't think so) saying that he hadn't been in town for awhile.

I am furtively working on a Nik Bartscht-esque song at work.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

I retract my question. He does not play the Green Mill much at all anymore, apparently.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, when he's in town, he has a regular weekly gig -- but he hasn't been around lately, so we're catching him while we can.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Or maybe he's been recording lately, I dunno.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Huh, looks like he's playing here on Saturday but at concert hall prices.

I saw him during my freshman year of college at the old Civic Center (one of my first shows in Madison I think!) and he killed it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

c'mon chilx, entertain me. i having trouble thinking.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

That w33d thread makes me larf, the DC boyz are FUCKIN' SHIT UP

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

The biscuit thread on noise board makes me want to go to Popeye's for lunch, even though I had oven-fried chicken for dinner tonight and have basically been eating junk for the last five days.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

you know what i brought with me for breakfast but instead am having for lunch?

http://graphics.samsclub.com/images/products/0007790014754_LG.jpg

although not thirtyfuckingsix of them.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Microwave?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

yeah. and they're fucking good too!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Lunch, what will you be today?? Endless (delicious) speculation.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

if i still worked in streeterville i'd totally go to flat sammies for a turkey club today. there used to be a diner around illinois & erie that i'd go to a lot also. and when me & jen both worked down there we'd meet at andrews or the place that was in the lenox hotel. she'd get the french dip and i'd get the biltmore sandwich.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'm supposed to go to B@r L0uie for lunch with my ex-boss and coworkers. Semi-lame, but they do have BEER there.

Whether it will actually happen... we will see. Ex-boss is a busy dude.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

goddamn do i miss having food options at lunch.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

I just had a cherry tootsie roll pop and it made me so happy!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bismarcktribune.com/blog/uploads/m/moviecomedian/150.jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

Ont the Daily Show last night, they added to the the Pantry of Shame something called Gatorade AM. The back of the bottle says, verbatim: "Gatorade A.M. helps you put back the fluids and energy you lose during a full night's sleep."

lol at losing fluids in your sleep.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Have you seen Idiocracy??

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah.

It's what plants crave.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Scene: 7am, a darkened bedroom.

Man: "Boy, I'm parched. I lost a lot of fluid last night! First some Gatorade. Then, I'll wash the sheets."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Gag me with a spoon.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'm supposed to go to B@r L0uie for lunch with my ex-boss and coworkers.

I played a gig at a big mall opening in MKE and drank there inbetween shows. It was totally lame. I don't recommend the mojitos.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I agree it sucks but it's the only place reasonably nearby that has alcohol, and aside from overpricing you can't really fuck up a couple of beers.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

And probably some sort of sandwich... I'm not totally alky-ing out on my lunch break today.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

In the way that Corner Bakery and Chipotle have improved fast food, Bar Louie isn't bad compared to Houlihans and TGIFridays.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, i did have a fucked-up beer at a B.L. in Wicker Park. I ordered one, it tasted funny, they didn't believe me. Then they replaced it and the next one tasted funny and they didn't believe me. And then they checked the CO2 and found it was broken.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

The "never had sex" thread is unspeakably depressing. For all kinds of reasons.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

how soon until i start a "never gonna have sex again" thread?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

How soon do you want to die?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck it, lunchtime!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

xxp lol I thought about doing that

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Good lord people, will you all just go have sex please? I can get you phone numbers...

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Never mind. Bad advice. Forget I said anything.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Not helpful. (xpost)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Just put on a clean shirt and go here:
http://www.studio63nightclub.com/

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

How clean?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

i just went to the photos section of studio 63 eazy, DO NOT WANT.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.studio63nightclub.com/photos/(16).jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh yeah. You thinkin what I'm thinkin?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

That you're both sounding a little racist?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

No way. Mexicans are great in bed. They're such hard workers.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry. I had to. I'm not calling you racists, but I am saying that posting a photo of three perfectly ok-looking people and mocking them is not nice.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Having taken a look at that gallery myself, I'd say the real problem is the proportion of tube tops to ACTUAL CLOTHING.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

The one on the right is cuet.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

I think so too!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, there's FORTY SEVEN pages of photos of this place.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

I like the one on the left. Chubby works well for her.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

I think those girls just need new clothes that fit them and to grow in their eyebrows some. they're all pretty.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

uhm, i hadn't noticed the nationalities of any of the people in the photos, i was too dismayed by their choice of outfits but thanks for the inference that i'm racist.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

How did this conversation get so... weird?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

It's my fault. Dudes, I know you're not racist. Relax.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

BTW: No lunch @ Bar Louie for me... postponed until tomorrow (and then the next day, and then Monday, probably.) :(

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I will readily admit I don't really understand Latina girls' eyebrow fashion (not so much on this photo, mind you). I'm guessing they start plucking because things are a bit, umm, excessive -- but the end result is so cartoonish.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I think that's a problem women of many ethnicities have.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

True.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

ihttp://barchicago.com/gallery/images/12.31.06%20(New%20Years%20Eve)/Index.php

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

But the particular stylization that results from such a problem -- the finely drawn arched brows -- seems unique to urban Latina culture.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

So many people pressing their faces together and fake smiling while holding drinks...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

But...
http://www.hollywoodusa.co.uk/images/dietrich.jpg
http://data1.blog.de/blog/b/biografien-news/img/ClaudetteColbert.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

OK. Do you know what I'm talking about, though? Girls with hair that's pulled back really tight? And who wear lipliner? And big gold hoop earrings?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, of course.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

It's not the most flattering look.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

I bet they wonder: "What's up with those white dudes who don't shave and have scraggly hair and shitty-looking secondhand clothes?"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

heh.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

What's up with THOSE dudes??!?!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

also, big gold hoops rule!!! I may have a dog in this fight.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.whudat.com/quickie/images/nelly_furtado_main.jpg

My girl Nelly wears it just fine.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.frameline.org/festivals/archive/20th/fest_stills/tilda_swinton.jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, I'm not hating! Just saying I don't totally understand it. But yeah: Dan OTM.

xpost Yes, we know you like pale, skinny white women, Kenan.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I know you're not hating, jaymc!

but seriously, I don't want to hear any badtalk about gold hoops.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

gold hoops are not to be understood, simply adored.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

xp I know you're not hating too. We all know that no one is hating.

I'm just being fussy/acting out because it's the first day of class today, a class I have never taught before, and I'm nervous. :(

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

so nervous

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Those images are killing the thread for me for some reason... LOAD DAMN YOU

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Go Amanda! Learn them up good! :)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

oh, good luck, Amanda! pre-teaching always feels like this. but you're going to be totally euphoric afterward!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

(both my friends who teach at Unis -- one in the English dept., even -- have expressed the same nervousness this week)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda-related: don't be silly, you can teach anything! The class will be as putty in your hands; besides, at least it's not your old day job!! xoxoxo L

Earring-related: I'm subverting the button pearl studs lately.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, it's just awful knowing that I have to go in there and learn everyone's name and their quirks and what they like and what they hate and make sure they take me seriously.

It will be ok. But right now it feels like it will not be ok.

RE: earrings
I need some new ones.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Both with makeup and earrings, I'm surprised at what a particular gal can pull of if it fits her style and makes her feel good - choices that wouldn't work 'objectively' but end up working fine.

Just run your nails down the board, 'manda, and they'll eat out of your hand.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel, do you mean subverting by wearing, or are you altering the button pearl studs somehow?

Amanda, what type of earrings do you prefer?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Ugh, just reading Eazy's last sentence made me flinch.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hahaha 'manda's totally reminding me of hearing the start-of-the-semester bitching from my parents last night... the bit about "learn everyone's name, quirks, hates, etc" is spot on. And they've been doing this for ~30 YEARS.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

My brother forwarded me a list of his students' names this term, mostly because a lot of them were funny.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I like all kinds of earrings -- I have my everyday turquoise (lost the green ones) basic studs, hoops, danglies, what have you. My hair is crazy lank, so if earrings are too big they just make me look even worse. I like little and/or delicate ones the best.

Eeek Dan that is no consolation. But at least I'll get more confident?!? Maybe. Hopefully.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

If nothing else, more cynical! :)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Subverting just by wearing, because I am the original conservative white-girl-next-door and my mother would have loved for me to wear pearl studs as a teen but I avoided them strenuously. Now I have a pair of 8 or 9mm white button pearls and make a particular effort to wear them to, like, rock shows and the Monday Night Drinking Club.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

I wouldn't mind wearing these from time to time:
http://www.antiquelinen.com/images/acc/WAC272a.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

I approve of reappropriating both pearl studs and little white gloves!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

I need a haircut.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000010E3.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

omg
http://www.wienertakesall.com/

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, you have just made Kevin so happy. Consider your work DONE FOR THE DAY and hie home.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

I am at home. Soon I will leave to go to work.

THE WIENER TAKES IT ALL
THE LOSER STANDING SMALL

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

While going through my unlabeled cassettes to catalogue them for potential digitization, I was worried that I'd lost one. But then I found it last night, and it's a doozy:


SIDE A (1996-97)
1. "Green Plantz Make Food" (keyboard, Encarta sample)
2. "Corporal Wilson"?? (instrumental w/piano, clarinet)
3. "We Take Chances with Decorations" (Yamaha, harmonica, vinyl Martin Denny sample)
4. "We Take Chances with Decorations (Extended Version)" (kazoo, etc.)
5. Prepared piano experiment #1 (Linus & Lucy bassline)
6. Prepared piano experiment #2 (Winston vs. Cage)
7. Prepared piano experiment #3 (agitated)
8. Spoken-word pieces w/Chris Carley:
a) "Elegy for a Dead Conscience"
b) "You Don't Know the Meaning of the Word Go" (Jack Kerouac sample)
c) "Oh He Was Quite Racy"
d) "The Lumberjacks Take on Memphis, Take 1"

SIDE B (1997)
1. "Gummi Bears Two-Step" (piano)
2. "Night and Day" (C. Porter) (piano)
3. Waltz w/keyboard, clarinet ("Minnesota"?)
4. Loop experiment (James Spader)
5. "Hippos Keep You Occupied" (keyboards, Digable Planets sample)
6. Long droney piece (Tortoise sample)
7. Instrumental piece (Piano, keyboard, clarinet)
8. Another instrumental piece (same instruments)
9. "My Choreographer's Thin Wrists"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

Promising! What's the James Spader sample from?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm confused.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Me too. Are those songs you created?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, those are songs I created and recorded.

The "James Spader" sample -- I have no idea what it's from, but it's like 3 seconds long and when you loop it, it sounds like it's saying "James Spader" over and over again, with another voice saying "you go to the left" underneath it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Damn. I'd like to hear a techno song built around some sneering James Spader sample, from Pretty in Pink or Secretary.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

It's probably actually shorter than 3 seconds, maybe more like 1. It's not very good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

It's too late. My expectations for that loop are already pretty high...

I just discovered my available message on gmail has said Tootise Pop all day instead of Tootsie Pop. OH NOOO!!! WHAT A CATASTROPHE!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

John, you should start a myspace music page for your solo work.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I want some Gummy Bears.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Later, Chicago. See you on Thursday.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

You know, I saw that "I have never had sex" thread this morning while screwing around with some torrentz (hi CHYSY!) and I just knew it was going to lead to fuuuucked-uppedness.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

seriously. I kiss all of you dudes for not contributing to the madness.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I came back from some meetings and there were almost 200 new posts...and I knew.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

i love girls in big hoop earrings. LOVE THEM.

― attack all monsters (skowly), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

thanks, Evan!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i've had enough. it's gonna get worse before it gets better so try to help each other out, ok chicago? love you.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

I kiss all of you dudes for not contributing to the madness.

I was too busy laughing my ass off.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, yeah, there were rofflez to be had.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

LOVE THEM.

You and the rockstar! We were at a show and he points out a Jersey girl in cheap hoops and straightened hair, wearing a Hard Rock Cafe Tshirt with the neck cut out '80s style to be off-the-shoulder, and tells me he thinks that's hot. Glad to see you appreciate my efforts to look presentable for you, dude. I'd hate to embarrass you in public by not LOOKING TRASHY ENOUGH, OR ANYTHING.

All I'm saying is please be discriminating in yr choice of hoops. And Tshirts.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

:(

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

horsey has hoop dreams

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

The D.C. thread has sexy photos of Jewel and we don't.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.morethings.com/music/fiona_apple/fiona-apple-024-img.jpg

Fixed. Now we've got Fiona.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

I just looked at the DC thread, and the last photo on there is an alteration of beach.jpg, where Cutty is replaced by a horse.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

Fiona creeps me out.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 17 January 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

The I've never had sex thread is too long. Can someone summarize it for me?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

i agree about hoop earrings. what brought that up tho?

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff:

i knew there was a reason i didn't want to read this thread before gareth told me to. ts the involuntary squeaks of disgust upon reading a) the word 'poppage' AGAIN b) dj martian's "hie thee to a myspace whore" post c) "fuck-want" oh ugh ugh UGH

-- lex pretend (lexusjee...) (webmail), January 17th, 2007 3:29 PM. (lex pretend) (later) (link)

this is actually an excellent summary of this thread when combined with alex's img post.

-- Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr...), January 17th, 2007 2:31 PM. (scarymonsterrr) (later) (link)

(Wherein Alex's IMG post = Benny Hill)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 02:10 (eighteen years ago)

is there a TT tonight? i am no longer staying past 8 p.m. when we go out for tt. maybe even 7:30.

that is if we have one. if not i'll be home considerably earlier.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I don't understand that post at all. Someone please translate.

You know what's surprisingly great for breakfast? Leftover sweet potatoes.

Kevin, It's really cold out. I don't think Nick & I will be up for it because we need to flier for Tuesday's show. Which reminds me, if anyone feels like hanging out at the Beat Kitchen tomorrow night, we're playing there too.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Also, as usual, I have no money.

If anyone wants to come to our house and drink, you're welcome to do that. We could make peppermint hot chocolate and put rum in it.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

sarah, it's not cold! comparatively i mean. when i went past the oak park blue line stop yesterday the bank clock said it was 10 degrees, when i went past today it was 28. where are you playing tuesday? ronny's? i guess the tyvek show was great there. i won't be at the beat kitchen tomorrow as i am going south for 'mustaches over memphis'. also, i shaved my playoff beard but kept the 'stache. it looks re-fucking-diculous.

xpost- that's an idea!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

sarah, never mind the ? about where you're playing tuesday. i just checked my mail and saw this:

TUE23 (9:30pm; $8)
Frightened Rabbit (Scotland) (Hits the Fan) // Fake Fictions (Fresh Produce)

i will be there unless i blow all my $$$ on records in memphis.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Unless I've taken them out to sub some specialized earrings, or have forgotten to put them back in, I wear medium silver* hoop earrings 24-7. I had bigger ones that I lubbed but I lost one and haven't bothered to buy new ones yet. But now I'm totally going to in solidarity with the big hoop earring fans.

*I am dreadfully allergic to filler metals so have always worn silver since 18k and up gold jewelry is too expensive, particularly given my penchant for losing earrings.

Also, HELLO.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

A good idea??

I know it's not that cold, and I'm going to be outside for a while anyway, but I feel like it's always much colder down in the loop than anywhere else.

The Tuesday show is at the Bottle. Oh, ok. What mail was that?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

that msg was from the bottle's upcoming show list.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

No, people, it's cold. Even if it's 34 degrees, it's gray and windy and precipitating which makes it cold in the soul. Just how I like it.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Can I just mention that the Frightened Rabbit guys are supposedly really fun live? Solid little album too, I might have to go check out that show.

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

fuck, while i'm in new york there will be a great fucking show at the LSA:

SAT31 (8:30pm; $12)
(@ Logan Square Auditorium - 2539 N Kedzie - ALL AGES]
The Ponys (MatadorIn The Red Records) // Black Lips (In The Red) // Mannequin Men

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

I think that's the Ponys record release?

Jon, it would be fun to meet you!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Also, HI, JENNY.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Look at my cats!
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/162/361518425_4a66a531e3.jpg

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

i was going to go to boston to see them as it was two days before my trip to nyc but unless i want to blow my tax return i won't have that kind of $$$. that boston show would be stellar though, turpentine bros. on the bill in place of mann. men.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Lucy and Pepper! Hi kitties!

I like Pepper. She eats my hair. I like Lucy, too, even though she's a bitch, because I respect that.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, has anybody heard from Jesse? I've called him a couple times but he either can't get a signal where he is or he forgot his phone charger (again).

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

My school is charging me, in addition to the $90 in tuition, another random $100 to graduate. WTF, law skoo?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

That should be $90K. Ninety-thousand. $90,0000.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

another $100 or another $100K?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

because i wouldn't past lawyers, law schools in general, or depaul university in particular.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Another $100. One hundred. A Benjamin.

HOLY SHIT I can order my cap and gown now. And graduation announcements! Holy shit! It's totally hitting me that I AM GOING TO GRADUATE FROM LAW SKOO in... five months!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lk;asjdlflkjasdfasdfjlasdjfjla

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

;okjasd;lkfjasd;ljaoir[q94r

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

way to bleed the graduates dry depaul.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I've spent too much time on ILX but I don't want to be hooded by any of my family members. It just sounds dirty. Or like I'm being initiated into the KKK. There's definitely a creepy sekret club sounding vibe to the whole thing.

LEGACY ALUMNI ELIGIBLE TO HOOD THEIR FAMILY MEMBERS
To honor the graduates and their families, a graduate may have the ceremonial hood awarded at commencement by an immediate family member who also is a LAW SKOO graduate. The legacy hooders must be graduates of the College of Law rather than graduates of another college within D3Paul. Immediate family members only include spouses, mothers, fathers, grandmothers, grandfathers, sisters and brothers who also graduated from the College of Law.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

"Legacy Hooders" sounds like a gang. Or Jaymc's new solo project.

Do I have to use the stupid stodgy and expensive graduation announcements for sale by the cap and gown extortionists? Can I do for graduation announcements like we did for wedding invitations or similar? Or can I just email people? Or call them? I totally blew off my undergraduation stuff and high school was a long ass time ago.

― Legacy Hooder (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

crepey

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Snore:

http://www1.herffjones.com/college/graduation/assets/products/depaul_pack1.jpg

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

I would think that you could just let people know however you want? But I didn't go to my college graduation.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

my parents came to my graduation, but i didn't have to invite them. they knew about it already.

― attack all monsters (skowly), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm just waiting for an evite wedding invitation one of these days.

C0ugar has a song up on the xlr8r site, cool.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, "hood" as a verb sounds sinister.

I'm going to have to pass on Thirsty Thursday tonight because I had Wasted Wednesday last night. Actually, I wasn't too drunk, considering I had half a bottle of wine and a Stella, but I'm gonna save up for the weekend.

Probably won't come to the FFs show at Burger King tomorrow, but I might make it to the one at Encyclopedia Britannica next week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure I didn't bother buying graduation announcements for college. I might have for high school, since my parents threw a party for me after the ceremony and lots of relatives came out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Man, someone in the office has been making what I'm guessing is flavored coffee every morning, and goddamn, it smells good. Like hazelnuts.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

I WONDER WHAT FLAVOR COFFEE IT IS??????

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Those aren't invitations. They are announcements, meaning that I'm letting people know that I'm graduating so they can send me money, I guess. As many people as you want can come to the graduation ceremony. You can all come if you want, although why the hell would you? I'm only going because law skoo was hard and expensive and I want EVERYTHING THAT'S COMING TO ME.

xpost - probably strawberry.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, "hood" as a verb sounds sinister.

http://blog.elfrederick.org/wp-content/uploads/2006/05/Abu%20Ghraib%20Torture-715244.jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man maybe I don't want to go to my graduation after all...

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Nah. After law school, a little physical torture will be a relief.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Gmail ads for a conversation w/my ex:

"menstruation pictures"
"liposuction pictures"
"eczema pictures"

WTF

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have anything to add, but I want to bump Abu Ghraib off "Show last 50."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry about that. :(

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Here's Grace Kelly instead.

http://www.operagloves.com/Superstars/GraceKelly/Grace%20Kelly%20tkkdd3.JPG

Balance!

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Forbidden" is such a harsh word...

What's this? So you were expecting to find a beautiful, elegant woman (or women) wearing the very latest (or the most classic) in opera gloves, but you got sent to this page instead? Before you start throwing things, keep reading...

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

I am ambivalent about TT today, but if it happens I am NOT ALLOWED TO SMOKE.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

was that aimed at anyone in particular dan? *cough cough* *wheeze hack cough*

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

i shaved my playoff beard this morning but kept the 'stache and uhm..... yeah, not a good look.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

YES. My lungz huuuurt. The cold I picked up over the weekend didn't help.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

There is a new feature on 848 for the next couple of weeks: local bands doing covers. It was pretty interesting. Today was the first installment, an afro-pop group covering "Bizarre Love Triange".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

Triagle

I am re-listening to it on their website now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

jesus fucking christ I give up on typing

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Bizarre Love Triage

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I heard that song on 848 too. Those guys sounded good.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

god damn it, people posting apartments to craigslist what the fuck is so hard about putting the correct neighborhood in description? south of chicago and west of western isn't the ukrainian village. i don't even know what you'd call it other than west town but it sure as hell isn't the village. also, 19th and marshall? YOU AREN'T PILSEN. if you are WEST of the criminal courts on california you are in lawndale. IF I WANTED TO LIVE IN LAWNDALE I'D LOOK FOR APARTMENTS THAT SAY "LAWNDALE" NOT "PILSEN". fucking fucks.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Real estate speak, dude.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's standard stuff. If the property is within 5 miles of a nicer neighborhood than the one it's actually in, that's the neighborhood that goes on the listing.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

that pilsen one wasn't even from an agent, it was from someone looking to get out of their lease. probably because they moved in and realized they were two miles from pilsen.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

I still chuckle to myself about one of the first places I looked at before moving here... Garfield Park, about 2 blocks from the Conservatory stop. Hooo boy.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Marge: "That house is on fire!"

Lionel Hutz: "Motivated seller!"

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

xpost That house had the only intact windows on that whole side of the block, I'm pretty sure.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i know, just as i know if something says "west wicker park" or "west ukrainian village" it will actually be like bucktown or humboldt park or whatever. i remember the last time i was looking there was a place listed as "west village" and it was on kedzie for christ's sake. KEDZIE!!! that is literally two miles from the western boundry of the u.v.

i need to save some $$ and get out of my place.

xpost- but dan, that WOULD be garfield park.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Two miles?? Neighborhoods in Brooklyn aren't even two miles ACROSS, much less five miles from anywhere give or take some realtor speak.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, the ukie village is a half mile wide (a mile wide if you don't count the east village as a separate 'hood) and a half mile long. and actually, kedzie is only a mile from western ave which is the western boundry. still, it's ON THE PARK making it somewhat obvious that the neighborhood is humboldt park. which is actually someplace i wouldn't mind living.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

The level of copy writing around here is dismal. There's this dinner we're promoting, and the headline they came up with was "Steak and Real Estate." I politely asked if we could do better. So they come back with "Appetite for more sales!"

Ew.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

"Steak and Real Estate" sounds great in comparison.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

but dan, that WOULD be garfield park

Oh right, I know. Just, at the time, I had basically no clue what to expect from any one area. Searching by price, you see.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Real Esteak

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

That's so random and non-catchy. It's like calling a campaign fund raising dinner "Food and Politicians."

I'm not doing TT tonight. I too had an accidental Wet Wednesday last night when the new director of Worker Justice, Inc. and I decided to have our meeting at a bar instead of a coffee shop.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

"Steak and Real Estate" has a nice slant rhyme.

Hey, I was walking by InnJoy last Thursday night, and they actually advertise Thirsty Thursday on their sandwich board out front. Is this coincidence?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Real Esteak

haha BRILLIANT

It's like calling a campaign fund raising dinner "Food and Politicians."

Yeah, but "Appetite for Sales?" It sounds kinda predatory and gross. "We Crave The Red-Blooded Flesh of the Real Estate Market."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

they actually advertise Thirsty Thursday on their sandwich board out front. Is this coincidence?

Results 1 - 10 of about 149,000 for "thirsty thursday". (0.23 seconds)

They talk about Thirsty Thursday in The Rules of Attraction. (The movie of which is NOT GOOD. Not even in a sleazy way.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

i have been using the phrase for at least 13 years.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, I was walking by InnJoy last Thursday night, and they actually advertise Thirsty Thursday on their sandwich board out front. Is this coincidence?

...you guys know that you didn't invent Thirsty Thursdays, right?

xp

― attack all monsters (skowly), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

I know about Hump Day, but TTs is new to me. I have been living in a bubble.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

I just made up this awesome term:

Rocktober.

Pretty good, huh?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

SUDSICLES.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I seriously didn't know about it either until we started using it. Doesn't surprise me, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

The movie of which is NOT GOOD. Not even in a sleazy way.

We can argue about this at another time. I have not read the book, though, so I may be handicapped. Or maybe you would have liked it more without reading the book.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Didn't you love the 'trip to Europe' sequence?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

I just revived the thread about it, but it is safe to say that I would have liked it much more without reading the book.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

"Trip to Europe" sequence is a great short film.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, sure, it's callow and mean. I guess I have a stomach for that.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

That wasn't my problem with it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but "Appetite for Sales?" It sounds kinda predatory and gross.

Graphic design should be a Guns n' Roses takeoff.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

(incl. the rapist robot insert)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Tomato soup (or "bisque" apparently) for lunch hit the hell out of the spot.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Having salad arrrgh. Hate veg.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

"I'll have the Salad Arrrgh, please."

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

I had the salad arrrgh yesterday, needed to switch it up or kill myself.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan: i am available for your copywriting needs.

― attack all monsters (skowly), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

I have perfectly awesome chicken and shrimp and coconut milk soup at home but I ran out of tupperware to pack it in. This means I'm gonna have to do dishes at work.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

"Prime Beef, Prime Lending Rate"

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Red Meat & Red Blazers

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

"9.9% APR, 100% Black Angus Beef"

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

"Property Law & Coleslaw"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone know what time Colbert is on? I want to try and watch it at the gym.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

"Escrow & Escargot"

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

If you guys have TT at the InnJoy behind our house, Sarah and I will basically have to come.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

On o'Reilly, you mean? 8, I think.

Check your local listings.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

"The Porterhousing Market"

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

And isn't O'Reilly on Colbert Report too?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

MEAT AND HOUSE

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

"Slaughterhouse"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

Stephen Colbert will be a guest on FOX News Channel's The O'Reilly Factor at 8 PM ET

Bill O'Reilly will be a guest on Comedy Central's The Colbert Report at 11:30 PM ET/PT

so, o'reilly is at 7.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Thx!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

I lived through my class last night! It went fine. I have a nice group, I think, and there was this woman in there who was in my VERY FIRST CLASS in Chicago over three years ago. It was a treat to see her again.

I also worked front desk today and scored this hilarious free book that tries to teach English along with various health-related topics.

I opened it up and there was a dialogue that the students were supposed to read that went like:

1: Do you have conjunctivitis?

2: No, I don't have conjunctivitis. Do you have conjunctivitis?

1: No, I don't know what conjunctivitis is. What is conjunctivitis?

2: Conjunctivitis is an infection of the eye. I have had conjunctivitis.

and on and on and on. I can't really see how this would be all that helpful to people except as an opportunity for comedy in the classroom.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have conjunctivitis?

― The Milkmaid does not have conjunctivitis (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

i have teh conjunctivitis waht is conjunctivitis?!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

No. Do you have conjunctivitis?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

no, i have incureable brain cancer which i would trade in a second for conjunctivits.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

Is incurable brain cancer contagious? Conjunctivitis is very contagious.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/Schoolhouse-Rock---Conjunction-Junction-Magnet-C11749566.jpeg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Last year I was playing a gig at the Chicago Children's Museum and one of my bandmates goes "dude, did you know that you have pinkeye? You definitely have pinkeye." I freaked out for the rest of the afternoon until "it" went away and he was all "oh, I guess you don't have pinkeye".

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahaha

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

this is literally a block from my place. if studios are starting to go for that much how much longer until the rest of the 'hood goes? i already know some people who've been priced out (my friend bob used to live two doors down from this bldg.) and i don't want to leave but the inevitability of it is making me frowny.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

actually, 700 sq feet is a pretty big studio but still.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Well, who knows if they'll get that much for it? Then again M@ and I pay that much for a nice 2br in arguably a better location.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

that's one of my favorite bldgs in the neighborhood, i walk past it almost everyday.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

actually, no it's not, the one i'm thinking of faces the other way. this one might be on hoyne, there's a whole nest of them between damen and western just south of division.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

i'm having trouble thinking today.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

do you have conjunctivitis?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

I should have lunch, huh?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

How do you forget something like lunch?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Yep. I'm ready to have my second lunch.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

have hot and sour soup, jaymc! I am having it now and it is delicious.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

lunch.xls

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't forget! I just wanted to finish this goddamn article first. Plus, there were mixed nuts and chocolates out near the printer, so I've had a couple snacks to keep my energy up.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Bake for Me is probably closed by now. I was thinking about Jimmy John's.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Ex-boss made it to lunch today. It was a good time but I wish Medici served booze :(

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

I just stole a Reese's mini cup from a dish in someone's cube.

Actually I've never been clear on the etiquette...people keep candy on their desks, presumably for visitors. Is it cool to just take one when they're not around?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, I've done that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

It's a Curb Your Enthusiasm episode in the making.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

I think so. Around here we actually go INTO people's offices for that purpose, and I think it's even more acceptable in an open-plan room. If you're a frequent visitor, though, it might pay to bring a bag of candy by some day.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

No way, I can't have a bag or bowl of candy sitting on my desk, I would eat it all at once. I don't know how these people do it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

No, bring a bag of candy to contribute to someone ELSE'S desk.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

There's a candy dish in our office. For a while I grumbled about how people kept coming in and filling it up, because not only would I eat too much candy, but it would invite a lot of unwanted traffic and start a lot of distracting conversations. I have since stopped trying.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

i have two bottles of aspirin on my desk. no chocolate.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

I have candy on my desktop from time to time, but it's a little different for me since I'm the receptionist.

It's funny though that when I have candy up here, my coworkers will trudge all the way up to my desk from way back in the back of the office to get some, and then they always say, "Oh, Sarah. How could you do this to us? Making us fat... tsk tsk.."

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

HOW VERY UNSURPRISING. SARAH'S COLLEAGUES IN BEING JERKSTORES SHOCKAH.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

If anything, I'm making them get their exercise.

Speaking of candy, I want some, gimme some.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of jerkstores, a certain managing editor we work with is on my LAST FUCKING NERVE and I fear for what I might say if she continues to press me on a simple misunderstanding that I have apologized for and that any normal adult would have written off.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Dan, just stick a pencil through her hand and be done with it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

Get in my belly!
http://www.chocablog.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/07/mm2.jpg

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hey I just ate those!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

xposts Oh I would (and I'm sure others would have long ago) but she is in Austin and we are in Chicago.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think i can do this anymore.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Have a virtual m&m, kevin.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

i just ate one of those clif nectar bars instead of the vegan chocolate cookie i wanted instead.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

fight the good fight chicago, i'm outta here.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

i just had a piece of vegan chocolate cake!

― attack all monsters (skowly), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

How was it? I find dairy-free cakes really really questionable!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

Note: I have only had them at kosher restaurants, usually steak-houses, so it's not exactly their focus.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 18 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

It's common office etiquette that people put bowls of candy on their desks with the intention of sharing. If people want to be all stingy with their candy, they'll hoard it in a drawer and mutter to it all day like Gollum, furtively stuffing pieces in their mouths when they think nobody is looking.

Also, Kenan, I swear that not too long ago you were talking trash about women in your office for complaining about the easy availability of junk food, mocking them for blaming their lack of willpower on others.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

I want something for dinner that somebody else makes for me that I can either pick up on the way home or have delivered. I don't want to create any dirty dishes beyond a plate or a fork. I want it to be awesome.

WHAT DO I WANT????

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

Indian

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

burrito

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

Thai?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

xpost (that way you don't need a plate or a fork either)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

Your search - Chicago "hot dog delivery" - did not match any documents.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

Q: Should I go see Pan's Labyrinth after work?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah it can't make me fat, so burritos are right out. :((((((((((((

A. Yes.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

There's a Thai place around the corner so we always get Thai. I'm thaired of Thai. Maybe Indian if someone will bring it to us.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

I kind of want to see Dreamgirls, too, but I don't want to trek all the way to River East 21.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm thaired of Thai.

hee hee hee

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

SEE DREAMGIRLS! or Pan's Labyrinth.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

Mulholland Dr. at the Music Box tomorrow night?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 18 January 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

I finally spent the Crate and Barrel gift cert I got for Xmas. I got a wall-mounted votive holder:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/candle_holder.jpg

And a clock:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/clock.jpg

(Sorry for the terrible pictures. The light is low in here. It's "moody.")

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

The 6 on the clock is a pendulum.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:07 (eighteen years ago)

if devon wasn't as far away from everything as it is i would live at devon and western in a heartbeat

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 02:19 (eighteen years ago)

My mom is nice, cute, and kind of naive, so the following were stunning/funny:

- "The neighbor thought my accent was Polish. Does he mean that I sound stupid?"

- My brother and I asked her if she had been keeping up on news and knew that Saddam was dead. Mom responds, "Yes, the poor thing." ("Si, pobrecito.")

- "I don't care for those Amish...."

- "Those people act like--Protestants."

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

Your Mom and my Mom should have a tupperware party.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

But only if your Mom is willing to get drunk, barf, and then fall in her own barf.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:46 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

(Note: she was never an observant Catholic, went to Protestant school in Mexico, and is now Protestant.)

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Friday, 19 January 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

I got identity thefted. Well, someone got my debit card number. Does that count? Anyway, I have to go to the bank to try to get my 900 dollars back.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

Once again I was at the...something Lion Tap on Lincoln Ave., having done some work at the theater next door tonight, and was very impressed by the dollar burgers and very cheap tacos and $2.50 pints of anything and trivia that are a part of Thursday night there. And that it's a roomy enough place that I don't have to be part of the Barleycorn world to sit at the bar and do some writing. Total tab was $7.50 for a pint of Pilsner Urquell, a pint of Harp, and three steak tacos. TT there some T.

I mean, it's not like Lounge Ax ever had deals like that.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 06:08 (eighteen years ago)

dan, WTF????

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Lion's Head Pub. Yes.

Dan, that sucks. It seems like more and more people I know are getting identity-thefted.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

Someone bought a laptop with my mom's debit card number. They even had her cell phone number and address and everything. It was delivered to someone in Florida. She got frustrated when she found out that they don't really do any investigations to find out who the culprit was, so she's been doing her own detective work.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

DAN, do these things:

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/microsites/idtheft//
http://www.usdoj.gov/criminal/fraud/idtheft.html
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs17a.htm

I WANT LION'S HEAD PUB NEXT TT.

Jesse, your mom is adorable because she loves Saddam and hates the Amish.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

i'm down with lion's head for next tt. when is it?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

appropriate of nothing: i was 10 minutes late for work today solely because my new coffee maker brews such delicious coffee i didn't want to waste any. so i sat on my couch and watched the wgn morning news while i enjoyed my second cup. it was very leisurely, the first such moment i've had like that in ages.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

That's a great moment. I was late for work because I couldn't find anything to wear (hilarious, if you've seen my wardrobe) and I didn't even check on my plants before I left. Your morning is better!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

If people want to be all stingy with their candy, they'll hoard it in a drawer and mutter to it all day like Gollum, furtively stuffing pieces in their mouths when they think nobody is looking.
That's me! Mostly because I am so piggy with my licorice that I don't want to share. Not with anyone who's going to tell me that "licorice is gross" or say something rude like "how can you eat that, it's so disgusting." Back off and let me eat my black candy, muhfuhs.

Serious question: There are three openings for something. You are told that you are a "finalist." Does that mean that you have scored one of the three spots or that you are still in competition for the top three spots?

I cannot elaborate further because I am very very very superstitious. Thank you in advance for not using the word "job" or "interview" in your response to my honest, serious question.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

PS I would share licorice with someone who loved it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

I was 20 minutes late, and I'm NEVER late to work. My excuse is that I was fliering and then needed to go to Starbuxxx. I also NEVER go to Starbucks.

I would say the latter, Amanda.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing to do with anything, but I emailed my resume out somewhere last night. Not. Getting. Hopes. Up.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

i'll go with sarah and say the latter. if you'd scored one of the top three spots they'd say "congratulations, it's yours" or something similar.

good luck!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to rework my resume on the flight to memphis tomorrow. i really don't want to be here come spring.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Ok. Thank you. I needed to know that there was still some fighting to do. That's fine. I'm ready for that. I have my gloves on, my tooth guard in, "Eye of the Tiger" cued up and I'm ready to rise up to the challenge of my rival.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

oh goddamn you for putting THAT in my head.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmmm...

NEW DAY RISING NEW DAY RISING NEW DAY RISING

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

It makes a better mantra.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

i listened to that last monday. that, flip your wig, and land speed record all in a row.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

in that order? i keep land speed record on my ipod at all times, just in case i need someone to scream at me.

i listened to "back from somewhere" at the gym on monday and it was fun.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

it was flip your wig ('cause that's my favorite) then new day rising ('cause that was the record next to it on the shelf) then lsr ('cause that was the next in line after ndr). i contemplated digging out "workbook" but solo bob mould is kind of a downer.

GREEN EYES MIGHT BE MY NEW FAVORITE SONG. god it's a ton.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

hey hey!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

solo bob is a giant downer! (not sugar, but that's totally different.) i always liked "green eyes" too because CHILDISHLY i used to pretend that someone was singing it to me. then i realized that he was probably singing it to a man with green eyes but that's OKAY and i still like it.

know what i find surprisingly fun? the living end.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

i would pick "sorry somehow" out of those.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

i was actually thinking of getting sorry somehow.

yeah, over the weekend i realized the last three girls i've had extended relationships with have all had green eyes and it made me all reflective/introspective. then i realized grant hart probably wrote that about some hairy mid-western transmission shop mechanic named lars or something.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Greg Norton is playing in an avant garde band w/Dave King now called "Gang Font feat. Interloper".

(nb I do not actually listen to Husker Du)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

...

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

I used to have a Greg Norton pin on my backpack -- the only pin I have ever put on my backpack -- and it fell off on the g-d red line. :((((

aaaaaanyway...

i need to go mail something to the IRS. one really unfun thing about making movies is the tax shit involved. what a monstrous pain in the rear.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

What?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

what do i have to mail? proof that we filed for an extension in 2005, if you must know.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

they're asking for $$$$ and we're like no way jose

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

we did not MAKE ANY MONEY AND ARE THEREFORE NOT PAYING YOU TAXES

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

or fees
or fines

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

what makes them sparkle
what makes them shine
what makes those eyes of yours
look into mine


i want to go home and lie on my couch and listen to flip your wig and eat fresh ripe melon until my tummy hurts. then i'll wash it down with more coffee and pack my bags and take a nap. this is how my day should go. this is not how my day will go.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

What's that quote that's like "I must not go on. I will go on." Or whatever. By someone like Beckett or Joyce or Gertrude Stein.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

There is a girl a few cubes down from me who is wrapped in a blanket eating a bowl of cereal + milk. Way to make yourself at home.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Anybody remember the band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282?

I do.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Anybody remember the band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282?

i pulled out bob dinners & larry noodles the other day but it didn't make it to the turntable.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

I remember their name, but I never heard them. I thought their name sounded nipped from Oddfellows Local 151 (behind the firehouse.)I was probably wrong.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

TFUL 282 were from iowa, no?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Anybody remember the band Thinking Fellers Union Local 282?

hey chicago yes they were/are awesome. mother of all saints in particular = radiquel.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

i would personally like to beat up the man in charge of putting "scrubs" on in between the office and 30 rock. if a woman is in charge i would like to solicit offers from females of chilx to do the deed for me.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

What's that quote that's like "I must not go on. I will go on." Or whatever. By someone like Beckett or Joyce or Gertrude Stein.
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), January 19th, 2007.

Yeah that's Beckett.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

"I can't go on, I'll go on"

― say it with blood diamonds (a_p), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hi DC. :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

hi we invaded you, sorry! Also my favorrite TFLU 282 was the one w/ My Pal The Tortoise

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

I think I have a song of theirs on a high-school mixtape or something, but I can't remember what they sound like.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

they sound squeaky

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

halfassey indie guitar art racket w/some killer tunes every now and then. a little like sun city girls, but less impenetrable.

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

I directed a play where the playwright (who was also the lead actor) insisted on ending the show with a TFUL282 song. Noisy, eh?

That little "Heartbreak a Stranger" riff could make a good ringtone. I've had the same phone since 2002, so I haven't had to deal with choosing a ringtone yet.

"Yes, let's go. [They do not move.]"

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

I just read Godot for the first time last weekend.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Then there's the Beckett downer "Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better." -- which doesn't work for me since realizing recently that it's better to do than to try to do.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Did you like it, M. Que?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

"Yes, let's go. [They do not move.]"

That's why I thought my quote might NOT have been Beckett, because I was only confusing it with this one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Whenever I think of the "Yes, let's go" quote, I say the stage directions in my head in this slow, drippingly portentous voice.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Also, speaking of which, I meant to mention to you the other night, EZ, that your pal B. 0'R3illy (whom I saw in Godot) was on This American Life the other day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I did like Godot, I'm not sure I "got" it all, but I think so. I still have not been able to get through his trilogy (Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnameable). As a co-worker once said: "The Unnameable is unreadable."

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure I would have liked Godot if I had just read it and not seen it performed. The production I saw last summer was the first time I'd encountered the play on any terms.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Told by one admirer on another occasion that he had been reading Beckett's works for years, the author drily replied, "You must be very tired."

― ZR (teenagequiet), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yup. He just does not click with me at all. And I bet it would be awesome to see the play live (obviously) and Beckett probably shares a lot with Shakespeare--you can't just read it, you have to see it to get it.

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get Beckett's plays at all on paper, and then when I see 'em they make simple and perfect sense. I bet in Ireland and the UK it's even more so - he throws in all these goofy and everyday references that are foreign slang to you and me.

Turns out my favorite stage director in the world (who, I found out last night, is directing Beckett's Happy Days) is shacking up with Jeanette Winterson now.

Whenever I think of the "Yes, let's go" quote, I say the stage directions in my head in this slow, drippingly portentous voice.

Is this because that's how the con man in Six Degrees of Separation says it?

[Welcome to thespian hour at Chicago ILX.]

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I've only read Godot, and only because one of my college roommates left it in the bathroom for a few months.

If you think you may be getting sick, going to the gym is a no no, right?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Identity theft update: It sounds like I'm probably fine, it's a matter of whether I get my money back sooner or get it back later. Jenny, thanks for the links!

I have New Day Rising at work, and I'm going to listen to it now. Fun fact: I gave my vinyl copy of the record to my now-ex!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

Is this because that's how the con man in Six Degrees of Separation says it?

I don't remember.

http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h82/aoifeled/fresh_prince_cast.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'd say going to the gym when getting sick can be a yes-yes, if sweating and opening your pores and oxygen helps.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

the con man in Six Degrees of Separation

Oh man, I love that movie. Has everyone seen this movie? See this movie.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

After the last time I saw it, I went around imitating Donald Sutherland: "THE DOUBLE-SIDED KANDINSKY!!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm trying to figure out what Will Smith's iconic pose suggests. "What, me worry?" "I'm a goof, not a threat"? "Parents just don't understand, and I have the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and so I'm smooth"? "It's that easy"?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

To me it says, "Yo."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Six Degrees of Separation has been added to your Queue at position 58.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

After the last time I saw it, I went around imitating Donald Sutherland: "THE DOUBLE-SIDED KANDINSKY!!"

He's so good as the maudlin art guy. I love his little speech about the second graders.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

I just love that movie in total.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

If you think you may be getting sick, going to the gym is a no no, right?

if you're feeling draggy, it's definitely a no-no. if it seems like a cold but your energy level is ok, just take it easy when you go.

i would personally like to beat up the man in charge of putting "scrubs" on in between the office and 30 rock. if a woman is in charge i would like to solicit offers from females of chilx to do the deed for me.

i could probably hire someone.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

It's true. She knows people. Don't fuck with this girl.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

I should note, though, that the Scrubs musical was one of the most watchable episodes in a long time.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I feel pretty okay but my left ear feels super-fucked up today and sometimes I have that feeling at the back of my throat, you know, the "yr gonna get sick" feeling. Anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Time to start sipping whiskey, Jordan.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Didn't see it, but apparently the guy who did Avenue Q wrote some of the songs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

How do you guys feel about Camera Obscura? I tend to shy away from all things quiet, pretty and twee, but I really like this band. I think because they are the sad kind of twee, not the giddy kind of twee, and also they have good lyrics. I think they should cover "What's Going On" by 4 Non Blondes, they could make it good.

Did you guys watch The Office last night? I almost lost it when dude was singing "Zombie" at his desk.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Time to start sipping whiskey

OTM. And then go to gym.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

(about scrubs--xp) really. i just watched the last 5 min or so and it annoyed me. but then 30 rock came on and made everything all better.

i had a haircut anxiety dream last night. i went to my salon guy from a long time ago and he gave me this beautiful haircut, but also dyed it orangey-pink. i was freaked out, but kept laughing at how completely ridiculous i looked.

i like camera obscura.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

CO: I like them, Nick. I only have 4-5 songs but I like all of them. Nice kids.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

I've only heard that one song that everyone liked last year: "Lloyd, I'm Ready to be Heartbroken" or whatever it's called. I thought it was just okay, not too memorable.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, they're talking to Lloyd Cole.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

I watched everything else on NBC's comedy block last night but had to leave the room during Scrubs because it was too annoying. Sarah likes it though, so she was watching.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

I watched everything else on NBC's comedy block last night but had to leave the room during Scrubs because it was too annoying

ditto, that's when i washed my dishes.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

Jody Nueva likes Camera Obscura. I don't listen to much college radio but somehow heard "I Need All the Friends I Can Get" a few times one week last summer.

My other loftmates like the other Camera Obscura, the noisier one.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

"Happy New Year" is a lovely song, I think I will start with Biggest, Bluest Hi-Fi.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

I should remember to watch TV that I've seen and liked, such as The Office and 30 Rock. Watching primetime TV is just so weird, though.

Pan's Labyrinth was really good, even though I kind of wanted more fantastical elements, like Spirited Away.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

$695 / 2br - Gorgeous Logan Square 2 br!

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wha?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

I've never heard Camera Obscura but the name always sounded like they should be on Ninja Tune or something.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Did you guys watch The Office last night? I almost lost it when dude was singing "Zombie" at his desk.

I did lose it, several times, during the show.

Then I nerded out on video games and my new keyboard paired with Reason. It's so hard, but I can just tell once I have that "eureka" moment with the interface, it will be much better.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

i just watched the last 5 min or so and it annoyed me.

Par for the course.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, that apartment has yr name all over it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

I've never heard Camera Obscura but the name always sounded like they should be on Ninja Tune or something.

Really? It sort of sounds like the perfect twee indie-pop band name, but maybe that's because there's also the Hidden Cameras.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, that apartment has yr name all over it.

Heh. I dunno that I'd want to live in a place with carpeted floors, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

One of the hot-dog places on Lincoln near Webster was showing Scrubs last night. If we could figure out which bar on Lincoln shows NBC instead of sports, we could combine TT and sit-coms.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

no, i don't want carpet either, the kt threw me. if i had my w2 in hand i would seriously move here on 2/1/07:

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/apa/264891810.html

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

just thought you'd all like to know i'm paying 725 for a two bedroom (meaning my rent comes to 362.50/mo)

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Heh. I dunno that I'd want to live in a place with carpeted floors, though.

Really, why not? I love carpeting. That might be because growing up our floors were unlacquered wood, i.e. if you walked around in socks you would get splinters. Carpeting seemed like a huge luxury.

Really? It sort of sounds like the perfect twee indie-pop band name, but maybe that's because there's also the Hidden Cameras.

I don't know, it sounds kind of dark, like it could pass for a metal band name too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

If we could figure out which bar on Lincoln shows NBC instead of sports

In Chicago? What do you mean "instead of sports"? Like, is there anything else? I thought the universe was a black empty void with a football stadium floating in the center of it.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

Holy shit Kevin, you'd live on my street.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

An actual camera obscura is a fascinating thing. I'm a fan of the theory that the Dutch Masters (and possibly even Da Vinci) used something similar to invent realism.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

i envy your rent, deej. but i do love my view of the lake.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Also cf. Belle & Sebastian's "Photo Jenny."

just thought you'd all like to know i'm paying 725 for a two bedroom (meaning my rent comes to 362.50/mo)

My last apartment was $650 for a 2BR in north Andersonville. Still have no idea how I lucked into that one.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

As for carpeting: things spill on carpeting and are hard to clean. Also, I dunno, wood floors just seems a little classier. The few carpeted apartments I've seen in Chicago have invariably been studios, and the carpeting kind of made them feel like hotel rooms.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Holy shit Kevin, you'd live on my street.

really? i don't remember where i was when we shared that cab back from uptown. i may have been tipsy. but yeah, i'd take that in a minute. i want to move soon but i don't want to take on a higher rent because i'm really not sure how much longer i can stay at this job.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

have any of you spent any time in bridgeport? i know the people from there love it but everyone i've met from there have been steak-head jockish almost frat boy types. not sure i could stand living amidst that. but what say you chilx, any insight?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yeah my place is Schubert/Albany-ish.

Went to a Lithuanian restaurant in Bridgeport once. And Sox games.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

I hope... I HOPE... they're going to let me take the music off of our websites. I pray.

Top ways to get people to leave your site:

1. Large jpg of guy stretching his asshole.
2. Unwanted music.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'd settle for a MUSIC OFF button.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

And I guess tubgirl would be 3.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's the least I can do. I have been campaigning for this for 8 months.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

yay, boarding pass is printed.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

WOO HOO!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

i changed my flight home so i could get back in time for the pats game (missing the bears game tho) and now i have to do my record shopping BEFORE going to the bar which will be a delicate situation at best.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

Question:

I just noticed on both Hide0ut and D0uble D00r's sites that they have a strict policy against bands putting up fliers anywhere outside for fear of violating the more recently enforced City ordinance of posting bills on public property. When I was putting up fliers this morning, I noticed that there were only one or two show fliers up on poles down the stretch of Division from Hoyne to Ashland. I figured it was just because it was so freaking cold out. But has anyone heard about bands getting fined for this recently?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Also, for discussion purposes, I bring you newcity's top 10 bands on the verge.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

do not get hype re: c@tfish h@ven

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Those bands all sound LAME.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Office is good.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

True dat.

They should have put links in to make checking out the bands just a little bit easier.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

head of femur? still? really? on the verge of what, at this point?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

That was chicag0ist's reaction too, Kevin.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

i've seen 5 of those bands and was impressed by exactly zero of them. but i'm hardly a barometer for success.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, 0ff1ce is my favorite band on the list, even though I haven't even heard the entirety of Q&A yet. (Also somewhat biased because I went to school with S.M.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

head of femur? still? really? on the verge of what, at this point?

Some are probably saying the same about us.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

That reminds me, I saw the "canshasta needz guitarist plz" ad on craigslist... M@ wrote that, didn't he? It was formatted, even!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

sarah, i swear i saw them at least four years ago. i remember this guy dave i used to work with told me his friend was in the band and they were opening for malkmus maybe? if it was the show i was thinking about it was an onion sponsored show at the double door, we parked on damen and it had started to snow while we were in the club. bob n said he didn't recognize jen which made her all frowny because she took that to mean she'd put on a lot of weight.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

M@ wrote that, didn't he? It was formatted, even!

Either Matt or EL. I haven't looked at it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Re 1900s: Potential Stumbles: Too many cooks in the kitchen--keeping seven members together cannot be easy.

...

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

That's a long craigslist ad!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Don't make me get defensive.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

keeping seven members together cannot be easy.

It's true! That's why we need a sub pool of, like, 20 dudes just to make our gigs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Don't! It's just kind of funny.

You know, I don't think there was ANY publicity for our show tonight. Ok, I take that back, when Nick was putting up fliers for Tuesday's show, he stumbled across one flier for this show, one that an IceFact0rial made. We didn't do anything for it because we figured, hey, it's this other band's record release... surely they'll do something to publicize, but I guess not.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

I love cd release shows, when bands are still excited about their new record.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'm back.

Some tips for getting dressed for an important event:

1) If you are at home alone, do not choose to wear a dress that you cannot zip up by yourself. You will hurt your shoulder and make your brow unnecessarily sweaty trying to reach the zipper. It will also make you feel incompetent, which is not a good way to feel before an important event.

2) Bring Kleenex in case your nose runs.

3) Bring lipbalm that doesn't smell like medicine or jellybeans.

4) Do not drink too much coffee while waiting for a person to invite you into the important event. You will become unnecessarily jittery and worry about your breath.

That said, I think my important event went well. That's all I'll say for now.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

i hope you are still in the running after this important event!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
doooooooooooooooo
toooooooooooooooo

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

ha! i used the exact phrase "in the running" in an email I sent you earlier, amanda!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of running, has anyone seen the movie Running with the Devil, with Peter Fonda? It's so weird. There's this extended motocross sequence in the beginning that makes no sense, then there are a lot of conversations about "mobile home parks" and a really creepy scene in a swimming pool. Overall, I approve.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

leaf & I are going over to our friends' house tonight to watch movies in our pjs. what movie should we bring?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

heavy into jeff.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Interested... interested...

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Suddenly not so interested.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://artfiles.art.com/images/-/The-Pajama-Game-Poster-C10126124.jpeg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://media.bestprices.com/content/vhs/00/193709.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

cue pajama jammy jam in 3... 2...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.pumpkinsoft.de/covershots/2728.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

other than ilx chicago pajama parties, is anything going on tonight where i can have fun w/ friends out and about

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

i'm just going to veto any barney movies, okay?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.plumparty.com/Merchant2/graphics/products/large/15889.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Aaaaand that's NSFW.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00008OTXN.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

John, did you end up going to the Green Mill?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

other than ilx chicago pajama parties, is anything going on tonight where i can have fun w/ friends out and about

i believe fake fictions are playing beat kitchen? and you can find me at tuman's from roughly 5:45 to 7:30.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.soulstrut.com/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/whoa.gif

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

if i show up around then i'll be the dude with the laptop trying to finish my s**ls**k d*wnl**ds

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

John, did you end up going to the Green Mill?

Yep! It was fun. We ordered a bottle of wine. Didn't get there early enough to nab good seats, but Elling's an impressive vocalist.

I think I'm staying in again tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, I just read that ILB thread about J. Lethem -- you didn't like The Disappointment Artist? I thought it was great.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

ilx chicago pajama parties

Now there's an idea whose time is never.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

if i show up around then i'll be the dude with the laptop trying to finish my s**ls**k d*wnl**ds

there are usually several people with their laptops out dl'ing stuff. i've dl'ed episodes of lost and 30 rock while sudsing it up.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

and actually, i've posted to ilx from there.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

I commented on the Chicagoist article about the bands on the verge thing. I am "x." Basically I said it was dumb because they didn't really explain what they mean by "on the verge," and that they should have just said "here are some bands we like," because to me, "on the verge"="not valid yet." I think most of those bands are already successful at what they're trying to do. They are past the verge. Verge.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

you didn't like The Disappointment Artist?

Did I say that?? I haven't read it. If it's the essays/crit book then I read a chapter or two in the store once, and the other essays that he has online. I think some of those are really bad.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. I assumed that when you said "bad essays," you meant The Disappointment Artist, because I wasn't aware of any other essays that he'd published in the last three years.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Also, "on the verge" sounds a little like you're about to spew.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

on the verge of breaking up? of the verge of superstardom? on the verge of collapse? on the verge of a major chemical dependency? on the verge of redefining popular music for a generation?

NICK'S RIGHT, ON THE VERGE OF WHAT???

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha kenan otm

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe there's a dude named Verge.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not on the verge, but I wish I could be on the verge. I have the urge to be on the verge.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'll be meeting with a secret feminist cabal to further our patriarchy smashing plans at 6 in Logan's Square then I don't know. I am irrationally bummed (IRATIONALLY. BUMMED.) about missing the dean's list by .05 of a grade point and should probably just go home and mope lest I do something embarassing like cry in public about my perfectly acceptable GPA or make a lot of uncomfortably self-disparaging remarks.

Like that one that I just made.

See how that works?

xpost - there was a band in DE called The Verge and they were not very good. I still have one of their CDs.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Soon my urge to be on the verge will surge, and then I will definitely be on the verge, instead of being on the verge of being on the verge.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

This is making me want to regurge.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

omg somebody is listening to Chuck Mangione in this office, you know, that SONG that everybody knows. Who does that on purpose?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

Children of Sanchez???

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

"on the brink" amuses me because I know a girl whose last name is Brin(c)k

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

My urge to be on the verge has merged with my urge to purge.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.insulators.com/news/images/surge1.gif

remember this shit? gross

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Re Mangione: dunno what song you're talking about (I know him primarily through album covers), but this post made me laff the other day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

I don't understand why you wrote "niconiconico".

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

"Feels Good to Me"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

there was a funny bit on wait wait don't tell me last Sunday about Surge and how it was originally called "Urge" but nobody wanted to drink it because it's yellow and looks like pee so they changed it to "Urges" and then nobody really wanted to drink it so they change it to "Surge" and still, nobody wanted to drink it.

xpost - John, I am almost positive that this is a "know it when you hear it" song. It's not interesting enough to capture one's attention but it's constantly quietly lurking in life's smooth jazz nooks and crannies.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

I know exactly what song you're talking about!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

my dad was a huge chuck mangione fan so i'm familiar with more than one song so i don't know which one you're talking about. feels so good maybe?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh sorry, it's "Feels So Good"

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

It's almost assuredly "Feels So Good."

How adorable is it that Kevin's dad was a Chuck Mangione fan? I didn't even realize they made those.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yacht Jazz

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Is this the guy who made fun of the down's syndrome kid in the elevator? HE HAS SOFT SIDE!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

My dad had a couple of Mangione records in his collection.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Leaf is suggesting that we watch the movie "Honey." I think he's being serious.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

so they changed it to "Urges" and then nobody really wanted to drink it

I don't think they really changed it to that. That would be funny, though. Call it "Urges" and advertise it like they do that Axe stuff. Drink Urges, and the women will tear their clothes off! You'll inspire all kinds of urges! UNCONTROLLABLE urges! Whoooo!

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

"I have needs."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Someone has a crush on Jessica Alba.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

my dad listened to 98% jazz. the other two percent was mostly steely dan.

"hi corky". still makes me smile.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

is she in honey?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, assuming that's the same Honey you're talking about.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

There was a pretty funny King of the Hill episode or even story arc about Chuck Mangione many, many years ago.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ah yes. She is in fact the star.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Honey Danels (Jessica Alba) is a 22-year-old, sexy, tough-minded, part-black, part-Latina hip-hop dancer in New York's East Harlem who dreams of making it big as a music video choreographer. She teaches hip-hop dancing at a local youth center and encourages the local kids to attend to keep them off the streets and out of trouble. When luck shines on Honey in the form of a famous music video director, named Michael, who casts her in one music video, she's encouraged to make the transition from dancer to choreographer. But Honey's sudden success comes with a price when Michael refuses to take "no" for an answer to his sexual advances and then tries to sabotage her career by blackballing her out of the business.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

The Father (literally) of the PK who grew up across the street from me was a huge Mangione fan. We used to laugh and laugh at the album covers all the time.

xpost: alba = guilty crush

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

(Jessica Alba) is a 22-year-old, sexy, tough-minded, part-black, part-Latina hip-hop dancer

waht

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

blackballing

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I don't understand why you wrote "niconiconico".

The Wilco record is called Sky Blue Sky.

I was alluding to that Nico greatest-hits album that tries to play up the textual similarities between the words NICO and ICON with that string of letters.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'm listening to a live version of "Feels So Good," and it's KINDA familiar, but definitely not a OH TOTALLY THAT ONE moment.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

oh never mind i was thinking jessica biel

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

YouTube comments: Didn't he own half of A&M Records, the other half being Herb Alpert?

Haha, Jerry Moss, we hardly knew ye.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

this viewer comment from netflix pretty much sums up all viewer comments on netflix w/r/t Honey:

"i only rented this to see Alba b/c she is sooooo hot. she's the worst actress, but she's smokin'. anyone else watching this for insight into the hip-hop culture or whatever is stupid."

Leaf contests that "movies like this" are in the same vein as zombie movies and spy novels for him.

I do know that Jody Nueva said that it was an okay movie a while ago. I think he's wanted to see it based on her opinion. Although, the three of us did rent the sequel to Dirty Dancing which was simply horrid.

The friends we are hanging with are lesbians, if that will influence any movie suggestions.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

FLUGLEHORNS FOR EVA BAYBEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Dirty Dancing which was simply horrid.

But it has Diego Luna in it...?

Actually, I don't really understand why women find Diego Luna hot. He's cute, but Gael Garcia Bernal is more striking.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Underrated drummer Billy Martin of Medeski, Martin & Wood got his start with Chucky Mangione.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Despite my fear of becoming maudlin and the fact that the cold I was sure I had defeated has returned WITH A VENGANCE I still want to go to Quenchers after my meeting because I'll be right there and they have so much good beer.

But then there is the part of me that just wants to ditch the meeting, too.

Decisions, decisions. What would Chuck Mangione do?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost to Jordan) ^^^^ pwns

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Chuck Mangione has actually been in multiple episodes of KOTH. It's kind of a running joke.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Leaf contests that "movies like this" are in the same vein as zombie movies and spy novels for him.
You mean that they're awwwwesome? I also wholeheartedly recommend Satisfaction if somehow you've managed to not see it yet. It's sooooooooooooooooo good. Lesbians will love it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Hell, even if you've seen it. Satisfaction is the sort of movie a person can see over and over and over and over and over. And over.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I could be convinced to go to Quenchers (surprise).

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want to pressure people to come to our show, but if people want to come and just hang out, I'll get you on the guest list so you don't have to pay. Unless, like, 10 of you want to come. But that's unlikely. Anyways, Sarah, Ben and I have to be there from like 7ish to like 1ish, so I'd be happy to see any of you.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost to Jordan) ^^^^ pwns

Yeah, I've got a couple mp3s from his solo percussion discs and his independence is kinda unreal.

Tonight: watching the last two Freaks & Geeks episodes

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

I believe there should be a cologne product to compete with Axe called "Fuck Want", and the tag line will be "BEHOLD!"

I'm on my own shit today. Continue ignoring me.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god the advertisers who came up with those Axe ads should be pilloried.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

The singer for Jem was in that!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Haha my housemate's company did an interactive software piece for Axe that is HIGH-LARIOUS(ly awful).

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

What I wonder is who buys that stuff. Surely if a woman spots Axe among your toiletries, you will not be needing that package of condoms you have stashed under the mattress.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

thats a terrible place to keep condoms

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

drawer in the end table?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Nick: would you rather I come to your show tonight or on Tuesday? I probably can't do both, but I think Kr and I were going to skip tonight's show because we're going to see Brighton MA there tomorrow. Unless you'd rather us be at the BK than the EB.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

I was talking to a college girl and apparently it's omnipresent! She was like "oh, I hate when people wear too much of that stuff" whereas I have no idea what it smells like.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

FULL DISCLOSURE/COMING CLEAN

I have used their deodorant, and ladiez have told me it smells v. good w/o knowing what it is.

Still feels dirty though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

note I said deodorant -- as in stick, not that spray shit

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

I welcome (and expect) your taunts.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

and ladiez have told me it smells v. good w/o knowing what it is

Yes, but did they blow you in the elevator? That's the Axe Effect.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

i bought axe once when it first came out and i think i was a fresh. in college. The shit smelled bad, and it wore off quikly and worked terribly as an anti-perspirent

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

because its not one, i assume.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

John: Tuesday's show. It's not so much about getting people to the show tonight, as I don't really feel like it's "our show," (we're playing first and its the S@p's record release), as it is just offering this up as another place to hang out and drink, with the added bonus of getting to hang out with me, Sarah and Ben. But if you're actually coming to see us play, I'd rather you come Tuesday.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

DJ Quikly

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

The dirty secret of Axe is that it actually smells like Let's Be Friends.

It's frustrating stuff.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Although I have never smelled Axe, I'm sure that it's got that horrible cheap cologne stench to it. And it's designed as a body spray, which means you're supposed to really douse yourself in it. The fact that any woman would even get close enough to a man soaked in that stuff to end up in a position to evaluate his toiletries is dubious at best. And all dudes should boycott them on principle given their dreadful ads.

Holy shit. I just realized that I DID NOT EAT LUNCH. And didn't even think about eating lunch. I must be really sick!

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not even feeling particularly concerned about dinner.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Go to hospital.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

And all dudes should boycott them on principle given their dreadful ads.

Yes. The ads for FuckWant, OTOH, will be pure brilliance.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

DJ Quikly
-- Jordan (jordan...), January 19th, 2007 10:09 PM.

haha whoops. too much time on rap message boards

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Srsly. The last time I was this unconcerned with eating I had food poisoning. I'm not puking, that I've noticed, so that can't be it.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Will the FuckWant ads incorporate the word "poppage"?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

i always assumed it was aimed at 17 year old high school kids and college date rapists.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

"I was wearing Axe Body Spray! How could she possibly have been unconsenting?"

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Will the FuckWant ads incorporate the word "poppage"?

Not right away. At first the ads will be these little viral teaser thingies, with a woman's face staring curiously into a Spielberg-ian light just out of frame. And when the product is released, it will be revealed that the light is coming from INSIDE HIS PANTS. BEHOLD!

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, no. I have to completely rethink that. That's an ad for glowing prosthetic pants accessories, not cheap cologne.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

I had no idea what Axe even was for a really long time. Their print ads were just like some sleek, trendy illustrations of a guy in a bed with a bunch of glasses of water on the windowsill. WAHT.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Just run a promotion where you can send in for free roofies with five proofs of purchase.

xp - Axe replaces precious fluids lost during the night.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

She stole my essense!

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Ok -- truth --- I love the smell of men's deodorant. It was not I who said that Dan's pits smell fresh, but I always told (my) Dan that he smelled good and it turned out that he just applied deodorant. Then he started wearing Tom's and I found myself disappointed.

This is bordering on TMI, but oh well. I thought that Dan (ILX Dan) deserved a defense for wearing smelly deodorant.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

i think i have been drunk with dan more than any other ilxor.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm I've probably been drunk with/near Nick & Sarah the most.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Lolz @ "near". "I'm not drinking AT you, I'm drinking NEAR you."

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost

Heh, but have you been more drunk with me than any other ilxor?

So, on the topic of scents, I got a gift bottle of something called "Lucky No. 6" for Xmas, and it smells OK. I am really not much of a cologne dude, though.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god it's associated with those terrible jeans

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

how 'faced was i on my birthday when i thought it was 10 o'clock and it was after midnight?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, well I can think of multiple occasions when I've surely been more drunk.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

oh i've done that before, but in reverse

xp

― attack all monsters (skowly), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Then he started wearing Tom's and I found myself disappointed.

I wore some hippie deodorant for about a week, and Kr was all, "You don't smell BAD exactly ... it's more like I'm making out with a construction worker."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't worn deodorant in 10 years! /gbx

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

LOL @ jaymc the construction worker

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

i'm limiting it to times in the presence of ilxors. nyc i got pretty bombed but i was still in control at the point when i poured out of the cab and walked to the next bar. getting out of the next bar was a struggle but there were no ilxors there.

also, i'm getting a tattoo that reads "that's not the williamsburgh bridge" over a picture of the williamsburgh bridge.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

xp - He doesn't smell like a construction worker, but he doesn't smell like "men's deodorant" either. I am not discussing the state of his pits on the internet anymore though, because I want to stay married.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

And Kevin, I'm not busting yr balls about the 13 yr old armed robber. Just throwing my bleeding heart two cents in.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

I use degree "spring rain" scent, and a battery of lotions both scented and unscented, and that's what I smell like. That and cigarettes.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

Shut up. You know who you are.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

Leaf sometimes wears this FCUK deodorant spray that smells amazing. The only time I don't like it is when he sprays it while I'm in the room or if he sprays it when I'm about to wander in the room. After he's had it on for a spell, that's when I like it. It smells peppery & man-ish. Very sexy.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and lavender-scender Dove soap. And Garnier Fructis hair products. And sometimes this aromatherapy bubble bath.

I smell like a little girl.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what kind of deodorant Jeff uses, but he shaves with sandalwood shaving soap and that makes me want to spend entire evenings smelling his neck.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

mmm... sandalwood. That's nice.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

john, wasn't it mark who told you that you smelled like stuffing after you wore the burt's bees stuff?

xpost to jenny: i love sandalwood. i will kiss anyone who wears it i love it so.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

(i will refrain from kissing jeff, tho.)

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't worn deodorant in 10 years! /gbx
-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), January 19th, 2007 3:32 PM. (jaymc) (later) (link)

: /

― attack all monsters (skowly), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

should i go see the changes in LA tomorrow night? i'm going to be there anyway.

i don't wear deodorant.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Let's see...the last person I sniffed on a regular basis always smelled like...soap. Even at the end of the day, still smelled like "cleanliness". I dunno how? Magic, apparently, but I enjoyed it.

Oh SANDALWOOD yes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Btw Coug4r is playing at the Bottle on Thursday (25th).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

i wish the internet had smell-o-vision because i want to smell sandalwood now

― attack all monsters (skowly), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

MANDALWOOD is more like it

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

Sure, the Changes are fun.

I don't remember the stuffing remark. I also don't remember wearing Burt's Bees deodorant.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno how? Magic, apparently

Deodorant definitely helps. As does a healthy diet.

lol @ MANDALWOOD

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

This reminds me to take my frankinense and myrrh home tonight!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

it was some sage thing--whole foods house brand?--, and yes i did say you smelt like stuffing. (x-p)

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

help each other out this weekend chicago, you're on your own.

later.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

"the stuffing remark" is making me larf

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

Me, too! I used to have a math teacher who smelled like chicken soup. She was a vegetarian.

Other things that make Jeff smell smoochable: Bee & Flower Mandalwood Soap. Hott.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

really, j? it was the spray on kind & I think mark told you it smelled like sage & therefore like stuffing.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

TMI for the day: it's sexy when a girl has just the tiniest bit of b.o. Not hippie style, just an end-of-a-long-day smell.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'll co-sign on that. Girls also tend not to understand that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, because that's what everyone really smells like! Feeling greasy or sweaty, though, is different than being clean but lived-in.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

It's MUSK.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

Human musk, not Coty White Musk TM.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

Husk Musk

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

J-co beat me to it

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ladies: raise your hand if you ever owned a bottle of:

L'Jardin
Jeanate
Love's Baby Soft

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

i sometimes dot my wrists with sandalwood oil.


also, hand raised.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

i think i owned four different flavors of Love's at one point.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, hand not raised, but I still enjoy the scent of Sand and Sable, from time to time, for nostalgic purposes.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

i like musk!

― attack all monsters (skowly), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

Le Jardin, I guess was how you spelled it.

I had some versions of all three, sometimes in GIFT SET form.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

the lemon one smelled like something you'd clean your house with, so i never used it.
i actually don't mind love's baby soft, but if you think about attracting the opposite sex by attempting to smell like a baby, well, things start feeling a little creepy.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

I had Jean Nate and 4711, my mother bought them for me b/c they were "fresh" and "young" and age-appropriate. I never got into scent or make-up for years and years, though, so I'm not sure why she bothered? Still, 4711 is a staple.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

i used to love wearing avon's "sweet honesty" in middle school and in high school i thought i was a total bad ass for wearing men's cologne. i believe i wore "iron" . . . geesh.

i know i also owned at various points:
electric youth
exclamation!
a tiny bottle of anais anais (b/c my mom wore it sometimes & i wanted to smell like her)

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

i only recently started wearing perfume sometimes after years of not wearing it at all.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

Middle school: Drakkar Noir. And Z. Cavaricci jeans. Every middle school boy's prime ambition was to be a total guido.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

oh! and what was that cody musk? i had that too...

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'll second the wish for smell-o-vision! I want to know what the goth lab mixes smell like that Kels and Jenny and everyone ordered...plus I like my perfume today, too, and wd share it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

i used to have chloe narcisse perfume, and it smelled kinda nice and sweet and whatever on me. then i got really sick of it.

i lived with my roommate for 6 months before learning that she wears it daily. it smells really different on her.

i can't find any good smelling girl things these days. bah.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

I have never to my knowledge worn cologne.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

I have thoroughly enjoyed my goth lab mixes. My favorite (so far) is one that smells like flowers IN dirt. You can smell the iron-y dirt and the flowery flowers. It's lovely and smells like exactly what I like about dirt and what I like about flowers.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

Note: I really really like the smell of dirt. I guess it's not for everyone.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

Dirt?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

I have to admit that i love the smell of prada perfume. i think i tend toward the spicy/muskier scents over the floral ones. i also own a bottle of shiseido perfume b/c it smells very crisp & clean. that's it though (+ sandalwood oil). that's the end of my perfume world. i hardly ever wear it.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't order any goth lab mixes, but I was very tempted! Amanda: did you know that there is an actual perfume called dirt & it indeed smells like dirt?

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

I guess theoretically you could make a cologne to smell like anything. Fresh cut grass.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

I want to smell like the stale air trapped in an abandoned building.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Now THAT would be goth.

"I smell of... emptiness."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

it's these folks that make it:
http://www.demeterfragrance.com/

and with that, I hope everyone has a great weekend! i'm off to a yarn store before they close . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

I'm wearing Givenchy "Eau Torride", which is a little floral and a little tart (if not precisely citrus-y). It comes in a sporty bottle with an orange top, so I think of it as my "orange" scent but it's not really.

XP: HEWWO DEMETER LINE. I've had "Ginger Ale", "Gin and Tonic", and "Paperback Book" at some point; I think my sister bought "Angel-Food Cake" too.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, dirt. Earth. Mud. Soil. So mineral-y. Yum. It's that smell like walking into a botanical garden, where you can smell the flowers AND the humidity and the soil.

I have not smelled "Dirt: The Perfume" but I bet I would like it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

I have never to my knowledge worn cologne.

Yeah, I think the only time I wore cologne was in fifth grade when I went to the movies with a party that included a girl I had a crush on and so I wore this lime-scented English Leather that I found in the downstairs bathroom. Sadly, the party split up into guys/girls, and so I saw Twins while she saw Dream a Little Dream.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

Kelsey beat me to it. :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

That is because you smelled like lime-scented English Leather. But you cannot be blamed. You were in fifth grade and knew not what you did.

Bye Chicago. I'm going to go home and blow my nose all night.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

Blow your what all night?

Just kidding.

Speed stick fresh scent gets all the buddy.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

I had the same experience as John, seeing those Axe ads with the dozens of cups of water next to the bed and having no idea what they were advertising. And, really, the ads turned me off from ever trying it, and that says a lot, 'cause I don't care either way about most ads.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 19 January 2007 23:57 (eighteen years ago)

My deodorant is Right Guard Sport - Powder flavor. Because I'm sporty.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

Remember that thing I was talking about earlier?

http://www.projo.com/photos/20061220/LB1220_rocky1_12-20-06_UJ3FE11.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

OMG!

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

i'm drunk and need to go to the dmv before hitting ohare tomoorow. this has all the makings of a DISASTAH!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

i have a new job.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

:D

― attack all monsters (skowly), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

OMG LEVEL UP CONGRATS!!!!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 20 January 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

thankee! i have a loooooooooooot of work to do now, though. new job starts monday!

eek.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Saturday, 20 January 2007 02:25 (eighteen years ago)

That is awesome. What's the gig?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:20 (eighteen years ago)

AMAND!!!!!!!!1 Holy shit, congratulasion!!!! I'm drunk at the moment, so if you were here I'd make a big uninhibited fuss to celebrate!

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

I just had the best bowl of Phở.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:49 (eighteen years ago)

Was there tripe in it?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Chicago, judge my colognes.

Primary scent: Acqua de Gio (Armani) - Fresh, sporty, bright.
Back-up: Xeryus (Givenchy) - Spicy, deeper, lower notes.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:52 (eighteen years ago)

xpost-- I decided to open my mind a few months ago and I ordered pho at a pan-Asian restaurant in Lakeview. It was somewhat Americanized and therefore not as gross as the shit in my neighborhood, but I still thought, "Why the hell would I want to go through so much work for this?" I went from "Bleh" to "Meh."

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:56 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, I suspect you smell very, very good.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

I am staying home on a Friday night eating a hamburger and programming drums. No one is cooler than me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 January 2007 03:59 (eighteen years ago)

Also downloading Yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel, do you know Xeryus? I am kind of conflicted about this scent. I like the smell per se....I think...?? See the scent is tied up in some weird memories and I can't figure out if it smells good or not now.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't go for tripe this time. Just beef and some gristly bits.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in a phở coma. A phởma.*

Jesse, I'm still convinced that you don't like phở because the first time you had it you dumped it all over your lap. Also that first place was pretty sketchy and also run by 11 year olds.

*Not funny if you pronounce phở correctly.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

How do you pronounce it? Phu?

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know that scent, Jesse. Shd I check it out next time i'm at Sephora/perfume counter?

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

I guess. I would just like to know what others who know it think.

Pho is pronounced very, very nasally. And I have had it at Tank Noodle.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 20 January 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

I ate at Matsou Sushi tonight at Belmont and Seminary - so so much good food added up to $20 per person including tip and tax and whatever. How? BYOB is how.

Congrats, Aman! Is it different from what you're doing now?

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

I went back over the thread and thought I saw that you said somewhere, "I have a new job and a lot of money now," but now I don't see that.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 20 January 2007 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

O. Shit.

It's 2:00 and I have to drive out at 7:30! Tired, drowsy, snowy drive back to Chicago coming up.... But can't go to bed b/c now my brother is digging in the trash trying to find our shared list of shit to take care of when we get back to our homes. Off to find said list I guess.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 20 January 2007 06:56 (eighteen years ago)

List is gone forever. But I did find a note from the "Rocky Mountain Talent Search," a group dedicated to brainiac students in the Mountain Time Zone, offering me a big fat scholarship or something for being in the 99th percentile (nationally!) in verbal standardized test scores. The pisser??? I remember I was not allowed to take advantage of this amazing opportunity because they required me to go to meetings and stuff on Saturday and we were Seventh-Day Adventist. What a fucking waste.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Saturday, 20 January 2007 07:05 (eighteen years ago)

I went to a house party tonight. How do people within about 5-6 years of our collective average age have a whole house in this town? I mean a house: porch, dining room, living room, study, kitchen, upstairs and downstairs bathrooms, big front staircase, back staircase(!) 4 bedroooms, and so forth. Older, too. Not quite Victorian. The only thing was that there was another building in their front yard. This was on Damen in Lincoln Square.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 20 January 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

Inheritance? That's the only thing I can think of, something that no one would ever talk about because it's gauche to discuss inherited money. Or any money, really. Particularly if you have a lot of it.

My new job doesn't bring a lot of money with it (it's a teaching job!), but it brings security and slightly more money than if I were scrambling to cobble a bunch of jobs together as I have been. I'm pleased. I'm employed full time like a normal person! Doing something I truly enjoy! It can happen.

This is the first time in my life I've had to quit (a) job(s) I actually like. A novel experience.

Ok, off to work. Ta-ta!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Saturday, 20 January 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

WOO YAY AMANDA!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Saturday, 20 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Congrats Amanda!

Dan -- do you know the people that own the house, and what they do for a living? My cousin Becky has a house around there (Seeley, just north of Lawrence) -- but her husband is a lawyer and she used to write for the Sun-Times (now she's a full-time mom). They're mid-30s.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Last night Kr and I made some kind of baked Turkish eggplant dish and then drank a lot of wine and listened to Counting Crows. The end.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

This morning I made biscuits, bacon, and eggs. Oh man.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

I suppose it could have been an inheritance, although I found out there are 4 unrelated people living there, so it could be a hell of a rental score, too. The guy whose party it was is an intern at the non-profit my friend Katie works at, so he's not exactly rollin' in dough from that. Nice place though, reminded me of a lot of the big old houses back home.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 20 January 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

There's a bunch of shows in the coming weeks that I'm very interested in, if anyone else is...

THE APPLESEED CAST, ASOBI SEKSU
Abbey Pub, 1/26

ROB CROW, MAKE BELIEVE
Empty Bottle, 2/23 (my birthday!)

DO MAKE SAY THINK
Empty Bottle, 2/24

EXPLOSIONS IN THE SKY
Metro, 3/28

JEDI MIND TRICKS, SEAN PRICE
Subterranean, 4/6

RATATAT, 120 DAYS
Logan Square Auditorium, 3/21

THERMALS
Subterranean, 2/28

oh, and

NICKELBACK
Allstate Arena, 3/2

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Asobi Seksu appeals to me the most. Then the Thermals.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Here's the first track of the self-titled Asobi Seksu album. If anyone wants to hear them.

http://www.sendspace.com/file/uz2rre

I should really listen to the new one.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

I've heard some of their stuff from my roomie, I liked it. I've got a soft spot for The Appleseed Cast. The pairing of the two is kind of novel, but I'm excited anyway.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

I think Cam played me some of their stuff, he'll be happy that they're coming to Milwaukee.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 20 January 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

This morning I made biscuits, bacon, and eggs. Oh man.

Come here now.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 20 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, I forgot to mention the other good-smelling lotion that seems to appeal all around: Calera lavender/pine.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 20 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

of that list of shows, i'm probably most interested in do make say think. but i'm definitely going to see grizzly bear at sub-t on dec. 9.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 21 January 2007 08:28 (eighteen years ago)

That Grizzly Bear album surprised me, in that it's totally indie rock, Pitchfork slobbered all over it, and I also really like it. Those three things come together less and less often.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 08:47 (eighteen years ago)

I want to see the Thermals.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Two things:

First: I am emailing my resignation letters and itunes started playing "Here Come the Warm Jets" which is THE MOST PERFECT song to listen to as you're doing something that feels important because it sounds like a plane taking off into the clouds.

Second: I am going to do some girlie shopping downtown today and I was wondering if any of you mofos would like to join me. Call me if you do!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Please join me. Celebratory shopping isn't as fun alone. I will be going to Sephora. Believe it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Oooo Sephora... I would love to but cannot - I have done gone and procrastinated and now must study.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Why am I not drinking coffee?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

I accidentally sent my resignation letter from my personal email account because I was so wrapped up in the arrival of the warm jets. Oops.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

amanda! i'm so sorry to not be going with you to sephora! i bought green eyeshadow when we went last & you got the tarte stick! then we went on a big expedition to find a sugar cookie w/ frosting . . . !

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

i ate crumpets this morning!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I just logged in to facebook for the first time in a while to find that several people had poked me. So I poked them back. Why is that so fun? It serves no practical purpose at all. Maybe that's exactly what's fun about it. That and the word "poke" is funny.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

What are crumpets anyway?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

it's a bland little pancake-like thing.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. I finished off my biscuits for breakfast, I wish there were more.

Kenan, I would do that iLike thing except my "music library" is in a sad state. I transferred everything to my external hard drive to clear up some disk space, so I've got only a few random things on my computer. I've actually been listening to cds!

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

You guys seriously don't want to know what I've been listening to. I will tell you what I want to hear though: the album where Getachew Mekuria/ya plays with The Ex "and guests". Any of you got that? Heard it?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's called Moa Anbessa. Dan found a link that played samples (I can't find it again) and what I heard pretty much ruled.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I've actually been listening to cds!

Nooooo!

You should sign up anyway, just because it needs more members, and I need more friends. Come on, man. Make me look cool.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

I am currently on one of those torrent-ratio-damaging downloading sprees. I'm getting the complete Nat King Cole Trio on Capital (18 cds) and re-downing the Monk on Riverside box that I lost in the last crash (14 cds).

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

I can't use ilike, because they only support itunes, which idon'tuse.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

there's a plugin download for windows media player too. i didn't play with it all that much though, so it might be shit.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

He doesn't use Windows Media Player either, I'm sure. Because I know Jeff, and he's not totally insane.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

has anyone been to Spoon Thai or TAC thai? im back to chicago next week and curious to try

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

I think my dish at Spoon was disappointing, but I can't remember for sure. People say good things about it though. I ate there with Jenny and Jeff, so they might remember.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

I've been to Spoon Thai a couple of times. It is okay. The Chicago foodies really like it, but they are all into the secret menu shit that I would never even consider because I'm too embarrassed to ask. I got a duck curry one time and it was pretty greasy. Still, I'd go back again.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sptsb.com/spoon_thai_secret_menu.htm

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Larb Ped sounds really really good.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

I am not going to say this hangover is without parallel, but it's easily in the top 5. I very rarely ever throw up, but I did twice today--once in the bushes at the courthouse on Jackson Ave and once at the Chicago red line stop, where I got off the train for this very purpose.

Advice: If you can plan ahead for a vomiting event, do as I did and HAVE ONLY WATER ON YOUR STOMACH! It's such a fucking relief to have it be flavorless.

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

GO BEARS FUCK NO

― deej.. (deej..), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of beef, I've had a craving for seven courses of beef again from Hai Yen.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 21 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

GEAUX SAINTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Making beef stroganoff shortly, with lean sirloin that I've never used before. MMMM EXPERIMENTS W/ BOEFF

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

a puppy holding a miller high life bottle (brownstone@gmail.com)

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, what else did you and Ct do last night?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hey dudes, here's what I spent my afternoon doing: http://download.yousendit.com/15ABCB2438ADACA7

It's a revamp of an older track (Spaghetti Midwestern) but I think it sounds pretty neat now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

1. I saw a commercial today (on teevee) for Soft-n-Dri women's deodorant. The tagline was "If you're soft and dry, imagine what that will make HIM."

2. I decided today that I hate shopping. I think that's why I wanted someone to come with me, so it would be more like hanging out and less like "shopping." When I was in Sephora I actually found myself wanting to find a product that would (in my mind's words) "wash the old off of my face." And really, they didn't have anything like that. Just stuff to put on my face to mask the old, which is not what I was looking for. Shopping sucks.

Go football.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

1. Hard and...wet?

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

1. Whoa, that's pretty damn racy! (And yeh, a guy getting wet??)

What the fuck happened in the start of the 4th quarter?? It was 14 to 18 Bears last time I looked and now holy shit, it's 14/32. I SAID GEAUX, DAMMIT! This is how "America's team" plays?

What Courtney and I did00I don't remember if she went with me to Little Jim's, but I went there and then went to Charlie's and watched the unfortunate phenomenon of gay cowboys line dancing for a while.

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

did00I

How did that get in there?

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

I went home last night. Jesse had the crazy eyes and I afraid it would be a night of mail cart proportions.

I went to TAC thai for the first time yesterday. It was pretty good, but I didn't realize what I ordered (Panang noodle) would be one giant fried noodle.

Law and Order marathon today - wooh hoo!

― CM@her (cmaher), Sunday, 21 January 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't go to Little Jim's...

― CM@her (cmaher), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

This deodorant causes men to lose control of their penises AND their bladders. Shit is potent.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

LOL

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

Things went OK last night but I ran into a co-worker at LJ's and I thiiiink I might have tried to make out with him, but I'm not sure. I hope not.

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

I enjoyed that track, Mr. J-Co.

This is my favorite song in the world right now: http://youtube.com/watch?v=qGKjeRgn4CA (A Small Victory)

A

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks Jesse.

Haha, sometimes I forget about Faith No More.

― Jordan (Jordan), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am in luv with Mike Patton because he's like totally hot and I like his voice.

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

People are banging pots and pans outside. Bottle rockets, too.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

STAY INDOORS!

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 21 January 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, I was watching live Tool videos and in one Maynard says, "I want waffles. Buy this album so I can afford some waffles." And in the song he changes the lyrics to "feast like a sultan, I do, on waffles and flesh."

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha #2:

Tool - Prison Sex

It took so long to remember just what happened.
I was so young and vestal then,
you know it hurt me,
but I'm breathing so I guess I'm still alive
even if signs seem to tell me otherwise.
I've got my hands bound,
my head down, my eyes closed,
and my throat wide open.

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― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

So who's hosting the superbowl party?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 22 January 2007 00:46 (eighteen years ago)

So the Saints lost? That's too bad.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

WOW! THAT'S REALLY... unaffecting.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, what? There was a football game today?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

Football turns you into this guy, I'm convinced:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/images/2006/01/17/20060116215630.jpeg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

1) I don't watch or know much about football
2) I can see why people like football

3) I hope the Saints go to the Super Bowl

-- Jordan (jordan...), January 10th, 2007.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

If cities work anything like colleges, then it's a damn shame New Orleans didn't win. Because they would have gotten a lot of money, which they need.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

New Orleans would be no better off than they started.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

By god I'm almost done with my character and fitness application. I am supposed to list two undergraduate professors or two people of comparable professional status with whom I was acquainted as an undergrad. When I was an undergrad, the only people I was acquainted with were students, drunks, and dealers so I listed the only two professors whose names I could remember (one is retired - he was old as hell when I had him) and figured the bar people can work that bullshit out for themselves.

I mean holy fucking hell.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

fuck the saints

how the fuck is everyone in the chicago thread rooting for the saints?

also, lol@ the espn 'expert picks'
http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/features/talent

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2007/01/why-rush-limbaugh-ought-to-be-force.html

this is funny.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really care about the bears, but I was rooting for the saints to lose.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:24 (eighteen years ago)

New Orleans would be no better off than they started.

Can't hurt, esp. as far as making New Orleans seem like an actual city again.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's what they thought when they first built the stadium, too.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:31 (eighteen years ago)

haha i think this is the first time i've disagreed with jordan on ilx ever

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:34 (eighteen years ago)

GEAUX SAINTS. Be a Saint. Feel the Brees. Show us your Bush.

Bears can go shit in the woods.

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

Though I really hope they win the Superbowl.

― GEAUX SAINTS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:36 (eighteen years ago)

how the fuck is everyone in the chicago thread rooting for the saints?

You and I are the only people on the Chicago thread who actually grew up in Chicago.

GO BEARS.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 January 2007 01:45 (eighteen years ago)

I went to the corner store a while ago and ran into multiple people walking down the street singing songs in celebration of the Bears winning. I can't say I really care about football a whole lot, but it does mean something to see a lot of different people happy about the same thing. So, go Bears.

People should be this enthusiastic about the Blackhawks, too. Original 6 team, lots of history, get over the fact that the owners suck... (rant off)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

Maynard of Tool is planning to start a winery. Huh.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

New Orleans would be no better off than they started.

Why would you say that??

At the very least they would get a big morale boost, but I'm thinking it would go well beyond that to more tangible benefits such as helping revive the tourist and convention industry by bringing positive attention to the city.

Anyway, even if it was just a boost for their spirits it would be significant!

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

Maynard of Tool is planning to start has started a winery. Huh.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

Pretty fucking weird! I was watching Mr. Show on Youtube and damned if in one sketch who should appear but Maynard James Kenan!

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

1. Whoa, that's pretty damn racy! (And yeh, a guy getting wet??)

wear the deodorant that will give him a boner and swamp ass at the same time.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

And good morning to you.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha Good morning.

Amanda, I would have wanted to go shopping, but I don't tend to check the thread on weekends. Instead, I slept until after 2pm Saturday (!). I guess it's just as well, since I shouldn't spend any money.

The show Friday was ok, but it's really more fun when we know some people in the crowd, not counting ben's gf's 20 friends who came that I don't really know. (Maybe you all want to converge on the Bottle Tuesday night? huh huh huh?)

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i went to memphis to see two bands, go record shopping, eat some bbq, and go to the stax museum. i also changed my flight to make it back to chicago in time to watch the patriots game. i did not make it to the museum. i ate no bbq. i did not go record shopping. i missed all of the busy s1gn@ls and half of c0c0c0m@'s set. i was supposed to get home at 3:45 yesterday and instead wound up walking in at 11:15. my upstairs neighbor, who DROVE BACK FROM MEMPHIS got home 20 minutes after i did despite leaving later than i did. and the pats lost.

whole weekend = disaster.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Sometimes I'm not sure how you're still alive, Kevin. Please eat something nourishing and non-alcoholic today, will you?

My rosemary lentils are a little heavy on the rosemary -- it's really easy to over-season, eh?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Maynard James Kenan

Always liked that guy. He's funny AND he rocks.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

No BBQ? Dude that sucks.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

What say Chicago about this?

http://www.unity08.com/

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

i got some bad directions and got super crazy lost in memphis at one point walking through a housing project that was the most insanely creepy thing i've ever done sober. anyway, it was about 38 degrees and POURING rain and at some point either my feet swelled up or my boots shrank because now my heels and toes are all blistered and calloused. i was so cold and wet and miserable and tired of walking that i sent my friend lisa a txt message to that effect and was going to go home when i heard a bass drum. i followed the sound around a corner and i heard a familiar voice, it was my friend bill singing a familiar song. god bless that giant wagon wheel of a bass drum on bill's slingerland kit, it cut a trough through the sound of traffic at madison & cleveland and led me to where i was supposed to be.

laurel, i can guarantee you the non-alcoholic thing but i don't know how nourishing lunch will be.

xpost to jordan, fucking a i know. i'm actually more upset about the record shopping though.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

and led me to where i was supposed to be

THE PROMISED LAND

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

A BAR.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

So, my mom called wanting me to take in a stray kitten that turned up on someone's doorstep.

Honestly I kinda want to, but does a single dude who one neurotic cat and a lot of gigs next month have any business with a new kitten?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds awful, Kevin. :-(

(Jordan, gimme that kitten!)

(Jordan, don't really do that - Nick would kill me!)

(Jordan, do it anyway!)

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 22 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

At least the Nightmare in Memphis has a nice little twist with the clarion call of the drum. But really that's a pretty sad story.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

getting to memphis in and of itself was an ordeal, the time there (all 14 or so hours of it) was a mistake followed by a mistake that compounded the one that begat it, and then getting home almost didn't happen. i don't think i was supposed to go away this weekend.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

hey sarah, i wasn't much fun to shop with anyway, since i only went to two places and got frustrated/bored/depressed and left. you didn't miss anything except for me flipping out on the train because the cup of coffee i bought leaked all over my face every time i took a sip. i really hate lids on coffee cups. give me ONE MUG and ONE SAUCER please.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

my weekend was pretty boring, aside from the new job.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, yeah! Congratulations!

Like I said, I slept until after 2pm Saturday. I NEVER do that! (Admittedly, I do take lots of naps though..)

Yesterday, I didn't even walk outside once.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Should I go see Pan's Labyrinth for the first time or Children of Men again?

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

lids on coffee cups totally suck!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

I want to see Pan's Labyrinth. Go see that and tell me if it's worth the big bucks or if I should wait for dvd.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

go see pan's
its worth big bucks
(and i was one of the more vocal haters on ilx)
(not really hating, just disappointed by the -----spoiler censored----)

Finally saw the departed last night and its incredible!

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

It is, I can't wait until it hits dvd.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

I want to see Children of Men.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Children of Men is way better. And if you have any aversions to really extreme, totally unnecessary violence, don't bother with Pan's Labyrinth.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, or Fargo, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver...

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno. It felt like a serious war movie filtered through Hellboy, and it just felt all wrong in places.

I like it less the more I think about it. Whereas the opposite is true for Children of Men.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

jk but seriously, i think the violence - and it is pretty gut-wrenching - has a rhyme & reason. My issue was with the resolution of the parallel worlds.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

a funny comparison but i think murakami's Hard Boiled Wonderland... (yes i recognize i'm comparing a book to a movie) does a better job w/ a similar sort of setup

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

See, I don't think there were parallel worlds. I'm a crusty cynic, I know.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

HELLO SOME PEOPLE HAVE NOT SEEN THESE MOVIES YET

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

there has been no spoilers!

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ok.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, we will not despoil movies here.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Nor sully.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

And DEFINITELY not defile.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

I liked Pan's Labyrinth. I think it's worth seeing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 January 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

I caught myself describing someone yesterday as "bridge and tunnel". Adopting New York-isms where they do not geographically apply: c/d?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

d

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, no it was ME I was describing. I found myself at the bar at Catch 35, but dressed for bowling. I said, "I feel so bridge and tunnel."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

d major

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what that means.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I was with an old New Yorker, so any inappropriateness went unnoticed.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

still d man.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

"Bridge and tunnel" is a phrase Manhattan fancy-pants people use to describe rubes from the outer boroughs.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

I don't get "bridge and tunnel".

I am seeing Pan's on Wed.

I may need a cat name soon (!)

xpost oh, that was my guess

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

still d dude.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, except most of us LIVE in the outer boroughs these days, and these days the B&T aesthetic is just as likely to be found on the Upper East Side.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

New York is full of itself

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't really mean it as an insult to myself, but rather a knock on these kind of non-typical Chicagoans hanging out downtown, listening to smooth jazz, and sipping $12 cocktails. And the bartender ignored me. So I was kind of like, "Oh, I get it."

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

What was that Chicago nightclub we were looking at the photo gallery of last week? Minus the racial difference component, that's the definition of "bridge and tunnel": flashy, more is more, all about the party, girls in very little clothing, nothing particularly "urban" or "artsy" about it. It's much more a product of a time when if you cared about the social or art or literary etc etc scenes AT ALL you'd live in Manhattan (ie the city was still dirty & shitty enough that you could afford to live on the island somewhere). If you lived in an outer borough or Jersey or Long Island, it was because you preferred to be there, ie weren't plugged into creative/professional/etc scenes.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

So it's a class issue.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

knock on these kind of non-typical Chicagoans hanging out downtown, listening to smooth jazz, and sipping $12 cocktails.

But $12 cocktails and smooth jazz are so quitessentially Gold Coast/Manhattan! That's the lifestyle that built the Marina Towers!

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

non-typical Chicagoans hanging out downtown, listening to smooth jazz, and sipping $12 cocktails.

my first trip to chicago included a couple nights like this. very first one was at the drake, after last call they let us stay and the bartnder made "very very dry" gimlets. which is to say they were just glasses full of vodka. the next night we went to some crappy place where most of the crowd was closer to 50 than 40 on rush street. it was kind of disorienting.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

So it's a class issue.

Of course!

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Yep, Amanda: class, but with a big, big component of genteel or artistic poverty/reverse snobbery. Ie the B&T crowd spent (and still does) big money to get into "hot" clubs with $15 cocktails, shiny cars, clothes, "done" hair, nails, buff bodies. Whereas the people labeling them as "B&T" are prob having $3 beers in Alphabet City and favor wool sweaters from the Salvation Army/2ndhand work clothes/are artists/wait tables.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.njguido.com/

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man that site is so awesome I'm almost speechless.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I am neglecting the phenomenon of the upper & priviliged classes ALSO applying the class label as the advantage-having group in all aspects...but it's my impression that the aspiring B&T crowd from the 80s are the current nouveau riche, and their kids are living on the Upper East Side and went to NYU and make 2 or 3x my salary. They're still patronizing bars with $20 covers, though, and all the rest of it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

Guidi-specific explanation here: http://www.njguido.com/heraldnews.htm

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

Is Guidi the plural of Guido?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

TYPO

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Ha I thought it was a pretty good joek.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

I know. Just joshin'.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

What horrible lives those poor people lead.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

in things i never thought i'd type news: i think that photo gallery has turned me off boobs forever.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

It ought to put you off implants forever, a lot of those girls aren't wearing the bodies they were born with.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

not that it really matters. i might as well be saying something put me off going to the moon or whatever.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, man. That new haircut is sex-ay.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, you can REALLY see the grey hairs now. 8(

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

grey hairs are distinguished!

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

I love my gray hairs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

i prefer to remain undistinguished thank you.

off topic, should i shave off my moustache?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

I recommend this look:

http://online.tvguide.com/images/pgimg/Arrested-David-Cross6.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

I just assumed you shaved it already!

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

john, it's frighteningly close to that now. the hairline is making a run for the highground on my forehead but it's not in the male-pattern baldness zone yet.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

My hair is thinning like a motherfucker.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

ALERT

BALDNESS IMMINENT

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

mine isn't thinning but i have a pronounced widow's peak now.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sillyjokes.co.uk/images/dress-up/wigs/char/value-dracula.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

you must to get rid of all moustaches, plz thank you

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

then i'm keeping it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

I like gray hairs on men our age. Cute!

I do not, however, like the white hairs that keep springing out front & center on my own head.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, if I decide to take in this cat I'm going to need a name. Current frontrunners are

Dude cat:

Elvin
Professor X
Theo
James

Girl cat:

Aaliyah
Missy
Professor X

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Kitty Pride

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Keep the stasch.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

oh it's gotta be kitty pride.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

"Professor X" makes me think either Terminator X or Professor Griff...

Termeownator X

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

in 'a walk on the wild side' there's a character called kitty twist, giving you a new orleans/chicago/literature tie-in.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Kitty Wells & Charlie Pride

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Too much like titty twist.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

S/he would get made fun of at school.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

i think that was intentional, kitty was a prostitute.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

I say keep the stach too.

Last time I let my beard build up into serious stach territory I shaved everything off but my lip, looked in the mirror, and looked so much like my father that I freaked out and had to shave it off immediately.

(http://www.social.mtu.edu/images/pem.jpg --- for reference, although he's rockin' the goatee here)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

he's rockin' the van dyke there.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Frankie Machine (the cat)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

You get more kisses without a stache.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

you must to get rid of all moustaches, plz thank you

I AGREE.

ha xp that too.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, unless...

http://www.geocities.com/erniepook00/gayglamoursully.jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

Christ, it's all semantics... I thought a Van Dyke had seperation between the stache and beard? Who cares, I can't grow facial hair anyway, my face just looks dirty.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

New Chicago Spire developments. I hope this thing gets built.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

You get more kisses without a stache.

to quote ralph wiggums, that's unpossible.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

goatee has no 'stache.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/106/313349673_632589420e.jpg?v=0

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

I hope this thing gets built.

Yeah, me too. Everybody loves it.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

cat stevens?

cat mandu

cat a. (standing for and) tonic

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

Um, everybody does? I really don't have an opinon on it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

wow the january version = big improvement over dec.

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Ew ew ew. Kenan, who's that b&w picture of?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

I really don't have an opinon on it.

Neither do I, until it's actually part of the skyline.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Andrew Sullivan.

xpost

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm thinking of cashing in my FkFctn prize on the show tomorrow night. Anyone else considering going?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

ooh, i may be out of money, airport booze is NOT cheap.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, what were you doing at C35? Who was the bartender? I don't know of any bartender there that would ignore you for being shabby, but if it's our usual Sunday guy he is kind of old and stoned.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, it was Saturday. I can't remember the bartender. He warmed up a lot later, when the crowd thinned. I'm sure I was just being touchy.

What kind of restaurant empties out at 9 on a Saturday night, btw?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

A restaurant in the Loop.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, what were you doing at C35?

We tried to go bowling at Lucky Strike, and the waiting list was 2 1/2 hours. This was at 6. Then we went to 10 Pin, but it was closed for a private party. So we walked across the river for whatever looked nice. Catch was nice!

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

We get a theatre crowd and then a regular dinner crowd and usu. the last wave comes in around 8-9. Plus it's January so things are deeeead.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

i remember seeing the most miserable alternateen ever working at 10 pin (then AMF). the manager dude or whomever came in just after they opened and made turned off her music and put on some seriously bad dance shit. she was miserable in only the way disaffected teenaged girls can be.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Strange:

Brian: take a break from Chicago. come to sunny nyc

me: i want to come visit
but do you have running water? what exactly are the ammenities?

Brian: running water...
east village
forth story walkup
snobby neighbors
4:14 PM there's a black squirrel that lives at 14th between 1st and ave A that I like to look at but not get too close to
you should plan to come

me: i thought it was a studio apt.
Brian: you can right the expenses off as educational b/c you would be staying in allen ginsberg's old apartment
no
not studio
Brian: three bedrooms
though they used to be offices

it's 3 bedroom, two kitch, 1 1/2 bathroom apartment
in the sink

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

What's "in the sink"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

this makes zero sense

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

1) who's Brian

2) how much is this apartment?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

3) What's "in the sink"?

4) Two kitchens?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Ooops, i cut something out accidentally.

Me: "is there a place to bathe"
Brian: "in the sink. there are 2 bathtubs that don't work"

Brian is Courtney's ex

The apartment is free. He's been squatting there for over a year.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

And it has 2 kitchens.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's apparently a huge place in the E. village, for FREE. How can you pass that up?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

I think I could pass that up.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

It's the Chicago couch and multiple cats preference.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

and proper plumbing

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

me:you dick
Brian: you're a dick
me: oops
i HONESTLY do not remember writing "you dick"
Brian: yah you probably just pressed CNTRL "D" that's a microsoft preset


― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

Got my w-2's today. NOT BAD news! Before making deductions I will only owe less than $1000 for fed and state *combined*. I'm going to try to turn that into a net REFUND of at least $1000.

I hate being a waiter at tax time.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

Francine Fishpaw

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh oh feeling frantic and bad, I can just FEEL the badness rolling in. Must leave office, cannot kill any more time here before evening engagement. Off to buy Michigan ginger ale.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 22 January 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

I am taking the cat, apparently.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

Brian tells me that his apartment came equipped with a cat who was already living there.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

His fucking paintings have started to get really amazing.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

(The website is kind of ugly though.)

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 00:49 (eighteen years ago)

Wow. That's good stuff!

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

Trippy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

wow...those are great. me likey.

― CM@her (cmaher), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

Nene Hilario

Kim Gordon
Nene Hilario
Herschel Gordon Lewis

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:54 (eighteen years ago)

Second page of paintings, second one down on the right was our wedding present from Brian. It's in the kitchen.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

After Courtney, I think Jeff and I have the second largest private collection of Zegeers.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

Those were cat names up there.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. Funkenstein

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

Duck Duck Goose

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

After Courtney, I think Jeff and I have the second largest private collection of Zegeers.

I have you both beat by a country mile. They are, however, technically on loan/in storage with me. I don't think I have any of his paintings though--only etchings, woodcuts, charcoals, and colored pencil.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:16 (eighteen years ago)

I wish his website weren't Flash-based so I could link to particular images. My favorite is "Turkish Pipes."

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 04:17 (eighteen years ago)

Last week I learned that this is the town where the K3hrs originated. The satellite seems to have a hair stuck in its lens or the aliens are tracing a course through that neighborhood.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 05:15 (eighteen years ago)

Hm. My cable modem is suddenly much faster than it has ever been before. It usually tops out at a little over 500k/sec, regardless of the number of seeders or the speed of the server I'm downloading from or whatever, meaning I have a 512k connection, and that's just dandy. But just a minute ago I downloaded the new Of Montreal album, and it was coming in at about 1.5 MEGS per second. I had the whole 100MB in about a minute. What did I do right?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:02 (eighteen years ago)

Some good it did me, though. I have never heard this band before, and my first reaction is VIOLENT REVULSION GET IT OFF ME GET IT OFF ME AAAUUUGGGGGGGGH

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:05 (eighteen years ago)

Ahhhh it's quarter to one am and I only just got my mom to leave. I'm never going to catch up on sleep.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:45 (eighteen years ago)

xp I like them, but they're best in small doses.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:46 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan -- is the kitten yours??

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:47 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yeah, whenever I react like that to anything, it's usually safe to assume that it's just me.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. This is Aaliyah (I think). She has fleas and worms.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/366718943_9348b87eba.jpg?v=0

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 06:48 (eighteen years ago)

hi! im coming on thursday until monday. anything fun going on? i want to eat well, so if anyone wants to go get some good food, let me know. pita inn, noon o kebab, some thai, mexican, etc .

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 07:26 (eighteen years ago)

I had this dream last night that Blonde Redhead had started out as a seminal hardcore band, and got their start by playing sets that were all covers of other hardcore bands' songs.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 11:26 (eighteen years ago)

Phil, I like you a lot but since you're usually doing things too late for my aging tastes, I never get to see you. Therefore I would love to get some food with you.

Jordan, get that cat to a vet pronto or your entire house is going to have fleas and your other cat is going to get worms. She's very likely also got ear mites, which are also very contagious. Although that picture looks like it was taken in the bathroom, which is a good place to keep her in the meantime.

Also: CUTE KITTEN OMG!!! <3 <3 <3 <3

Also I think that she looks more like a Kim Gordon than an Aliyah, although if you name her Aliyah you can sing that Donnie Iris song to her a lot.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh it's cool Jenny, she's already been to the vet. She's quarantined to the bathroom for 24 hrs while the topical flea medicine kills the fleas and I have to squirt some medicine in her mouth w/an eyedropper for the next for days for the worms.

Kim Gordon is a good name for a cat but I have never owned a Sonic Youth record (DUM DUM DUM!).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

call it "the karate kitten". or linda ellerbee. or tabby hoffman.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Mr. McKittenbuttons.
Sir McKittyshire.

Ever since 'manda mentioned it on here a year ago, I can't stop thinking that cat names with "Mister" and "Sir" are the best.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Mistress Aaliyah

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Cool, Jordan! You are a responsible cat owner!

Now name her Dr. Funkenstein. It's the only responsible thing to do.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I would add "Dr." to the list of excellent feline prefixes. Although CPO is pretty good, too.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, If you're interested, we can put your name on the list too.

That kitcat is a cutiepie.
Kitcat
Cutiepie

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

You could name her Dr. Aaliyah Funkenstien.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Muggins

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

sarah, thanks, can i let you know after lunch? my credit union's website is down for maintenance and i don't know if i have enough money for a beer.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Jeez. I can give you a free beer too! I want people to come to this show. But sure, you can tell me later.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

you know what, i will be there. put me down. if it turns out i DON'T have any money i'll probably leave after your set but i will be there.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Come back! I'll stop talking about the show. I promise!

Have I told you guys about the Orgasm Alarm Clock? Every weekday morning, at 7am on the dot, some neighbor dude comes really loudly. It's my signal that I need to hurry up and finish getting ready to catch the bus.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

man, i HATE when the best part of my day happens before 9 a.m.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm surprised I hadn't mentioned that before.

I've had too much coffee today already.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

I can't one-up my own story there. So someone else is going to have to say somthing.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

lol "tabby hoffman"

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I am too distracted by OSCAR NOMINATION DAY to post on this thread right now.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

kitty carryall.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Comrade Kitanya 'Kitka' Irenya Tantanya Karenska Alisoff

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

her royal highness queen pompadour.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/hollywood/hills/1391/1966/CastPics/CatwomanLM.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

a cat called mouse would be appropriate for a kitten.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe dude just has an alarm clock that makes an orgasm noise. Like a novelty alarm clock. Otherwise, he is very regular.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe the rest of his day/evening is very busy.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know if I could tolerate hearing a neighbor orgasm regularly. On Sunday the guy on the second floor played the Whitney Houstion version of "I Will Always Love You" about 6 times in a row, and that was enough to make me want to kill.

and IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIII WILL ALLLLWAAAYS LOOVE YOUUUUUUUUUoOoOoOoOhhhhhhh

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

we used to have a downstairs neighbor who would regularly bring home dudes, smoke a ton of pot (to the point where we were pretty much hotboxing in our apartment), then leave smooth jazz records on repeat all night with the volume turned way up. she routinely dated gang-bangers so i never complained or stomped on the floor or anything. the only thing i could hope for is that one of her kids would wake up and start screaming because that was the only time she'd turn the damn thing off.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

my downstairs neighbor makes absolutely zero noise. it is impossible to listen to music in my apt.

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, you know your neighbor must have been having a major breakdown.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Or dresses up in ladies underwear and lip-syncs in front of a mirror.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what the hell he was up to. He's a quiet guy, usually. His cats running back and forth is pretty much the only noise we hear from up there. I think he's had a party like one time in a year. I decided that either his boyfriend broke up with him or he must be sampling the song or something, why else would you listen to it that many times?

Xpost hahahah EZ

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

My old roommates Bob and Jamie, neither of whom were in any way romantically involved with me, and I used to randomly sing that song to each other from opposite ends of the house and it was extra funny when it would make the dog howl, which was often.

The last two nights our upstairs neighbor has been running a fan, which she sits directly on her wooden bedroom floor, until about four AM. Through the magic of physics, this turns our entire bedroom into like a giant speaker so it's like sleeping in the grinding, humming, vibrating trunk of a moving car that needs a tune up. HOWEVER I ran into her on as we were leaving the building this morning and she kindly agreed to put the fan on a chair from here on out. She is also an 8th grade special ed teacher in Logan's Square, which means that she has to be pretty awesome because, seriously? No thanks.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

I just rediscovered a love of mac n cheese. Actually, I hated it growing up, so I'm just discovering it for the first time now. We made it last night for the first time. MIAM! I mention it because lunch is in 15 minutes and I brought leftovers. I also mention it because I'm sure you all care.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

How could you have hated mac & cheese as a kid??

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't dig it either. i totally do now though.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

It's slimy and makes a gross sound when you stir it up.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

When I was growing up, we always had fish sticks with our mac-and-cheese for some reason.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Mac is only good home-made. Or Annie's, if you add enough milk and extra cheese to it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

I never have mac-and-cheese at home anymore, because I never have cow's milk on hand.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, we just got the macaroni noodles, milk & cheese... I suggested we stop off somewhere like Whole Foods or TJ's and try to get a healthier version and Nick laughed at me, saying there's no such thing as healthy mac n cheese.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

We have milk on hand for baking and coffee.

I guess you mean you have soymilk at home or no milk, John?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

Tigermilk?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

i have no milk on hand usually. plenty of half and half but no milk.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

I go through about a gallon and a half of milk a week. I'm concerned about the hormones.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Annie's is teh bomb, I started buying those little "Milk Chug" containers because it's the only thing I want to use it for.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Jordan, please give the cat the title (?) of Comrade!

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

I always have milk for tea/coffee/cooking/drinking purposes. Can live without it in tea, but not in coffee, and what about with brownies?? A must-have. :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

and what about with brownies?? A must-have. :)

oh man, otm. it's like a hotdog without a bun otherwise.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

me: what does "annie's in the tomb" mean?
Dan: you mean "Annie's is teh bomb"?
me: yeh
what is that?
Dan: hippy organic natural etc mac & cheese
me: oh!!!
Dan: http://www.annies.com/
me: i COMPLETELY misread that, and i reread it 3x!
Dan: go ahead, post this transcript on the thread
[smile]
me: i was totally already doing that. are you mocking me?
Dan: hahaha
I wanted to do it with the first sentence

Dan is offline. Messages you send will be delivered when Dan comes online.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

hilarious

― annie's in the tomb (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

I guess you mean you have soymilk at home or no milk, John?

Yeah, soy milk. I only ever use milk for cereal (where I have to actually taste it), so it doesn't make sense to have regular milk around, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

I figured out why when you post to this thread it says that emails have been sent....

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

WHY? Don't keep us in suspense, bucko.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

Hint: my dead email address has 1500 emails from ILX. I don't recall subscribing though.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

I give up!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

I liked mac & cheese growing up but my mom also used to make tuna casserole, which was basically mac & cheese with tuna fish in it, and to me that is like the worst food in the world. I think I would rather eat human flesh than tuna casserole. Seriously. It was one of those foods where my parents wouldn't let me leave the table until I ate it so I would sit there in the dark by myself refusing to eat my cold tuna fish casserole.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Damn, I was really hoping someone had put one of the Chicago thread hataz email addresses in there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want to be self-serving, but I'm thinking about creating a new thread, partially for this reason.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

My mom used to make tuna casserole too, but it was bad ass: penne, some kind of white cheesy sauce, bread crumbs on top, lots of onions and celery... Mmmmm.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago: Free Smells

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)


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