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― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

― attack all monsters (skowly), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

whenever i pass the jimmy johns on division i have to fight the urge to go in there and start sniffing the people behind the counter.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse explain thread title plz

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/46/124514273_35e0f68b0d_m.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Jimmy Johns. Sub shops.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

jimmy johns rulez, even i, a DCer know this!

― Mr. Que (Mr.Que), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ahhhhhhh. Why have I never seen one of those here? They were all over E. Lansing when I lived there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know if you have Big Mike's/Milio's, but Jimmy Johns >>>>> Milio's

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

They're all over Chicago too.

Whenever I pass a JJs I think of the sewery smell that emerges in spring time all around Chicago.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

State and Jackson, and Chicago Ave near State for example.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

WTF, Dan, there's lots of Jimmy John's in Chicago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

And they all have the FREE SMELLS sign.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Btw I think her name is Kitka. Comrade Kitka.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

dan, i think they've only shown up here in the last two or three years? or maybe they were here all along and there's been some sort of franchise explosion but they're in more places than they used to be. including on division just west of damen.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Subway? check
Quizno's? check
Potbelly? check

Why would I have seen a Jimmy John's?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.foxnews.com/images/173523/0_23_081705_jessica_butt.jpg

FREE SMELLS

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you, Kenan, for jessica_butt.jpg. Time to turn images off again...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

sewery smells in chicago - on illinois around wabash as well as state and kinzie. wtf is going on under state street? besides the red line that is.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

I think Kevin is right, though. There seems to have been an explosion of JJ's lately. There are now JJ's on Lawrence in Lincoln Square and on Broadway in Uptown, for instance. (I eat at the one inside an office building at LaSalle and Lake.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

I only object to this thread title because JJ's is not exclusive to Chicago (although it did start in Charleston, Ill., at Eastern Illinois University).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, that reminds me of Ekaterina.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

i guessing it's tied to the fact that sub shops are among the cheapest to own and operate as well as having a high profit margin.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

Ekaterina needs to improve her web design skillz.

Kitka is embarassingly enough a reference to Catwoman's undercover identity in Batman the Movie.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe this will be the one week of the year where I buy indie rock cds, there's a lot of stuff I'm interested in all of a sudden (Field Music, Deerhoof, etc.).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

I only object to this thread title because JJ's is not exclusive to Chicago

This could also be said of "If Hep C Was Attacking Your Face" and "Egg Donors." And Sweater Weather.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

weren't the hep c ads chicago specific? it wasn't a reference to the disease, it was to the ad campaign.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Did the ads only appear in Chicago? I don't know. I thought they were maybe an IL Dept. of Health thing.

Now I wish I had called the thread "Bag Tag."

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, we had the hep ads here, too.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Now I wish I had called the thread "Bag Tag."

OMG THE HORROR!!!!!!111one

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Horror doesn't come into it until we start talking about that the top photo would be.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

wtf is bag tag?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

The last thread didn't have a top photo at all, and it was niiiice.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago: New York has Hepatitis Ads Too.
Chicago: (Or New York?)
Chicago: Salt From the Sidewalks gets in My Shoes and Makes My Feet Like the Scratchy Part of Vel-Cro.
Chicago: Streetwise, Help the Homeless.
Chicago: 800-588-2300, EMPIRE!

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Bag tag is a bonding experience between Dan and his friends.

One time at Crew I saw a guy PUNCH his friend in the balls on 4 seperate sneak attacks. It was HILARIOUS.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

I'm so sorry I'm male. So so sorry.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

I do not believe I would enter into any sort of friendly relationship with someone who I suspected might one day punch me in the balls.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I'm probably going to regret this, but oh well...

Bag Tag is when a group of people (i.e. me and my idiotic UP friends) who have testicles try to snap/slap/flick/otherwise lightly strike each other's testicles while simultaneously defending their own against similar attacks. In my experience, this is done fully clothed and ususally heavily intoxicated, and almost always leads to falling on the floor, hilarity, and some pain. Though not too much pain. When I described it to Kenan he called it "the gayest damn thing i've ever heard" which I guess is kinda accurate, except no one is getting f-ed in the b. I personally liken it to any number of Jackass sketches.

I brought it up in the "hitting men in the testicles...humorous" thread, and someone found it "horrifying". Which, if you're a complete nancy boy, I guess it is. I feel sorry for people who don't have friends who they feel close enough with that they're willing to take an occasional ball-strike from them.

xpost: Not punch... we're not that crazy.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/153/857565~In-the-Company-of-Men-Video-Release-Posters.jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

You can see on the poster that Eckart is about to punch that other dude in the balls.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

One time at Crew I saw a guy PUNCH his friend in the balls on 4 seperate sneak attacks. It was HILARIOUS.

and it IS hilarious as long as you're an observer and not a participant. esp. in a bar.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, Kr just watched that movie for the first time the other day. Later that night I arrived at her apartment cautiously, prepared to be the whipping boy for the sins of men.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

The last ball-related event among my friends was definitely a punch, and definitely hilarious (and injurious). It followed the phrase "if you do that one more time, I am going to punch you in the balls," calmly spoken.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

hello from glasgow :)

i'm not sure who is in chicago other than Jaymc and kenan but i'm spamming this for J amd anyone else who may be interested:

OPTIMO ON TOUR 2007

Saturday February 24th - San Francisco Gun Club (Twitch)

Wednesday February 28th - San Diego TBC (Twitch)

Thursday March 1st - Austin Whisky Bar (Twitch)

Friday March 2nd - Chicago Ohm (Twitch)

― jed_ (jed), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

dan, it was called "cup check" in high school, and it was a light upward tap because, as we all know, a glancing blow can be just as painful as a full-on punch. thankfully, i can say i never had my cup checked nor do i inspect anyone else's. owie!

― attack all monsters (skowly), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

That reminds me of tour news with slight interest to John:

C0ugar tour

Jan 25 2007 9:00P EMPTY BOTTLE (w/ Them, Roaringtwenties, Unicycle Loves You) Chicago, Illinois

Jan 26 2007 9:00P KRAFTBRAU (w/ Phil Barry, Matt Gross) (18+) Kalamazoo, Michigan

(and the next night in New York, WTF)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

i thought i had made it clear in the last thread that this one should be titled 'that old car may be worth money'

― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

I HATE WAITING FOR PACKAGES ALL DAY FFS

― attack all monsters (skowly), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Did you order something? My package hasn't gone out yet, FYI.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

I have never seen whatever is being referenced there.

Another thought Chicago: Do You Have Eensurance for Thees Car??

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I stand by "Chicago: Do You Want Tamales?"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago: It's not gay. It's wrestling.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse: http://youtube.com/results?search_query=victory+auto+wreckers&search=Search

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Why does Eagle MAN lay an egg?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

I've been asking myself that since 1993 or so.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

chicago: tamales, tamales, tamales would have been awesome.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Queso, Puerco, o Pollo?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

QUESO!!!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

pig

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

sarah/nick, what time do you guys go on tonight? because i'm definitely going to need a nap when i get home.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

hiya

first day of work at new job: complete! i was at the west campus, which is roughly at armitage and kedzie. tomorrow i go to south campus, which is on 25th. i have never been there. tomorrow i will go there.

i'm happy.

I AM HAPPY.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

where are yo working?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

you.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

st. @ugustine college -- sorry do NOT WANT to be googled by stoods

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

of course.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

...or fellow faculty members, for that matter.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

I took a look at this apartment today. I think I'm just gonna damn take it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

didja meet any creepies today?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

AFAIK we go on at 10.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

me? creepies? not really. my class is all female. none of them are creepy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

i was referring to the faculty.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

thanks nick! i'll be there before that.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

The napkins at Jimmy Johns say "PLEASE WIPE". College humor, eh?

Jimmy John's is the kind of place I like for reasons other than the food: good light, free refills, booths. Slim #2 and I'm set.

On the subway in NYC a few years ago I saw an ad for a lawyer whose number was 1-800-INNOCENT - and I imagined some guy in jail trying all sorts of ways to spell 'innocent'.

― Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

xp - actually, yes. one. but i won't have to talk to him much.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

The "slim" option at JJ's makes me LOL. They don't take out any meat or cheese, the just remove the veggies! WTF?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

(at least that's how I remember it, I haven't been there in awhile)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago, How does a Superball (Betting) Square work, and can I eat it?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

what?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www2s.biglobe.ne.jp/~pochi/mobile_diary/SuperBall.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

There are cubical superballs? Wow, amazing times we live in, eh?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

This is the outer limits, dood.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

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

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

You don't know how happy it makes me to have another occasion to post that jpg. MWAH MWAH MWAH

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

jpeg OTM

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

you mean a superbowl square?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

if so i'll explain it to you tonight.

pass the dutchie on the left hand side chicago, i'm out of here.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha Kevin's sign-offs just keep getting better!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 23 January 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, there was a street musician playing Mercy, Mercy, Mercy on the sax right next to the stop where I was waiting for the 126 bus and I was going to text you to tell you but I didn't have your number and Jesse didn't get back to me fast enough so the moment passed.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

I personally liken it to any number of Jackass sketches.

Which is like the second gayest damn thing I've ever seen, the first being movies of dudes fing each other in the b.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

Haha Jenny

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:23 (eighteen years ago)

Holy crap, I'm introducing the cats to each other tonight.

First there was hissing then, there was avoidance, then they had a ten minute staring contest in my room. I look away and now they're having a staring contest on the bathroom counter.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

INTENSE

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, I live a block away from the above mentioned Jimmy John's on Division (between Hoyne and Leavitt, I think).

Just saying.

People used to play bagtag is high school all the time. A slightly different version, though. Basically it worked like the taggers were zombies, sort of. You could only "tag" someone else if you'd already been tagged. Once you'd been tagged, you couldn't be tagged again. I ran away from everyone like the Nancyboy that I am for a week or so. One day a group of 5-6 guys cornered me, and I gave myself up, with my hands above my head and my eyes closed.

It was the most erotic moment of my life.

― Zachary S (Zach S), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/7/75/GloriaStuartTitanic.jpg/180px-GloriaStuartTitanic.jpg

― Zachary S (Zach S), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:34 (eighteen years ago)

What's gayer: bagtagging or girlpiling?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

My vote goes unequivocally to bagtagging because it involves jiggling someone else's parts, which girlpiling generally eschews. There's no titfluffing or bits-striking. Just piling.

Discus.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:38 (eighteen years ago)

Cosine.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

hi chicago.

yours truly plays records at red-i in Chinatown 10pm-11pm tonite, and then at Celebrity in Wicker Park from 12am-2am.

free drink for ilxors.

― jambalaya backgammon (grady), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

I decided to start blogging again.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking as a former employee Jimmy John's is super nasty and this thread title is a PTSD trigger. If you order a slim sandwich they are also supposed to take off mayo and whatever other gourmet sauces might be involved with that particular menu item but yeah it's pretty goofy stuff

― A B C (sparklecock), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

girlpiling

Maybe I'm behind on some other thread, but are there any confirmed instances of "girlpiling"?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:33 (eighteen years ago)

And is there video?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

There's no titfluffing or bits-striking. Just piling.

well then what exactly goes on in a girlpile?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

zachary s, likewise i live about a block from that jimmy johns. a number of chilxors live near leavitt incidentally, though it ranges pretty far north.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Zach, we must live very close to each other...

Yeah, I meant SUPERBOWL Square. Maybe I was thinking about Helium when I wrote that.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

What goes on in a girlpile? There's a little leap-and-land (depending on the bravery of the people involved) and giggling. But in my experience there has been no diddling of any kind.

I propose we start the following rumor:

There's a new game that teenagers across the nation are playing called Titball (or Titbag? Bitsnipe?). It's basically a coed version of bagtagging where the boys try to fluff the girls' boobs (ala Diana Ross and Lil Kim) and the girls try to jostle the boys' balls. It goes on in basements and has replaced freeze tag and spin the bottle among tweener party games. And it's VERY DANGEROUS.

Rumor starts now.

Time for me to go to new job! See y'alls.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

superbowl square: there will be a grid with 100 spaces in it. you will write your name in one space for each square you purchase. when the grid is full numbers will be randomly assigned to each row and column (in ones i've run before we'd pick #'s out of a hat) and then the each team is assigned either the rows or columns. so let's say the bears are assigned the rows and the colts the columns. you find your square(s) and note what row it is in (for this example lets say it's in row 7) and what column it's under (for this example let's say column 4). at the end of each quarter you note the score. if the bears score ends in a 7 and the colts score ends in a 4 then you win for that quarter. some places only do it for the game or for the half depending on how much they sell squares for. check with whomever is administering your game.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

who's up for some titbagging this weekend?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

OMG no i came back because i had a better idea

it's called FLUFFERNUTTER.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

amanda, GO TO WORK!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think it will catch on. Sekrit teenage party activity rumors these days are all about "rainbow parties" and "anal sex."

Sarah, how was the Bottle?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

A little fluffernutter in the basement is about as worrysome as Scrabble to todays parents.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

wtf is a "rainbow party"? they dress up like jesse jackson or something?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ranbow Party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_party_(sexuality)

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

(sexuality) is part of the URL.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

after reading that wikipedia entry i still have one question:

WHY COULDN'T I HAVE BEEN BORN IN 1993 INSTEAD OF 1973???

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

You could go back to high school undercover like Johnny Depp in 21 Jump Street except that instead of being 21 you are 34 and instead of fighting crime you are looking for blowjobs from girls who aren't old enough to drive yet.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, the show was decent. The turnout wasn't awesome, but it was a last-minute Tuesday show.. and Dan showed up! And Kevin! and John! I felt like we played decently too, though Do the Dance sounded more like Do the Almost Falling off a Cliff Dance.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

chicago: looking for blowjobs from girls who aren't old enough to drive yet.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

I do believe the rainbow party fear was definitively exposed as a hoax, though. Which the wiki entry kind of hints at but doesn't confirm. Also, the YA book was roundly mocked.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

i thought you guys sounded really good sarah. i will forever be puzzled by the indie perimeter that keeps people at least 15 feet from the stage.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks, Kevin.

What was that frenchie fry movie a few years back involving teen girls giving blowjobs in a park bathroom? Come on, you know what I'm talking about... Their boyfriends agree to it because they need the money?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Yay Sarah!

It's the indie fear of looking like you're caring too much about what's happening on stage.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

xpost And then one of them tries to screw over the others... but not literally.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Re indie aloofness: it's not A SHOW unless you're close enough to be hit by a mike stand.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

after the ff set and before the headliners went on i was in the pool room talking to my friend matt. when i went back into the main room i was surprised to see how crowded it got. then i moved by the sound board and saw that it wasn't that crowded it's just that there was a 15 foot dmz-like semi-circle in front of the stage. i don't get it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

And it's VERY DANGEROUS.

The line between innocent titbagging and a full purple nurple is a fine one, and we can't trust kids of this age to always exercise restraint.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Dammit, I forgot to bring a fork again today. I'm going to spend all my money on salads from the food court just so I can get forks.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone gets up in arms about nonexistent teen sex parties and the like, but they ignore a very real and disturbing problem among teenagers: premature ejaculation.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

A problem only time will remedy.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

but they ignore a very real and disturbing problem among teenagers: premature ejaculation.

kenan, if you stopped dating teenaged boys you could ignore it too.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

Never.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

I bet John knows what movie I was talking about...

Anyway, Nick is working from home today. At about 10 til 7 I was like, Hey! Guess what! You get to hear Orgasm Alarm Clark with me today! We had a little laugh about that. Sure enough, a little over 5 minutes later.. In real life, it's more gross than funny.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

is it self service with that dude or is it a team effort?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'm leaning towards self service since I never hear another person.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

And with another person, it doesn't happen every single day. (Not in my experience, anyway. Maybe I'm not sexy enough?)

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think it's out of the question that a couple could have a very regular daily sex schedule. We don't, but we don't eat dinner at the same time every day either and lots of couples manage that one.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

The question that haunts me is if you're all alone, why make so much noise?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

i can't remember the last time i had either.

:((((((((((((((((((((

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

The question that haunts me is if you're all alone, why make so much noise?

that's kind of why i asked.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

i can't remember the last time i had either.

Sex or dinner?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Maybe he's faking it?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

He's naturally theatrical.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Do you know who this dude is? I mean, do you have to, like, see him in the hallway?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think it's out of the question that a couple could have a very regular daily sex schedule.

Not out of the question, but why bother?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, sometimes I like it in the morning. Sometimes at night. Sometimes you want a little afternoon delight.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm.. You all make some fascinating points here.

I don't know who it is exactly. It's hard to tell where the sound is coming from, even though it's really loud. It's either above us, below us, or beside us. That narrows it down, huh? Thankfully, we don't know any of our neighbors that well, and rarely see them around.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

It's better not to know. Otherwise you've have to titter when you saw him and call him "Spoogey" behind his back.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Not out of the question, but why bother?

I don't know Kenan. My only point was that just because YOU don't do it, doesn't mean it's totally out of the realm of possibility for somebody else.

I'm going to embroider that on a sampler that you can hang above your computer. Or have it tattooed on the backs of your hands so that you can see it as you're typing replies on ILX.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

You don't understand. If I don't do it, it's obviously not worth doing.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

You know that. I know that. But does Orgasmatron who loves above Nick and Sarah know that?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

freudian or on purpose?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

OMG gross.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Are those my only two options?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

make your own rules, blaze your own trail jenny.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Then I assert that sometimes a typo is just a typo.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

sure ok. if you can believe that then i guess i can too. or try to anyway.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I bet John knows what movie I was talking about...

I don't, actually! Wait, it's not Fat Girl, is it? It sounds like it could be a Catherine Breillat film.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, found it.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.

That's the sentence of the day.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Somebody at the EE0C is listening to Steeley Dan.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Righteous!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

It's certainly an improvement over Chuck Mangione.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like Jesse would have some things to say on this thread (also ties in somewhat to our bagtagging convo from yesterday).

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

steely dan AND chuck mangione? why didn't my dad tell me he was coming to town?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

From linked thread: lolololol at "brojobs."

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin - funny!

We should all go over to N. and Sarah's some morning at 6:45 with coffee and Krispy Kremes, and then post our theories. If he's with someone, you would hear someone get out of bed afterwards (if it was routine at 7 a.m., and the other person has to leave for work at 7:20, or something like that). Maybe he's a yoga guy who figured out that he intensifies things by making noise, much to your guys' detrement.

I never went to a rainbow party, but my last year of college there was a topless party with about 75 people, and I was fully aware that I was living the dream that grown men have. It was wonderful. One gal in a motorcycle jacket and a necktie.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, do I ever want some Krispy Kremes...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Well, that's not really topless, is it? :(

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

She lost the motorcycle jacket after a while.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

But it was more of a dance party than a sex party, which was neat.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Misty water-colored memories.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Given that its socially acceptable for men to go topless without being subjected to sexual harassment, a "topless" party seems to be a pretty obvious ruse for an event with a one-sided benefit, no?

It's a good example of the shortcomings of "formal equality."

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

I was fully aware that I was living the dream that grown men have. It was wonderful.

You're telling me!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

But it was a suite full of gals who threw the party, Jenny, and the party itself was maybe two-thirds gals. But, yeah, I know the fellas had it easy.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

I'd still probably have been self-conscious about my jiggling flab.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

And it was a lot of queer/bi gals, so it wasn't a getting-topless-for-the-boys kind of stunt. (It was more getting-topless-with-a-necktie-and-biker-jacket-for-the-gals kind of stunt.)

I'd still probably have been self-conscious about my jiggling flab.

It wasn't mandatory (I think I had on a shirt unbuttoned or something like that).

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

I am also trying to decide which is more implausible, a solo dude who is really loud or a couple that has sex every single day, at 7:00 am no less. It has to be the former.

The cat standoff is ongoing. Honestly I feel pretty bad right now for disturbing Wolfie's peaceful routine. However, there hasn't been any fighting yet, just a lot of wary looks and some hissing. I almost locked the kitten in the bathroom before I left this morning, but I decided to let them work it out.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

But it was more of a dance party than a sex party, which was neat.

Yeah, there's a curve of sexyness in groups.

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/sexy_curve.jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

(Slow day at work.)

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

*applause*

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I'm not busting your chops for going to/enjoying the party, Eric! We were talking about formal equality/Liberalism in class on Monday and that just struck me as an interesting example of the kind of thing that is absolutely equal on the surface (everybody is topless) but not equal in the least once you look beyond the formality of it (only women are prohibited from exposing their breasts in public and all the other complicated relationships between women, their breasts, and society).

Similarly, Jeff was watching some surgery show on TV and they were showing a boob job. It was perfectly acceptable to broadcast graphic images of surgery/blood but they blurred out the woman's nipples because, you know, nipples totally unacceptable and might upset someone.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

*more applause*

So if the guy is on the phone every morning at 7, that would be plausible but unlikely. Maybe he's got a girlfriend serving in Iraq. Or in prison or something.

The details of the cats getting used to each other is fascinating.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

and so jeff's surgery fetish was revealed.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Not to mention being perfectly acceptable to positively portray a woman who, even by society's fucked up beauty standards, was a real knockout and yet was haunted HAUNTED I TELL YOU by her large nipples and decided to undergo costly, painful, and potentially dangerous surgery to correct a defect that would be best approached from a personally mental or systemically societal context.

After she got her new boobs she was so happy she took all her girlfriends to a strip aerobics class.

But women's nipples? NO WAY THAT IS OFFENSIVE.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I for one, am offended by nipples.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I mean... I've watched that show before.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's Jeff's "view into the crazy mental state of people who have elective cosmetic surgery" fascination. I admit to also being fascinated but that is tempered by my anger/squeamishness to the point of not particilarly enjoying the show.

Also - more applause for Kenan, especially for using "brojob."

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

i was watching my recording of anthony bourdain from this week and there was a message beforehand about OMG INDIGENOUS NUDITY--MAY NOT BE APPROPRIATE FOR CHILDREN. but really it was less than national geographic would show. there were a couple of ladies hanging around topless, completely natural.

the parental warnings offend me.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I saw that too, and laughed at "indigenous nudity" myself. Because it's always important to distinguish your nudities.

(Non-boob related comment) I've always wanted to go to Namibia.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of offense indiginous people, have you seen the Capital One commercial where a family lost their frequent flier miles and so couldn't go to Ireland, but instead had to visit some indiginous Amazonian tribe and, of course, end up riddled with blow darts and, impliedly, cooked for the tribes' EVIL CANIBAL RITUAL? It ends with the suposed tribal leader babbling some pseudo-Indian dialect at the camera. It stuns me every time I see it.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

you think them to be amazonian, i thought them to be from papua new guinea. what does that say about us?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'd rather go to South America than Ireland.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's more what it says about the people who wrote the commercial - they are just grabbing random elements of indiginous culture to create a pastiche that your average TV viewer will immediately associate with the worst stereotypes about indiginous people (they are weird-looking, scary, mean, cannibals that reasonably white people want nothing to do with).

Note: I am not falling prey to the noble savage myth and I recognize that some indiginous people actually were/are mean, scary, cannibals. The "weird looking" is just a subjective guess as to what your average American TV viewer would think.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.labyrinthbooks.com/images/books/168/0374521506.jpeg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

I meant to say: I'm fascinated by that kind of thing, too.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, Jenny, I hate that ad. I kind of can't believe it exists.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

Come one. It can't be worse the one where car salesmen sing "So Long, Farewell" from The Sound of Music. I can't believe that exists.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

It is, however, only offensive to musical theater characters.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Apart from offending the aesthetic sensibilities of any person with ears, but that takes second place to the aboriginal thing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

No commercials for me until Feb. 7.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

I exaggerate for comedic effect.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Whaa? Why, John?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

That's when Lost comes back on. The only TV I watch otherwise is on DVD. Actually, that's not true: I watched about 10 minutes of Conan last night.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm well into my 3rd day of no tv or movies!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

same, i can't remember watching anything since catching the tail end of the pats game at o'hare.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

I just never know the commercials you guys are talking about.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

wait, that's not true, i caught the weather on wgn morning news yesterday and monday.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Is tomorrow a Jewish holiday?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Not according to this calendar.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like being offended by the representation of indigenous people in that ad is like being offended by the representation of cavemen in the Flinstones.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not offended by it, it's too stupid to take seriously. i just have a hard time believing that a) someone thought it was a good idea for an ad, b) that there were probably numerous meetings and planning sessions on the ad campaign and THAT is what they thought the best bet was, c) that the credit card company AGREED to it and d) said credit card company payed money for it.

it's a series of events that is borderline astounding to me.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

I kind of go into it with the assumption that it's an ad, it's horrible and subversive to begin with and the people behind it are materialistic monsters more concerned with selling things and making money than anything else. Kind of makes it a little easier to swallow.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

"subversive"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

y'know, i'm changing my position. i think i am offended by that commercial but not because of it's portrayal of whatever "savages" it was portraying but more because it's so stupid. i'm offended that something so stupid is supposed to somehow make me want to use a particular product or service.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

"subversive"?

disruptive, troublemaking... work better?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah. I just have trouble with the word "subversive" when used to describe anything that's advancing corporate interests.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Why?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Corporations are just as able to subvert as anyone else. In fact, they might be more able at subverting than anyone else.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Call it trying to subvert your/my ideals or best interests, call it what you will. Words often have more than one application -- I think that corporate interests try to subvert our notions of what is necessarily worth buying with advertising.

On preview, what Nick said

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0393316734.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

It's like, they have this product to sell, but lots of poeople already have that product. They have to convince those people why they should but said product over again. Hence: FUNNEY AD THAT MAKES YOU "THINK".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

You guys are right, never mind.

I read Commodify Your Dissent in 1998.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

I don't even remember what the commercial we're talking about is even for. I still think Dan's word choice was questionable, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

To speak, perchance to bloviate.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

(The Baffler, I mean)

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

I read this in 1999:

http://www.memefest.org/shared/www/images/cool_front_adv.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

Let's just forget I said it, okay?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Only that "ad = subversive" automatically makes me think anti-hegemonic. But that's my problem, I suppose.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Counterhegemonic. Whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

"Why would *I* know about Van Halen?" --> basic thrust of a 15-minute argument at band practice the other night

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck that dude, though. Seriously. No one likes to be bullied, even if it's in "jest."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

Still: totally aware of my over-sensitivity.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

back upthread, I think that "savages" ad is worse than an episode of the Flintstones because if I recall correctly, the family would rather go someplace "good," read: civilized, for vacation but instead get stuck going to someplace primitive. for the logic of the ad to work, the viewer has to identify with the family and think, "gee, yeah, wouldn't it suck to have to be on a vacation somewhere that isn't in western Europe, especially if I had to come in contact with the natives." I don't think there's any irony about that in the commercial--you're not meant to mock the family; you're meant to sympathize with them. and I am genuinely surprised that an ad with that kind of logic got greenlighted.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, I'm keeping it in perspective; there are worse things in the world than that ad, but it doesn't mean it's not awful and not just because it's stupid.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

"Our credit card won't let you down (into a boiling cauldron of water somewhere off the map surrounded by undesirable indigenous nude people) like those other credit cards."

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

right, it was for a credit card! I couldn't even remember, because the first time I saw it it made me mad and now I change the channel everytime it comes on.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

What I meant by the Flinstones thing was that the tone of the commercial is over-the-top and satirical; hence, the "natives" aren't really natives but an intentionally exaggerated cartoon idea of natives. I guess there are some people out there who might view it as cautionary, but that's not the intent of the ad. You also aren't meant to identify with the family because the dad is clearly made out to be a total mo-ron.

For the sake of the discussion: there's another ad in the series where the same needs to take a flight somewhere and they end up being flown around in a crop-duster by a toothless hick.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

note: I am operating on 4.5 hours of sleep.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

but it's irony that kind of collapses, don't you think? I mean maybe the dude is an idiot, but he still has the "wrong" credit card. what is the ad's intent with regard to the savages? it just doesn't make any sense to me unless the vacation is meant to be cautionary.

I haven't seen the other ad, but I'd imagine I'd be lowlevel offended by it, too. it still seems like on some level (even if a not-very-serious one) it's argument would be: don't use the wrong credit card, you could end up having to put up with hicks who are undesirable to be around.

xpost: no, I see your point, Nick, but I really think the commercials are still trading in grossness. I mean an ironic cannibalistic darkskinned "savage" is still a cannibalistic darkskinned savage.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Robyn's "Be Mine!" still rules.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

All I know is, I can't stand black people.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Talk about irony collapsing.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Shit. There's too much to read to be adequately caught up.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

JESSE

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Why the hell did you do that?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Do what?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Greetings. I'm home from class. All is well. The only problems so far are 1) I am not thrilled with driving west side south side north side and 2) my lunch schedule is sort of screwed up in that it's 3:30 and I ate a handful of (don't laugh) nuts for lunch. Otherwise, day two: survived!

It's too bad the fluffernutters fell flat. Oh well. Back to the rumor mill.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

oh man, fluffernutters was today? that seems like last month already.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Such is the internet. Yesterday's news happened earlier today.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

no, i feel like 10 months older.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

I actually forgot to mention earlier: think I could get behind creating such a rumor.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

It'd be subversive!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

I can't start rumors, I'm a terrible liar. I'm getting better living with Whitney because this is a woman who answers the phone in a forced whisper and then explains that it's for a charity: she gets $20 a day to donate to an AIDS charity if she talks, all day, like a person who's dying of AIDS. My poker face is improving in self-defense.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago: Disrespect My Butthole.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago: Do It To Julia's Butthole.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ew -- did I miss something?1?!?!?!?!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Shit, that was not about our own resident Julia, it was just a really dumb 1984 reference.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

(Kenan said "disrespect my butthole" on the gay shame thread.)

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

Then I am less affronted -- but I still don't get it. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I thought for a second that I had a cheerleader.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://g0ys.org/

The Real Reason for so-called 'Homo Hate':

See: Most men loathe the concept of being arse-phuck'd; - 0r being associated with arse-phuckr's! Men who rape men use that form of assault for a reason: It is the ultimate statement of disrespect. (The original use of the word "PHUCK" was a 'cuss' insinuating Anal Penetration. It is the verbal counterpart of the physical act of anal-rape. So then, the term "phuck-you" has a very specific meaning!)
Since the media, & now society, - generally assert: That "gAy-sex" = "ANAL*sex*"; -- Most men connect the term "gay" with an act they find completely degrading & repulsive, - something that they'd never do to their buddies! The real issue is not male/male intimacy; -- It's 'ANAL*SEX*; & most men want absolutely nothing to do with that perilous form of moral turpitude.

Once a guy discovers that other guys are receptive to intimacy - without the 'RAUNCH' -- he often enters an emotional gray area, where he feels deep compassion for his peers, but doesn't relate to what he sees the media portray as "gay". Such men are 'G0Y'; -- & there is a huge number of us!

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

It's all so clear, now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Stopped home after a meeting to check on the cats, no one is dead but they're not exactly buddies yet. Kitka goes kittening around while Wolfie glares and looks ready to pounce.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

So it was confirmed last night that just as I suspected, I recently tried to make out with my 3 coworkers and succeeded with 2. One was a guy.

Jordan, post pics.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/120/366718940_81a406e429.jpg?v=0 http://farm1.static.flickr.com/99/366718948_db42d8ece9.jpg?v=0

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

NICE CHIN on that one! Man, do I love animal chins.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry I didn't know we were on the buttfucking phase of the day instead of the cat phase.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

Duh. It is Wednesday.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

It's like McDonald's. Anytime's a good time.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

For the great taste.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Free smells.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Thirsty Thursdays
Flirty Fridays
Sodomy Wednesdays?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

"Sodomy" makes it sound so dirty.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I helped do that... :(

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

I sure do hate Ticketmaster. Sure sure do. Surely surely do. And yet... I just bought Deerhoof tix anyway for this Saturday ($12ea.. x2 (nick too!)... plus a bunch of bullshit fees... = $43).

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

hey, where are they playing?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

I had a dream last night about Central Park. I was flying over it at very low altitude on the east side and it stretched as far as the eye could see except for a few buildings on the southern tip and there were farms, woods, and palm trees. In the dream I had something like satori and I realized that all of the world is actually a subset of NYC or something.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

In other words, I was thinking like the average Mannhattanite.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

Metro.

That dream sounds pretty.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

Really, don't you think that if there is a Jackass 3 it will involve anal penetration?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

And not with a toy car.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Metro.

You should just buy them from the Metro Store directly. $19 in service fees is a joke.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

jackass 3 would have at least 1 scene in a bathhouse fer shure

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

I am hoping for Johnny Kn0xville topping Chris Pontius.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Metro.

fuck, i hate that place. i would lurv to go though.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

i would personally prefer a chris pontius / ryan dunn flip scene

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Much too late, John, not to mention much too lazy.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

Johnny K. must be involved or no deal.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

pontius gangbang, then

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

There, I'm glad that's settled -- can we move on?

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

what do you guys think of Friendship, the Chinese place?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

What is Friendship? A jack-off parlor?

This thread has me confused.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know friendship, my favorite chinese place is the only one within walking distance of my place; takie outit on chicago ave. when i worked on south damen i used to sometimes walk over to the see-thru kitchen on s. ashland. meh.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

ahhh! a restaurant. my word!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://mortalkombat.metropoliglobal.com/Jaxfr.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

please note: neither of the establishments i mentioned were "jack off parlors".

to my knowledge.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

friendship can be a little pricey, so it's not an everyday Chinese place. I mostly like it very much, but some of its stuff is a little too inventive for me.

it's on Milwaukee in Logan Square, Kevin.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

i'm almost never in logan square.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

BUT DAN LIVES THERE SO WHAT SAY YOOO DANNNN?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

oh, i've been there. it was merely ok when i went. it's the restaurant that's below elastic?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

fusion cuisine = Chinese + jack-off

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, that's it, Amanda.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

i've been to elastic a number of times. and i will be back there next month. i went to the chinese place below there once last sept. or august but that was to get a couple of drinks during intermission at elastic.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

the atmo and presentation were nice, but the food was unremarkable. maybe it's just what i ordered.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Friendship is pretty good! I've ordered from there a few times. I know what you mean about "inventive" food, 'cause sometimes you just want to get the standard Kung Pao whatever and be done with it. But yeah, it's good if you're feeling a tad spendy and want non-MSG-laden Chinese.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

I think it depends a lot on what you order, Amanda. I got seduced by the sound of "champagne-lemon chicken" once and it was blah. don't ever order that, guys, if you go. the ones that don't sound kee-razy can be delicious. their hot and sour soup is really good.

and yeah. it's a beautiful place.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

space, I meant.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

I don't even remember why I brought this up except I must be hungry.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm starving and I just ate a piece of breaded fish and some spicy rice with vegetables. (chimichurri rice from TJ's -- good!!) MORE FOOD PLEASE. I want to eat an entire restaurant.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

I would say the menu is pretty evenly split between "fanicer" preparations of Ameri-Chinese standards, and "experimental" dishes that can be very hit or miss.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

that seems right, Dan. apparently the veggie options are all very good, according to a friend of mine, but I never seem to eat those.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

i just printed out the txt from my gmail account on how to make brownies. i'm hitting the grocery store on my way home.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

friendship brownies?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

DELICIOUS MOTHERFUCKIN BROWNIES!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, fuck that apartment. Move to Chicago.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

I'm bored and lonely.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

Those 2 posts were unrelated.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

Haha. I will if you can find me a great-paying job by 12:30 pm tomorrow (when I am supposed to go sign the lease).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

FUCK YOU. IT'S OVER.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

GEAUX BEARS.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

kiss my grits chicago, i'm out of here.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

• Girlpile
• Orgasm Alarm Clock
• Topless lesbian party
• Real savage-like
• Kittens
• Buttfucking
• Chinese food

It's been a full day.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, it's like those articles in The Believer.

An interview with Mos Def
by Benjamin Kunkel
...
IN THIS ARTICLE:
• Girlpile • Orgasm Alarm Clock • Topless lesbian party • Real savage-like • Kittens • Buttfucking • Chinese food

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

Hey jerks, remember that incredible cookie I found in New Orleans? It was very soft but not gummy and it had amazingly creamy frosting that was not too sweet with lots of flavor and a very slight brittleness on the outside. Remember how I longed to find another cookie just like it? I FOUND THEM. They are Lofthouse brand cookies, available at Jewel. Get them and marvel at the perfect cookie.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

They are in the bakery section.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:13 (eighteen years ago)

For Jenny (mostly) from the g0ys.org website: "The g0y movement expresses the belief that the "gAy male culture" is generally immoral for (3) primary reasons.... 2. The widespread fetishes with filth & AnalSex -which is essentially a tort against nature" (emphasis not mine).

A TORT??

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

That's kind of hilarious. It's a tort against nature, not a crime against nature. That means that nature can sue to recover damages from butt fuckers but not press charges to have butt fuckers jailed.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

Not butt *F*uckers--they say *ph*uckers.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:44 (eighteen years ago)

I don't care if it is a zero, calling yourself "g0ys" suggests a weird association between anal-sex practitioners and Jews.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 00:57 (eighteen years ago)

A guy I work with was telling me that he was unemployed for 8 years and made his living gambling. What is strange is that his main game was backgammon.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:00 (eighteen years ago)

Do you ever stay at work even though you've clocked out, just because you're too lazy to get up and put your coat on and walk the two blocks to the el and go through that whole commuting rigamarole?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

...

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:09 (eighteen years ago)

No. I'm not paid to put up with crap for 8 hours and 1 minute.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 25 January 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

Holy shit our upstairs neighbor is aerobicizing. Or jumping rope. Or jumping for joy. Or bouncing a basketball. W. T. F.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't putting up with any crap. I was, like, reading interviews with Will Arnett and posting to ILX from the comfort of my cubicle.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 02:16 (eighteen years ago)

I don't even work in a comfy office and I sometimes just hang out at work for that reason. Especially when it's nasty outside or I'm really tired. Also when I get free booze.

― Jesse posting on courtneys'skadsf;ljkher (cmaher), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

I just saw Jackass Number 2 for the first time. Best film of '06.

-- GEAUX BEARS. (brownston...), Today 10:56 PM. (unclejessjess) (later) (link)

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm playing at Elastic in March. Come see the show and try Friendship, too.

DELICIOUS MOTHERFUCKIN BROWNIES!!!

This would be a wondeful name for a brownie store.

FUCK YOU. IT'S OVER.
Orgasm Alarm Clock
Kittens Buttfucking Chinese Food

Anyone want to go with me to this early show at the Fireside on Sunday?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 06:49 (eighteen years ago)

HEY
If Shane MacG is involved, one of you -- or more than one of you, I don't care -- is going with me here:
POGUES
Congress Theater, 3/5-6, on sale 10 AM Saturday (1/27)

I don't care if I'm subsidizing raging alcoholism. I LOVE THE POGUES. I also don't care if this makes me a raging cheeseball.

Ok, off to work for reals.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone want to go with me to this early show at the Fireside on Sunday?

tee hee.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Shane is def. playing that show.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

I want to be in FUCK YOU. IT'S OVER. Can I be the singer? I still have some sass in me.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

i'm wearing two shirts, a sweater, a cardigan and i still have my scarf on. i've been at my desk for an hour and i can not get warm. this is puzzling.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

YOU'RE DYING.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

good morning, btw

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

we're all dying kenan.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/187/368680183_de5ca30017.jpg?v=0

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

"We're all dying, Kenan."

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Sacrificing the cat to stay warm on a cold morning. Sad.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

We're all dyeing Kenan.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

The Cat Is The Hat

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

i stopped by jewel on the way home yesterday to get ingredients to make some delicious motherfucking brownies but when i got there i realized i left my shopping list/recipe on my desk. i thought i could remember what i needed (i did) but i wasn't sure if i had any vanilla extract so i picked some up. apparently this isn't the first time i was unsure if i had any vanilla extract because i had one nearly full bottle on my shelf plus another two unopened packages. so if anyone has any vanilla-centric recipes send them my way. or perhaps i'll get some stoli and do some white-russian based research.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Vanilla is expensive too! (This last time I cheated and got a big bottle of fake vanilla)

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

if i learned nothing else from the years living with towga it's never use the fake vanilla. vanilla beans are really really expensive.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

I know! I have been reading about vanilla.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

!!!!!!

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Newcamera016.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, photobucket kind of sucks in not allowing you to choose a smaller size for something without resizing the image permanently. :(

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

After months of being the music-playing guy in the art room, I am finally learning to gauge the reactions of my coworkers. Indie pop: meh. Goldfrapp: good. Basement Jaxx: even better.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Blade Runner soundtrack: premium.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

I got the new Deerhoof last night, sounds pretty good. Esp. the first three tracks. First record in ages where I read bad reviews and knew I would like the things they hated.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

hey ladieeeees

so i'm going out of town to visit my g*rlfr**nd(?) and i was going to bring her some wine but you can't bring wine on airplanes (oops) so what should i bring her, preferably something that can be purchased at jewel after work before i head to the airport?

I was thinking frozen vegetables

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

buy some booze at the duty free.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

The no-wine-on-airplanes rule, as of last fall, sucks.

Best gift obtainable at Jewel? Hmmm...A disposable camera?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/64/181549394_b9d21d4ee4_m.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Buy wine from the beverage cart on the plane, pour into empty water bottle.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

You can put wine in a checked bag, no?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

Just wrap it up well in plastic in case of explosion.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, you just can't take it on board.

Deej, is there really nothing but a Jewel you could go to? Could you take the Blue to North/Milwaukee/Damen and get out for a minute and then get back on?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

(If you check your bag and you get your wine at Jewel, the Rodney Strong Cabernet is a good one, for about $15.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Get her flowers in the airport where you land.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

^^^^ OTM

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

And bring another present in your bag for later, like a bracelet (not from Jewel) or chocolate (maybe from Jewel). Will you be near Vosges? or Bon Bon?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Get her some herpes.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha. $250 chocolate box

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

I love fancy chocolate, but I was annoyed by Coco R0uge when I finally popped my head in there. I got scared they might charge me to look at the chocolates, so I ran away.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

Also, this woman was standing behind this low candy counter like it was a jewelry store.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

i'm thinking about moving back to oak park. it would keep me out of trouble, save me some money, and cut my commute in half. the only downside would be i'd be living out in oak park which is not bad in and of itself but i know from living out there before that trying to get friends from the city to come out to visit is next to impossible. it may as well be iowa city despite the fact that it's a 10 minute ride by car from uk vil/wicker park and both the blue and green lines go through it. it takes less time to get to op from my place than it does to get to say uptown or edgewater or rogers park.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like people always say nick and I live too far away to hang out (not north enough).

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Yo, C0UGAR @ EMPTY BOTTLE TONIGHT

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to midway directly after work so blue line = not an option

thanks for the recommends... do airports usually have flowers for sale?

chocolate/flowers seem a bit too cliche. I mean not that wine isn't, too, but less so. I wasn't going to check a bag, but maybe i should.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

thnx for the recommends.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

sarah, most of my friends live in the ukie village/east village/wicker park/bucktown area so it's not too bad where i am but my friend n0rah moved out to berwyn and i know she has noticed the same thing about getting people to visit.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Who and where is this $GIRLFRIEND?

I'm with you about chocolate/flowers. I don't think I've ever purchased them as a gift because of the cliche factor.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think i've ever bought chocolates but i've bought flowers plenty of times.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Never, ever, EVER underestimate flowers, especially for being considered "cliche".

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

B-but so many guys shrug them off as being cliche these days, so when you actually give them it's a unique, meaningful thing... Well, I appreciate them.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc i thought you would have been better at facebook stalking

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I would pick a flower and give it as a gift. I guess I'm just thinking, going to Jewel and grabbing a bouquet is kind of lame.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

GIRLS LIKE FLOWERS = NOT LAME

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

flowers from jewel, tho?

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

2x Jordan

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc i thought you would have been better at facebook stalking

Touche. She's hot.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Making generalizations about "girls": C/D?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Get her the wine and some trashy magazines from the check-out lane. You will both snicker at them and then she will read them later.

I have friends who moved to Cicero (good deals on houses there) and I don't see them much at all.

But I love Oak Park. I would organize movie outings in OP, or Indian Food, or whatever. You'll have to come into the city to see Sarah fronting FUCK YOU. IT'S OVER., unless you put together a basement show.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Fine...no girl that I've ever dated has been too cool for flowers. Even if they're from Walgreen's or whatever.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

seconded

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

i don't mind o.p., i lived out there for a number of years, it's picturesque, has a lot of history, relatively safe, etc. weird you mention movies and indian food eazy, i was looking at an ad that was probably two blocks from the lake theatre and khyber pass.

xpost- i wouldn't buy flowers from anyone but a florist. that's just me.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

This seemed like the right time to post a .jpg from 'Dick in a Box', but there aren't any. I tried googling 'timberlake dick', which was a mistake.

I could see living in downtown OP. I could see it being isolating, but taking the green line to town is so easy.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Chocolate and flowers ARE ALWAYS GOOD. Flowers from Jewel are totally fine. Flowers from the airport flower shop after you land are fine. Flowers are always good.

Jordan, I love your cat.

Amanda, I would enjoying going to see the Pogues.

Everybody, Cook's Illustrated did a testing and the imitation vanilla extract was either indistinguishable from or preferable to pure vanilla extract according to tasters. So, you know, it's cool to buy the fake stuff.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, men, ask yourselves: If your lady friend brought you flowers would you be all "Hmph. Those are clearly from Jewel" or would you think, "OMG she brought me flowers! I am totally going to get lucky tonight!"

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

I keep meaning to go back out to Oak Park to explore some more. Maybe I will get bundled up and head out there this Saturday.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

What Jenny said.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

I would be baffled why she got me flowers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

i used to live in east oak park (east of ridgeland and then on austin) and it was fine. i was 4 blocks from the el when i lived on washington, and on austin it was really easy to get to green or blue line as well as the north ave or chicago ave bus (i used to take the 24 hour chi. ave. bus back from the bottle all the time). it doesn't need to be isolating but changing people's perceptions isn't always easy.

xpost- sarah, it's nice! if you guys want to go i'd totally be up for playing tour guide.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.brotus.co.uk/Brotusfiles/hedge/imagehedg/baffled.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

It's not the fact that they're from Jewel instead of from somewhere else, it's that it's the MOST UNIMAGINATIVE GIFT EVER. Getting them from Jewel compounds that with the convenience. All you have to do is walk in the door and come out with a bouquet? There's nothing personal about it at all.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

Flowers are only cliche when you get something like a dozen roses with baby's breath. Knowing if a person has a favorite flower or spending 2 minutes picking out interesting specimens and/or arrangements is CLASSIC as all hell. And guys like to get flowers too.

― FUCK BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

GUYS GUYS GUYS: girls like flowers because they get to put them in their home or office and feel loved / get heartflutters every time they look at them -- A VERY GOOD INVESTMENT. also, you get MASSIVE bonus points if you get their favorite type of flower. ask her friends or something.

xpost OTM re: dozen red roses = dud

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

towga's favorite flower = gerbera daisies
ex-wicker park honey's favorite flower = tiger lilly
girl in between towga & ewph = black eyed susans (i did not buy her any flowers however).

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

hmm
might be too late to figure out favorite flower = i will get one of all flowers ever

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

jenny otmfm. they have nice flowers at jewel sometimes!

xp yeah.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a fun place to get brunch in Oak Park?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a total snob about lots of things, but flowers in this situation: good! He had to think of her in advance, detour to a place that sells flowers even if not a fancy arrangement, stand in line, pay some money, and then (listen up, here) carry them all the way back carefully on the plane with his bags & coat & stuff, making a public display of the fact that he has a lady friend he has thought about in advance. DING DING DING

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I have no idea what her favorite flower is. Flowers don't usually come up as a topic of conversation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

So i suppose you guys think a shot glass with the chicago skyline is a 'no'

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

how about a chicago bears beer cozy from the airport store

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a fun place to get brunch in Oak Park?

OMG THE BEST DINER IN THE WORLD EVER, THE MAPLE TREE!!!!! also, in the harrison arts district about 1/2 block from the lombard ave exit of the austin blue line stop is buzz cafe, that used to be where me and towga would go on sunday's when i'd stay over before we moved in. i haven't been there in years though. there's also the cozy corner at harrison and lake and then the original pancake house (which is ALWAYS PACKED on sundays due to it being between two churches) on lake and forest or there abouts.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

"aww, he's got a pint glass with the sears tower on it...must be visiting a lady friend!"

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

i would really like to hang out in oak park sometime. Its a lot like evanston, right?

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

If it was an everyday occasion, fine. But if you're doing this for a special reason (such as deej's reunion) then it's as lame as you can get. Unless you were lame enough to buy carnations at Jewel.

Story of how Jesse cuckolded a man on Valentine's Day: I was totally "in love" with this girl, back when I was "bi" and I decided to declare my love for her by buying her a huge boquet of brown and yellow roses (Leonidas). I brought them to her at school (college) and she LOVED them. We hung out and talked and while we were talking, the guy she had been dating (I didn't know!) showed up with a cellophane-wrapped wilted bundle of mixed flowers from Food Lion. Later that day I saw her pretending they were a sword and as a dagger, slashing and stabbing her friends with them.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.splendidflowers.com/images/BigP/Rose/Leonidas.jpg

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

cellophane-wrapped wilted bundle of mixed flowers from Food Lion

so much for plan b

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

I was waiting for Laurel to come OTM the place up a bit more.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

OK, suppose I wanted to buy flowers for a certain someone, because we hypothetically argued last night and hypothetically she had to get up early this morning so we hypothetically didn't see each other even to say goodbye, where would I go?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

i would really like to hang out in oak park sometime. Its a lot like evanston, right?

i guess i've only been to evanston two or three times. i think evanston might be a little more urban or busier or whatever i'm trying to say. what with northwestern and the lake and all.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

where do you live now? xp

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

PLUS the fact that she gets the attention of her friends!!! What woman/person does not love to make her/his friends jealous?!

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

deej, ukrainian village. thomas and leavitt.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

John, you would hypothetically go to a flower shop.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, if you can get to / pay premium for a florist, by all means do. the flowers will last at least a week if cut & watered properly. most convenience store flowers are a mere hourse from being totally dead ( -- at least all those deli roses in nyc are)

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

kevin that was an xp to jaymc! i remember where you are because i live near damen/chicago

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

uh... hourse = hours, obv. xpost

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

whoopS!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

I'd probably be pretty pleased with flowers AND a souvenir shot glass but I recognize that this is where my own personal weirdness might be coming into play.

Wait, Jesse, are you saying that deej showing up with flowers in this context is LAME? I disagree totally. What is a better gift? Some piece of bric-a-brac that she'll have to dust? Jewelry that she might not like? Clothes that might not fit? Flowers are perfect here because they will convey the message of thoughtfulness and affection but if she deep down doesn't like them aesthetically, they'll die in a week or so.

John there are some really classy flower shops in the loop. Let me google...

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Ravenswood. Lawrence and Ashland, roughly.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc if you live anywhere near me and kevin, there are a bunch of garden stores/florists etc. around that area. If you're still up in roger's park or ravenswood or wherever, there's getsemanie (sp?) on clark.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.freshroses.com/lisianthus.jpg

My favorite flower. Lisianthus.

xp- You don't have to spend a shit-ton. Even a bud vase with something especially beautiful or exotic will do.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

PLUS the fact that she gets the attention of her friends!!! What woman/person does not love to make her/his friends jealous?!

This is a non-starter.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

OH I've actually been to Gethsemane more than a couple of times! My old place was almost in its backyard.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

gethsemani garden center
not really a florist, but i'm sure they've got a variety. in h.s. a friend of mine worked there.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

You don't have to spend a shit-ton. Even a bud vase with something especially beautiful or exotic will do.

it's troo.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

What is a bud vase?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.jamaligarden.com/images/detail/KFV419_DT.jpg

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Bud vase... As opposed to a big vase that can hold a bouquet, a bud vase is more for just one or a few flowers.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://arfarfarf.com/review/photos/budweiser_e.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

bud vase = bong

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

are there certain flowers that i shd avoid?

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

although a plain calla lily isn't that great in a bud vase, really. something prettier.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

i.e. "i just 'bought' you this beatiful bouqet of dandelions"

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

avoid anything that she is allergic to

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Callas were one of my ex's faves.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny-- I think you misunderstand! Showing up with flowers = NOT lame. But grocery store flowers say "I wanted to get you some flowers" or maybe "Here are some flowers," and furthermore, "Now find a vase and arrange them." But getting flowers from a shop already arranged suggests going an extra step and may inspire an, "Awww.... You didn't have to do that! Let's commit a tort against nature!"

xpost-- a bud vase that has some greenery and filler.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I sent some flowers after an argument like that, J. I think it just made her feel like she was right. 'Doghouse Roses', they're called.

The trouble I've had getting flowers is not having a vase handy.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

See, I think a hand-picked dandelion bouquet would be really charming!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Callas are beautiful and very erotic.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

John if you go from work, there's A New Leaf in the Monadnock building on Jackson and Dearborn. That's a really nice place.

Deej, probably avoid those big tacky arrays of dyed carnations. (Note: I like them but again, my own personal weirdness. I understand that normal, nontacky people (Jesse) find them a little stupid.)

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

i almost incapacitated my mom with stargazer lilies once, poor woman was sneezing her head off

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Separate how you feel about flowers from how she feels about flowers.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

"Now find a vase and arrange them."

I missed Jesse's post. This is the dilemma. The times I've enjoyed giving/receiving flowers have all involved vases.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know how she feels about flowers!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

A New Leaf in the Monadnock building on Jackson and Dearborn

actually this might help me too. anyone know of anything a bit further south, say by roosevelt?

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ci.seattle.wa.us/parks/_images/gardens/conservatory/CorpseFlower.jpg

smells like rotting corpses, pls avoid

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe not JEALOUS, but it's like getting to wear a tiara around the office, what with the "Oooh! Someone likes you!" type of sentiments from co-workers.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Avoid carnations or anything artificially dyed, avoid calla lillies probably (they remind me of funerals and bad '80s art posters), I spose daisies or black eyed susans are okay although I find them a little bit "country kitchen" but that's just a defensive reaction I'm sure. White tulips are very elegant, esp with a little bit of those odd yellow-green blooms or berries mixed in. Or an accent that's just a tiny bit blush pink. That'd be pretty sexy, actually.

This is a giant x-post so apologies to anyone I have disagreed with!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

I would also be charmed by a hand-picked dandelion bouquet.

One of my favorite gifts ever from Jeff is a stuffed monkey wearing an I *heart* Chicago shirt that SCREAMS a blood curdling scream when you squeeze its stomach because it was totally random and unexpected and thoughtful. And also it screams when you squeeze its stomach!!!

God damn it, you can put flowers in a glass or a pitcher or something. Is this why more hetero dudes don't bring the women in their lives flowers? All this ridiculous self doubt?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

wonder if this will work

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

John, I think your gal would appreciate flowers (and a vase). Even better, she would enjoy a brass band at her door playing "Hard To Say I'm Sorry" by Chicago.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

I think your prejudice against callas is specific to you, Laurel. But you do bring up a good point, that is: look for something you've never seen before.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

I have never gotten flowers from a man I was romantically involved with (or wanted to be). My dad used to get all three of us (mom + 2 daughters) corsages for any special occasion (aka Valentine's or Easter Sunday etc) which I still think is enormously thoughtful (and uncharacteristic!). I think he learned his lesson the first year after my mother gave birth to me and he DIDN'T GET HER ANYTHING FOR MOTHER'S DAY because she wasn't HIS mother.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://members.aol.com/markelvis/blossoms.html

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, I take that back, I've gotten red roses twice on Valentine's Day but frankly I don't like them at all, roses are RETARDEDLY expensive at that time, and who gives a shit when the holiday's invented by Hallmark? Give me flowers just because it's Tuesday, or something.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Just to play devil's advocate here: What if Deej gets to the airport with his flowers, and the gal has driven to the airport thinking "oh, I know the perfect restaurant to take him to, it's right near the airport". Do the flowers live? Practical thinking, or hetero-guy self-doubt?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

eazy, i think "it's the thought that counts" trumps all here. deej still gets points whether they live or die.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

If the flors come from a florist they can pack the blooms to travel, that is, provide some kind of non-leaking vial or wet foam or something to tide them over. If from the deli, not so much.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

Even the grocery story flowers I've gotten come with those vials (I think).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know how she feels about flowers!

No time like the present to find out, then. You can't exactly ask about this kind of thing, because then when you get her flowers it will be kind of lame.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed. Also, they'll live through dinner, even from the deli. You people have actually seen grocery store flowers, right? They aren't a bunch of wilted, brown, depressing blooms interspersed with some dried out twigs. They tend to be garish, dyed carnations and the occasionally reasonable looking bouquet. No cala lillies but not like dog turds wrapped in conical plastic bags, either.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

The agreed was to Kevin, btw.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Practical thinking, or hetero-guy self-doubt?

maybe she'd change her restaurant plans in that case, and want to get the flowers home so she could put them in water and also thank him in an amorous way.

or they would be fine through dinner, really.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

This has gotten way to complicated. Flowers on a plane are hard to do.

Another idea is to google flower shop in her area and have something delivered to her today. (Or you could call a local shop and have them wire the delivery, but then you pay a wire fee.)

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Flowers are nice. Sometimes I get flowers from Trader Joes (they're really cheap, but last a long time!) just to have fresh flowers around my apartment.

Even the times I've given TJ's flowers to the girlfriend, she's really appreciated it, in part because she appreciates having beautiful flowers in her own apartment when she normally wouldn't buy them. Plus, in suburban wasteland, I don' even know where the nearest "florist" is, so I don't really feel the need to go to on. The TJ's flowers are just "oh, I was out and about and thought of you"--the convenience of it works in its favor.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Do you guys know the song "Flowerz" by Armand Van Helden?
recommended

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

Gah. Would the TSA consider floral foam (which holds well over 3 oz. of water) to be a no-no?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah - let's look at the practical side of this. You can bring a plastic-bag encased bouquet of cut flowers on the plane easily. A big old vase with carefully arranged flowers that you have to hold upright and could easily get crushed or spill? Not so much.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Non flower-related: I really like my bank right now. Less than a week after my debit card number was stolen and 900 of my dollars spent, I have been reimbursed in full and already received a new card. Me = back in business.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

What airport are you heading to?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

You're right, Jenny, no vase on the plane - if Deej wants to do flower/vase, better to take Jesse's advice and have them sent to her locally.

But he's supposed to keep the bouquet on his lap for the whole flight? Pass up drinks because he can't pull down the tray-table?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I wanted to say again: on the laugh-o-meter jackass number 2 was a 10, and i don't know if i've ever laughed so hard and long at a movie before. Courtney and I watched this last night, and I feel safe in saying that she enjoyed it as much as I did.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Dan! Hurrah! That was fast, actually -- was the bank good about reimbursing? I know credit cards have to, but the risk with a debit card is always that it's basically cash disappearing...

XP: w/r/t the inconvenience of taking flowers on the plane: that is all part of the gift. If you think that's silly, fine, don't bother. But never underestimate the value of effort.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

And delivered flowers are extra good because they're a surprise, you get the queen-for-a-day effect, and they're practical.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Pack the flowers in checked luggage.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i'm not carrying this shit in a vase on the plane

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

Ahh, I was supposed to go sign that new lease today but apparently my current place has "automatically renewed" my lease because I didn't tell them no soon enough. WTF is the point me signing my renewal (which I haven't done yet) if it's binding whether I sign it or not?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

xpost I would do anything for love, but I won't do thaaaaaatttt....

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

That...sounds fishy to me, Jordan?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Check your contract, Jordan!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

My lease automatically renews too. Buy your way out of it and move to Chicago!

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

was the bank good about reimbursing?

Yes! Very helpful in fact. I think things may have come a long way in this regard in the past few years, because I have heard horror stories from people who had similar debit card thefts in the past.

This reminds me: I still haven't filed a police report yet. I heard a rumor you can do this via 311? Has anyone ever done that?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Why do you want to file a report? When mine got stolen I just told the bank it was lost so as to avoid fucking around with the schweinhunds.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

When I had a late-night radio show in college, I attracted a stalker who at one point painted something on the windows of my dorm room (from the outside). After filing a report with campus security (who knows why I didn't go to the cops), the college sent me a giant bouquet of flowers in sympathy. A big bouquet of flowers is not what you want sitting outside your dorm room in this situation.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I meant schweinhunden.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds really strange, Eric.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

that story is ridiculous

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

the college has a crush on youuuuuuuu

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

My friend Matthew was attending E. Carolina Univ. where his roommate found some LGBT materials. A bunch of guys wrote "FAG" on his door and pissed on the carpeting outside of it and he didn't get flowers. Hardly seems right.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Why do you want to file a report?

I have some naive hope that justice might be served? Also, it was in the list of things Jenny suggested last week.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it was weird, J. Your friend deserved 'em.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Did you tell the bank that you lost your card or that it was stolen?

I guess it's good to file the report so that there will be accurate records of crime.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://gigapress.com/b/dscat.jpg

Caption me please.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

"I just leveled up my mage!"

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

Caption it? I want to bring it home with me.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

My card wasn't stolen, the number was. I'm guessing it was stolen online, but I suppose there is the possiblity a shady server at a restaurant could have written it down.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff is that the Japanese version of FFIII?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Not sure, I just found the picture online.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

"You sank my battleship!"

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Cross-posting from Noise Bored because I know lots of you don't read it:
The head of the two most prestigious publishing elements in my whole company just stopped by my desk to ask whether I was the person whose iTunes shared-file he's been enjoying so much. Apparently our publisher is a big TVP/Innocence Mission/Mag Fields/Westerberg fan! On the other hand, he thought the Mag Fields were "literary" and he thinks I should explore the Weaker-Thans, who I don't know at all. But overall, I am very pleased!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

Weakerthans are pretty good!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

No time like the present to find out, then. You can't exactly ask about this kind of thing

WAHT

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

i see an XPB in someone's future...

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

You know all those preconcieved notions you talked about earlier about thinking flowers would be a lame present? If you ask if she likes flowers and she says yes, then buying her flowers too soon will be lame because you just asked about it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh dear, hardly. He has children in college. The 10-year difference was my limit.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Dan -- then how am I supposed to find out?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

so conceivably you could go for one of his kids then.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

WAS

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

That's not s0nny m3hta, is it, L.?

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think "literary" is a bad description of Magnetic Fields. I mean, they're not Van Halen.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Dan -- then how am I supposed to find out?

By biting the bullet and getting her some flowers! If she snorts derisively, kicks you in the junk, and runs away, then she probably doesn't like flowers.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

And then there is also the good chance that she'll say something like "Oh, these are beautiful! I really like XXX flower but my favorites are YYY flower." That information should then be filed away for later exploitation.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Nnoooo, E. M1ch4el P1etch

John, I think their literary-ness is so obvious that it's a non-starter? I'm not sure how they could be more self-conscious about it, tho I'm not complaining, precisely, because I like them okay. It wd be more a more interesting observation about, say, Felt or something.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

laurel OTM

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

I think the same about The Decemberists. "Literary." "Has a degree in creative writing." Yeah, we know. Enough.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

mmmmmmmm... SOUP!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

I've been hooked on this tomato bisque thing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

i just crumbled some butter crackers in the leftover chicken broth and i think i might have a moment. so so so good.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, okay, that makes sense (re Magnetic Fields). I thought you were implying that you didn't think they were literary at all.

For what it's worth, I don't really like them, even though they seem like they should appeal to me with their old-time songcraft. I think it's maybe that they don't give a shit about production.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

I'm having mac and cheese for lunch. With mixed vegetables.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's maybe that they don't give a shit about production.

This is why I really like the Magnetic Fields KCRW session and other live/radio recordings, but not the original recordings as much.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

By biting the bullet and getting her some flowers!

That's what I was planning on doing. I thought you were one of those "ask her friends" advocates.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

Huh? Nope, someone else.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

xpost I think it's fine to not give a shit about production if you have a winning personality that shines through. But Merritt is so goddamn arch about everything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

Lunch: Baby carrots, home-made roasted red pepper hummus, yogurt.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

i think s.m. pays attention to production but he doesn't go for a sterile sound. he certainly has enough studio tricks on each album.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

Everything sounds so chintzy, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

agreed but i think that's what he's going for, using a toy piano doesn't exactly require the crispest sound.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

One for the spreadsheet: I *heart* the Magnetic Fields.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

ditto, have for a long time.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm more interested in production than lyrics = I never got into MF

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Any interest in TT today? I'm trying to make some plans and just wondered. I could go either way.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

i just spilled soup all over my crotch. great.

i can NOT tt today. sick, penniless, it's cold, office/30 rock tonight (i hope), etc.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, whenever I try to pinpoint what I don't like about the Magnetic Fields, I invariably compare them to Aluminum Group, whom I love, and who are equally gay/arch/clever/literary/in love with "pop" as an ideal/etc. -- and I suspect that the brothers Navin have employed Dave Trumfio, Jim O'Rourke, and Johnny Herndon as producers, and that their songs are frequently lush and sometimes even danceable, makes the difference for me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

s/b "I suspect the FACT that the brothers..."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

The Magnetic Fields make me feel very....bored.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Remember that conversation we were having about banal dialogue, etc.? They are like that.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

Do any bros want to hang out on Sunday? I have to be out of the house for a portion of the day, I'm guessing mid-afternoon to early eveningish. We could get drinks, go see a movie, get food, jam out ... anyone?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

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

Amy Sedaris on Conan, with Martha Stewart, very prescient as she shows "how to make a grilled cheese sandwich if you're in prison." Also, the hilarious character, Piggy.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

Why do you have to be out of the house?

Hey, what are you people doing on Superbowl Sunday? I am off* and want to be at a bar watching the game or something.

*We have a new manager who is a fucking dumb dick. If anyone asked for Superbowl Sunday off he made sure that they were scheduled to work before those who didn't give a shit.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

archness IS a winning personality, jaymc you dingaling. (At least on records.) The Aluminum Group's production makes me larf too much to dance (but I don't dance, never have).

Could I dragoon anyone to going to Cubs w/ me in early August?

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

Could I dragoon anyone to going to Cubs w/ me in early August?

i'd do it. is the schedule out yet.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

If anyone asked for Superbowl Sunday off he made sure that they were scheduled to work before those who didn't give a shit.

what the fuck? what an asshole!

I could be up for going to a bar to watch the SB.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

i suppose a question mark would have worked better there.

xpost.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

Kev, yeah. The Phils are in town, then the weekend the Mets come in (in which case companions wd have to endure me rooting vs Cubs). otto sez Mets tix will go quick when they start selling.

http://chicago.cubs.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/schedule/index.jsp?c_id=chc&m=8&y=2007

I see by scheduling I'll miss Pitchfest by 2 weeks, oh well.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

The Aluminum Group's production makes me larf too much to dance

I don't think of their production as laughable...? That said, I'd rather be laughing than be bored. The first time I heard Jim O'Rourke's cover of that Bacharach song "Something Big" I laughed out loud. Totally ridiculous, which is why it's awesome.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

yes, mets tix will go quick. by the way morbs, i am the poster formerly known as otto. i'll try to snag mets tix when they go on sale.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

I asked who was having the super bowl party and was roundly ignored.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

yes, that was a fat joke.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Is the SB on the 4th? I will be in New Orleans/traveling that day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

I guess there's a couple of tracks on Plano (like "Sugar and Promises") that sound like Erasure, maybe. But I have a high tolerance for that sort of thing. If the Magnetic Fields sounded more lounge, I'd bite.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

Unfortunately, I think the band is shooting a video on Superbowl Sunday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

you folx and yr goddamn mutable identitties!

I'm 85-90% sure of my plans, kevott, but just so you know my apt lease expires that week, so I can't make guarantees. :p

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

I saw Alum Grp open for MagFields once, and the audience was pretty much openly razzing them throughout their set. "What's this Muzak shit" etc.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Nick, I'd hang Sunday but I already have planz, sry.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think of their production as laughable...?

It's not, really, or not meant as such. It's a bit of a throwback, is all. To Bacharach, to Sergio Mendes and Brazil '66, but the use is not such much ironic as very self-aware: it's meant to invoke a "smooth" lifestyle that the lyrics again and again betray the impossibility of. It's the ol' Steely Dan trick again.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

"What's this Muzak shit" etc.

fuckin' rubes.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

i think that my problem with aluminum group is that they are loungy and i would kinda hate the mag fields if they were like that. i love the mag fields as they are.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

i think that i am going to see Los Angeles Plays Itself at university of chicago on Tuesday.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

See, I like loungy. Jaymc and I agree on this point wholeheartedly.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

i may or may not go to a bar for the super bowl. it's on a sunday so i may just stay home because i don't want to go out and get wrecked on a school night.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

i think that i am going to see Los Angeles Plays Itself at university of chicago on Tuesday.

I could maybe be convinced to go to this. It's not on DVD yet, is it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

Before we veer away from the music topic again, I have to say that the Boris with Michio Kurihara album is tres excellent, and you have to get it.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, go see LAPI! I don't think it'll ever come out on DVD.

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

The new Maserati album sounds like they just discovered weed and decided to be a post rock band instead of the spazzy punkish stuff they used to play. Not that this is a bad thing, but just kinda weird.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

I could maybe be convinced to go to this. It's not on DVD yet, is it?

it isnt on dvd yet (according to amazon, imdb, and other such sources).
however, the reader's webpage says it is going to be shown on a dvd projector.

while this could mean that it will come out on dvd someday, i kinda doubt it. and it could be a dvd copy from the director since he will be there in person!

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny you will see Pogues with me, thank you.

I have received flowers a grand total of two times, both of which won MAJOR points. Oddly, they were both daisies. That's fine. My favorite flower remains a mystery to all, though. Actually, I have three. They are all aromatic. Hell, I love all flowers, tbh.

Not to belabor the already belabored point, but if a present is too clever or "thoughtful" it is sometimes more about the giver wanting someone to say OMG YOU ARE SO CREATIVE AND THOUGHTFUL than the recipient actually liking the gift. See: overworked mixes.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, way to diss John.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

You are COLD.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

COLD as ICE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

WILLING to SACRIFICE.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

th0m anders0n presented at the screening i went to as well. when he spoke at UCI, he seemed somewhere between super jetlagged and falling off your bar stool drunk. i don't know what was up, but he was incredibly rumpled and uninterested in being there. i wouldn't build up any great hopes about him being cogent and provocative. that said, his movie is fantastic, if a bit long. he seems just crotchety enough that he would never distribute it through the regular channels. (x-p to todd)

― robots in love (robotsinlove), Thursday, 25 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

I downloaded some of the Of Montreal album Kenan hated and I like some of it. My faves are the "soulful" ones and the ones where he does lots of vocal layers, which tend to the same ones.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

NOTE: I am guilty of giving overly elaborate gifts. Like the time I gave this dude I had gone out on, like, three dates with this little capsule that unscrewed and had a tiny little scroll of paper inside. Inside of the capsule was a stupid quote or something, something I found in some ancient anthology of poetry or something boldly lame like that. SHortly after the giving of this gift he sat me down and told me I was too "intense." Oops.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

PS I was not trying to give John the ice. Maybe I did not read thread carefully enough.

But seriously. Flowers trump lots and lots of clever gifts.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

Someday I'll pay the price, I know.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Right now I am listening to Oneida whilst wearing an Oneida t-shirt (under a long-sleeved shirt). Superfan!

xpost I was just referring to the "overworked mixes" jibe. That's John's whole thing!

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

SHortly after the giving of this gift he sat me down and told me I was too "intense." Oops

i was told the exct same thing by ewph about a month or so before we broekeded ups.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, fuck that guy. Why do people mistake "I'm having fun running with this idea" + "I can be a little tiny bit OCD once in a while" as "I am intensely into you in a way that is scary and I will stalk you so run now"?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

'manda I cannot believe you've only been given flowers twice!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, fuck that guy.
^^^this did not happen, no intense lovin' for that dude.

yup. twice.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

i have a feeling that i am too intense as well. i find that i always have to tone myself down.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

yup. twice.

Maybe you will get lucky and Dan will make a documentary about a florist.

ZING!

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

I downloaded some of the Of Montreal album Kenan hated and I like some of it.

Yeah, I got over my white-hot hate. Now I'm at mild discomfort, but whatever.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

harhar

NOW BUY ME SOME FLOWERERS

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

what is "ewph"? erstwhile wicker park honey?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

Flowers work for momz too. A couple dozen lily and allium bulbs was the best birthday present I ever got for mine. And they keep on coming back!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

ex wicker park honey.

she's currently a roscoe village honey but still an ex chicago kevin honey (sorry for the 3rd person).

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Alls I know is that it has been determined that girlz like flowers.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

girlz.xls

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, I like flowers. it seems like it might be a cliche to give them, but it always feels amazing to get them.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

oh, get this. i was trying to set up my class on the textbook website and this one student couldn't login because she couldn't remember remember her email address.

of course, it was babygrilo6, not babygril06

― The Milkmaid (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

lemme see your babygril

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

all up in my babygril

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Plans:
-Today: Could do TT if folks want to. (Lion Head? Cheap good food, $2.50 pints of everything and trivia?)

-Sunday: Nick, I am reviewing a show up in Lake Forest on Sunday afternoon. If you want the adventure of the Metra and the posh North Shore, you are welcome to join.

-Next Sunday: I would be up for watching the Super Bowl. The Candlelite is out of the way, but would be a fun place to go. After-party at Bar Chicago.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Kidding about Bar Chicago, unless my bros want to.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

hee, the idea of CHILX dudes broing out at Bar Chicago is cracking me up.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

sarah/nick are there any decent places that deliver pizza in our neighborhood? i used to really dig barcello's but they changed their menu and no longer offer pineapple and pepperoni pizza. i tried one place on grand but it was forgettable. marcello's in logan square delivers but it takes forever. there seems to be a dearth of delivery places outside of pizza hut etc.

i rarely get pizza delivered but i could surely go for some tonight. i'll curl up in my bed with my laptop and dvd and a pizza.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

i've got no idea what/where bar chicago is.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

What you need now is a littledog.

xp - neither do i

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's that guido-y singles place Eric posted pictures of before.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

I thought that was Studio 63 or something?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

towga is getting another littledog, she's sent me the links to the little fellas/ladies and they are cute as buttons. i hope my little man doesn't think he's being replaced. i wish i was there to console him or at least make sure he's ok.

xxpost.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

oh then never mind. I have no idea what Bar Chicago is, either.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, that was studio 63 on like 63rd and cicero.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

but if anyone wants to go there for superbowl fun I'M TOTALLY DOWN WITH THAT.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin -- what about Pizza Metro?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Man, suddenly I am freezing.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Uh oh. I forgot to turn off the space heater in my classroom. I hope someone gets that.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Big Marcello's fan here. They started getting a lot faster at delivering once my roomie started throwing $5 tips around...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.barchicago.com/images/flyers/SuperBowlAbg.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

john, pizza metro = TWENTY SEVEN DOLLARS for a pizza. that was the last time i ordered from them.

dan, marcello's is good but they're in logan square and i think i'm as far as they want to deliver. i miss barcello's.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

what's with the comma followed by overlong ellipsis? that hurts my eyes.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

WTF?

http://www.barchicago.com/images/flyers/BCHI012207LovePotion-Obg.jpg

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

HI LADIEZ WANNA PLAY NEW GAME CALLED FLUFFERNUTTER?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Bags?

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I was wondering what that referenced, too. I'm going to just say drugs.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

I was thinking nutsacks.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

BAG TAG 4 DA BEARZ

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

IMA 'BOUT TO GO NUTSAX 4 DA BEARS
http://www.associatedentertainment.com/aec/images/main/Kenny-G.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

WORK Documentary Series, vol. 4: "Bagtagger"

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

Bag Boy from Red Eye's sports section?

http://redeye.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/columnist/2006-05/23795871.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

Nutsax!

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know you people anymore.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

I am lolling at the thought of a sober documentary about a dude whose is a professional bagtagger. I crack myself up apparently.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

i think a documentary about the mystery bagtagger of the cta would be interesting. of course you'd have to make him up but that shouldn't be too hard, plus it makes telling a compelling story that much easier.

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

Hahaha awesome. I can just see him describing his technique...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

To be a pro he'd have to be a mercenary, paid by someone who had some sort of vested interest in bagtagging...

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

But the exposition would have to occur naturally, the guy couldn't explain his technique to the camera. He would have to SHOW us.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

hired by the creme de la creme of chicago society and by the heads of powerful buisness, government, and academic concerns to tag the bag of rivals, the mystery bagtagger of the cta is a trained testicular assassin...

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe a voiceover during an action scene?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

Next you're gonna want wocka wocka '70s music -- no voiceovers. Just meetings with the evil overlords and lots of illustrative bag tagging.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm leaving early cos I have Burns' Night gig. When I come back at 11 pm, will you be done talking about bagtagging?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

Not even some classy Ken Burns shit? Maybe Avery Brooks could do it.

xpost

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

[note to self: re-start bagtagging conversation at 10 central]

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

roffling @ kevin

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

i go with amanda, we need some bar-kays or curtis mayfield chicken-scratch guitar and some grainy film.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Before I forget, for the name vaults:

Given name: Margarita
Preferred nickname: Gary

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.variety.com/graphics/photos/reviewh/rhollywood_homicide.jpg

"Oh my god. You guys are bagtaggers, aren't you?"

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

And when he strikes...

http://consensus.nih.gov/IMAGES/Art/076.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

What if HE is a SHE? That would change things.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

oooooh good point

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

The Tinley Park Tickler strikes again...

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

Not even some classy Ken Burns shit?

The camera pans slowly across a grainy b&w photo of a man being bagtagged, a shocked and pained expression on his face.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

See though the essence of bag tag is that it's hard to try and strike without opening yourself up to attack. Now, if she were a hermaphro... nah, that's going a little far even for me.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

no one would suspect a female tagger, it's true.

but i am willing to become a male fluffernutter (the nutter part of that is VERY IMPORTANT) but i would be very selective in the jobs i would take.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

Masterplan:

1) have someone write high profile article about fluffernutting after reading a series of planted livejournal entries
2) wiki entry
3) tasteful documentary
4) salacious novel about the fluffernutting scene
5) hollywood version of novel starring [actress] and [actor]
6) total world domination

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

xpost THE RETURN OF MANPILE

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

...and wrap.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Let's talk about food some more.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hungry.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

me 2

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

Down to the vending machine. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Hey I meant to say that I have gone through a whole jar of that vanilla paste that Laurel linked to upthread. It really makes a difference in cookies AND you can see the little vanilla bean bits in there. I think they sell it at TJ's now too. Costs the same as extract, only tastes better.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know where the nearest tj's is to me. probably that one on clybourn or wherever. it's not close and it is, in fact, out of the way and someplace i never go.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

I could go for a fluffernutter sandwich.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

*boing*

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

kevin, we don't get delivery pizza often either, but when we do, we usually go with Naty's, which is on Chicago.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Result: chex mix.

My mom forced a big box of TJ's "chocolate-filled butter cookies" on me on Monday, that box is now gone.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

I shall not TT tonight. Without getting too TMI, there was an adorable little stomach... thing going around our house and my turn came yesterday evening. Today is all about bland foods and ginger tea and staying close to home ifyouknowwhatImean.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

thanks nick. what started out as mild discomfort and me thinking i had a cold has regressed to all out sickness, shivering, feverish, achey, coughing, burning eyes, general physical malaise. i want someone to bring me food despite going to the grocery store yesterday and buying what i'd need for the next three days.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

man i love menupages.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

I know, right!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

i kind of wish the tamale guys had business cards so you could call them and they'd come buy and make a drop. it would give a whole new meaning to "waiting for my man".

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to john, seriously, they RARELY let me down. they let me peruse Naty Pizza's menu. I'm totally pizza-ing it up tonight.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

While it would take some of the magic away, I would be willing to sacrifice the serendipity of the tamale buying experience to have on call tamales whenever I wanted them.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

I just remembered one other time I got flowers! For my 30th birthday, from two of my bestest college friends. They were lilies and made me feel very adult at my desk. (When I had my old job.) There was also a little of the shame of 'Here I am at my desk at my job that I hate AND I'm 30' but whatever. It was nice. (So nice that I forgot it happened, but that's selective memory for you.)

xp for on-call tamales move to rogers park! they're at every corner.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

"c'mon man, you GOTTA come buy tonight i need a bag... and hey i'm a little short til pay day can you front me man? oh c'mon you KNOW i'm good for it. c'mon man, please, PLEASE.... ok, how 'bout half?"

[don't let yourself fall into the trap of tamale degredation]

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

i think what i need to kick the shit out of this cold/flu is a shot of jameson. but only one and no beer.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

get better, bedwetters!

i'm outta here.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

Do we all get to have clever daily signoffs now?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

Later, Chicago. Live like you're gonna die.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Thursday, 25 January 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/m4w/267970741.html

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 26 January 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

Ignore phone calls I made to any of you tonight.

I went to Trader Joe's and bought some flowers. Then I went next door to CB2 and bought a vase. I would post a photo, but someone is borrowing my camera. I think it looks pretty good, though: two yellow flowers (black-eyed susans?) and a bunch of smaller magenta-colored flowers gathered on one stem. There were more, but that's all I could fit in the narrow-necked vase.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:14 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds cool.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

OMG, Kitka has discovered the MOUSE CURSOR. It's like the laser pen game except on the computer screen.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

My mom does not like getting flowers.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:35 (eighteen years ago)

Do we all get to have clever daily signoffs now?

-- Charlie Brown (fluxion2...), January 25th, 2007 3:48 PM. (kenan) (later) (link)

srsly

― mothers against celibacy (skowly), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

That's a good idea, John, getting a vase from CB2 (probably a lot nicer than what you'd get at a flower shop), and putting them together yourself is a nice touch.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:41 (eighteen years ago)

Hey! Who amongst you might be intersted in joining me at my work place for a drink and some delicious appetizers? I have a $50 gift certificate to spend and I think if I sit at the bar I will probably get free drinks. Indicate your interest by saying, "Hey Jesse, I'm interested" in this thread.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 26 January 2007 05:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not falling for that one again.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 26 January 2007 11:16 (eighteen years ago)

i would take you up on that jesse but i have a birthday party to go to tonight and a friend's record release party after that and i don't want to go to either because i am sick. it feels like there's cream of potato soup in my lungs.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

i did not order a pizza but i did watch "the man with the golden arm" last night. i probably would have liked it more if i hadn't read the book. sinatra, overall, is good but much MUCH better in the scenes where he's playing the regular schmoe trying hard to make a better life for himself than he is where he's trying to battle addiction. the scenes where he's in the bar are almost like he's not even acting, the scenes where he's in the shooting gallery made me think "what's he going for here?" darrin mcgavin as louie, the heroin dealer, is positively EVIL. AMAZING performance. i forget who was playing sophie but her accent kept varying from scene to scene but otherwise she totally nailed the crazy neurotic bit.

oh, and kim novak = instant boner.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Hey Jesse, I'm interested in this thread.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i176/rep0909/classic%20women%20men/novak-kim-photo-kim-novak-6204852.jpg

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

she's looking kinda beat there. the vintage 1955 blonde kim novak = teh hott.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

this:

http://www.doctormacro.com/Images/Novak,%20Kim/Annex/Annex%20-%20Novak,%20Kim_01.jpg

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

The scene where Frankie auditons for the big band (vs. Shelly Mann) was almost as heartbreaking as the Freaks & Geeks equivalent.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.movieactors.com/photos-50/novak.jpeg

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

i need to get that soundtrack now. unbe-fucking-lievable.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I like her with visible freckles.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

ooh, me too. first one is making me swoon. but then that might be this flu.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://image.com.com/mp3/images/cover/200/dre900/e999/e99955q4lmw.jpg

This is a really good record. I didn't know he was in that movie.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Kim Novak was born a man. Fact.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I want that record, if only for the silly cat on the front.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

from wikipedia:

"Career

Film
She was seen by a Columbia Pictures talent agent and filmed a screen test. Studio chief Harry Cohn was searching for another beauty to replace the rebellious and difficult Rita Hayworth. Novak was signed to a six-month contract. Columbia decided to make the blonde and buxom actress their version of Marilyn Monroe. She was still using the name Marilyn Novak, and they wanted to change it to Kit Marlowe. She wanted to keep her surname, however, and resisted pressure to change it. She and the studio finally settled on the stage name Kim Novak.

Cohn told her to lose weight, and he won the battle to make her wear brassieres.
"

for the love of god man why? WHY??????

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

Kit Marlowe is a cute name.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin likes 'em jiggly.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

FLOWER UPDATE: THE FLOWERS I GOT WERE, UNBEKNOWNST TO ME, HER FAVORITE FLOWERS. GERBERAS OR WHATEVER.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

SCORE!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

You need to take a pic of them!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

gebera daisies are pretty awesome. me gusta mas.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome! Did you get any?! ;)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't Kit Marlowe the nickname of Shakespeare contemporary Christopher Marlowe, played by ... Ben Affleck, was it? ... in Shakespeare in Love?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, yes.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome! Did you get any?! ;)

Heh. My lips are sealed.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

John, re Marlowe: Yes. :) Congrats on los flores!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

i am disappointed that netflix does not have any '70s van-culture classics.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

The MwtGA score IS really good, and Shelly Mann plays on that too, I think.

I don't have any Mannhole records but I've always been impressed when I've seen video of him or whatever. He looks like yr dad but kills it on the drums.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/NewSite/LAGNIAPPE/SusiesCorner/MotherJugsSpeed.jpg

I think the ambulance gets used like a van in this one.

That 'Swinging Sounds' record has 'Caravan', 'The Wind', etc., and then side two is some kind of suite - but so energetic.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/images/n5/n26181.jpg

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't even notice at first: that's a NOVELIZATION of Corvette Summer.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Uh oh, apparently the next selection for work book club is Klosterman.

Also MS Outlook's spellcheck suggestion for Klosterman = Lobsterman (?!)

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

dr_zoidberg.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

Why are old people so funny?

http://veryfunnyads.com/ads/25162.html

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

STARGAZER LILLIES

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

posted here for future ref

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

What happened, deej?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I was running late leaving so i didnt get flowers, although i did have a book i was going to give her for valentines day so i gave her that. Surreptitiously brought up 'fav kind of flower' during a conversation about the botanic gardens. Now know favorite flower for future ref.

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

You're a good boyfriend.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Thing I just learned: HBO is 35 years old. Weird, huh?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I learned that recently as well. Weird: what was it doing in the 70s?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Waiting for people to get cable.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know about the 70s, but in the 80s it was showing Cat People over and over and over again. Then, later, Romancing the Stone.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

i can remember when clash of the titans was on all the time. my buddy jon's parents had cable from the time we met in 1978. i don't think my parents got cable until i was a sophomore in high school.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Also: John! I am really proud of you about the flowers, both for your ingenuity and your willingness to take a risk. And congrats on picking her favorites! Gerbera daisies are really nice choice.

OMG I own Clash of the Titans on DVD. It is one of my top ten favorite movies of ALL TIME.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

incidentally my buddy jon sent me an email today with photos of his new-born son. his first kid is about 3 years old and looks EXACTLY LIKE JON. it's kinda freaky.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

One of my friends has often mentioned that the first time he saw boobs was on early HBO, courtesy of Dream On.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

xp - I thought you were going to say that he named his son Perseus or Mark Hammil.

xp to Jordan - that makes me feel ooooooold.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

"early"

I think that was, like, 1991?

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny: exactly.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

The guy that sits next to me is complaining about my listening to The Smiths. Now, it's ok not to like The Smiths, I can get with that. But he's moaning, "God, this is so depressing." I'm like, dude, grow some skin.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'm like, dude, grow some skin.

ha! me too!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://mail.google.com/mail/photos/static/XCViRb6xvGtprKK2IV6Ejje2imF20xlNaJiWEZV6Jcc4_CjWcfKhpBPUP0tkBg_Q

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

I don't see what's so depressing about the Smiths if you're just listening to them in a casual across-the-office way. Morrissey's voice is often maudlin, but the music itself can be fairly sprightly sometimes. It's not like you're listening to Joy Division.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Some of it even rocks.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously. And even the downtempo songs are melodically pretty unless you're really listening to the lyrics. People who bitch about The Smiths being soooooo depressing are probably just doing that because someone once mentioned that they didn't like The Smiths because they are soooooo depressing, merely uncritically adopting what they believe is a clever opinion in the hopes of distancing themselves from what they perceive to be the "stereotypical" Smiths fan.

But then again, I tend to look askance at people who claim not to like Morrissey.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

xp to Jordan - that makes me feel ooooooold.
-- jennyjennyjenny (rabbitrabbi...), January 26th, 2007.

"early"
I think that was, like, 1991?

Haha, sorry about all the mortality.

We never had HBO anyway.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

He said the same thing about Rufus Wainwright yesterday. "So depressing."

He like Motorhead, though, so he gets a pass.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

I'm trying to think of music that I would honestly classify as depressing. And not in like, "OMG what has happened to the music industry?" depressing or in a like Toby Keith's Boot in My Ass depressing but music that intentionally and successfully evokes sadness in me to the point that I don't want to listen to it.

I think Exit Music for a Film or Goodnight Lover might be two songs that I generally avoid listening to because they make me cry and not in a good way.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

I renovated dorm rooms one summer during college, and my friend Matt and I were listening to the Sea and Cake as we rolled white paint over the walls, and this dude (who played pick-up hockey and always referred to his friends as "buddies," as in "I got a buddy comin' in from up north this weekend") said, "Ugh, this makes me want to slit my wrists."

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

To which the only proper response is "don't let me stop you."

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

LOLOTM

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

So what does playing pick-up hockey and saying "buddy" have to do with it? Because these are both things I have done in the past and will probably do again in the future.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

before i moved to chicago and was flying out here every weekend i used to listen to the sea & cake all the time. it was always a rush to get to the airport after work and i would usually just barely make it, like getting to the terminal and have them shutting the jetway doors barely making it, so nassau and the s/t one especially. i used to really like jacking the ball.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

er, that is i'd listen to them on my discman on the flight out here.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff loves that song.

So what does playing pick-up hockey and saying "buddy" have to do with it? Because these are both things I have done in the past and will probably do again in the future.

It means you're all gay as hell and are afraid that admitting you like a song called "Jacking the Ball" will notify the world.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

DAN I DO NOT REALLY THINK U R GAY, BUDDY.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

I like the Sea & Cake. I still don't see what the rest has to do with anything.

xpost I know!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

I like the Sea & Gay.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

I was just trying to give you a sketch of this dude, whose name I forget now (although Sam sounds right). The word "buddy" is kind of a pet peeve of mine: I think it just sounds too bro-tastic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Hmm, I'm selling a bass drum on craigslist and I got the following response. It seems kinda sketchy, why only refer to it as "the item"? Should I be suspicious?

Hi,

Good day,i got your advert on craigslist.org that you want to sell the above item,which i am highly interested in buying from you.Kindly inform me if the item is still for sale and let me know its present condition and the last pric for the item.

Looking forward to hear from you soonest.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

i used to really like jacking the ball.

ILX out of context.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

if we're taking that out of context then i still like jacking the ball.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

YES Jordan be suspicious, particularly if there is any sort of "I am out of the country and need you the wire me the money" type request. If you want to be on the safe side, email back and ask the responder if s/he would like to come check it out first.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

...and need to wire you the money, that is.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Any internet communique that shares the sytax/grammar/vocab of the HELLO PLEASE I AM NIGERIAN PRINCE AND NEED YOUR HELP spams should be viewed with utmost suspicion.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

Heh "I am a Nigerian prince pls 2 send bass drums to my account"

xpost!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

That was kind of awesome.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

High five. What should I have for lunch?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm trying to figure that out, too. I work in the Ogilve Transportation Center now and there are like a bazillion places to eat here.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

Eat a train.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Eat a dick.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

I had roasted beet salad leftovers wrapped in... a wrap along with a side of minestrone soup.

I've been getting alot of spam these days saying that the Christian thing to do would be to send them money.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

I worked at the Corner Bakery in Ogilve for about two weeks. Then I quit.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

I used to eat there all the time when Jen worked in Deerfield and before we bought a car. I'd meet her at the train station and invariably I'd get there 30-45 minutes early. There's a place in the southwest corner that has decent burgers and clean taps.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

There was a fluff piece in the Red Line today about how fast food workers are offended by the K-Fed commercial where he's dreaming of being a pop star, and it turns out he's slinging hamburgers. It sounds like a kinda funny commercial. Anyway, there was a quote from some fast food rich guy saying that he was offended that the commercial made working in a "restaurant" (his word) look like demeaning work. Hey, guess what, bucko. First of all, fast food does not a restaurant make. And secondly, it is demeaning work, thanks to fucks like you. Soul-crushing is more like it.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I went to Cosi.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

everyone OTM about the Smiths upthread, especially because Smiths lyrics are hilariously overstating their "sadness" 9 times out of ten.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

OTOH, when I worked at Jason's Deli in Austin, which is a small regional chain, I made decent money. And I became friends with the manager, who intimated to me that even though he worked long hours sometimes, he made serious bank. Had a big-ass house in the hills. (He also wanted to violate me.)

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

(Come to think of it, there was a guy at the place I worked before that that also wanted to violate me. I was pretty, young meat back then.)

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone in the food industry violates, or at least wants to violate, everyone else.

There was a Jason's Deli in Lousiana. Same one, maybe? I liked their big baked potatoes.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, same chain, I'm sure. The sandwiches were excellent. Real deli-style, where the bread is just light seasoning for a gigantor pile of meat.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

They started in Beaumont, TX, as did I. I used to go to the original location when I was a wee one. I lived for the coin-shaped chocolates.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

We'll go dancing in the dark
Walking through the park and reminiscing...

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

I went to Jaffa Bagel and got a turkey sandwich. Pretty good.

Food service as a whole need not be demeaning, but fast food jobs are pretty much miserable. I think ditching the horrifying polyester uniform requirement would go a long way toward remedying that.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Also: Everyone in the food industry violates, or at least wants to violate, everyone else.

OTM.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

No, waiting tables is not demeaning. For the brief time that I did it, it was actually kinda fun. And small businesses or coffee shops can afford you quite the laid-back hipster lifestyle. But fast food workers are human vending machines.

*memories of Buffy working at the Doublemeat Palace*

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone in the food industry violates, or at least wants to violate, everyone else.

At this one place, we had a designated slut who would perform various sex acts... IN THE WALK-IN. I did not partake.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

The only thing I ever did in the walkin was whippets. With Jesse.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Well, that and refill dressings.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

And blow dudes.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

And kick your ass.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

I think I must have confused you with someone else.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

I went to Jimmy John's for lunch. #1. Then I got a haircut.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

Did Jesse ever blow anyone in the walk-in? Inquiring minds want to know. I want to know.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think so. At least not when I worked with him. There was a surprising dearth of willing brojob recipients at the place where we worked.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

"a surprising dearth of willing brojob recipients"

remedied with alcohol, blindfolds

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

holes cut in walls

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

The only thing I ever did in the walk-in was smoke one-hitters.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's a good one. Pizza delivery jobs are the slackest thing in the universe.

― Charlie Brown (kenan), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

I've missed out on so much by avoiding food service jobs.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

OH speaking of pot... I walked past this very serious looking hippie with a back pack and got a backwash of the scent of incredibly good pot. Not as if he were smoking it, as if he were carrying half a pound of it in his backpack. Which would also explain the seriousness of his countenance. This did not make me want to smoke pot, but it did make me want to eat pot seeds.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

Walked past him on my way downstairs in the OTC for lunch, that is.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I hate the picture at the top of this thread because when I click it and there have been no new answers I end up staring at this huge DRAIN.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

I love having images turned off.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

But then I'd miss all the kitty pictures.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

You can still click on the links!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

when i was waiting tables, we had a drunkpile once. about 6 people passed out all piled up on a couch.

i was sort of oblivious that i was attractive to men at all until i worked in a restaurant and it was (sometimes very creepily) clear.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

One of my ex-girlfriends worked at a McDonald's then an Applebee's (or was it TGI Friday's?), left me for a busboy. :>

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

mcdonald's is awful. i worked there for 6 months, and curiously kept needing bigger sizes of brown polyester uniform pants.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

My restaurant bred lots and lots and lots of stories of all kinds. Public drunkeness, public urination, general nudity, skinny dipping, spin the bottle, sex triangles, strip poker, stolen cars, horribly stuck vehicles, police bribery, drug use, drug dealing, binge drinking, and more were all common themes. I was lucky enough to stay out of the thick of most of it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

sex... triangles?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

lol @ andrew

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

a unidirectional flow of oral sex, perhaps

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Friday, 26 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

more posting, please.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dec.state.ny.us/website/dfwmr/sportsed/posterask.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

The eternal question: should I call ol' girl tonight or wait? (I'm out of town this weekend, New Orleans.)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

I just don't get it. At all. It's not that it's simply not funny or clever, but that it just doesn't make any sense: "Honey With Colts"?? Is that supposed to be like something the bear is cooking? Is it there as a label, indicating what's in the cauldron? WTF? Where is this ad to appear?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Even "Colts with Honey" makes more sense.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

The eternal question: should I call ol' girl tonight or wait? (I'm out of town this weekend, New Orleans.)

Wait, probably.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

I hate -- HATE -- calling guys whose numbers I get. HATE IT.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse *would* say that. Would the call be trying to instigate a date?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

Off the the cocksucking dentist.....

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

what girl, jordan?

hi dudes.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

The Honey With Colts idea has been nixed. I'm almost sad to see it go. I should save the artwork and print it out like flyers, and staple them to billboards all over the city.

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Follow your heart, Jordan. Follow your heart and your ding-dong.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Follow the yellow-dick toad.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

The Honey With Colts idea has been nixed. I'm almost sad to see it go. I should save the artwork and print it out like flyers, and staple them to billboards all over the city.

YES.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Tell it to her heart. Tell her she's the only one.

I don't want to go to the dickchomping dentist. I hate dentist. Teh woman who referred me to him said he's hot.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Would the call be trying to instigate a date?

Yeah, I guess.

Sorry about your tooth, Jesse.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm scared.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Btw I made a date with the bassist from C0ugar to go to Hot Doug's on Feb. 17th. So gonna happen this time.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Later Chicago. Pray for me.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

If you like her & you know you like her (or like her enough for a date) just call. I hate the waiting thing.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

You'll be fine, dude.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Excellent, OTM article in the NYT by Michael Pollan about nutrition.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

I saw that! I haven't read it yet but I emailed it to myself.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe i'll read it now since I am unable to function in a work-positive way.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I read that! Really good. I've been thinking about it a lot while I eat the same things as always.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

john, you really must keep up with my del.icio.us

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Kr sent it to me earlier today -- I've been reading it in morsels this afternoon.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'm thinking about skipping my exercise tonight b/c I'm so exhausted from the last 2-3 days.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still trying to get the hang of del.icio.us. But then I'm someone that doesn't even really use bookmarks and manually types URLs all the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Haven't gone to the gym for a week or two, too busy/lazy. :( Maybe next week.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Give me your delicious usernames

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

I've been going 6 days a week for almost a month, so I'm probably picking up your slack.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

fluxion23

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I'm picking up your fat?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc (obv)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Now that Kr is going to the gym so often, we don't get drunk on weeknights anymore. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Jesus H, that's a lot of gym-going.

Hi peoples.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

I rarely drink anymore :(

you're so not picking up my fat, jordan. i would probably lose weight faster if i didn't indulge myself so often.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

One more day and I can afford gym membership again. Looking forward to it, and to getting rid of this gut (again).

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still trying to get the hang of del.icio.us. But then I'm someone that doesn't even really use bookmarks and manually types URLs all the time.

I do this, but WITH DEL.ICIO.US! (to find stuff)

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Hi amanda!! i know it's a lot. Brooke & I have a work out challenge. it's been okay except today is really a struggle for me. i was scheduled to swim this morning but didn't go so i could sleep more. i am having one of those days where i have yet to feel 'fully awake.' maybe i should skip it altogether & just give myself a rest.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

UM, YES.

Give yourself a rest!

I am totally swimming in work. Good, but tiring. Better than sitting around all day and then working at night, though. That made me feel dread all day. Now I go to work and I'm done and I can feel unguilty doing whatever I want, like a normal person. Next sem. could be different if I want to work at the main campus (and I do, since I could actually bike there maybe??!?!) but we'll see.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

In other news, 2/3 of my students are mothers.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

How do you get there?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

let me know if you want any girl tips on bike commuting . . .

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

hey, who was it who was wondering what a slashie was? i'm guessing laurel since she doesn't live here. i knew i remembered reading something about it in a lame "guide to the city" type thing and i found it (along with a blurb about 4 a.m. bars):

THE SLASHIE PHENOMENON A slashie is a liquor store and bar combined, and there seems to be at least one of these mutants in every neighborhood. They’re known for their rad, classics-heavy jukeboxes and total critter-crowds and staff. If you add the working body parts of the typical slashie crew together (guy with eyepatch, girl with one leg, bartender with hook, etc.), you sometimes come up with one complete human. Plus, these spots are always ghost towns. Only suckers make reservations for large parties in Chicago. Just hit up a slashie and it’s Birthday Party, USA, population: You and your dawgs!

THE 4-AM PHENOMENON We’re clueless if this is a zoning thing or what. Most bars in Chicago close at 2 AM (3 on Saturdays), but each neighborhood has a handful of bars that keep the party going ’til 4 AM each and every night of the week. The wise hit the 4-AMs around 1 to avoid the traffic caused by every other motherfucker cruising towards the holy land when their precious 2-AM hits last call. 4-AMs are also no-holds-barred sex holes. Showing your ID to a door dude pretty much guarantees you’re fucking something tonight—whether it be girl, guy, up, or retarded.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

Now I have to drive all over the place (Logan Sq. and Pilsen) but if I went to main campus I could take red line or bike or drive. MY CHOICE.

It's so much different now that I'm not carrying 3+ bags of books/papers/junk at all times.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

Ah yeah, Kevin, that was me. Thanks! Is that legal in Chicago? I know there was a bar in Jersey City that would sell you the goods to-go, but I'm pretty sure it was illegally.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

del.icio.us is probably my favorite website ever

http://del.icio.us/peopletalktooloud

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

ok, here it is, the most horrifying, disgusting, and deliberately bad thing I have ever had the displeasure of doing:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/bears2.jpg

I explained that I couldn't find a good image of horse legs (lie) and had to use human legs instead. And that the helmets were necessary to identify the team, but really it was to have heads floating around. All of this resulted in a graphic that was totally unusable by anyone's standards. Which was the whole idea.

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

I think that needs some animation.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, I think I assumed you didn't have a car for some reason.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

laurel, TOTALLY LEGAL. imagine a regular liquor store but instead of a checkout counter they have a bar, barstools and a couple of taps. a friend of mine from austin thought it was the most brilliant thing ever. actually, she was torn between slashies and drug stores with liquor licenses.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

That's amazing! Life is good, eh? I should pick up some more drinkable wine on my way home, speaking of.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

The bar one of my friends worked at back home would sell you a styro cup of whatever mixed drink with a lid and a straw. Or beers for $1 a bottle. Have a nice ride home!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

One of the best parts about New Orleans, drinks to go.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

One of the best parts about New Orleans, drinks to go.

word mother.

hurricanes that taste like creamsicles in 32 oz. styrofoam cups... whooo!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://del.icio.us/pullapartgirl

Having lived most of my life in states where liquor and/or beer sales were relegated to the ghettos of "liquor stores" or ABC stores, I am still amazed when I see booze for sale at Walgreens.

Once I saw a woman in line at Walgreens with a bottle of bourbon, a lean pocket, and a V05 hot oil treatment in her shopping basket. I wanted to be like, "So. What are you up to tonight?"

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, but I like it!!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

What is an ABC store?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

"i'm going to go home, make myself some dinner, then try to drink away the stench of failure that will permeate me and all my surroundings when i realize the best friday night i've had in 8 weeks involves setting my hair and eating fucking hot pockets."

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, I think I assumed you didn't have a car for some reason.
But I do! I suppose that gives me no excuse for not going out, but oh well.

More amazing than slashies are liquor drive-thrus in Ohio. At least I think so. You just pull up, a teenager or grizzled old person asks you what you want, which is lining the sides of the drive-thru, and you toss it in your car and go. No hassles, no carrying the 12-pack of Bud to your car. It's already in there! All you have to do is drink it.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, the employee tosses it in your car. You don't have to lift a finger except to raise the can/bottle to your mouth.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Tell me that's not the pinnacle of convenience?!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

not until it involves helper monkeys that pour the booze down your gullett.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

I first saw those in Australia when I was 13. My parents couldn't believe it either. Then they bought a bunch of booze.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

If they tossed some eggs, cheese, and veggie burgers in there then I could cut out the grocery store entirely.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

I remember those in australia! the drinking age is 18 & i was 17 at the time but since they show their dates with the date first then the month, I was able to convince people that i was 18. the only tricky part was that when you have your learner's permit, they mark your car w/ these magnetic things on the bumper so we would pull them off a block away & then I would be the 'buyer of the booze.'

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

i went to one in texas, i don't remember if it was dallas or houston but it was someplace horrible that needed to have drive through liquor stores.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

I was able to convince people that i was 18

Just for the 29 days between Nov. 12 and Dec. 11?

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

hey! it was important!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

amanda, anthropologie is having a sale & some of their shoes (boots in particular) remind me of your style.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

i got someone a present from anthropologie for xmas and somehow wound up on their email mailing list. i unsubscribed two weeks ago but i still get something from them every three days or so. fuckers.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

i've never bought anything there because i feel like it's waaaaay out of my price range. and everything there (well, most) is so pretty and i want it but CAN NOT HAVE IT. therefore, i don't usually look.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

especially since i haven't received a paycheck in like, i dunno, 3 weeks. coasting on fumes over here.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it's spendy. too spendy for me as well. i was only browsing online b/c they're having a sale & i've pretty much stopped working today b/c i'm exhausted & can't really function like i need to.

in swim news, i am going to take tonight off. yay!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

OK, question to chilxors: Do you think you're a yuppie? Discuss.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone think they're a yuppie?

I really don't think I'm a yuppie, considering I make less than $35,000 a year, but I probably seem that way to plenty of poor people, since I'm white, college-educated, and have an iPod, decent apartment, and office job.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

What is an ABC store?

I want to know this, too. Already Been Chewed?

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

Young: kinda, not really
Urban: yes
Professional: not with what I get paid

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:05 (eighteen years ago)

I think that makes you pretty average. As am I. To be a yuppie, you'd have to have money and enjoy playing with it.

It's an outdated stereotype, anyway.

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

Also distinct lack of Patrick Nagel prints and black leather couches in my living room.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:07 (eighteen years ago)

Robert Palmer albums?

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

Not that those ever go out of style.

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

Nope. No Bartles & Jaymes in the fridge, either.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

It's an outdated stereotype, anyway.

THANK YOU KENAN

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

I am young (ish), live in an urban area, and am on a professional career track so purely by name, yes probably. But as far as philosphy ("He who dies with the most toys wins," "I got mine. Fuck you."), no, not at all.

ABC = Alcoholic Beverage Commission. State-run package stores, basically. Can't socialize medicine, but sure will limit your access to booze.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

WORK HARD, PLAY HARD

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:15 (eighteen years ago)

Why did you ask that question, Dan?

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

All kinds of people subscribe to "work hard, play hard." Smart people with shit to do, for one thing.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

People who like extremes, for another. Like gbx!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

UNDER THE PAVING STONES, THE BEACH!

No, that's not right...

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

I kind of hate "work hard, play hard" -- maybe not the concept as much as the expression. There's something a little too macho about it. Or maybe it just makes me think of investment bankers shaking their tail at the club with their tie loosened and an Amstel Light in their hand.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

DIE HARD

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

I get enough extremes in just my moods. I do not need or want to work hard or play particularly hard.

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

It's like those asinine "IF YOU CAN'T RUN WITH THE BIG DOG..." t-shirts. Different demographic (bouncers with shaved heads and Adidas sweatpants), but same sentiment.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:23 (eighteen years ago)

"Work hard, play hard" actually makes me think of a Swedish-American family in my church who owned a farm and made their (very modest) living through construction and thought nothing of charting/building an 18-hole frisbee golf course on their back 20 acres, compelete with a par for each hole, a 4x4 sunk into the ground for the goalpost, and a sign at the beginning with a routered out diagram of what direction to throw in (some turned corners). They also built a mountain bike course with banked corners, and their barn had a trampoline with an aerialist's harness suspended above it, for learning flips. They were always making up a new game or building some variety of AMAZING THING or leading hiking/downhill skiing trips or etc, all on a shoestring budget. The father of the family was our youth leader, so we spent a lot of time on that farm. I've never known anyone so ingenious and as ON FIRE for fun as those two boys.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, maybe the crux of the expression is that you have to enjoy a challenge -- that one's work should be just far enough inside yr capabilities that you're always stretching to learn & do more; if it gets boring, you're dead in the water. Ditto for hobbies: the fun part is that it gives you something to strive for.

Of course some people have a much greater tolerance for not striving.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:31 (eighteen years ago)

Outside, looking in, I would probably be considered a yuppie. I'd rather be a yuppie than creative class or knowledge worker.

Label me!

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'd rather be a yuppie than creative class or knowledge worker.

I don't much like the label "creative class," but I do enjoy the feeling of being considered human cultural capital by virtue of doing little more than consuming.

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the crux of the expression was that you should be downing Red Bull 24/7.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:35 (eighteen years ago)

They also built a mountain bike course with banked corners,

we had one!!!

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:36 (eighteen years ago)

When I think of "work hard, play hard" I don't get an image of ambitious lifetime learners. I get an image closer to Jaymc's, with the dude holding his tie over so he can puke in the street in the middle of "the flats" in Cleveland after guzzling loads of booze on an empty stomach, because he "doesn't have time" for eating.

As for yuppiedom, I asked myself this question upon getting my new job. Does this make me a yuppie? I dunno. I say no, but maybe from the outside looking in Dan and I look like DINKs more than yuppies, since we have dogs instead of kids. Either way, I'm not wealthy and don't hold my necktie over to puke, so whatever.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I'm unaware of any particular yuppie-esque or mainstream moron associations with the phrase?

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

The problem with "work hard/play hard" is not people that actually do it, it's people who say stupid shit like that.

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:40 (eighteen years ago)

Work Hard, Play hard: A Guy's Guide to Life After College gives practical advice to all male college grads. For the first time, a non fiction guide book gives advice for all guys in their twenties on how to do everything to achieve social, financial, romantic and professional success. It combines humor and practical advice on everything from job interviews, health, and money to bar scenes, romance and power. The advice is strengthened by anecdotes from real twenty-somethings who were in the same situation. It's like an Idiot's Guide to Life for anyone who just started getting a real paycheck but still use milk crates for a coffee table. Jake Bradley graduated from the University of Florida in 1997 and was named the school's Fraternity President of the Year. He has worked at a Fortune 100 company doing sales and marketing since 1997, including roles as a corporate recruiter and a professional sales trainer. In 2003, he earned a Master of Business Administration degree, also from Florida. He has been part owner of a professional staffing firm offering resume and interview preparation services. For fun he likes to have dinner and drinks with his wife and friends and plot world domination with his Kitchen Cabinet of overachievers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds dire.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

My employment discrimination prof went on an awesome tangential tirade about people who insist on labeling themselves as "upper-middle class" when they are in the top 5% income bracket in the US (ie lawyers and law professors) and it was pretty great. Anyway, given that I am a young(ish) urban professional, I feel like protesting the lable to much will make me sound like my parents, who live in a huge fucking house and drive two SUVs but get insulted when you suggest they are rich. That is self-delusional and unrecognizing of privilege. Like if I don't admit to being a yuppie, I'm claiming some cred or oppressed status that I deserve about as much as I deserve a daytime Emmy award.

The end.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

He has worked at a Fortune 100 company doing sales and marketing since 1997, including roles as a corporate recruiter and a professional sales trainer. In 2003, he earned a Master of Business Administration degree, also from Florida. He has been part owner of a professional staffing firm offering resume and interview preparation services. For fun he likes to have dinner and drinks with his wife and friends and plot world domination with his Kitchen Cabinet of overachievers.

This reads like he's a loser.

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I agree, Jenny. I think that, from the outside, I have to admit to looking an awful lot like both a yuppie and a hipster regardless of what I think about the matter.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:46 (eighteen years ago)

You almost ended up in Vice.

― UART variations (ex machina), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

Dressed like a Scottish peasant, though -- that's pretty un-hip.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

This reads like he's a loser.

Yeah. Mr. Tries Too Hard. Nothing sounds good about "corporate recruiter" at all. "Plot world domination" = "get drunk a lot to wash away the gnawing feeling that nobody can fucking stand you"

― event horizon planner (kenan), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:49 (eighteen years ago)

Why did you ask that question, Dan?

'Cause I got in an hour-long argument over it with a friend and wondered what all your opinions were on the matter.

(I argued that I wasn't a yuppie, fwiw.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 30 January 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

You're not.

What do we call greedy, show-offy pieces of shit who trade stocks and drive fancy-pants German cars nowadays? Because I don't think we call them yuppies.

― event horizon planner (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

Assholes?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

Piss.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

Guess what?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

I made my wine from Catch to-go last night by putting it in a Starbuck's cup. Then I threw that cup at a condo building, and it was awesome.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

How is your tooth?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I meant to say first: fucking root canal. THAT'S THOUSANDS OF $$$ THAT I DON'T HAVE TO BE SPENDING ON MY FUCKING PIEHOLE.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

Interesting. During my time at God Camp, we had a Catholic Social Teachings course led by a liberation theologist professor. She made a point that opened my eyes: most people in the U.S. are working class even if they are doctors, professors, or lawyers. The value of calling people working class instead of MIDDLE class is that it unites all of us and calls attention to the fact that The Man (wealthiest 5%) is not just shitting on the guy who works at Jewel and at the steel mill, but He is also sticking it to highly-educated professionals. She cited the fact that professors have to work longer hours for the same pay while at the same time administration wants to put their lectures on CD so that they can cut their pay. Also the fact that doctors' work is increasingly commodified through HMOs. And of course there is always the young attorney who has to work 80-hour weeks at a big firm in order to pay for law school.

In short, if the poor and the not-so-poor can unite then maybe we can kick the Man in the can.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 01:05 (eighteen years ago)

Ans to Kenan: Douchebags.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 01:06 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, that idea might have ramifications that I'd have to think about, but I like it on the surface.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 01:08 (eighteen years ago)

She explained it way better. A lot of the granola-ey young liberals in the class didn't cotton to the idea so much. I think they were in love with the idea that there is nobility in poverty.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

I also agree with the CST prof to an extent. I think the big distinction I would be careful to draw is that professional working class people usually have more opportunity to make changes in their careers and more of a support system should they lose their jobs. I agree that capital exploits labor of all sorts, but I also think that it's good to reach out to the most exploited workers first and fastest, through whatever means. A rising tide lifts all ships, etc.

Barbara Ehrenreich's latest book Bait and Switch does a good job exposing the exploitation of professional workers.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my god, today sucked. I left work at 4:30 all set to take a nice nap and catch up on some sleep, maybe get back to the gym before rehearsal. Then I bust a tire on the freeway (it was scary but I was oddly calm), limp off to a nearby Tires Plus, and spent the next three hours waiting for to get fixed. I ate an overpriced dinner at a place I'd never normally go just to kill some time. $500+ dollars and one rehearsal later, I finally got home a few minutes ago. I do have new tires and brake pads though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

Also I'm afraid that I'm a yuppie. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 05:38 (eighteen years ago)

FYI: You don't suck because one of your tires blew out. Also, I am very glad you are okay! That whole tire thing is one of many reasons why I hate driving. Yikes!

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 12:44 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not a yuppie, i'm a MAUDe. middle aged urban drone.

fuck this toe in the water shit, i think i'm going to jump back in the deep end.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

That pie thread makes me want pie.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I want pie.

I'm constantly amazed by richie riches who complain about the rich and how life's not fair that way...

I think I'll do my taxes at my desk today.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

Then when your dippy rich coworkers ask you to pitch in $50 for a group gift for someone that you have never met, you can show them documented proof of why that's just not a feasible contribution for you to make. Then kick 'em in the knee.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Peach and cherries baked together with biscuit dough on top! And ice cream! Shit, I'm baking that either tonight or tomorrow.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

i inadvertantly discovered the greatest before bed snack last night. freshly baked brownies chased with nyquil, it's a chocolate/cherry delight that knocks you the fuck out 20 minutes later.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

That's actually really disgusting.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

you'd think so but you'd be wrong.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

next time, substitute the nyquil for oil before baking. mmmm.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

there was no oil in this recipe. i suppose i could've used nyquil in place of vanilla extract. incidentally, as soon as i caught a whiff of vanilla extract in the air with the melted butter/chocolate mixture i IMMEDIATELY flashed back to childhood and it kind of freaked me out for a split second or two.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

Damnit. I ALWAYS end up owing on my taxes! Where are these fat returns everyone gets??

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 14:59 (eighteen years ago)

I was threatening to make our coffee with Coke instead of water last night - surely someone has done this before? What would it be like?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

You don't suck because one of your tires blew out

No, I'm afraid I'm a yuppie because I have a decent and I live in the soulless part of town. In Madison.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to try the full measure of solid cocoa PLUS some powdered kind, I think the choc flavor needs more depth than that recipe provides. A good stand-by, though!

XP: CHICAGO FOOD EXPERIMENTS!

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Damnit. I ALWAYS end up owing on my taxes! Where are these fat returns everyone gets??

change your withholding and see less every paycheck, that's how it happens. this is my first full year not working two jobs in 5 years so this will be the first year i have a refund. which i will blow on records and booze in new york.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, I need to decide whether I'm going to move into a smaller apartment in the same complex this month. It seems logical because I would be saving $200+ for the next seven months, but the thought have having to move all my shit, change my address, redo all my utilities and stuff is stressing me the fuck out. ?!?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I think making drip coffee with coke would be a bad idea because the sugar in the coke would gum up the coffee maker or french press. You could maybe use diet coke but that would be TOTALLY FUCKING DISGUSTING. So then that leaves you with instant coffee or maybe one of those aero-press coffee maker things (http://aerobie.com/Products/aeropress.htm - I want one of those so bad!!!). You'd have to heat the coke up which would probably make it thicker and carmelize the sugar so I imagine that the result would be thick, gooey, coffee-flavored coke. That's just a guess though.

xpost - You'll have less to clean with a smaller apartment, and allasudden it will look like you have a full, adult compliment of stuff and then you'll save money that way, too. It will also be easier to decorate.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Do it, Jordan!

As for taxes, Nick's dad told me once that it's better not to get a return. Otherwise, the government is getting interest on your overpayment, which you never see. Never-the-less, it sure was nice that year right out of college when I got an $800+ refund and blew it all on a new car stereo.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.waterjoe.com/20%20waterjoe.jpg

you could make coffee with this, i guess.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

A friend and I were just talking about doing that (brewing coffee w/caffeinated water)!

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

I came sauntering in at 9:30 this morning. My excuse is that it took me extra time to dress for 8 degrees.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

My bus was really late! I was standing there with (at the end) about 7 other people and we were all giving each other these desparate looks like we were in the movie Alive.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Like, you look at them, and they turn into pork chops, and they look at you, and you turn into a steak.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Exactly!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

And then a young Ethan Hawke showed up and we started making out even though our faces were frozen!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Except the pork chop and the steak are kind of freezer burned and ultimately unappetizing and thus the desparation just increases. Today was the first day that it has been so cold that my face started burning by the time I got from the bus stop to work. On the bright side, the weather is so dry I haven't had to wash my hair all week and that saves some time in the morning.

HEY are any of you interested in TT at the Red Lion Pub this Thursday? I will wash my hair for the occasion.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Now I am picturing young Ethan Hawk with his tongue stuck on a frozen pork chop.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

"Get your _____ on" is another phrase that bugs me, even though I've been known to use it ironically.

HEY are any of you interested in TT at the Red Lion Pub this Thursday?

Mmmmmaybe.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Am I the pork chop?

Where is Red Lion?

John, do you mean like Get your freak on?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

"Get your _____ on" is another phrase that bugs me

I am going to start using this all the time.

Get your annoyance on.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

"Get Ur Freak On" may have been the usage that popularized the expression, so I'm kind of okay with it. But it spawned a monster, as now you have morning-zoo DJs saying shit like "This weekend at Red Lobster, you can get your fish on!"

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Get Your War On

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

While we're talking about meaningless marketing-speak, can I throw in "taking [x] to the next level"? NEVAR AGAIN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

It can unironically be used as a serious imperative, though. "Get your shoes on!"

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

white people started saying "get your ______ on" after "getting _____y with it" wore itself out.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't like that comic (hi, swearing is not inherently funny), although David Rees was charming when I saw him in person several years ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Red Lion Pub: http://www.chicagobarproject.com/reviews/RedLion/RedLion.htm

Pros: Cheap beer, cheap food, trivia
Cons: Northside

I don't think that swearing is really the central comedic focus of Get Your War On.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Elmo A, do you live in Chicago?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Swearing can be inherently funny, if done creatively enough. "Ass" is not funny. "Cumbubble" is funny.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

I know, I know, it's a scathing indictment of the absurdities of war.

Elmo started posting on the Chicago thread after he discovered that Jesse was as gay for Jackass as he was.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

nope! though i did visit this past summer. i met jaymc (very briefly) at le pitchforkfest.

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

If it bends, it's funny. If it breaks, it's not funny.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc OTM i am totally gay for jackass

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

BUMMER. You're funny and I was hoping you would come get drunk with us on Thursday.

"Ass" can be funny. See: Bender.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Swearing can be inherently funny, if done creatively enough.

The "if" in this sentence negates its first half.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

i would drunk with all this chicagoans, if i could!

― elmo argonaut (allocryptic), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

The "if" in this sentence negates its first half.

Yeah, I realized that as soon as I hit submit. Too late.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Nick's dad told me once that it's better not to get a return. Otherwise, the government is getting interest on your overpayment

what's the big deal? it's not like i'm going to be putting that money aside for tax time despite knowing full well that i'll wind up owing. let the gvt. collect the interest, it's more than worth it to me to get a big chunk of change back all at once.

like most americans i'm not saving for the future so for now i'll let the government do it for me.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin OTM.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Where do you file online? Every year I forget.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't gotten a return for the last several years. Last year I calculated that I owed over $1000, which I sent, but then the government gave most of it back to me. I'm pretty dumb about finance, and the fact that I don't want to think about it most of the time doesn't do me any favors. (I did my taxes in August last year.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

although, when i was working the two jobs i didn't withhold much from the second job because we used that to pay down school loans, credit card bills, and other high interest things where the interest rate was higher than my tax rate. i suppose over the course of a year i saved like 8 percent or something but in hindsight having to come up with $600-900 every april was kind of a drag and probably worth withholding more.

xpost- on line i use turbo tax.

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

Turbo tax isn't free. Fuck that shit.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.irs.gov/efile/article/0,,id=118986,00.html

Sorry, peoples who make more then $52k. I know there are a lot of you among my friends.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

it is depending on how much you made the previous year. if you want a listing of free shit go to irs.gov, they have a list every year.

but you get what you pay for. enjoy the audit!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

ha. Nobody's auditing my broke ass.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't even gotten my W-2's yet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

i get mine today.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, peoples who make more then $52k. I know there are a lot of you among my friends.

I prefer not to know this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I keep wanting to post on the "Arrested Development" thread as though we've all just seen the same episode.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

man, you guys are boring. Taxes? TAXES? What happened to the rock and roll? You used to be cool ... but you changed.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

the last time i made more than $52,000 was when i was 26. my income and age have been inversely proportional ever since.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Waaaars the Arrested Development thread?

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

disc 1 season 1 is on it's way from netflix to me today. all 3 seasons are at the top of my queue.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think I am going to do the thing where I record an entire album in February. I'm planning to do it as Semantics, my obnoxious punk/noise "band."

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Is everyone EXCITED?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

man, you guys are boring. Taxes? TAXES? What happened to the rock and roll? You used to be cool ... but you changed.

I had a similar reaction at a dinner party recently where everyone was talking about their retirement/IRA/401k shit and financing homes. Somehow we all became so old!

xpost WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! Spring Break, Bears win the Super Bowl, etc!!!!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pissed because the clock on my computer is an hour fast so I keep thinking "YAY LUNCH TIME" and then I realize it's not lunch time at all. Today has been a real emotional rollercoaster.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

I have warned Kr on several occasions that in certain company, the conversation will invariably turn to babies and real estate.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

welcome to the last 3 years of my life jay. that's the downside of being older than all the other chilxors EXCEPT JENNY.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Arrested Development

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I prefer not to know this.

It was a joke, son.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Okay. Because I wouldn't be surprised to learn that there are a lot of them among my friends.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'll talk about some babies but real estate is BO-RING. Also: Kevin, respect your elders.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Gah! I just spent an hour on Turbo Tax filling out boxes, only to find out that it costs $60 to file. Seriously, that's ridiculous.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Is it so hard to do it the traditional way? (I realize I am speaking as someone who obviously fucked up last year and thought he owed the U.S. Treasury $1000, but I've done my own taxes using the 1040EZ form for each of the five years before that and had no problems at all.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

They want me to pay for going through their "deduction optimizer," which was a pain in the ass, because I don't have any deductions, and they DID NOT make it clear that I did not have to go through all that. And then at the end they want to charge me for this huge convenience. I feel scammed.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

you don't have to pay if you don't use them to file. the directions are spelled out for you. they say it like 3 times in fact.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

God, I think the Chicago people finally wore down noizers

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

we're hearty people jon, if we can survive this fucking rediculous weather we're sure as hell not going to get ground down by msg brd denizens.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

they say it like 3 times in fact.

Maybe so. It's too late now, though. It remembers me, and knows I used their tool.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

As much as I hate owing the government more money, I actually love doing my taxes. It's easy, you get to use math, and there are all those perfectly sized boxes and lines for printing numbers. Sometimes you even get to use a sticker or two! Follow the instructions and... voila!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

I've used TaxAct.com for the last 5 years. It's web-based, easy, and costs like 20 dollars overall. It remembers all your information for the next tax year too.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe so. It's too late now, though. It remembers me, and knows I used their tool.

if you haven't filed yet it's not too late. if you clicked "I AGREE" and entered payment information that i think you know what you did.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

No, no, they're not charging me. I left the site but quick. I found another page that looks like it was made by a government employee, which is kind of exactly what I want when entering tax information.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

JUST GIVE ME A BIG CHECK, PLZ THNX

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

...made by a government employee

RUN!!!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

No, no, I mean it's ugly and boring and ungainly. Looks official.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

In other news, these shoes are cute:
http://photos2.shopgco.com/photos/78/780816m.jpg

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

As are these:
http://couture.zappos.com/images/720/7203358/985-261940-d.jpg

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

the dwarves are at the abbey tonight. i have no money.
busy signals are at ronnys tomorrow night. i will still have no money.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

Will you have money on Saturday night?

I just remembered today is payday! * happy dance *

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Not to pull rank on you guys, but you have NOTHING on my winter experience.

Except for choosing to live in any icy shithole for the rest of your adult lives.

CONTROVERSIAL!!!! :D

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Do elaborate please, Jon.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

comparison between rochester ny and chicago

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Note that Chicago has higher avg percip.... UNTIL THE WINTER

― UART variations (ex machina), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

Jon, if it were an icy shithole, we wouldn't be still bitching about how cold it is. It's not like this all the time, ffs.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

By the way, thanks for linking that NYT article about food upthread (um, forgot who did it... John??). I thought it was very interesting, along the lines of the Future of Food documentary. I emailed it to my fam for them to ignore.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago, IL on average is warmer than Rochester, NY by 3°F.

SONNED BY WEATHER.COM

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

I like those second shoes, Sarah! The first ones are a little too twee for me.

Things I observed at the Ee Ee Oh Sea today:
1. A woman wearing a shirt that says, "I see dumb people."
2. A man yelling a "Don't drop the soap!" joke in the hall.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Not to pull rank on you guys, but you have NOTHING on my winter experience.

Please.

comparison between Houghton, MI and Rochester, NY

My mom's from upstate NY, I know it can get bad there... but still.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Although lately I have been talking to friends and family back home and I have decided I don't miss it all that much.

Related: anyone want to go to this? http://www.mtu.edu/carnival/

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

sarah, i will not have money saturday night. i don't get paid until the 9th. what's saturday?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

It was four degrees when I left the house this morning and the snot in my nose actually froze, which kind of amazes me. I think when comparing cold areas it's worthwhile to recognize that many of us Chicagoans spend an inordinate amount of time walking around and waiting for various public transportation conveyances in this kind of cold and don't just run from warm house to warm car to warm work. See also: Chicago feeling hotter than NC in the summer because of all the god damn walking around in the miserable heat that you end up having to do.

Kevin go to the Red Lion tomorrow and play trivia with me and I will buy you beerz.

― jennyjennyjenny (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

QUIEN ES MAS FRIO??

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

i'll see how i'm feeling tomorrow jenny, i'd totally be down for trivia. and if they take credit cards i could always open a tab.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

It's also worth noting that I've only been to Rochester maybe once in my life and I grew up in a region with weather best characterized as "bone-chillingly damp" and lived the five years prior to coming here in the south so pretty much any time the weather gets into the 20s or under I just kind of wander around in stunned amazement that my blood hasn't turned turned into icy slush in my very veins.

xp-yay!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

I love that second pair of flats, Sarah.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

the only thing i know about rochester is that it is where koch's golden anniversary was brewed. when i was in high school (waaaaay back in the 1980's) it was $4.99/case.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Actually a good chunk of my mom's family is from Rochester. I'm pretty sure she lived there for a while, but not sure when.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

I will probably show up at the Red Lion too. I've wanted to go play trivia for like a year and a half.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

any time the weather gets into the 20s or under I just kind of wander around in stunned amazement

See, I'm wearing long johns, flannel, heavy sweater, etc. etc. I'm dressed for it. Walking around makes me feel like a trooper.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't the Red Lion haunted like crazy?

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Similarly, I am wearing tights, knee socks, cords, two shirts and a turtleneck sweater. I'm not uncomfortable outside, just amazed. I'm even more amazed that I'm not more uncomfortable! Like, when properly outfitted, the human body is an amazing thing!

And yes, I think it is haunted like crazy.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

They say freezing to death is a painless way to go.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, but leading up to it is a fucking nightmare.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Helium is much quicker.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, but leading up to it is a fucking nightmare.

I imagine. Lots of shivering, then lots of having to accept the fact that yes, you're going to die in this spot.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

also, rag wool socks, boots, flannel lined pants, two shirts, a sweater, a hoodie, a scarf, a hat, and a winter jacket and still the wind cut through me on the platform waiting for the train this morning. the eisenhower is dug out of the surrounding neighborhoods so it's like you're standing in a trough. couple that with the buildings on either side and it's a fucking wind tunnel waiting for the blue line out there.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

I want to do trivia! We will probably have band practice tomorrow though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

I just realized something re TT: by "Red Lion," you mean Lion Head, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

No. But they are like a block away from each other. Red Lion is just north of Fullerton, Lion Head is just south.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. Does Red Lion have trivia, too?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

oh man i'm totally raiding my piggy banks and hitting the coin star so i can get me some irish stew to go with my beer tomorrow.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

hmmmm.... john's right, there's no mention of trivia at the red lion web site and the lion head has a photo gallery filled with douchebags.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. Does Red Lion have trivia, too?

I'm trying to read up on that. It's mentioned, but not prominently anywhere. Hell, if they're not doing trivia, just walk down the street.

But Red Lion is haunted! WooooOOOOOooo.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

the lion head has a photo gallery filled with douchebags

Yeah, I've never been in there, but the photo gallery makes it look like it's filled with Miss Trixies and Captain Hairdos.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

In other words, Lincoln Park types.

But the Red Lion is old and homey and britishes!

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

But the Red Lion is old and homey and britishes!

so the choices are douchebags or assholes?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, there's no question Lion Head is lame. But it's spacious, there are almost always super-cheap drink specials, and there's trivia. Also: free wings on Wednesdays.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I just watched the "For British Eyes Only" episode of Arrested Development.

"What's the soup of the day, mum?"
"Bread!"
"The soup of the day is bread."

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

(I will go to Red Lion if it is anything like that.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

Trivia, in my experience, is almost always in the lamest of bars, unfortunately.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

red lion looked big in the pictures and i hope we'll be there early enough to avoid the depaul kids/neighborhood dickweeds. plus half price drinks on thursdays.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

I don't actually care which one it is -- I'm not sure yet if I can make it -- I just wanted Jenny to clarify which one she meant.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

(I guess I assumed she meant Lion Head because she mentioned trivia, and also it's the place that EZ is always saying we should go to.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

ok well regardless of which bar i go to someone please text me so i'm not sitting by myself at a bar in lincoln park.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

A lovely Chicago storefront (supposedly at 5922 w roosevelt):

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/166/holyshitxn8.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

that would be just before austin, in which case i've probably driven past it a thousand times and never noticed it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

wtf are they selling? Shizzle?

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Who knows? I can't vouch for the authenticity of the photo, it was passed to me via a string of computer nerds including my roomie.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Although now that he looked up the neighboring business' address (which is actually the number above) I am very tempted to go check it out.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

It's a church! With a lingerie store next door!

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Don't hate on lingerie.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Lion Head is the place with cheap food, pints of anything for $2.50, and trivia. Who cares if it's Lincoln Park types - they're just your trivia competition.

I somehow ended up last night at midnight at Finn McCool's, next door to Bar Chicago, playing trivia against a table of Chicago cops, who beat me (at trivia).

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

The thing about Lincoln Park is that the bar will probably be pretty empty early Thursday night, unless there's some special NCAA game or a 'Friends' reunion special.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know, it's right near depaul isn't it? if school's in session i'm wagering there will be some "rah brah" types.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

I learned of the real Finn McCool last week. Before I thought it was just the lamest name for a cheesy Irish bar ever, but no, there's this.

Warning: reading that Wiki entry may lead to violent paroxysms of extreme Gaelic-ness.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

true story, my first regular bartender was named finnbar.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

I only know about Finn MacCool because of At Swim-Two-Birds.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.littleman.com/images/3/184333.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't even get the length of a fairy ring into AT SWIM, but I learned the story of Finn McCool from books of fairy tales and legends and a book...a book -- shit I can't remember the title. HI DERE CHILDHOOD SUMMER READING

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/98/245910177_6027d80bc4.jpg

I just did a google image search for Finn McCool, and this photo shows up on the first page. The rec-room decoration of this bar makes me laugh.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Seriously: every apartment I've ever lived in has at least one of those ceiling fan/lamps.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

HI DERE CHILDHOOD SUMMER READING

YOU KNOW I CAN'T READ!

*sob*

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, who was it on here who was talking about the proper way to cook brussels sprouts? Jesse, perhaps? Eric?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

The Morrigan! The Hounds of the Morrigan! I remembered!!@#!@

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Not me, Sarah - no clue.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

This thread title STILL looks like "Pee Smells" to me.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Pee smells, but who's buying?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

lol

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

What do you smell like on NuIlx?

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.shopping.msn.com/img/2585/58/0/134209.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.uwsp.edu/geo/projects/virtdept/ipvft/lodge.jpg

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://imagescommerce.bcentral.com/merchantfiles/4508723/grim%20reaper%20011.jpg

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

will there be a TT tomorrow?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

"The smell... that gasoline smell..."

http://photos32.flickr.com/36895075_d50052d357.jpg

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Wait. Better question--if there is a TT, will I be able to participate, having had a root canal at 11 AM?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

will there be a TT tomorrow?

RTFT

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

OMG. There's a NUTTY NUTTY woman in Argo Tea! She's hilarious and very quiet about her nuttiness. She looks very normal until she starts making the sign of the cross with her forefingers in the direction of a guy at a table in front of her. She also took out her Binaca and sprayed it at him twice, then in her mouth, then silently made an agonized face and curled her fingers into claws. Now she is shielding her face with a book about Mozart while briskly pacing the room. All totally silently.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

RTFT? What's RTFT?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Also, answer my question, Jesse.

Remember how I didn't know what a Superbowl Square was? Well, I'm in charge of it apparently. Give me your monies.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

my mom's in town?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

What question? (Dan just told me what RTFT means, and I will say to you what I said to him--I don't have time nor the inclination to read the whole fucking thread this late in the game.)

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Fix the pool, Sarah! Take those rich bitches for all they're worth!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

It happens, on these monster threads.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

xpost

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, brussel sprouts? I boil the shit out of them.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Now she is showing the room manila folders, one by one, from a large stack. They have stuff on them about GHOSTS, MOB HITS, and ALIENS.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

This is great.

Maybe the guy smells like pee.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in for $5 on my work's Superbowl squares. It was supposed to be $20, but I don't know what happened.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

i won $50 by winning the 3rd quarter last year. first time i'd EVER hit on a square in over a decade's worth of superbowls.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

I think I've heard of these squares.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

I prefer rice krispie squares. They're a sure thing.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

I have won once, and then it was $240. A guy I work with has been playing squares regularly for 15 years and has never won. That's gotta suck.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not just talking Superbowl, but regular season games.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

I usually steam brussels sprouts until they're bright green and then sautee briefly in a butter-white wine-garlic sauce. I tried roasting them and they didn't turn out as well.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

My new job is overwhelming me. It's a good sort of busy, but boy. I feel busy.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

fuck, there's an awesome apartment for rent at oakley & potomac but i'm not ready to move yet ;_;

it's good to get a handle on what i'm gonna need to pay but suck-ballsish to know that i'm missing out on awesome spaces.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

I won $250 in two separate Oscar pools in 2005.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

How do Oscar pools work? Are they squares?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

ArgoNut has wheeled luggage. She is on the floor kneeling in front of it, her hands on the shafts of the handle. Yowza.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

She is on the floor kneeling in front of it, her hands on the shafts of the handle. Yowza.

sounds like my prom night...

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

C or C: people who look normal but act batshit crazy?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

A guy I work with recommended a good accountant to do my taxes, but now I find out he's in Forest Park. Or Oak Park? Somewhere far away. End of the Blue Line. That seems too far.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

It's one round trip, Jesse, not like a work commute. Do it.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

there's absolutely no reason to go out there.

so who's going to TT tomorrow? was it ever settled WHERE it would be?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I wanna know too. In case I decide to go.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

How do Oscar pools work? Are they squares?

No, you just pick who you think will win in each category, and whoever gets the most categories right wins. The guy who does it at my office generally omits some of the smaller and/or techie categories altogether, while the friends I play with give half-points for the Shorts, since the lack of publicity or ability to view them means they're often the hardest to predict.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

I have a chicken salad sandwich in my pocket and it's making me hungry.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

it's at one of two places amanda, both around lincoln and fullerton if you happen to find yourself in lincoln park.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmm...lincoln and fullerton, eh. Hm.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

Barring any unforseen incidents, I should be at TT tomorrow.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'm too broke to go.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, you ain't too broke to go. $2.50 pints, everyone can treat.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I got paid today. Of course half of that is already gone, but...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

No, seriously. I have $50 until the 9th. That $2.50 could be a day's worth of food.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'm whinging. Sorry. It's nobody's fault but mine.

― ice pants (kenan), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'll get you a beer, dude.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

I'll get you some skirt-steak taco happetizers. But if one of my kidneys ever fails, you owe me.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 31 January 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

I was talking about the place Eric was talking about - the frat boy place. I got it confused with the haaaaauuuuuuunted pub. I will be there... probably early since I am out of class at 2:45 and don't have anything else to do, really. Well, I could do some homework but I'm in my last semester so fuck that.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:06 (eighteen years ago)

Also: Tea for Dong. Gives your dingle less tingle.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

The best part of the first season of Extras ... and it involves Patrick Stewart.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

lolz thank you for that.

― ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 01:57 (eighteen years ago)

Comment on this clip: This makes Patrick out like he is a pervert. Taking peeks and such... I had respect for him, no more.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 04:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ow. My pinché tooth is starting to hurt now. All the way up into my eye.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 05:46 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse! :( I'm so sorry.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

I decided it was too cold to go into the office today, so I'm home working from the futon again.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 13:21 (eighteen years ago)

Oh Jesse, that really is the worst. The top jaw is linked to a giant network of nerves that run up the face, the same rotting activity is MUCH harder to bear than if the tooth were on the bottom. I am so sorry. Are you getting something done about it soon? The last time I had an infection on top, it started spreading up my face and my eyes swelled shut, it was really nasty like migraine-level pain. Had to go to the ER on a Sunday.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Yikes, Jesse! OWW!

There are only two other people at work.

Hi.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

i was almost an hour late for work today. i woke up at the regular time but instead of getting out of bed i just lay there hitting snooze every 9 minutes. i just couldn't bring myself to get out from under the covers and go to work.

but i noticed one thing: the #X49 western express has much MUCH more to look at at 7:45 a.m. than it does at 6:45. and i saw the girl who was eating the yogurt with a fork again today. she had purple sunglasses on and kept sticking her index finger into her cheek then the tip of her nose. i think i'm smitten.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

He's getting a root canal today at 11, so that's good. You have to be REALLY careful about any sort of bacterial infection in your head (upper jaw, ear) because you can get a meningitis and die.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

It's not too cold today. But the Trib says the high on both Saturday and Sunday is going to be 4. Not looking forward to this.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, yesterday wgn weather guy had sat and sun pegged at 5 degrees for the highs. this morning he raised it to 7 and 6, respectively.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

also, apparently chicago is in the midst of what is or what will be the longest sub-freezing stretch in three years. i miss the 50 degree december weather, personally.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

New Orleans has a high of 62 tomorrow

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

san diego weather:

Thu
58° | 49°

Fri
60° | 47°

Sat
65° | 46°

Sun
65° | 47°

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I am ambivalent. I love winter and hate summer, so the cold at least represents something good, but right now it's not feeling great. So, carry on as you wish, Winter.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

The lake tricked me this morning. I thought I saw ripples and white caps, and then realized that none of it was moving, which created a strange disconnect. "The lake has stopped!"

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to go walk on it. I'll either be Jesus or Virginia Woolf.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

i LOOOOVE going to the lake when it's turbulent and frozen. that's the one thing i like about winter in chicago, seeing the giants chunks of ice careening and smashing against the breakwalls north of north ave. and south of belmont.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I bet the river is a sheet of greenish glass by now.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, have you been to Pampy's or Powell's in N.O.? I might get down with some upscale eating for the first time there.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

(sorry about the tooth, dude)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

the des plaines river is white. frozen across and covered in snow this morning.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

I don't work in the loop, so clue me in, loop people. Maybe I should go down there this weekend and take pictures. Just to have a story. "It was -5 outside when this shot was taken!"

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

It was a gorgeous mosaic of ice, slush and water yesterday.

xpost to Jordan--no.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

One of my roommates worked at the Court of 2 Sisters and it sounded really good. Also, it's not fancy, but there is a great African restaurant on Royal....shit what's it called?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Bennachin. 1212 Royal. The peanut butter chicken is good. And the whole snapper. And the ginger drink is not to be missed. Spicy!

As with so many ethnic places, the service is....weird. And as with many NO places, you walk right through the middle of the kitchen to get to the bathroom in the courtyard.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

The lake looks pretty cool along the stretch of park between about 49th and 57th right now too.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

I don't work in the loop, so clue me in, loop people.

About what?

Btw, I just learned that Sally Timms was once married to Fred Armisen. WTF. I think I always assumed that she and Jon Langford were married.

Also, I am def. coming to TT (will aim to be there around 6:15-6:30) but will prob. only stay for an hour or so.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

I watched Conversations with Other Women last night, really liked it. There were definitely moments when I thought I was watching Before Sunrise though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

And sometime last week I saw Hal Hartley's Amateur, which I think some of y'all we're talking about. It was charming, as was much of the early 90's.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

i used to see sally timms around all the time, ran into her at feed and outside the damen blue line stop a bunch. i did know she was married to f.a.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

I watched Conversations with Other Women last night, really liked it. There were definitely moments when I thought I was watching Before Sunrise though.

YES. I have been evangelizing about this movie, which barely anyone has seen and didn't even get good reviews.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Timms and Langford both married Americans.

OK, I will definitely see that movie, John.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

About what?

Ice on the river.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I think you would really like it, Eric. Your comparison to Before Sunrise makes me wonder why the Linklater films are so feted, while this one was ignored: does the gimmick not work for some people, maybe? (I thought it was rather brilliant, rivaling Eternal Sunshine in using a formal technique to achieve greater emotional depth -- cf. the way the split-screen is able to show flashbacks and imagined scenarios concurrently with what's actually happening.) Is it because it's a novice director and not Linklater?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

Your = Jordan's

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

awesome picture from radio beats last show, chinatown dan about to get tazered by the pittsburgh pd while steve beat shits his pants:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v36/mummygun/radiobeatscop.jpg

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to see it again actually (to watch it knowing the nature of their relationship from the start and to appreciate all the split screen tricks better, esp. the present tense ones where it's either fantasy or different impressions of the same moment).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, did he get tazered? How come?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

when the pittsburgh pd tells you to turn down i guess you should turn down. steve's reaction cracks me the fuck up though.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

He couldn't hear the football game on the TV.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

the last time i saw dan me and him were drinking at that no-name old man polish bar on western ave two doors down from retro wash. it was like 11:30 in the morning on a saturday and we stayed there until 4 when we walked to the ice factory for a hardcore show. the old polish bartendress LOVED us, by the end of the afternoon she was making my screwdrivers in pint glasses and charging me two dollars.

it was a long day.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.hotdogchicagostyle.com/

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

hey, so where ARE we going tonight? i forget which place is which so a simple "north of fullerton" or "south of fullerton" will suffice. if i catch the early bus out of here (doubtful) i'm going to take the el to clinton and take the lincoln ave bus to the bar. i don't know why this seems exciting to me but it does!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Lion Head: south of Fullerton.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

gratzi!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you for making me want to go to Hot Doug's today, Jordan.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh. Working form home today actually kinda sucks, everything's running all slow and I'm way way behind. So I'm posting on ILX.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Hot Doug's, Saturday the 17th, I don't care if it's -20 or if I miss the Children's Museum gig, I am going.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Does the Lincoln bus go all the way down by Clinton? That's pretty neat if it does.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it goes south of the clinton blue line stop actually. at least according to the map for the #11 bus.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

E-mailing with my dad:

Dad: Do you like meat loaf? I make a mean meat loaf, if you want to eat in tomorrow night.
Me: I'm down with meatloaf.
Dad: Is down good or bad???????

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

TS: "I'm down with meatloaf" vs. "DOWN WITH MEATLOAF!"

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

i got an email this morning from my supervisor saying i should focus on doing this one task today. put off everything else and do this one task.

i finished that one task yesterday so i've spent the last hour surfing and eating nutter butters. i wish i had known i was out of tea at work.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

I had a meeting, yay! It turns out that I was selected to supervise a project that I really like, so I'm looking forward to more meetings and conversations with co-workers and all the responsibility that entails.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

hi guys!

I think I'm in for TT. this place is called Red Lion?

also, I love Amateur!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

whoa, any more info on tazering

― UART variations (ex machina), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

no, haven't heard from dan on that. fucking pittsburgh.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

incidentally, dan and his girlfriend are the cutest couple ever. they're both like bad-ass little rock 'n' roll pixies or something.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

Lion Head - 2251 N. Lincoln. I'll be there 'round 6:30 -

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

great, i'll be there at 5:30 drinking by myself again. the last time this happened was at bar on buena and i wound up getting loopy drunk. NOT THIS WEEK.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

YOU POOR BASTARD

Yeah, I'll drop by and let you buy me beer, and try not to feel too pathetic about it. And I should meet Ms. Horseshoe.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

No way, Bill and Lisa are the cuetest rock'n'roll couple in the world! Tuff pastries are better than pixies.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Rock'n'roll is overrated. Disc 3 of the Bacharach box set is the hotness -- at least up until "That's What Friends Are For."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

I wish we could go to TT.

the cuetest rock'n'roll couple in the world!

Uh, hello?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

I refer, of course, to my testes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I have cigarettes tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

hee! Nick and Sarah are definitely up there, I think.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Keep them away from me! (not that I mind people smoking, it's just that I shouldn't.)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ten minutes of introductory conversation before your set does not a bonding experience make, dear Nick (and Sarah!). I'll come to Chicago sometime and we'll revisit the question.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

nick, you made me larf.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

Joe and Amanda Ziemba might be cute if they weren't so standoffish.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Keep them away from me!

i thought you meant nick's nuts.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.bloodshotrecords.com/CAT/theblacks/gallery/promo/blacksc-sm.jpg

Danny and Gina Black (of The Blacks) are cute, though I don't know if they're still hitched.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

I refer, of course, to my testes.

I believe this ought to be a "pair" rather than a "couple". But that's just me.

I don't know any of those other people (well I have met Bill and Lisa) so N&S win.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Georgia and Ira would be cute if they didn't look like so homely and freshly bar-mitzvah'd, respectively.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

Danny and Gina Black (of The Blacks) are cute, though I don't know if they're still hitched.

uhhh..... dude they broke up a WHILE ago. gina moved to new orleans for a while. incidentally, she played high school soccer with my ex in ann arbor.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

I believe this ought to be a "pair" rather than a "couple".

Mental image of testes canoodling.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

You know, "grow a pair"...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

Joe & Amanda are cute, especially because they are so quiet.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, they never seem like they're having much fun.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

"Seemed," rather.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

I think they do/did.

Anyway, I still think Nick & I win for cutest rock couple. Screw you guys (not literally).

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Not to belabor the point about TLY, but have you ever seen either of them smile?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Screw, you guys.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha

Yes, John, when making conversation though, not while rockin'.

Totally unrelated - I made some apple & cheese quesadillas for breakfast which were delicious. Oh yeah, it's lunchtime! No wonder I'm talking about food...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Couple bands like TLY can be standoffish at shows because they can keep to themselves and stay in their own world. If that energy comes across onstage the same way (the way it does with, say, Jeff Tweedy), then it's a problem. But if a couple just wants to keep to themselves, that's OK.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

(Not that Tweedy plays in a couple, but that his onstage presence is the kind of standoffish rock presence that doesn't work for me at all.)

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

TLY were very friendly, albeit in a quiet way, when we played with them. I think they are just shy.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, probably.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

after tt tonight i'm going to try to go over to ronny's for the busy signals show. they're awesome.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

OK, there was totally traces of tuna salad in my sandwich from Bake for Me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

I'm all rooted out. They didn't give me pain killers except 1 tablet of ibuprofen. WTF.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

NB: It was not a tuna-salad sandwich. I think the tuna got mixed up in the sprouts or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Gross.
Also, gross... and OW! WTF x2.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin what time does that show start? I mean, I'll be there on Sat., but WTF.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

eric said 9 p.m.-ish, i'm trying to find out if that's closer to 10 or closer to 9 or what. mannequin men are headlining and the retainers from minneapolis are on in between.

who's there saturday?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

I keep meaning to see the Busy Signals.

Us.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

With Sharks.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

crap. i will be at a birthday party. :(

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

The endodontist gave me a price break since I am uninsured. Came to around $700. Now I have to go to the fucking dentist and get a crown, and that's when I'll start having to pay the big bucks.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe the dentist will put a crown on you, if you know what I mean.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. I don't think I do.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Put his corona

http://members.lycos.nl/heanca1971/hpbimg/penis.jpg

in me?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

Lindsay: Oh, no, no, not you. Bob’s daughter, Hope. If I can get Hope this crown, maybe her father might just want to crown me, if you know what I mean.

Michael: I’m guessing “have sex,” but that’s meeting you more than halfway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

I love it when Lindsay tries to get sexy.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, I never made the Bob ... Hope connection until now.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

G.O.B.: I don’t want to say it. First place chick is hot, but has an attitude, doesn’t date magicians. Second place is someone weird usually, like a Chinese girl or a geologist. But third place, although a little bit plain, has super low self-esteem. So I step in and, uh, lay her crown upon my sweet head.

Michael: Have I missed this euphemism?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

I just got back from the audiologist with my new musician's earplugs. They're pretty sweet, if hard to put in.

I don't know if I mentioned it, but I seriously thought I did internal damage to one of my ears while cleaning it a few weeks ago. I've been hearing crackling sounds & stuff whenever I touch it or yawn or whatever. Turns out it was just a hair that had gotten STUCK TO MY EARDRUM, like putting tinfoil on a speaker or whatever. She just took it off with a pair of tweezers (and a camera so I could watch).

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

That's kind of awesome.

I ordered some $15 earplugs a while back and then promptly lost them within two weeks.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, I wonder if that might be what is going on in my ear. I occasionally get a weird buzzing, like a blown speaker.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

it's probably a moth.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

god, i don't know if i can wait another 2 1/2 hours to get out of here. i may try to see if i can leave at three. i may be 'faced by the time you get to lionkingpub or whatever.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Could be. There was some wax stuck up on there too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

aic is offering free admission for most of february:

http://www.artic.edu/aic/visitor_info/feb_free_days.html

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

^^hah i just posted about that on ilm

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

I just got back from the audiologist with my new musician's earplugs. They're pretty sweet, if hard to put in.

One of my best friends is an 'audio dude' who works on sound for movies + such; he hooked me up w/ some of those and they really sound incredible, the way they reduce the volume without very much distortion at all.

― deej.. (deej..), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

i'm so bored i'm listening to dub narcotic sound system for the first time in years.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh noes, I got all emo about children's lit this morning and now I am just emo, period. NEED WINE THEN SLEEP.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

xpost That's the Calvin Johnson project, right?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

i need beer, fried something, then more beer.

i think i'm truly a midwesterner now.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, from like the mid/late 90s.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I think I've heard a little of that. I had a friend from high school who was into CJ. I like that Halo Benders song "Don't Touch My Bikini."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

looking is free but touchin's gonna cost ya.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

SHAKE A PUDDIN'
BOUNCE A PUDDIN'

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

I found out today that one of my students works in the detox unit at a hospital. I'm not sure what hospital.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

That's your boring factoid for the day.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

I was going to leave work early today to take care of some personal bidness but then around 1:30 our internet and servers went to shit, followed by a mass-voicemail saying they didn't know what was wrong or how long it'd be so I thought "to hell with this" and left even earlier...

...and I went directly to Hot Doug's and got Mint and Garlic Lamb Sausage with Kalamata Olive-Roasted Garlic Dijonnaise and Feta Cheese -- which I am now eating with some baby carrots and celery to balance out the grease. Whew.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my god. I had doggs on the brain too so I stopped for a hot dog and fries on the way to the audiologist. I have to stop eating like this for lunch.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

(breakfast is okay though)

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

I just remembered, I was talking to my dad last night, and he said he'd heard a solo acoustic version of "Hey Ya!" at the gym the other day. He wants to know who it's by -- I was like, I have no idea. Maybe I will trawl through iTunes, but there's like a gazillion covers of "Hey Ya!" by shitty singer-songwriters on there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

For Jesse:

http://allstarpowerup.com/sales/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/marmadukeisanasshole.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

i just ate a whole sleeve of saltines.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

one more time to confirm: lion head pub, fullerton and lincoln?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, a block or two south of Fullerton on Lincoln.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping forward to say: Kevin, I'll be there early with you, and for real this time since I'm coming from the loop and can pretty much leave any time from now forward. I should send a couple emails first, though.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

and they have wings there or just tacos or wha? i think i convinced the mister to come based on the fact that they have cheap wings. !!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

God bless cheap wings.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

i've got to take some mandatory training bullshit thing, don't know when i'm leaving. will try to leave in an hour though.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Wings are FREE on Wednesdays and Fridays.

Tonight's specials:

$10 Domestic Table Tappers
$15 Import Table Tappers
1/2 PRICE Drinks
1/2 Price Appetizers

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Wings count as appetizers, don't they?

Here is the cover of 'Hey Ya' that is getting hyped these days:
http://trafficsau.de/stuff/heyya.mp3

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, 1/2 price apps means wings are $3/lb. I don't know how many wings that would be.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Table tappers?

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

I think they must be like mini-kegs for the table or something.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

oh, i c

http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2004/11/11-05-04tdc/11-05-04dnews-04.asp

"Alberti said the Table Tapper holds about two pitchers' worth of liquid."

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

OMG Eric, that must be it. Who's the performer?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Table tappers? Mein Gott what kind of place is this? I don't want to get there first. I'm skeered.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

It's Obadiah Parker (no idea who that is - but Leigh S. posted a link to it last week).

Listen, unless I'm mistaken it is a bar that gets crowded around 10-11 p.m., so we can get our cheap table tappers, play our trivia and get out before the manpiles start.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

BTW, the Lion Head is result #2 when you google Table tappers.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't bother reading the materials for the mandatory training (45 minute video? fuck that), instead i took the "quiz" that "proves" i "took the training" and scored "100%" because i have some semblance of "common sense".

i also bought stock in a quotation mark factory.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

before the manpiles start

Don't forget the brojobs. We definitely want to miss those.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

jenny, i should be there by 5:30 or so. blue line to clark and lake, brown line to fullerton i guess.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

unless i abandon ship at clinton and take the #11 lincoln bus.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Wings by the pound, omg. That's new to me.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

I really disliked that acoustic cover of Hey Ya.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

brown line to fullerton i guess

Nah. Red line. Then it's only about a block or two east.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

I can pretty much be there whenever since I'm home now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

i should look at a map as i just realized i don't really know the depaul area all that well.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

dan, leave now and start drinking. you better be drunk by the time i get there.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

http://espn.go.com/media/wsop/2004/0922/photo/a_arieh_i.jpg

We lads needs some untucked dress shirts for our nights out at the bar - the kind modeled here by poker pro Josh Arieh.

I didn't mind the opening of 'Hey Ya', but when it gets to the shake-it part, it turns into generic Dave Matthews acoustic funky-rhythm stuff. Seems like most of the time when I get paired with other acoustic guys I don't know, they play that kind of thing.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

I want no part of any girl piles or brojobs. I just want to kick some dickboy butt at trivia.

The brown line and the red line both stop at the same station. Clark and Lake is a close transfer to the brown line - you have to walk a few blocks to get the red line.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

Nah. Red line. Then it's only about a block or two east.

Red and Brown Line use the same station at Fullerton.

I really disliked that acoustic cover of Hey Ya.

Yeah, it's not great -- esp. the funky "shake it" section
-- but I kind of admire the commitment to it, like how Ryan Adams turned "Wonderwall" into this great lamentation. There's no irony at all.
XPOST!!

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

Same station at Fullerton, I mean. ERrrr xpost again!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

Also, the whole melancholy-version-of-dance-songs was novel with Frente! doing 'Bizarre Love Triangle', reached its peak with Crash Test Dummies doing 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' and M. Ward doing 'Let's Dance', and now it's hard for it not to be a trite choice. (xpost) - though I like that Ryan Adams 'Wonderwall'.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Crash Test Dummies doing 'Hit Me Baby One More Time' and M. Ward doing 'Let's Dance'

YSI? I collect this stuff. (Partially in the hopes of spinning an essay about it someday.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but if i take the brown line i don't have to walk through the piss-stinking connector tunnel at jackson to get to the train. plus i get to ogle the brown line girls which is something i never get to do anymore.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Red and Brown Line use the same station at Fullerton.

hahaha OMG I CANNOT BELIEVE I FORGOT THAT.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

plust I get to ogle the girls' brown line

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

IF IT'S THERE THEN I'M OGLING IT.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

If they have a brown line, I don't want 'em.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

DAMN CAPS LOck

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

J., I'll see if I can find the M. Ward cover (I've got it on a mix CD somewhere). I don't have the Crash Test Dummies version, but Richard Thompson also does "Hit Me Baby..."

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Al girls have brown lines, Kenan.

Do any of you ever get really irritated with someone and then start to act on that irritation by kid of distancing yourself from that person and then suddenly feel really guilty because there's no one thing that the person did - she just sort of got irritating - and then try to be less distant with them and then end up being really resentful of the person because, really, she's irritating? Or is that just me? And do I need to be nicer or meaner?

Note: none of you fine people are the irritant of which I speak.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Not if they do laundry regularly, Jenny...

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was Travis who did "Hit Me..."

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Richard Thompson did "Oops I did it again"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

"Oops, Richard Thompson Did It Again"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, you're right, you're right.

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

I have both the Travis and Richard Thompson songs.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny: yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Btw I left a message for that girl last night. I hate leaving messages, I always say stupid shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

"If you wanna give me a call back, I'll be around most of tonight, or, you know...after that..."

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

This "brown line" euphemism Jenny is thinking of does not exist in my slang dictionary. But it does sound to me like something that wants soaping.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, don't second guess yourself. If you don't enjoy someone's company, do not spend time with that person. The end.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

"Riding the brown line", "Riding the red line", "Riding the pink line"...

― Eazy (Eazy), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Other pop/hip-hop/dance covers by indie bands I have:

Superwolf, "Ignition" (R. Kelly)*
Ben Gibbard, "Complicated" (Avril Lavigne)*
Supersuckers, "Hey Ya!" (OutKast)
Ben Folds, "Bitches Ain't Shit" (Dr. Dre)
Postal Service, "Against All Odds" (Phil Collins)
Nina Gordon, "Straight Outta Compton" (NWA)
Mountain Goats, "The Sign" (Ace of Base)
Flaming Lips, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" (Kylie Minogue)*
Elbow, "1 Thing" (Amerie)*
Afghan Whigs, "Creep" (TLC)
Twilight Singers, "Real Love" (Mary J. Blige)
Halloween, Alaska, "I Can't Live Without My Radio" (LL Cool J)
Cat Power, "Crazy" (Gnarls Barkley)*

*live versions

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing beats Afghan Whigs doing "Creep" (TLC creep, not Radiohead creep)

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

I have said this before.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Probably multiple times.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

I don't usually like these kinds of covers but I have the Mountain Goats doing 'Ignition' (live) and some chick doing 'Get Ur Freak On'.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

I do believe you're correct.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

AW is good because they brought the funk and didn't gay it up indie style.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

No, I know. It's a great cover. He even manages not to sound like he's taking a piss when he says "keep it on the downlow."

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

You were the one that told me about that song, Amanda! I thought you meant Radiohead at first and I was like, "what's the big deal."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

in one more hour
i will be gone
in one more hour
i'll leave this room

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

I am wearing long johns instead of tights. That's how cold I am. I just took Carl out to the park and am getting ready to leave. I'll see you bozos in Broville!

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

"Riding the brown line", "Riding the red line", "Riding the pink line"...
-- Eazy (chicagoflaneu...) (webmail), Today 3:56 PM. (Eazy) (later) (link)

my friend carole made a really crude joke involving anal sex, a woman's period and "the belmont transfer". i'll let you figure it out for yourselves.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

oh my god, Jenny, I do this all the time. in fact, there's a friend of mine I'm doing this to right now. :(

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

I'll see you bozos in Broville!

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/bro.jpg

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, did you just make that?

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

yeah

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Borton Boinks a Bro

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:24 (eighteen years ago)

Borton Buys a Brojob

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

All the bros down in broville kept singing and singing!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

a bro's a bro, no matter how small.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:34 (eighteen years ago)

LOL.

Alright ding dongs. I'm off to broville, too.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

Is Jesse coming to yell at me about my drink-ordering habits? (I made sure to wear black socks today.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

I've never done bar trivia before. I was bad my first time. I see a way to get better, though. Play a lot.

Though that third game, the one that wanted scientific names of mushrooms and shit, that was *hard*. That was a game about how good you are at guessing, intuiting, and knowing the roots of words. No one actually *knows* shit like that.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

That was a game about how good you are at guessing, intuiting, and knowing the roots of words.

Actually, all the games were kind of about that. Lesson learned: don't walk in thinking you know stuff.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, better than '80s trivia, which JBR and Ken L kicked my ass at. I thought it was going to be General Knowledge!

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 05:15 (eighteen years ago)

After the Lion Head we went to the Bourg. Pig where EZ gave us a spontaneous reading of various juicy parts of Joan Collins' Hollywood Wives.

Highlights:

"Giordani toyed with an omelet."

"[After pleasuring her orally] he gave her something he had been saving for her all day." (EZ's aside: "It was a biscotti.")

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

In case you missed it on another thread.

http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a168/dioramaboy/The90s.jpg

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 05:45 (eighteen years ago)

NO TRUE MAN

DON'T TAKE A DWIGHT TURN

FRANKLIN MY DEAR

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2007 07:22 (eighteen years ago)

"Fuck Karen and her outsized nipples."

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:05 (eighteen years ago)

after the lion's head i went to mcdonalds then i got on the red line and took that to the blue line and took that to california then walked to ronny's. i almost left my bag there after the show. then we went to quenchers and watched the live band karaoke which was fascinating in it's own way. i got home around 3 and am now wishing i had died in my sleep.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

oh, and there was nothing worth ogling on the brown line yesterday. i was really disappointed, i seem to remember the brown line being full of fresh faced cuties but the car i was in was mainly dickhead dudes and eastern european women somewhere between 56 and 86 years of age.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

if you all have decided to sleep in today while i'm at work i will beat you severely with a log of pastrami.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

How was the show, Kevin? We bailed, obviously. We ended up practicing pretty late.

I'm listening to early 90s rap at my desk because I can.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Brain...mush. Party was at my house last night, fell into bed around 2.30 neither showered nor sober. Owwwwwwww. Late for work today.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

it was good, they played all new/newer stuff. didn't play anything from either of the singles. i wound up standing next to one of the speakers for the pa (pa! at ronnys!!) and had to step in front of it or else i would've gone deaf(er). i couldn't hear eric's guitar at all but, y'know, it's ronnys. place was fucking PACKED. ronny is loving it the old lady bartender hates it. i think she preferred it when the place was full of 50 year old puerto rican dudes who would nurse a shot for 45 minutes instead of barely functional alcholic punk rock kids who go through bottles of pabst in less time than she can grab them out of the cooler.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

er, that is, i was standing in front of it and had to step up so i was next to it rather than in front of the speaker.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

I am not sleeping in. I am procrastinating taking a showering because it's too fucking cold to take any of my many, many layers of clothes off.

Wow, I really just want to stay home today. I don't think I can pull that off, though. :(

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

i really did not want to get out of bed this morning either. nor did i want to come into work. but, alas, i did both.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

the way the federal government works continues to astound me. it's almost like things get done in spite of the people doing them. as if the government itself is it's own living breathing enitity or it has it's own momentum that things keep moving on despite the fucking people.

and i can't believe i haven't found a way to exploit this for my own personal gain. i'm far from the most ethical person you'll ever meet but i do have a shred, a tiny tiny sliver of a moral code and i guess that's too much.

fuck this place.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no! Kevin's becoming a Libertarian!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

i won't be moving any time soon but this craigslist posting makes me want to check out the place anyway:

BUILDING IS UGLY BUT APT IS NICE.....

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

hey, my bro-in-law is a libertarian. he almost got thrown out of the town meeting in vermont for being a pain in the ass. my sister said the whole town hates them. that's fucking awesome.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

also, i just realized that this hoodie i'm wearing, the same one i was wearing last night in bars for 9 hours, REEKS OF CIGARETTES.

i should keep some febreeze around here.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Surely you can come up with a less odious way of getting everybody to hate you than being a Libertarian. Why don't you start stealing cash out of our wallets or clandestinely dating our mothers or opening and then ignoring commercial credit accounts in our names instead?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

what's your mother like?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

I considered sleeping in, but no.

Kr and I ended up at Hopleaf last night. I recommend the Two Brothers Cain and Ebel.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Also the government can't be too bad because Congress just passed the minimum-wage hike.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

that's great, meanwhile the government will be operating on a continuing resolution FOR THE REST OF THE YEAR!!!! that's insane.

anyway, does anyone know where the tamale dudes come from? i have to secure a tamale dude to come to this birthday party saturday night and i don't know where to find them other than waiting outside the bottle with a poorly translated index card to give him.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Are you talking about the failure of the appropriations committee to actually, um, appropriate anything last year?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

continuing resolutions are a standard part of government but usually they only last two weeks, a month at most. but apparently this year they said fuck planning, let's wing it!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Also, how does this affect you? (I mean, I know you work for the government.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

a sizeable portion of my work involves construction projects, lease agreements, major equipment expenditures and other stuff that involves capital funds.

then there's the whole issue of my paycheck being directly tied to the gvt having a plan to make sure there's enough $$$ to cover it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

A small matter.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

very small.

sounds like...

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Don't do it.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

a job for superman.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

I am thinking of going to a diner for lunch today. I want a greasy omelette. I've had my eye on the P&S Diner near the Candlelite for a while, but I am open to suggestions for any other good diners on/near Western Ave.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

for any other good diners on/near Western Ave.

the western roundup on the east side of western ave just south of augusta blvd. just re-opened after a looong renovation. when i lived on augusta i used to go there for brunch if there was already a line at bite, they made great hangover food. i'm sure you can find a greasy omlette there.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I'll admit it: I slept in today.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

cock.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah well what'm I gonna do eh? :D

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

I slept in too.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

I hate all of you.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

All of you sleeper-inners.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Look on the bright side: you probably didn't wake up at 5 a.m. like me.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

That's true! But I didn't work from home yesterday, either. :( Kevin has it worst, I think, I can't BELIEVE what time he gets up/gets to work, and that's with a time-zone change.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Nick -- are you looking for a place anywhere on Western? There's Jeri's Grill at Montrose (which features "Ham on the Bone"). There's a Golden Nugget/Apple at Diversey.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day, except for the very rare day when I work from home, when I wake up at 6.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Also, the Fullerton Restaurant at, well, Fullerton. Across from Quenchers.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Anywhere on Western between Evanston and my house. Are you recommending any of those diners in particular?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I wake up at 5 a.m. every day, except for the very rare day when I work from home, when I wake up at 6.

me too except for the working from home bit. hangover is ebbing, starting to feel human again.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Well bully for us.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I can't reccommend the Fullerton personally -- even though I lived 2 blocks away for a year and a half I never went there.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

it's good for me anyway.

so seriously, anyone know where the tamale dudes base of operations is? is it static? do they have like hundreds of tamales in a truck that they go back to when they need to replenish?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

I've always assumed the tamale guy teleports himself from club to club (sometimes giving Thax a ride).

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

sleeping in for me is sleeping until 7 or 7:30. Usually I wake up between 5:15 & 6:00 or so.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know where they're based from. I would guess south-west Logan Square somewhere. My ex-gf's former roomate dated one of them for a while, or maybe a cousin of one of them or something? I don't know. I guess I would just track one down by asking bartenders for info.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

I have always wanted to go to Jeri's Grill around midnight & just hang out.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

i'm gonna hang outside the bottle tonight and wait for him to show. goddamn i'm gonna freeze.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I did not sleep in. I came in to work on time, feelin' spry. Then spry turned into easily irritable as soon as I had to deal with a woman we'll call M. She's a living horror. She's about 45-50, tanned, boob job, bleach blonde, wears frighteningly tight clothes to work every day, ditzy by design, laughs at things that are not funny, misunderstands (or pretends not to understand) pretty much everything, whiny, ingratiating, and stands too close when she talks to you. Also hovers in our office when she wants something. Or sometimes just hovers for no reason, randomly noticing things that we're quite used to by now. "Oh, what's this thing?! Oh, this is neat!" *sound of gritting teeth* Talks to herself out loud all the time. If the person who would know the answer to her question is not available, she just starts asking everybody. Often me.

I loathe this woman. She is the anti-me.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Yes you should sleep with her, if that's what you're asking.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

i think he's wondering how much to tip her.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

this being ilx and all.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan works with the bartender from Old Timer's?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

I think he should tip her all the way over.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Not far off, danno.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Are you recommending any of those diners in particular?

No.

I wake up at 8:15 every morning! (After 30 minutes of hitting snooze.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

I slept in. But compared to all of you, I do that ever day. But today I lounged for an extra hour and a half.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

every

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I had coffee.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, one other thing, and this is probably the worst: the woman does nothing all day. She comes in when she wants, talks on the phone and put on her makeup, and leaves when she wants. BUT THEN when she needs something from you, she's pushy as hell and will pester you about it like a child who wants a cookie.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

john, you should feel free to pester me about mailing that thing to you that i keep forgetting to mail to you.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I made it to work. I'm a little alarmed about Monday. 4 degrees? Four? How do I even begin to dress for that?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

Cover your outsize nipples well.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

4 is almost a heat way compared to up here!!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

I have been thinking about it, and while at first "outsize nipples" made me think of aereola the size of fried eggs, I think Eric's imagining tater tot nipples is on the mark too. So now I am thinking that Jackie Collins may have meant that she had fried eggs and tater tots on her chest.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

"All right. Boy, I had a - had a weird experience the other day. See, Jackie Onassis has always been one of my favorite people, you know? It's like I've always idolized her from afar, you know, and I've always wanted to meet her, you know, but fat chance I'm gonna meet Jackie Onassis, right? Well... [clears throat] I was in a laundromat in Tucson, Arizona. And I looked over and there she was -- Jackie Onassis, my idol -- and I couldn't believe it, you know? So I got all excited and I went up to her and I said, "Hey! Howzit goin'?" And, uh, she said, "Fine" and everything was good. So I asked her out for lunch. And I couldn't believe it. She accepted. And I was so proud, you know, to be able to go someplace with my idol, Jackie Onassis, so elegant, sophisticated. So I took her to this really great restaurant. And the waiter brought the food. ... And she was a pig. Really. It was unbelievable! She wouldn't use a knife and fork! She goes [pretends to suck food off plate with mouth] Oh! And she picked up the hard rolls and she threw 'em at people. [mimes throwing rolls] She picked up two fried eggs, she goes [pretends to slap two fried eggs on his breasts] "Heeeeyyyyy!" And she thought it was funny! You know? And the waiter'd come by and she'd lift up her dress [mimes lifting dress over his head] -- "Aaaaahhhhh!" Oh! What a letdown, you know what I mean?"

- Steve Martin on SNL back in the day

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

xpost I'm hungry.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i just ate my lunch. brown rice w/ leaf's chili on top.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

Steve Martin is a comedy god.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

I think Kenan wants "breakfast foods"!

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

That reminds me of that TAL episode about the couple who saw Jackie O. cross the street, but the wife is convinced that the husband wasn't even there when it happened.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

You know what's weird is that on those very cold days the temp varies very little.

Sun
6° F | -3° F

Mon
4° F | -1° F

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

I think Kenan wants "breakfast foods"!

I often wake up with a hunger.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

speaking of tal . . . they're doing their live tour & i got hooked up with free tickets!

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

our high/low is 1/-15

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hungry.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

The protagonist was probably at a party, fixated on her nemesis's tater tots across the living room, and seethed.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Weather where I grew up (Deer River, MN).

Friday
-6° F | -19° F

Saturday
-6° F | -22° F

Sunday
-6° F | -24° F

Monday
-1° F | -19° F

Tuesday
3° F | -15° F

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

Gettin' hungry
Hungry for my kind o' woman
I'm gettin' hungry
Soon I gotta find me a woman
I'm gettin' hungry
Searchin' for a pretty girl

But I still get up in the mornin'
Though it's so hard all day long
If it weren't for the love of a woman
I don't think I'd continue on
And oooohhhhh come the night time

Gettin' hungry
Hungry for my kind o' woman
I'm gettin' hungry
Soon I gotta find me a woman
I'm gettin' hungry
Searchin' for a pretty girl

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

I'm just hungry for Taco Bell.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

The pink kind?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Fried eggs and tater tots sounds really good, actually. Even better: the biscuits and gravy from Bialy Cafe, with two fried eggs on top.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh! Good ol' Bialy.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

I had biscuits and gravy at Lula last weekend, and they were kinda disappointing. Something inside me says I ought to have known better than to have ordered them -- it's like a dish like that wouldn't be so hot at a place that isn't a diner/southern food-style joint.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

(hey, the Ice Fac is having a Super Bowl party - $12 = lots of pizza and beer. Need to RSVP by tomorrow - should we do this?)

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

biscuits & veggie gravy is totally a guilty pleasure for me.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

So, remember those ultra-twee shoes upthread? I just won them on ebay. They will probably be my wedding shoes.
http://photos2.shopgco.com/photos/78/780816m.jpg

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

there was talk about some bar near courtney's place last night but i don't know the name of it. or if those plans were solid or what. either way, i spent my last $20 last night so i'm probably out of both options.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

why should that be a guilty pleasure? i have veggie biscuits and gravy with greens all the time, and it seems healthy to me.

is lula a good place? i've only had their stuff once and it was disappointing.

yay, congrats on ebay win, sarah! are you feeling high? i went thru an ebay phase where i got crazy compulsive about bidding and would be high for hours after winning...

xposts

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Mostly. There was a moment during the last minute when I was hoping someone would outbid me because the shoes are a wee bit silly and because I didn't try them on. But then I loved them again. If they don't work out, I can just put them back up on ebay.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

They match your bass, don't they? Or am I thinking of Nick's old rig?

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

biscuits & veggie gravy is totally a guilty pleasure for me.

That's just breakfast. At Bialy's, it's sausage gravy, with chunks of sausage in it. That's guilty.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'm starving, but I don't want to brave the cold. :(

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hi dere cafeteria in my building etc. The price you pay is that nothing there is exciting.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

2x Laurel. I had a club sandwich.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

Eazy, the silver hearts match my bass. I have a guitar that color of blue, but I don't play it.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

do you have 2 different amps or do you just...

― UART variations (ex machina), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Nowadays, I work in a building with a full-on food court on the first floor. Fast food out the wazoo, a couple of medium-fast places, and an honest to god bar.

Too bad this I'm only here for a semester.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

I went to Jewel and got a couple of the cheapest TV dinners I could find. A buck each! You need two to make a meal.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

way to notice the rock n' fashion connection, EZ.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

These TV dinners are awful.

Dreaming of: Chicken fried steak, mashed potatoes and milk gravy, green beans with bacon, cornbread.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Kr and I are going to make tortilla soup and roasted-red-pepper/blue-cheese cornbread tomorrow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

i'm dreaming of going home and crawling into bed and maybe watching a movie but more likely just falling asleep at 6:30.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

xpost That sounds awesome.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

I've been sitting around cleaning up my desk and playing with this little compressed gas duster can that I got out of the supply cabinet.

I'm bored, there's no work to do...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

I love cans of air. It's the one office supply I will steal. Because seriously, $10 for a can of air?

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Did everyone go home already?

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Nope, but I ran out my can of air. :(

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

i wish, i'm pretty much working but at this point i'm easily distracted.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Same here.

I want to make some kind of stew, like a root vegetable stew. With parsnips in it.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

I am having good chocolate. The nice lady who usually brings candy into the office always brings addictive and over-sugar-y stuff, like M&Ms and Kisses. But the even nicer lady who's also a massage therapist and always has scented candles around... she has the good chocolate. Dark, like 70% cocoa. And after one piece, you're done. It's a great experience, but not one you crave again right away. Like good sex, I guess. Or super stout beer.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

Work to do but SOOOOO BORED AND DISTRACTABLE.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago Bears-themed cupcakes for all! Blue frosting is a little scary but they taste good.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I put parsnips in the lentil soup I made a couple of weeks ago. Here's an idea I tested with that soup: I made a generic pot of soup seasoned only with salt and pepper. Then as the week progressed and I ate the soup, I put different things in it. One day I had curry lentil soup, another day I put some berbere spice in there, the next day I added that chili sauce they put on falafels at the Sultan's (sambal oelek? can't remember what it's called). It tasted pretty much the same but I could fool myself into thinking I wasn't eating the same thing every g-d day. I think on the 6th day I stopped eating lentil soup.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Friday afternoons are the worst.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Man, yeah this is killing me. Part of my problem is that I'm not exactly sure what I'm supposed to be doing. My other problem is that I am getting a massage tonight (I know! So cool!) and I can barely wait.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

Your soup sounds a little like nabe.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

(insomuch that as time passed you kept introducing new ingredients)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to have a cigarette while I still have the taste of chocolate in my mouth.

Mmmmm.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Nabe?

xp - gross.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Nabemono (鍋物, なべ物, nabe cooking pot + mono things, stuffs, kinds) or simply called Nabe, is a term referring to all varieties of Japanese steamboat dishes, also known as one pot dishes.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

OMG

http://www.myspace.com/tamaleman

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

xp - gross.

You don't understand, maaaaan. Dark chocolate, tobacco, red wine... this is the high life.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

(Note: I do not have any red wine.)

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I'm filing. BO-RING.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

So, I'm curious. Do you think that myspace I linked to is for real? I'm on the fence.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

I want it to be real so badly that I'm willing to indulge in a little bit of self-dellusion.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

i can't get there to see :(

but on the plus side i'll be covering for the person who is one higher than me in the food chain here on monday. it's more involved but it's actually interesting work so if nothing else at least i won't be bored on monday. i'll probably be hungover though.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

I'm filing. BO-RING.

Goes under B.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

i just got back from a staff superbowl party where I was one of the cheerleaders for the bears.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Yay, Kelsey!

I'm pretty sure Nick and I will be watching the game in our warm, cozy apartment. I think we should make up a pot of veggie chilli or fancy bean dip or something... hmm... If anyone isn't down with the bar plan, just let us know and you can drop by.

xpost Thanks.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really "do" football so I had to staple Bears logos to my sweatshirt.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

What was the bar plan? I heard people mention something about it last night but was TOO INTO TRIVIA to pay attention.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome, Kels.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, wherever I end up, I am not down with the bar plan. Warm and cozy will be required.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago Bears-themed cupcakes for all! Blue frosting is a little scary but they taste good.

Someone brought these in here, too. I found the frosting to be kind of gross. I took one bite and then crumpled the rest into my napkin.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

I "do" football cupcakes. Bring 'em on!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Goddammit I want a cupcake

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

dan, ask jesse, he knows the name of the place but it's up near courtney's apartment (meaning it's in uptown up by that bar with the drunkest dude ever) and it's normally pretty quiet, not a "destination" bar so hopefully it won't be too packed.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

I can't decide where to have dinner tonight. Kr suggested Cuban, which suggests four places. We both like Coobah, but it's a little pricey. Cafe Bolero and Cafe LaGuardia are more reasonable but kind of boring. Cafe 28 doesn't appear to have anything vegetarian on the menu. I guess I'm leaning toward Coobah but also considering this new "Southwestern" place in Roscoe Village called Taos. It'd also be better if any of them were BYOB, but they're not.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

The Driftwood, I think?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

that sounds right because i remember when he mentioned it i thought he was talking about he beachwood. i was a little tipsy by that point.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

Are you talking about the Driftwood? Where I went to for NYE? I'm not really a fan of the place, but then again, I won't be there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

There's a Cuban BYOB on...Wilson or Sunnyside, near Ravenswood, I think.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

Cafe Bolero is fun as hell if they have music and you sit in the smoking section.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

(xpost) Yeah, I know what you're talking about. I don't remember the name, but I've heard it's not very good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

incidentally, if anyone is at a show or a bar tonight and they see a tamale guy, PLEASE GIVE HIM MY NUMBER AND HAVE HIM CALL ME.

thanks.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Sabor a Cuba.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

There's that place on Western (no clue what the cross street was - it's south of Foster) that's really cheap and you can get sandwiches that use fried plantains instead of bread... what the hell is that place called? It's really cheap and good.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

I love that feckin Cafe 28. Maybe you could get a pistachio-crusted salmon without the salmon.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, is it the place that has pupusas?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

I would eat that salmon. There are a couple of fish dishes at Cafe 28, but I think they're in the $19 range.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Also they don't seem very "Cuban." It's just, like, baked halibut with asparagus in cream sauce or whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

This sounds good, at Taos:

Grilled Chicken Breast with Cilantro-lime Mojo Wild mushrooms-Spinach-Smoked tomato Enchilada Charred Pepper-Sweet Corn Compote
15.00

Poblano "picadillo" Poblano Pepper Filled With a Mixture Of Vegetables & Black Beans, Scallion-Potato Pancake, Chipotle, Tomato sauce & Cilantro Sour cream
14.00

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Prepare to hate me more: I'm going home.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

SEETHING

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

no, i'm happy for him. RUN! RUN LIKE THE WIND DAN!!! PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN AND DON'T LOOK BACK, DON'T STOP UNTIL YOU'RE HOME, YOU HEAR ME??!?!?? GO!!!!

if we can't leave we should at least be happy for the ones who can escape.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm kidding. I'm not really seething. Actually, I'm deliriously happy. I am drunk with glee. Omg I just fell out of my chair.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Leaving soon!!! I think tonight it is time to pioneer smoking in the bathtub. In my life, at least.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm surprised you don't already.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

The place I'm thinking of is Borinquen Restaurant, 3811 N Western Ave.

Leafing in one hour and 15 minutes. I think I can kill 20 of those minutes going downstairs to get a cup of coffee, though.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

i'm out of here in 42 minutes but i may try to bolt 10 minutes early and catch the 4:30 bus.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I anticipate needing at least one more long smoke before the hour is out.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

What's with us today? We're usually not this complainy about Friday.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

i've cut down my daytime smoking, i'm down to one cigarette at noon. giving up the pre-work smoke was hard but i can go almost a full workday without one. of course i smoked like a pack and a half last night but whatever, that's not the day time.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

I think we're all just really cold.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

What's with us today? We're usually not this complainy about Friday.

1. I woke up this morning with a mild hangover and (for some reason) achey legs.

2. It's fucking freezing outside.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

So there's a song on the new Arcade Fire album called "No Cars Go." Which is also the name of the website/musical project of our friend Br3ndan R33d, who lives/lived in Montreal (not sure if he's still there) and used to live in Williamsburg. He was the drummer in one of my old bands and recorded one of Sarah's old band. I had heard that he was bros with Arcade Fire, but I didn't know it was to this extent.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I think it's interesting.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Would it warm us up to talk about boobs?

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

When does that Arcade Fire album come out? Of the closet?

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

Julia: it's friday and nobody's talking about tits on the chicago thread
me: it's too cold for tits
Julia: amazing
me: wait... that makes NO SENSE
Julia: yeah, i was going to say...cold tits? even more exciting, i would think
me: any time is titty time.
(TM)
Julia: catchy
me: I think so.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

john, i used to get a charley horse if i drank heavily. i think it was b/c i was dehydrated.

also: i am out of here. my boss just left & told us to leave as well.

― Sweet Tater (kelstarry), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

It fits in the peanut butter jelly song:

ANY TIME IS TITTY TIME
ANY TIME IS TITTY TIME
ANY TIME IS TITTY ANY TIME IS TITTY
ANY TIME IS TITTY WITH A BASEBALL BAT

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

i just got a huge steaming pile of work dumped on me and they better not think i'm going to do it today.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

The baseball bat part detracts from the sexiness of the song.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

definitely.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

As does the word "titty".

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Tell that to the Beastie Boys.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

It's not a sexy song, it's a song of CELEBRATION.

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

Ok...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want to crap all over anybody's love of Sarah Silverman in that other thread, but I taped her show (in furtherance of Jeff and my "women comedian" investigation and because I've never seen any of her stand up or anything) and good grief I found it painfully not funny. I couldn't even enjoy it in a "she's taking a comedic conceit usually reserved for men (the overgrown, selfish child) and refashioning it as a woman and that's pretty subversive" kind of way. I don't know whether that's because I think it's a tired, played out and ultimately stupid conceit or because she dind't do a very good job of it, but... bad choice, Sarah S.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:26 (eighteen years ago)

I thought she was brilliant in The Aristocrats. I would like to see Jesus is Magic. I don't have Comedy Central.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

Goodnight, CHI, I am going to buy bath products like a giant GURL.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Like I said on the other thread, the "I'm a little girl" bit in the Aristocrats worked because it was soooooooo disturbing. (Famously ending with the line, “Joe Franklin raped me.") In this show it's used to point out how utterly, completely, cluelessly selfish and irredeemable she is. Which is quite a different effect.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/television/articles/070205crte_television_friend

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I read that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like her work, either. It seems like her defenses are so high.

― Eazy (Eazy), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I emailed you fuckers about the Superbowl plans we discussed last night.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

Wow that TV critic got a lot more out of the show than I did.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

Well, he's seen more episodes than you. Even so.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

i was going to watch that last night but got distracted...sounds like it's better that i missed it.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

Well, if you take my word for things, which I do not really advise (no matter how much I sound like I do).

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

The doody in the eye song was a good example. I love poo humor. Love it. I thought that song was just dumb, and almost painful. Could it be that I love only sophisticated poo humor? Am I a fecal sophisticate?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec3.images-amazon.com/images/P/0802130127.01._AA240_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

In case I missed anyone, yes, it is the Driftwood. It's not a bad place, and they have fair prices and as Kevin said, they're not a destination. We're coming down to the wire here, folks, so let's get on some SOLID PLANS.

In case I missed anyone in my email, let me know. You are invited.

What time does the SB start?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

The better question is, "How early do you want to start drinking?"

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

More importantly, who is bringing the Li'l Smokies?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

YOU ARE.

They're providing chips and stuff, but we are welcome to bring snatch. I mean snacks.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

She's bringing that, too, one assumes.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

The lighting in the Driftwood is terrible. Opposite of cozy. But then again I won't be available, anyway.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I think I'm just bitter about the Driftwood because of NYE. I'm not sure that was the Driftwood's fault, I just have no desire to ever go there again.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

Could it be that I love only sophisticated poo humor?

lolz i was just saying that to kenan last night in regards to the previews' fart jokes, which did not amuse me.

a certain level of scatalogical humor is needed. (which SS does not reach)

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

apropos of nothing, how hot is Ines Sainz?

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:10 (eighteen years ago)

Later Chicago. How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:14 (eighteen years ago)

I am usually pretty sensitive to lighting, but I didn't have a problem with the Driftwood's. That may be because anytime I've been there I've had a few Fat Tires in me and/or was playing darts.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and because there were dogs, dogs, dogs!! Dogs make could make a bus stop seem cozy.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

ihttp://www.yodebilbao.com/pub/imag/fotos/3657_ines13_g.jpg

i don't know who ines sainz is, but from a quick GIS, she looks much better with dark hair. i might be biased about dark hair.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

Dogs? Gross.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

it must. be the asssssss
http://www.ocexcelsior.com/deportes/newswires/2006/julio/images/0705_de_wr_ines_sainz1.jpg

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

ok i'm done

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:38 (eighteen years ago)

(sorry if that was a little too budweiser advert.)

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

I think everyone's left. I'm thankful to EZ for giving me something to do in my last few minutes here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

haha. promising thread ends anti-climactically

― deej.. (deej..), Friday, 2 February 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sidelinehotties.com/stills/ines-sainz-3.jpg

― deej.. (deej..), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

remarkable, i must admit.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:53 (eighteen years ago)

3 hours drinking at Small Bar w/ coworker BUHHHHHHHHHHH

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

So long, Friday night.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 3 February 2007 00:58 (eighteen years ago)

Dammit dammit dammit. I have bath salts, champagne, cigarettes, and a book and NO HOT WATER. Getting a really hot shower here is a challenge but I never realized I couldn't even get enough hot HOT water to fill the tub. Will wait a while and try again.

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

So on Wednesday night, my friend and I were going to the Hideout to check out the Drumm/Dorling duo. Neither us of knew the Hideout was 21+, so we got shot down and we were pretty bummed. We decided to go find some pie. After many tries, we ended up in this random diner where their pie selection sucked.

So I ask, my fellow Chicagoans: where is the best pie in Chicago?

― Ivan G (Ivan), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

I need to pay more attention to shows.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know anything about pie.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

???

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 3 February 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

I knew someone would say Baker's Square.

I need to pay more attention to shows.

http://now-is.org/
http://idesrecordings.com/events.htm

Those two sites are pretty good, the second for noisier stuff.

― Ivan G (Ivan), Saturday, 3 February 2007 02:35 (eighteen years ago)

We went to Jin Ju.

Rarely have I been so happy to come back home into a warm apartment. I just put on an oversized sweater and am about to open a bottle of Spanish red wine.

― jaymc (jaymc), Saturday, 3 February 2007 02:39 (eighteen years ago)

I knew someone would say Baker's Square.

Enh, Google.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 3 February 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

A recording engineer I know was at that Drumm/Dorling show and said it was the best show he'd seen in many months.

Pie? WTF? Does Swedish Bakery or Bittersweet or Fox & Obel carry pie? If so, I'm sure it's good at any of those places. We're more of a cake and French/Polish pastry town.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 3 February 2007 02:53 (eighteen years ago)

I've missed Drumm his last two shows.

Does any body want to chat on the internet with me tonight?

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 3 February 2007 02:56 (eighteen years ago)

Tonight I sat in a sauna for the first time ever! And I totally understand why people in the Yooperville have them. I'm pretty sure that's the first time I've been completely warm in a week and a half.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

We have been sitting around the apt. eating Indian food and watching Deadwood.

We're supposed to go have a photo shoot tomorrow morning and part of it will be outside ... I am frightened.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 3 February 2007 03:34 (eighteen years ago)

A recording engineer I know was at that Drumm/Dorling show and said it was the best show he'd seen in many months.

Fuck, I need a fake ID or something.

― Ivan G (Ivan), Saturday, 3 February 2007 03:35 (eighteen years ago)

How old are you, sonny?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

will someone plz go to the sharkx/fix show and take pictures?

i'm srsly ;_; that i can't be there

― grbchv! (skowly), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm 19.

xpost

― Ivan G (Ivan), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha--MTV is playing 8 Mile in honor of Black History Month.

― CM@her (cmaher), Saturday, 3 February 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oops, that was me above, watching 8 Mile at Courtney's house.

― Jesseeeeee (cmaher), Saturday, 3 February 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

Frozen beach, last night:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/lakeshore_footprints.jpg

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Saturday, 3 February 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

I woke up in time for work this morning. I hate when I do that on Saturday.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Saturday, 3 February 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Evan - I might try and videotape the show, old-school.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 3 February 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

killer!

― grbchv! (skowly), Saturday, 3 February 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to make a roasted vegetable stew for dinner tonight and I am so excited. If it turns out good, I'll post a recipe on the blog. If it doesn't, I will put my head in the pot of soup and drown myself.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

Rent: $695
Neighborhood: Lakeview
Bedrooms: 1BR
Pets: Dogs OK, Cats OK
Map: W Cornelia at N Halsted, 60657
HALSTED AND CORNELIA.
posted 01/30/2007

HALSTED AND CORNELIA. Huge 3 room convertible bedroom. Forget about it if you work days and sleep nights: above 4am dance floor! Hardwood floors, walk-in closet, ac. $695 includes heat. One 25 lb pet OK.

― CM@her (cmaher), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

Gawd, who sleeps nights?

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

One 25 lb pet OK.

That almost eliminates Ed!

Halstead and Cornelia... isn't that Little Jim's?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

I think it must be above Hydrate since it says "dance club."

― jesseee;lkeje;lkj (cmaher), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Peeps, WGN is showing "Classic Soul Train" episodes. This is possibly the best thing that's happened to TV since they canceled the Sarah Silverman Show.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Wait. It's the best thing that has happened to TV even considering the future when they cancel the Sarah Silverman Show.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

I think honoring Black History Month by playing a movie about a white rapper is cooler.

TLC has a show featuring a blind carpenter. Operating a table saw and a nail gun. And sighted people blindfolded, operating a table saw. Huh.

― jesseeeee (cmaher), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

I think the blind people might be a gay couple.

Oh, now we have blindfolded people operating a drill press.

― Jesseee (cmaher), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, you're a fuckin' great photographer.

There was a fancy fancy apartment for rent above Neo a few years ago (on Clark just south of Fullerton) - sounded like an ornate high-ceilinged place, but, yes, above a dance club.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 3 February 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

So far, my roasted vegetable stew smells GREAT. Now, we simmer for a couple hours and see what happens.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Brenda is licking the frost off of the windows. She has been doing it for at least the last 15 minutes, up and down the whole window. I thought maybe she was out of water, but she's not, she's just into windowlicking. And she won't be distracted--when I call her name she looks at me, but still licks.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

Hey guys, you know what? It's cold outside. We stood out on the street in Bucktown for 20 minutes having our photo taken and we were miserable. Those photos are going to suck. Fortunately, we took some in the Fullerton Restaurant too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

How was the Fullerton?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.kompaktkiste.de/cd/warp/wap105cd.jpg

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to channel Jesse for a moment and tell you things that I have done today but you should not care about:

1. Completely filed my inbox
2. Vacuumed the rugs and secured them to the floor (duct tape)
3. Updated my global bibliography
4. Went through and refined my categories in Quicken
5. Watched 3 episodes of Stump the Schwab.
6. Took out a ton of trash (my only trip outside)

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/27/Alison_Krauss_New_Favorite.jpg/200px-Alison_Krauss_New_Favorite.jpg

http://www.jtandtheclouds.com/images/bar.jpg

Diner photos are usually an alt-country thing.

― Eazy (Eazy), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

I also have 21,614 tracks on random.

http://imagegen.last.fm/lastfmplain/recenttracks/10/corpse.gif

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

Your musical compatibility rating with sanjaymcdougal is:
Super

You share many artists in common, including Scott Walker, Sonic Youth, Feist, M.I.A., and Kanye West.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 3 February 2007 22:59 (eighteen years ago)

Other people:

Kenan - Very High
Teeny - Very High
Nick - High
John's Brother - Medium
Jon Williams - Low
Eric - Low
Jesse - Very Low

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:03 (eighteen years ago)

I never noticed this:

'waiworinao' = 'why worry now'

― Jeff. (Jeff), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm starting to think our heat isn't working. It's colder in here than it ought to be....

― Laurel (Laurel), Saturday, 3 February 2007 23:21 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't there a scene of Pink Floyd at a diner in Live at Pompeii? Also the inside cover of a John Spencer Blues Explosion record depicts Judah and the boyz in a diner.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

I took a 4-hour nap today. This was quite an accomplishment.

― honey with ice pants (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

I deemed the stew worthy and so posted a recipe on the blog.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

How the hell do you have my Last FM contact info? I should tell you that the last time I played music on my computer was probably in September, and then . If I want music, I go to YouTube and find it there.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still not compatible with you.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:37 (eighteen years ago)

Eric might care about this, but maybe no-one else.

I bought some wine tonight from the closeout bin at Foremost Liquors on Argyle. It was Clayton zinfandel for $7.50. When I opened it I was surprised by the aroma--it was like a mincemeat pie--and when I poured it I was even more surprised as the color was like brick.

I sipped it and it tasted of sherry, port,raisins, dried fruits, nuts. The only other time I had tasted wine with these flavors was when Eric and I went to the fancy-pants tasting at the yacht club; the flavors were unmistakable.

When I checked the label, it all became clear: it was a 1997, and it had aged surprisingly nicely!

AAAAA+ Would sip again!

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still not compatible with you.

Considering that I rely on you for nearly all of my musical tastes, this seems unlikely.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'M EATING BEEF TAMALES, TABASCO CHEEZ-ITS AND DRINKING THAT ZIN AND I THINK I'M I FELL IN LOVE.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:57 (eighteen years ago)

or something like that

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 03:58 (eighteen years ago)

me: i'm eating applesauce
Jesse: I BET YOU ARE!! [wink]

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse: wake up jenny
i think i've got something to say to you
well, it's late september and you live right next to Jewel

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:02 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse: stop copying and pasting me

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:23 (eighteen years ago)

Jen: does fire kill aids?

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:24 (eighteen years ago)

Jen: i'm going to be shitting myself drunk before Phil Simms All-Iron Team

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm curious about this wine. Did it really sit in Foremost Liquors for the better part of the last decade? That would be kind of cool.

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 04:40 (eighteen years ago)

Low: -5°F
RealFeel®: -31°F

The planes sound different overhead. Could this be because the air is denser and carries sound better/differently? (Remember how in heat waves in Phoenix (120° or so) planes can't fly because the air is too thin?)

― GEAUX BEARS. (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 05:18 (eighteen years ago)

Bulls win.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 4 February 2007 05:37 (eighteen years ago)

Fuckin' A Jesse - re Clayton zin - nice!

I dressed up fancy and went to a friend's 40th birthday party in the Gold Coast, and then a bunch of us ended up at ! the Pump Rooom! where there we got two affordable bottles of very good vino and the gal serving them was so fluent in the wine speak and purty too.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 4 February 2007 09:03 (eighteen years ago)

My lost fm info hasn't been updated in at least a year, and it wasn't accurate then either.

Eric, our photographer was N0lan W3lls, who you have apparently worked with before?

I didn't eat at the Fullerton, just had coffee to warm up, which was typical diner coffee. Ben, however, had a very delicious-looking grilled cheese and french fries.

Sarah and I won't be coming to the Driftwood, I don't want to go to a bar.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 4 February 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

It very likely will just be Jesse, Courtney, and me, but that's okay. It's going to be -7 today, without wind chill, and it's hard to fault anyone for wanting to stay inside like a normal sane person.

A couple summers ago when the high went to something insane like 105, Jeff and I rode our bikes to the Borders in Uptown just to see if we could do it and not die. That's kind of why I want to leave the house today.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to stay home and
1) attempt to make homemade soft pretzels (ie, not microwave the superpretz) and maybe chili but maybe something else
2) alternate between the super- and puppy-bowls for the 3rd consecutive year

Last night we went to Ras Dashen and I ate toooooo much. Had tummersache.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Nick - Yeah, I know n01an a bit - he took photos of me last summer, though I don't know if they turned out (haven't seen 'em). Very nice guy (he worked at the h1de0ut, or used to).

I'm gonna waffle on the Driftwood - I've got some work I gotta finish today or tonight and don't feel like drinking much, but other than that am up for it.

― Eazy (Eazy), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'm watching Star Wars, the first one. Or fourth one... the one that came out when I was a kidlet. But this is the first time I've seen the version that George Lucas went back and fucked with and he should be ashamed of himself. Everything he added is so obvious, and a lot of it is pandering cutesy crap or just useless. Gawd. What a ding dong.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

I love Ras Dashen.

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I watched that Star Wars last night too, and agree with the previously expressed sentiments regarding add-on CGI crap. And Han shot first!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

Er, just watched it last night...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

the one that came out when I was a kidlet

You mean a youngling.

― Paul of the Permafrost (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

Star Wars is a bit crap with or without the added CGI. Then again, it's firmly implanted, so I may as well deal with it. When I came in from the cold yesterday, I remarked, "This is the kind of cold where you want somebody to stuff you inside a tonton."

― Paul of the Permafrost (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ha! I was thinking about that as I was watching it. So many lines that I know came from Star Wars and have wormed their way into the collective conscious: I've got a bad feeling about this. These are not the droids you're looking for. There were more but I can't remember any of them now.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

OMG I really need to take a shower but it's just too cold.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

It's only about 21 degrees here, but on the other hand my building appears not to have any heat (other tenants have confirmed). But also apparently the landlord's number is just an office phone, not a person, and no one will answer it on the weekend. GREAT. Oven at 450 and open.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 4 February 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

We plan on going to the Driftwood at 3:30. Kickoff is at 5:25. Considering these facts, we may well wind up at Courtney's house, lying down in the alley crying, or in jail before the outcome is decided.

― Black and light black (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

OMG I really need to take a shower but it's just too cold.

Why don't you just turn your heat up?? You can control it, you know. Is Jeff being cheap with the climate control again?

― Black and light black (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel, plug your tub and run the shower too. That has a double effect of heating the place and adding humidity which will help retain ambient heat and make it feel warmer.

― Black and light black (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

No no, the heat is on and up to about 73 (we usually keep it at 68). I'm just being whiny.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

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

I showed this to Jenny earlier and she agreed that it is very sad. It's the video for Antony and hte Johnson's "Cripple and the Starfish" and it's one of my favorite music videos ever. Sad, pretty, and disturbing.

― Black and light black (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

I like Pocky.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.alde.com/anime/pocky1.jpg

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/B0000036R3.01._SS500_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

[/predictable]

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Aggressive cat is aggressive!

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.alde.com/anime/greenteamoussepocky.jpg

This sounds good.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

I think its time I headed to the Thai grocery and got some Pocky.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Sunday, 4 February 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://usuarios.lycos.es/htfstuff3/20533.jpg

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/puppybowl/bios/gallery/2007/spencer_100.jpg

That has nothing to do with Pocky. I just love that dog so much.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Aggressive cat is aggressive!

Hey, that's Acker!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

More cold bitching: went outside, and was as dressed as I'm ever going to be, with the double pants action, and the lined flannel shirt, and the heaviest sweater, and on and on. And still, I can stand about 15 minutes of exposure, tops. I splashed warm water on my face, and was surprised to find that I HAD NO FEELING IN MY FACE. That's unsettling.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Nice thing: my landlord is generous with the heat, usually to a fault, but not today. And I have soul-enriching sunshine streaming in. I am SO not going anywhere tonight. In fact, I'm already dreading going to work in the morning.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Three hours to kickoff, bitches!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/knitted_kitteh.jpg

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, what's Jeff doing tonight, if he's not going out with you guys?

As you may have noticed upthread, we're very highly compatible.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

OMG puppy bowl

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 4 February 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

This thing on Animal Planet that is nothing but puppies running around and being cute on a set that looks like a football field. For 3 hours. Amanda mentioned it upthread but I didn't know what it was until just now.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

OH YEAH! I saw this last year. In fact, I watched it off and on instead of the Superbowl.

This year, I believe it my duty somehow to actually watch the Superbowl.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

If not for the Bears, then at least for Prince.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

I think Jeff is going to do some homework and possibly join us at the DW later.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

ooo prince! though that will probably be on youtube, won't it?

my neighbors are already starting with whooping. maybe they're warming up their voices for when the superbowl comes on.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

I can't decide whether to go to Sharks house and watch the game there projected big onto the wall with some people I kind of know and some people I don't really know, or stay home and watch it on tv.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

the other night, there was a several-block segment of sheridan that was crawling with cop cars. flashing lights were everywhere, cross streets were blocked off, there were sirens, it seemed like big drama.

we checked the local news to see what was going on and they had a segment on about the superbowl puppies. i never did figure out what was going on with sheridan, but i didn't try that hard either.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I love a story that begins with cop cars and ends with puppies.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

ooo prince! though that will probably be on youtube, won't it?

Maybe, but halftime is a pretty big, long show. I'll call you when it starts.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

I think until then I may attempt a "Prince: POXV" mix or some such. It will be difficult and fun.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck the superbowl, I'm in the middle of making lasagna, the blueberry muffins are already in the oven, and there's makings for rosemary lentils and toll house cookies. Yes, our heat has been off since sometime Friday night (tho back on now) and yes, inclement weather makes me want to COOK LIKE A MADWOMAN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 4 February 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/arcticblast204.jpg

Cold.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

That looks like a mint commercial.

― n/a (Nick A.), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

"When I bite into a York Peppermint Patty, I get the feeling of it being two degrees in Chicago, and trying to walk into the wind..."

DO NOT WANT

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

It's like those commercials, for some soda, I think, where this one dude pulled his underwear out of the freezer and put it on, and these other dudes fell out of the sky into partially frozen and obviously deadly water, and the tag line was, "Yeah, it's kinda like that." Fuck you, soda! I don't want anything even remotely like that! What's next, a soda that makes you feel like you've lost a finger to a handsaw?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

i want to go to sharks house for the game ;__;

or to the 6th Annual $MY_NAME Memorial Chili Con Carne-Val being held in NC right now. Instead, I'll be sitting at home, with my stupid roommate, wishing his dog would just die already.

also: is it weird that my first thought upon seeing a 6 yr old kid walking by w/an insulin pump strapped to her belt was "aww, cuet!"

― grbchv! (skowly), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

The puppy bowl was awesome. There was a puggle in it, and a sweet little dachshund-cocker mix and omg so many puppies. My favorite was really the fat french bulldog. I squealed so loudly when I saw it that I think the neighbors opened their door. The halftime show was kittens.

D reminded me that the superbowl is actually on after the puppy bowl, so we can watch BOTH.

My pretzels are coming along nicely.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

Is the roomie's dog sick? Because I can think of no other reason you would wish death on a nice puppers. :(

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Sunday, 4 February 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, I'm sold. I'm excited. This is going to be an awesome football game. Even though I haven't seen a football game in maybe three years, and barely remember the rules. Hype will carry it.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:18 (eighteen years ago)

Holy shit you guys. 14 seconds in.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:28 (eighteen years ago)

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

― grbchv! (skowly), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:29 (eighteen years ago)

I sincerely hope they didn't blow their wad right off. But a 92-yard kickoff return is hard to top.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

ouch.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

I might go upstairs and watch it with neighbors, but I want to make cookies first, plus their apt is basically an empty bachelor pad with a projection tv and moving blankets for curtains, and it's so much cozier at my house!

― Laurel (Laurel), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:47 (eighteen years ago)

Superbowl ad critique #1: Fed ex.

There is gravity on the moon, dumbshits.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:50 (eighteen years ago)

As of yet, I am not watching the superbowl. For the first time in many years.

[url=http://flickr.com/photos/jeff/86978537/]Go panthers[/url]. 2008.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

WHOOPS BBCODE

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:51 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit again. running game.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:54 (eighteen years ago)

I am keeping track online. My prediction is the bears will win if they let Grossman throw 10 passes, max.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

11, they lose.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

heh.

That is not an original idea, actually.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Sunday, 4 February 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

Carlos Mencis BELONGS in Bud commercials. Truly BELONGS. Why didn't anyone realize that before they gave him a show?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

Do you like turnovers?

I like apple turnovers.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 00:05 (eighteen years ago)

o no i missed where the colts took the lead. I was in a bubble bath. No, really.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 00:50 (eighteen years ago)

lord, this is a sloppy game.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 00:51 (eighteen years ago)

Like I said, I haven't seen football in a long time. I forgot that the whole point of it is to create a MANPILE.

Also, I said to someone the other day something to the effect of "Superbowl commercials are like Oscar dresses -- they're the main sideshow." Not so. Not so AT ALL. Superbowl ads are very specifically geared to, apparently, people who watch nothing but football, drink nothing but beer, and buy nothing but trucks. Surely they could be advertising to a larger segment of the population than this. Have Superbowl ads always been this terrible? I wouldn't know. But right now, it's like they think no none watches the Superbowl but the cast of Wes Craven's "The Hills Have Eyes".

I really hate people.

Poor Prince, he's playing in a rainstorm, and it's not even purple.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

"All Along the Watchtower" was AWESOME

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:15 (eighteen years ago)

You should watch more sports than championship games. We could be BFFs then.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

Prince fucking rules.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

Step one, develop hard core allegiances.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

Villalobos should play the halftime show.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:19 (eighteen years ago)

I actually had to write an abstract of a news story for work about how Revlon bought ad time for the Superbowl, and everyone thought they were crazy because usually female-centric companies buy time for the Oscars instead. But it turns out that even though proportionally the Oscar audience is vastly tilted to women, if you go by number of women watching, A LOT more women watch the Super Bowl than the Oscars, just because of the sheer number of people watching the Super Bowl. So basically, more non-man-focused companies should buy Super Bowl ad time.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:20 (eighteen years ago)

You should watch more sports than championship games.

I watch baseball!

Step one, develop hard core allegiances.

Ew. Why? What if they don't win?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:21 (eighteen years ago)

The part where Prince's shadow was projected against the huge waving sheet as he wailed on guitar ... OMG.

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

Then you sulk around for a week and cry when no one is looking.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:22 (eighteen years ago)

And I know little about football but it seems like maybe they should get Grossman the ball more ... he's been playing pretty well so far and the run hasn't been especially effective.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:23 (eighteen years ago)

Villalobos should play the halftime show.

Yeah, the whole halftime show should be Fitzheuer.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:28 (eighteen years ago)

and the run hasn't been especially effective.

Yeah obv the problem here isn't throwing the ball, it's catching it.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:35 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, Grossmanpaws.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:47 (eighteen years ago)

Words can't express how much I love talking animals. It's the only thing I have in common with my dad.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:49 (eighteen years ago)

I finally turned on the game.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:50 (eighteen years ago)

One more Grossman pass and the bears lose. Even if he fumbles every time, the bears will win. Just don't throw it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:51 (eighteen years ago)

The only reason I want the bears to win is my absolute hatred of Adam vinatieri.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 01:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hey hey! The old Grossman is back! Throwing crap, panicing... mmm. Memories.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

this looks very grim. I'm going grocery shopping while I know the store will be empty.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:05 (eighteen years ago)

They should run the ball every time and kick a field goal when in range, no matter the down.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:06 (eighteen years ago)

I'm watching it with a Chicago native named Megan. The whole gathering is yelling pro-Bears things.

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:18 (eighteen years ago)

I made 7 layer dip, my roomie made teryaki wings. Now I am in a food near-coma. ooooooooh

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

Flomax.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:34 (eighteen years ago)

The whole gathering is yelling pro-Bears things.

So it's getting very quiet now?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:47 (eighteen years ago)

I just bought my first-ever bologna, and am having my first bologna sandwich ever. This is extremely suspicious stuff. Made of chicken and pork? Really? Why? And it's of such a weirdly uniform color, like no other food I've seen. Not even white bread is this blank and featureless. It's just a flat pink, like a laundry accident. It tastes like exactly nothing.

I think I just wasted a good few bucks, because I can't eat this stuff. This is awful.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

How did you cook it? Fry it till it's really crispy. Then put yellow mustard on it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 02:54 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't cook it. It comes cooked. Does it need more cooking?

Ugh. So so bad. Never again.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yes, never it is "pre-cooked". It needs some char on it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:02 (eighteen years ago)

Never eat it.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:04 (eighteen years ago)

WTF. Christian coaches. Rot in hell.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:14 (eighteen years ago)

Lesson from Super Bowl:
2007: THE YEAR OF OFFICE HUMOR.

I saw a few minutes of the puppy bowl. I want a channel with that all the time.

Funny to walk around Chicago during the game and see all of the blinds raised in all of the new condos along Sheffield - and all of them with L, XL, and XXL flat-screen TVs showing the game.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

Kitty Half-Time Show rules. Too bad about that football game thing.

A woman sitting next to Jesse at the Driftwood passed out at the bar with holding a lit cigarette against Jesse's side.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:46 (eighteen years ago)

While holding.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

Back from New Orleans. Great gigs. Got a tattoo. Sick now.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2007 06:48 (eighteen years ago)

bears had their chances, they were too worried about giving up a 25 yard play to notice they were getting hit for 7 yards on every pass to a back out of the backfield. oh well.

dan, horseshoe, i was down in hyde park on friday night. smoking cigarettes on top of a building at u of c. weird random evening.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

What's the tattoo of, Jordan?

Mornin', folks.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

mornin

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

My professor canceled both my classes today. HUZZAH. I am supposed to hit up Worker Justice, Inc. Monday mornings but today I shall work form home.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

M.B.N.!!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

M.B.N.?

Yeah, Jordan show us pics of that tattoo.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

MUST

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

NICE

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the radio this morning was advising me NOT to go to work, on account of the fact that the windchill is truly dangerous. But I knew that not coming in today would only be proof to my boss that I am a pussy.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

"What do you mean, the flesh on your face has frozen and died, and will require plastic surgery? BE A MAN!"

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the radio this morning was advising me NOT to go to work,

weird, last night my toaster over was telling me to kill my landlord.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

I thought about skipping work, especially since I got to bed at 2 AM, but I have a meeting this afternoon that probably won't be all that important, but I want to make a good impression.

In some ways, I'm glad I missed the Super Bowl since the lack of immediate investment makes the defeat easier to swallow. Video shoot was kind of fun, but a lot of sitting around as well. I read the Sunday Times, the rest of Best American Comics 2006, and played about eight games of Tetris on my phone.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

I think when the local school districts are closed, work should be closed. Apparently there are no open schools in West Michigan today because at 25 degrees below zero, no one can take responsibility for asking kids to wait outdoors for their buses. Convenient!

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

weird, last night my toaster over was telling me to kill my landlord.

haha

My TV was telling me to kill Kevin. I know I'm healthy, though, because I can tell right from wrong, and I ignored it.

You're welcome.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I was just reminiscing to January 1994, when we got several days off school because of the bitterly cold temperatures. It kind of fucked things up, though, since it was finals week.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

The prof who canceled classes lives in the middle of nowhere in Michigan and has to take an Amtrak train that's late every time it rains so she probably canceled class because she didn't want to fuck with it herself. I heard the NPR guy say to stay home from work today, too!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

This is the week that kids born in 1998 will use to come to the conclusion that winters-were-colder-when-I-was-a-kid.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Trouble is, now that I'm here, there's no weather-related excuse that can justify my leaving. I done fucked up. Should have stayed in bed.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

"It's too cold out. So I need to brave the cold and go back home." Does not work.

Grrr. I do not want to be here today. I have two things to do, and I can do them in an hour. Maybe I should go ahead and do them before I think about leaving.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

"It's too cold out. So I need to brave the cold and go back home." Does not work.

I had the exact same thought earlier.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, things are looking up! It's zero degrees now.

This morning, in the midst of my grouchiness, I found two more bright white kinky hairs shooting straight out of my hairline, front and center. I keep pulling them out, but now I'm getting to the point that I'm worried I'll end up with a bald patch if I don't stop. :-(

My dad's mom was all-white by the time she was 32. Nick may or may not know this fun fact.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

And by all-white I am referring to hair, not skin, ha ha.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Almost everyone in their late 20s has a few gray/white hairs, it doesn't mean you're going to go all white.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

allegedly there are three frozen pipe-related emergencies keeping people from my office home today.

also, i drove by my old place on augusta blvd on friday night and it's going condo. they booted out all my old neighbors. the old polish couple who lived behind me had been there over 30 years. the people who lived upstairs from me brought their newborn twin daughters home the day i moved in, they're out too. it made me sad for some reason.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

"some reason"

People getting kicked out of their homes is pretty much always sad.

I'm getting more and more noticeable gray hair every day. I wish I had the wherewithal to keep up with root jobs; I'd dye it. But I don't so fuck it.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Julia was saying this to me yesterday. "Don't you have any grey hairs?" I'd never though about it. Apparently people my age have a few grey hairs. I don't. No wonder I keep getting carded.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan dyes his hair.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

bright white kinky hairs

I love that gray/white hairs are kinky. Before I'd gotten them, I'd had no idea. It's fun when a big scraggly one juts out from the temple.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yes. Blue.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, you just reminded me, I had a dream last night where I had blue hair and I was showing it off to a Bible-study group that was going on in a house I was sharing. I think I was being belligerent toward them as well.

Although it doesn't top the other dream I had, in which Bill Cosby made me homemade toffee.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

People getting kicked out of their homes is pretty much always sad.

yeah, my upstairs neighbors were really cool people, the dude helped me and my friend michael move my sofa in when we were having trouble getting it to pivot going up the stairs. i hope they can find a nice place, i'm sure they're not exactly swimming in money as he was a painter (an artist, not a house painter) and she was a poet. hard to raise a pair of toddlers on the money a poet makes.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

Which would, as far as I can tell, be "none."

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

I used to have blue hair.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

I called in sick today, blech. I knew I would get sick after this trip, it's practically inevitable with all the traveling and not sleeping, and this time it was really chilly down there too.

This is my tattoo: http://farm1.static.flickr.com/139/380713618_3673984ccd.jpg?v=0

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Calling in sick on your birthday when you are actually sick = the worst

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

aw.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, it's your birthday?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Is it your birthday??

I also used to have blue hair, but most of the time it was supposed to be blue it was actually bright green, which was not the best.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

It's your birthday????

HAPPY BIRTHDAY JORDAN!

That's a great tattoo. Stay in school!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Mine was pretty bright-ass blue, at least for a couple months. Then I went swimming in the ocean and it faded to green and I spent the next three months explaining to people that it was supposed to be blue.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

MANIC PANIC, YA'LL.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

birthday.xls

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

It really is my birthday but it doesn't feel like it.

(the tattoo is actually a fleur de lis, I'm not sure if I'm going to put up a picture though)

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Aw c'mon, we all want to see your ass.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Once I cut my hair really short, then let it grow out for a couple weeks until it was just a layer of fuzz standing straight off my head in every direction. I didn't like that, so I bleached it, then I dyed it pink. So I had a pink fuzzy head. Then, as a topper, I wore a t-shirt with this on it:

http://www.musicobsession.com/Pictures/b/r/breeders119701.jpg

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Ya know, those were different times.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

No homo?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

(note: that story is 100% true, sadly.)

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

I could go for some ramen.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, that's my story too.

I could not go for some ramen.
Hey, Nick. Would you be interested in Jenny's soup for tonight? That's what I want to make. See Recipes & Songs.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

"Tonight's special is Holy Fuck."

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Does Holy Fuck lead to Virgin Birth?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

Holy Fuck is a pretty good band.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

The root veggie soup? That is VERY EXCITING if that's what you're going to make. I actually meant to add that tossing in a piece of parmesan cheese rind would probably give it a nice depth of flavor, especially if the bacon is a no go.

Have you noticed that like everything I make somehow involves turkey bacon? Huh.

I'm going to make the sweet potato and chicken crock pot stew tonight, but I want to bake something, too, to heat up the house a little bit. It's cold in here!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Biscuits! I'll make biscuits.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

sure, sounds good.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

What is this parmesan cheese rind of which you speak? I didn't know cheese had rinds. Also, isn't parmesan just that flaky stuff people put on pasta?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

ah, schadenfreude... it's kind of good to see you again.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

Is it something you remove, like a chicken bone?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

ok wtf. What is this. And why is the #2 google news result for "superbowl".

http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/1703/1/

in other news, electricity can be used to generate heat, light.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I was making this up.

"Thanks to signal substitution and the wonders of digital technology, Digital Home publisher Hugh Thompson was able to watch the entire Superbowl broadcast in less than two hours. Here's his incredible story."

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

They need to set up something like the Spanish audio channel where you can watch sporting events with only the sounds of the game, no commentators.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

I realize you can mute it but I like being able to hear the crowd and the players.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

nbc did that about 25 years ago, it was a resounding failure.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Parmesan cheese in it's whole, non-grated form looks like this. You can buy triangles of it in the store. There is parmesan-style cheese that is made in the US and is generally cheaper and there is for real Parmesan cheese that is made in the Parma region of Italy and imported and that is more expensive. If you are going to grate the cheese over pasta, it really doesn't matter which kind you buy. If you are going to eat it in pieces, it's worth spending the moola on the real deal.

If you look at the triangles of cheese, there is usually a darker, harder part on the rounded edge. This is the "rind" and is what protects the cheese during the aging process. It tastes terrible if you eat it straight up (or I think so - maybe other people like it) but if you throw it in soups, stews, or gumbos, it adds a really nice flavor. Just fish it out before you serve the food.

The flaky stuff in the green can is only cheese in a very vague and abstract way. I predict that once you buy for real parmesan cheese and grate it over your pasta yourself, you will never go back to the stuff in the can. Except for on pop corn. I still love it on pop corn.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

ok wtf. What is this. And why is the #2 google news result for "superbowl".

Maybe because it's actually two words?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

I was AIMing a little last night with my friend who is working in Germany. He was watching the game and said there were very few commercials, and they would just cut to wide angle shots when commercials usually would have been shown. Also, the few commercials that did show up were mostly for NFL Europe.

Evidently the people in Germany are much more concerned with their winning the World Handball Championship than with the Super Bowl, and I say good for them.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

You can also buy pre-grated (but still fresh) parmesan in bags or platic containers.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

I don't care if it was a failure, I want it.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but since it was a failure you're probably not going to see it anytime soon. tv execs aren't exactly the type who will stick their necks out to try something different.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

This is the "rind" and is what protects the cheese during the aging process.

I was under the impression that the rind was the wax coating, not a part of the cheese at all.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.parmaitaly.com/images/foto17.gif

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

FRIENDS: I just submitted the character and fitness portion of my bar application. This means that all I have to do to be a lawyer is:

1. Take and pass the MPRE, which is the ethics part of the bar, in March.
2. Graduate from law school.
3. Spend a miserable summer studying for the bar.
4. Take and bass the bar exam.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

BASS SOLO TO PASS THE BAR??!?!?!?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Me too, but I'm still willing to give it a go. I love cheese.

xpost - Easy peasy!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

xxxpost Have you been eating wax, Jenny?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

and if so does it in anyway affect the character and fitness portion of your bar application?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Well, if the wax coating is the rind, there are recipes that tell you to put chunks of wax in your soup. And then eat that wax.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

BASS HOW LOW CAN YOU GO

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Anything is possible.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Some cheeses are coated in wax for certain kinds of results, some are allowed to age, some with fabric wrappings that are eventually removed after the outer rind has hardened on its own.

"The rinds of the cheeses are formed during the ripening process, many quite naturally. Some are created artificially. Rinds may be brushed, washed, oiled, treated with a covering of paraffin wax or simply not touched at all. Traditional Cheddars are wrapped around with a cotton bandage. The rind's basic function is to protect the interior of the cheese and allow it to ripen harmoniously. Its presence thus affects the final flavor of the cheese. Salting plays an important role in rind formation. Heavily salted cheeses develop a thick, tough outer rind, typified by the Swiss range of cheeses. Cheddar, another natural rind cheese, is less salted than the Swiss varieties, and consequently has a much thinner rind."

http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Cottage/1288/intro/Intro.htm

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

DEATH ROW

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel just rendered my composed post superfluous. Thanks, Laurel!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

That was not sarcastic, btw.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

WHATTA BROTHA KNOW

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry! :)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

I'm learnding!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

I sometimes eat the rind on brie.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Generally speaking you're SUPPOSED to eat the rind on brie. I don't, because the velvetiness of the mold grosses me out and it's more bitter than the inner cheese, but I always feel like people who DO eat the rind are the true cheese-lovers with sophisticated palettes. :/

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

My parents do, too. I generally dislike all cheese rinds. They all taste kind of mildewy to me.

My parents get this unbelievably delicious "triple cream brie" from some fancy pants rich people cheese store that is like some goddess of luscious fatty foods combined the best parts of butter with the best parts of cheese. It's sooooooo good.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like I can't afford nice cheese. Every day I drive by "The Cheese Stands Alone" and gaze wistfully in its direction.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

I have heard that pasteurized U.S. smelly cheeses cannot hold a candle to their Euro cousins that sit out in the warm, bacteria-laden air all day.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

Cheese is my biggest dietary weakness in that if left to my own devices, I would just eat cheese until I was too fat to leave my house without intervention from the fire department.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Almost everyone in their late 20s has a few gray/white hairs.

thank you. kenan's ungray hair was making me feel old. i have a ton of gray hairs, and pluck the more prominent of them.

this is the lake at 11 AM:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/j_bdules/013.jpg

it's been looking more like an ice planet early in the morning, but fuck if i'm awake enough to get a camera then.

parmesan rind is great for flavoring things. another similar good hard cheese: romano. if it's called peccarino romano it's sheep's milk cheese.

xp i've heard that too--pasteurization is not necessary with cheese, it seems, and makes the flavor much more bland.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

nick, sarah (or anyone i guess), have you been to the homemade pizza co. on wabansia & damen? oh my f'ing god it is so f'ing good.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Every day I drive by "The Cheese Stands Alone" and gaze wistfully in its direction.

That is one helluva cheese shop. In fact, I wouldn't doubt that if you know a certain password or get in good enough with them, they'll hook you up with some real-deal raw milk cheese. Which, yes, by all accounts is an entirely different animal than pasteurized, and the way cheese was meant to be. A LIVING THING.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

xpost I've had it, you're right, it pretty much rules.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

xxp Isn't that a chain? I'm not sure I understand it, though. You pick up a frozen pizza from them, and then cook it in your own oven?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

i got to a party too late on saturday and there were only a few lonely squares of it left, it had been sitting on a table in front of an insufficiently insulated window so i did not partake.

but goddamn it's good stuff.

xpost- yes john, you cook it. but the difference is the quality of the ingredients and the number of choices available to you.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

I assumed it was like the Kramer idea, where you make your own pie.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

i'm craving a fucking burrito right now.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

only they send it home with you, so they are not liable for your burns.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

It's not frozen, but yeah. It is very well made stuff, and aside from the picking-up/cooking is not that different in price from delivery as far as I can tell.

xposts what they said, even about the burrito

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

Looking at the website now -- it does look really good.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

I've been curious, but have never tried it, partially because Nick makes great homemade pizza anyway.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

i've got a weakness for carmelized onions.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

I do too, but here's something I WILL NOT STAND FOR: ordering a hamburger or sandwich with grilled onions, and they don't chop the onions, so you have to deal with long, slimy strings of onion. I don't care how delicious, no one wants long slimy anything.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

Agreed.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, if you're not going to eat those onions...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Big onion fan over here. I used to look forward to creamed onions at Thanksgiving more than anything.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Pre-middle-age gals with all-gray or all-white hair are hott! The best English teacher I ever had, in high school, was probably about 25 and had this kind of dove-gray hair through and through - gorgeous!

I can't stop watching David Caruso.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

i'm wearing a whpk t shirt today. thank god for free schwag keeping me out of the laundromat for another night.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

I've kinda had it out for WHPK ever since I met that pretentious nitwit Ben somebody, who was (I think?) their program director six years ago.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Well, he's probably graduated now, eh?

I've given a little thought to trying to become involved, as I'm pretty sure Uni staff are eligible.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

He was in his late 20s at the time. I'm sure the entire station is not like him, but dude was a prick who rolled his eyes if you happened to mention Steve Reich during a conversation about minimalism: not obscure enough.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

He lived with Kelsey at the time and slept clutching rare Tony Conrad vinyl beneath his pillow.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

I tried finding the illustration of him from the This American Life comic book, but no such luck.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

I have an incredibly ugly WHPK t-shirt from the first time we played on there: it's bright orange with some kind of bright green poorly-designed alien creatures on it.

I also have a slightly nicer WHPK t-shirt from the second time we played on there, which is dark blue with a city-scape.

We will try Homemade Pizza Co. sometime soon. Hey, it's my turn to cook dinner tomorrow...

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I've mentioned this before:

I used to live with a guy that does stuff at WHPK & is also, incidentally, in the TAL comic book. Remember that, john?

-- kelsey (kelstarr...), November 18th, 2005.

Do I ever! Dude was a dick.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), November 18th, 2005.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Several posts later:

combine them and then you have hip-hop oldies, lol!!!111 what would that be like it would be like grandmatter flash nad run dmc prolly, tho would they play "walk this way" probbly because auerosmith is classic rock, so you listen to the classic rock station too dont you that s how you know about rush and chicago and boston, am i right?? am i right??? who listens to bill oreilly on wckg at night? honestly, tho, i like to listen to terry armour and stan lawrneece in the early evening because i appreciate afro-afmerican professionals in the line of work of radio (also see richard steele, tavis smiley, marian mcpartland ... j/k!!!!! she hangs out with a lotta black doods, but really she is from england. and she is WHITE. like alabaster, ppl. plays a mean piano tho. "oh that is a simply MARVELOUS tune. you MUST join me.) anwyway then bill oreilly comes on. it is called the "radio factor." he is not nice tho. he is arepublican, i hear.

-- jaymc (jmcunnin...), November 18th, 2005.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Were you drunk there?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

No.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

OK, just hilarious typing style there then.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Shouldn't that be November 18th, 1995?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Pshaw, I didn't write like that in 1995.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

It's autumn in Gothenburg
I'm walking home to my suburb
Rain falls hard on the city
on every homeless kitty

Oh please god bring relief
even if it's only brief
that she says the dreamer just make-believe
but I thought she said maple leaves

So we talked for hours
and you cried into my sheets
you said you hated your body
that it was just a piece of meat, I disagreed

I think you're beautiful
but it's impossible
to make you understand
that if you don't take my hand
I lose my mind completely
Madness will finally defeat me

She said it was all make-belief
but I thought you said maple leaves
and when she talked about the fall
I thought she talked about the season
I never understood at all

I thought she said maple leaves
and when she talked about about the fall
I thought she talked about Mark E Smith
I never understood at all
I never understood at all
I never understood at all

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I can swim, I can't swim, I can swim, I can't swim
I can swim, I can't swim, I can swim, I can't swim
Well here's a notion, a single idea
Swing by the ocean, because
I can't swim, I can swim, I can't swim, I can swim
I can't swim, I can swim, I can swim, I can swim
Hang by a maritime, marine at nighttime, waiting waterlogged down by the high sea
Waiting (wading) waterlogged, for that guy to arrive
Oh he don't know that
I can swim, I can't swim, I can't swim, I can swim
If there was even one chance, that he would come along
If there was even one chance, that he would come alone
If there was even one chance, that he would come along
If there was even one chance, and take a drink by the drink
Fucked up in the flood, stoned
And get soused by the sea
And take a dip, in the briny deep
Hang by the maritime, marine at nighttime
Waiting waterlogged, down by the high sea
Wading waterlogged, for that guy to arrive
Well he don't know that
I can swim, I can't swim, I can't swim, I can swim
I can't swim, I can swim, I can't swim, I can swim

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

Where is everyone?

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Doing stupid work. I'm covering for someone who didn't want to brave the cold today.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

THE PROGRESS OF SCIENCE WAITS FOR NO MAN OR COLD SNAP

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

i'm actually covering for the person above me and the person below me on the food chain here. my work is not getting done however and no one seems to mind so perhaps i've mistaken my place in that chain.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

I wrote some singles reviews, then went to the meeting.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

Napping, watching Prince halftime on youtube (saw it in the airport but with no sound), watching movies (Touch of Evil & Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), blowing my nose on toilet paper

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

I fucking love the shit out of Prince

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

me, too. he looks ~25 wtf?

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

All during the halftime show we kept drunkenly wishing that nu-Xian-Prince would just bring "Pussy Control" into the medley. Alas.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

this has been discussed on ILNFL, but I was seriously confused by him singing that damn Foo Fighters song. "Purple Rain" makes up for everything, though.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

blowing my nose on toilet paper

Even though I use toilet paper to blow my nose, too, I can sort of understand why someone would buy tissue: some kinds are super-soft and nose-friendly and you can keep a box next to you on the couch when you're sick, instead of lugging a whole roll of toilet paper out there.

What I don't understand is the point of napkins. What are napkins accomplishing that my roll of paper towels is not?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Prince sang a Foo Fighters song?!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

I kind of like that he didn't just play a string of his hits and mixed things up a bit. Also enjoyed that he played guitar more than he sang, he is a vicious guitarist (not that he can't sing too!).

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

i missed the foo fighters cover, i went outside for a smoke and came back just as he was getting off stage.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

foo fighters cover sounded good

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I celebrated my butchness yesterday by watching the Superbowl and then sleeping with a woman.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I feel dumb.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

^^^me too xp

― deej.. (deej..), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

John, he started to sing "All Along the Watchtower" which somehow morphed into the Foo Fighters' "Best of You." He also sang "Proud Mary" and "Let's Go Crazy" before ending with "Purple Rain." was there anything else? and yeah, his guitar-playing was unbelievable.

xp: it's such an unremarkable song, the Foo Fighters one, and he has so many remarkable songs of his own!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't recognize the Foo Fighters song.

― n/a (Nick A.), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, do I know that one?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

no, because it is totally unremarkable! it's relatively recent, I think; I'd heard it on the radio before. it goes, "is someone getting the best the best the best the best of you" over and over ad nauseum.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

I *heart* Prince. Completely against type, I find him inexplicably attractive.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

he's GORGEOUS. he seriously looks fantastic these days, too.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, you usually don't like diminutive dudes, Jenny.

http://www.fantasymagazine.it/imgbank/IMG/ron.nb.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

He looked like a black mammy with that head wrap thing.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Or a chemo patient.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

Rupert Grint is 5'10" but he's only 18 so he might grow a few more inches.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Besides, I have a crush on Ron Weasely, who, being a fictional character, can be as tall as I want him to be.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

He's 5'10"? Really?

OK, I've never seen Harry Potter, I thought they were all little hobbits.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

They are adolescents now so, yeah. Taller than hobbits.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Radcliffe is still 5'6", same as Elijah Wood.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

He probably had a song called "Best of U" and someone pointed out that someone else took that title already.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

I read Michaelangelo Matos's 33 1/3 book on Sign O' The Times, and he talks about how Prince was influenced by growing up in a city without a mainstream R&B station but with a classic-rock one (KQRS), which led to Zeppelin and Joni Mitchell being as big of an influence on him as James Brown. So it makes sense that he'd be into Foo Fighters, kind of.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

RUN-ON SENTENCE ALERT

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

OMG what?? Daniel Radcliffe is only 5'6"??? And so is Elijah Wood?? Wow, now I really AM in love!

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

I loved the Superbowl commercials because they had gratuitous, hilarious violence.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

I made some home-made energy bars. They are better than any I've ever bought, which isn't really saying much.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

he's GORGEOUS. he seriously looks fantastic these days, too.

I will never understand this.

JENNY, get on gmail chat!

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

OMG what?? Daniel Radcliffe is only 5'6"??? And so is Elijah Wood?? Wow, now I really AM in love!

You're mocking me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

No, I'm not. I completely adore short men.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

OK, so I order Chinese delivery, and instead of knocking, as is the custom in America, he stands outside my door going, "Excuse me. Excuse me."

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse: i think i'm straight
i just realized it last night
Me: are you asking me out?
Jesse: well, you're a woman
and i'm a mna
man
Me: you can't even spell straight.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

lol

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

man, i hope jesse is straight because if my gay friends are sleeping with more women than i am it might be time for me to pack it in.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'm totally out of that market for good, BELIEVE YOU ME. I had one last bit of unfinished business in my dealings with the poon, and I accomplished it last night.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

But she was asleep at the bar, right, Jesse?

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

I want deets.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Be careful what you wish for.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

"Unfinished business with the poon" makes me think of a boy wizard off to fight a giant dripping gash.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

When you're alone, and life is making you lonely
You can always go
Downtown

When you've got worries, all the noise and hurry
Seems to help, I know
Downtown

Just listen to the music of the traffic in the city,
Linger on the sidewalk where the neon signs are pretty
How can you lose? The lights are much brighter there...
You can forget all your troubles; forget all your cares, and go
Downtown -- things will be great when you're
Downtown -- you'll find a place for sure
Downtown -- everything's waiting for you

Downtown .... Downtown...

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

ewwwww.... you just peremanently made petula clark's voice smarmy for me.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Where is Hunter, age 3 when you need him? Or whatever that kid's name is. (XXP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

1,500 words for vagina

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

huh

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

Eternal sunshine of the spotless poon.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

"Unfinished business with the poon" makes me think of a boy wizard off to fight a giant dripping gash.

You are foul.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

If you are of a mind to, you should listen to this wonderful recording of Sylvia Plath reading one of my favorite poems, "Sow."

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

"Unfinished business with the poon" makes me think of a boy wizard off to fight a giant dripping gash.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

oops.

http://www.geocities.com/TheTropics/Shores/7484/download/plath.mp3

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

BACON HOLE?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot that you're on record as being a huge fan of vaginas, Kenan.

Lucille: Is there anything... I can do?
General Anderson: Maybe, if you go downtown.
Lucille: I haven’t done that in 30 years. ...
When you’re alone and life is making you lonely / / You can always go / / Downtown / / When you’ve got...

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

BTW, John's quote is now on the "Paste whatever is on your clipboard" thread.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Who are you people?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I'm 28, Pisces...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, so, I've had quite a day. I'm home now. Around 1:30-ish, there was a popping sound coming from the ceiling, followed by the unmistakable sound of water spraying all over the top of the acoustic tiles right above me. My instincts took over. In about 90 seconds, I had my computer turned off and everything unplugged. In about 90 more seconds, I had all the equipment moved into the hallway. Literally 15 seconds after that, the tile right above my head soaked through and bulged ever so slightly before splatting all over my desk in chunks of soggy fiberglass. There was another wall with water pouring down it, right behind all our software and books, so we set up a chain of people into the hallway, taking stuff off the shelves and passing them down.

I don't think we lost any equipment. I think we saved everything. Still, what a godforsaken MESS.

I walked into my bosses office and said something like, "I'm thinking of the word 'telecommuting'. How does that sit with you?" She sent me home half an hour later.

This is not good. I don't know if this will be cleaned up by tommorrow or what. I want my office back!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

That's...really amazing work. Do they fully appreciate you at the office?

― Laurel (Laurel), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

dan, where did you get those gloves/mittens for kenan's b-day? because i got off the bus last week but my left glove didn't.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

...

Urban Outfitters

(ashamed)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

fuck i don't care, there's one in wicker park, i'll go on my way home unless i'm too cold.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

It's just, they're the EXACT SAME THING that are for sale in the outdoorsy shops back home, and yet I found them there down here...

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

However, if you really want to get serious:

http://www.henrysshoerepair.com/images/Henry

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, where is your tattoo? Why no picture?

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'm looking at the WGN Weather Center Blog, and apparently that 1994 cold wave featured one day where the high was -11 and the low was -21. I think I just played computer games all day.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

Also, where did you get it done? Electric Ladyland on Frenchmen St.?

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://snickerssatisfies.com/

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

If it's 'ELVIN' tattooed on your ass, I don't want to see it, Jordan.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 5 February 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.visionwarrior.com/Media/endopic5.gif?

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 5 February 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

I almost thought that the Foo Fighters cover was a "f u, I can play ANYTHING you want to hear and still make it sound like Prince" move.

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Poon was good. Mirrormask is my last movie of the night. My sore throat went away and it's been replaced by head cold and possibly fever.

I think Jesse is butcher than I am.

The tattoo is on my left shoulderblade. I don't know why I don't feel like posting it on flickr but maybe I will take a picture and e-mail it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:33 (eighteen years ago)

I hope it's not a mouse.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

I told y'all, it's a Rap Snacks tat.

(I took a picture)

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Rapsnacks-masterp.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 00:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://myspace-542.vo.llnwd.net/00246/24/50/246390542_l.jpg

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

How was NO? What did you do?

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:06 (eighteen years ago)

FEMA Calls Rebuilding Complete As New Orleans Restored To Former Squalor

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:07 (eighteen years ago)

Basically just played a lot of music. Three sets on Friday @ Donna's and then a 3 hour parade in the Quarter on Saturday, which was pretty nuts. Also walked along with a funeral second-line and almost played two other funerals (but didn't due to N.O.-style miscommunication). Food included:

--at least two shrimp po' boys
--crawfish (1 lb)
--gravy cheese fries
--at Parasol's the guy came out and gave us free samples of hogshead cheese. Uh, I had a bite.
--peanut butter between two Ritz crackers with the whole thing dipped in chocolate = amazing

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:42 (eighteen years ago)

The darkest stuff I saw was driving through the lower 9th ward (complete devastation) and then a dead kitten on Rampart that looked just like my Kitka.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:43 (eighteen years ago)

Had you not been to the Lower 9 before?

What is hogshead cheese?

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. I just looked it up. I had always heard it just called head cheese. GRRRROSS.

― grisly bristled boar fabulous enough to straddle that sow's heat (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

Birds: These mysterious beautiful creatures that came suddenly to our planet in 1962 are still an enigma.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

I like this new LCD Soundsystem album. The music hasn't advanced much but he sounds like he's having more fun with the vocals, and there are some good pop songs on here.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

I guess maybe I should have listened to the whole album before I commented on it. There's some boring stuff on here too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

I have been downloading too much music lately.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't been downloading enough music.

I should be at home in bed again, but I need to save the sick days for when I'm not actually sick. :(

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Btw the Ian Bellamy soundtrack to MirrorMask is awwwwwesome.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

I need a atheist version of the Serenity Prayer today.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

hey, roger ebert, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.

that work?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, we did make the HF soup! It was very delicious and beety. I wasn't sure how much veggies I'd need, so we have leftovers. Mmm... leftovers...

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Ack, snow! I don't want to be stranded in Evanston.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

I think I like it. The "hey" part is the best.

xp - Sarah! Cool! I am amazed at how pink our soup got and my beet to everything else ratio was pretty small. What other veggies did you use?

I have leftovers for lunch today.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

I used every single veggie you listed because I didn't want to frack it up with my own ideas. It was fun trying to find them all at Whole Foods. I had to ask a guy who worked there and then Nick what a few things look like. Then I used this Complete Vegetarian cookbook to learn how to appropriately cut/peel each one.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yay! It's not just soup; it's educational. I'm glad it turned out well. Most of my recipes are modified versions of other recipes but I made that one up so I was a little nervous.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

last night i made bbq chicken but i was still hungry so i opened a can of chili and had that too. then i had a super pretzel and some yogurt and a cup of tea and a cigarette then i went to bed at 8:30.

i live the life.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

I hope you at least cooked that canned chili.

I just had leftover strawberry pancakes topped with hot strawberries and plain yog for breakfast. Mmm....

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

I ordered a bunch of Chinese food last night. I got some egg drop soup because I thought it would feel good on my throat, but then I remembered that it's gross.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I am curious how Amanda's home made pretzels came out. I have this irrational fear of making yeast breads, but pretzels... I might be able to overcome that fear to make some pretzels.

I love egg drop soup. Mmmm... slimy...

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

You should try some spicy lentil soup, Jordan.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

i woke up late this morning (or rather, woke up the same time, just stayed in bed later) so i didn't have time for breakfast. i did get some bus station coffee and a plain donut however. i'm going to make myself a cup of tea shortly to try to wash the taste of bus station coffee out of my mouth.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

The words "bus station coffee" evoke something truly awful.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

so does a mouthful of it.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

I slept for 12 hours last night. 7-7.

Tis the season, I think. I slept well, too. It's nice when it's cold and the blankets are piled up.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

Holy crap, I just realized I didn't have breakfast or coffee this morning. My body hasn't noticed, I must really be sick.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

the heat isn't working upstairs at work, i'm wearing my scarf and hoodie as well as the warmest sweater i own and i'm still shivering.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

I just watched the kitty halftime show (from the puppy bowl)here.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

how is it possible that the air outside is warm enough to hold moisture? because the snow is really coming down in the near west 'burbs.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah it's snowing pretty hard here too. Guess I'm sleeping at the office tonight and living off of granola bars, rotten fruit and La Croix sparkling water. Sad.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

What the fuck. This is a lot of winter all at once. You know how people are always going on about "it's too cold to snow?" Well, I think today proves that that theory is at least limited. It's no degrees and snowing.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

xpost.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm one of those people who's always going on about it being too cold to snow. I wonder what the science is behind that.

Speaking of which, Jesse, I think you're totally OTM about the airplanes being louder in this weather. Even before you posted that, I was hearing them all the time.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

It's snowing in the Loop, too.

Nick, you won't get trapped! If the roads get too bad, you can always take trains home. Purple line express, ya'll.

My invocation of serenity to Roger Ebert is not working. I believe the root of my problem is PMS. I need a stronger diety, a goddess.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

I know I am, as per usual, a million years behind on this, but I watched a little bit of the Dave Chappel show last night and caught the Wu-Tang Financial skit and nearly peed myself.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

May I suggest the Virgin Mary? No? Well then. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.drummerworld.com/pics/drum/dpa24/Cindyblackman4.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.gothamjazz.com/images/performers/ibarra.jpg

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

It's *beautiful* outside!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

my boss left for the rest of the day, i'm thinking about doing the same.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

DO IT! It's about 7 degrees here with windchill and my apartment is still heat-less (altho I hear there's a service truck on location as I type) so waking up this morning was TORTURE. Actually the cold woke me up a few hours early and I spread all my clean laundry out on the bed for extra insulation, wrapped a baby blanket over my head for heat retention, and tried to enjoy the remaining hours of relative comfort before I had to come out from under the covers.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Madison
-4°F
Snow
Wind: SE at 6 mph
Humidity: 78%

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing like snow to make people drive insanely. Apparently, brushing accumulated snow off of one's automobile windows before operating the vehicle has gone out of fashion. So many people driving blindly. I saw three wrecks on the trip to work, which took an hour and 20 minutes.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

when i got home saturday night/sunday morning i turned on the space heater. it has a thermometer in it that comes on when you start it up. according to that thermometer it was 33 degrees in my place around 3 a.m. the other night.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Kevin, I was thinking: THIS MINUS THIRTY POUNDS OF BODY FAT IS KEVIN'S LIFE!

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff, Jenny: Thank you for this laptop. I't saving my life today, while all my other computer equipment is out of commission/drying out/dead forever. Water damage is a bitch. But at least I have my desk.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

I am currently reading this enormously entertaining book:

http://www.npr.org/programs/totn/features/2006/09/jennings/brainiac_200.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

Looks good ... I'll check it out if I ever finish this Pynchon book. I've been reading it for a month and I'm just over halfway through. It's good though.

Our internet went out at work and we got sent him ... still have to work though, and everyone's going to be way behind. At least I'm at home.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, sent HOME.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I like TRIVIA.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Me too. Except when it's constrained within a single topic.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

There's a whole section on quiz bowl.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Could this be the "Kitchen Confidential" of the trivia world? Lurid stories of sex, drugs, and 50 point bonus questions?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Do they talk about bar trivia?

Kevin, I lovelovelove the song you quote on your Gmail status message.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

As do I! It made me listen to Green Mind.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

It is still snowing like crazy up here in the north burbs, which according to the latest forecast was supposed to get accumulation of less than an inch. I think we passed that two hours ago. They keep bumping up the forecasted amount of snow for the city and south burbs now. 3"-6" now. Wasn't the ass-biting cold enough?

― jonviachicago (jonviachicago), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

Do they talk about bar trivia?

Yup, I haven't gotten to that part yet, though.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

What a weird day.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

I am so irritable today!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

So irritable that I will die before I click on the pornography thread.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

Jealous of sent home. I'm going to brave the snow and get some chicken soup.

Interesting situation at work, it looks like I'm going to get transferred to another team (although I could probably say no if I wanted to be really stubborn). Pros: it might be "interesting", and I would probably have my own office in a nice building. Cons: might be way busier, I'd have to learn new stuff, and my office would be a little farther away.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

There's a pornography thread???

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

I just finished the work that I normally am supposed to have done by 11 (it's 12:20). Whee.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

Do it! Get the office!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

The worst ILX threads are the ones where people try to be smart. I can tell from the title of the porn thread alone that it is one of those and should thus be avoided (big hint: Thread title is capped like a book or essay title, "The Politics of Pornography").

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

Also, where did you get it done? Electric Ladyland on Frenchmen St.?

Yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

That pornography thread is from 2001. Someone just revived it for kicks, there haven't been any interesting posts yet (Kingfish linked to the new Ron Jeremy autobiography).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

i don't need that showing up in my browser history.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

I watched Touch of Evil yesterday and I just LOL'ed thinking about Charlton Heston kicking ass in a bar and screaming "HABLA DE SPANISH?!" and some faux-Mexican dudes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, so a loud staticky voice keeps coming out of the boombox in our kitchen. Which is not on. It sounds like someone yelling over a walky-talky. I realize it's cell/carphone interference of some kind but it's still freaky.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

Like I said, a weird day.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

That's happened to us sometimes in band practice, with disembodied voices coming out of an amp that someone's set their phone on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Oh god I've gone from irritable to whiny.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

The classic progression.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, I am SO WITH YOU. Don't despair, sister. At this rate I should be in tears by 3.30 so if you aren't, YOU WIN.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

DRUMSET TAMA ROCKSTAR (DX) Double Bass BLK W/Cymbals WILL TRADE 4 GUNS - $1495
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FIRST OF ALL THE SKELETONS ARE NOT INCLUDED

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

i can't believe i'm about to walk outside to smoke a cigarette and yet.... i made it 18 hours before i had to make the cigarette/homicide choice.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

It's actually not that cold out right now, just snowing.

I used to have a Tama Rockstar.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

There are some pretty confused-looking Canada Geese hanging around out in the Midway Plaisance.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Fucking fuck! Another pipe broke. Water, pouring onto my desk. Unhook everything and move FAST FAST FAST. This is unfun. I got shit to do today!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, it's cold but not that bitter, biting cold of the last 5 days. plus there was very little wind.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

I think I'm going to see Inland Empire at 8 PM tonight.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

I am glad no-one claims "ownership" of these threadz.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

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* •.* :*: The swirling snow outside •.*.• . *:*: •.* .• *
* •.* : •.*.my window is• .*:*: • .* .• *•.*.•: •.• *
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― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Is it the cold bursting the pipes? Is that possible, in a high-rise?

Street and sidewalk clearing is sub-par. I got a ride to work this morning (it seems like I hardly ever ride the train to or from work anymore) and LSD was shitty/interesting. There was a wreck near Wilson: a small sedan collided with a tour bus. The sedan was facing the wrong way.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

Is it the cold bursting the pipes? Is that possible, in a high-rise?

That's my guess. This part of the building is only six floors. Maybe something on the roof? I have no idea, really.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

My work is on the ground floor, but for some reason the far back inner corner of the restaurant has an unstoppable icy breeze. The shitty thing is that we have no thermostat, so we have to call the building engineers' office to change the heat or a/c. After calling all day yesterday and all morning, we are still fucking freezing. We have run out of teapots for 3 shifts in a row.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

OK, advice time.

I have an official transcript from my college in NC and I wish to be admitted to see how my shit will transfer and how close I am to a degree. I would assume I'm best off finishing my English BA, but if I'm close to something else, I might go for that. Mainly, I just want to be done.

Anyway, my question is, do I have to apply to my intended schools before I get them to assess my transcript, or is it usual to sort of pre-apply.

Also (very important) at what point do I discuss some irregularities? My GPA was fine (above 3.0) until my 2nd to the last semester when I kind of fell apart and quit all of my classes after the drop period, getting Fs in 18 hours' worth of credits. I re-took a couple of the classes and got an A in each, but the GPA remained at a sad 2.3 or something.

Guide me.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

The minimum GPA for transfers is 2.5.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I'M WEARING WHITE SOCKS TODAY (haven't done laundry) AND I GOT A TON OF SHIT FROM MY CO-WORKERS.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

I think you would have to apply first. There is usually a specific applications process for transfer students, or a place on the application where you make your previous schooling known. Sometimes you are only considered "transfer" if your previous schooling occured within a certain amount of time before the application.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Point being: talk to the schools, they'll know.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Be ready to need a drink after IE, john.

Wind-chill is SO pointless. No one knows what -5 feels like, cuz then they tell us it feels like -20. So can it, alarmist media.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

I did some figuring it out for myself (imagine that) and I have an appointment at UIC for tomorrow to get my transcript looked at. Apparently you can submit a personal statement and documentation of your emotional melt-down with your application to have special consideration.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I'm excited and scared.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

wind chill is apt. there are the rare freezing, non-blustery days. like today.

anyway, i have this to look forward to.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

oh wait a minute, i'll never see 80.
i've got nothing to worry about.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'M WEARING WHITE SOCKS TODAY (haven't done laundry) AND I GOT A TON OF SHIT FROM MY CO-WORKERS.

HAHA TASTE OF YR OWN MEDICINE BEEYOTCH

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Be ready to need a drink after IE, john.

Word. For some reason, I'm really sleepy right now, so I hope I make it through the film first.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

I am glad no-one claims "ownership" of these threadz.

OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

I thought these were my threads. :(

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

HAHA TASTE OF YR OWN MEDICINE BEEYOTCH

Sort of. But I wore them out of desperation! And I did not try to defend my gaff.

Hey! ArgoNut is back. I think she took her meds this mornign though, because she's just being twitchy, not CRRRRAAZY. She is dressed nicely and sat there unwrapping a pretty gift.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

So can it, alarmist media.

Actually, I think more literal warning would be more useful than the number, which does seem a bit arbitrary, considering. They should take the calculations they use involving wind speed and humidity and what it does to bare skin and estimate a kind of "danger level." Maybe color-coded or something. Green is cold, but your fingers will not fall off. Blue is like it is now, windy and damn cold and things will almost certainly go numb if you're out in it for very long. Purple is the top of a mountain, where any exposed tissue dies and turns black.

Something like that.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

What bugs me the most is when people don't even say what the REAL temp is, but tell you, "HOLY SHIT, IT'S GOING TO BE -953950239" when it's really only going to be -3.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Who says that?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

And I did not try to defend my gaff.

Yeah, defending yourself when people are making fun of you is definitely stupid.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

People say it all the time. I heard Jenny's voice in my head saying "WHO? WHO says that??" when I wrote that, but this is fer real! Doesn't anyone else get this from others?

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

John, john, john. BLESS YOUR HEART.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Point them at this, maybe it will help:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Wind_chill.png

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

I thought these were my threads. :(

They were, but then you had to go get a dumb job.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Anyway, one guy I work with said something about "It's going to be -25" and I said, "What? Is that with wind chill or the real temp?" His response was something about how wind chill is the real temp because temperature means how cold it feels, and a number on a thermometer is meaningless. He's not bright.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

anyone want to catch drinks after work? i don't feel like going back to my ~~ice cave~~ apartment without being numb enough not to notice the temperature.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

That's what you get for talking about the weather all the time. Everyone becomes an armchair meteorologist.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I love the weather.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

What bugs me the most is when NOT VERY BRIGHT people don't even say what the REAL temp is

fixed

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Substituting "Real Feel (TM)" for actual temp is not just the work of stupid folks. I blame the liberal relativist metereorlogical media for proliferation of this crap.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

My alma mater has some fun webcams running, like this one on the broomball courts:

http://www.admin.mtu.edu/urel/cams/broomball1/motion.html

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm having trouble understanding what you're talking about, Jesse. So people sub in the wind chill for the real temp, or they sub in some random number they made up? (I've never heard people do either, btw.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

Stupid link not working... wtg Tech.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, what did you have in mind?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

People will see the forecast says "-3, with a Real Feel of -25" and will be all dramatic and say "it's going to be -25." And what's worse, is these people wear white socks while they say it.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

dan, i dunno, i'm guessing i'm going to tuman's if i go out. it's on the way home.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

More advice:

I am going to check out UIC and Northeastern Ill. Univ. I would like to go to Loyola, but have doubts about that happening.

What other (probably public) institutions should I check out?

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

UIC is a good school for English. My friend Todd is finishing up a PhD there. Stanley Fish also taught in the department recently (though he has since decamped to Florida).

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently when the crazy lady at Argo is not hissing and giving the sign of the cross, she occupies herself writing all caps messages about aliens on her manila folders. She uses a protractor.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

I think the problem may be with the term RealFeel(TM). It's an Accuweather thing, and it does kind of imply that THIS is the real temperature, especially when it's printed right below the temp in the same point size. Weather.com uses the less leading phrase "Feels like," and prints it in smaller type, to imply that that measurement is less important than the actual temperature.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Accuweather right now: 10 degrees, RealFeel 0 degrees
Weather.com: 8 degrees, feels like 8 degrees

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really get the problem ... isn't the most practically important aspect of the temperature how cold it's going to make you feel? So why shouldn't the "feels like" temp be more important than some number?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

Temp is 10 right now and it feels like a Venti Vanilla Bean Frappuccino Frozen Coffee.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

This past July in NO: Temp 88-- Real Feel: Submersion in Large Pile of Horse Poop.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

You temperaturists.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

I am preparing the ingredients for a green herb frittata.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Is "RealFeel" an actual term??

I just look at the little weather add-on on my personalized Google homepage.

isn't the most practically important aspect of the temperature how cold it's going to make you feel? So why shouldn't the "feels like" temp be more important than some number?

I'm guessing the argument would be that when someone says it "feels like -10," we have no idea how that actually feels, because when it actually is -10, it "feels like" something else.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

So why shouldn't the "feels like" temp be more important than some number?

Because it's pretty arbitrary. If the sun is shining, it's going to feel warmer on one side of the street than the other. If you're not in the wind, you won't be as cold. Etc etc. The actual temperature is a much more accurate figure. "0 at O'Hare, 10 at the lakefront, winds gusting to 25 mph" tells you all you really need to know, I would think.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

And what John said. And Morbs.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

If I were in Germany or somewhere, I'd rather someone tell me it's really cold than say "GUTEN MORGEN, ICH BIN 12 DEGREE CENTIGRADE."

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

RealFeel is a trademarked term.

The idea is that -10 with wind feels like something colder if the air were still. Same with heat when compounded by humidity.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, numbers are just as arbitrary, unless they come out and measure the temperature for every step of your commute.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

but the "feels like" temp is what it feels like to exposed skin. so yeah, i guess if you're going out naked it would be more important but otherwise you're covered up.

tell me it's going to be cold and fucking windy, i'll understand that. if tom skilling goes on wgn and tells me "wednesday will be cold and fucking windy" i'll probably call in sick.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

RealFeel is trademarked for drum practice pads, yo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

12 C wouldn't be all that bad.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

I just feel like exact numbers are pretty useless anyways because who can convert the difference between 22 degrees and 16 degrees into something practical like "oh, I need my heavy gloves" or "oh, I shouldn't leave the house"?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I meant 12 degrees Kelvin, you dig?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

How's THAT for a snappy comeback?

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

i am not arguing about the weather on the internet.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

I think the true message here is BE PREPARED, d00ds.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

but the "feels like" temp is what it feels like to exposed skin.

Right, given the full force of the sustained winds, and mixed with the amount of humidity. They should probably rename RealFeel to WorstCaseScenario.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Although -438.07 is pretty fucking cold no matter how you look at it.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

I meant 12 degrees Kelvin

Whoa. That's quite a forecast.

"Tomorrow, all life in the region will die. Don't bother bundling up; you'll only prolong the agony."

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Can I just say that I am really sorry I brought up this boring subject.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

NICK'S REAL WORLD TEMP CALCULATOR

Please fill in the boxes and we'll tell you your relative temperature:

1. How fat are you? ____
2. Are you wearing underwear? ____
3. What color is it? _____
4. Will be you be exposed to the full force of sustained winds? ____
5. Was that a fart joke? ____

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

Nick: exactly!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

YOUR RELATIVE TEMPERATURE: It's still fucking cold.

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha.

Do you ever worry when it's really cold and you're walking in public that if you fart, someone will see it?

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Methane (CH4)
16.0426 g/mole
Freezing point: -182.5 C

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Tom Skilling rules. He's the best Chicago meteorologist, followed by Steve Baskerville (always smiling), Brant Miller (ehh, looks like a bland ex-jock), and Jerry Taft (often grumpy -- although my childhood barber told me JT used to be a big cokehead, so maybe he's just no fun when he's sober). I don't know who does weather on Ch. 32 these days, now that the awesome Harry Volkman (father of Eddie, of B96 morning team Eddie and JoBo) is retired. Oh, there's also that fleshy, smirking Hispanic dude, I forgot what station he's on.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

No, Jesse, but then again I wore Hypercolor shorts as a child.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

When I got back to Milwaukee we had to deplane outside, and most people didn't have jackets or anything. It was some cold shit.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hypercolor! Haha!

"Yes, my armpits are still warm. BEHOLD!"

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

And with shorts! I'm imagining wearing them without underwear, and the result looking like some tie-dye version of the cover of "Sticky Fingers".

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

I miss pond hockey. That was some cold-ass shit.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.toothpastefordinner.com/030603/hypercolor.gif

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

1. a little bit fat
2. yes
3. blue
4. yes
5. no

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:28 (eighteen years ago)

YOUR RELATIVE TEMPERATURE: pie.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.kempa.com/blog/images/pipie.gif

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

Hahah, awesome.

― Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

On second thought, maybe it's a good thing Ned doesn't post here.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:32 (eighteen years ago)

HAHAHA glad I wasn't the only one who thought of that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:33 (eighteen years ago)

ICH BIN 12 DEGREE CENTIGRADE.

WO IST MIR.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I think I'm going to make french toast for dinner tonight!

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

That is just fucking wacky.

We are having leftover soup but what I really want is a veggie burrito. Or chocolate cake. Or a chocolate cake burrito.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

Cooooooking a frittata, yesss I'm, coooooooking a frittatatatatata, yeah!

― n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

I'm trying to decide whether I should go home and have dinner and then drive to the Music Box, or take the el straight to Southport and have dinner somewhere around there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

Rock n' roll frittaaaataaaa

Oven or stovetop?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, he likes his eggs.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Tuesday, 6 February 2007 23:08 (eighteen years ago)

just announced: reigning sound at the bottle 3/4/07. tix on sale tonight sometime after 8 if you're of the mind to get some.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 00:29 (eighteen years ago)

Some light reading:

Myth: When it gets too cold, it can't snow.

This could be a very technical discussion, but I will try and keep it simple. To answer the question above, no it can't be too cold to snow, but is gets increasingly difficult the colder it gets.

First, let's imagine the air around us as a sponge. The warmer the air, the more water vapor it can absorb. The colder the air, the less water vapor it can absorb. When any air mass reaches the point where it can't absorb any more vapor, it's said to have reached its dew point and condensation occurs. So, when warm moist air rises high into the atmosphere, it expands and cools. This expansive cooling reduces the amount of water vapor the air can absorb, because of the decrease in temperature, and what ever it can't "hold onto" condenses into water droplets which we know as clouds and fog. The more droplets that form, the greater the chance of them colliding and forming bigger drops. When they get big enough, they fall to the ground as precipitation and if the air is cold enough, they fall as snow. But when the air is really cold, it can't absorb as much water vapor and therefore has less precipitable content for making snow.

Although the quantities below might not make much sense to you, one can see that the colder the air gets, the less amount of water vapor it can absorb. When it's 32°F there is a lot more water vapor present than at 0°F. When it's below 0°F there's really isn't enough water vapor in the air to get a whole lot of precipitable accumulations.

* At 32°F, a cubic meter of saturated air contains roughly 2.70 grams of water vapor.
* At 0°F, a cubic meter of saturated air contains about 0.60 of a gram of water vapor.
* At -40°F, a cubic meter of saturated air contains only 0.07 grams of water vapor.

The second thing we have to consider when trying to make snow in really cold conditions is that there is less evaporation taking place. For this reason, cold air is usually much dryer than its dewpoint, unless you happen to live next to a large body of water that hasn't frozen over. The drier the air, the colder it has to get to reach its dew point and ultimately before condensation will occur.

The third thing working against snow forming in really cold temperatures is that the atmosphere is usually a lot more stable. It's hard to get really cold air to rise and expand so that the little amount of water vapor will condense and form snow. There are exceptions (there always are!). One of them being a mountain which can force the air upwards causing it to expand and reach it's dew point. The other being, at temperatures less than -40°F, snow can form without ice nuclei. However, these ice crystals are extremelly small and accumulations are virtually unnoticeable.

So putting this all together, snow can form at any temperature provided the right conditions exist, but it has a hard time forming in really cold air. Right around freezing is where you will see the most snow. This is because the air can absorb more moisture while it's still cold enough to freeze. Once it drops below -20°F, your chances of snow are virtually nil (but still possible). Where I'm at in Colorado, I've seen it "snow" at about 0°F. I put snow in quotation marks because the snow wasn't composed of the typical looking snow flakes. Instead, itty-bitty ice crystals that looked like shards of glass were drifting with the wind. I could only see them when looking at the porch light.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:11 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen it "snow" at about 0°F

I have, too! This morning! And it wasn't itty bitty. It was snow, yo.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:14 (eighteen years ago)

Also, this:

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

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

Respect my pretzels
http://i15.tinypic.com/303cu1h.jpg

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:29 (eighteen years ago)

AWESOME

By which I mean I am in awe of those pretzels.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:30 (eighteen years ago)

They weren't really difficult at all Nothing to fear, definitely. I posted some process pics to flickr if you want to see pretzels being boiled.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:36 (eighteen years ago)

I just graded a quiz in which a student spelled neighborhood FOUR different ways when it was very clearly printed in the directions to the quiz.

neigbohoo
neighborhoo
niighbohoo
neiborhoo

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:37 (eighteen years ago)

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― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

PS thank you for respecting my pretzels.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

Nice pretzels.

itty-bitty ice crystals that looked like shards of glass were drifting with the wind

I talked to my dad on the phone Sunday night, and this was the kind of snow they had then.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

Also: anyone want to go to see the Blackhawks v. the Red Wings on Tuesday, Feb. 27th?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 03:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.joshreads.com/images/0411/i041118famcirc.jpg

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 05:57 (eighteen years ago)

Neighborwho? Neighborwhat? Nieghborhuh?

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and I respect the hell out those pretzels.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

This should probably get tagged onto the Bartender thread, but it's here anyway.

At 10:30 PM I'm hoping my tables will get the fuck out because we've been closed for an hour. It seems that Jesus or Roger Ebert heard my prayer and people started clearing out when from the front of the restaurants came alarming, extremely loud, painful sounding yelling from a bar patron who had been cut off. It seems that the gentleman was laboring under the misapprehension that the bartender and all of the rest of the staff and patrons had, in his words, "TRIED TO KILL MY FUCKING DAUGHTER! YOU TRIED TO RIP HER FUCKING HEAD OFF, YOU MOTHERFUCKING FUCKING CUNTS---YOU GODDAMNED CUNTS--I KNOW YOU TRIED TO KILL MY FUCKING DAUGHTER!!!!!!!" This went on for a good 10 minutes while we waited for the police to arrive and nearly everyone in the restaurant stood around looking at him as though he were not being truly frightening.

The part that gets me is that, just like the nutty woman who I see occasionally at Argo Tea, this man had nice wheelie luggage which he haphazardly and inidignantly towed behind him out the door when the cops came.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:26 (eighteen years ago)

It's all he has!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:49 (eighteen years ago)

nearly everyone in the restaurant stood around looking at him as though he were not being truly frightening

I can see this happening.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:52 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/barneymiller.wav

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 06:58 (eighteen years ago)

You know what's kind of funny, is that the guy ordered a vodka and cranberry and the bartender gave him plain cranberry juice because he was not quite right. He finished it and ordered a second round, but the bartender cut him off, at which point it became apparent that the bartender had tried to decapitate his daughter.

He got kicked out of Smith & Wollensky last month for the same thing and the cops recognized him. The Fine Dining Ding-Dong.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 07:03 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and I respect the hell out those pretzels.

See, I don't want to say anything to the pretzels too soon. They're great now, but will I still want them in the morning?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 07:04 (eighteen years ago)

The Fine Dining Ding-Dong

Yeah, does he only like to kicked out of NICE places?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 07:07 (eighteen years ago)

The frittata was good, and even better cold for breakfast this morning. The only problem I had is that it didnt' come out of the pan all beautiful, but that's because we don't have a good big nonstick pan. So it stuck a little. It was a stovetop frittata, stuck in the broiler at the end to finish the top.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

Your drink going to get drunk up.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:40 (eighteen years ago)

1. Nick and Sarah, do you have a cast iron pan? Those are great for fritattas because they get nice and hot and can go right in the oven and are nicely non-stick if you care for them properly. I *heart* our cast iron pan. If our apartment were on fire and Jeff and the cats were already out and I could only save one thing from the kitchen, it would be the cast iron pan. If I could save two, I would save the cast iron pan and the rice cooker.

2. Amanda, will you share the pretzel making method? I think it would be fun to try to make them and even more fun to eat them.

3. This MSN article says I can spend a lot of money on good shoes. Done and done, MSN article!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

If I could save three things, I would save the cast iron pan, the rice cooker, and our big stock pot.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

Secret shame: it's a Cooking Light recipe! It should be on their website. (Actually, there's no shame.) It was pretty fun to make them and required no particular skill or extra ingredients. The secret to making them seem pretzelly is to boil them for ~15 sec each side in water with baking soda in it. I boiled them one at a time so I didn't overboil any particular one. The recipe makes 12 pretzels, but as you can see, they're small.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

No, we need one. We have a small cast iron pan, which is good for making a one-person omelette but not much else. I will have to go shopping for a big one.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

If it's not on their website, I'll type it all out, but I don't really want to do that right this second. I should get ready to leave. I have to hand back some quizzes with some pretty low grades and I'm a little nervous. I don't want anyone to become too discouraged. I think I'm going to pull the old "I'll give you 5 quizzes and drop the lowest grade" trick. That way they don't flip out.

XPOST -- WAIT FOR DE WEDDING, MON

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:06 (eighteen years ago)

There is no shame in Cooking Light recipes! There are a lot of CL recipes in our regular rotation.

xp - okay! Thank you, and good luck, TA!

Also, yeah dude, register for all that shit.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

ARGHGH!! I just won two dresses on ebay and happily paid for them with paypal straight away. Then I got two emails from ebay this morning saying whatever you do, don't pay for these items. The seller(s) have been suspended. Try to get your money back! NO!!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

We are doing honeymoon registry so we don't get any actual stuff, just memories.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no Sarah! What are you going to do?

Oooo honeymoon registry is a good idea. Where are you going to go?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

San Francisco

I don't know! I don't understand this email from ebay. I'm guessing this means I probably won't ever see the dresses I bought? Our records show that you were a bidder or buyer of one or more of this seller's items. We recently removed this seller's active listings and suspended the seller's trading privileges. Due to privacy concerns we cannot share further details about this seller.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

I tried to go back to the listings but they've been completely removed. They don't even show up as items I've won/paid for in my account page.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

You should try getting in touch with the seller directly, just in case. Maybe it was a big misunderstanding and they're still trying to send you the dresses. Otherwise, I'd contact PayPal and see if there's anything they can do to stop the payment or get you your money back. Does it take the money from your credit card? If so, you could try your credit card co. too.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

You might be able to stop Paypal if you do it quickly. They take some time to process orders, after all, and since this is a quasi-legal matter (ie ebay ITSELF told you to stop payment, not just some whim of yr own), they might make exceptions. Don't email them, find the phone number and call. Hah, XP.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

Both emails say to do whatever I can to stop payment ASAP, and Paypal shows both transactions have already gone through. But then when I do the next step of initiating a claim dispute on ebay, it says you have to wait 10 days until after the transaction happens to dispute anything.

Yeah, I'll call paypal.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd start with pay pal first and then call your bank/CC and let them know you've gotten the shaft and see what they can do, like if there is any fraud protection on either account. And then tell ebay to suck a fuck.

I hate ebay.

xp. What you said.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

chicago, the cold has broken me. i'm broken. need glue. : (

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

What you need is heat in your apartment, dawg. If you need a warm place to crash, neustro sofa es su sofa.

Five years from now when you have heat and health and perspective you'll look back on this phase of your life and think, "Holy shit."

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

no, the outside cold has broken me. last night i went out for drinks(joined by dan martin, thanks dan) then came home and went to bed. i was mainly untouched by the indoor cold. but this morning waiting for the bus then waiting on the platform forever only to have the first train whiz past running "express" to austin. the "express" stopped about 40 feet past the platform and sat there for 5 minutes waiting for signals ahead. it was so close i could here the onboard announcements. why not just stop at the westeran platform and let us on? why make us wait another 20 minutes in the cold?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ok. I called paypal. They require that you call the seller and ask them to either send the item or give you a refund. So I called the number they gave me and it goes straight to an automated voicemail that just says PLEASE LEAVE A MESSAGE *BEEP*. I hate everyone.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

After being passed up by one bus and then having to cram into the next one yesterday morning, I was filled with plans to start DCA: Demand CTA Accountability and to go around to 135 bus riders freezing on inner-LSD and get them to sign a petition asking for more frequent 135 busses some sort of accountability and threatening a "no seat, no fare" strike and then send it to that Krusi bastard and Daley and Tom Tunney and Helen Schiller.

But then this morning I got a seat and was like, "Eh. Nevermind."

xp Sarah, call pay pal back and tell them you tried but can't call the seller. If the person gives you a runaround DEMAND a supervisor and don't give up until you get one. Keep this up until you get your money back or are on first name terms with the CEO of pay pal.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Ok. I tried my credit card company and they were no help. They said they have to wait until after the items are expected to show up. At that point, I could claim I never recieved my items and they can file a dispute that way. Thankfully, even though the item descriptions were deleted, I had a copy of each in my emails. Even though no email contact info appears on ebay any more, I was able to find an email address in my saved ebay email. So I sent an email to the seller that way (I hope).

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

It'll be ok, Sarah.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

We have plane tickets and hotel reservations for our San Francisco honeymoon!

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

It sounds like your CC company is going to let you file a dispute, so that's good. Such a bummer!

xp Such a good thing!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Holy crap, I fell asleep at 7 pm last night. Then I woke up at 3 am and listened to the new Harry Connick Jr. album, which is fantastic, and went back to sleep until 8. I feel great this morning.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Well, it's good I called paypal back. I had just filed one claim on their site and was about to file one for the other item, both as "Unreceived" (the only other option for dispute was "Received but not as described"). I learned from the paypal customer service that you can only file a claim once. So, if I ended up receiving the first dress and it wasn't as described, I couldn't get my money back OR file another claim. So I didn't file a claim on the second one yet. She says you typically have to wait 2 weeks.

I'm all aflutter. I need some xanax and a bed.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

You're right, Nick.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

I killed the thread with my woah woah woes.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

No no noes!

I actually have to do some work.

But in the meantime... after a long hiatus, I am attending an meeting for the planning of the International Women's Day conference on Friday. These are also pot lucks. The last five I've attended I haven't brought any food except occasionally some booze so I would like to bring something but I don't know what! There is always a glut of sweets and starchy stuff, plus it has to be CTA-portable. I'm at a loss.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Those pretzels are making me ~~thirsty~~ hungry.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

jenny, i can't help you with your pot luck choices. but i can tell you the national biscuit company has changed the recipe and shape of vegetable thins, they are no longer delicious and vaguely vegetable shaped. now they are mostly flavorless (except for the overwhelming amount of rosemary) boring trapazoidal shaped crackers. damn you nabisco for fiddling with success.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Update - the seller posted a response to my one claim on paypal: "the item was shipped, will update the tracking no. shortly, your money still hold on paypal, don't worry about that, shipment time need 7-10 days"

I mean, I guess there could have been some fluke incident which lead to the seller being suspended from ebay, but I still keep feeling like I'm dealing with an evil mastermind. ha ha

That's too bad... Potluck, huh? What about bean dip?

I just remembered I have some leftover Letitzia's cookie. Time to get sugared up!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ooo dip... I like where this is going.

Oh, yeah, I forgot: half the attendees are vegetarian, the other half are not but hate tofu, and one person has PCOS and can't eat any carbs. She's pretty mellow about not caring that there's never anything she can eat, though.

But some sort of bean dip with vegetables for dipping... that could work.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

damn you nabisco for fiddling with success.

Nabisco not OTM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Revelation: even more than I am against the killing of animals for fur, I am against the kinds of women who wear fur coats. It's just obnoxious.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Dear Amanda,

Tell me about Northeastern University

Love Always,

Jesse

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

not amanda but northeastern university is on huntington ave in boston close to boston university. it's pretty much the red-headed step child of institutes of higher learning in the boston area. decent basketball team (for their league), hockey team is middling at best, known for thuggery.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'm guessing Jesse meant the Northeastern U. in Chicago. The one at like Bryn Mawr and Central.

---

Hey people that know Excel:

Is it possible for me to create a data set in columns A and B, and then have column C be, for example, [([(A x 497) / 494] - B) / B]?

If so, how?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

that would be northeastern illinois university, not northeastern university.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

Yes it would.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, John. Basically, like you said with an equals mark first and a row number after each letter. Or as you set up the formula in the box at the top, just click on the boxes in question and it will plug in the appropriate designation.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

It's not doing anything.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

Holy crap, I fell asleep at 7 pm last night. Then I woke up at 3 am and listened to the new Harry Connick Jr. album, which is fantastic, and went back to sleep until 8. I feel great this morning.

This is a good lifestyle.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

Help box + "add columns"

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

I am literally typing this next to the equal sign:

((((A1x497)/494)-B1)/B1))

But it doesn't do the math, it just puts that equation in C1.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

Keep in mind the most complicated data-crunching I have done on Excel is the adding columns by highlighting them and then pressing the sigma button. Otherwise, I only use it to maintain my database of all the movies I've seen, and there is no algebra involved there.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

=((((A1*497)/494)-B1)/B1)

You need to put that equals mark in there.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Awesome! Thanks. Now what was that about having that extend to every row in the C column? Or do I have to manually change the A1 and B1 to A2 and B2?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

No. Click in the corner of the C column where you put the equation and drag to copy that formula to the rows below it.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Or ctl c to copy and ctl v to paste... It will automatcially change to A2..B2... etc

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

The next thread title should include an .xls extension.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

i_suck_at_excel.xls

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

I appreciate the help, Sarah, but I'm dumb. I'm clicking the column to highlight it, but what am I dragging and where?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

You are essentially just copying that formula into the cells below it. Right click on the cell, select copy. Highlight cells below that, click paste.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Oh never mind! I figured it out!

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

This rules.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

(Thanks so much.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Click on the cell in column c where you used the formla.
It now has a bold square around it because you selected it.
If you put your cursor in the lower right corner of that square, it will make the sign of a cross.
Click there and drag your cursor down.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

xposty

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I love Excel. I love Sarah's Excel skillz.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

the electronic spreadsheet was the application that changed personal computers from something hobbyists enthused over to something businesses had a use for.

VISICALC 4 EVA.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:53 (eighteen years ago)

That kinda reads like the title of a math-rock song.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Does anybody here know anything about Grand Rapids, specifically how to get from the train station to the airport?

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm using it as a hobby right now (crunching stats to compare Jackin' Pop and Pazz & Jop).

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

xpost ...and by "anyone" you mean Laurel, right? (I've only driven there.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

Shit, Jenny, I don't think the train station is anywhere NEAR the airport. I would think that you absolutely have to call a cab.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure the train station is downtown in the old part of the city, near the Grand River, and within walking distance of downtown things. The airport, on the other hand, is way the fuck out past the East Beltline in "new" GR and isn't accessible by ANYTHING except car. I mean, there may be city bus lines but I've never taken them and have no idea where they go.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

No, I mean anyone who knows anything about Grand Rapids. If you've driven from the train station to the airport, you could tell me how far apart they are.

xp - Thanks! Any public transportation? Calling a cab works, I'm just exploring options.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

xpost - asked and answered! Thanks, Laurel!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

dan, was this the place we were talking about last night?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

the electronic spreadsheet was the application that changed personal computers from something hobbyists enthused over to something businesses had a use for.

Indeed. My mother supported two kids on her knowledge of Lotus for a good 10 years.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

lotus supported a good deal of the metro boston area for a while. i remember when it used to be a huge facility over by where the cambridgeside galleria is now. it slowly became nothing.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

Googlemaps confirms that the Amtrak station is where I thought -- right by the river and err, 5-10 miles from the airport (altho one of the expressways will get you there faster than the surface streets, I don't know exactly how to use the highway system there because I lived and worked on surface streets -- I can get dirrex from a native, though, if that helps). GR is NOT known for good internal transpo, I have to stand by the cab calling.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

Thank you! You are very helpful!

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Everybody's just helping everybody today. I could use some help with ideas for what to write lyrics about.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)

Love. Write about love.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

Or write about sex, but call it love.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

Write about cocaine, but call it candy.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

OK, grampaw.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Write about celibacy, but call it focus.

― Dr Morbius (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Write about a large amount of marijuana, and call it a "lid".

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Write about Deadwood, but set it at the Fireside Bowl.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

write about love, but call it "call upon the sea ponies"

― senator second p. newcastle (a_p), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

it doesn't matter nick, some doofus who takes things too seriously will say it's about heroin anyway. and that doofus's acolytes will nod in agreement as they make a grunting noise and grimly cast their eyes to the ground

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

write about heroin.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

or doofuses.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

or acolytes.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

or people on the el.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Write about selling coke, but call it making spreadsheets.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Write about a loose theme of aging and maturing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

call it "hot sex at the nursing home".

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

write about return netflix dvd's to the post office because that's what i'm about to do. later gators.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Write about someone you hate, but change their name, but then at the end of the song reveal that it's not actually his/her name and say his/her real name. And phone number.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Write about the Real Feel(tm).

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

THE SMELL OF BAKING BREAD.

THERE ARE NO ROCK SONGS ABOUT THE SMELL OF BAKING BREAD*.

*cocaine

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Write about people talking about the weather.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

What if I were to tell you it was kind of a rockabilly song?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

Write an onomatopoeic guitar solo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

Punk song:

My baby smells like baking bread,
My cats smell like baking bread,
My street smells like baking bread
BUT I SMELL LIKE A BURNING HEAD
I SMELL LIKE A BURNING HEAD

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

lolz

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

haha

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Write about how rock bands have one or two token country-ish songs and how this is that song.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin: My friend confirms that is his place, though those are not his things in the pictures.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Write about how the Real Feel(tm) affects the protagonist's ability to "rock this town" because he can't figure out which jacket to wear when he goes out.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

I like Jenny.

You can call the song "Real Feel," and everyone will think it's about the lovin', but surprise! it's about the stupid weather.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

Write about how you're ready to rockabilly, and you wonder if the audience is ready to rockabilly also?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Write about how the Heat Index and humidity have flattened the protagonist's pompadour in a tragic, tragic way.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Nelly already did that one, Jenny.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

But not as rockabilly or with a pompadour.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

write about eating too many lemon cookies and the resulting gastrointestinal despair. my tummy hurts. i blame the frosting, not my overeating of said cookies.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

Write about how eating five servings of fruits and vegetables each day is the only way to go. Or conversely, write about how it's difficult, and to hell with everything, you're just gonna eat a bunch of cereals and whole grains.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

Write about how smells are free.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

Whole-Grain Cocaine

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going out to dinner tonight and I think I'm going to try and eat a ray (the "seared skate wing", which is supposed to be good). One more notch on the food chain yo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Crikey!

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

You guys suck. I'm going to write my song about how you guys suck.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Call it "Fuck a Bunch of Chicago"

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I know nobody cares, but you can see the results of my Excel tinkering on my blog.

I've never written "lyrics" as such. Every song I've ever written has started as a poem that I later decide would be a good source for lyrics and so I rejigger it into some kind of verse/chorus structure.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

I've never written decent lyrics in my life.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

Eyes are sober, this is the plan
I'm sitting in a car heading Neverland
A fancy man, a fancy man
He's pointing with the fingers that are left on his hand

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

Do you still write poems though, John? And when you do, does it not cross your mind that they might become lyrics some day and thusly influence how you write them?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah, I don't really write poems OR songs anymore. ;_;

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Whenever I talk about songwriting, I'm really just talking about a brief period from 1995-98.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Bbbut your new project!

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

I know! At this rate, it won't be completed until 2010. Which will at least be sooner than the next Canasta album. HEY-OOOOOOOOO.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

2010 is the year we make contact, you know.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

HA, John!

Man. The owner brought back t-shirts from the superbowl for everyone except me. Granted, I made it openly known I didn't really care about the super bowl and don't even want one, but it still makes me feel left out. Boo hoo.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

Can you talk more about the video?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

I want to hear that clavinet shit you were talking about.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it was fun, although the shoot was 7 hours long. It was in a church in Vernon Hills, which the director chose because there was an upright piano for Megan to "play" and a lot of space at the altar. The video is for "Microphone Song," and his concept is to highlight the way in which different people's parts come in and out of the song, so there will be a lot of quick edits in which people literally pop in and out of the frame, while playing their instruments. There were 67 shots in all, each lasting just a few seconds, which we just went through methodically (sometimes with more than one take). At this point, it's hard to tell what it will actually look like in post-production. But the crew was really nice, and the director's mom brought a spread of food, and I got some reading done when I wasn't on stage.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

even the long dead are doing better than i am in that particular department.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

I
I just died in your arms tonight

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

I would have prefered to die being spooned instead of facing my star-crossed lover, but whatcha gonna do?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Haha that was the first thing I thought of when I heard about this on the news this morning.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of which, that girl called me back when I was in New Orleans. A++.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

:) :) :)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

groan

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

(sorry, self pity there, WTG Jordan!)

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

I wrote lyrics, with NO HELP AT ALL FROM YOU GUYS. Actually I just polished up and finished some lyrics I started a long time ago.

I am productive today. In addition to work, I have:
1) emailed the wedding caterer about how much alcohol we need to buy, and heard back
2) done laundry
3) got some bank stuff done I needed to do
4) written lyrics
5) set up a FF show
6) looked for readings for the wedding (unsuccessfully, but I tried)

I am avoiding washing dishes though.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Thx, I think I will call tonight and ask if she would like to contract my cold virus.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Fans of gays in sports might be interested in this.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.100greatblackbritons.com/images/smiling_meech.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

And really, who isn't a fan of gays in sports?

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, homophobes.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a fan of straight dudes in gay sports.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I thought being gay *was* a sport, amirite?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Here's a good little bit of advice: if someone offers you a taste of this great new energy drink, decline no matter what. NO MATTER WHAT.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

He will be only the 4th professional U.S. athlete to announce his sexuality is other than that of a straight male.

This is a weird sentence.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Because it might be a gay energy drink?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Some of my best friends are gays in sports.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Billie Jean King...and...?

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Though I guess she kind of announced that she has the sexuality of a straight male.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

He will be only the 4th professional U.S. athlete to announce his sexuality is other than that of a straight male.

Yeah, somoeone plz fix that sentence. They obviously mean "heterosexual." Female athletes are not generally straight males.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Then again, female athletes haven't usually had to announce that they're not male.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

(Except maybe some East German swimmers in the 1970s.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Is announcing sexuality will get us laid? Well, it's depend!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

And "fourth"? Billy Bean, Martina Navritalova, Sheryl Swoopes, David Kopay, Glenn Burke, Roy Simmons, Esera Tuaolo, etc.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

Hahahaha

Hey Jesse, I emailed you.

And the changing of the recipe for vegetable thins is a TRAGEDY. Someone should go around to all of the Big Lots stores and by up the old kind before they're gone for good. I don't eat those much, but when I do, I KNOW WHAT THEY'RE SPOSED TO TASTE LIKE.

Martina Navritalova lived with my grandparents for a spell. Put that in your spreadsheet.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha was to "it's depend"

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

xp WAHT

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

billy bean
glen burke
roy simmons
there was a big samoan (i think, maybe asian american, can't remember) who came out within the last 2 years
jerry smith

they all came out after they retired though. except jerry smith who died of aids and never came out.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Esera Tuaolo

that's the dude!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

My high school girlfriend introduced me to vegetable thins, she was a big fan of them + cheese inna can.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, I don't know who any of these people are except Navritalova.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Someone should go around to all of the Big Lots stores and by up the old kind before they're gone for good. I don't eat those much, but when I do, I KNOW WHAT THEY'RE SPOSED TO TASTE LIKE.

oh my god, AWESOME IDEA!!!

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Well, the only reason I know anyone of them is because they're gay. I think Jenny saw Tuaolo speak at the Harold Washington Library last year.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Arthur Ashe?

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Not gay. Got AIDS from a blood transfusion.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

When Martina moved to the US my grandparents sponsored her for a while. I have photos of my grandma and Martina in a car on a wintery day in the '70s. My grandparents were really into tennis. I'm not sure how gay she was at the time.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

yikes:

1985

Ed Gallagher, an offensive lineman for the University of Pittsburgh from 1977-79, jumps from a dam 12 days after his first sexual encounter with another man. He survives but is left a paraplegic. Gallagher says that before his suicide attempt, he had become unable to reconcile his image of himself as an athlete with gay urges. He later admits that the incident forced him to come to grips with his sexuality: "I was more emotionally paralyzed then, than I am physically now."

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not sure WHY Martina lived with my grandparents specifically, I only know that she did.

xp whoa that's sad

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's horrible. Don't tell me things like that.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

Do they still make Chicken in a Biskit snack crackers?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know if there is a tt tomorrow but i'm not going. i will be in uptown later that evening if anyone wants to come out for late(r) drinks. but i'll be leaving around midnight.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Do they still make Chicken in a Biskit snack crackers?

yes but they've probably screwed those up too.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.junkfoodblog.com/uploaded_images/jimmy-dean-pancake-sausage-chocolate-chip-736804.jpg

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

CHEEZE NIPS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Not as good as Cool Ranch Japs.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know if I mentioned this, but I found my favorite dessert ever at a candy shop in the Quarter. It's peanut butter in between two Ritz crackers, the whole thing dipped in good chocolate. The crackers are the genius part, it adds crunch and salt that really puts things over the top.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

OH that reminds me!

I discovered an important fact recently:
dip a pretzel (crunchy regular pretzel) into one cheez-ball and it tastes JUST LIKE COMBOS. It's the same kind of "cheese food" flavor and I heartily approve. I mean, I know that's what Combos ARE, but sometimes you don't have a bag of them handy, but you might have a cheese ball waiting for you to eat it and a bag of pretzels or maybe this is just something that happens to people like me, people who hoard food just in case, but still, it works.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

TS: NIPS vs. ITS

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

the odds of me having a cheese ball on hand as opposed to having combos on hand are heavily skewed towards the combos.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Still, though. Just know that if you're at a party and they're serving a cheeze ball and pretzels, you've got yourself the makings of combos. Not everyone has like 10 kinds of cheese in the fridge. I mean I SURE AS HELL DON'T.

Wait a second.

Yes I do.

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I had a rum ball the other day. It was very good but I don't know how it would have gone with pretzel.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

You know what I like on occasion? Pretzels dipped in salsa.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

i actually have four kinds of cheese in my fridge right now which is some sort of record. i don't really like cheese that much.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

I DEMAND TT TOMORROW.

I am a big fan of the Cheez Nips/Its.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Have you ever had rice darts?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Pretzels dipped in salsa.
But how would you get the salsa to stay on them??

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

sharp cheddar
cream cheese
goat cheese
parm

these are the cheeses I have I have, these are the cheeses I have

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

Hey map nerds, check this out.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah, it's a very delicate operation.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, that's cool.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Corn lashes are the best. Totally.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Wheat feet are ok, but they can be too filling.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Soy spirals are the BEST. I totally love the goat flavor.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

One complaint: has anyone ever gotten a parmesan pinwheel that actually *worked* like they do in the commercials? I haven't.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

Pinwheel? Cheeze-Its, ALL THE WAY.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

I ALSO DEMAND TW.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

i used to feel strongly about the its vs. the nips but i don't remember which i preferred. i think it might have been the nips.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

cream cheese
feta
sharp cheddar
parmesan
pepperjack

these are the cheeses I have I have these are the cheeses I have

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

I had some nips at 3 a.m. last Saturday night. Found them at a CVS in the Gold Coast.

The White Its are good too. And the reduced-fat ones are good too - a little lighter.

cream cheese
feta
sharp cheddar
parmesan
pepperjack

There should be upscale Its and Nips of all of these.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

Do you mean currently at home? I have a teensy bit of sharp white cheddar, that Laughing Cow cheese wheel with individually wrapped triangles of creamy Swiss, a very little amount of shredded parmesan in a bag, and a canister of grated parmesan/romano.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

yes

ALERT! ALERT!
Nick just informed me we are currently out of pepperjack. It is, however, usually a staple in our household.
Also, I just remembered we also have a couple forms of moz

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

John, I saw a site like that somewhere that had panoramic views of all the six-way intersections, but I'll be damned if I can find it at the moment.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.wheatfeet.co.nz/PicsHotel/wheatfeet/wheatfeet_background.jpg

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

My mother got one of those neck pillows that you're supposed to either freeze or microwave depending on whether you want hot or cold, and she didn't use it for a few months, put it away for later...UNTIL THE KERNELS HATCHED WORMS. They were always in there, they were just supposed to be killed by the nuking before they could hatch. Something to think about.

― Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, let's go back to cripples with gay shame now.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

I forgot to reorder my Netflix queue, so I have After Hours (got caught up in a predicament) coming to me tomorrow. Obv. it's on there because I want to see it, I just don't know if I want to see it NOW.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

"predicament" = "coincidence"?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

i changed my queue so i will be watching nothing but arrested development for the next two weeks.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

That movie is so great.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

i changed my queue so i will be watching nothing but arrested development for the next two weeks.

That's basically what I've been doing, but I got the last disc of Season 3 yesterday.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

i had it set up so i'd get one movie and one disc of AD but i finally said fuck it, i'd rather watch a whole lotta arrested development all at once.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Well, Amanda, I am at a Cosi sandwich shop where the wifi is not free, so I am relying on an unsecured signal (called "poopstinks") that has only 1 bar, which is enough for me to visit ILX, but not to open Gmail or Yahoo mail.

Anyway, UIC probably doesn't want me, and Hell is afraid I'll take over LOLOLOLO!!113

Seriously, they said that getting in this fall was not likely, but the nice advisor said that in her opinion, I would easily get in at DePaul or Loyola. Though they would cost more than a public school, their requirements for institutional residency would likely be lower*, and therefore cost me no more than attending a public school, and my GPA would hardly be an issue at all (I'll just be defensive here: it was *fine* until that one semester....).

*Residency is weird. If I transferred from a 4-year I would only need 30 hours to establish residency (I already have enough hours for a degree!)and my GPA might be an issue, but if I took some courses at a 2-year college to boost the GPA, I would need 60 hours once I attended UIC!!! Blargh.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

BTW, I found a better signal, so I'm on Gmail now.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

Not that anyone asked or would likely care for such a detailed rundown of what I learned today.

/entry in Jesse's ersatz blog

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone know of anything fun, entertaining, etc etc going on tonight?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

i want a steak for dinner. who wants to cook me a steak for dinner? and by cook me a steak i mean buy it, come over to my apartment, cook it, make some mashed potatoes and probably bring me like a 6 pack of anchor steam or something?

cause that would be awesome.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

sarah, i think i will be watching lost, if i'm still awake. apart from that i have no idea.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'll be at Courtney's house watching Lost. Come on over. Courtney will hug you.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'm gonna watch Lost and do laundry.

ADVENTURE
EXCITEMENT
REALLY WILD THINGS

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

I know of nothing tonight. I will watch Lost, I guess, but I won't pay attention and I won't like it.

I'm thinking of seeing Grizzly Bear at Subterranean Friday.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone maybe want to hang out this weekend? My roomie is going to be in California and we could finally play Geeetar Hero. And you could all experience the dearth of cabs in Logan Square!

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'd be down for Guitar Hero. I played it at Best Buy and I sucked.

― n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

ok! I haven't played Geetar Hero before.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry. Geeetar.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

i suck too, i'd be down for public embarrassment.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I forgot about Lost, so I guess I'll be doing that tonight.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going to wash dishes and bake something so that way i stand over a steamy sink and then have the oven on.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

What are you thinking of baking?

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

a potato.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

it takes a while.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:11 (eighteen years ago)

actually, my sister sent me a few recipes maybe i'll bust one out. whichever one requires the longest amount of oven time will be the one i choose.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

I'm watching LOST tonight.

I'm thinking of seeing Grizzly Bear at Subterranean Friday.

Yeah, I was planning on doing this, too. Thanks for the reminder, I'd like to buy tix in advance.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

Just realized that that means I can't go to Hoot Night, but whatever.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

My kind of fun/exiting, anyway - Adam Rapp (very good playwright, good writer) is reading from his new novel at the Steppenwolf garage tonight at 7.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

Is it May yet?

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

It’s the first of May, first of May
Outdoor fuckin' starts today
So bring your favorite lady
Or at least your favorite lay ...

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sarudama.com/movies/images/maypole.gif

― The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

Madison institution Smut n' Eggs closing

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.prairiehaven.net/IMG_facilities/May-Flowers-web400.jpg

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

Who really wants to watch porn while eating?

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe it's sort of a self-punishment thing after you've been out drinking all night and don't feel comfortable being in civilized society.

I went there once. The food was really pretty good, and cheap. The porn was really pretty bad.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

Who really wants to watch porn while eating?

People with warped senses of humor?

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:48 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't Twisted Spoke do that?

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

Apparently so, but they do it at night.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

I thought the Twisted Spoke did that on Sunday mornings.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:34 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, re: stuff tonight, Glenn Kotche is playing with some folks at the Hideout.

― Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:55 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 7 February 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

I must be bored if I'm explaining why I dislike Dylan for the 3000th time over on ILM.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

Because you're Simon Cowell's butt boy?

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:02 (eighteen years ago)

What does Simon Cowell have to do with it?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:03 (eighteen years ago)

Wow. That woman at UIC was right. At DePaul I can "Transfer courses from other colleges within a grade of [freakin'] C- or better[!]"

xpost- Simon Cowell recently talked shit about how Bob Dylan "bored him to tears." In the same conversation he lauded Kelly Clarkson.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Huh, well, I agree with him on that.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

You're fucking nuts.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, I know that Dylan is more important and influential and more fascinating as a person and cultural figure and all that, but there's no Dylan song that I like nearly as much as "Since U Been Gone."

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

That's a Max Martin song.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry, I don't really want to argue about this. People like what they like, and it should be left at that.

― daniel striped tiger (OutDatWay), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'm with John, sort of. But it's kind of like comparing unfamiliar sushi (sea urchin!) to Pringles: I'm more likely to want to munch the Pringles, but I wouldn't say that the Pringles are superior.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:37 (eighteen years ago)

Better example-- comparing reading The Sound and the Fury to watching Roseanne. Or running 2 miles to lying around drinking beer.

― I do have a surname, but it's silent. (unclejessjess), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

I like Bob Dylan a little more than Kelly Clarkson.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:12 (eighteen years ago)

I like the sea urchin analogy best,actually, because the other examples make listening to Dylan sound like hard work or something. Which, you know, it's really not.

― kenan at julia's place (julesbdules), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:53 (eighteen years ago)

Roseanne was a great show, though.

― Juulia (julesbdules), Thursday, 8 February 2007 01:54 (eighteen years ago)

seconded. Until the second Becky.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really like Dylan.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'd be upset if you did.

but I wouldn't say that the Pringles are superior.

Why not?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 02:58 (eighteen years ago)

I think Jenny saw Tuaolo speak at the Harold Washington Library last year.

Jeff and I saw a whole panel of gay athletes. Tuaolo was possibly the nicest person I have ever seen ever.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 February 2007 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

and way too religious.

― Jeff. (Jeff), Thursday, 8 February 2007 04:00 (eighteen years ago)

Wake up, Chicago. Chicago, wake up.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Is there a TT tonight?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like doing something FUNZONE tonight but I don't know what.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

I think I would go to a TT.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

I have something bar-prep related to do every weekend for the next three weeks, then I have a weekend off, and then I take the MPRE. I also have a couple papers due the week prior to that.

So, yeah. I'll go out for TT because I need to get into the FUNZONE while I still can.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

i will not be attending tt but i will be in uptown later for drinks. nick, i think live fast die is playing at sub-t tonight. the first time i saw them i thought they were a blast, the second time i thought they were a riot, the third time i started thinking that i'd seen this all before and the last time i saw them i think i stayed in the pool room of the bottle for most of their set.

but they're really fun those first couple of times! a little idiot rock goes a long way in my book though.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

There's an interesting show at the Double Door tonight as well.

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

if i were to go to tt tonight where would i go?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

also, what does it say about us that we all started planning our afterwork drinks at 8:30 in the morning?

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

It says we are slack and should have started planning at 8:30 on Monday morning.

― Steve Guttenberg's Midnight Runner (pullapartgirl), Thursday, 8 February 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

I would like to make a motion that we have a late TT in my hood (Club Foot? Innjoy?) and then go to Subt or Double Door to watch one of those shows. Or people could come to our apt to drink and then head to a show. Hmm??

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Or we could incorporate something else in with our TT, like bowling or karaoke, which I'm sure I just misspelled.

― I'm Fuzzy (coco), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Had we talked about Small Bar at some point?

― n/a (Nick A.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

i'd be down for some small bar action.

― chicago kevin (chicago kevin), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

New thread time, I decided.

Chicago: Yeah, it's kinda like that.

― So weit wie knock-kneed (kenan), Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

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