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He seemed to be heading south.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for starting a new thread, Kenan.

― KitCat, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

It is a new day. It is the first day of the rest of our lives.

― KitCat, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

So, the secret bar with HBO had zero patrons last night during The Sopranos other than me, all pints for $3 (had a few Stellas), and a heavily tattooed tiny-gal bartender, and neither of us had eaten in a while so we ordered up a pizza. Nice setup.

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

I have been in a trashy/great movie mood ever since I saw Grindhouse. The first thing I did was re-watch Pulp Fiction. Last night I re-watched Carrie -- yes, again. How is it that movie holds so much fascination for me? It's not even the tittays, and that's saying something. I've seen it a dozen times, and it never gets stale.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

It was really hard not to watch the Sopranos last night now that I have cable again, but I need to get through the first part of this season on DVD first. Entourage made up for it though.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, I don't feel like hauling my ass into the worker's center this morning because I have to leave in an hour and a half to go to a meeting and I would be more productive at home but I just realized that I was supposed to come in last Wednesday since I missed Tuesday to go see WAoVA and I just totally forgot about it and blew them off. LE SIGH.

xp - Kenan, I would be really... worried about you if the main draw of the movie Carrie was the "tittays," considering the frequency and the context thereof.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Way to spend an evening, Eazy.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

Julia and I got through the first part of the season -- well, she got all the way through it, I got close. I got to the point where I just didn't want to watch it any more. It was kinda bad.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

I would be really... worried about you if the main draw of the movie Carrie was the "tittays,"

Yeah, but remember there is that title sequence where nothing horrifying has happened yet at all, and it's just slow-mo girls' locker room. Very sexploitative.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

And even the opening shower scene, pre-bleeding: soft music, slo-mo closeups of miss Sissy soaping her boobs and the insides of her thighs. It's hot, don't tell me it ain't supposed to be. It's setting you up in a cruel way, but it's still hot.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I'm talking about. The sexploitive locker room scene that culminates in Carrie White being utterly horrified by her period and being pelted with feminine hygiene products by her schoolmates. There is about three minutes of boobs in that scene, followed by ten minutes of confusion and cruelty. The whole point is the juxtaposition of the soft-focus sexy shower nudity with the scene's horrific ending. If you were somehow able to divorce that three minutes of hotness from the rest of the movie so that your main reason for watching it was that three minutes of set-up, I would be worried.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not saying it's not hot, or that people aren't supposed to be turned on by it (although I would argue that you are then supposed to be kind of bad for being turned on by it but that is debatable). I am just saying that I would look askance at anybody who claimed that they enjoyed Carrie because of the tits.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

"I enjoyed the shower scene in spite of the rest of the movie" - arguably reasonable.

"I watch Carrie because I like the boobs in the shower scene" - ummmmm...

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

My only memory of Carrie is where the guys buy suits and the film speeds up.

[i]Dressed to Kill[i] opens with a sexy shower scene too.

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Don't forget those three minutes also contain some sweet, sweet bush.

― Cassius Wiener, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

70's bush! Oh, where have you gone?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

Giggle moment: the evil bitch character in the car with Travolta, and her head goes down into his lap, and she keeps saying his name over and over. What are you doing, talking to it?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

A few years back I predicted that full bush and low-rise jeans would be the new fashion thing, that someone like Britney would do it. Just the natural evolution of things, the way that grunge gave way to swing dancing. And it almost happened a year or two ago, a few ads for Dolce & Gabanna used pubic hair that way.

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

A little moustache on the waistline, you know?

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

What are you doing, talking to it?

Oh, Billy. Billy. Oh, Billy. Oh, Billy. I hate Carrie White!

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

Who?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and you know what else I'm thinking? Kurt Russell film festival. The Thing b/w Escape From New York, maybe?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Don't forget Big Trouble in Little China.

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh! Replace The Thing with that one.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

nooooooooooooooooo

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

You know what Jack Burton always says...

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.carbuyersnotebook.com/archives/Used_Cars_Moviecover.jpg

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Never seen that one. But this one is pretty darn funny, iirc:

http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/6/3306-large.jpg

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Stargate :>

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

If Kurt Russell had been in the series, it wouldn't have sucked so much balls.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I've never really watched the series, and it was weird to realize that all of a sudden it had been on for years and had spin-offs and shit. The movie is great, I think I actually saw it in the theater first.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

My mother loved Overboard. I think I've watched it with her about ten times.

I'd lobby for The Thing b/w Big Trouble in Little China. Although for pure yelling at the screen stupidness, Escape from NY is pretty sweet.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

but... but... ISAAC HAYES

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Never saw Tango & Cash.

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

And I'm not complaining, except that I am, but I drug my fanny into the center because I'm freaking DEDICATED and I am THE ONLY ONE HERE. Oy.

xp - and I would argue, Eric, that you never have to.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, be careful -- if I've understood you correctly, you're moving the actual file to the new folder, removing it from the original place. Or at least that's what has happened to me when I've forgotten to hit the copy key. Check and make sure.

No, that never happens to me. After all, the file in the iTunes interface is not the original file: the original file is on the hard drive.

I watched Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? last night. Whoa. My upstairs neighbors are always yelling at each other and making noise, so I turned the volume up a little bit as revenge.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

fuck tango and cash. turner and hooch is where it's at. :)

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, I assume. I saw that at Borders the other day and allllmost bought it. But then thought... what would the re-watchability factor of this really be?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I've never seen any of this early-'80s pop culture hits. And now I don't think I really want to...? Not my kind of humor. :/

Oh, Jay, I understand now. Using the command-R opens the ORIGINAL hard-drive location, so in that case you deffo have to copy, not just drag. But if yr dragging straight from iTunes listing it must be different.

― Laurel, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

Did you like the movie, John?

xp - oh man, endless rewatchability, especially if you aspire to memorize the movie and perform spontaneous scenes with Jesse at parties.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Turner & Hooch lol

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Gotcha.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I did like the movie. I'm trying to re-evaluate Sandy Dennis's performance. At first I thought she was the weak link in the cast, but I just learned that she won an Oscar for it.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I think Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn could do a kick-ass Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?.

Honey is a tough part because it's not as fleshed out as the others. It's the weak link in the writing, I think.

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think I agree. She's not given much to do.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I think Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn could do a kick-ass Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

No no... Tom Waits and Lily Tomlin.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

Eric, what did you think of the Honey in the production we saw? I liked her. I actually felt like she had a little more substance than Sandy Dennis did in the movie. I don't know if that was her acting or what, but I had a lot more empathy for Honey during the play that in the movie.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

i woke up yesterday and realized i didn't have any actual food in my house but i did have baker's chocolate, sugar, eggs, and flour so i made brownies. i had soup and brownies for dinner last night and am polishing off the rest of the batch right now with my horrible bus station coffee.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

that's kind of awesome.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

here's a food tip: drinking a half gallon of V8 juice in one sitting will do... odd... things to your digestive tract. Be warned.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

So will eating nothing but meat from the Romanian Kosher Sausage Co. for a week (has anyone been there btw?).

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

No, but I want to go now!

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

My moms had her friend bring back a bunch of meat, it is seriously the best salami and bologna I have ever had. The pepper steak and the corned beef is not exactly shabby either.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.yelp.com/bphoto/IC72mIyINH17Tn7NnaXCvQ/l

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm trying to re-evaluate Sandy Dennis's performance....I just learned that she won an Oscar for it.

And as with Ruth Gordon in Rosemary's Baby, she went on repeating that performance until she died.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

even in Harold and Maude?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, I assume. I saw that at Borders the other day and allllmost bought it. But then thought... what would the re-watchability factor of this really be?

Very high re-watchability factor.

Can anyone answer Kenan's question about Blockbuster's online selection?

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

The ham was delish. Dan, sendspace me some leftovers.

Oh shit. Guess what's in my murse that I forgot about till just now. Hint: I bought it at Hot Doug's.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

MySpace Friend Request The Cunty Bitches would like to be added as one of your friends!

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

You have a gourmet hot dog in your murse??? Genius.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

By accepting The Cunty Bitches as your friend, you will be able to send
The Cunty Bitches personal messages, view The Cunty Bitches's photos
and blog, and interact with each other's friends and network!

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I've had a corn dog in my murse since Saturday afternoon. Not so genius.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

I've been told that Blockbuster's online selection is very much comparable to Netflix's.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

It took me a few minutes to realize that Sandy Dennis != Sandy Denny.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Still, how fast is their turnaround? Because the "getting videos directly from the store" bit is a non-starter, as far as I'm concerned.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

The Cunty Bitches' songs include:

"Fist My Pussy"
"1 More Abortion"
"Eat UR Baby"
"Kiddie Porn"

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

No idea.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

aw... jesse has a new favorite band!

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

oh noes more boring grammar questions:

exploitative or exploitive?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

That band sounds like a 3rd rate A.C. at best.

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

That's not a grammar question, it's a spelling question. Webster's 11th has a full entry for "exploitative," while "exploitive" is defined as "exploitative," which suggests that it's an acceptable variant but that the first is preferred.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

I would say exploitative.

At every reading, David Sedaris pitches a book. Last night, in honor of Easter, he was promoting The Zombie Survival Guide.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

I would say exploitative, too, since exploitation is a word, but exploition is not.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

And he made comparisons between the lie of WMDs and writing a fake tell-all about being a fucked-up alcoholic. "People were shocked, saying, 'What? That fucked-up alcoholic lied to us!?' but when they heard that the President told us that Iraq had horrible weapons that turned out not to exist, we felt that it was as understandable as say a typo."

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

did he mean the junkie?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Do you ever have a day when you are browsing the web and you feel like there's nothing on?

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

A friend lent me this record the other day, it's fun!

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/z/zzathomewiththegroove_101b.jpg

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, I totally remember that record. I don't think I ever actually heard it, but it sounded like a cool premise.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

I hate those fucking ads on MySpace that show an animated person on their computer, typing, laughing, etc. They're creepy.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

One of my college housemates had a Groovebox. I got really pissed at it at first but then had a good time making beats.

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

One of my college housemates had a Groovebox.

Mine too! It was thumpin.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

www.middleschoolbathroomrape.com

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know why I did that. Sorry.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Dan will explain. He owns that domain.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

I hope the Beck track on there ('Boyz') got played in some gay clubs.

It would be fun to have a Groovebox party with a couple people making real-time dance music on it (or maybe that would be asking too much, I've never fucked around with one).

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:50 (eighteen years ago)

Why do I have to explain a joke from a party that only a few people here were at?

It'd be a little difficult to make real-time music on a Groovebox. You'd have to be really good and organized to get it done.

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe an Acid or Garage Band party would be better? I haven't used those either.

I also found out yesterday that a small studio in town here did most of the sounds/loops for GB, at least the first few 'jam packs'.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Eric, what did you think of the Honey in the production we saw? I liked her.

I was distracted by her accent at first (or maybe it was the amplification), but she was good once she was helpless and drunk. I wonder if those moments work better onstage, just because the audience is in the same room with this person (someone we've all been or seen at a party) instead of seeing them onscreen.

Jody Nueva uses Blockbuster and it seems fast, plus she can get a few free store rentals per month, so if she doesn't want to wait a day for something she can go to the store and get it.

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

I've totally gone to Specialty Video when I want something NOW.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

I've got a dentitst appointment. I don't want to go.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the hell if I was going to wait four days for more Wire (Sunday, my dvds to ship back on Monday, get sent out on Tuesday, and arrive on Wednesday).

I hadn't been to Hollywood Video in forever and forgot about their weird late fee policy.

Video Woman: You've got 18 bucks in late fees. Do you want to pay that now?
Me: Um, not especially?
VW: Okay. Do you want to pay some of it?
Me: Sure, how much do I need to pay?
VW: Whatever you want.
Me: How about...zero?
VW: How about a couple dollars?
Me: Sweet.

And now I won't go back there for another six months.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

I have a membership to the Hollywood Video up by the Howard stop, because it was the only video store I could find that had Mariah Carey's Glitter. Fuck if I'm driving all the way up there, though.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

I picked a girl up in Hollywood Video once, only to find out on the first date that she was obsessed with Bono. Nope.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

...and that's my Hollywood Video story.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

I have a membership to the Hollywood Video up by the Howard stop, because it was the only video store I could find that had Mariah Carey's Glitter.

aw, John. love.

― horseshoe, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Well, to be fair, I needed it for an article I was working on, but that movie is also better than its reputation.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

why don't i believe you?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Because you don't have a soft spot for mid-1980s Jam and Lewis R&B?

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

If Marshall Mathers’ Slim Shady offended you in 2000, consider his unmitigated boringness as “Rabbit” in 2002.

You leave Rabbit out of this.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

It's totally not clear, but Alfred Soto wrote that intro paragraph, not me.

Also, I basically wrote that article as an excuse to call the 50 Cent movie a "bling-dungsroman."

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

But Rabbit Angstrom > Rabbit Smith.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

Jury's still out on former major-leaguer Rabbit Maranville.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

bling-dungsroman

Nice!

I think Crossroads and 8 Mile would be a swell double feature.

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

Because you don't have a soft spot for mid-1980s Jam and Lewis R&B?

I have all this soft spots.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

Crossroads with Ralph Maccio?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Rabbit Angstrom reminds me of a peeve I have against characters with allegorical last names: Loman, Calloway...

Crossroads with Britney! Though Crossroads plus Crossroads could work, too.

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, I have this soft spots, too!!! does that mean I need to see this movie?

― horseshoe, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yes!

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Quick, someone name me the connection between o.g. Crossroads and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey!

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

face-melting solo leads

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Glitter is set in like 1984, which I thought was an interesting choice, since it's several years before the real Mariah first made it big. Assuming Mariah had some creative input in the script, I think she liked the idea of setting it within the musical landscape that existed when she was 14 and probably sang along to the radio with a hairbrush in her bedroom.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Like, there's totally a scene where she plays around with a then-newfangled DX-7 synthesizer.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

face-melting solo leads

...played by Steve Vai!

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Damn, and I considered saying that after cheating and peeking at the IMDB pages, but I only saw his name on the list for Crossroads.

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 51 for "groucho marx's eyebrows".
Results 1 - 10 of about 121 for "eugene levy's eyebrows".
Results 1 - 10 of about 3,630 for "peter gallagher's eyebrows".

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

What about Joan Crawford's eyebrows?

http://radio.weblogs.com/0001015/images/2002/08/03/eyebrows.gif

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

I watched Mildred Pierce with Julia this weekend. I'd seen it before, a long time ago, and remembered thinking it was good. Boy was I wrong. What a nonsensical movie.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

After the first disc of The O.C., I was all "meh," but the last couple episodes of Disc 2 have been choice. Summer was so bitchy at first, I couldn't stand her, but now she's really growing on me, esp. in her interactions with Seth. Also, it's interesting to me how much the show is about money, and not just as subtext: it's actively discussed all the time.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 7 of 7 for "ian somerhalder's eyebrows"
Results 1 - 10 of about 99 for "joan crawford's eyebrows"

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Your search - "mother teresa's eyebrows" - did not match any documents.

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, so let's say you're at zero with your car stereo, as in, you don't have one, but there is a plug or two sticking out. Does anyone have any clue how you could rig an ipod hookup in there to play through the car speakers?

― KitCat, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think we can, Sarah, you need something in between to amplify the signal.

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

I think the cheapest thing would actually be to buy an old tape deck car stereo from a pawn shop and use the cassette tape adaptor for the ipod.

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I use.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 6 of about 0 for "stallone's eyebrows". (0.22 seconds)

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

Just stick the wires into a hole in the iPod.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

If none of the current holes in the iPod work, drill a new one.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

Please don't do any of that without disconnecting the battery first.

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

get one boombox

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Hum.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Wear headphones while driving.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago: House of Bad Ideas

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Target usually has fairly affordable stereos, don't they? If you get a new one, it will have a line-in jack.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Or let me sing to you while you drive.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

Bad Idea Jeans

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

"I usually wear a condom, but then I thought, 'Hey, when's the next time I'll be in Haiti?'"

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

But if we got a tape deck from a pawn shop, we'd still have to pay to get it professionally installed, so maybe it wouldn't cost that much more to just buy a new cd player somewhere? I don't know. Any recs on a decent pawn shop and/or installer?

― KitCat, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

OH, Target you say...

― KitCat, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

i'm no expert, but I think installing a tape deck is nearly as easy as ripping one out.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

It is very easy. I've done it a few times, and I'm stupid as a bag of doorknobs.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I think you just plug the doohickey in the whatsit-hole. I THINK I could probably do it. The only hard part would probably be mounting it.

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

Well, shit, if Jesse can do it than I DEFINITELY can.

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

DEFINITELY.

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Insert some sort of hilarious joke about Nick mounting his stereo.

I would look online. eBay, Craigslist, Amazon, Half.com, cheapstingbastard.com, etc.com.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Just steal one.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Not only am I stupid, I'm ugly too, so there's no WAY you could fail.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

buybackyourcarstereofromthedudeswhostoleit.com

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

middleschoolbathroomrape.com

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

Please... Middle School Bathroom Sodomy

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

Rape is funnier than sodomy.

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

HILARIOUS

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

Ooops, that was supposed to be cheapstingybastard.com. Though I think they've changed their official name to cheapstingybargains.com.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

It's hot either way.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe those comments didn't encourage an extended conversation.

― n/a, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

neither rape nor sodomy hold a candle to turkey fucking in the comedy department

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I wasn't in on the original joke.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 824 for "john's eyebrows".

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

Peter's eyebrows knit. "You have to think to speak, don't you, sir?" "Less often than you've been led to believe. And please, Peter, call me Uncle Ben. ...

After the apocalypse, when the last rock & roll call is read up yonder, Saint Peter's eyebrows will surely arch when honorable mention is finally made of ...

Seeing Jesus piss all over Paul in a drunken haze and laughing like a maniac while shaving a sleeping Peter's eyebrows off: Priceless ...

Adair Heyl applies mascara to husband Peter's eyebrows. The ``big. shave'' to transform him into the bald Warbucks was also a family. affair. ...

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for indulging me here.

Results 1 - 10 of 10 for "jesus eyebrows".

― Eazy, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 8 for "satan's eyebrows". (0.34 seconds)

1 - 10 of 8??

xpost

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe those comments didn't encourage an extended conversation.

I just got this. :)

And I suspect it's because Jenny and I agree fundamentally that the hotness is being used to disarm you so the next scene is even more horrifyingly cruel.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

You kinda learn that little gambit in Horror Movie 101.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Romanian Sausage Co. is in my 'hood!

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

So is the Hollywood Video with GLitter.

Ya jealous?

Also our building was vandalised over the weekend! Someone kicked a hole in the wall of the stairwell. NOT GOOD.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm already plotting my first visit to the RKSC.

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Make sure you check their hours -- they've got weird ones. Also there is a parking lot just north of the store on Clark, so don't park on the street. While you're up our way you should also visit the groceries on Devon.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Northside grocery tour:
Argyle for Asian (Golden Pacific)
Broadway for Ethiopian (Kuku1u Market)
Devon for everything
RKSC for meat

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Well, GP is on Broadway. Oops.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

broadway and balmoral

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

This day has sailed past me. Where did it go? I came in, had some coffee, ate a sandwich, and it's 3:30.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Opposite for me... I haven't had anything to do since about noon and it's still sorta too early to take off.

― dan m, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Time to write shopping list?

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Want to write a quiz for me? Grade some papers?

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Today is pretty fast and unproductive for me too. The only thing making it seem like is that I'm hungry as a motherfucker.

Starting Wednesday I will be in training classes for weeks, and I'm going to try and swear off ILX so that I will actually pay attention and pass this time.

(it's not only the internet's fault, my attention span has just gone to shit when listening to lectures. I start daydreaming and then it's fifteen minutes later and I can't catch up. This is why I'm never going back to school).

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

what's the quiz about?

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

Vocab and s/v agreement

some of the words:
periphery
ricochet
decrepit
affable
vilify

i need to write sentences where they fill in the blank with the correct word

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

1. Drug Dealer Joe was no longer welcome in the center of the neighborhood, and was forced to sell drugs in the _____________.

2. He knew that if he shot at the wall at the wrong angle, the bullet might ____________ and kill an innocent person.

3. Ignored for years by the city, the housing project had become very ______________.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Those are pretty tough words!

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

i'm definitely using #3! can you tell that we've been talking about housing projects?

as for their difficulty, well -- people need to know some new words. they're all words from their reading. (these are the remedial/developmental native speakers, btw.) also they are in college and should know what decrepit means.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

"catharsis" was an important one for them since they didn't know there was a word for that. we had a good time talking about it.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't mean to kill the thread with teaching. I know it's boring.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

It's not boring at all! But I must admit, I have no reference for it.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

I'm back. I like the word catharsis, its meanings and its sound.

I rented a car and got a PT Cruiser instead. It's a pretty dumb-looking vehicle, but it's great that its what they gave me since I've got to move some furniture from Michigan.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, it's not boring to me, but it's not interesting to anyone who's not doing it. Maybe a little, but not really.

I just peeked at DC thread and realized that we have been entirely eclipsed.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Which is fine.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I guess.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

it really it a horrible vehicle. It has the grill and fenders from the 30's and the profile of a minivan. It's a platypus.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Hi dere Chicago. I'm coming to your city again, and this time I'll actually make it out of O'Hare. I'm going to a workshop at the InterContinental Chicago, but turns out they don't have a room for me, those fuckers--anyone have other suggestions for a nice joint not to far? Employer is paying, so while I don't think I can pull off 500 a night, I'm sure 300 is doable.

― quincie, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Oh and of course I would also like to FAP, if anyone is into FAPing on a Sunday or Monday night.

― quincie, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

pt cruiser is built on the same frame with the same engine and drivetrain as the dodge neon. only thing that different is the sheetmetal.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

I am interested in teaching and learning and vocabulary. I was looking at a children's book yesterday and realized there are a ton of "hard words" in books written for the elementary-school market -- but the sentence structure is fairly simple, and the words are used in ways that they can often be figured out through context clues. Even with some of the trickier words, it's probably good for kids to at least encounter them, even if they don't know what they mean, because they'll be better equipped down the road.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 139 for "jesse's eyebrows".

"And okay, Jesse's eyebrows ARE a bit bushy but he's just too manly to wax or ...

Jesse's eyebrows are FIERCE!!!

Jesse's eyebrows crawl up his forehead

Jesse's eyebrows shot up

Jesse's eyebrows raised

Jesse's eyebrows arched

Jesse's eyebrows scrunched together

Jesse's eyebrows nit together

Jesse's eyebrows rose

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

I have to say that while the PT Cruiser is kind of clunky-looking, totally a postmodern visual joke, it handles OK and has nice pick-up and take-off. It's peppy. And I would actually consider owning one in a convertible version.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

yep - that's the point. even if they never use the word "decrepit" in a sentence, they will know 1) its part of speech and 2) basically what it means. some people say that there is no way to "teach" vocabulary, but they way i see it you have to at least expose people to new words a few times and make them use them before they start to use them naturally. as long as they don't go on elimidate and start screaming "i'm totally DECREPIT y'all! i'm WASTED!" i think they'll be better off than when they started, y'know?

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

I just peeked at DC thread and realized that we have been entirely eclipsed.

What does this mean?

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

i dunno. i just peeked at it.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

I'm confused then.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

Actually "let's get decrepit y'all" seems like a totally reasonable thing to say.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Let's get decrepit in here

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

You can be the one to popularize that, Jordan. I just want them to know that it means "run-down, falling apart" and is not necessarily a good thing.

Your new stage name: DJ Decrepit?

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

Bad example, I guess. But you know what I mean.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

You have to know the rules in order to break them, etc.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Someone explain to me the following DC thread memes:

1. blood diamonds
2. 8080
3. beartrap

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

I just heard on the radio that the Coalition of Imokalee Workers got their way and McDonalds is paying them $.01/LB more for the tomatoes they are picking. This significantly increases their wages. Last year they pressured Taco Bell into doing the same thing.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=52982

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:38 (eighteen years ago)

beartrap is xpost, i think it's pretty stupid

blood diamonds means awesome, or see thread above

― Mr. Que, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

I have been gone since 11:30, and I am not going to read the skipped messages but I do fundamentally agree with Kenan about the use of the shower scene in Carrie to create a disarming contrast with the pad-pelting that follows, if that's what this means: And I suspect it's because Jenny and I agree fundamentally that the hotness is being used to disarm you so the next scene is even more horrifyingly cruel.

Also I passed the multi-state professional responsibility exam. I needed 80 and I got 127. So I'm 50% more ethical than I need to be to practice law in IL.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I just revived that thread, never mind.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

I'm on an all-hot dog diet again. Last night I had a polish from RKSC for dinner and I'm planning on it again tonight, but also couldn't resist the hot dog + Brazilian salsa here at lunch. Apparently Brazilian salsa involves peas and corn. It is blood diamonds.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

This is cracking me up - "Invite mpre.score@act.0rg to Gmail"

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

uhm, blood diamonds has slipped into my real life conversation at an alarming level. me and laurel were using it pretty freely in new york so now my best friends think i got it from her. oh! but when i rooted through my pockets looking for money and pulled out a $20 on friday i did get a "blood diamonds".

― chicago kevin, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

So I'm 50% more ethical than I need to be to practice law in IL.

Low standards, huh?

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

So it would seem.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Hahah, Bonnie started saying it too, Kevin! We are creeping up on the real world.

― Laurel, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

we are awesome.

blood diamonds.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

I'm just kidding Jenny, you're ethical as shit.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

wednesday night bill did ask me, "ok, what the fuck about the blood diamonds? you, my wife, what did i miss?"

― chicago kevin, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

if that's what this means

that's what it means, jenny.

Also see: teenagers sneak out into woods to do it, girl pops her top and WHOA NELLY WHAT KNOCKERS, and then the slasher appears. Playing sex/guilt directly with the audience. One of the great things about Carrie is that it takes such formulas and makes them very psychological and relatable, and therefore all the more skin-crawly.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny is pants-shittingly ethical.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

i still don't understand "blood diamonds" aside from the fact that it's what the cool kids are saying now.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

it's all pretty stupid, but whatever, i'll act like i can play along.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, tell him he missed the special touch.

― Laurel, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

wtf is going on in Chicago at the end of the month such that there are apparently no hotel rooms available? HELLO DERE CAN I SLEEP ON YOUR COUCH Y/N

― quincie, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

is it snowing where you guys are? I went out a minute ago, and it was more than flurries.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

you can sleep on my couch, sure.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

It always seems like there are conventions in town that book up all the rooms just in case, and then everything opens up right before the weekend.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

There are huge conventions starting. There's a registered nurses convention coming soon that is HUGE.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Huge. Huge conventions. Really, they're huge.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, can I cum over to your house tonight? I have a car.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

Can I stop you?

No, just kidding. Of course you can come over. Though it would be easier to walk, I keep telling you.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

I have a lot of your shit. I would have to put it in a cart. Tell me again how to get there.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

oh right, yeah... I'll email you, so's all of ILX doesn't have directions to my place. Because then they'd be clawing at my door day and night.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

or i'll call you when i get home. that's easier.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

What time? I'm going to sleep on your couch when I get there.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'll be at your window, baying and tearing at the turf.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

i'll be home before six, i guess.

― kenan, Monday, 9 April 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

I have secured a hotel room; chicago couches are safe. However, I plan to secure delicious food and copious drinks during my short stay, so please to advise. I am staying at 521 North Rush Street--is that near anything cool?

― quincie, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

Hmmmm. It might be, but Rush Street is kind of Douchebag District, so I don't really ever go around there.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

commerce

― Jeff, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:13 (eighteen years ago)

It's the Viagra Triangle. Enjoy.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:14 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh. Well, I'm happy to travel for food. Favorite downtown restaurants, anyone?

― quincie, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, that reminds me-- someone asked about that French Vietnamese place -- what's it called!?!? --and I have been there once with my mom for her b-day. It's DELISH and well-appointed. It's right there in that area.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

Le Colonial

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's it. I had a very nice meal there with my mum.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Hannah's Bretzel

― Jeff, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

2nd Hannah's Bretzels.

I hear that Ra (sushi) is good. It's right around there. Also Tsunami sushi. Go to Devon St. for Injun food. Bin 36 for wine and cheese (that was my dinner last night--6 different cheeses, yum! And the bartender said, "No tab. Happy Easter.")

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:25 (eighteen years ago)

Argyle for weird Vietnamese and Chinese.

I can't recommend a bar, really, since I like most bars.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:27 (eighteen years ago)

I recommend a shower beer at your hotel. And a shower Diet Coke too.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

Good restaurants north of the Loop, south of Gold Coast:

Emilio's Sol y Nieve, 215 E. Ohio (best tapas I've ever had)

Heaven on Seven on Rush, 600 N. Michigan (the Clark St. location was so-so, but I still have fond memories of a po'boy at this downtown spot 7 years ago)

Indian Garden, 247 E. Ontario (pricier than Devon St., but excellent)

Nacional 27, 325 W. Huron (delicious pan-Latin American)

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

Hema's Kitchen for Injun. Clark and Fullteron-ish.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I was underwhelmed by that Heaven on Seven.

― Jordan, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

It's a crap-on-the-walls wanna-be NO restaurant. Kind of touristy, kind of gimmicky. But I had OK food there.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:37 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want to eat anywhere where people crap on the walls. GROSS.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

I would very, very highly recommend Tizzi Melloul's on Grand and Wells--wonderful Morrocan food, great spices, beautiful restaurant. It's good if you want to treat yourself to a fancier dinner.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

GUYS SHE ASKED ABOUT DOWNTOWN RESTAURANTS.

I could write pages about restaurants outside an area that's usually a pain in the ass to get to.

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Barf-on-the-walls kind of restaurants?

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, tell him he missed the special touch.

that's "secret touching".

i'd forgotten about that. that's twice i've forgotten about that.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, but she also said she was willing to travel.

xpost.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

Someone should revive this: http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=40&threadid=15315

― jaymc, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

Who is quincie?

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

Someone should revive this: [Removed Illegal Link]
― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

shit.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/144132~Who-s-Afraid-of-Virginia-Woolf-Posters.jpg

Liz Taylor often reminds me of Robert Smith.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:49 (eighteen years ago)

I love love love that woman's teeth. She didn't show them much, though. At least not in photos that I can find.

This is particularly fetching photo, but no teeth:
http://www.loti.com/articles/Montgomery_Clift_html_67db5285.jpg

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

*swoon*

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:55 (eighteen years ago)

I guess when you're that pretty you don't need to show teeth.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

She probably had some whacked out idea that she looked funny when she showed teeth or something.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

I can't stop looking at her clavicle.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:04 (eighteen years ago)

Martha: You never put any ice in my drink.
Why is that?

George: I always put ice in your drinks.
You eat it, that's all.

G: It's this habit you've got of chewing
on your ice cubes like a cocker spaniel.
You'll crack your big teeth.

M: Well, they're my big teeth.

G: Yeah, some of them, some of them.

M: I've got more teeth than you have.

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:06 (eighteen years ago)

question:

til

till

or 'til?

― Jesse, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:22 (eighteen years ago)

are you talking about soil or an abbreviation for "until"?

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

Really, though, it doesn't matter much because if it's a situation that is casual enough to abbreviate "until" no one is going to care if there is an apostrophe signaling abbreviation or not.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

byebye, don't hurt yourselves.

― La Lechera, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:30 (eighteen years ago)

I generally feel like it's either "till" or "'til" but I think that "til" is also acceptable, I just don't like it.

― Laurel, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.derekerdman.com/1/m.jpg

Sorry that it just seems that I only advertise things here, I very often lurk on the Chicago thread. I feel like we're all very good friends, but not in the "I'll call you if I have a flat tire in Brookfield" sense.

Thanks for your time.

― A Derek Erdman, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:43 (eighteen years ago)

You can call me if you have a flat tire in Brookfield. I don't know that I can do much about it, but you're welcome to call me if it happens.

― Jenny, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:56 (eighteen years ago)

Great, I will! What about Naperville?

― A Derek Erdman, Monday, 9 April 2007 23:58 (eighteen years ago)

My absolute three favorite resturants in Chicago are:

Tank Noodle
Hannah's Bretzel
Bhabi's Kitchen

― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 00:36 (eighteen years ago)

Frontera Grill is just a few blocks away from your hotel -- amazingly good Mexican and Mexican-inspired food from one of our many famous chefs. Not too expensive, either, though it does count as a night out.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

I just picked up that quincie is a girl. No, in that case, you can't sleep on my couch. My girlfriend would not like that. :)

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 00:43 (eighteen years ago)

Chipotle is divine.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 01:16 (eighteen years ago)

Haha Kevin when I saw you at the CoCoComa show a couple of weeks ago you probably said blood diamonds a half dozen times as we said our goodbyes.

I think the only restaurant I've been to in and around Rush St. is Rosebud on Rush. It was very good, solid Italian, not too expensive, but nothing you can't find in approx. 9,000,000 other restaurants in the world.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:37 (eighteen years ago)

They had a very good take on caprese utilizing fried eggplant, that was the only thing that really stood out about the place.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:38 (eighteen years ago)

Kelsey and I had sushi from Ra on my roof once and it was good good good.

The Pump Room is now a great place for drinks; they redid the place a year or two ago, but it hasn't caught on with hipsters yet (I bet it will in the next year). They also have a striking and genius gal there named Rebekah who knows vino inside and out.

The Third Coast, at 1260 N. Dearborn, is relaxing, both for food and drinks; old-school coffeehouse style.

Chipotle's good.

The soaps next door, at Sabon, are swell, too.

And since you're here on a Monday/Tuesday, you should go to the top of the Cock (95th floor of the John Hancock tower), since there won't be any waiting.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 02:57 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeh! How could I have forgotten the Top of the Cock? A co-worker hangs out at the Pump Room a lot. I've never been.

I was being silly, mentioning Chipotle, but it's actually OK, I guess. Not a destination though.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:03 (eighteen years ago)

How could I have forgotten the Top of the Cock?

You didn't.

But seriously, that's a must, even if for just one drink. The view... oh man that view.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:40 (eighteen years ago)

dan, i was wasted before i got to that show. they're playing at ronny's on the 14th, should be fun.

derek, i was at danny's last wednesday (soul night, apparently?) i will try to be there again.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 03:45 (eighteen years ago)

Till and until are both acceptable. "Till" is not an abbreviation of "until", however -- "till" is the original form -- so "'til" is kinda wrong.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 04:12 (eighteen years ago)

I guess "til" is the original form, but that's been replaced by "till" -- either way, no need for an apostrophe!

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to go with 'until.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 04:20 (eighteen years ago)

why would you put two l's on it?

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 04:51 (eighteen years ago)

Because that's how it's been spelled for a few centuries, basically.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

"untill"?

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:07 (eighteen years ago)

anyway, it seems that if you're looking for shortcuts, and want to spell "until", spelling it with an extra "l" defeats a small part of the purpose.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:08 (eighteen years ago)

uunnttiill

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:09 (eighteen years ago)

not that everyone agrees.. there's also "Wait Till Dawn" and such

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:10 (eighteen years ago)

till is something you do with a plow.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

Again, "till" is not a shortcut. "Until" is a longcut. Just like "to" is not a shortcut for "unto".

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

FROM DUCK TILL DAWN

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

Till the Clouds Roll By (1946)
Till Human Voices Wake Us (2002)
The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till (2005)

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:13 (eighteen years ago)

Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold (1914)
Shop Till You Drop (1993)
Give Till It Hurts (1937)
Till You Get to Baraboo (2007)
Wail Till the Work Comes Round (1907)
Wait Till Jack Comes Home (1903)
Wait Till the Sun Shines, Nellie (1932)

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:15 (eighteen years ago)

I would see this:

Although quite typical for the era and origin, Från kyffen till Hälsobostäder leaves the modern audience wanting to press the fast-forward button. Long nonsense panoramic shots of cities of little interest in Sweden blended with dull acting makes this one of HSB:s less interesting cinematic projects. However, when it arrived it had a significant impact on Swedish standard of living specifically housing, large crowds were drawn into this hour-long movie. The political message is not well hidden and it seems that the director is not ashamed of making it extra clear even in sequences that need no further explanation. If you want to familiarize yourself with Swedish movies, this should not be your premier choice.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:18 (eighteen years ago)

Till the Clouds Roll By, if it's the movie I'm thinking of, was insanely boring.

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 05:25 (eighteen years ago)

If what I see in Bergman movies is correct, Sweden is insanely boring but for that annoying absense of God.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 06:01 (eighteen years ago)

(just kidding, btw... I love Bergman)

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 06:03 (eighteen years ago)

I had breakfast at the Pump Room the first time we visited Chicago.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:00 (eighteen years ago)

The Pump Room? Is that at 3246 N. Halstead?

― Jesse, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

j/k LOL and stuff

― Jesse, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 11:22 (eighteen years ago)

We stayed at the hotel attached to the Pump Room, even. I would go there for drinks. I think it might be fun.

Did you know: There is a bar in the basement of Macy's?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

Sayjal's finna be in a play that she wrote. I am trying to organize a Friday, April 27th viewing if anybody is interested. Tickets are el cheapo!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/453933074_c9a7be629c_o.jpg

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

WAKE UP CHICAGO AND TALK TO ME

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm awake. Busy as all get out though.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeey jenny

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

My parents are moving to NC on thursday. That is kind of weird.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, really? Where in NC?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah? My dad and stepmom are moving to SC pretty soon.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

Asheville

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

If yous go to the Pump Room, go in the little circular room off the bar -- there's a fantastic photo of Richard Pryor in there. He's in a sweatshirt and standing with the doorman, in full regalia, and they have exactly the same moustache. I can't even begin to unpack it, but it's such a good picture.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I am excited about it mostly because I like NC and I will get to visit them there but it also means I probably won't be back in DC for a while.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Asheville, eh? If I had to move back to NC and I could get a job there that didn't involve playing the fiddle or waiting tables, Asheville would be my first pick place to live.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Argh:

Today: High 51. Tomorrow: High 35.

Last night some older arty folks were saying all sorts of good things about Ashville.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

Were they fiddlers?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

High of 35? Fuck.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

A thermin/gamelan exerimental music guy and a performance artist of the old school.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Remember how I watched The Crow the other day? I keep thinking of the scene where Eric breaks into the pawn shop to get whatserface's engagement ring back and the pawn shop owner shoots Eric but he doesn't die and the pawn shop owners response is to chant, "SHIT ON ME! SHIT ON ME! SHIT ON ME!"

Anyway, I wanted to say, "High of 35? Shit on me!" but I didn't want anyone to take my literally.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

When I lived on Winnemac off of Clark, I found a piece of cardboard on the street one day, with ballpoint-pen writing on it basically requesting that.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

With 'THANK YOU' at the end.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Heeeeeeeeey ILXors. Would anybody be up for taking a look at my resume for typos and the like? It's time to start applying for jobs, I guess.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

So I too made a mix for the first quarter of 2007, if anyone is interested. Warning, cheesy teen-pop and mainstream rap is included.

01. "The Birth And Death of the Day" - Explosions in the Sky
02. "Heretics" - Andrew Bird
03. "I'm Like A Lawyer With the Way I'm Always Trying To Get You Off" - Fall Out Boy
04. "Must Be the Moon" - !!!
05. "Make 'Em Mad" - B.G. & The Chopper City Boyz
06. "Get Buck" - Young Buck
07. "Golden Skans" - Klaxons
08. "Reformation!" - The Fall
09. "Brighteyes" - Jesu
10. "Forever Young" - Youth Group
11. "Australia" - The Shins
12. "A Sentence of Sorts in Kongsvinger" - Of Montreal
13. "National Anthem of Nowhere" - Apostle of Hustle
14. "Boyscout'n" - Menomena
15. "7 Stars" - Apples in Stereo
16. "Lake Somerset" - Deerhunter
17. "I Still Remember" - Bloc Party
18. "Parting of the Sensory" - Modest Mouse
19. "Intervention" - The Arcade Fire
20. "New York I Love You" - LCD Soundsystem

Should still work.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Oooo a lawyer song.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

I will DL when I get home. I like that Klaxons song, couldnt' decide whether to put it on my mix or not. And I haven't heard the new Fall yet, scared off by terrible reviews.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Hey thanks for the restaurant recs. Now which night--Sunday or Monday (April 29 & 30)--is most promising to meet up with as many of you as possible? And where? Note: I will not be able to fully tie one on in true DC style, as I have to be awake and reasonably articulate at an ungodly hour, but I will teach all of you how to eat cell phones.

Oh and the brief quincie rundown: that's me, real name Kate, DC inhabitant, 33 yrs. old, medical editor, dislikes Superchunk.

― quincie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

hey, coinkydink, I made a mix last night, too! Who wants it?

1. Rumble - Link Wray
2. What Have You Done For Me Lately? - Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings
3. I'm Through With White Girls - The Dirtbombs
4. Rifle Range - Blondie
5. What A Way To Die - The Pleasure Seekers
6. School Days - The Runaways
7. Deanna - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
8. I Say I Love You - The Mooney Suzuki
9. I'm Going To Make Him Mine (Tonight) - The Donnas
10. Je Suis Content - Les Sans Culottes
11. Let Him Try - The Makers with April March
12. You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
13. Mary's Sister Margaret Jones - The Pattern
14. Your Love Is Mine - Holly Golightly
15. Gun Street Girl - Tom Waits
16. Back Door Man - Howlin' Wolf
17. Funnel of Love - Wanda Jackson
18. Can't Seem to Make You Mine - The Seeds
19. Laisse Tomber Les Filles - France Gall
20. Faster Pussycat - The Cramps
21. She's Like Heroin To Me - The Gun Club
22. I Wanna Be Your Dog - The Stooges
23. Theme for a Jackal - The Misfits
24. Looking for Trouble - The Charmers
25. The Last of the Secret Agents - Nancy Sinatra
26. Instrumental - Tacit Blessing
27. Shout Bamalama - Otis Redding
28. Clean Up Woman - Betty Wright

(all fits on one CD)

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

The new Fall really isn't terrible, but its not very good either. If that makes sense. There are like two or three songs that I really love and the rest I could pretty much do without.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, disclaimer - my mix doesn't fit on one CD. The people I was making it for were just intending to drop it onto mp3 players as a playlist, so I had a little freedom to stretch.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan - yes please.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

um, has anyone on this bitch ever had their credit card number stolen? plz tell me the paperwork isn't too bad kthx.

― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

I didn't make a mix, but I finished a slightly obnoxious drum & bass tune, I will upload if anyone wants to hear it. Don't feel obligated.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Nick... I will ysi tonight.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Note: I will not be able to fully tie one on in true DC style, as I have to be awake and reasonably articulate at an ungodly hour

then what's the point, really? i'm sure we can figure something out.

kenan, which version of "i'm through with white girls" is it? from the album?

xpost to julia- talk to dan, i think his debit card was comprimised.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

I would like mixes.

I would drink with all this DC ilxor. Either night is doable but Sunday's probably better.

Julia: I had my debit card number stolen, which is kind of the same thing. There was some paperwork, but not much. Of course, my experience may not be typical, I have no idea... good luck! The uncertainty of the whole ordeal was the worst, as well as having to deal with not having the card for 2 weeks.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

KENAN, YES, WANT!

― Laurel, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

Julia, 69 (= pete from DC) had his number stolen, and iirc it wasn't actually too bad--pop over to the dc board and I'm sure he'd tell you how shit went down.

Also: I would like this CD, too! 100% Superchunk free!

― quincie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

It really seems like V|SA et al. have their shit together now in dealing with this kind of theft, which is of course a little depressing because that's how you know it happens all the time...

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

I think either of those quincie dates should be fine for me

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

it'll probably work out--citibank caught it within a day (and a couple thou of charges).

thanks dan. xp cool, i will, quincie.

― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

kevin: it's from Sympathetic Sounds of Detroit

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

that's the way way better version kenan, good choice.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost That's what happened with mine, too... $900 at footlocker and they called me within like 8 hours of the charge.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

KENAN, YES, WANT!

heh. You inspired me, actually, because I was making cracks to you about how this or that rocking thing just made me want to listen to Kraftwerk, and then I thought to myself, "Kenan, you are so full of shit."

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

do you have that album? it's f'ing killer. with the exception of the ko & knockouts song every song on that comp is a better version than the version that later came out on the artist's records.

xpost to kenan.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

it's the only dirtbombs i have, actually.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

they haven't been the same since tom potter left.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

i know nothing about them except that that record rocks.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, excellent, Kenan. And we all benefit!

This comp came in the mail today:

DIY Starry Eyes: UK Pop Vol II
Ever Fallen In Love? / The Buzzcocks
Get Over You / The Undertones
Yachting Types / The Yachts
Is She Really Going Out With Him? / Joe Jackson
Schooldays / The Starjets
Girl Of My Dreams / Bram Tchaikovsky
This Is Airebeat / The Squares
Life Begins At The Hop / XTC
Up The Junction / Squeeze
Back Of My Hand (I've Got Your Number) / The Jags
Let's Talk About The Weather / The Radiators From Space
Starry Eyes / The Records
Mourning Star / The Zones
Millions Like Us / The Zones
Time Goes By So Slow / The Distractions
Hearts In Her Eyes / The Searchers
Where's The Boy For Me? / The Revillos
White Mice / The Mo-Dettes
So Good To Be Back Home Again / The Tourists

― Laurel, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

100% Superchunk free!

And what if it wasn't?

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

She hates Superchunk dude. I don't understand it either.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

get the "ultraglide in black" lp, it's a cover record of all the songs mick collins grew up listening to. the version of "livin' for the city" is pretty awesome.

xpost to kenan.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel, Lots of "The" Bands there!

― KitCat, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

dang, you guys are shaming me into finishing the mix i started about a month and a half ago. IF THE GODDAMN RECORDS I ORDERED EVER GOT TO ME I'D HAVE NO EXCUSES. but i guess i can work with what i've got.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

I know! AND IT'S ONLY GOING TO GET WORSE when my other two purchases arrive. XP to Sarah.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

hey, if i can offer up some advice to the rest of the chicago thread, go out and buy the gentleman jesse & his men 7" on douchemaster records. not only is it the finest release of the year but 10 years from now you'll be able to sell it on eBay for boatloads of money.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse should just give us copies for free.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

WEDNESDAY:
Cloudy, breezy and cold with snow; additional accumulations of 3"-4". Storm totals: 4"-7".

:(

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

i did get a copy for free from jesse. different one though.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

WTF? Is that forecast for here?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

madison

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, one idea for the DC-Chicago Summit (Sunday or Monday's OK) would be dinner at Old Jerusalem on Wells St., decent and cheap Middle Eastern place, can seat 4 or 14 easily, BYOB, and then maybe nightcap afterwards at the Top or the Pump.

Man, we've been missing all that snow by just 100 miles this month and last.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ahh.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

Though I just realized I may be out of town helping my dad (he's getting both knees replaced next week), but I'll know more about that soon...

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

I like Old Jerusalem.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

last time i was at old jerusalem was with towga and hstencil. we went there before going to barbara's for an irvine welch reading about 6 years ago.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

And here I was going to suggest Old Timer's for the classic chilx drinkin' experience... not too classy compared to the 'Cock Top.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

WITH DANCING AT SOUNDBAR AFTERWARDS no just kidding you guys

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh that reminds me: the bar that jaymc, HS and I went to after the SOUNDBAR experience was pretty cool and is in the vicinity. Can't recall the name, though.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Wait chilx has BYOB spots???

― quincie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

I cannot imagine what such a thing would mean for DC.

― quincie, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, quite a lot of places are BYOB actually.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

a ton of restaurants are byob here.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, the bar we went to is the Clark Street Ale House.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Most of them are Thai, Sushi, or Middle Eastern.

Best restaurant for BYOB that I've been to is probably Speakeasy - nice supper-club-type place at Devon and Ashland.

And Las Tablas.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Then again, outdoor BYOB is also the best. Sit outside in the summer at Penny's at Roscoe/Sheffield, chill for an hour or two with a bottle of something-something.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

Sit outside in the summer at Penny's at Roscoe/Sheffield, chill for an hour or two with a bottle of something-something.

like a bottle of tanqueray and a straw.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

this will be a good summer

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

I can drink on the 29th or the 30th, too, as of right now. I am Superchunk-neutral. I don't even know if I actually know any Superchunk songs, which is quite a feat given that I lived in NC for four years.

BYOB is the greatest! Cheap cheap cheap. Although some places charge a stupid "corkage fee" that I think is only justifiable if they take the beverage, keep it cold for you, pour it for you, etc. Not if they throw you a bottle opener and let you watch your six pack sweat warmly on the table.

Eric - Good luck and good health to your pop!

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

My supervising atty wants me to apply at the City but my resume is so PRO-LABOR UNION RA RA RA that there is no chance they will even interview me. I might as well subtitle it "Union Salt."

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:21 (eighteen years ago)

there's only one thing to do: change your mind completely and become a corporate defense lawyer

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

uh jenny? the city is basically a left of center corrupt ponzi scheme fleecing those it's supposed to protect. now replace "the city" with "labor union"... well, i'm just saying.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yep. Time to realize your monetization potential by comprimising antiquated notions of solidarity and focusing on asset defense strategies.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

lord help me that almost makes sense

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

kevin and dan both otm, but i don't think they go far enough. If you wanna get real about it, you need a pair of fishnets and some lucrative street corner real estate.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/a/a7/300px-Whore.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Not all unions are corrupt, Kevin! It's just the crooks that get all the press. And I'd be applying to the city's labor and employment division, the city being the employer, which is why they might be less than ecstatic about my resume.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

I mean you can't reify your jouissance by engaging in postcapitalist stategies of outsider narrative deconstruction forever!

― Casuistry, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Stop that right now.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

I have no problems working for the city, generally - just working for them in an employment context.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost Oh wow, good one

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Having just watched the Wire season 2, I believe that all unions are corrupt. However, they are still good dudes and can drink like motherfuckers.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

God help me when I start having a beer and a shot for breakfast.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, Jordan.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

xp to me - That makes no GD sense. I mean, I would work for all this city, but not in the L&E division, as that would put me on the employer side of the worker justice divide. If they wanted to hire me elsewhere and I didn't have anything else going for me, I'd consider it, depending on what I'd be doing, the pay, etc.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

but see in the Wire, the union wasn't morally corrupt. Sobotka was involved in crime for the income, which he used to buy politicians whose votes he needed to do things like keep factories open and dredge channels. It was all in the interest of keeping his guys working and fed.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

God help me when I start having a beer and a shot for breakfast.

Yeah, a beer with a fucking RAW EGG in it!

True, his intentions were good, but it still got him [spoilers deleted] and his kid and nephew [spoilers deleted] and the union [spoilers deleted].

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

ooh madlibs!

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

"but it still got him [lubed] and his kid and nephew [erect] and the union [hott]."

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Not all unions are corrupt, Kevin!

i never said they were. not all politicians are either. but my brief stay in the teamsters union and the conversations i had with older dudes when i was walking a picket line made me realize that EVERYONE was getting rich on our backs, or rather, everyone but us.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

http://ec2.images-amazon.com/images/P/B00005OKQE.01._AA280_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Sobotka was involved in crime for the income, which he used to buy politicians whose votes he needed to do things like keep factories open and dredge channels.

OK, this sentence makes me glad I never started watching this show.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

dying cities don't interest you, jaymc? I find them fascinating.

:)

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc likes his big money playaz to come from SoCal.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Dying cities? Sure, that sounds interesting. Convoluted under-the-table schemes don't. Or at least, they make my head hurt. Cf. Mafia movies, the collected works of Guy Ritchie, etc.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

My disdain for these genres is really a disguise for the fact that I'm dumb and can't follow plots involving men, money, and power worth shit.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

that's how cities die, man. one convoluted scheme at a time.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 16:59 (eighteen years ago)

can't follow plots involving men, money, and power worth shit

I would wager that this is not true, and you had a proper go at it.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

you HAVEN'T had etc

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know about that, part of the fascination of the show is the mechanics of the drug trade, the police department, the legal system, putting a case together, etc. Of course the character stuff is great too.

John, maybe you would have an easier time with it because it's not a 2 hour movie trying to cram in a bunch of convoluted schemes to impress you, it unfolds a piece at a time.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Perhaps. I should also say, though, that another reason I'm disdainful of certain TV shows is so that I don't feel guilty about not seeing everything that's critically hailed, because honestly, who has the time?

I was talking to my uncle at Easter at dinner, and he was going on about what a great show Entourage is. I said I watched the first episode and returned the DVD right away. He said, "Nah, you gotta watch more than that, it gets better." I said, "It just seemed a little too ... testosterone-y." He conceded, "Well, yeah, it's definitely a guy show." And I was like, "Well, there you go." It was awesome: he totally gave me a reason for never having to watch it again.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

After watching two-thirds of season 3 of Entourage on Sunday, I realized how different a show it would be as an NBC sitcom (i.e., clearly fake sounstage sets for Ari's office, the guys' house, etc.).

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:17 (eighteen years ago)

Do "guy shows" make your pussy hurt?

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I don't much dig on Entourage either, fwiw, never got into it, don't much care, etc. And of course you're otm about not having the time to care about everything.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

I've heard people say that Curb Your Enthusiasm is a guy show. The difference, though, is that it's a guy that I relate to. Most "guy shows" or "guy movies" are about jackasses I don't care about.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

That describes Entourage for me to a t. It's a cast made up entirely of jackasses.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

i hated entourage (the little i saw of it).

another critically-acclaimed testosteroney show that i don't get: rescue me.

― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

But there's a difference in jackasses, too -- Larry David is jackass who is smart, quick, funny, neurotic, and put-upon. There's something to him. Tony Soprano is beyond jackass -- he's a lying, cheating, murdering, racist, sexist, horrible blight on humanity that the world would be better off without, but he's human, and therein lies your show.

The guys on Entourage should be so lucky. They're more like what you think of if someone says that someone has an "LA mentality." Which the show satirizes, I guess, but not half as much as it embraces it. It's at the intellectual level of Sex and the City, only make it about stupid guys instead of stupid women, and move it to LA. I really dislike that show.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Man, you guys are really starting to make me feel guilty for liking Entourage. Yeah, its definitely a guy show... but my fiancee loves it and she's usually very much against testosterone-laden "guy shows". I like it because Turtle, Drama, and Ari are some of my favorite sitcom characters on television right now and the potshots at/cameos from the Hollywood elite are usually pretty entertaining. I dunno, there are worse ways to waste half an hour.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

True dat. You could be watching 2 1/2 Men.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

ANDY BARKER WAS CANCELLED.

not surprising, but i really liked that half hour of tv, dammit.

― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

- Kevin Dillon is thoroughly funny.
- Piven can be funny.
- The show works to get its details correct, in terms of show business and L.A. geography.

I like the show a lot but wouldn't try to convert anyone to it. It's certainly some of the fantasy-world of living in Santa Monica that makes Curb work for me, too.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

I'm leaving the office in a few minutes, so pls convince John to try the Wire by the end of the day, thx y'all.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

(nb I'm not leaving to go drink beerz or anything, just some other work away from my desk)

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

the wire is an excellent, excellent show. What else can I say?

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

I guess the cancellation of Andy Barker is not surprising given Richter's track record (I never actually saw the show), but c'mon, someone give the guy a break already.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

Tell me what the Wire is about, besides cops and plots about cops.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

lesbian cops and gay gangsters

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

the hook is, it's as much about who the cops are chasing as it is about the cops

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

lesbian cops and gay gangsters

OK, if you're serious, I'm all over this.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:10 (eighteen years ago)

The first season will give you one hell of an education on underground drug-based economics. That alone was worth it for me. Oh, and when McNulty is a hilarious, drunken fuck-up.

― mattttt, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

I am serious! Kima and Omar might be my favorite characters.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

he totally gave me a reason for never having to watch it again.

And me for nevern having to watch it in the first place! Because, yes, "guy shows" make my pussy hurt.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Do "guy shows" make your pussy hurt?

Haha, Kenan as every fratboy jock fuck ever.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

The Wire is good.

The episodes of Andy Barker I saw were pretty mediocre. Deserving of cancellation. Sorry bros.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

2x, even though I laughed really, really hard at one joke the one time I actually watched it.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Did you ever read any of Richard Price's novels, John? The Wire is very much in the same style (Price even wrote a few episodes this past season).

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

I think the reason "The Wire" isn't a "guy show" is that it's pretty committed to realism, as far as I can tell. There are guns and drugs and bad dealings, but they aren't treated as some kind of macho fantasy world.

Of course, it's still a tv show, so the characters still talk like fictional characters with professional dialogue writers, and a lot of the cops follow the standard cop show character types. What makes it worth watching are the "bad guys," who are treated as real people with understandable motives instead of representations of pure evil or whatever. The criminals seem more realistic than the cops, oddly enough, though I don't claim any in-depth knowledge of Baltimore's crime scene so what do I know.

Also John, since you're into accents, the main "good guy" on The Wire is a British dude playing an American, very well (I had no idea he was British until I found out online).

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I didn't know that Eazy, I can totally see it though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Price

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

It was pretty funny when he did that horrible Britishes accent in the brothel episode!

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

But anyways, I don't feel a need to "convince" John to watch The Wire. He's right, there's way too much stuff out there to try and watch everything. I'm having fun watching Twin Peaks, but our video store is renting it out in 2-DVD sets, with an average of four episodes on each disc. You can have each 2-DVD set for two days, which means you have to watch like 7 hours of TV in two days to get it back in time.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha, yeah, a Britisher doing an impression of an American doing a bad British accent, I had forgotten about that.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, it's an impressive feat of speech, really, because he does it so well. I was expecting him to pull out his perfect and authentic British accent, but no, it was much better than that. Spot on.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:35 (eighteen years ago)

I kept expecting that he would whip out a perfect accent and say he had been practicing or something, just as wink wink thing for the actor, but it would have been way out of character for the show.

xpost!

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

There was an interesting article in the NY Times last week about how lots of British dudes and gals are getting lead roles in TV shows now (House, etc.) in part because they aren't botoxed.

I haven't seen the most recent Wire season, but they had episodes by all of these major urban-realism writers (Price, Dennis Lehane, George Pelecanos).

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Yup yup. It's a great show, John.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

interesting

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, I was going to say something snarky about Google Earth not working on Macs, but I guess it does now.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

wow, thanks. I just loaded it into google earth, and it's wild. It's like, holy shit there's a whole country on fire!

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

google earth has worked on macs for, like, more than a year!

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

I went to Google Maps by mistake and found Darfur, Minnesota.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

I have no reason to use it, though.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

oddly enough, I usually don't, but today I'm actually using it for work. Grabbing screenshots of aerial shots and angled shots of 3d buildings and stuff. It's fun.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

At ik veronderstel ilx mijn vorige post, maar wie aan Imus luistert? Gepensioneerden? Ik weet werkelijk wie niet zijn markt is.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

Eat did I assume ilx my previous mail, but which listens to Imus? Gepensioneerden? I weet really which are not its market.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

Eet ik veronderstelde ilx mijn vorige post, maar die aan Imus luistert? Gepensioneerden? I weet werkelijk wat niet zijn markt zijn.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

Do I eat assumed ilx my previous mail, but listens that to Imus? Gepensioneerden? I weet really what is not its market.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

That's english to dutch back and forth twice.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm all alone here, aren't I?

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

I'm into accents?

I get Richard Price confused with Richard Powers and Richard Ford. Not with artist Richard Prince, though. Price is the dude that wrote Clockers, I'm guessing? Actually, I haven't read anything by any of them.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

The new Fridge album is pretty good.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

You're "into" accents.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

You're into "accents."

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

"You" are into accents.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

åccéñts

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

Clockers is good reading. I think you'd like it (and The Wire and The Sopranos and, after a while, [i]Entourage) for the sociology and anthropology.

Gepensioneerden? A pensioners' garden?

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

indeed, clockers is good. i loved that book.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

I love both Richard Price novels and the Wire, but I hate "guy shows" and "man novels*." What I do like is "gritty urban realism," so these two things go along nicely. Omar is one of my favorite characters too.

See: Richard Yates' series of identical man-novels

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Samaritan is really good too. Entertaining, at least.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Richard Yates' first man novel is pretty awesome.

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, the first one is good. Then you realize that they are ALL THE SAME and contain the same characters doing the same stupid things.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

yeah i hated the Easter Parade and I stopped reading his novels after that

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

I like some of Richard Ford's short stories, especially Rock Springs, and like him very much as a reader, but the Sportswriter trilogy are man-novels in a negative sense.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

What is the Rabbit tetralogy? Are those man-novels? I like those. But much like Amanda's fondness for "gritty urban realism," I like the Rabbit books for their "domestic realism."

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

All our peeps are slowly defecting to the DC thread. ;_;

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I was trying to say yesterday but did not want to be explicit. ;_;x2

we be boring?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

hi guys you know what is depressing? midcentury dude literature. john updike is making me sad.

LOL. I didn't even read this before posting about Updike.

We should basically just combine the DC and Chicago threads.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, Laurel posting on the DC thread is fine, since it's not like she has any particular allegiance to Chicago. And Kevin? Yeah, whatever, I dunno. It's the fact that Evan's posting there now that makes me all ;_;

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

And Horseshoe. She didn't come to our lady party either. ;_;

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

I think a one-week joint thread could be fun. Of course, this place is like crack for me and one week of cold turkey wouldn't be bad, either.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

That would be a disaster. Think of all the references we'd have to 'splain to John.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Nice to know I'm missed, but "whatever."

― Laurel, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

hi Chicago I still love you and I would have loved to go to lady party but I was having a panic attack week. :( I'm sorry, Amanda! when are we all going out drinking again, anyway?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I dunno. I disappear in large groups. I guess it's fine. Carry on. Que sera sera. [sigh]

Sadly, as many of you may have noticed, I am not good at "going out drinking." I am good at small gatherings with few people.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

well, then, I shall have to come up with one of these small gatherings!!!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

I should mention that I excel at "staying in and drinking"...

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

hey john, i was thinking about posting some football related news to the ilnfl board. do i have your permission?

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Large groups, when they're good, essentially become a cluster of small groups anyway! It's just that there's room to circulate. I mean, that's pretty much what the Monday Night Drinking Club is all about.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

We should bring Hot Dougs to Julia some Friday.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

xp See, that's what I'm not good at. Tiring.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

YES HOT DOUGS!!!! CAN WE HAVE A SMALL GATHERING IN WHICH HOT DOUGS IS CONSUMED? ALSO, I OWE YOU A DOG AND SOME FRIES, ERIC!!!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

If you visit, Amanda, we will install you in a chair at the corner of the bar with an order of veggie dumplings, and everyone will come to you. :D

― Laurel, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

That's more like it. I grew up attending fundraisers with my parents and hiding in the corner while they circulated and talked to like 150,000 people. All I wanted then and now is someone to sit behind the plant with me and tell secrets.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and occasionally to sing karaoke.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

yes, karaoke + hot dougs + gathering.

beer goes without saying, I think.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, you can do whatever you like. I didn't mean for my post to come off the way you took it. I think maybe the key differences between you and Evan are that a) you still post on both threads and b) you've been posting on the DC thread almost since the beginning, it feels like. Whereas Evan used to post here and then he defected. Not that I actually care about any of this.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:13 (eighteen years ago)

I grew up attending fundraisers with my parents and hiding in the corner while they circulated and talked to like 150,000 people.

OMG AMANDA'S DAD IS SUNG MYUNG MOON.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

Well, wherever people post is fine, I was just lamenting the current state of affairs. Maybe I will just take up residence on the NHL thread until the playoffs end.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

I AM DAUGHTER MOONY

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I exaggerated, but still. Do not like large group events.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

Large = >4 people

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

you can read the dc thread all day long, with their odd little colloquialisms and their quaint pictures-posting customs, but sometimes you wanna go where everybody knows your name, and they're always glad you came.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

That doesn't count house parties, but you know what I mean.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Ok going going gone have fun tootles.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.sitcomsonline.com/cheers/CastC6.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Much as I hate to admit it, there's no way I'm not Cliff in this little metaphor.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

there are many more women in CHILX thread than on Cheers.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

and we are all way better than Kirstie Alley.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

Dan is soooo Norm.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

well, we can split the diff, not stick to one season. One of youse can be Diane, one can be Rebecca.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck you! I am 100% Cliff.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

we are all way better than Diane + Rebecca put together.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

(I have not met you, Julia, but I am 100% certain this applies to you, too.)

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

dan you're norm and you know it.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

face your destiny.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Julia can be Lilith. I always had a thing for Lilith. :)

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I can totally see Dan as Norm. Everyone loves Dan.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

kenan, i'll say you're woody based solely on both of you having a twang in your voice.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Wait. Wait. What's happening? Nobody posts on the Chicago thread anymore? Is it time for somebody to start an angry "regional threads are ruining ILX" thread to fire up our local pride?

Also, Hot Doug's delivery to Julia's is a brilliant idea.

I am totally Carla but without the kids.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Bebe Neuwirth is hot stuff. yeah, I forgot about Lilith. she can stay.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

okay, Julia, is this okay with you? when can we make this hot doug's delivery happen?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://epguides.com/thirtysomething/cast.jpg

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

I love Carla, but I don't know if she's good enough to be you, Jenny.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

jenny is carla. It's true. I will not hear a bad word said about carla.

kevin is sam, because he's so good with the ladiez.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Does no-one love Cliff? I hesitate to be represented by George Wendt... What's the reasoning here?

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

kev: i have a twang? usually i hear that people are surprised I don't have a twang.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

dan, what could be better than norm? Everyone loves him, he's all chill and shit, and he gets all the good one-liners.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, Norm is the best.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

kevin is sam, because he's so good with the ladiez.

when did you start huffing paint?

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

I thought you were saying I was a drunk. Which wouldn't change if I was Cliff, I guess.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

"Hey Norm, how's the world been treating you?"
"Like a baby treats a diaper."

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

kenan, yes, not much of one but certainly more than the flat midwest accent that i hear for much of the day.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Horseshoe, U R sweet.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

I would 2x Kenan having a lil twang, just like I have a little UP drawl given the right words.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

you can take the boy out of east texas, etc

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

seriously, I like "casting" my friends. but it is more about actors in that case than characters they have played. I will think on it and then cast y'all.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

for Jenny I am already thinking a mix of Holly Hunter + Marcia Gay Harden.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

i got dibs on steve buscemi playing me.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Some jerkass in high school said I looked like Judge Reinhold.

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.smig.net/fchm/happydays.jpg

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah=a little bit Julie Delpy maybe? that's not quite right but it's a start.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

This can only be settled by Quizilla.

Which Cheers Character Are You?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff, Jenny, Kenan, John, ?, 'shoe, Dan
Jesse, Amanda, Kevin

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, this one might be better.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

bah, I could see that coming a mile away.

http://images.quizilla.com/N/Nefret/1034996580_rssam2quiz.JPG

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

Goddamn it I got Norm

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Jack Tripper: Dan
Larry Dallas: Kevin
Ralph Furley: Kenan
Stanley Roper: John
Janet Wood: Amanda
Chrissy Snow: Horseshoe
Cindy Snow: Sarah
Terry Alden: Julia
Jim the Bartender: Nick
Mike the Bartender: Eric

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

JACK TRIPPER?

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

I have actually had the thought before that Jesse reminded me of a particular actor and now I can't remember who it is. goddammit. by the end of the day, guys, I'm going to have you all cast.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

I got Woody.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

CHRISSY? Jenny, I love you, but now I must destroy you.

xpost hah John, I was kind of thinking Woody for you. but in my movie, you're being played by Mark Ruffalo.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda=Zooey Deschanel

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I forgot:

Helen Roper: Jesse

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

i am totally comfortable with being mr. furley. Not so much with sam malone. Which is the same result I got on the other quiz, too. It's the sex questions that get me every time.

I got Woody.

Let's keep that to ourselves, shall we?

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

Frank Angelino: Jeff
Lana Shields: Jenny

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

hah John, I was kind of thinking Woody for you.

Yeah, me too. No surprise.

but in my movie, you're being played by Mark Ruffalo.

Sweet!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, you're not played by Steve Buscemi. I want you to be played by Jeff Bridges, but that's not quite right. it's the right personality vibe, but not the right look.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

Horseshoe, I picked you for Chrissy because that was the most absurd thing I could think of and so best avoid anyone thinking I think they are actually in any way like Chrissy Snow.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

okay, then, you are forgiven.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

maybe instead of Julie Delpy, Sarah will be played by Catherine Keener.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

can we make requests?

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

so fun, when I finish this round, I can do a vintage version!!!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

yes, Kenan, but I am final arbiter. or not.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

because this is totally me:

http://www.museum.tv/archives/etv/F/htmlF/forsythejoh/forsythejohIMAGE/forsythejoh.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

and if not him, i will also accept:

http://adorocinema.cidadeinternet.com.br/personalidades/atores/steve-martin/steve-martin03.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

NOTE:

I am Norm.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ragtagfilm.com/archives/images/jerk.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc is totally the dude who ran melville's upstairs from cheers.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

these people are too old, Kenan!! I will provisionally allow Steve Martin, but that may change.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

with Vincent Gallo as "Kevin"

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I am very fond of Kevin, so that will not stand, Eric.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin can maybe be played by Liev Schreiber.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

horseshoe, i was not being serious

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

oh okay! but this is serious business!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

ooh good call with the liev

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

i do not know who liev schreiber is and i'm too lazy to google so i will say CHOOSE AGAIN.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

no no it's perfect!

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

WHO AM I

― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i just checked and the picture on this page looks EXACTLY like greg from chin up chin up.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

in the vintage version, i would like to be:

http://www.sherlockmagazine.it/imgbank/NEWS/malcolm_mcdowell.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

and i look nothing like that dude.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who half of these people are.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

I want to be played by a bucket with a face painted on it, hanging from a coat rack.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

actually, maybe you can be played by Viggo, but I suspect you're too fundamentally sensible for that.

xpost to Kevin

look guys, this is not just about looks. it is about a vibe. and it is serious business.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

jaymc is totally the dude who ran melville's upstairs from cheers.

Haha, I was totally going to make that joke earlier!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

i want to be played by lawrence hilton-jacobs.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

also, you people need to watch more movies.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

from cheers i want to be al the old guy. or coach. because i feel about a step and half from death.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

I like Liev Schreiber, although I am not sure if it is right for Kevin.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

john is allowed to help me, because I suspect he has seen EVEN MORE MOVIES THAN I

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

I will not deny that I am somewhat like Janet.
But I cast myself as Shirley:
http://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/telefilm/laverneeshirley.jpg

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

whois me

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

You is Squiggy

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

haha jk

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

shit, i've got it. grow his hair out and voila:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Joshsaviano.JPG

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

i am obviously lenny.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who that is, so I will let it pass. :D

xpost GENIUS

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

YOU DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE SERIOUS BUSINESS THAT IS FRIEND CASTING, KEVIN!!!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

I bet Kenan's seen even more. I've only seen a little under 800 since Jan. 1, 1992.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d3/Joshsaviano.JPG

This looks almost exactly like me at 14.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

kevin, you can be Ron Palillo. Close enough?

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

massive beertrap

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I think Paulina Porizkova should play Sarah -- C. Keener is too gruff. Is she an actress yet? Does it matter? I heard she was on Dancing with Stars.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Not Keener -- Paulina.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

I bet Kenan's seen even more.

aw so sweet. But I bet you've seen more new movies than me.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

if not C. Keener for Sarah, I return to Julie Delpy. Porizkova seems cool, but she does not give me the all-important Sarah vibe.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mortystv.com/showcards/one_day_at_a_time_250.jpg

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

OMG YOU KNOW WHO CAN BE SARAH??? HOPE DAVIS!!!!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

boys, you are more difficult to cast than girls.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

oh paulina!

http://www.born-today.com/Today/pix/porizkova_p2.jpg

that's actually very nice.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

xpost it's because we're so complex, right?

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

it's because we're so fucking ugly.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

i think i should be portrayed by lenny bruce. seemed better than he was, past his prime too early, died early from a nasty habit, and pretty much underachieved.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

not bc you're complex/ugly bc the range of personality types all the dude actors I'm thinking of is not as extensive as I would wish. but it'll come to me.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

Johnny Depp should dress up in different costumes and play all of you.
HAPPY NOW?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

But really, I think that I would need to be reminded of some actors before I choose actors to play you.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hope Davis for Sarah, sure.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think I really knew what Paulina Porizkova looked like, but that photo makes the comment someone made in the O.C. thread about Mischa Barton resembling Paulina OTM.

Paulina also works for Sarah because she married a dude who was into power-pop.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

that would make nick rick ocasek?

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

ok fine but Nick is NOT played by Ric Ocasek.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

ha beartrap

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

Can I just be Steve McQueen and get it over with?

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

my vintage version of you was Gary Cooper, Dan, but fine.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who alot of those people are, but I'm flattered by my potential actress matches.

Whenever we play the game of who would play who in a movie of our lives with my fam, they say obviously Geena Davis for me.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

'Shoe, are you considering someone besides John C. Reilly for Eric?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

except no! someone explain to me what's so great about Steve McQueen?

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

WHA? Geena Davis?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

xposts Hmmmm not familiar with him so much, but I'll take your word for it.

Steve McQueen is the KING OF COOL!

― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

John C. Reilly for Eric is a good suggestion. but I don't want to firm the Eric role up yet.

xpost Geena Davis is all wrong, Sarah.

sorry I'm being so obnoxious guys. this is like my favorite thing to do.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Geena Davis is tall, it's a cheap choice.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

There is no one like me.

― n/a, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

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that's julia on the right
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

waht
― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.cosmopolis.ch/mulholland3.jpg

that's julia on the right
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

oh noes i emphasized everything
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

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― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

no, Nick, there is someone who should play you. I was originally thinking Benicio, but that's not quite right.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

THE BBCODE DOES NOTHINGGGGGGG
― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

I like Catherine Keneer for Sarah but that's probably because I really like Sarah and I have decided that if I knew CK I would really like her, too. Also they sort of look like each other. Also Sarah is about to marry a 40 year old virgin.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

How did you assholes fix this last time?
― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

OMG YOU GUYS JOHN IS CARMINE!

http://www.tallarmeniantale.com/pics/mekka.JPG
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

okay, Jenny has restored my faith in myself. I'm going back to my choices. here's what I've got:

Sarah=Catherine Keener
Jenny=Marcia Gay Harden
Amanda=Zooey Deschanel
John=Mark Ruffalo
Kevin=Liev Schreiber (this will change, bc Kevin is not okay with it ;_;)
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Are we thinking of the same Catherine Keener? They look NOTHING alike, people! NOTHING! I love both of these people (Sarah more xoxo) but CK is hard-edged and grizzled while Sarah is soft and wispy with a hidden edge.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

jenny -- i think we need divine intervention to fix this
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

I think I'm a little too grizzled to be Zooey, but I appreciate the effort!
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

IT IS NOT JUST LOOKS, PEOPLE! I AM GOING TO GO TO MY DEATHBED SCREAMING ABOUT THE VIBE!!!!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

ok but still
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

I like the feeling of being too complex to cast.
― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.unexplainedstuff.com/images/geuu_03_img0660.jpg

Nick and Sarah.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

aw!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

if we have to co-cast Nick and Sarah, that's harder.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

i still go with steve buscemi.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

i am all for hot doug's, very very much so.

i like the catherine keener idea for sarah too.

shit, there was something i was watching the other day with an actor who looked a little like nick, but i have a horrible memory for things and won't be able to recall.

mein gott, xpostiness. i was the one that proposed carmine, but i don't know the show, i just saw the picture that amanda posted!
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

I accept Marcia Gay Harden. I know nothing about her vibe, but I trust horseshoe's abilities in this area.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

you just aren't played by Steve Buscemi, though, Kevin. there's nothing to be done about it.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

yes julia gets full credit for spotting cunningham in the laverne and shirley group photo.
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Is there something about Catherine Keener that I don't know? I guess maybe I keep associating her with the character from "Your Friends and Neighbors" and there's something really horrifying about that being Sarah.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Carmine loves to sing showtunes too. John IS Carmine.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Marcia Gay Harden's vibe=smart and elegant. I wanted a bit of Holly Hunter for the Southern-ness, but that might just be me exotifying you, Jenny.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

well then i want lorne greene.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

or dick van patten.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Potential Nick:
http://www.fedge.net/~zdeschanel/images/boys/jason.jpg
― KitCat, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

Catherine Keener in Walking and Talking is what I'm thinking for Sarah, Amanda. she's pretty much the opposite of her character in Friends and Neighbors in that.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

I AM GOING TO GO TO MY DEATHBED SCREAMING ABOUT THE VIBE!!!!

ILEpitaph

and think catherine keener is all wrong for sarah. Catherine Keener is not sweet on kitties. You know what I mean?
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I like that movie, where she sniffs the sponge. Haha. I always liked that movie. Still, I disagree with Keener/Sarah.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

CATHERINE KEENER IN WALKING AND TALKING IS IN LOVE WITH KITTIES!!!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

Fancy!

I want to have the Ric Ocasek cameo.
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

man, you people. with your own opinions-having. I should have withheld the list until I was done.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

for the Southern-ness

Ah, see, I am not Southern. I lived in the south but only for five of my 34 years.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

William Hurt is Dan.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

okay, then, it's good that I dropped Holly Hunter. (actually I'm not sure if she's originally Southern either! I've just been exotifying the wrong people!!!)
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

I may get flak for this, but Cameron Diaz for Sarah? (vs. Keener re kenan's point)
― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Tell me more about Carmine. I never watched Happy Days or Laverne and Shirley or Welcome Back, Kotter! or Three's Company or Joanie Loves Chachi or whatever the hell he was on.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

um, see, the thing is I hate Cameron Diaz? and Sarah is pretty? so no. I'm sorry to be a bitch like this, but no.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, GA, according to the huge list of Personalities I'm currently editing.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

I decided. I would like to be James Spader, plz.
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

I couldn't be happier with Ruffalo, btw.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

i don't know much of anything about classic tv either. i had to look up terri alden, who is "less ditzy than her predecessors".
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

I'm glad, John! there is, dare I say, a vibe!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Carmine "The Big Ragu" Ragusa (Eddie Mekka) Shirley's on and off again boyfriend, and high school sweetheart. Carmine's occasional lady companion was wealthy divorcee Lucille Lockwash, which made Shirley jealous. "The Big Ragu" is a part-time boxer who owns a dance studio and dreams of making it big as a dancer/singer. In the final episode of the series, he auditions for the Broadway musical Hair and wins a major role.
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, you can be Spader, but I'm not sure I see it--is there a particular role you're thinking of?
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

it's the secretary, isn't it kenan.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

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― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

spader is always just a little unctuous
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

for Nick=Jason Schwarzmann or Benicio del Toro or Paul Rudd????
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

or someone else???? Sarah, help!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

I am officially stressed out by this undertaking.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Not to interrupt, but which is preferable: "the first female president" or "the first woman president"? Is it just me, or does the latter sound outdated?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

I like "woman president" better. female just sounds clinical to me.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

are those the only two options?
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Just pick a short Jewish actor for me who is not Danny Devito or Jason Alexander, or otherwise fat & bald pls. Otherwise I get Goldblum.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

my friend brett is on tastebudchicago.com today.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

ew, Goldblum. nobody deserves Goldblum.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

What? Goldblum is awesome!

are those the only two options?

What do you suggest? "Dos-equis"?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

goldblum has buggy eyes.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, i don't know. i guess those are the only two options.

i choose woman as well.
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

I am just instinctively grossed out by Goldblum. have you ever seen David Duchovny playing him on SNL's Celebrity Jeopardy? that's how I feel about Goldblum.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

oh shit! i want norm macdonald to play me!
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

YES, KEVIN, THAT TOTALLY WORKS!!!! I KISS YOU FOR SAVING MY PROJECT!!!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Benecio Del Torro seems too... sweaty to be Nick. He's also got kind of a shady vibe whereas I think Nick is all sweetness and light.

I cannot imagine Nick mumbling, "Give me the fucking keys you fucking cocksucker what the fuck?" for example.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

do not do a GIS on jeff goldblum, there's a nearly-nekkid pic of him which was an unfortunate sight.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

you could be really obnoxious and say "lady president".

when my dad talks about female coworkers, he refers to them as "lady bankers", which seems both quaint and incredibly annoying.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

ew, Jeff Goldblum needs to never take his clothes off.

I maybe have a more positive view of Benicio than normal people, so I will strike him from Nick-consideration.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

i don't see what's wrong with "female president", myself, but i'm outnumbered. you wouldn't say "man president", you'd say "male president" (not that the distinction needs to be made).

or you'll say "male stripper", rather than "MAN stripper". (though really i just like the term "hot cops".
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

if Nick=sweetness and light, then he should be Paul Rudd.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

i am assuming the nekkid photo is from The Fly, which is an excellent movie and Goldblum is excellent in it and really funny and I like Goldblum just fine you're all wrong there I said it.
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

and julia makes an excellent point -- clinical might be the way to go. "Woman president" sounds nice, but almost too familiar.
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I would take Stiller, but I'm not "wacky".

Paul Rudd for Nick works.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

But Michael Ian Black would be better
― Jordan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

okay, I've never met Jordan or Julia, so maybe I should cede responsibility for some of the casting to other people. also, now that Kevin cast himself so brilliantly, maybe I should just let everyone cast his or herself and stop being so fucking fascist?

xpost okay, Michael Ian Black=Nick
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

i just needed someone with a drink and cigarette always at the ready.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

so i guess '70s era liza minelli would've worked too.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

you wouldn't say "man president", you'd say "male president" (not that the distinction needs to be made)

See, this is a good point, and I think this is why I was inclined to use "female." For parity, yo.

This isn't about Hillary, btw.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

i'll go with kenan's flattering suggestion that i be her:

http://davidlynch.de/harringnyle.jpg

she looks all sexy and also annoyed with the world! (i am definitely the latter.) she needs an eastern european nose and black glasses though.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

she is very beautiful. I have shamefully never seen Mulholland Drive.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

mmm.

http://pionentes.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/08/laura_helena_harring.jpg
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

hahaha that pic somehow only loaded so i could see the bottom third of the picture. that would take way too much double-sided tape, fuck that.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/harring.png

Goodness. Yeah, I think I picked a goddamn bombshell for a reason.

Hi, honey.
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

don't look now, but you're being objectified.
― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

i kinda noticed that.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

I think I am okay with William Hurt.
― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 22:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm transcribing a conference call from the UK, and I just learned a few phrase. Guy says "there is now less distance between the boardroom and the coalface." Took me a few listens to get it right, but apparently the definition is "If you work at the coalface, you deal with the real problems and issues, rather than sitting in a office discussing things in a detached way."
― Eazy, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

damn this thread, I need to hear ZZ Top now and can't find my Tres Hombres CD
― milo z, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:01 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i've misspelled "critical" EVERY FUCKING TIME in this 8 page document. i didn't spell it correctly once out of the 20 or so times i used it.

WINNER!!!
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:11 (eighteen years ago)

weiner?
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:17 (eighteen years ago)

weimaraner

http://puppydogweb.com/gallery/weimaraners/weimaraner_winford.jpg
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

WANT!
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

man, if ONLY i was as cool as that dog.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

that is one handsome man, i'll tell you what.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

i want to adopt him.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

i'm going home now.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

A friend of mine in Chicago needs work, probably ASAP. He is working on his dissertation, so any sort of barista/editor/proofer type jobbing would be good. Temp/short-term (he's only there for a few more months). Any ideas?
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

I believe the consensus answer is New Office Temps.
― dan m, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:42 (eighteen years ago)

Have people here used them? Are there names to be dropped?
― Casuistry, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 23:48 (eighteen years ago)

That I don't know.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

There is a hardware support position open in my firm. Which is nothing like a barista/editor/proofer.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:21 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa. When you go to "Show all messages" on this thread, it's all italics from the point where Kenan empahsized everything. But when you hide the middle messages, it stops.

I'm in Michigan. It's going to SNOOOOOWOWOWWOWOW here. We are going to get 3-6".

Helen Roper: Jesse ???

Mrs. 'Shoe-- is the actor you're thinking of TR Knight, by any chance? I get that all the time. Which is really, very, very OK with me.

My mom wants to go shopping for her first pair of blue jeans this week.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 04:37 (eighteen years ago)

that wasn't who I was thinking of, but I can see it. you are betterlooking than that dude, though.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 04:53 (eighteen years ago)

TR Knight is my ex-girlfriend's ex-boyfriend.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 04:56 (eighteen years ago)

Well, if you knew how much I think he's HOT HOT HOT, you'd know what kind of compliment that is.

I can sort of see the resemblance in the eyes and the round cheeks. And how Isaiah Washington calls us both faggots.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

oops. xpost.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

That's the kind of hastily-written little nugget that will get me in trouble through someone's late-night googling.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 05:05 (eighteen years ago)

That's I'm sure no one will know it's you who posted that, Edna Zellig.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 05:12 (eighteen years ago)

I met him a few times in Mpls. He's a nice stand-up guy and a really good actor, and I'm glad he hit the big time.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

Send him to me. I want to have hug-time with him. And we could eat lo-mein in our boxers and watch Grey's Anatomy.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

He is my biggest celebrity crush, for sure. I love him in the same way I love Joan Cusak and Katherine (sp?) Keener. And the way I wish I could love the Dell Dude.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 05:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm in Michigan. It's going to SNOOOOOWOWOWWOWOW here. We are going to get 3-6".

This is hardly worthy of extra Os and Ws. It's going to snow.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

F U, YOOPER.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:16 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, considering that it's mid-April, the extra Os and Ws are completely merited. The weather woman was frothing at the mouth about this.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Dude. Did you see my post last week about my home getting not 3-6" but 36"? That's SNOOOOOWOWOWWOWOW.

Silly trolls.

Where are you in the LP again? West Branch?
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

I like Michael Ian black for Nick. I don't know... Paul Rudd is pretty good too...

I like the snow today, but the slush killed me because I stored my boots in the back of the basement already.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:29 (eighteen years ago)

This snow is crazy.

"Sweetness and light" ha ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaa ugh.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

HAHAHAHA All this time I had Paul Rudd confused with Paul Reiser and I couldn't figure what the fuck kind of similarilty was happening there but figured it must be a vibe from a movie I've never seen but then I googled and now OH. Okay. Paul Rudd. Right.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know anything about Josh Holloway outside of Lost, but Sawyer's character always reminds me of Kenan.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

Million dollar question: Who does Zach Braff get to play?
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

HA HA, Jenny!

xpost - JESSE!
― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, near W. Branch.

36" is just unfit for human habitation. Hell, 3-6" in mid-April is too. That's why my mom's moving to NC.

It snowed in Chicago? How much? It's still dry here.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

Wait. Where are you?
― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

What is LP?
― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

I'm on vinyl.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Lower Peninsula. Of Michigania.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

snooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwww
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

xpost AKA Troll-land
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

Million dollar question: Who does Zach Braff get to play?

Kenan can be the hotshot doctor-mentor.

Aw, the tree outside my window has little buds on every branch and the branches are covered in SNOW.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

Holy shit was that a miserable commute. Three hours.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

Growing up in the LP, I always had the impression that the UP was a desolate wasteland. I also had that impression about the LP. Too much "dead nature," as Camus called it.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

It'd be easy to think that, living in West Branch. About the only thing that grows around there is the outlet mall.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Nothing is worth a 3 hour commute.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't in West Branch. We lived near Charlevoix. Halfway between Charlevoix and East Jordan*. You never listen to me *weeps inconsolably and slams door*

*Look down at the manhole covers and fire hydrants all over Chicago and New Orleans and elsewhere--made at EJIronWorks.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Arguably, Charlevoix is way preferable to WB. There is cute town, Lake Michigan, Lake Charlevoix, skiing, and Jon Benet Ramsey's family. Still, growing up there was painful.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.homemade-sex-toys.com/vibrator/img/vibe-5.jpg
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I've never looked at the Chicago manhole covers closely, most other places I've lived they've been made in lovely Neenah-Menasha, near my old stomping grounds of Appleton, WI.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I remember now. Sorry, I was a little drunk by that point on Sunday.

Charlevoix is major tourista town, and has lots of snowbird summer homes too. It's what I'm afraid the UP will turn into (even more than it already is). But, definitely way better than West Branch.

OK, end of MI-discussion for the day.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

xp to the asparagoos vibrator: Huh. I thought that was a new twist on the potato clock at first. But now I see it's just dumb.

Nothing is worth a 3 hour commute.

x2. Although I did drag myself into my externship this morning so I wouldn't have to make up the time next week even though I seem to be sick now and had to take a break and lay down in the middle of taking a shower this morning.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm a big fan of Bay City, MI. Tons of great architecture in that town.

(xpost - Ok, no more MI discussion then)
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

The Charlevoix/Petoskey combo could even be thought of as downright nice, in a quant, witness protection program kind of way.
― mattttt, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to Michigan for the first time on Friday.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:34 (eighteen years ago)

this weather is some fucked up repugnant shit.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

good morning!
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

on the lighter side, i am enjoying a sausage egg and cheese sandwich on a sour cream and onion bagel. It's very good.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

Sawyer's character always reminds me of Kenan.

haha

That does is. From now on, I will call you freckles.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

i had to wait THIRTY EIGHT MINUTES for a bus on western avenue this morning. that is insane. it's not like western is some barely travelled side street. and when the bus did come it was SRO. i am really REALLY fed up with the cta.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

I ate oatmeal from Corner Bakery which was good but made me feel like a heel because I spent $2.50 and generated an awful lot of waste to eat something that I make at home three times a week. This led to me contemplating the abusdity of putting a cute little crochet coffee cup sleeve on my coffee cup to ostensibly avoid the waste of the paper sleve, since I was also carrying a paper bag holding a paper bowl with a plastic lid, three napkins, and a plastic spoon.

I hate modern life sometimes.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, waiting on inner-LSD for a bus was some rough shit this morning. We commuters were all huddled inside the bus shelter like emperor penguins.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmm food. I have nothing to eat in my desk today and the fucked up commute allowed no time to stop for anything. Hurry up lunchtime!
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

there was no room in the bus shelter at division and western, it was claimed by high schoolers. i am soaked from head to toe despite wearing a "water resistant" jacket and "waterproof" boots. i think i might head over to the px and buy a pair of pants and some socks. i am miserable sitting here all wet and cold.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think you should get some dry clothes, Kevin! And a cup of good (not bus station) coffee.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

That's my answer to everything that ails anybody: dry clothes and a cup of coffee.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

I want more hot drinks but our office coffee machine is broken and I can't go out for coffee until 11. I guess I will have to wait.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:53 (eighteen years ago)

i don't want to go back out into the weather. but i do want dry socks before i go home. plus, wearing a wet wool sweater really sucks.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

The smell of wet wool sweaters reminds me of college when all us hippies would wear those big bulky Guatemalan sweaters in the rain and then sit in class with spent cigarette butts in our pockets (didn't want to litter, see?) and reek like a fucking trash heap.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

Why are you all in Michigan?

Next weekend the band is going to 1. Minneapolis, 2. Iowa City, and 3. Omaha!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of crushes...

http://www.portlandmercury.com/binary/1320cefb/music-2041.jpeg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper332/stills/24i99cfm.jpg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

You have a crush on that 13 year old boy?
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

You have a crush on a little kid?
― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

ha ha

Is that the Bright Eyeeez dude?
― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

who is that?
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Take pix of Omaha for me! Or little videos! The first song off our new album (due to hit stores August 21, 2007) is called "Omaha".
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Ewwwwwww john.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

We are playing in Grand Rapids on Friday.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Fine, whatever. I posted the second picture because I was afraid he looked too young in the first.

I don't think I've heard more than one Bright Eyes song, btw, and the one I heard was horrible.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

Also: What do guys like that who "look 13" at that age look like in their 40s?
― Casuistry, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

yes, that is conor oberst, and i have no idea what that is supposed to have to do with crushes.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

beartraps
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

What's good in Lawrence, Kansas? Going there for a wedding next weekend and will probably have a little time to kill at record shops and stuff. We'll be staying very near campus.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:04 (eighteen years ago)

Nick, where in GR???
― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

xpost William S. Burroughs's exhumed corpse.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

I love how sullen Conor looks in that first photo.

Chris, they either stay boyish and hot or start to look kind of icky.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Juk3's Bar?
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

THAT's Conor Oberst?!?!?! I just read a review of the new Bright Eyes record in the Red Eye yesterday and he's like in his late 20s! That's kind of freaky. He reminds me of Kelly from the Bad News Bears, except not as, um, tough:

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/richard_deitsch/12/14/media.circus/p1_haley.jpg
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. Conor is 27 apparently. There is a pic of him in 7th grade on wiki
― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Like, I said, sometimes they start to look icky:

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/Actors4/Jackie3_150.jpg http://www.thefilmexperience.net/images/2006/littlehaley.jpg

(Not that I ever actually fancied Jackie Earle Haley.)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:15 (eighteen years ago)

People aren't over Bright Eyes yet? Hello, year 2000 nostalgia.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

What do guys like that who "look 13" at that age look like in their 40s?

Pretty horrifying (see Davy Jones and other wizened teen idols).

Also, Oberst has long hair now, so jaymc will have something to hang onto.
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Nation Planning Surprise Party To Cheer Up Conor Oberst

OMAHA, NE—American citizens are coordinating efforts to lift the spirits of wünderkind singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, sources reported Monday. "I saw Conor's picture in a Spin article about Bright Eyes, and he just looked so down," said Lindsey Keisner of Youngstown, OH, one of the party's 4,000 planners. "The country feels really bad that he's going through such a rough spell, so next Friday, everyone who can should meet in Omaha with balloons, funny cards, and silly little gag gifts." Britt Daniel from Spoon will lure Oberst to Omaha by asking him to overdub some vocals.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Oberst's mother claims that he was banging since he was two years old.

LOL

Also, I didn't know his older brother was in Sorry About Dresden, whom I saw open for the Strokes in NC. I liked them a lot.

I had an age appropriate crush on Jackie Earle Haley when I was eight. Kind of like how 12 year old girls have age appropriate crushes on Connor Orbersteretttsst.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Also, Jackie Earl Haley is a bad comparison for what CO will look like when he's older b/c JEH looked 13 when he WAS 13, whereas CO looks 13 at 27. Or at least is styled that way in photos.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I think Conor Oberst will look like Emmanual Lewis when he's in his 40s.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

CO will look like when he's older b/c JEH looked 13 when he WAS 13,

are you sure? wasn't jeh one of the cutters in breaking away?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

IMO the best thing to come out of the Saddle Creek incestuous band scene was Cursive's Domestica. Oh god how I loathe the Faint.

xxpost LOL
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

meaning he was playing a college-aged dude (convincingly, except for his stature) in 1980 or so.

beartrap.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Lesse... Bad News Bears was made in 1976 and JEH was born in 1961, which would have made him 15 when he made the movie.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Breaking Away was 1979, making him 18 - college age.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

I have never written nor spoken about Conor Oberst this much in my life, and I own a Desaparecidos CD.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

shit it was 76? i thought it was later than that. i must be thinking of the bnb go to japan.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

PLEASE DON'T BRING BEARTRAP HERE?
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

It's kind of creepy that a guy in his late 20s can look like that.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

xp - I thought it was later, too! I am almost positive I saw it at the drive in with my parents.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

Whenever I am in Michigan I feel like I need to hunker down and ride it out. I feel like the areas of the Midwest that lies between cities is hostile to my system--sort of like if you have to run into a smokey room to rescue a baby.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

I will not stop discussing Michigan until I'm not in Michigan.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Conor is 21 in the first photo.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

Those eyes, those sighs, theyre part of the tender trap
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

THIS SNOW IS BLOWING MY MIND
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

IT IS LITERALLY MAKING ME GO INSANE
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

LLIITTEERRAALLLLYY
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

GOING
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

INSANE
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Awww, I like Conor. Although I hate admitting that because people tend to get the impression that any Bright Eyes fan is some rabid obsessive that worships at the altar of Oberst. I just happen to love the way he throws himself completely into everything, even when he ends up looking like a pretentious douchebag. He's got some great moments buried in all of his albums.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

(pop)
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

THIS SNOW IS BLOWING MY MIND

weekend on a wednesday.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

THAT WAS MY BRAIN EXPLODING
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

It's not going to start snowing here until this afternoon. By the time I am trying to drive the hour back here from Saginaw, the roads ought to be getting shitty.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

this is a warm-fluffy-sock day.
― JuliaA, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

I just found out my sister is coming home this weekend, so now I kinda want to go to Michigan too. Damn it, why wasn't I informed of this earlier?
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

I am so not going to class today. Gross.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

this is a go the fuck back to bed day
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Calling C.O. sullen is one of those misleading things, like calling Leonard Cohen depressed, when both of them (at their best) are really making music about transcending that stuff in a moment of ecstacy.

I mean, it's kind of a schtick - a voice and body trembling so much that it sounds like he's going to start sobbing in pain or transcendent happiness - but I think it's a heartfelt schtick.

Speaking of heartfelt schtick, there's a great photo of a Stooges concert on the front page of today's NY Times Arts section.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

No one here has any sisu.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/04/11/arts/11stoo_CA0.600.jpg
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Eazy, like I said, I've only actually heard one Bright Eyes song, to my knowledge, so when I said "sullen" I was referring to the photo I posted.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

http://a763.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00958/26/75/958995762_l.jpg
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

It's funny seeing that photo again, now that I know Jenny and Ben and Gerard.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

John, you should try the 'I'm Wide Awake, etc.' CD - you might like it.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

EZ your robut-esque dance pose in that pic cracks me up.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Surely you knew Jenny at the time, that was less than a year ago?
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's a heartfelt schtick

but don't you see that just makes it worse
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

Robot boxing. I knew Jenny, but now I feel like I know almost everyone on that stage better. And crazy that the 'nasta month at Schubas was a year ago!
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

FYI: Youngbl00d Brass Band is playing at Subterranean this Saturday.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Hot 8 Brass Band is at House of Blues on Friday.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

WAHT
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Also apparently at Schubas on Sunday.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to go on Friday.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Who are they? Why are they so big?
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Did you just decide this?
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's one of those back-porch things. I don't know anything about those.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I just decided. Not even a decision really.

They're not "big", they're just the hottest N.O. brass band, which would make them my favorite band my default.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Hot 8 is at Old Town School for free today, and the Gangbe Brass band is at HotHouse.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

What is Old Town School? I would, uh, recommend going to see the Hot 8 in your town for free.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.oldtownschool.org/
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, they're playing there at 10:30 tomorrow morn too!
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse is hidden behind Sarah in that pic.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

i wish i had a heat gun here so i could dry my boots.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:31 (eighteen years ago)

Is going bare-foot frowned upon in your office? I'd take 'em off and put them somewhere to air out if I were you.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

(note: I see people barefoot here all the time, goddamn hippies.)
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

i'm at my desk, no one would notice but my pants are also SOAKED and i don't want to feel the freezing cold wet cuff of my pants against my bare ankle. in a half hour or so i'm going over to buy socks at least. i'll take off my boots then.

or rather, after i get back with the new socks.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

New socks are one of life's great pleasures.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

And how!

I got some nice warm socks for Xmas and they are already wearing out in the heels. I need to learn how to knit so I can knit some serious f'n socks that I don't have to replace every six months.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

this was the first year i didn't get any new socks for xmas in like forever. only my sister and nephew got me anything but they got me some really awesome/useful stuff.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.hachettebookgroupusa.com//images/41/124979.jpg
― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Where's HoB at anyway? Is it reasonably easy to get to/park near?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

Favorite line of that book: "Orange must be my size!"
― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

xpost It's at like Michigan and some little offshoot of Wacker Drive. I used to walk by every day on my way to temping. There's a parking garage on the same block but it'll probably be $$$$.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

me and that bird have the same specs!
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, that's not right. WTF am I thinking of?
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

i thought hob was at like dearborn and kinzie, over near the old AMF lanes.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

It's on Dearborn and Wacker - 329 N Dearborn St - which is reasonably easy to get to via public transit.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

i think there's like a hob hotel going in over there or a hard rock hotel or something retarded like that dan. maybe that's it?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Right next to Marina Towers.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Why would I use public transit?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I think it's Hard Rock...
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, the HoB is next to Marina Towers. Maybe you can just steal one of those parking spaces, Jordan.

xp - because there's no where to park near the HoB? And so you can get FUCKING WASTED? And because driving is no fun?
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

there's a parking garage UNDER hob i thought? i mean, if you want to pay for it.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

note: i've never been to hob so i have no idea.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Note: There might be parking INSIDE the House of Blues for all I know. I don't know shit about shit re: parking.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh that's right, I know I've seen HoB now.

Driving is no fun, but I wouldn't know where to park randomly. Maybe Rodger's Park, if I stay at Kid's place.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/143/338736763_a2e83d3873.jpg

The first 10 or so storeys of the Marina Towers are for parking.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Marina Towers and the BMW headquarters... separated at birth?

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/70/Bmw-hochhaus_1.jpg/346px-Bmw-hochhaus_1.jpg
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, I've never seen those.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

that building is a bit much
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

I can't believe its still snowing out there.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

I am so enraged by the weather.

what should I eat for lunch?
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Wild Rice Chicken Sausage with Blue Cheese Dijonnaise and Roasted Yellow Peppers?
― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

omg don't even tempt me. if it weren't snowing I would be all over that!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

do you see, snow? how you have come between me and my beloved? HATE.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

In keeping with today's infuriating pattern of eating things that I could cook at home that would thus taste better, be cheaper, and generate less trash, I am eating some very disappointing red beans and rice from the "cajun" fast food hole downstairs.

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/8/82/CryingIndian.jpg
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

I was thinking of making some chicken + black bean soft tacos.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

Speaking of cooking cheapo deliciousness at home, I have a huge amount of well-soaked chickpeas just waiting to be curryfied tonight.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

for lunch:

Seaside cocktail of shrimp, ceviche, fresh-shucked oysters and avocado in limey, Tamazula-sparked cocktail sauce.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

wait, is that what you're eating? that sounds goddamn amazing.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

The truly tragic thing here is that I wanted something spicy because I have a dumb cold (and the stupid chills) and super spicy food makes me feel like I'm really doing something for my health and I figured cajun food is supposed to be spicy but really? This is just like a can of overcooked kidney beans.

SO SAD YOU GUYS.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

i want to light myself on fire, but this time only for the warmth.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Go get some socks!
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

horseshoe, that is only what i would like to be eating
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

well, now it's what I'd like to be eating, too.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Me three.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

i want to be eating that, and also i want to be in buenos aires. Oh where did I leave my magic lamp?
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

Somebody with magic powers beam me over some of my Mom Mom's chicken and dumplings at about 6:30 this evening for dinner. And some collards. kthxbi

xp - HA! When you find it, you know what I want.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

mmm, collards.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

I make a mean mess of collards.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

god I wish I had some sort of green in my house right now.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

I will have all this ChILXors over for collards one night.

xp - sounds like you're talking weeeeeeeeeed.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

hahahaha weed or money or collards I'm not picky
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

No one rides for free.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:36 (eighteen years ago)

OMG if I ever have a car again, I want a bumper sticker that says, "Cash, grass, or collards. Nobody rides for free."
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

I will have all this ChILXors over for gas, grass, and ass.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Quit grab grassing around, people, and work on my chicken and dumplings problem.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'm eating some Moroccan stew that my dad made for Easter: sweet and regular potatoes, zucchini, carrots, chickpeas, onions, and raisins.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

no one is excited enough. COME ON YOU GUYS. ASS! MY PLACE! LET'S GO!
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

I prefer to find ass on my own, thx.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

if it's combined with gas, no thanks.
― JuliaA, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:47 (eighteen years ago)

i never said what kind of gas.

http://www.justsayn2o.com/images/seltzer.gif
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

Ok fine, be that way. No one wants to swing with me. Mr. Ferley had the same problem.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:51 (eighteen years ago)

That is tragic, Jenny. I ate a huuuuuuuge bowl of gumbo for lunch because I wanted something warm and filling to counteract nu-winter. Now I am very full and sleepy.

I'm also signing off because we're not supposed to use internet during the snowstorm, to save bandwidth for people VPNing in apparently.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:54 (eighteen years ago)

lol nu-winter
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

sour cream OTM!!!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i bought some socks but the only levis they had were "relaxed fit" which really doesn't suit me. for christ's sake why would anyone who wears a 32/34 need relaxed fit pants?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could think of a dick joke right now
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

guys this jalapeno is for real. also lunch means I need a nap.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

my iTunes party shuffle is in loooooooove with Elvis Costello.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to dan, ok, can anyone give me a reason why BOTH legs would need to be relaxed fit?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

elvis costello party = leave me out
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Uh...

You guys ... RELAXED FIT CONDOMS

-- n/a, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:37 AM (3 hours ago)
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I just invented them

-- n/a, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 10:38 AM (3 hours ago)
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

ie, I made a relaxed fit-related joke THREE HOURS AGO.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, relaxed fit-related dick joke
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

relaxed-fit-related
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

nick you win the relaxed fit dick joke award
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

now, do a victory lap
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

WANT MOAR POWERPOP, MOAR! I've listened to the DIY comp like 20 times since yesterday.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

What about boot cut condoms? Or square leg?
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

I MADE A BOOT CUT CONDOM JOKE RIGHT AFTER THE RELAXED FIT JOKE, DO KEEP UP
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

WANT MOAR POWERPOP

that reminds me, i still owe you a mix. n0rah's birthday party is friday so i'm sure i won't be leaving the house until the cocohomo's show late saturday night. it'll be done soon i swears.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

From a friend's e-mail (re: tonight's Hot 8 show):

Anyway, if it's like any of the other Old Town shows
I've seen (including Mike Doughty last year), the audience will be OLD.
middle-aged, peace 'n love yuppies expecting a sit-down,
listen-and-analyze type concert. When I saw Doughty there, the audience
was as if they were in a museum. I think the lack of any crowd response of any kind sort of threw him for a loop, or made him self-conscious or
somthing, because he kept fucking up and having to start songs over.
This could be an interesting experience for all parties involved. But
then again, I could be wrong and the brass band faithful of Chicago could show up en force and be dancing n' shit on a Wednesday night in a concert hall made from the old stacks of a converted defunct library. ya never
know.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

i do like the image "relaxed fit condom" gives me. Dude's at half mast, rubber all baggy, sipping iced tea and sitting in a chaise lounge.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

"What, me horny?"
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

WTF, craiglist patron?
― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

ok, you just ruined iced tea and chaise lounges for me.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

hush, ally.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

Kevman, I thought CCC was done for a bit due to babies?
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, well someone asked mike and he said yes even though his wife is set to pop THREE DAYS FROM THE NIGHT OF THE SHOW.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

ok, seriously, i wish dunkin donuts delivered. turkey sub is trying to get me to go to bed like a cheap prostitute.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Rockin' waits for nobaby
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/2/u/261244/V1/300x250_even2.gif
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

I'm so glad that worked.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/2/u/261244/V1/300x250_even2.gif http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/2/u/261244/V1/300x250_even2.gif
http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/2/u/261244/V1/300x250_even2.gif
http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/2/u/261244/V1/300x250_even2.gif
http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/2/u/261244/V1/300x250_even2.gif
http://c13.zedo.com/OzoDB/2/u/261244/V1/300x250_even2.gif
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

We're going to have to start a new thread now, aren't we.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/NewAnswersControllerServlet?boardid=60
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

SO GONNA HAPPEN

http://www.presidentialufo.com/Gorbachev.gif
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

I SAID "SO GONNA HAPPEN"

http://gracedavis.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/reagan_and_gorbachev.jpg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

seriously, isn't ebert great sometimes?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

THIRD Elvis Costello song in one hour!!!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

C. Black = pwned

Does anyone else hope he goes to federal pound-me-in-the-ass prison? I do.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Ebert rules.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

there is no way he will. i'm sure he's got A LOT of influential friends both here and abroad.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I'm inclined to think the same way. But, I believe in hope!
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

oh yeah, i found out that i was so soaked this morning that despite having them in a zipped, inside pocket, my pack of cigarettes was totally soaked and starting to disintegrate.

i should check to see what the forcast has for the rest of the week.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Don't, it will only make you angry.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

no, i don't get angry about stuff i can't change.
it might make me sad though. the weather does that.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

oh ok

Basically it's not supposed to nicen up until Monday/Tuesday.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

maybe not until tuesday for logan square but in the six-oh-six-two-two it'll be 50 and part(l)y sunny on sunday.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

In Houston we just started a new dance called the Nicen Up
This is the music we nicen up with
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

archie bizzle and drizzles.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

That song rules.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

RULES RULES RULES
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

yeah it's an old fave.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

ok, wtf, now EVERYONE WHO CAN CLAIM TO BE A SUPERVISOR OF MINE IS GONE. which means work has slowed down tremendously. it's too shitty out to even go outside for a smoke.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

why is everything still italicised? why does the rabbit have two faces?
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

wait a sec
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

today blows beyond reason. i still had 16 people show up for class, though!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

NY is getting lots of rain tomw, suckas
― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

Here is an awesome article about Finns and SISU:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/03/22/AR2006032201943.html

Finns see winter weather differently, not as something to be afraid of but to be faced up to, managed and enjoyed.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

i'm thinking warm thoughts, you are not helping
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

I can't remember if I own the Thing on dvd or not, but if I do I'm going to watch it tonight (cause of both the Grindhouse thread and nu-winter).
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

NY is getting lots of rain tomw, suckas

BUBBLE UMBRELLA DAY!!
― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.reelingreviews.com/bubbleboypic.jpg
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

Pretty much, yes. Also, it echoes in there.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

i'm eatinf a Rolo. I'd forgotten how delicious they are.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

next up: a reece's pb cup
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

oooo i love those umbrellas. i've always wanted one.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Mands! http://umbrellastand.com/411.html
― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

i should get one of those. I'd remember to bring my umbrella more if it was FUN.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

ooooooooooooooooooo i wish they had one with a yellow or orange or pink band around it. cuuu-uu--ute.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

or green!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

honestly, though, i'm usually carrying so many bags and things that i can't hold an umbrella. it would have to be more like a bag i drape over my head/shoulders/things. and that's not cute at all.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

i want a red one
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

i have a green umbrella that has been in chicago longer than i have and it is blood diamonds. didn't bring it with me today however. i will use it when i get home and need to go outside for a smoke.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

FF show at Mutiny tomorrow cancelled, in case you were planning to come and don't get our emails or myspaces.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

Though i don't know how you would know about the show in that case.
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

boot update: i just put them on after leaving them atop the baseboard radiator (which doesn't radiate much heat, truthfully) to dry. boots still soaked but WARM and wet instead of cold and wet so it's almost ok. but not really.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

I missed the part where you explained how you managed to get that wet.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

The international governing body for bowling is pretentious enough to call itself the Federation Internationale des Quilleurs, but not so pretentious enough to use this image on the front page of its website:

http://www.fiq.org/images/bolopiniwhite.gif
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

But that's not pretentious - that's cute!
The father of one of my elementary school friends had something to do with starting the first professional bowling tournament/league/somethinglike that. I can't remember what, but there was some connection there.

My Vague Memories: Entertaining no one since 1975
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

What is that on the bowling ball's head? A doo rag? A cowboy hat? A red pompadour?
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

Also, why is the bowling pin drop-kicking the bowling ball? Revenge?
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

a sombrero
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was a cape!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

SO ... MANY ... QUESTIONS
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

They're skipping, you boob!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

BOWLING BALLS CANNOT WEAR CAPES, THEY DO NOT HAVE NECKS
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

But that's not pretentious - that's cute!

I know, that's what I meant! I thought it was cute that an international sporting federation would use such a silly .gif on their website.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

Skipping with glee that only a pair as perfect as the bowling ball and the pin can comprehend.

He has the cape pinned to the back of his head. He improvises.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

IT IS A SOMBRERO AND THEY ARE HOLDING HANDS AND SKIPPING
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

The pin is particularly cute. I like how his eyes are on top of his head.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

He's like Beaker.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

I missed the part where you explained how you managed to get that wet.

-- kenan, Wednesday, April 11, 2007 4:07 PM (4 minutes ago)

38 minute wait for bus this morning in snow/sleet/rain mix. it was such a soaking mess that my (once) waterproof boots failed me as did my "water resistant" jacket. i'm soaked through my sweater to my t-shirt although my boxers have dried out nicely as have the rest of my pants with the exception of the cuffs.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.scifidimensions.com/Sep05/beaker.jpg
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

Is the bowling ball wearing a gold lame belt? What for? Why would a bowling ball wear a belt?
― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

oh fucking christ that's my halloween costume.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

nick's befuddlement is highly amusing
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.makezine.com/blog/285050860_2a8e73c191-1.jpg
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

love this one:

http://www.makezine.com/blog/284947218_787ddfbebe_b.jpg
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

leggy.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Beaker or the gay bowling ball?

xpost to kevin
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Many international sporting regulatory organizations use French for their names. See also FIFA, FIA, FIM, etc. Just sayin'.
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I was gonna say YOU JUST LIKE HER LEGS YOU PHONY
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

"why is the leggy chick in the dunce cap standing in a box of crayons?" was my first thought.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I know, Dan. :)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

i am not a leg man.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Chicago sports that could use French names:

-gourmet hot dog eating
-sneaking through Canal St farmer's market blockades to get to Lawrence's Fisheries at 4 am
-mallort endurance competition
-bj ramp
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

particularly not a twiggy leg man. but I am a crayon man.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Federation Internationale de Sexe Oral Rampe
― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

haha to regulate worldwide standards and practices.
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I'm talking about.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.101funpages.com/html/imgs/page_imgs/funphotos/sesgang.jpg
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

If that's a bottle of Budweiser, Bert is OTM.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

OH!!!! I RECIND MY DESIRE FOR NORM MACDONALD TO PLAY ME IN THE MOVIES AND HEREBY THROW MY ALLEGIENCE BEHIND GROVER FROM SESAME STREET.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

we've both got the big dopey head, skinny pipe-cleaner arm thing going. and that looks like a camel light to boot so...
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j313/shablisa/muppet11.jpg
Alice and Piggy approve.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

okay, that would work, too, Kevin, except Grover is a little too sentimental, maybe?
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

there are many things you don't know about me horseshoe.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

holy crap, i thought cookie monster had the barrel of that ak in his mouth. i was like NO COOKIE MONSTER! DON'T DO IT!!!
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

Elmo is threatening to shoot off his own junk.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

"I'll do it, I fucking swear I will"
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

Don't worry. He won't do it.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

amanda, i am surprised at you
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry. I'm in a mood.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

you sound like my dad.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

Here, you happy now?
http://www.herzpoetin.de/images/desktops/rainbow-unicorn.jpg
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan gets the Care Bear Stare.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

better than the gas face, i suppose
― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.flickr.com/122/303191782_3f90e5edb7.jpg?v=0
― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 23:02 (eighteen years ago)

The storm is bad, Dan's opinion notwithstanding (I doubted my use of that word, and now I it looks funny).

Sure enough, my mom and I went to eat, then when we were 20 miles from home, the interstate turned to pure snow. First the left lane, and in a couple of miles the right lane. Completely covered, and a few wrecks. We were going about 30 MPH.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

never a dull moment in michigan!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 01:13 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds really shitty, but it also sounds like home. Glad to hear you made it okay.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

OMG. No seriously I needed to google up a unicorn + rainbow pic and now you've done it for me! You people are like my psychic friends.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 12 April 2007 07:27 (eighteen years ago)

Grindhouse was awesome last night. Surprised how horrible its doing at the box office though, we had a nice little private screening in Glenview last night.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:23 (eighteen years ago)

I kind of wish I knew that care bear guy.

So, this morning on the bus, this jerkface lady was taking up two seats even though she wasn't handicapped or overweight or had any bags or anything. So I squeeze in on the 1/2 seat remaining just fine, but while doing so, the bus swerves and I ever-so-slightly brush the sleeve of her coat with mine (despite stumbling all around). So I kind of laugh and say "Oh, sorry!" as I sit down. Then I turn to her and she has this look, which I wish I could immitate for you right now. If looks could kill... Then she looked over at this other lady and gave her a look and shot one back to me as if to say, Can you BELIEVE this woman?? She was so indignant. I was pretty surprised that she didn't say anything after that because I thought we were going to have a match in the aisle for a moment there.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:32 (eighteen years ago)

My problem in situations like that is that I cant be assertive, only bitchy. I let the irritation build up.

It's STILL snowing, and it's supposed to keep snowing until Sunday. Ridiculous.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Ack, sorry, Sarah. Have you ever had a fight on a bus? Some people deserve to be called out in public, I think.

What a bummer drag of a day. It's not too cold but incredibly dark out and pelty-rainy. Plus I had a first date last night with someone way more invested than I was, and I had to let him down. Unfortunately he doesn't want to be friends, either, so we both get nuffink which is too bad, because he was interesting. I'm feeling crummy about it even though I didn't mislead in any way.

The more dates I go on, the more I prefer the MNDC.
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

That's usually when somebody "accidentally" gets the pointy end of my elbow. I have no patience for public transportation assholery.

MNDC?
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:50 (eighteen years ago)

mndc = nyc version of tt.

laurel, would this guy have been handy in a knife fight?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

That's the one. Only...not.
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

What does MNDC stand for?

You know what's annoying? When my computer updates itself and then asks me in 5 minute intervals if I would like to restart now, or later. If I click nothing, it restarts automatically. Just fuck off, OK?
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

hey, speaking of which, it's thursday... just saying.

also, former chicago resident justin champlin is back in town tonight playing at ronny's. the last time i saw him he was literally sitting in a gutter in brooklyn proposing to my frien amy (whom some of you met at my birthday tt). i'm sure justin needs the $$$ so if you have no plans and want to see something really f'ing different go check out nobunny at ronny's tonight.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

Monday Night Dictation Club
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

and by "something really f'ing different" i mean something like this:

http://www.victimoftime.com/images/thumb_NoBunnyVOT.jpg
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:01 (eighteen years ago)

When shit like that happens (the bus thing, because I'm still talking about myself obviously), I get so annoyed so quickly that I can't think of anything proactive to do. I just sit there fuming that I was in a fine, somewhat sleepy mood and then this lady got all her ick negative vibes on me. * shutter *

I shouldn't let her affect me any longer, starting.. nOW!

Laurel, sorry about your date. :-/
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

If I reacted at all, I would have said, "What [the fuck] is your problem?" "The fuck" being optional depending on the situation. The alternative would be sitting and fuming. The fact that she was 2 jerk moves ahead of me would have probably spurred me to action. Recently I sat next to a bulky woman reading her Bible on the bus. She held the Bible with her left hand and her elbow was way into my space. I "accidentally" bumped her Bible hand a couple of times while messing with my iPod, but she didn't react, that bitch. I hope the sounds of my rock-n-roll put the devil in her brain.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

i'm with jesse. i have on occassion asked if someone's bag paid for a seat on the bus if they give me attitude. but that's usually only if i've had a couple of pops.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

I work with a woman who gives up seats to the elderly and children, but NEVER to pregnant women.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hungry and crabby.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

Dating is really weird. I'm having dinner with this girl tonight, we've hung out a few times before, and at first I thought she wasn't really interested in me/a relationship so I wrote it off. But now she's calling me, and I'm not sure if I'M interested in anything serious. It's all so confusing.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

i'll give them up to just about anyone, unless i'm asleep. i don't care, it's just a fucking seat on a bus, it makes no difference to me.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I'm having dinner with this girl tonight, we've hung out a few times before, and at first I thought she wasn't really interested in me/a relationship so I wrote it off. But now she's calling me, and I'm not sure if I'M interested in anything serious. It's all so confusing.

HI DERE. i won't go into the details but in the words of the happy mondays, it's twisin' my melon man.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

I think newspapers should be banned from the bus/train.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

AND AFTER THAT BAN THE PEOPLE.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

I read about some study from the '70s, I think, in which researchers asked people on the NYC subway to give up their seats. The people asking were unexceptional people (not handicapped, pregnant, etc.). Most people gave up their seats. This changed, however, when the person gave a reason for wanting the seat.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

xpost AGREED.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

I used to be pretty sure that I really wanted an LTR, but now I don't know. It feels like the longer I'm single, the more I am entrenched in it. What was really bothering me for a while was that for years and years I had not even the slightest suggestion of interest from anyone except really desperate people. Now that that's changed a little, I see that maybe that was the problem all along. It's not that I actively love being single, it's just that I'm kind of getting settled in my ways and I don't want the alternative misery of a relationship.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Public transit without other people=a taxi or a car, and some days public transit makes those options pretty tempting....
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Driving is meditative for me. I get good ideas while driving; the problem is that it's hard to do anything with them while negotiating traffic.

In a poetry workshop in college the professor and some of the students talked about how their steering wheels were covered in ink lines from writing while driving.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

I used to be pretty sure that I really wanted an LTR, but now I don't know. It feels like the longer I'm single, the more I am entrenched in it.

i had been in one for so long (me and jen were together almost 6 years, girl i dated immediately before her i was with for 2) that it was weird being out of a relationship. then i dated a series of girls and while it was nice i really did miss having someone who understood me, or, failing that, someone to whom i didn't have to explain everything. i'd like to find someone again but realistically i think i'm probably gonna be single for a looooong time.

if i were more awake i'd make an analogy between me and white hen coffee.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel, I think this is the part of dating that I'm really not used to. The point is to find out if you're interested in someone, right, and when you're not, you get to go through a lot of mini-breakups, huh? Lame.

xpost
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

I have decided that the requirements for a driving license should be MUCH more stringent. Basically you should only be allowed to drive if you're a really safe, conscientious driver.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

I rarely crave coffee like I do now, and I can't have any. My mom has instant, and I'm not doing that.

Driving 6 miles on terrible roads for a cup of coffee?? It just might happen. And I'll write poetry while I do it.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

OMG Kevin, I could have fucking written that post. Just change "Jen" to "Maddie" and it's completely accurate, down to the 6 years/2 years thing.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

well then my condolences to you brother.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan - your mix is awesome. Is "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" a cover of "Chick Habit" by April March, or vice-versa? They sound exactly the same except for the singing.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.landoflost.com/images/others/Desmond.jpg
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

gmail, why won't you let me compose a new message? why do you keep saying "oops, this service is temporarily unavailable please try again"? because i DO keep trying and it's been a half hour now. c'mon, get your shit together, please.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

I have generally given up dating bcz I'm at sea when I know it's not gonna work after 30 seconds.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i signed out and when i went to sign back in it won't let me. gmail is f'ing with me today.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I have generally given up dating bcz I'm at sea when I know it's not gonna work after 30 seconds.

unsurprisingly this has happened to me many times. i look at it as a challenge, sure it's not going to work out but my goal is to at least salvage that night. sometimes it doesn't work but sometimes it does. i kept in touch with one girl for a while and even though it we both knew there was nothing there our interests were similar enough (i.e. beer, baseball, the rock 'n' roll, beer) that if we got bored we could always call each other. but i'm guessing now that she's moved in with her boyfriend that's over, i haven't heard from her in a while despite making some tentative plans for drinks and to discuss getting cubs tix.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

I feel guilty when I'm not into someone. Like, she's nice and hot and apparently interested in me...so I can't talk to her about the books/music/movies/etc. I'm into, how picky am I?
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

fuck it jordan, you like what you like who do you have to appologize to?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

also, as state here and elsewhere NEVER LISTEN TO ME ABOUT ANYTHING EVER, ESPECIALLY NOT WOMEN.

track record speaks for itself.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Is "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" a cover of "Chick Habit" by April March, or vice-versa?

no idea, but all of the France Gall best-of I have is pretty excellent.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

I stumbled on this article today wherein a guy uses teh math to determine that out of the world's population of women, only 18,726 are date-able (for him). He goes on to say that in order to meet one, he would have to go on one date a week for 3493 weeks.

http://en.nothingisreal.com/wiki/Why_I_Will_Never_Have_a_Girlfriend

Thank god for alcohol and desperation!
― mattttt, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

I finally submitted a caption to the New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest, instead of coming up with something awesome but then forgetting to actually submit until after the deadline. I don't think this one is brilliant or anything, but it works. I'm also not telling until the finalists are announced.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

1. There's a great video of "Laisse Tomber Les Filles" on YouTube.

2. I absolutely cannot come up with a cartoon caption for that contest. Something about the way my brain works does not lead to a single caption for two guys on a golf course with a row of tanks between them and the green.

3. If there's "one who got away" it was a headhunter who didn't read books or seek out independent art at the time that I was doing creative stuff all the time and actually subscribing to and thoroughly reading The NY Review of Books and the New Republic. And I thought, This could last, but what if I meet someone great who shares all this other stuff I'm into? At the same time she was a warm and fundamentally happy person, with something harder to replace than good taste. (Who worked in the Twin Towers until getting laid off a few weeks before 9/11, so it was a tremendous relief to call her a few weeks later to find her making a nice pasta lunch for herself and her husband.)

So, I don't know. I don't think I could be a I-like-hockey-She-likes-antiques-mars/venus kind of guy and don't yet know which compabilities (in taste, in staying-in-vs-going-out) are of primary vs. secondary importance.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

So I'm reading about marijuana. Its history, biochemistry, botany, effects on consciousness -- all of which are resolutely cool -- and I'm thinking, "I need to get some more of this shit." So I think I will. I'll call in a favor for next week, and by Friday night I'll be lit like a goddamn Christmas tree.

Yay me! I'm going to be a felon!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

2. I absolutely cannot come up with a cartoon caption for that contest. Something about the way my brain works does not lead to a single caption for two guys on a golf course with a row of tanks between them and the green.

This one's in the new issue. It's two male angels talking while another male, dad-like angel is leaving the pearly gates carrying a grill and a bag of golf clubs.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=e4lFJrpYYMc

ok, that is pretty cool. Thanks, eric.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

it's passe kenan.

xxpost.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think strong pot is ever passe. What are you, a drug dealer?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

you like what you like who do you have to appologize to?

Yr right of course, but I think I have low dating esteem. Not low self esteem, but sometimes I still feel like I'm fifteen and any interest from a girl is a rare thing that I should pursue.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

everybody gets that jordan, and it's not low esteem of any sort, it's the unquenchable desire to see naked boobs.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

OMG SOMEONE BROUGHT IN CINNAMON BUNS FROM ANN SATHER
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

Everyone OTM about dating. I could have stayed out & listened to music last night but after the dating vs friends question was settled he didn't want to stick around. Which I can understand cos I've been on that side before too, but it was A FIRST DATE, OKAY??
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:30 (eighteen years ago)

I realized part-way through that I wished he was just a friend who I could high-five and ruffle his hair and show warmth to, but he was sure to misinterpret any friendly gesture I made and I was really dreading the inevitable fumbley kiss and I knew I had to say something. :( If I hadn't thought he was really cool I'd have just blown him off by email, but I wanted to a door open for friendship, cos I like what he's into. No joy.
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

last time I was on an internet dating stint I had that exact first date, Laurel.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

Btw, I've totally wrestled with the "but we don't have the same taste" or "she's not as into art as I am" quandary, but two of my best relationships over the years have been with people I'd thought that about, and we ended up clicking, anyway, because we made each other laugh and understood each other and all of that. I mean, Kr will basically tell you that after our first date, she was like, "This will never work, he's way too into music."
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

It's just over a month until my birthday.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Hint hint.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

but he was sure to misinterpret any friendly gesture I made

HI DERE I DO THAT ALL THE TIME.
i was just thinking that this morning as i was walking up western to the bus stop, i've been making the same mistake for TWENTY ONE YEARS NOW. but, luckily, i didn't make it last night and instead of going out and either having a really AWESOME time or putting myself back in hell's pantry i decided to make some pasta and sauce. i should have used more tomato paste, less black pepper, more green pepper, and more basil.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

I have generally given up dating bcz I'm at sea when I know it's not gonna work after 30 seconds.

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/P/0316346624.01._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_SCLZZZZZZZ_AA240_SH20_.jpg
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, that too.

Sooooo, if I come to Chicago tomorrow, a) is anyone interested in going to that show, b) could I maybe crash with someone? I don't know how late the show is going to go or if the H8 guys are going to want to hang out afterwards.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

We aren't going to be in town. ;_;
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

nick that looks awesome. i will buy that for your birthday... for myself.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh. H8 = Hot 8, not "hate."

I will be in Michigan. Courtney may be interested in doing something?
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

Btw, I've totally wrestled with the "but we don't have the same taste" or "she's not as into art as I am" quandary,

yeah, last girl i had an extended relationship with had similar interests but her tastes weren't exactly mine. like we both love love LOVE music. but while i'd prefer some garage/punk thing she sat on my couch and was able to disect and perfectly articulate what she loved about the shostakovich we were listening to. she loved to cook, i loved to eat. we both dug peter sellers movies though and we both liked to stay in bed until past noon on weekends. i think that's what probably sealed the deal for me.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

sorry jordan, i'm going to a b-day party in the 'burbs.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

I dated someone who didn't read books unless they were about conspiracy theories and alien abduction, and who listened to Mr Bungle & Jucifer and told me that pop was for girls. Then we broke up. Haha.
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Courtney may be interested in doing something?

I will send her a social networking message and see.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, I'm still trying to figure out my plans for tomorrow night. I know there's dinner and after-dinner drinks in the works, so I'm going to say no to the show, but I might be good for a couch.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I could never date someone who doesn't read. I have read a couple profiles on gay.com and yahoo like this. One said (approximately) " I watch TV and enjoy movies, and I'm an actor, so I read scripts, so don't tell me that I'm missing out on a whole world, blah, blah, blah."
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

Was last night's L O S T any good? I don't want spoilers, I just want to know if I should be excited or not.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

I dated someone who didn't read books unless they were about conspiracy theories and alien abduction, and who listened to Mr Bungle & Jucifer and told me that pop was for girls.

lol I KNOW THAT GUY. He's a douche and a half.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

I don't read fiction very easily. This is a problem for some people who shall remain nameless. But I love nonfiction books about science!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Especially science that involves food, drugs, or dead bodies!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

we both dug peter sellers movies though and we both liked to stay in bed until past noon on weekends.

i just sent a poorly thought out email to said young woman. i forgot about the nasty song she wrote about me and i really wish gmail and a recall message option at this point.

:-(
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Lost was pretty consistent with the last few episodes. So, pretty good. They're starting to put some of the plot pieces together, which is nice.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, last night's episode was consistent in quality with the last few; i.e., pretty good.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:54 (eighteen years ago)

Good. I'll watch it tonight.

I'm having trouble making it through Special Topics in Calamity Physics (a work of fiction, if the title was confusing) -- the narrator is just so annoyingly precocious. Maybe if she learns to drop the Daddy-worship, it'll get better.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

i've missed the last few weeks, last one i saw i think was the one where they got the van going, maybe the one after that. i've had a standing appointment for drinks on wednesdays but i didn't go last night.

anyone want to get some tt action gonig tonight?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:57 (eighteen years ago)

The problem with conspiracy-theory rockstar was that he WASN'T a douche, he was a really nice, honest guy...it just drove me batshit crazy that he had to simplify every decision to a place where it was so un-nuanced that it was hardly worth discussing anymore, hence "pop is for girls", "social causes are for liberals", etc.
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

Cool, I have your number. I also might be able to crash at my friend Nick's house, I just remembered.

xpost
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm having trouble making it through Special Topics in Calamity Physics (a work of fiction, if the title was confusing) -- the narrator is just so annoyingly precocious. Maybe if she learns to drop the Daddy-worship, it'll get better.

She doesn't. That book was very annoying.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

(Are we going to get to see her picture in this thread, John?)

Jordan, I'm playing a show tomorrow night but there could be room in the attic here to crash.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Book-jacket photo still hot:

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/resources/2006/10/marisha%20pessl%20better%20silent.jpg
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

Yup

http://booksense-stores.booksense.com/images/stores/1657/storeevents/pesslweb.jpg
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

it just drove me batshit crazy that he had to simplify every decision to a place where it was so un-nuanced that it was hardly worth discussing anymore

uh oh i think i just had a moment of awful self-recognition
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

*shivers*

*decides to forget*
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

oh wow.

beartrap to mr. que.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

man, i CAN NOT WAIT until it's warm and women aren't buried under layers of wool and gortex and hats and scarves. hope springs fucking eternal, even in the face of history and reason.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

I can't wait either.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:08 (eighteen years ago)

pessl is cute, but in person not nearly as much

http://www.thegogglesdonothing.com/archives/bookread.jpg
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

That's probably just a bad pic. She's cute, just kind of teethy.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

http://duranduran.no/cms/images/stories/nu_shooz-i_cant_wait.jpg
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

also, i have it on good authority that she's a whiny over-entitled bitch
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:14 (eighteen years ago)

nice, dude. real nice.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

i should not repeat second hand stories, i don't guess, but one hears things
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

i guess maybe you should repeat it, for the benefit of mankind
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

It's hard, because I want to give her the benefit of the doubt of writing a *character* who lacks self-awareness re: her own pretentiousness, but I keep suspecting that Pessl drops all these literary/cinematic references specifically to show off how erudite she (the author) is.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

xpost nah, i'd mess it up
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

but I keep suspecting that Pessl drops all these literary/cinematic references specifically to show off how erudite she (the author) is.

Also: her references got really really old after awhile, and it's a long book.
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

The damn thread is still in italics past a certain post if you load all the answers.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

TONIGHT'S GONNA BE AWKWARD FEST 2007!
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

How so?
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:23 (eighteen years ago)

a confluence of people and situations and suspicions and accusations and recriminations and petty jealousies and drugs in the confines of ronny's.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:25 (eighteen years ago)

neat!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

no. not neat. the more i think about it the less neat it gets. but i'm going anyway.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds like a line from a Paul Simon song.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

AWKWARD FEST ~~2007~~1996!

S.L.M.P.N.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

Paul Simon's "a confluence of people and situations and suspicions and accusations and recriminations" is a classic!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

and with every email in it gets more and more convoluted. if i play my cards right i won't even get punched out in all this.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure you can arrange for someone else to get punched out, there's certainly no shortage of candidates.
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

petty jealousies and drugs
in the confines of Ronny's
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

I'll get your back if need be.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

negotiations and punch-outs
are often mistaken
for one and the same
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

She said "Don't I know you from the T&G 25th weekend?"
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

this work?

http://lh3.google.com/image/kevin.rys/Rh5fuhKyhvI/AAAAAAAAABU/LcoRYB2oE1g/s144/C%3A%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5Cvhahinrysk%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5Cimage002.jpg
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sure you can arrange for someone else to get punched out, there's certainly no shortage of candidates.

laurel otm.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

it's really not my habit to intrude
and furthermore i hope my meaning won't be lost of misconstrued
but i'll ask, at the risk of seeming rude

wtf is this all about, kevin?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm afraid to visit you ppl in Chi now. so much DRAMA.
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Dr. M, nobody knows anything about this except for Kevin and Laurel.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

fist fight are good for you. Haven't you seen fight club?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

I was going to do a "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover" homage, but Kevin and Laurel and hard names to rhyme.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

xpost itisamystery.gif
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.best-horror-movies.com/images/Frankenstein-headshot-smaller.jpg

FIST FIGHT ... GOOOOOD!
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

make fun of my typos, go ahead. GO AHEAD, LAUGH AT THE DUMMY.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

it's just a weird thing that happened with this dude who didn't take the break up with his girlfriend as well as she did. i had a crush on her before they met and in fact was the one who introduced them. then something else happend. flash forward to last wednesday the dude got pissy and tried to goad me into hitting him. coming into town will be another dude who got friendly with the pissy dude's ex. he'll be playing a show on the same bill with the pissy dude's band which is being put on by the girl's current and past interest. it's a fucked up situation and i'm taking myself out of it by not going.

the end.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)

and i really shouldn't air my dirty laundry here.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

note to self.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

why does getting laid have to get so weird?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

I washed my laundry last night.

That sounds crazy, Kevin. When I go to bed at night, I have a tendency to think OH MY GOD my life is so crazy and overwhelming and when will it all calm down?! And then NIck reminds me I'm just being silly and that I do that every night.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:05 (eighteen years ago)

Celibacy would simplify a number of things, it's true. Unfortunately it's sort of inimical to the happiness of most human beings, in the long run.
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Celibacy would simplify a number of things, it's true

UH NO IT DOESN'T.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

"Inimical" is a good word.

On the most recent episode of The O.C. I watched, Anna used the word "anathema" in front of the Cohens, and Peter Gallagher raised his not inconsiderable eyebrows and pointed and mouthed the word again, as if to say, "Nice catch, son!" The show is getting funnier.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

“Essentialism—a belief in natural, immutable sex differences—is anathema to postmodernists, for whom sexuality itself, along with gender, is a ‘social construct’”
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I hey, I've seen one of the gals in the headlining band at Ronny's before. Saw her play a saw.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

ok so i'm not an essentialist and i'm not a postmodernist...
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure either nobunny or romance novels will headline as they are the two touring bands. the other two are locals.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Oops, she's at the Note, not Ronny's. The Moaners (with a gal from Trailer Bride in the band). No drama there.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

“Essentialism—a belief in natural, immutable sex differences—is anathema to postmodernists, for whom sexuality itself, along with gender, is a ‘social construct’”

I still believe that to some degree. I always drew the line at Judith Butler's insistence that sex itself -- not gender, but physical maleness or femaleness -- is also a social construct.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin and Laurel and hard names to rhyme

Kevin: seven, eleven, heaven... Piven...

Laurel: ...
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

don't forget "unleaven"

laurel- coral, morrel (kinda), . . .
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

Women can have babies and men sure cannot, but beyond those basic biological differences I just don't know. My bottom line is that I remain fundamentally skeptical of any claim that women are intrinsically like X while men are intrinsically like Y. I like Catharine MacKinnon's view of it: social constructs of gender are so deeply ingrained in us and everything we do that we'll really never know. Rather than saying that men are like this while women are like that, I like the point of view that men and women come to situations with different experiences to explain how men and women can have divergent takes on the same set of facts.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

all i know about gender relations is that CBS sitcoms are OTM.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

Oh see, I am prounouncing Laurel like "Lawwwwrel" and not "Lorrel." The latter certainly opens up more rhyming possibilities,
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

[Removed Illegal Link]

they may not see eye to eye, but they wuv each other all the same!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

also, KEVIN should be pronounced "KENNY".
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

omg fuck me somebody please fix this stupid bug that lets me break everything like that
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

kenan, what the fuck are you doing with the goddamn italics? seriously now?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

i think it happens when i open an image tage but close an i tag
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

and there's no fixing it.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

You don't have to be moral, Laurel
You don't have to be leaven, Kevin
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

[/i] how about this?
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

leaven and kenny don't rhyme though.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

Don't have to be skenny, kenny (though it's okay if you are)
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

moral
choral
quarrel
oral
floral
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

Give a penny to Jenny, Kevin.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

xpost but let's be nice and not try to work "oral" into anything, tempting as it may be
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:31 (eighteen years ago)

SOUNDS LIKE M- nevermind.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

YEAH, THANKS.
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

anyone up for some TT action?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

what the plop?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

other than a third date hardy har har xpost
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:33 (eighteen years ago)

YEAH, THANKS.

i am nothing if not a gentleman
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

Can't do TTs tonight alas alas.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin and Laurel
Had seven big quarrels
But all of them ended quite well.

Until Laurel and Kevin
Brought up morals and heaven,
and each of them said "Go to hell."
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

*applause*
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

yes i would wager on issues of morality laurel and i are at different ends of the spectrum what with her neo-con leanings and all.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I would TT a little.

Kevin, I meant it when I said I'd get yr back. I haven't had a rousing round of fisticuffs with a willing pugilist in a while.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

she's a teetotalling bible-thumping prude, we all know that
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:41 (eighteen years ago)

I can't do TT tonight, but I support reinstatement of TTs if they have been uninstated somehow.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

dan, that whole situation is too rediculous for me to be a part of it so i'm not going. but thanks man, i appreciate it.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone want to have brunch on Saturday?
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, my middle name is Brunch. We're playing in Grand Rapids tomorrow night and I don't know yet when we're getting back, but you have our cell numbers, right? If we're back already, I'd love to brunch it up.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Will you be around Sunday too?
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'd be down with Saturday brunch.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:09 (eighteen years ago)

Yep, I'll give you guys a call. I'd like to leave Chicago around 2:00 because I've got film fest tickets for Saturday night in Madison.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

BRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

That's what yuppie zombies say.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.affordablehousinginstitute.org/blogs/us/Braveheart_gibson_right_small.jpg

BRUUUUUUUUUUUUNCH!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

I return to Chicago Saturday after 4 or so.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm drinking Coke, and it's NO COFFEE.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm reading Portnoy's Complaint. That too is no coffee. But it's good.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:24 (eighteen years ago)

Kev what were you thinking for TT?
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

I was drinking capuccino, and it was no coffee. IT WAS BETTER.

I doubt we'll be back in time for brunch, but give us a call in case we end up driving back from GR after the show.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

No coffee for you, big boy.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

To Nick: LA DE DA.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

"I Gotta Man" just came on my iPod!
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

To Nick: http://www.texasdolldesigns.com/images/mo/sissy.jpg
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:31 (eighteen years ago)

I still need to download that! Can't wait.

From IMDB News:

Ford To Play Anna Nicole in New Indie Movie

I am really, really hoping that's Harrison Ford.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

dan, i dunno, an afterwork something somewhere. if no one else is going old timer's seems like a poor choice.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

You can't fuck with I Gotta Man.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

To Nick:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e64/demodiver79/Debauchery/NakedHungover/BloodyFuck.jpg
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

That's Lita Ford, and you know it.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:33 (eighteen years ago)

John: It's eternal pop-star also-ran Willa Ford, unfortunately.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

I don't even know who that is.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry to ruin the hilarity.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

I think the only reason I know who she is is that I used to have a Blender subscription.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

i think i've seen her on vh1's "Most Embarrassing Celebrities Ever" or something
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

VH1's "Fevered Egos That Are Tainting Our Collective Unconsciousness"
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Which probably makes her an appropriate person to play Anna Nicole Smith.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, after ANS died I was thinking that her story would make a pretty good farce.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Probably too soon for that though.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

I am not afraid to admit that the death of Anna Nicole Smith made me inexplicably sad. Like, really sad. Sadder than the death of Kurt Vonnegut whom I liked better in nearly every way there is to like someone.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Sadder than the death of Johnny Cash.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Not as sad as when Phil Hartman died, though, but he was on the Simpsons so that makes sense.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

i think i understand, jenny. It's so... pathetic.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

KV and JC weren't as sad because they were old and accomplished and lived a lot. Phil Hartman was sad because 1) it seemed like he still could have maybe someday done more, like make a really awesome movie or something, plus 2) the whole murdered by his own wife while still relatively young thing.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:49 (eighteen years ago)

Why are we talking about this?
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

BUMMERZ
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

it's still weird to think that Phil Hartman is dead. He lives on in so many Simpsons episodes, and News Radio, and all kinds of stuff. He's Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer, fer chrissakes! He can't be dead!

*collapses, weeping*
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:51 (eighteen years ago)

Hartman worked part time as a graphic artist, including designing album covers for popular rock bands. Hartman's covers include:

Steely Dan's 1977 album Aja
Poco's 1978 album Legend
Firesign Theatre's 1980 album Fighting Clowns (photo)
Three album covers for the band America
He also designed Crosby, Stills & Nash's logo.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

Charles Russell Bard, an importer of French silks, founded the company that bears his name after a bout of urinary discomfort prompted him to try Gomenol, a medication refined from eucalyptus trees and manufactured in France.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:55 (eighteen years ago)

"Some people think I’m crazy creating a character and wearing a costume to get a message across, and to an extent, maybe they’re right," said Frank Kenny, founder and CEO of Just Different Specialty Teas. "Coffee has Juan Valdez, Kool-Aid has a talking depiction, Pillsbury has a cute little dough boy, M&M’s have talking candy as spokespersons ... now the tea industry has its own unique spokesperson too, Captain Teao."
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

That's it.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

I am eating milk chocolate with lavender in it and I don't know if I like it or not. Maybe I need a costumed character to explain why it is good because I can truly enjoy it.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

hey guys, didja know that phil hartman designed album covers? I bet none of you knew that.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/28/66283027_6254eece32_m.jpg
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

I get sad when I watch Phil on Newsradio sometimes. :(

Steely Dan is going to be at Jazzfest in New Orleans. That's going to be a little weird.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

So I have to do some homework for tomorrow and I have a cold and don't feel well and I'm wearing an absurd jacket/sweater thing that is all the rage among soccer moms and looks like it was made from a bathmat so obviously, I am interested in hearing more about potential TT plans.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

I WILL GO ANYWHERE FOR TT.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

ME TOO AS LONG AS IT IS RELATIVELY EASY TO GET TO
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

yes, i should have added that. i am going to need beer/booze STAT.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e8/GrandRapidsMI.gif

Apparently this is the flag of Grand Rapids, MI.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

are you at work jenny? would old timer's be convenient for you? cause i'll do that, i was just thinking if it was just me and dan we'd could go someplace nearer to our respective places on the wild wild west side.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

We are having band practice after work but maybe we'll call when we're done and see if people are still TTing. Especially if it's somewhere near our hood.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

I am at the last day at the EEOC. I don't want you and Dan to go to OT's just because of me, though, because there's some chance that my cold medicine will wear off and I'll realize the folly of my ways.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

I am at the last day at the EEOC.

NONSENSE. I mean, I am at the EEOC and it is my last day.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

JENNY DOUBLE UP ON YR MEDS AND MEET US AT OLD TIMERS.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

That's the flag of GR because they have a giant red Calder sculpture outdoors downtown, and all of downtown is along the Grand River banks.

NB: I'm pretty sure you can climb all over the Calder, you should go!
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

Just throwing this out there: how about the Green Eye? It's right off the Western Blue Line Stop if you didn't know.

xxposts Or OT's, whichever. I drove to work today because I was late so I'll have to go home first, but no big.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

preemptively:

http://www.icanhascheezburger.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/bukakitten.jpg
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

i have been to the green eye many many many times. will gladly go there again.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:12 (eighteen years ago)

GREEN EYE KILLS THREAD DEAD.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

that picture is a prime example of how not to caption something
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh.

Green Eye sounds fun. Plus, it would be on our way home from taking Ben home.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

Or on the way to take him home.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I think the bukakitten killed the thread, really.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

green eye? old timers? old green timers eye?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Bukakitten = funny
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

I daren't look at bukakitten.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

SO BROKE YOU GUYS.

Also, agreed.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

GREEN EYE GREEN EYE GREEN EYE
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

It's just a kitten with milk on its cute widdle kitty face and the word BUKAKITTEN across the bottom.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

I would go to Green Eye but prob wouldn't get there until around 7.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe earlier.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not supposed to work any overtime, so the fact that I put in 9 hours on Tuesday surely means that I can leave a little early today.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

i've worked 13 hours, 13 hours and 11 hours so far this week so you can bet your balls* i'm getting out of here close to on time today.

* ladies feel free to bet your ovaries.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

I'll see your balls and raise you...

nevermind
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man I forgot the Wings are on tonight.

Also this is kind of late but MSU defeated BC in the NCAA Frozen Four. Suck it, Massachusetts!

*ducks Kevin's right fist*
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

it all comes back to otto's balls doesn't it?

xpost dan, two goals in the final 18 seconds??!?!? CRAZINGS!
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

bu is always a safer bet than bc. bc always has the marquee players and the state of the art arena and training facility and the campus is way prettier and in a nicer part of the city but bu is always the more prepared team. if you gave jack parker the SIX NHL NUMBER 1 picks that bc has he'd challenge for the 8th spot in the nhl playoffs.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah this was BC's third exit from the Frozen Four in four years, I think? Second loss in the title game in a row? Poor guys. Not that I'm an MSU fanboy, though I did spend a year there (go green, go white). Sparty was due, I guess. Their coach is pretty awesome, too. He won the title back in like 91 while at Northern Michigan, which is such a shit school I'm amazed it even has a team.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

I am currently conferring with Jeffery about TT and will have a decision shortly.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

good god WHAT are you guys talking about?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

frozen four.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

SPORTZ. Dude stuff. On ICE.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Women play hockey, too, yknow. Minnesota-Duluth kicks most everyone's ass.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

SPORTZ. Of interest to anyone, regardless of gender. On ICE.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

of interest to who again? :)
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Everybody but Kenans. NO KENANS CLUB. On ICE.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

With CLUB SAUCE.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

Women play hockey, too, yknow

my best friend jonny vodka's college girlfriend at umaine was there on an ice hockey scholarship. she was pretty fucking hot.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

Remember Manon Rheaume? Rowr.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

And she had the results to back it up!
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

my best friend jonny vodka

is this like "My good buddy Jack Daniels"?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

no, jon's last name is polish and very similar to vodka.

and dan, sen. carl levin's office (from the UP) is pissing me off. see what you can do about voting him out, ok?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

er, PRONOUNCED very similarly to vodka.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

Dude! Carl kicks ass! If he was voted out the state'd end up with another CLOWN like Spence Abraham again.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

In Minnesota they started a game called Ringette that was meant to be a kind of ladies' hockey, but now the ladies just play hockey period.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

2x on Levin.
― sisut, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

carl's office is a pain in my ass. this is the second time i've fielded this question from them in two months. from the same staffer. please stop wasting everyone's time.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Levin's been pretty outspoken against the war, hasn't he?
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

I started a fire in the backyard.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

I DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE WORLD IN GENERAL I AM ONLY CONCERNED WITH MY LITTLE CORNER OF THIS BUILDING FOR 8HOURS A DAY.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

I used gasoline.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

INSURANCE MONEY, HERE WE COME.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, unless you started a fire in Kevin's office, just keep it to yourself, okay?
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Fire.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

Are you the god of small fire?
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

I also used butane to do some amateur fire-eating in the kitchen. My mom was impressed. You could tell by the way she screamed "AYE AYE AYE NO NO NO!"
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

no no no!!! PLEASE COME HERE AND START A FIRE!!!!
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Fire. ILX will not let me re-post that word by itself.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

My mom wants to give me money and tools. And canned carrots.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

let me stand next to it.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

the canned carrots?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

oh, shit, the wluw record fair is this weekend, isn't it? goddamn it i'm broke!
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

She is so fucking weird about the trash. She fills each bag to about 1/4 full so that the trash guy won't have to lift too heavy of bags. She's convinced that if she fills them more than that he will not take them. ALSO? She freezes all potentially stinky garbage until garbage day so that her garbage never stinks.

This probably belongs on the New Zealand's Funniest Parents thread.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

"Let me stand next to your carrots" = the Alzheimer's version.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

wluw record fair means it's been two years since this:

http://lh4.google.com/image/kevin.rys/Rh6YJxKyhxI/AAAAAAAAAB8/hY9W4s0NSrE/s400/C%3A%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5Cvhahinrysk%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5Cktandjj.jpg
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

wow. time flies.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

On the bright side you look pretty great in that photo, dude.
― Laurel, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

that jacket is now disintegrating. i'm going to chuck it this weekend.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

wow she is teh pretty
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

ok, seriously, i need to know where we're going for tt.
or else i'll wind up here:

http://lh3.google.com/image/kevin.rys/Rh5fuhKyhwI/AAAAAAAAABc/k9sRCJO0VI8/s800/C%3A%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5Cvhahinrysk%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5C20020725_07dx061_%255BChicago%255D_Clark_St_Ale_House_small.jpg
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

not a good photo of her kenan, but yes, she is v v pretty.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

and i linked to the wrong photo, that's clark street not rothschild liquors on chicago ave.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

Green Eye
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

rothschild liquors on chicago ave

DUDE don't hang out there!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

Green Eye it is. I'll be there when I get there.
kenan, i've been to rothschild's PLENTY of times.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

rothschild's is my favorite sign in chicago.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

ok, i'm gonna go have a small mental fit, i'll be back later.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

Tell me about the Green Eye. Is it smokey? Is there food? I asked Dan these questions but he is ignoring me.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

Everybody is ignoring me.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I'll go eat worms.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

F|r3.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

weh
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Fibre
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

http://home.flash.net/~steve84/brer%20rabbit.jpg

Let me stand next to your briers.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, tell Dan to bring you some of his homemade curry. It smells of the deliciousness.
― sisut, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Great. I got gasoline on my pants and now my pussy's on fire.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

wait, who is sisut?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

jesse it is now time for you to fuck my mouth
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

Sisut = Katie!

I will tell Dan to bring me curry, but I would also like to extend an open invitation to anybody to bring me curry at any time. Also: tacos.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

But you're always busy
Busy busy
Busy sissy oh oh oh
My pussy's on fire

Burning off the haaairs....

Hi Katie.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

jenny, i BELIEVE green eye has food. but if not there are plenty of fooding alternatives in the area. katie, we are going to green eye after work, please come by and join us.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

katie. you may know me best from randomly tagging along with dan from time to time. i feel strongly that he needs a sidekick.
― sisut, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Hi Jesse. I like your song.
― sisut, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Katie, I think you are more than just a sidekick. However, it's kind of fun to imagine you and Dan as Batman and Robin.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

Dan obviously being Robin.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

you seem totally up to the job. Hey sorry I missed your easter thingy, I was out of circulation till the dogs get tired. Next time, though!
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

That's Morrissey's song. But I made it mine. Ours, really.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Katie, were you at the Green M1ll? And possibly the Gold Star or whatever it's called?
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Arturro's!

Jordan, yes. Gold Star.
Hi, Katie.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

HOLY SIDEKICK STATUS, BATMAN
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, Katie, of course. Hi.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

Dude! Carl kicks ass! If he was voted out the state'd end up with another CLOWN like Spence Abraham again.

8080808080

Carl Levin has the best glasses in the Senate!
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

She was at Green Mill too.

So if Sarah and I end up at Green Eye, it will probably be closer to 8, so we understand if you all aren't still there. Plus I just remembered we will have a car full of band equipment, which might make the logistics more complicated.
― n/a, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

omg what a crappy day. i really wish i could make an appearance at the green eye but NONONO i cannot. i drove past it today on my way home from work, though.

Will someone please write "GODDAMMIT" at the bottom of this photo for me?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v195/nova_babe/kitten.jpg

hi katie i have never met you because i am only allowed to go outside once a day to the yard to lift weights and that is it
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, the STOP & DRINK is the place that Dan and Horseshoe and I drank at post-Sound Bar.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda is TOTALLY RIPPED.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

One sec, 'manda.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

katie, we met at your party and again most recently at the holiday club. glad to see you around.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

oh, was that the party i vanished from?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

I have met Katie on numerous occasions and am pleased that she is posting on this thread.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/215/456950039_210f27e3c6.jpg
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

oh, was that the party i vanished from?

that's the one. that wound up being a crazy crazy night now that i look back on it.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

OK I'm going home, the IT guys have ruined my day. See youse at the bar.
― dan m, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

GODDDAMMIT
Thank you.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

That's three Ds because that's the way we spell it in the brickyard.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

dan, i'll be leaving in a half hour, i'll see you just as soon as the blue line can get me there.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

that wound up being a crazy crazy night now that i look back on it.

ooh what did i miss? I was not up for craziness that night, but I never heard fun stories.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, I miss everything. spill it, fools.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

and was there pantlessness?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

I have a special predilection for Tales of the Pantless
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

I just realized that I now have NEARLY THIRTY EGGS in my fridge because I keep going to the store under the illusion that we are OMG almost out of eggs. Someone make it stop!

Or, who wants some eggs?
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

Jeff and I just discovered the joys of making hard cooked eggs in the rice cooker - you just put them in the steamer basket and in the time it takes to cook white rice you also get hard cooked eggs. They make nice snacks or an excellent breakfast on the go.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Crack them into your beers at the bar for dinner.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

Omlette party at 'mandas.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://krixfort.typepad.com/hells_half_acre/images/timer.gif
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

http://chromatism.net/current/images/porky.gif

PANTLESSNESS
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

jenny wtf is that thing it's scaring the shit out of me
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

my rice cooker has no steamer basket...but not a bad idea! the major problem is that i hate to eat eggs. d likes them. i find omelettes edible if they have enough yummers fillings, but the thought of eating a hard boiled egg on the go (or while seated, for that matter) makes me nauseous. i had a coworker once who would eat an egg every day and when she peeled it in front of me i had to leave the room. sensitive flower, u know it.

xp 's the incredible edible egg!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

unless it's mayor mccheese?

hanker for a hunka, slab or slice or chunka?
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

Whatever he's sellin', I ain't buyin'.
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

but the thought of eating a hard boiled egg on the go (or while seated, for that matter) makes me nauseous.

Yeah, this is fairly disgusting, I agree.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

It's Timer! Time for Timer! He was the little dude who came out during the Saturday morning cartoons of our youth to extoll us to eat something for breakfast:

A hardboiled egg, a chicken leg, grilled cheese or luncheon meat
or a peanut butter sandwich any time of day's a treat!
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

A hard boiled egg in the afternoon is a great snack. Good for weightwatchers.

Lots of salt, lots of pepper.
― Jeff, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

hankering otm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYHmMptQ-f0
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Hard-boiled is not my favorite thing in the world, but I will eat it. Basically any other egg preparation is cool with me. Eggs!
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

is he the hanker for a hunka cheese guy?

i WISH i could eat eggs -- but they make me NAUSEOUS.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

He also did one where he turned a piece of cheese into a wagon wheel! And another where he showed us how to freeze orange juice with toothpick handles in an ice cube tray in to make sunshine on a stick.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Chicken leg for BREAKFAST?!?!
― KitCat, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

YES I hanker for a hunka, a slab a slice a chunka, I hanker for a hunka cheese.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

On the other hand, if I've had some eggs in my fridge for multiple months, should I throw them away? I don't think I've ever had a bad egg, but still.
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

I can barely eat an omelette, and usually only if it's v.v. fancy or if I made it myself with tons of onion powder and pepper.

Ah yes, I remember that little yellow man.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

I don't want the incredible edible egg to turn into Mr.Yuk.

http://leighhouse.typepad.com/blog/images/mr_yuck.bmp
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

cold fried chicken is the breakfast of awesomeness
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

I think the spots were geared toward latch key kids and neglected inner city youth who might not have anybody making them french toast to tell them that eating in the morning is IMPORTANT and even if you have to grab a cold chicken leg, hey! It's all good!

xp - multiple months? Jordan, through those out. And I ate a yogurt that had been sans refrigeration for over twelve hours so I'm not squeamish about old food.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

Although I then spent years begging my mother to let me eat cold chicken for breakfast.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

I look at hard boiled eggs as nature's own energy bars.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

ooh what did i miss? I was not up for craziness that night, but I never heard fun stories.

a friend of mine and her now ex-boyfriend (who have been discussed to death today) showed up later on. then after the party wound down we went out and ratcheted things up. i think i opened my last beer around 7 a.m.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.toontracker.com/timer/timer.htm

thing is, this Timer fellow is obviously the product of a diseased mind. wtf IS he? A shrivelly old lemon?
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

If you could find and remove the part of my brain that finds hard boiled eggs totally foul, I would really appreciate it. It's my great food-related shame. People around the world enjoy eggs...why can't I?
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:32 (eighteen years ago)

Sunshine on a stick makes me happy.
Sunshine on a stick in my eye makes me cry.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

Okay, I will throw out bad eggs.

I have a rock show that starts in 2.5 hours. It will still be daylight out. That ain't natural.

(we're opening up for a "Portland quirk-rock" band)
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

haha ez
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

The best I can do with eggs is quiche. I'll gladly eat a quiche, because of the cheese and the veggies and the crust, but anything eggier than that, including omelettes, are out. Although I think I had a scramble at Food Dance Cafe in Kalamazoo that was OK. I probably put lots of salsa or ketchup on it.
― jaymc, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

have fun tonight, poochies. wish i could be there.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Quirk-rock makes me think the singer will either be a guy with Ira Glass/Harvey Danger glasses or two gals looking like extras from "Laisse Tomber Les Filles", or both.
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

LOL @ sunshine on a stick in my eye

I went through a period of about six years extending from junior high to college where I HATED eggs and could neither eat nor smell them without getting nauseated. And then one day, it was like Oh. Yeah. Eggs. Cool. And here I am.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

I pretty much live for omelettes. It's my morning-after speciality, as well (ask Nick & Sarah).
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Which Portland quirk-rock band? Because it's not us, if we're quirk-rock, which I don't know if we are, etc.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

M1nmae
― Jordan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

I think I've said this before but somebody in this office sounds just like Norm McDonald.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

kevin/kenan: are you talking about my birthday party. i remember meeting kevin there, but no kenan. of course, there is a lot missing in my recollection of that party.
― sisut, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

I was there for about 20 minutes, but then I got in the wind all quiet-like. I was not feeling my best.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

that makes sense. i don't know how to use correct punctuation.
― sisut, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:52 (eighteen years ago)

kenan was there then said he was going out for a cigarette and never came back. it was very springsteenian of him.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

ha!

Because I'm just that cool.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:58 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan's like a river that don't know where it's flowin'.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

Dont make no difference what nobody says
Aint nobody like to be alone
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

But he knows what it means
to walk along the lonely street of dreams
― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

IT'S THE ONLY ROAD I'VE EVER KNOWN

anyway speaking of leaving places, I am leaving this one. Bye Chicago. Nice to see you online, Katie.
― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:06 (eighteen years ago)

Friends, it hurts my heart to do this, but I am going to skip TT. I think we all knew this was coming, but it brightened my afternoon to think I was going for a beer with my pals at the end of my workday. My employment discrimination grade and my health thank you for your patience with me.
― Jenny, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:07 (eighteen years ago)

i disliked eggs when i was little, so my family disguised them by melting so much cheese in with the scrambled eggs that they were more cheese than eggs. then i ate them happily.

now i like eggs, even (occasionally) hard-boiled ones. they're better devilled though.

xposts feel better, jenny! (i have a cold too--i am resentful every time the phone rings and i have to use my voice to talk to someone i'm indifferent to, because i don't have much voice!)
― JuliaA, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

Ha! Wow, M1nmae is one of the bands I actually know. Although they have all new people now. Their previous drummer was my band's previous drummer, who they stole from us. My bass player was their drummer a million years ago. Another of their previous drummers recorded our last two albums. They go through a lot of drummers. Anyway I like them, although I like Sean acoustic better.
― Casuistry, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

Although I'd never call them "quirk-rock".
― Casuistry, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

I AM LEAVING FOR THE BAR RIGHT NOW.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

(Actually I think Sean knows Ned from his SoCal days? I can't remember. Anyway I'll shut up about this now.)
― Casuistry, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:18 (eighteen years ago)

To answer a very old question--

Jordan, if you want to park cheap near the HOB, park on Wacker Drive, there are meters. There is also metered parking on Clark north of the river. Also, if you want to use my restaurant's valet, it's only $9. You have to pick up your car by around 11 or 11:30 (at35 W W@cker). The parking garages usually run around $20. Also, HOB might have valet.
― Jesse, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:59 (eighteen years ago)

I meant FREE, not cheap--no charge for the meters on weekends. That ends on Sunday at midnight. People at my work have gotten $50 tickets marked 12:01. They are like sharks, those meter men and maidens.
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:04 (eighteen years ago)

The Green Eye is McDonalds' beer garden.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 04:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, Chris, I asked them if they had heard of your band and they said no. But that was the rhythm section, not the singer.

There was NO ONE at the show, because it was so early (it had been double-booked if I didn't mention it). Just a couple of rock bands playing for each other. We actually had a good time though, sat on stools, played some songs we'd never played before.

Then the bartender started buying us shots, and I met some friends, and the night is kind of a blur from there. I had my own little TT.
― Jordan, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:01 (eighteen years ago)

mornin motherfuckers.

How was the beer? Amber and sudsy?
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:52 (eighteen years ago)

plentiful would be how i'd describe it.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

good. good.
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

How did the show go, Kev?
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:00 (eighteen years ago)

without incident.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

Did it go beyond that to funzone?
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

LOL. 848 just talked about how the Jarvis red line stop smells like pee in a story about the aldermanic runoff in that district. It smells like pee so bad!
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:23 (eighteen years ago)

The incumbent alderman is running on a platform of putting a Trader Joe's in Rogers Park. I'd like to hear Amanda's view on this.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Woo no boss lady today. Hopefully even bigger boss man will skeedaddle like he usually does at some point in the day, as well. And that's when the pants come off.

Did anyone see The Daily Show last night? The book looked fascinating. About these crazy daredevil/scientist dudes who climb Redwood trees, like 350 feet high, and found a whole new complicated ecosystem up there, with its own plants and animals. Earthworms, even. Like, the tangled branches of the trees create another ground, and the animals that live there don't even know that it's *not* the ground. Weird. I want to read this.
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, it sounds like all Joe Moore has to do is get the pee smell out of the Jarvis el station and people will be more content. Maybe I'll send him a bottle of cat pee smell getter outer that I've never used that came with Sample DeKuyper the cat.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I'm still hurting from going at it a little too long at Super Trivia, Week 2 last night. Our team was called on to go head-to-head in the light box buzzer machine lightning round, and I choked so bad. Missed all 3 of my questions, and they were all ones I could have potentially known, which doesn't usually happen.

1. What is the real name of the Day-O song?
2. What is the name of the fuzzy blue mascot from the Atlanta Olympics?
3. What is the outcome when a catcher interferes with a batter's swing?

How did I miss all of these?!? Too nervous.
― stingy, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:30 (eighteen years ago)

"The Banana Boat Song"
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

the other two i don't know
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

batter takes first base on catcher interference.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:33 (eighteen years ago)

hmm.

http://www.imcmascots.com/mascot-pages/olympics-mascots-izzy.htm
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

I have no memory of that.
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, you should watch the Planet Earth series on the Discovery channel. They talk about the tops of tall trees in the Forest episode.
― Jeff, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

yeah those are right. i blanked on banana boat. and then i said a ball instead of going to first base. that one was really bad, because if i got it right we would have clinched the win, but instead they ended up coming back and tying us, forcing a final round where we won when they could not get the capital of south dakota!

as for the 2nd question, i buzzed in right away and said "whatzit," which i was totally sure was correct. but the answer was "izzy." i looked it up today and it turns out he was originally called whatzit and then they changed the name to izzy because whatzit was so bad. so i think that should have counted, but oh well. i went to some of that olympics so i should have known.
― stingy, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

Have you guys heard this Charlotte Gainsbourg album? It's fantastic.
― n/a, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

5:55 is the one I'm talking about.
― n/a, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I thought it was the whatzit too; guess I followed the run-up to the Olympics more than the Olympics itself.

Thought of you guys too hearing the Jarvis pee story this morn.
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

why would i etc.
― Jordan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:49 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.nme.com/images/83_JarvisCocker_L281005.jpg
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't heard that record but I do like me some Serge. Also enjoyed the Gondry movie she was in last year.
― stingy, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Have you guys heard this Charlotte Gainsbourg album? It's fantastic.

tee hee I know what made you think of that! (Jarvis Cocker wrote the lyrics.)
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, I didn't know that. I thought of it because I was, um, listening to it.
― n/a, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Anyways - recommended.
― n/a, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

oh, i thought it was too much of a coincidence, and i even posted a picture of jarvis cocker, and... it all fit so neatly!
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to be in town in 2 weeks to try and find an apartment. I noticed there's a decent show that Friday night with Brightblack, Jack Rose, and the dude from Lungfish, if anyone's into that sort of thing. I might try and go.
― stingy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, I could be up for that if I'm around. I like Brightblack Morning Light. Is it at Empty Bottle?
― n/a, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

It is indeed. I've never been there, but I'm sure I will soon be going 3 times a month or something.
― stingy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Do I like the Klaxons?
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

This is why I ask...
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

that's a decision that every woman has to make for herself.

I'm pro-Klaxons-choice.
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Hi.

Bye.
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Gmail has been sucking too much recently.
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I just checked their myspace. Yes, I do like them, it turns out.
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

TELL me about it, Jesse.
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah we listened to the Klaxons on the way to St. Louis. I think they are fine but not amazing. I like the "Golden Skans" song.
― n/a, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

I like them enough to walk down the street & see them FOR FREE.
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

Dear Sarah,

Oh how Gmail has been sucking recently. Suck, suck, suck. Day and night, always the sucking. Never any fucking, always sucking.

Sincerely,

Jesse
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

I like BrightBMorningL too and could go, though I'm very mixed about the Empty Bottle (esp. now that the pinball's gone).
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

1. What is the real name of the Day-O song?
2. What is the name of the fuzzy blue mascot from the Atlanta Olympics?
3. What is the outcome when a catcher interferes with a batter's swing?

Didn't look at the answers:

1. "The Banana Boat Song"
2. Whatizit
3. Batter automatically advances to first base?
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

Guys I am totally driving to Chicago today. Someone YSI me an iPass.
― Jordan, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:18 (eighteen years ago)

Guys I am totally posting from a new cubicle. My world has been turned upside-down.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

2 out of 3 ain't bad, Jaymc. And as I said, I think Whatizit should have counted!
― stingy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

I agree!
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

I've got an itch to do trivia again. Tuesdays, anyone?
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, I am totally editing a transcript of a speech from Finland.
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

Haha EZ, awesome.

I got 1 and 3, but 3 was a total guess. Blanked on #2.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

§
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

^^^what is that called?
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:26 (eighteen years ago)

I only got Banana Boat.

Dunno, Dan.

Jesse, tell me more, tell me more.
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:28 (eighteen years ago)

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

I was thinking it was a double dagger, but going to that page referenced the correct one above.
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:31 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know what it's called, but it's used to denote a section. As in 13 ILCA §6 - Chapter 13 of the Annotated Illinois Code, Section 6.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

§§§§§§§§§§§§§
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:32 (eighteen years ago)

ooh... option 6!
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

I was wondering whether EZ or JMC would get it first. thx

(you know I work surrounded by editors on 3 sides, and I still asked the internets)
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/68/Section_sign.svg/136px-Section_sign.svg.png
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

Whoops - right. Like EZ said.

I got all excited that my legal education was finally going to be useful in some way.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

This was probably my last chance to ever use my legal education to help someone.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

oh stop
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

Now, if only I can find somewhere in the loop to buy shows but pay less for them than I would in other stores...
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

SHOES goddammit SHOES
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

haha
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

(Last chance to use the legal education to help someone other than pimps and drug lords.)
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:35 (eighteen years ago)

I'd also like to buy some clothes, but I'm only interested in paying half. I wish there were somewhere to buy clothes but only pay half.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Have you been to Pay/Half on Wabash?
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

No but it sounds like a magical place.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Pay half, you say? Don't mind if I do!
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:37 (eighteen years ago)

Let's talk about the effects of cold medicine on me.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Also I almost just took the night time cold medicine instead of the day time cold medicine. That might have actually been sort of interesting. I am in some kind of a mood today, I tell you what.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

Goddamnit I should have posted goddamnit.jpg
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Pay/Half's next door to Filene's/TJ Maxx. The clothes don't look great, but they're clothes.
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry I gave you all my cold. NOOOO!!!! Give me some clothes and fun bathy products. In return, I will give you a cold.
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

Or Half/Pay on Canal. You know, in the 1/2 price clothes district.

xpost oh that's a real place huh
― Jordan, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

There needs to be a Buy Half, where you just get one pant leg.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah, that's some trade. But then again I am reeeeeaaaally enjoying that giant bar of soap, which will surely outlast this cold.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Would I lie?
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

(I know about Pay/Half. I'm outing a stupid inside joek that I made to Dan on IM yesterday that is still bagging me up. See also "effects of cold medicine on me.")
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

How long do you think I can not refrigerate an Odwalla juice and still drink it without getting ecoli or whatever's ruining our nations produce today?
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:46 (eighteen years ago)

Sam an' Ella.
― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

not long, i don't believe odwalla is pastuerized so it's got a pretty short life to begin with.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

don't drink it if the bottle gets all puffy
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

that is still bagging me up.

I like the way you work it.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

HA!
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

"Bagging up" is a v. Delaware (or possibly Delaware Valley/Delmarva Peninsula) expression. If you wanted to sound like you went to high school in New Castle County Delaware, you might say something like "Dag, that phone call bagged me up" making sure that you pronounce "phone" in a way that I can't even begin to spell out phonetically. Phowne but with an extra syllable or something.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

Because who doesn't want to sound like he went to high school in New Castle County, Delaware?

If you want to sound like you went to high school in Sussex County, Delaware (as I did), you would say something more like "This dude in a rice burner tried to beat me off the line at the Broadkill light so I dropped it down to first and said, "FUGGIT" and smoked him in my Mustang. Dag. Bagged me up. Phowowhwowohweheene."
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

"Let's go to the beach." People in Delaware say that a lot, too.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to get off line now and go share my awesome mood with my school chums.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Vamos a jugar por la playa
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Zach de la Rocha & Tom Morello, las Krudas, Hot 8 Brass Band, Olmeca, Rebeldiaz, Enoch, DJ Earth 1, Condenada, Edley Shine, HecOne, Son del Centro, Fandanguero, Spirit Child, Nuestro Tambo, Vicios de Papa
perform at a parade for farmworkers' rights hosted by the Coalition of Imokalee Workers. Sat 4/14, 10:30 AM, perform at a parade for farmworkers' rights hosted by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers. Federal Plaza, 50 W. Adams. 240-753-2771.

hmm
― Jordan, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

The name of the Husker Du song that I was trying to remember (and singing badly) last night is "Celebrated Summer". I am listening to it now and it rules.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

i had cheeseburgers last night dan. they were good f'ing cheeseburgers.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

From the Green Eye grill?
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh bad McDonald's joek kills thred
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

i could go for a cheeseburger right now.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

So just to review, y'all are pretty much doing your own things tonight, right?
― Jordan, Friday, 13 April 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

I gots tentative plans to hang with some peeps. You're welcome to meet up with us if you like/can. (so is everyone else) Hit me up on teh Gmail for my number if you don't have it, Jordan.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

It must suck to be a daughter brought to work on the day your dad has his email migrated to a new program for 5 hours.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

I disagree. It's important for children to learn about job cynicism and fruitless time wasting as early as possible.
― mattttt, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

ah, adulthood.
― sisut, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Is Bring Your Daughter to Work Day today, or was that just a hypothetical?
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

It is here, I guess. The internets tells me the official day is the 26th.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:46 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to Glenn's Diner tonight with three other people. I won't know who these people are until I get there. Fun!
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:50 (eighteen years ago)

Restaurant club?
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 17:55 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, but with a twist. At the end of every Restaurant Club year (which runs March to March), we vote on the top 10 restaurants of the year. We return to the restaurant voted #1 for an anniversary dinner. Then, a week later (or, this year, several weeks later, because of scheduling conflicts), we do something called Trios, in which you're assigned to go to one of the other nine restaurants in the top 10, with two (or sometimes three) other people. You don't know which one you're going to be assigned (although you can submit preferences) until the day before, and you don't know who your dining companions are until you get there.

Part of the idea behind it is to put people together that wouldn't normally associate, or who don't know each other too well. After seven years, this becomes harder to make happen, but there are always new people in the club (like Kr) and there are also people I see all the time but don't really ever talk to, beyond "Hey, what's up?"
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:06 (eighteen years ago)

I told you people about that farmworkers rally a long time ago.
― Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:11 (eighteen years ago)

I love chicken shawermaaa
I love chicken shawerma huh huh-huh
With the tahini sauce and some onions up in there tooooo
I love chicken shawerma
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:46 (eighteen years ago)

That's nice.

BYE!

Going to see Michigan.
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

Have fun, Sarah! I told my sis about the show but I dunno if she'll make it.
― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

If not, we'll seek her out and play for her whereever she is. BWAH HA HA.
― KitCat, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

She lives near downtown GR, actually. :)
― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 18:54 (eighteen years ago)

The 19-year-old is on Facebook.

[Removed Illegal Link]

I guess she's probably 20 now. She graduates next year.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Oh goddammit.

http://profile.ak.facebook.com/v52/47/13/s82100574_7550.jpg
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

hahahahahaha
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

(I was laughing at the return of italics)
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

it is rumored that they fixed this problem in dev, so we should see an end to it soonish
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

Formatting help

To make the entire thread italicized, use: [i]<em class='inlinetext'>your text</em>and don't close it
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

damn, I figured that probably wouldn't work
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

My crazy boss. I swear. He walks by the printer, picks up an unfinished thing I'm working on, then comes in and starts critiquing it on the basis that it's unfinished. "The picture doesn't match the headline." "Yes, I know, I'm still working on it, but I needed to see" etc etc. "Well, you can't do this." "I know, it's not finished." "Well if someone walked by and saw this, it would look very poor." "I understand. I'm sorry."

If someone walked by the printer, picked up my printouts, didn't have the brain to see that it's clearly unfinished, and imagined we were about to send it out that way? NO ONE in the office, or a thousand other offices, would ever do that and get annoyed about it other than him. And that's because he's totally insane.

Seriously, if you hand this guy a mockup with dummy text, he will circle it and put a big red question mark next to it. Uh... YOU CRAZY OLD TURD, IT'S DUMMY TEXT. HOW ARE YOU THE HEAD OF THE MARKETING DEPARTMENT AGAIN?
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Tell him to fuck off and let you do your work.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Oh why didn't I think of that?
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

I'm full of great ideas like that.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

RIP the Chicago thread ;_;
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

Cool, I'm ripping a DVD copy of 300, thanks to co-worker man. Something to watch tonight!
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

srsly dudes post yr mundane shit here and not there
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

otm
― ghost rider, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

seriously, i'm gonna wind up falling asleep at this party.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

ha
― ghost rider, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

:D
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, go home and nap. Norah deserves your best!
― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

Have fun at the Norah Jones show, Kev!
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

silly, it's a norah ephron movie
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

ok, seriously now, what the fuck? I JUST HAD TO SHOW SOMEONE HOW TO COPY AND PASTE.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

srsly dudes post yr mundane shit here and not there

Yeah, my RIP notice was right after I posted mundane shit about work on the DC thread, at which point I realized, "What is the point of Chicago anymore?"

silly, it's a norah ephron movie

I don't think I know any Norahs besides Norah Jones. Nora Ephron, Nora Dunn, etc.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

it drives me crazy when I see people copying and pasting using the dropdown menus. If you know any keystrokes at all, you should know those.
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

and if you don't know any keystrokes at all, you should know those
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

I use the drop down menus all the time in emacs. It's better than shift-control-y to paste, shift-control-u to copy, etc.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

And don't even get me started on the key commands in vi.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.cartoonbank.com/assets/1/123734_m.gif
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, jaymc totally pwned me on the spelling of nora. I must sequester myself in shame.
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

I was pwning Laurel first. Unless the Norah she's talking about is actually spelled that way, in which case fine.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

which she does so you just pwned yrslf.
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

[image]etc[/i]
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh well, I tried.
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

XP to Jay: I still haven't decided whether it's more charitable to pretend that you were kidding about the Norah Jones thing.
― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

My brother can barely use any electronics techonology, especially a home computer(he never did master programming a VCR). I asked him to send me a link to his eBay sales (selling motorcycles and parts), but he said, "I don't have the expertise necessary to provide a link." But then in a phone call a few days later says, "Have you heard of this 'Aych Tee Emm Ell?' I'm using it to spiff up my listings on eBay."

Cart before the horse, dear brother.
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

Dudes where should I take a date in the Lincoln Square area? Someplace that is not loud would be ideal.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Dear Jesse

Sorry we're so awesome.

Love

DC Thread
― Mr. Que, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Dear Chicago

FUCK YOU IT'S OVER

-Jesse
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

It's true that we've been unfaithful. But DC means nothing to me! It was just sex!

or, uh...
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Dudes where should I take a date in the Lincoln Square area? Someplace that is not loud would be ideal.

lincoln square library?
― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

we don't have these kinda problems with hastings
― ghost rider, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

hastings doesn't put out
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, Jeff and I went to Resi's Bierstube. It was quiet. Though not the kind of place you'd typically think to take a date, I guess.
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

xpost to Kev: If she's the bookish type it might work
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

does this mean i have to try to keep up with both threads now?
― JuliaA, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

I hate italics.

It's fun to say "bierstube." bierstube.

It's also fun to say "beers tube." Put that in my beers tube
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

does this mean i have to try to keep up with both threads now?

NO. It does not.
― Mr. Que, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck keeping up with both threads. Already it's a wonder I accomplish anything trying to keep up with this shiestube thread.
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:21 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck keeping up with both threads because I can find my own cat pictures thank you very much.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

the great Chicago Civil War of '07 should be a riot and a half.
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

I think Resi's Bierstube tied for worst restaurant of Restaurant Club Year Six.

Cafe Selmarie might be good for a date. Also, Tank Sushi. There's also those Thai restaurants on Western, like Spoon or Opart Thai House, but maybe they're not interesting enough.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

My Germanfriend found it amusing that there was a restaurant here called "Resi's Bierstube" for some reason. He seemed to think it was odd for a restaurant here to be named in Germanese.
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

XP to Jay: I still haven't decided whether it's more charitable to pretend that you were kidding about the Norah Jones thing.

What do you mean, kidding? I didn't actually think that Kevin was going to see Norah Jones, if that's what you mean.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

The post with the open italic tag has been sucked into the center-of-thread void, fucking finally.
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

Resi's Bierstube was awesome. I want to go back.
― Jeff, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:30 (eighteen years ago)

MEATY. STARCHY.
― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

SSSSSSSSSSSSSPPPPPPPPPPPRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG
― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:37 (eighteen years ago)

Dan:
-Opart
-Old Town School Show (shshhhhh!)
-Back room of the Bad Dog
-Bistro Campagne (will seal the deal)
-that unmarked cinderblock bar that people say is where Nazis gather
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:51 (eighteen years ago)

Also: If you like the idea of a coffee date but want to kick it up a notch, the Book Cellar has a wine and cheese plate.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

More like the Book Playa.
― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:02 (eighteen years ago)

hate the game, not the cellah
― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

They also have a spelling bee tonight, which I dearly hope they do again, on a night when I don't already have plans.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:29 (eighteen years ago)

Weird, someone else at Stylus wrote an <a href="http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_first_listen/scott-walker1.htm">article </a> about listening to Scott Walker for the first time. It's like I never existed.
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

(Yeah, whatever, I meant to hit the button, but I forgot.)
― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:13 (eighteen years ago)

LOL. 848 just talked about how the Jarvis red line stop smells like pee in a story about the aldermanic runoff in that district. It smells like pee so bad!

-- Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:23 (8 hours ago)
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The incumbent alderman is running on a platform of putting a Trader Joe's in Rogers Park. I'd like to hear Amanda's view on this.

-- Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:26 (8 hours ago)

WELL, funny you should ask. I've been back and forth and up in the air about who to vote for ever since the first election. Initially, I was put off by Moore's fat-cat demeanor and hands-off attitude to our immediate neighborhood (we live right by the Peevis Stop). He only comes out at election time and then he does a bunch of shit to make himself look good. So the opposition was looking like a way to tell him "Hey dude, get off your ass." I basically figured that a vote against Moore would be wasted, but that it would send a message to him. (A la a vote against Daley.) THEN, I started really looking at the guy who ended up running against him in this runoff election.

And things do not look good for that guy.
1) He's hella old. He looks like he could be pushed around by the people on city council and made to do all sorts of undignified patsy-type city hall things.

2) it's spooky how everyone who supports him and comes to my house and rings my bell and calls me is white. not everyone in my neighborhood is white, but the people who support Gordon are overwhelmingly white. I don't like that. They also act like they're scared of Rogers Park, which is ridiculous. It's not that scary.

3) I do not support bringing a TJ's to this neighborhood for the sole reason that people in this neighborhood do not shop at TJs, for the most part. I don't think they would suddenly start listening to NPR and eating hummus just because there's a TJs here. It would sort of ruin the pleasant balance we've struck here between chain (Dom's) and taqueria. If people want to go to TJs they can drive a little further, myself included.

Ultimately, I think Gordon is a weakling. Moore has said, effectively, "Message received, y'all -- you want me to DO something" and that's really all I wanted from him at this point. I don't consider Gordon a viable alternative. Until we have a decent alternative, I think -- for this minute at least -- that I'll vote for Moore.

Like ANYONE is actually going to read this. Ha! But I had to respond.
― La Lechera, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:16 (eighteen years ago)

I read it! Unfortunately for your electoral goals, I don't vote in Chicago.
― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:20 (eighteen years ago)

It's funny, because at first I was adamantly opposed to voting for Moore, but then when it looked like he could actually lose, I looked at the other guy a little more closely and he looked worse and worse.
― La Lechera, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

PS I caught the cold too. I feel AWFUL like my throat is going to close. Yay. I spent most of the afternoon on the couch after coming home early and skipping a meeting.
― La Lechera, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:27 (eighteen years ago)

At KT's party there was a girl who said, "I used to live in Roger's Park, but it that scary. So I moved."

I don't think that really adds anything substantial to this discussion, does it. :(
― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

Friday the 13th? I didn't even know. It's been good luck today.

First we discovered today that my mom's bank made a $200 error in her favor. Then I bought her 1 $1 scratch-off Lotto ticket (her first ever) because it was called "Mucho Dinero." It looked like it was worth $10, but it turned out that it was a Tripler, so she won $30. ***BLING BLING BLING BLING***
― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:04 (eighteen years ago)

Plus online I discovered that the Michigan Dept. of Revenue has some kid of Left Wing Socialist fuel credit for the elderly, so score a few more bucks for the Widow K*hr.

She bought me some good bread and made enchiladas for dinner.
― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:08 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think they would suddenly start listening to NPR and eating hummus just because there's a TJs here.

lord i hope not, much as i like those two things sometimes. Point is, bringing a TJ into the hood would mean it has gained LEGITAMACY, you know, like when you see in real estate ads that there's a Starbuck's nearby. Which horrifies many people, including myself for the most part, because it means rents will rise massively and very soon, but also means in a real way that it's pretty reliable that gang activity hav moved out of the neighborhood, the it's been colonized by mainstream whatever, and you can go ahead and have babies there if you want to.

My feelings are very mixed, if you can't tell.
― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:10 (eighteen years ago)

I actually like my neighborhood right like it is... in transition. This is the second place I've lived in chicago that's changing rapidly as I watch out the window. It's getting safer, there are more amenities and stores and such all the time, and in a year or two I will be priced out of it. Just like all my neighbors, even the ones with families and kids.
― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:15 (eighteen years ago)

xp to to Jesse - enchiladas out of the bread?

Thanks, Amanda! I totally read that with much interest. Moore is also the lead sponsor of the Big Box Ordinance and I've actually met him once at this panel on the living wage and he seemed really nice. I'm glad that he is hearing the people about the pee smell.
― Jenny, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:16 (eighteen years ago)

I must've missed this: why are you in Michigan, Jesse?
― jaymc, Saturday, 14 April 2007 04:50 (eighteen years ago)

To visit mom. He's been there for weeks! Or so it seems.
― Casuistry, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:18 (eighteen years ago)

Went to the Handlebar tonight. There was a dude dancing and air guitaring to G'nR on tables and chairs.

Sometimes I think some hipsters try waaay too hard to dress strange and look weird until it gets to the point where it becomes obvious and they end up not looking weird, they just look like they're wearing a costume. There were a bunch of people like that there tonight.
― dan m, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:37 (eighteen years ago)

I can say that because I surely embody the pinnacle of what's cool.
― dan m, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:38 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, she's a good friend but she also said "logan square is still logan square" ...just because someone down the block got stabbed on easter sunday. it was domestic violence, not that i endorse it by any means, but it happens in every neighborhood, regardless of demographics. the hipsters have moved into humboldt park, where i work. i resent not being the only white girl anymore. silly, i know.
― sisut, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:56 (eighteen years ago)

i'm through with white girls.
― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:45 (eighteen years ago)

not really.

gah. waking up in the middle of the night is rotten.
― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:46 (eighteen years ago)

especially since no one in their right mind is still awake to talk to. maybe some aussies are still awake, but why bother?
― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:51 (eighteen years ago)

that was a joke, btw, australia.
― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:59 (eighteen years ago)

I opened for the Sh-rx last night at Ho' Bisco'. They really should just be the house band there on Saturday nights. Rock-show experience of the bar being so hot and crowded and ugly-seeming, and they played and those things went away. Fun stuff.
― Eazy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:48 (eighteen years ago)

awes
― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:51 (eighteen years ago)

I just want to always live close to where I need to go.
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

FWIW, I didn't like the second Scott Walker, on first listen article.. Jaymc = 1, Stylus = 0.
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:02 (eighteen years ago)

Im in Michigan visiting the Widow K*hr. The enchiladas were made out of corn tortillas, onions, cheese, and beef. The bread was simply my reward for putting money in mommy's purse.
― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:53 (eighteen years ago)

White Girls was on TV last night.

I don't mind "scary" neighborhoods if they have something else going for them. I guess I mean that in a pretty selfish way--if there are good restaurants, nightlife, stores, then scary is not the worst thing ever. The area around the Wilson stop on the Red line is kind of unnerving after around 11 or 12 at night (mostly if you are carrying $$$ in cash and wearing waiter clothes) but it has other things going for it that make it preferrable to the tamer Argyle area.

One of those "other things" will soon be a Target.
― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 13:08 (eighteen years ago)

OK, time to shower and drive 6 hours. See you soon, Chi-town.
― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 13:09 (eighteen years ago)

Is brunch with Jordan happening or no? I have a hair appointment at 1, so I suspect this will interfere.
― jaymc, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

I just got out of class. I'm hungry.
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 April 2007 17:00 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone have a favorite salmon recipe? I have 12 oz. of salmon in the freezer and am looking for something to do with it.

Speaking of which, I had the Hawaiian sunfish "tilapia" at Glenn's Diner last night, which was delicious. I wondered why tilapia was in quotes: is it possible it wasn't actually tilapia? I should've asked.
― jaymc, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

So this Charlotte Gainsbourg record is good, but it sounds just like an Air album featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg on every track.
― jaymc, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:01 (eighteen years ago)

I don't really listen to Air so that doesn't bother me.
― n/a, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

Grand Rapids was a good time. There were some seriously weird people at the bar.
― n/a, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

Wish I could have brunched with Jordan, but I work Sat. mornings. :(
Plus I am under le weather.
― La Lechera, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:07 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think it happened, A.
― jaymc, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yo,

You can now find

BEST OF SONIC YOUTH
BEST OF STEREOLAB
JAYMC'S POST-ROCK MIX

at the old blog (the CH1LX one, not the CH1LX0RZ one)

(because I don't know how to post on the new one, I think someone needs to give me permission or something?)

Love ya.
― jaymc, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:15 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. We walked by a little grocery store yesterday that had "tilapia." But they also had "ham" and "cheese," so I don't think that means much in that case.
― Jesse, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:04 (eighteen years ago)

I am downloading the post rock mix and finally downloading Kenan's mix and finally putting those and Nick's mix on my mp3 player. ALRIGHT YEAH ALRIGHT.
― Jenny, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

OK.

Every time I try to open a .pdf file from the internet (Firefox and IE) it freezes up. This has been going on since I last successfully opened one last week. When I tried to print it to a file, it froze and nothing's been right in .pdf land ever since. This will make taxes a little harder.
― Jesse, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

Never mind. I figured it out. See, what happened was that it got stuck printing to file and had been stuck thusly for days. Now it's all better and there are .pdfs for every good girl and boy.
― Jesse, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yo, John, bro, your girl Busy P. was on Entourage tonight.
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 03:26 (eighteen years ago)

Has anyone heard of the recording artist called Chingy? My busser was singing a Chingy song near where a couple could have heard him, and I had to tell him that the lyrics were offensive, and especially to the Asian woman who made up half of the couple. The words:

[Hook 2X: Chingy + (Girl)]
[Chingy] What's up?
(Why yo eyes so chinky?) I dunno
(Is it because you've been smoking and drinking?)
Maybe so
(I've been thinking) huh?
(Maybe you come get me) and do what?
Wine me, dine me, take me home and eat me
Okay
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 03:48 (eighteen years ago)

It's offensive that he didn't rhyme "wine me, dine me" with the obvious sex act, but chose "eat me."
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 04:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yo, John, bro, your girl Busy P. was on Entourage tonight.

I think she's Jordan's girl!

Has anyone heard of the recording artist called Chingy?

Yes, he's the St. Louis rapper (Nelly protege) responsible for the song "Right Thurr" (which Lady Sovereign parodies on "Random") and the less popular "Holidae Inn." There used to be a huge billboard on a building next to the White Hen at Clark and Catalpa advertising his debut album Jackpot. No idea what he's been up to in the last 2-3 years, though.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 04:14 (eighteen years ago)

Oh my. http://tv-links.co.uk/ SO HANDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 04:22 (eighteen years ago)

WOW. FUCK YOU, CABLE.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

I've seen things that would make you crap a book on how to puke.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 04:31 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, that website.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 04:48 (eighteen years ago)

It's wonderful! It has a lot of stuff, and no downloading! I could have used that this summer in NO.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:00 (eighteen years ago)

The video for Chingy's song "Powerballa" (or maybe it's "Powerballin'") has a pinball theme. That's all I've seen/heard.
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:15 (eighteen years ago)

So The Arcade Fire. I really like them. I guess I could see the music being overly dramatic for some people, but I like it all right. The words are really good.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:17 (eighteen years ago)

Busy is my girl.

I can't believe I went out AGAIN tonight. I wouldn't have except that Youngbl00d was playing tonight. ANyway I got back to Madison okay and the cats weren't dead.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:19 (eighteen years ago)

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― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:20 (eighteen years ago)

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Who will go with me to see the Arcade Fire on May 18? WHO?
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:22 (eighteen years ago)

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― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:23 (eighteen years ago)

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― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

OK, I think I've worn out the funny on that.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:30 (eighteen years ago)

The only Arcade Fire song I've heard sounds too much like "On The Dark Side" by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band, so if you like them do not listen to this song and if it comes through the speakers when you're in the White Hen at 3 a.m. cover your ears.
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:39 (eighteen years ago)

05/18 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre (Sold Out)
05/19 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre (Sold Out)
05/20 Chicago, IL - Chicago Theatre (Sold Out)

Oh dear.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:40 (eighteen years ago)

Eric, I was thinking of you because the episode of The O.C. I just watched featured "Night Moves."
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 05:50 (eighteen years ago)

Eric-- Do you know a play about a woman who wants has decided to commit suicide because for no apparent reason? She tells her mother that she will fix her dinner and then go to the bathroom to shoot herself. She's not depressed, upset, or angry; she is just has decided to die. In the end she shoots herself in the bathroom. I think a woman wrote it.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:16 (eighteen years ago)

because for no apparent reason....
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:17 (eighteen years ago)

'night Mother by Marsha Norman. Really good play.

As opposed to 'night Moves by Bob Seger (so good).
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

I just found it! http://www.storyispromise.com/night.htm Thanks though. The keywords in this search were "play suicide mother gun." This play is pretty great. I wish I had kept my Modern Drama textbook.

Maybe she is a little upset, if not depressed.
"And I can't do anything either, about my life, to change it, make it better, make me feel better about it. Like it better, make it work. But I can stop it. Shut it down, turn it off like the radio when there's nothing on I want to listen to."

Eric, have you read/seen Top Girls? And do you remember a play set in Victorian times in Africa? In it the roles are all mixed up--some men play women, women play men, grown man plays a little boy.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:05 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I've seen it a few times, and it's probably one of my favorite plays (though it's hard in production to connect the first act with the rest). Cloud Nine, also by Caryl Churchill, is the one about Victorians in Africa, and that one I've seen two so-so productions of. Top Girls is the real dazzler.

She also has a play called The Skriker that is about a thousand-year-old British shapeshifter in contemporary London who speaks like she has a brain disorder. The opening lines are:
"Heard her boast beast a roast beef eater. Daughter could spin span spick and spun the lowest form of staw into golden lion and lyonesse under the sea, dungeonesse under the castle for bad mad sad adders and takers away. NeVer marry a kingsize, well beloved. Sees a little backjack thingalingo with a long long tale awinding. May day, she cried, may pole asked me to help her. So I spin the sheaves shoves shivers into golden guild and geld and if she can't guessinggame and safety match my name then I'll take her no mistake no mister no missed her no mist no miss no me no. Is it John Jack the ladder in your stocking is it Joke? Is it Alexander Sandro Andrew Dersteignton? No 't ain't, says I, no tainted meat me after the show me what you've got. Then pointing her finger says Tom tit tot! Out of her purple lippety loppety, out of her mouthtrap, out came my secreted garden flower of my youth and beauty and the beast is six six six o'clock in the morning becomes electric stormy petrol bomb. Revengance is gold mine sweet. Fe fi fo fumbledown cottage pie crust my heart and hope to die. My mother she killed me and put me in pies for sale away and home and awayday. Peck out her eyes have it. I'll give you three wishy washy. An open grave must be fed up you go like dust in the sunlight of heart. Gobble google says the turkey turnkey key to my heart. Ready or not hear we come quick or dead of night sleep sleep tight."
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:41 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to have to buy some anthologies.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:55 (eighteen years ago)

I'm making a shopping list for stocking my harem. So far the must-haves are

-Brandon Flowers
-TR Knight
-Eminem
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 07:56 (eighteen years ago)

I remember buying a ticket to see arcade fire for $8.00 at the Empty Bottle.

Then I sold it. Ha.
― Jeff, Monday, 16 April 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

Warning, somewhat gross story ahead:

I got into work today and my chair was adjusted all weird, like someone else had been sitting in it. OK, not so strange, I was out on Friday and maybe someone was using my computer while I was out. Then I notice that my mouse was kind of sticky. Gross, someone was eating while using my computer. I go get some wet paper towels and clean it off. Then I start up my computer and open the internet, and notice that the last three pages visited on my computer were porn sites. ;_;
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:55 (eighteen years ago)

the western/congress blue line pooper is back ;_;

nothing like starting your day next to homeless person scat.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 12:57 (eighteen years ago)

Gross on both counts, dudes.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

oh man, the person i'm sharing this office with started this morning. and i've got cheap beer farts!

it's a big office but still.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:13 (eighteen years ago)

And do you remember a play set in Victorian times in Africa? In it the roles are all mixed up--some men play women, women play men, grown man plays a little boy.

Ha, the first time I ever saw Matt from C@n@st@, he was dressed up as a woman in Cloud Nine.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:14 (eighteen years ago)

OK, now that I think about it, it wasn't the FIRST time. We were also doing improv together, and we both had American Music that quarter -- but it was one of my first impressions of him.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:17 (eighteen years ago)

Mornin Chicago. Hope your weekend was a roaring success.

The Departed is better the second time around, better even than I remember it being.

and i've got cheap beer farts!

Oh man I feel your pain. I do not have cheap beer farts, but I have eaten nothing but beans and vegetables all weekend. I am currently also the flatulent sort. :(
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

Thanks for sharing, guys.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

You wanna see sharing, drop by my office.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

Why does Kompakt hate computers? I had to insert the Field album like 10 times into my CD drive before my computer was able to read it, and this was also the case for Kompakt 100 and, if I'm not mistaken, another Kompakt release (Immer, maybe?). The ironic thing is that this is the first actual physical CD I've bought in months (I know at least Nick has the album and could YSI, but sometimes I like having artefacts), and shenanigans like this just make me want to go back to downloading everything.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

Wow no kidding. Maybe it's not DRM crap but something about German CD manufacturing?
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

btw: The Field album gets better the more I listen to it.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:42 (eighteen years ago)

I think maybe I just don't like "minimal techno" that much. I've decided I prefer my dance music maximal. Like, loud and crazy and dense.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

By the way, Sarah doesn't think my thumb is weird.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

Nick: are you saying The Field is minimal? I don't hear that. It's not loud and crazy, but it's fairly dense.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:57 (eighteen years ago)

This is the play I want to see:

Danger Zone: The Making of a Top Gun Musical
Produced by: New Millennium Theatre Company
National Pastime Theater
4139 N. Broadway
Chicago,IL

xpost, that's cute but she's mistaken
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:58 (eighteen years ago)

John, I dl'ed your mixes (at least the SL and SY, I'll the other one tonight). I haven't had time to listen to anything yet but thanks again.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 13:59 (eighteen years ago)

This is for Jesse because of the tamales:

http://m.assetbar.com/achewood/autaux%3Fb%3DM%255ea11f09b8576e606bcb5038dfdb92fb821%26u%3Dhttp%253A%252F%252Fachewood.com%252Fcomic.php%253Fdate%253D04162007
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

Of course Sarah would say that. Nobody wants to spend her life with a dude with a freaky thumb.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

ERIC: This makes me think of you.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha. Nick said you guys thought it was weird he could bend his thumb back so far, but so can I... So maybe we both just have very flexible thumbs? Us freaky thumbers have to stick together in this cruel world.

I walked in to work today. So! pretty! out! I listened to my ipod, which I stuffed full of new-to-me tunes, like Kenan's mix, the powerpop comp, and the ratatat mixes, and junior boys remixes.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:18 (eighteen years ago)

DRAMA:

1. MY COFFEE POT IS BROKEN. I cleaned it yesterday by running vinegar through it a few times and halfway through the second rinse cycle it went BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE (my coffee pot beeps when it's done) and now it won't turn back on. I'm hoping the electronics just got wet or something and it will work when it dries out because otherwise it's one of those things where the mechanics work perfectly but the failure of the over-designed electronic geegaws render the whole thing worthless. I hate that so much!

2. Do you remember that terrible prof I had my first year who took points off if we used the word "not" in our papers and with whom I had many a pitched battle including one over using my laptop in class and one about how she required women to wear SKIRTS during our mock oral arguments or lose points on our grade? Well, she's up for tenure today and an intrepid 2L has drafted and circulated a petition opposing her appointment with the support of two other professors (one of whom is my favorite prof ever in the whole world ever). So that's like sweet vengeance and all, even though I'm kind of over all my issues with her now, besides just thinking she's an insane person.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:22 (eighteen years ago)

I have new to me tunes on my mp3 player, too, and I am contemplating walking maybe halfway to Worker Justice, Inc. (walking from here to Bryn Mawr would be nice but it would take too long, I think).

Have you people ever heard of a band called Midlake? I listened to them for the first time last night and I liked them a lot. But then I looked at their website and they seem like pretentious wankers with a really irritating following. But I'm just going to forget I ever saw that and go back to liking the band.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:25 (eighteen years ago)

This is for Jesse because of the tamales:

What is this supposed to be? What tamales?
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

http://achewood.com/index.php?date=04162007
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

LOL @ WTF: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lmyyMpIBBQ&mode=related&search=
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

Thx Jenny. Jesse was talking about coming home with cans of Hormel tamales yesterday.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:32 (eighteen years ago)

1. That video is awesome. Actually the video is OK, but I like the song a lot. It sounds just like Alanis Morrisette.

2. Kill the bitch (apply to whatever you think is applicable).

3. What does the Blue Line pooper poop on?

4. I support selectively being in denial. I suspect that's what makes a lot of great relationships work (be they relationships between 2 people or between an admiring fan and a pretentious band).

5. The case that "be they" is is my favorite case.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

What was the picture?
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

OH I GOTCHA.

HA HA.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:36 (eighteen years ago)

You know me, and you know I'm all for irreverence, but that 9/11 video is kind of not cool....
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

Saturday Apr 21st
at The Note

LATE SHOW 1:00AM!!
Busy Signals
Tuff Bananas
Screaming Yellow Zonkers

ugh, doors are at MIDNIGHT for this?!? the note serves until 5 a.m. on saturdays apparently.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

4. I support selectively being in denial. I suspect that's what makes a lot of great relationships work (be they relationships between 2 people or between an admiring fan and a pretentious band).

Case in point:

By the way, Sarah doesn't think my thumb is weird.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:41 (eighteen years ago)

Is Eric in the hizzy?
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:43 (eighteen years ago)

Trying to be, but the xposts keep coming up.

Wow, that's great (not the 9/11 one). At the end of it, a link led me to Alanis doing this little comic skit. She's a funny gal.
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:44 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wow. There she is!
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

OK, the video to the Humps song is dumb, but the song is GREAT!
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

OK the video is OK, AND the song is GREAT!
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

DOOD MY SWEATER IS ON BACKWARDS AND INSIDE OUT.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 14:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hooowowowowowowowwwwowwwwwww appropriate.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Have you people ever heard of a band called Midlake? I listened to them for the first time last night and I liked them a lot. But then I looked at their website and they seem like pretentious wankers with a really irritating following. But I'm just going to forget I ever saw that and go back to liking the band.

I *love* the song "Roscoe" by Midlake. It reminds me of Fleetwood Mac's "You Make Loving Fun." The rest of the album isn't as good, but if you like what you hear, it's probably worth hearing, and I can upload it if you like, JB. I know nothing about the band's personality or reputation.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

We've got that one. Roscoe is the song that caught my attention, although other than a little guitar part similarity, maybe a little in the vocal quality, I don't hear the Fleetwood Mac comparison as much. I guess it sounds too moody to me.

Dammit, I just had the band that the song reminds me of and then I lost it.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

They've gotten compared to Steely Dan, too, but I hear Fleetwood Mac way more. Like Stevie Nicks-era. "Rhiannon," "Dreams," etc.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

Neil Young. I think I hear Neil Young, at least in the mournful quality of the music.

Yeeeaaaahhhh... I can hear Rhiannon/Dreams Stevie Nicks-twirling in a black cape Fleetwood Mac, definitely.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny's prof sounds AWFUL.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yEZamZMvoM&NR=1 Alanis Mmoorrissettee plays an Abercrombie girl.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

This just in: RUSTED ROOT FUCKING SUCKS
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

(apologies if you are a fan, but someone here is playing them on a little radio and it's like nails on chalkboard to me)
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, welcome to the mid-to-late '90s.
― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I met Rusted Root at an outdoor hippy festival thing in... Pennsylvania? Maybe? Probably. I was trrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiippin my face off and probably just stared at them and then chased after something shiny.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

I had a lot of friends in high school/college that were brought under their hippie tribal troubador spell. I didn't get it then and I don't get it now. Headphones = ON
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

new office mate? jesus freak.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

tom skilling says the forecast calls for schism.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

Note: I am not a fan, although I do get a kick out of singing their one popular song because I like to imitate his loony warble.

xpost - OH NO KEVIN. Might a suggest an upside down cross forehead tattoo?
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:52 (eighteen years ago)

HEYAYYYYYYYYYYYYYOOHHHHHEEEYYYYYYOOOOOOOO
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Also I thought one of the songs off the first CrapYourPantsSayJeah album really sounded like Rusted Root and hated it instantly.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

you know I'm all for irreverence, but that 9/11 video is kind of not cool....

Thing is, I'm not even sure it's supposed to be irreverent! Like, there's an outside chance that someone thought it was a very touching song, and decided to up the ante with 9/11 footage.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:55 (eighteen years ago)

No way!
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

The 10-day forecast has a couple of light showers in it, but apart from that, a heapin' helpin' or awesome. See, now THIS is spring!
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

It was beautiful yesterday.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

http://content.ytmnd.com/content/4/d/8/4d85728d2a7465b38c27897c208d034a.gif
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 15:58 (eighteen years ago)

omg
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

that is such a pre-9/11 gif
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

Kenan, you're really underestimating people's capacity for rongness today.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

BUT EVERYTHING CHANGED AND THAT GIF IS NO LONGER VALID. EVERYTHING CHANGED!

there's an outside chance that someone thought it was a very touching song

for instance, someone with a poor grasp of english
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

Did Nick ever post that youtube link for the rapper? (or maybe I did)
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Richard Daley just left me an automated message encouraging me to vote for Ted Matlak.

It seems like all the phone calls I get are pro-Matlak and all the flyers I get are anti-Matlak.
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

The ascendance of YouTube makes me a little sad, because whenever people post YouTube links here, it means I have to go fish out my headphones, plug them in, fiddle with the speaker jack until it finds the one sweet spot that will allow stereo and not just mono, then repeatedly peer over my shoulder in my peripheral vision to make sure my boss, or any other important person, isn't wandering by while I'm watching videos on the Internet. Too much hassle, so I usually don't bother.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

Thing is, I'm not even sure it's supposed to be irreverent! Like, there's an outside chance that someone thought it was a very touching song, and decided to up the ante with 9/11 footage.

Well, then it's "not cool" for other reasons. It causes me to remember a 9/11 as a day when we as a nation lamented the objectification of boobalas.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yes. Just tell me which song is on the f'ing youtube so I don't actually have to watch it.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Today is a dumb work day. I want to split early and go sleep in a hammock. I don't own a hammock or have anywhere to put one.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

Or you could just ignore all YouTube links, which is what I do. XXXP
― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

You miss YouTube, you miss all the Alanis comedy.
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Same here. I don't have sound at work, and youtube is choppy and crashes my computer at home.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

The Alanis "My Humps" was on Pitchfork like two weeks ago. Sorry, duderz.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I still haven't seen it, but that's old news.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/ww/news/2007/04/15/0416tax2.jpg

My Yahoo home page always has the stockiest of stock photography. "Can't Pay Your Taxes On Time?"
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

I watched a video from the new Feist album last night, and it looks like a fucking Gap commercial.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

Nick's just grumpy because someone jerked off on his keyboard.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:19 (eighteen years ago)

lol
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

Did you read this long article about her in yesterday's NY Times, John?
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

Nick's just grumpy because someone jerked off on his keyboard.

-- Jordan, Monday, April 16, 2007 11:19 AM (9 minutes ago)

Also, BOTH toilets in the men's room are clogged.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

Coincidence?
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

xxp Yep, saw that and the SFJ piece in the New Yorker. I streamed a few of her new songs on HypeMachine yesterday morning, and while nothing grabbed me as much as the best songs on Let It Die, I'm still looking forward to hearing the whole thing.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

xpost i hope to hell so.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

i think i broke my ipod yesterday. im just looking at it on my desk and feeling sad...
― coco, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Who are you and why do you have my login name?
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

hmmmmMMMM?
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm hungry.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

me? This is Courtney - I have your sign in name?? I'm confused
― coco, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

I will not post then - see ya!
― coco, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

<img src="http://www.dane101.com/files/cocoliquot113006.jpg">
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.dane101.com/files/cocoliquot113006.jpg
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Hi, Courtney. This is Sarah. I used to post under the name coco, once upon a time. You can be coco now. COME BACK!
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:48 (eighteen years ago)

Shit. My youngest sis went to this school and lived in this dorm (a few years ago).
read here
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:56 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah a friend of mine from MTU went on to get a PhD (in engineering, which apparently was one of the targeted buildings) at Va. Tech, but I think he dropped out. I hope he wasn't around.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 16:57 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I just heard about VA Tech on the radio before I left the house. Yikes!

I am rarely on a computer with sound capabilities so I usually just watch the You Tube thing to see if it's something worth looking at later.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

I'm back temporarily - thanks Sara!
― coco, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_u_t9uEPqg

^^^television personalities^^^

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZI6v8Z6Q6E

^^^teenage head^^^
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:26 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmm, honey coconut salmon and roasted asparagus just as good the next day. (Man, I'm eating a lot of fish these days.)
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

OK I actually watched the TVP one.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds fishy.

My Lunch by Sarah J.
Mixed Greens topped with:
Avocado
Strawberries
Raisins
Raspberry vinaigrette
Mozzarella

I wanted to get some asparagus yesterday, but it turned out Sunfl0wer pretty much sucked and didn't have any.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:36 (eighteen years ago)

recently i've been troubled by a bout with insomnia and was again afflicted last night. i'm not sure i ever fell totally asleep, i was in that weird twilight where you're definitely not awake but not really asleep either. but what was weird was that i was dreaming up a STORM last night. except they weren't really dreams? they were weird juxtapositions of memories and recent events? like there was one where i was having a conversation with this girl, and it was an actual conversation that we did actually have, but instead of the conversation taking place where it really did take place in the dream it took place in a bar i was recently at. and then there was a similar one later where i was talking to someone and somehow another person who i know wound up on the street with us. i don't remember that one clearly but i remember it made me very upset.

anyway, i never remember my dreams so it was weird to still have a recollection of them this morning. i hope i can sleep tonight.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

you guys are eating awesome things for lunch. I had frozen cheese enchiladas, which admittedly were more filling than delicious.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Damn you Dan Martin. I just started whistling Send Me on My Way out loud and in public.

Kevin: Tylenol PM.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Does anyone know of a good, but little known, travel guide book out there in the universe? I know the standards: lonely planet, rough guide, etc. but some part of me still believes there's a unique book out there full of hidden gems. Maybe there's not, maybe there's still time for me to break into the world of travel writing....
― sisut, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

I had "Persian style" chicken & peach stew w/basmati rice :>
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, don't blame me for musical holdovers from your drrrty hippie past!
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

I had mixed greens, tomato, red onion, parsely, turkey breast, balsamic vinegar/olive oil, salt and pepper. Less oil next time, plz.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Hate. Coworker.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

i flame roasted woodchuck over a can of sterno. it was delicious, nutritious, and the fumes got me high.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

Said coworker just bitched me out for passing her a phonecall. SHE IS THE ACCOUNTANT! SHE GETS THE ACCOUNTING CALLS! It's not my fault this draw hasn't funded yet. Also, other folks in the office - including me - have been taking these calls constantly. GRRR!! Why is it my job more than hers to tell them there's no money right now?
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.ibcbeer.com/beverages/woodchuckambercider.jpg
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

That's what I thought too.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)

hard apple cider gives me heartburn.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:58 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, that was in response to Kevin.

Perhaps you should inquire with your superior as to how you should direct calls? If you're doing things correctly (as it certainly sounds like you are) then they could inform the accountant as to proper procedure?

xpost me too, it's nasty
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

It gives me a sour belly. I used to love it.

I knew that was in reference to Kev's post.

I can't really talk to my boss about it because it would just sound catty. I didn't even know that was what the call was about! This guy just asked for one coworker. I said that one was in a meeting, so he asked for her. He's one of our subcontractors. She does work in the field too, so he could have easily been calling about that (as opposed to looking for money). I just didn't appreciate the tone in her voice when she dialed me back and was like, "Ok, so you need to stop passing me these calls..."
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

The coworker I used to hate with a passion (who left when she had her second kid), used to have me screen her calls all the time, meaning she didn't want any calls passed to her OR her voicemail.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

I'm so glad she's gone.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

And when people would come to see her, she'd tell me to tell them she wasn't here. This includes clients.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Call me irresponsible
Call me unreliable
Throw in undependable, too.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Doesn't it amaze you sometimes that people like that have jobs?
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

Heh, I guess it shows your good nature by being concerned about cattiness when you're on the receiving end of some quite catty behavior! I wouldn't think of it that way, I'd just frame it as concern for doing my job correctly, I guess.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

kill one bitch
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:11 (eighteen years ago)

Pee in the coffee and you two'll be even.
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:14 (eighteen years ago)

I would, but I drink it too.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

She's the one who once said, "Hey, Sarah, let's make a new rule. Whoever is first in the office has to make the coffee.." knowing I'm ALWAYS the first in the office.

Ok, Must. Let. Go.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

i would make like a cup and a half of coffee and leave the half. "oh yeah, it's almost gone. feel free to make some more though!"
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:18 (eighteen years ago)

that's actually not a bad idea!

Except not only do I make the coffee, I bring the coffee, and if they make more, they make more of MY coffee.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

Honestly I think I would say "It is my job to direct callers to the people they request to speak to" and leave it at that. I mean, anything that goes against that said in response is going to sound completely unreasonable. Am I being too rational for the situation?
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

no, it won't work either way, since I usually have two 16-oz cups in the morning, and after I get that first cup and go back for more, there's usually at LEAST two more cups worth missing, so it wouldn't make sense to make only enough for myself, much less only enough to screw my coworkers out of coffee.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

If that happens again, I'll just put them directly into her vm. Then she won't necessarily have to talk to them.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Too bad we don't all have the prerec for this Old Town class.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:26 (eighteen years ago)

Make that prereq.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

I feel sad. I think it's my RSAD. I have Unacute Reverse Seasonal Affective Disorder, I think--URSAD. That and I am tired from staying up all night, plus I have to do taxes and I am kind of broke and have a buncha bills to pay.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

Inverse Multivalent Seasonal Affective Disorder. IMSAD.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

Intense Reversese Seasonal Affective Disorder.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

Sounds fun, Sarah.
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

Cabin fever. Shack wacky.
― Eazy, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

Haha. UNMASK THE ART OF SCATTING!

You're right Sarah, I don't think I breathe with support, but I'm sure you do.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

You know what's kind of odd? Besides a monkey with two heads? Seeing Courtney on ILX as well as on Gmail Chat during work hours!
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

Scatting is a shadow art, practiced only by ancient masters who dwell in an island fortress across the sea. Now, you too can UNMASK ITS SECRETS.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

My mom gave me a gallon of maple syrup. She tried to give me 2 gallons. DOES ANYONE WANT SOME MAPLE REAL MAPLE SYRUP?
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

I kind of want to take some kind of voice lessons. Growing up, I was always in choir (school & church). I've totally lost any of that ability.

Let's all play Bob Dylan.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

Hey guys, there is a name for my weird hands! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simian_crease

Apparently it's common in monkeys and also thought to be a sign of Down's syndrome and fetal alcohol syndrome!
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

I do, I do, Jordan!

Ha ha. I would totally read The Secret if it involved the art of scatting.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oh wait, maybe that's talking about a different line.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

On second thought, no, I think I do have monkey hands.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Why do you think it's talking about a different line? It looks like your fucked up palm to me.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

You and Nick should be segregated from the general population onto the island of misfit hands.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

It all comes back to the Blue Line pooper, doesn't it?
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, I want some maple syrup. I have a Mrs. Butterworth's bottle that's probably five years old that I don't trust much anymore.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Come and get it.

I can't stop listening to Alanis' Humps. AND YOU DON'T WANT NO DRAMAAAAAA, NO NO NO NO NO DRAAAMAAA....MY HUUUUMP MY HUMP MY HUUUUMPPPP MY LOVELY LAAAADY LUUUUUUMPS.

It sounds like a Tori Amos cover.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, whoops. For some reason, I thought Jordan offered up the maple syrup. Thus the "I do, I do, Jordan!"
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

BLUE LINE POOPER

Ingredients
* Kahlua
* Blue curacao

Pour one layer of Kahlua, then a thin layer of blue curacao, then another layer of Kahlua. Serve with a jaunty umbrella.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

It's strange to eat fish in the daytime, without being able to wash it down with copious amounts of alcohol.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Nick. You can't layer like that. Learn about relative densities, girl.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

I ate fried perch and chicken at Harold's Chicken Shack #938.a §3.1.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

Shut up, fatfingers.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

Quit raining on my parade.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

A simian crease is often a normal finding, occurring in about 3% of the population. It may also be associated with:

Down syndrome
Aarskog syndrome
Cohen syndrome
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Trisomy 13
Rubella syndrome
Turner syndrome
Klinefelter syndrome
Pseudohypoparathyroidism
Gonadal dysgenesis
Cri du chat syndrome

WAHT

I swear I am not making that up
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

There was a phantom shower-shitter who terrorized a bunch of my and Matt's friends' residence hall in college.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

WOAH
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

to Jordan
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry I called you fatfingers, Jesse.

Also, sorry I missed the opportunity to say "Quit peeing on my parade," which is funnier.
― n/a, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

You should see if any of your fam has monkey hands.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

(to Jordan)
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Nick you need to start rating movies with your weird thumb.

"I give Grindhouse two hitchhiker's thumbs up."

http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/camp/gene/thumb1.jpg http://www.ncrtec.org/tl/camp/gene/thumb1.jpg
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

Wow!! (re. Cohen Syndrome)
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.brainclaw.com/common/images/monkeyspaw.jpg
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

Klinefelter syndrome

Ha ha!
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

What if I have delayed onset Cohen syndrome? :( :( :(
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

Oh I thought I posted this already:

General Discussion
Cohen syndrome is an extremely variable genetic disorder characterized by diminished muscle tone (hypotonia), abnormalities of the head, face, hands and feet and mental retardation. Affected individuals usually have heads that are smaller than average and a short upper lip through which the incisors are exposed. In many, but not all cases, obesity is present, especially around the torso and is associated with slender arms and legs. A lowered level of white blood cells (neutropenia) is present from birth in some affected individuals.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

I promised my fam that N & I would go to this cousin's wedding, same month as ours. They are all coming to ours.

Anywho, I just checked tickets and it's going to be like $400pp for this quick weekend. :-(
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

They are all driving to ours. I guess we could do that, but boy would that suck. (13 hours each way I think?)
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

Ugh, allergy time again? I go through this at work every single spring. My boss gets all excited about the weather and opens up our suite's door to the outside (we're on the first floor) and my allergies go nuts. I ask him if we can keep it closed because its bothering my allergies. It gets closed until I leave for lunch, then opened again. This seriously sucks. Where can I buy those surgical masks?
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 16 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

Train takes 21 hours and costs just as much.

Yuck, Jon. I'm so thankful I don't have allergies. So are my kitties.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

Try bidding?
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Explicame.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

Priceline.com name your own price. Or...that other one.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Explicame, saw, conquered.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

I have hitchhiker thumbs. I tried to point this out the other day, but everyone was so horrified by Nick's thumbs that I wasn't able to command any attention.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

I went to the libary today. Here's how that went:

Is There No Place On Earth For Me a journalist spends, like, forever with a schizophrenic woman. David Sedaris recommends, "Depressing," he says. Should be right up my alley.

Man With the Golden Arm

Areas of My Expertise. John Hodgman's book.

Couldn't find Look At My Striped Shirt.

I took out another book, but I'm kinid of shy to admitting what it is....ellendegeneressadfkjfasd;fjei
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

I want to read I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, too.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

I HAS A SLURPEE.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

I have hitchhiker thumbs. I tried to point this out the other day, but everyone was so horrified by Nick's thumbs that I wasn't able to command any attention.

LOL
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

A NATION TURNS ITS HEAD AND GAGS
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:17 (eighteen years ago)

Now I have transferred my annoyance with coworker to one of my sisters. Work day, please end. Pretty please?
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

I complained to her about the expense of the trip and she was saying, "They are doing the same for you!" basically.

I KNOW! BUT IT DOESN'T MAKE IT FUN FOR ME TO SPEND SO MUCH MONEY!
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

You need a Slurpee.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Totally.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, where can I get one on the way home? (on Division between Halsted and Hoyne)
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

Bah, really, if you can't afford to go to the wedding, you shouldn't have to go. It's not like you're forcing them to attend yours. I mean, jesus.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

I know they have them at White Hen, but it's outta the way a bit.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

I recommend the Coke/Cherry flavor layer mix. Old skool!

Is there a 7-11?
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

i'm sneaking out at 4:30 today, since I came in an hour early, and fuck 'em. I have hungry kitties at home.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Obviously I've now turned my obsession towards the Slurpee. :-D

Jenny, I promised a long time ago I'd go to theirs too. But also I was SO annoyed when they announced the date so soon to mine. Get your own wedding month, dudes! JUNE IS MINE! MINE!
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Anywho, I don't think there is a 7-11 on that stretch.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

I'm gonna go find some chocolate.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, check this. Last night Nick and I went to Sweet Mandy Bs for dessert.
I got two cupcakes.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:23 (eighteen years ago)

there's a 7-11 on milwaukee and wood or wolcott. that's kind of on your way home but not really.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:24 (eighteen years ago)

JENNY WATCH OUT FOR BRAIN FREEZES
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

TOO LATE OMG
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

THEIR ONSET CAN COME W/O WARNING!!!!
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

NOOOOOOOOOOOO
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

I got the brain freeze on the way out the door of the 7-11 because I was too happy to have a Slurpee to show any sort of restraint.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah. Thanks, Kev.
― KitCat, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

I was, however, able to avoid hand freeze by employing a hand crocheted coffee cup sleeve that I just so happened to have in my purse.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.iit.edu/%7Emullste1/images/pictures/slurpee.jpg
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

lol slurpee is hueg
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, found while googling for cat + slurpee: http://fragme.org/images/stupid/wtf-cat.jpg
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.7-eleven.com/storelocator/PrxResults.aspx?LOC=41.9053552374276%3a-87.6774718092962&CT=41.9053552374276%3a-87.67747180929625.34379225324107%3a4.0078441899308&GAD2=&GAD3=60622+(postal+code)%2c+Illinois%2c+United+States&IC=41.9053552374276%3a-87.6774718092962%3a32%3a60622+(postal+code)%2c+Illinois%2c+United+States&FC=
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:31 (eighteen years ago)

xpost That poor, poor animal.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

I have so many questions about that picture.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

fuck washing a cat
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

OK, this is kind of dumb, but does 9.447 round down to 9.4 because it's under 9.45, or does it round up to 9.5 because it first rounds to 9.45 and then that rounds to 9.5?
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

fragme.org = Quake 3 online community

Also:

http://fragme.org/images/stupid/jesus-wtf-big.gif
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

9.4
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:35 (eighteen years ago)

No more Slurpee. :(
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

RIP
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

ALL RIGHT WHICH ONE OF YOU JUST CHECKED OUT MY ONLINE DATING PROFILE and has the headline "Live every week like it's Shark Week"?? And namechecks the Empty Bottle? I'm posting this on the DC thread as well so don't think you can scurry away.
― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

never forget
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

I'm guessing that's it's a certain River Wolf.
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

link pls
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

beat me to it
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

Not me. I wanted to peruse your dating profile, but I am not a member of that site and am not creating a profile just for that. No offense.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

off to sell the bounty of the OCEANS OF THE PLANET EARTH
― Jesse, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

It's not Evs unless he ripped off half a dozen of someone else's photos, cos it's some guy with dark curly hair.
― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

AND HE DRINKS GIN.
― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

darkcurlyhair.xls
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

i drink gin and i used to have curly hair but i swear on whatever you want me to swear to that it ain't me. i can't even get there from work.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

HMMMMM WHO DO YOU KNOW IN CHICAGO.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

do any of us know what Chicago Jon looks like? I don't.
― kenan, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

fuck this conversation.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

I remember L. mentioning she was at the online dating again or something like that, but I dunno what site or anything. Also I don't have curly hair. Gin is okay.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

I just think it's hilarious. John, is yr bro on there?
― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

John's bro doesn't have dark curly hair.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny's right.

But funny you should mention this, because Kr just told me about Shark Week last night.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

maybe it's P@u| 3dw@rd W@gem@nn
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

It's Barack Obama.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

xp He doesn't have dark curly hair, though:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v338/splodey182/PEW.gif
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

Yes he does, it's just short. Actually I don't know whether his hair is curly or not. But all signs point to Barack Obama.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Hey man we can't afford to assume that is a current picture.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

My tum hurts. Maybe it's because it's 4:08 and I haven't eaten lunch yet
! This schedule is not coinciding well with my feeding schedule. I guess maybe I had my snack for "lunch" which means that I ate 3 figs and some mixed nuts for "lunch."

BOO.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, I was referring to PEW, not BHO.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, well that changes EVERYTHINGS. I had no idea who that pedophile was.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

ILM troll
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

And spammer.
― dan m, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

He looks like a Republican.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

Well, he's a military man. He lives in Pilsen, apparently.
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

OH:

I love that Trans Am song on the Nick Mix.
Kenan's mix is well suited for walking down the street on a sunny day.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have curly hair and don't belong to any online dating sites, thats for sure.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:19 (eighteen years ago)

I downloaded both Nick's and Kenan's mixes, but I haven't listened to them yet!
― jaymc, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

I dled the post-rock mix last night, but I haven't dropped it onto my iPod yet. Nick's mix is the bee's knees.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

I got that Yellow Pills comp today so...mixes? What mixes?? :D
― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

I'm saving the post rock mix for exam time in two weeks.
― Jenny, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:29 (eighteen years ago)

speaking of, pwerhouse sound at hideout sometime this week. and we're going to see THE THING there on friday night if anyone's interested.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:31 (eighteen years ago)

laurel, the guy who put that comp together is the guy i just bought the shoes lp from on ebay. also, "yellow pills" from 20/20 is on a mix i'm making. hope it's not on the comp.
― chicago kevin, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh, The Thing.

I was kinda disappointed by the PH record. :(
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah -- I dunno. I thought it was a little overwhelming. Why double-album when there's already so much stuff out there? The Thing, however, will blast my ears off. I'm looking forward to it. Not looking forward to teaching the next morning, though.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

Kev, no 20/20 here! Ooh, Shoes LP....
― Laurel, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:41 (eighteen years ago)

That sort of spaz-jazz is the kind of thing I never ever want to listen to at home but is great live.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, he didn't really have to include both bands doing the same tunes. Also I don't like how it sounds like a jazz record (ie extremely dry and clean) but they're playing heavy riffs and dub grooves, stuff that begs for some production. It's also kinda jammy.

BUT

I bet it would be great live.
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

There's a pretty long PHS song in Dan's movie. BTW there are discussions about distribution, but I should be --and will be-- vewwy quiet about that.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

I was just looking at the final exams from last year and the one for my class contained both of the following sentences (to be combined with other, unposted sentences to make a complex sentence)

1. Kevin has been studying English.
2. Jordan couldn't go running.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

:)
― Jordan, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:12 (eighteen years ago)

Note: I did not write this exam.
― La Lechera, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:16 (eighteen years ago)

So tired.
― Jeff, Monday, 16 April 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, it's summer today! I went for a long (for me) run outside and now I'm drink Jesse's beer that ended up in my car.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 00:19 (eighteen years ago)

"I'M DRINK!"
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 00:32 (eighteen years ago)

I think I'm drink a beer now too.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/462442350_e44a4952cc_o.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/462447229_a9f2d32ade_o.jpg
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:32 (eighteen years ago)

Is that Justine Bateman?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:52 (eighteen years ago)

It's Alanis Morissette.

This is from the ihavenogayfriends thread

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b4/Bristol_Stool_Chart.png/460px-Bristol_Stool_Chart.png
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:57 (eighteen years ago)

That's a real medical chart.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:58 (eighteen years ago)

I remember seeing something like that when I worked at the Nursing Board offices.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 04:59 (eighteen years ago)

I remember seeing it ON MY PROM NIGHT.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

Or something like that.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 05:11 (eighteen years ago)

The Alanis cover sounds so much like a Tori cover that I wonder if it's kind of a parody of her.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:14 (eighteen years ago)

Though Tori A.'s cover of VU's "New Age" is pretty good. "Smells Like Teen Spirit" is not, nor is "Famous Blue Raincoat".
― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:15 (eighteen years ago)

And just to make a late-night posting trifecta here, reading about the VT shootings a few minutes ago and following a link to a blog lead to discovering this pretty good Blacksburg[url=[Removed Illegal Link] band[url].
― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.myspace.com/thetwofunerals
― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 06:18 (eighteen years ago)

oh man you guys I got drunk last night for no goddamn good reason, and I'd been SO GOOD, but shit, I guess I felt the need to be a grand old asshole on the gun control threads et al.
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:22 (eighteen years ago)

Eh, to be fair to you kenan, there was a lot of asshole-provoking shit on those other threads. I don't really think you were wrong with any of what you said, I just wouldn't have been able to beat my head against a brick wall as long as you did. Some people just aren't worth trying to argue with.

Meantime, one of my three co-workers has decided to stop speaking to me since one of my projects got shifted over to him. I guess it ruined his days of not doing anything at all. Makes for a fun work environment though.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:36 (eighteen years ago)

I did descend into total nonsense once or twice.
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:46 (eighteen years ago)

is there an icon for shame?
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:47 (eighteen years ago)

GIS for "shame icon":

http://www.gamertag.com/images/famenshame/fameShameIcon_Ass.gif
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:49 (eighteen years ago)

So my fiancee nearly got sideswiped by a CPD car on the way home from work last night when the driver cut her off. She flipped them off, not as subtlely as she had thought, and got pulled over. Both cops came up to her car and started to give her shit, but she called him on cutting her off and he actually had nothing to say. He stammered for a bit, apologized, and they got back in the car and left. I was pretty amazed that it ended the way it did.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 12:54 (eighteen years ago)

Does her car have a video camera mounted on the roof?
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:02 (eighteen years ago)

awesome that it ended the way it did!
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:03 (eighteen years ago)

Haha.. no. The apology was my favorite part, unexpected.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:07 (eighteen years ago)

Good morning! I'm wearing open toed heels for the first time this year. :-D
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

morning. i couldn't sleep again last night and had more weird dreams. there's this girl i had been thinking about who keeps showing up in them so i think i have some unresolved shit there that's manifesting itself in my nocturnal subconscious. i think tonight i will go to a bar and give my subconscious a fighting chance.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:31 (eighteen years ago)

That sounds like a plan.

I'm watching my ebay listing end. It's fun watching the price go up.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:39 (eighteen years ago)

Yay! It sold for just 4 dollars less than I bought it for! Happy dance!
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:48 (eighteen years ago)

Yay, Sarah! Where is it now? XP oh good.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:49 (eighteen years ago)

OMG MY MOM AT THIS EARLY HOUR DRIVING ME CRAZY.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Gad- she comes up with weird fucking shit and then goes on and on about it--we're trying to get some repairs done around the house up in Michigan and between her and the redneck handyman I'm wanting to jump out of the window.

We agreed to paint my dad's bedroom off-white. She calls me and tells me that the handyman said he wanted to put in paneling. I call him, he says "Your mom suggested the paneling, not me." I call her and she says, "No, I never suggested paneling. So we'll just paint it blue(!) like we originally decided."

And we all agreed to fix the front porch, and agreed on a price. Then somehow in 2.5 days they both get the idea that the porch deal is off.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

Good job Jon's fiance!

And good job Jesse for taking care of the Widow K*hr. You're a good son.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:07 (eighteen years ago)

I am now afraid to go into the VA Tech thread. I think I'll just stay out and go do laundry instead.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

It drives me crazy because I can see myself in what she's doing--messing around with very simple things until they get complicated. It reminds me of the ways I am dysfunctional. Plus I slept poorly and had stupid dreams that disturbed what shitty sleep I did have.

Let's look at soothing pictures sloths, shall we?

http://sloths.org/faq/sloths.jpg

No joke, I feel better already!
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Stay off the VA Tech thread. It's built on an Indian burial ground.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/portugesewaterdog.jpg
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:10 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.andreaharner.com/archives/DogDeer3sat.jpg
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

I'd like to suggest looking at some otters:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/DANPOD/NA02_DGI0001_M~Sea-Otters-Alaska-USA-Posters.jpg
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

http://olympiccoast.noaa.gov/images/bodypic_ocdc2_lg.jpg
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

<img src="http://www.adorablog.org/images/otters.jpg">
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.adorablog.org/images/otters.jpg
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://home.zonnet.nl/boordt38/Dieren/images/11-otters.jpg
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:15 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.kingfishermanor.com/images/Wildlife/otters.jpg
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/PhotoGallery/SmallMammals/photos/Otter---high-res-4627-1.jpg
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.seattleattractions.com/gallery_aquarium/images/River%20otters.jpg
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Okay bye.

http://www.grandfather.com/images/wildlife_otter.jpg
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone know how to figure out what my i.p. address is? Isn't there some command line shit I can do? I was good at DOS when I was a kid.:(
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

I KNOW, I KNOW!!!

Start menu > Run

Type in cmd

When the black window pops up, enter ipconfig
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:26 (eighteen years ago)

Wow! That was gratifying, knowing something about computer! (The only computer classes I ever took in HS were BASIC and DOS).
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.grandfather.com/images/wildlife_otter.jpg
I KNOW I KNOW!
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:28 (eighteen years ago)

Thx Jesse, that sounds familiar.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 14:29 (eighteen years ago)

Or this website: http://www.ip-adress.com/index.php
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

I tried one of those websites first, but I'm using a virtual machine and I don't think it's accurate.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:06 (eighteen years ago)

In Is There No Place On Earth For Me?,the book I'm reading about the woman with life-long schizophrenia, the author talks about problems with misdiagnoses due to foreign-born and educated doctors' being unfamiliar with subtleties of language and culture. The subject of the book is interviewed by her Taiwanese doctor who deems her free from delusions and hallucinations, despite the fact that she claims that she is surrounded by stars: that a doctor who treated her is Lou Costello, that she has met Mary Poppins, her X-ray techinician was Peter Lawford, and the security guard at her apartment was Don Knotts. Later interviews revealed that those were just names to him.

Also she brings up the interesting case Robert Torsney, a NYC police officer who was approached by a 15 year-old African-American boy who asked him a question. Torsney shot the boy in the head, point blank, and then walked back to his cruiser. In his trial his attorney claimed insanity, as Torsney claims the boy pulled a shiny gun-like object out of his pocket but no such objects could be found.

He had no history of psychosis, and had never been known to have prior hallucinations, openly said that he didn't care for black people, and had been angry about having to spend Thanksgiving Day with "criminals," the(all-white) jury found him not guilty by reason of mental defect, and put him in a hospital. Once there, the doctors were unable to make a diagnosis of any mental defect and they ordered him released within 60 days. The court demanded that he remain institutionalized and be treated. However since there was nothing to treat, he was considered cured, and after some time, was released.

Then, ha ha, he petitioned for his full retirement benefits ($14K/year in 1977) with the force since he was unable to work due to mental disability.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

xpost I have to use a virtual machine for some of my stuff at work, I hate it.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

(mostly because it's slow)
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

Slow, yes, it's awful when I have two or three open at a time, but it's kinda indispensable for what I do.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

two or three open at a time

O_o
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

I want sausage. And an avocado sandwich on crusty bread.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:27 (eighteen years ago)

I want those things instead of my dentist appt.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:29 (eighteen years ago)

a moderate amount of tenacious green sputum
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

hey guys.
i'm moving into a garden apartment without bars on windows
urgonagetraped.jpg
should i be concerned? ask for security system? buy gun?
― deej, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

I want those things instead of my dentist appt.

X 2

What about sputum?
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

Where is this apartment?
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

sputum

A random quote from my work. Also the title of my next novel.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:38 (eighteen years ago)

deej, what 'hood? i felt safe enough in oak park w/o bars on the garden level. i'm in a basement now and there are bars in the dining room but not in the bedroom, living room, or kitchen. but seriously, god fucking help whomever breaks in to my little shack.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:40 (eighteen years ago)

Where's the apartment? I would be concerned, but I have your average woman's heightened sense of personal safety. I'd probably share my concerns about security with the property and see if s/he won't put in some bars or a security system. I would also make sure the windows are secure - the windows in our apartment don't lock, but we're on the second floor behind a security gate. If we lived on the first floor or it was easy to put a ladder up against our building, I would have kicked up a fuss, or just not taken this apartment.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

Just put a big NO FEAR sticker in the window and you'll be fine.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Get an automatic robot dog bark.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:45 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah, you forgot to ask where the apartment is.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

EZ OTM
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

yup.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

Ha ha from my schizophrenia book--

The state hospital, which housed patients with serious delusions had a mural that was "meant to soothe the patients." The mural featured a princess who bore similarities to the Virgin Mary, a white unicorn with garlands on his neck, and a multicolored snake wrapped around a tropical tree. The patients were not soothed.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 15:56 (eighteen years ago)

I am totally out of my element on the gun control thread. I've never even touched a gun. My only experience with them is hearing about when people get murdered. I have a hard time expanding my perspective when it comes to this issue.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:01 (eighteen years ago)

I'm anti-gun but I'm glad I went to a shooting range that one time, just to know what it's like to handle and shoot a real gun. Jesse and Courtney were talking about going sometime, yeah?
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:03 (eighteen years ago)

I think I'd be too scared to even touch a gun.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

Not that I wouldn't trust myself.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:05 (eighteen years ago)

I passed a hunter safety course in 6th grade. It was required. We got to shoot skeets.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

On tap for lunch today:

Mixed greens topped with:
Avocado
Chopped pear
Raspberry vinaigrette

And a 1/2 slice of pita bread.
BRING IT ON!
(in an hour or so...)
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, I keep wanting to go to a firing range. Courtney and I have been talking about it for some time, but it just hasn't happened yet.

I almost became the owner of a gun last week (rifle, not handgun). I was going to take my dad's old rifle here to sell it, but it seemed like too much hassle (I don't know Chicago gun laws very well), and my brother could use it, or could at least could sell it easier than I could.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:09 (eighteen years ago)

I enjoy shooting. I've mostly shot rifles, but I did use my brother's teeny tiny pocket-sized .22 pistol once. It only holds one shell at a time! It was so tiny that I had to be really careful not to put my forefinger in front of the barrel. Cuz that would tickle.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

I wish I could find a picture of that pistol. It was cute.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

2x Jeff.

We actually have quite the arsenal, mostly inherited from my grandad who shot competitively for the Air Force for a lot of years. A lot of target shotguns, but a few weird things because he was quite a 2nd Amendment believer. Nothing assult-rifle-ish, but a couple handguns and one seriously scoped out 30.06. My dad sold most of the stuff becase it was just too much to keep, but I'd say we have ten or so long guns still. Sometime I want to fire the blackpowder rifle because it's just sooo huge and crazy old-timey.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

(note: none of these guns are here in Chicago, they are all at my family's house and have been for years)
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.synthstuff.com/mt/archives/shotgun.jpg

Kind of like this.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

ok, new officemate reads out loud. in a whisper but still, i just gave her a 20 page document to proof for me and SHE'S READING OUT LOUD. wtf lady?
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/161/358825704_6df32552f6.jpg%3Fv%3D0
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

This is my favorite song today.
― n/a, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:17 (eighteen years ago)

I think I underrated that song when I reviewed it (although the review wasn't actually printed, so it doesn't matter). I still wish it had some kind of melodic underpinning to serve as counterpoint for the chant/beat, which is what elevates "Hollaback Girl" and "Drop It Like It's Hot."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:20 (eighteen years ago)

It seems like it will have very short shelf life, which is why I said "today."
― n/a, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:22 (eighteen years ago)

Also the MP3 I downloaded doesn't have the clap-breakdown part. ;_;
― n/a, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:24 (eighteen years ago)

I am out of touch with radio pop/hip-hop. What else is good these days?
― n/a, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

ok, new officemate reads out loud. in a whisper but still, i just gave her a 20 page document to proof for me and SHE'S READING OUT LOUD. wtf lady?

Are you going to take any action?
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

How about you repeat everything she reads aloud?
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:27 (eighteen years ago)

HEADPHONES STAT

xpost Awesome idea!
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:28 (eighteen years ago)

I am out of touch with radio pop/hip-hop. What else is good these days?

If you like "My Love" by J. Timberlake, you should try "Ice Box" by Omarion, which has a similar Timbaland production.

I like the new Avril Lavigne song, "Girlfriend," an awful lot, too. It's very spunky.

The last couple of Amerie singles have been pretty good, too. Not that I've ever actually heard them on the radio. But she's really good at that funk-R&B style -- which she started with "1 Thing," I'm guessing -- and I still think she sounds like Michael Jackson sometimes. The songs are "Take Control" and "Gotta Work."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, and there's something oddly ingratiating about Mims's "This Is Why I'm Hot." It took some time to grow on me, and I can't quite explain why I like it, but I do.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

On the mainstream hip-hop tip, "Throw Some D's" is pretty good although it took me awhile to warm to it. Very similar to what jaymc sez about Mims.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, that's good, too. I dl'd it a while ago but haven't really listened to it much.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 16:39 (eighteen years ago)

i need a fucking cigarette so badly.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

(Hey, Cormac McCarthy won the Pulitzer yesterday. As did the restaurant critic for L.A. Weekly -- I haven't read him, but he can't be better than City Pages' Dara Moskowitz.)
― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

I think it's weird that they give a Pulitzer for music. I'm sure Ornette Coleman deserved it, but they should probably just stick to print.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

Bummer: I went to lunch early, only to come back and find that the bosses that be had ordered Thai food for everyone. Damn it.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Save it for dinner?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

I ate already, and I feel sorta scroungey going and loading up a big plate now. Oh well.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:01 (eighteen years ago)

If I go down to the post office right now, will it be totally insane? I want to put an extra stamp on my tax envelopes in case they're over the allotted weight.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

I can't quite explain why I like it, but I do.

Because it reminds you of gimmicky hip-pop tunes of ye olde 90s?
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:14 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, maybe!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:17 (eighteen years ago)

ILX is making me grumpy today. I think I cling to my myopia too persistently sometimes.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:18 (eighteen years ago)

John, maybe you should move to the sticks for a while?
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

(kidding)
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:19 (eighteen years ago)

I'm pretty much suicidally depressed today. Having thoughts like, hey, handguns ARE really easy to get!
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Don't worry, I would never take any of you out with me.
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:20 (eighteen years ago)

Dude don't make me come punch you in the face.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:21 (eighteen years ago)

Why is it the week of people making me want to hit them?
― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

John, maybe you should move to the sticks for a while?

Let's trade apartments for a year and see how it works out.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:23 (eighteen years ago)

BTW, and unrelated to my last post: what is the appropriate degree of myopia-clinging?
― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

Do you consider Madison the sticks? I mean, I lived in Kalamazoo for four years, it's not like I'm Mr. I Can Never Imagine Living Anywhere Besides Manhattan.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:25 (eighteen years ago)

John, There usually isn't a line for the stamp machine.

TOTALLY.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

Neither of those places are at all what I was talking about dude, c'mon. And I was just kidding.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:27 (eighteen years ago)

LOL at Madison being "the sticks"!!
― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:29 (eighteen years ago)

I don't, but it's certainly not the big city. It's basically a small town with a lot of city features (restaurants, schools, politics, etc.).

xpost
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Even Whitehall isn't "the sticks" -- we might be small but there's a mall and a symphony orchestra within 30 miles!
― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I know from "the sticks", but relatively speaking. It always feels small when I get back from Chicago.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:32 (eighteen years ago)

My TOTALLY was in regard to punching Kenan (sorry, Kenan).

This subcontractor dude won't give it a rest with the flirting. He asks me things in this sleazy sounding way with a polish accent like, "Where does your man bring you on the weekend?" and "Are you getting sexier and sexier every day now or what?" Today he asked me if I ever go out on the town without my man. He tends to say this stuff over the phone. There's got to be an easier way to get off the phone with him (oh ha ha, not that way). The obvious solution is that I should screen my own calls.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:34 (eighteen years ago)

John, There usually isn't a line for the stamp machine.

I know, but today is tax day.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

The obvious solution is that you should say "I'm uncomfortable with this conversation. Please address me in a professional manner." If it were ME, that second sentence would end with "...or I'll hang up and report you to your boss and/or the person who subcontracted your company in the first damn place" but I'm guessing that doesn't fly in Sarah-land.
― Laurel, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

Neither of those places are at all what I was talking about dude, c'mon. And I was just kidding.

I know. My question was directed at Jordan.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Ah, sry.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

OH SHIT TAXES

oh good one more thing to freak out about
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Say it in Polish.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

KENAN

RELAX

DUDE
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

I owe the feds $61 and am getting $20 back from the state. Pretty good year, all told. Last year, due to some gross miscalculation on my part I thought I owed the gov't over $1000. A few weeks later I got a check from the U.S. Treasury with most of that money back.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

Homies, is anything fun happening this weekend? I'm jonesin' already.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

I'll be on the road.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

I got a free ice cream cone.

I don't understand why people wait till tax day to mail their taxes. I had those done and got my return all by February.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no, John. :-D (about the taxes) Good though they caught the mistake.

Sarah-like: Doing my taxes the first second I can get my hands on all the necessary figures. Afterwards, checking it a million times and making a copy for myself and filing it.

UnSarah-like: Figuring out a way to get off the phone when I don't want to talk to someone (I even feel bad hanging up on telemarketers.)
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

(I even feel bad hanging up on telemarketers.)

(Not to say I don't do it, but I say I'm sorry a bunch of times first)
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Ooh.. is this the tour weekend, John?
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, it's the tour weekend.

Re taxes: I'm a procrastinator by nature, and I haven't gotten a refund in at least five years, so I have no financial incentive to file early.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

I realized today as I walked down the street with my nose running copiously and my throat itchy madly that I do not have a cold, but rather an unusually bad bout of seasonal allergies. So of course as soon as I opened the window, they started cutting the grass in the courtyard. Bleh.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:53 (eighteen years ago)

John, I never get refunds either, but I just don't like having things hanging over my head.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

I feel like I'm being especially boring today. In not-boring-to-me news, I just saw a cake in the kitchen. We're celebrating selilng the last unit in one of our developments today.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe I think I'm boring because I'm talking about taxes? And telemarketers?
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

And I'm talking to myself?
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

I never ever ever feel bad about hanging up on telemarketers, or say I'm sorry. They know what they're doing.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

hmm totally forgot i posted a q in this thread

yeah its in logan sq/humboldt park, in the area of california blue line :-/
― deej, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

i've had little to no voice recently because of my cold, so it's much easier to hang up on telemarketers with a dismissive grunt because they're not worth wasting my voice on and then having a coughing fit.

what kind of cake? tell us of this cake.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

a single woman lived there before me and they say they havent had problems but ...
― deej, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

I dunno, I've lived in two places within 6 blocks of there, and never felt threatened. Then again, we lived in a second floor and currently a very high first floor place. Do you have a lot of nice things?
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

E/gbx/river wolf lived right near there, as does HS I think?
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

I live like 3/4 of a mile from the California blue line, and I think it's a very safe neighborhood (more Logan Sq than Humboldt Park). the garden apt in my building doesn't have bars on the windows and has not had any trouble that I'm aware of.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:06 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah I hope you very politely tell that guy that you would prefer if you kept your conversations professional - about everything I've read about that type of harassment suggests that a polite but professional and firm request to knock it off not only works to stop the "flirting" but is usually no big deal to the guy doing it because he often doesn't even realize that he's making you uncomfortable. It's sort of like if you're standing on somebody's foot on the bus and they cheerfully and politely ask you to move. You didn't realize what you were doing and now all is well.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

I had to pay like $100 for my federal taxes, but for my state taxes I ended up owing 2 cents. 2 CENTS! So I didn't have to pay. Awesome.
― n/a, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:15 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know, Julia! It looks like a birthday cake with lots of frosting, so it's hard to tell.

Good advice taken, Jenny. I will not let this happen again!
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

Great! I will accept cake as an expression of your gratitude.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

When I am a lawyer, I will accept payment in cake.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

but for my state taxes I ended up owing 2 cents. 2 CENTS!

I always round my figures before I even start calculating.

I probably would've owed more if not for the income loss from the partnership I'm in (the band).
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

When I am a lawyer, I will accept payment in cake.

This is not true.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

Kr had a dream the other night that there was a manufacturer that made bikes that produced cakes as you rode them.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

Let's line up by taxes. I had to pay $320 to the feds, but I got $321 back from the state. So, you know, sweet.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Kr is a true visionary.

Jeff, it's okay! I'll share my cake with you!
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Alone, I probably didn't even make enough last year, in cake or money, to pay taxes but combined with Jeff my measly earnings bumped us into the next tax bracket. So, you know, go me.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:27 (eighteen years ago)

you file jointly?
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

I think so.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

i didn't make enough money to pay taxes either. and i didn't make nearly enough cake.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:34 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know. I did my own taxes once and fucked them up so badly that I had to hire somebody to fix them anyway, so I just give everything to Jeff and he does whatever works best. Which probably means that my statement is wrong and that it would have somehow been more expensive for us to file separately but 1) just because I don't know what I'm talking about doesn't stop me from posting things and 2) where I can get a bicycle that makes cake again?
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

i get $680 back this year, and I don't owe the state anything.
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:40 (eighteen years ago)

That's how taxes should work.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

How taxes really should work is you don't pay any witholding and keep meticulous track of your expenses for every single deduction so when tax time comes you pay the least you possibly owe and don't give the government an interest-free loan for a year (which is what your return is). Obviously this does not work for most people, myself included, but it is the advice of a very smart accountant father of a friend.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I am unsure as to my refund. I think federal'll be about 250 and like 4 or 5 bucks again from IL (thanks dudes).
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I like how talking about your tax return is an acceptable form of talking about how much money you make, because the calculations that determine how much you owe or get from the government are all so baffling, it's not like it tells me anything.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

almost every penny of my tax return was consumed. it was all absorbed by my body one way or another.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

What is "withholding"? (I wish I could use the EZ form every year, but for this damn partnership.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Basically it's paying your taxes bit by bit with each paycheck. The problem is that it's not exact so you can easily overpay, hence the refund.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

(note: I am no accountant, that's just how I understand it)
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

And in many of our cases, there's nothing withheld on pay from music/freelancing/etc., and tax time is when they hit you up.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, you guys want to hear some tax horror stories, talk to 1099 contractor ppl like m@tttt.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

If anyone wants to email me about how the band/tax thing works, feel free. We keep talking about doing it but haven't made any moves.
― n/a, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

The best thing about freelancing was that I had an excuse to hire an accountant and didn't have to hear a bunch of ruckus about how it's really EASY to do your own taxes, GOD, what's WRONG with you blah blah blah.

I'm damn dumb as hell, that's what's wrong with me OKAY?
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

fuck dude, my taxes were so insanely complecated in the late '90s i used to have a cpa do them. he was the same guy our company used and we never paid a fucking dime. that guy was blood diamonds.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

I'll e-mail you what I know about it, Nick.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 19:57 (eighteen years ago)

If anyone wants to email me about how the band/tax thing works, feel free. We keep talking about doing it but haven't made any moves.

I have very little idea of how it works. Both years we've done it, we've had someone prepare the taxes for us (last year it was Ben's brother, this year it was a friend of Matt's who's a CPA). But basically we filed as an official partnership with the state of Illinois. And then someone sat down and calculated various expenses -- we've been very assiduous about keeping receipts from Kinko's, tolls and gas for out-of-town trips, etc., although this is obviously an inexact science -- to figure out what our total income/loss was for the year. I was able to say that I personally lost $366 as a result of my stake in the partnership, although I couldn't tell you where this figure actually came from.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

Mine have been easy, though I can't use the "EZ" form because I claim a deduction for my student loan interest.

John, do you include practice space rent? (or is there any in your band anyway?)
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, pretty sure practice-space rent is included. (We pay $150/month for our space.)
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

What is the advantage?
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

To what?
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

Uh, I think the main advantage is not getting audited because you don't report income from the band, and the club (or whoever hired you) does. Not likely but it does happen.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

I meant, What is the advantage to reporting your band income (loss)?
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

I guess that would be alot more important if we made more money.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

I doubt anyone would seek us out lookin' for mula.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, that's definitely a big part of it. We started doing it basically because Ben wanted to do things really clean and official. Of course, the income loss doesn't hurt, either.

xpost Unless I'm really dense, I think I owe the government less money this way? If I was just paying taxes on my day-job income alone, with a salary of $X, then I would owe $Y in taxes (using the table in the instruction booklet). But since my adjusted gross income is $(X-366) (and also minus some other stuff the form tells you to subtract), then the tax I owe is also lower.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:15 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. I was thinking you'd submit a separate tax form for the partnership.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

My memory is so bad. I just transferred a call to a coworker. Then I got a telemarketing call for toner. Then I listened to the lady talk, answered some questions I didn't need to, and then, finlly, when she asked for my email address to continue our correspondance, I finally said, "I'm sorry, but no. No." Then I hung up. I'm working on it, ok?
Anyway, right after that, coworker rings me. Who was that who just called her? I don't remember. Male or female? Don't remember. It was two seconds ago! I know. I seriously can't remember. Ay ay ay.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. I was thinking you'd submit a separate tax form for the partnership.

I'm pretty sure we did. I'm assuming that form had all the expense calculations filled out. The form I got from our accountant had an "employer tax ID number" on it, presumably so that they can cross-check with the other form if need be.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

1099-MISC
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:30 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin let me know next time you want to go for a pointless drive to farm country, I have gas to waste.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

thanks dan but no, it's a solitary thing. man, machine, and nature etc.

also, new office mate just farted and now it smells like an abattoir in here. wtf you eat for lunch woman?!?
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:34 (eighteen years ago)

Right on.

http://www.cbc.ca/disclosure/archives/images/030211_access_sunset.jpg
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

You ever smell a fart that smells like rotting fruit? Like, it's sickly sweet. Those are the worst, I think, because they almost smell ok, which somehow makes them 10x nastier.
― kenan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:40 (eighteen years ago)

ahahahahahahahahaha god I'm immature
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:42 (eighteen years ago)

this smells like a case of white castle cheeseburgers were left in the trunk of someone's car on fourth of july weekend and you just opened the trunk of that car on august 17th.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

You said this person was into teh Jeebus right? Maybe it's a personal form of purging.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:44 (eighteen years ago)

It's better for us to file jointly. Those lifetime learning and hope scholarship credits are really awesome and have helped us out immensely in the past 4 years. If you are married, you have to file jointly to get the lifetime learning one.

I was going to deal with converting an IRA to a Roth IRA this year, but I didn't want to deal with the tax implications. It would have caused another tax bracket jump. If Jenny doesn't work very much this year, we'll stay in 15%. That jump from the 15% to 25% bracket is a real bitch.

This has been the year I really pay attention to personal finance.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

i'm getting some fucking vanillaroma car fresheners for this joint if this is going to be a daily thing.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

like a thousand of them.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I hate calculating withholdings. Usually I just err on the side of paying just a little too much.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

This has been the year I really pay attention to personal finance.

Someday, someday...
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 20:50 (eighteen years ago)

Anyone want to get drunk tonight? I just found out we're losing all the Journals I work on.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

Which means within a year or so I could not have a job anymore.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

oh no, Dan! I'm so sorry.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

where you going dan? i can't stay out too late, i have actual work to do tomorrow.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

but all the same i wouldn't mind having a couple of pops in hopes of shaking this goddamn insomnia that is fucking killing me over here.
― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sorry to hear that, Dan.
― KitCat, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, maybe they will just keep paying you to not edit the journals?
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

or maybe they could move you to other journals?
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

Fuck I dunno, Small Bar in LS probably, if I go anywhere.

There is no news about what's going to happen, just that the things are going away. There may be opportunities in other departments, who knows. Everything is very grey right now.

I am sure as shit using all of my vacation this year, though!
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

That fucking sucks, Dan.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 21:53 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse txted me to say he had a gross and smelly dentist appointment.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse's the boy who cried dentist so I totally won't believe it until I see the shining white capped tooth.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, I'm sorry that you are experiencing job uncertainty. That's really frustrating! I'm going to think positively that they will give you another, better job or that you'll find something else that is way more awesome, though.
― Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

This is a sign that it is time for you to go to school, Dan.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

I like to see everything as a sign that I should be doing something else.

This headache is a sign that I should NOT grade papers tonight!
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

PS I am sorry you are glum about job. That sucks.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:17 (eighteen years ago)

i cannot believe that you guys have talked about farts this much.

BUT, fwiw, there were some ladies at my old job with really bad diets who would do all sorts of awful things to the ladies' room. I blame the food they ate.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

I blame the chicken wings I'm going to eat tonight.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:20 (eighteen years ago)

I am going to make Ethiopian food tonight! I got a craving I couldn't shake and BOY am I excited. The man at Kuku1u market talked to me about the VT shootings. He said they were "shots heard around the globe." :(
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

yum, Amanda! I'm impressed; I've never made Ethiopian food. do you make the injera?
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Nah, that's too much trouble. I can get it for cheap at the store where I get the spices. Really it's just making a couple of stews. I'm doing lentils (mesir/misser wat) and mixed veggies.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:23 (eighteen years ago)

Now no one is impressed anymore.
I equate that to making one's own tortillas. I mean, yeah -- it sure would be great -- but who does that aside from dedicated campesinos and chefs? When it comes to tortillas, I'm happy with El Milagro. Similarly, I'm happy with injera that someone else made, as long as it's fresh. And it always is.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

No, I'm still totally impressed. I just didn't know one could get injera.
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

I "GET" INJERA
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:38 (eighteen years ago)

haha
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:40 (eighteen years ago)

I will email you my recipe if you want! The woman at the market told me how to make the lentils and I wrote a rough recipe from her explanation. The only out-of-the-ordinary ingredients you need are berbere spice and injera, both of which are available at the store I go to on Broadway. The rest is totally pedestrian. Garlic. Ginger. Tomatoes. Onion.

There are a lot of recipes online too, but this one comes from a real person who I know, so I like it.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:41 (eighteen years ago)

I want some meaty Ethiopian food, to eat with my HANDS.
― Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:42 (eighteen years ago)

Amanda, put it on the blog!
― jaymc, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:44 (eighteen years ago)

i dunno how to on new blog. i am too lazy to put it on old blog. how about i email it to you?
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

I would love for you to email it to me, yeah! thanks!
― horseshoe, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

i emailed it to both of you. i am going into kitchen now. later, booblings.
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:46 (eighteen years ago)

Are you going to R. Dashen, 'manda?
― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:54 (eighteen years ago)

No, I'm going to my kitchen!
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:56 (eighteen years ago)

I am impressed! Cooking is awesome.

Now I'm going to go have a few beers. Thanks for the commiseration, folks.
― dan m, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:57 (eighteen years ago)

I want some meaty Ethiopian food, to eat with my HANDS.

Right hand only, if you want to do like in the old country.
― Eazy, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:58 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse txted me to say he had a gross and smelly dentist appointment.

-- Jordan, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:01 (1 hour ago)
Jesse's the boy who cried dentist so I totally won't believe it until I see the shining white capped tooth.

-- Jenny, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 22:03 (1 hour ago)

GOOD GOD DAMN. MY TEMPORARY CROWN JUST FELL OFF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:33 (eighteen years ago)

The dentist visit was a multi-sensory experience. While it wasn't too painful after the shot, the vibrations as they ground away about 1/8" of tooth was kind of awful and having 4 hands plus instruments in your mouth is not so great. Of course the sound was no treat. Sight wasn't so terrible. The taste of disinfectants, molding materials, and THE EPOXIES! was astounding. Worst of all was the smell of burning tooth--nauseating!

They gave me a temporary crown and told me to be careful eating on it, so I had some chili--nice and soft. But it still came off. Boo.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:37 (eighteen years ago)

I put my tooth back on, but I need to take it off so that I don't swallow it. I gripped it between my thumb and forefinger, but found that removing a tooth from my head is not a procedure I have the wherewithal to undertake at the moment.
― Jesse, Tuesday, 17 April 2007 23:44 (eighteen years ago)

Every temp crown I've had has fallen off at some point. I had to go back and tell them to glue it more.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

And tell them to use extra glue on the expensive ones.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:00 (eighteen years ago)

Dammit. I pulled it back off. That was deeply unpleasant.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:07 (eighteen years ago)

Like smelling a fart that smells like fruit or beef jerky.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

dan and jesse both need to take more lessons from The Secret. Think HARDER about getting the journal and the crown back. Sheesh. What's wrong with you two?
― sisut, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 02:50 (eighteen years ago)

COMEHERETOME, MISSIN' TOOF.

It worked. It's with me now. I have my fucking fake tooth sitting on my desk. It's kind of funny.

Last night I had a long dream about the Soprano family. Tony and Carmela were reconciling their differences (I haven't watched since 2003, so I don't know what's up) and uniting against an enemy of the family (actually a family member who defected). We staged a hit on the guy and we had a to go to Michael Jordan's restaurant to rendevous with him.

Once the guy realized he was the subject of a hit, he turned into a cat and ran away. We caught him, and Carmela and I pretended we going to kill him, but it seems that in Mafia 2.0 killing is passe, so we stuffed the cat/man into a tennis ball container tube where we decided to leave him for a few days.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:00 (eighteen years ago)

At one point in the dream, Tony, Carmela and I went to a gay bathhouse, and we were required to check our fountain drinks.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:05 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, under that temp cap you need to brush and sterilize to keep bacteria down. Use mouthwash or a little peroxide. I've even taken the cap out and soaked it in peroxide and brushed it separately. It'll really collect food under there. Just keep it clean, and keep the tooth-post that's hold it on clean as well.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:28 (eighteen years ago)

Use peanut butter to stick it back on. Jiff.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 03:30 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, you have an imagination for television. That is a million-dollar storyline right there.

Sex, violence, celebrity cameos (Michael Jordan), and a kitty in a tennis-ball tube. Everyone wants to see at least two of those.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:01 (eighteen years ago)

Here is one of thsoe four:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdQj2ohqCBk
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:03 (eighteen years ago)

xpost You took it off and put it back on? It's supposed to be glued in!

The dentist said to go easy on it--No gum, taffy, etc--so that it would not come off in the 3 weeks it takes the lab to make my permanent one. Since it's made of acrylic and therefore flexible,it can come undone easier than a rigid one. But it shouldn't have been THAT easy.

You're right about the food collection, even though I didn't even have a chance to find it out first-hand. But they leave a gap between the crown and the gum because the acrylic apparently will irritate the gum.

Something funny-- during the procedure I felt a sharp pain and raised my left hand to indicate "OUCH." The dentist said, "That wasn't your tooth that was hurting, it was your gum that I was cutting to get it out of the way."

There was some incongruency between their upscale office and location, their apparent pride their reputation as professionals (magazine covers featuring the Doctor/Dr. and his staff on the covers, with headlines like, "Staff of the Year") and the music in the waiting and examining rooms. It was all '90s, including "O.P.P." And the hygenist and the dentist talked about how the dentist prefers his women to be "kind of stupid," but they have to be HOT too, and Britney wasn't hot enough to be as stupid as she is.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:10 (eighteen years ago)

Eric-- I think that even the mafioso-turned-to-cat could work in one of Tony's dreams. Carmela abused the cat a lot before putting him in the tube.

There is a Sugarcubes song called "Dream TV" that could be about me (I'm sure I've told most of you already)--a guy is savoring the remains of a great dream he just had, only to realize it was just the plot of a TV show he watched.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:15 (eighteen years ago)

I'm reading an article about yesterday's gangland killing of the mayor of Nagasaki:

Tetsuya Shiroo, a senior member of Yamaguchi-gumi, Japan's largest organized crime syndicate, was wrestled to the ground by officers after the attack and arrested, police said.

Scary! Imagine someone whispering in your ear "Yaaamaaa-guuuchi-guuuumi."
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 04:47 (eighteen years ago)

My youngest sis has been emailing the rest of my fam about the reactions she's been getting from frenchies over there regarding the Tech shootings, knowing she's american. They keep questioning her about gun laws here, the level of violence in our society, our close-mindedness... As I mentioned, she also lived in that dorm and was an engineering student (was in that building alot where most of the shootings occured).

Maybe I am just naive, but despite my problems with our political leaders, I see this tragedy as the result of one f'ed up person, not a society.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:33 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, mine never stayed glued-on the whole time, either -- they always lost stickiness before the appointed day. Hence all the cleaning.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:36 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, I'm being depressing.

Tonight is grocery night. Recommend me a great recipe. Recently we've made spinach and roasted red peppers over polenta, artichoke heart & roasted red pepper pizza, Julia's spinach dip, and a fancy salad with pears in it.
Also, we need to decide where to buy said groceries. I'm guessing it will be Grand Mart again.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:37 (eighteen years ago)

My youngest sis has been emailing the rest of my fam about the reactions she's been getting from frenchies over there regarding the Tech shootings, knowing she's american.

Because we all know that the French are infallible. Hey guys, how's your Armenian population assimilating? Oh it's going terribly because you're overwhelmingly nationalistic to the point of racist and incredibly xenophobic? K, thx for the criticism!
― mattttt, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

My sinuses have exploded.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

Oh no, Nick!

matttt, I wonder if other countries are having similar reactions.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:51 (eighteen years ago)

I think you mean Algerian, homes. But the sentiment remains the same.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:53 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I'm sneezing and dripping and congested. I'm trying to convince myself that it's just my allergies flaring up. I think that might be it, since my throat feels fine and it hit me so quickly.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 13:56 (eighteen years ago)

Nick, allergy time has got to be bad this year because I am usually unfazed by seasonal allergies and this spring I am very, very fazed. And snotty. God, the snot. Help me. Please.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:02 (eighteen years ago)

It's like my brain is liquefying and running out through my nose.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:03 (eighteen years ago)

I think you mean Algerian, homes. But the sentiment remains the same.

Yeh, and remember the case of that dude who didn't cry at his mother's funeral? Fuck you, froggies.

I had a swell of nationialistic defensiveness when a former manager at my work old me about the Irish's view of Americans: "Well, you're so ignorant of world events and so smug. And you're abrasive." The "you" in that sentence was ostensibly plural, she could put it in a lot of better terms.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:04 (eighteen years ago)

What dude, jesse?
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:08 (eighteen years ago)

Don't question me, you racist.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:12 (eighteen years ago)

morning guys.

I recommend the new Jarvis Cocker video.

http://music.yahoo.com/ar-304621-videos--Jarvis-Cocker
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

I like that I live in a world that also has Jarvis Cocker in it.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

I meant to copy Matt's thing and make a joke about The Stranger but I didn't.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Camus was not a bad looking fella.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

Some theater folks I've worked with are doing a really good new show called The Strangerer that kind of combines Bush and The Stranger and is set entirely during a 2004 debate, when he inexplicably attacks Jim Lehrer during a debate.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:21 (eighteen years ago)

I read about that, it sounded entertaining.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:27 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, Armenian is actually correct, too.
― sisut, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:37 (eighteen years ago)

I do think there's little to learn from random shooters and serial killers, but I can see how someone outside the U.S. sees our country as the place that produced Saw III and Abu Gahrib, and would try to connect this with that.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:38 (eighteen years ago)

katieburgerotm.

xpost.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:39 (eighteen years ago)

I vow never to share my last name with people again.
― sisut, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:40 (eighteen years ago)

I did hear one person arguing that people in all countries have these same violent, psychopathic tendencies...but that in many of them it's much harder to get guns. Don't know if it holds any weight, though. The Swiss all have a gun in the home and I haven't heard of too many mountain rampages. Of course, they're probably too content...what with all the wine, cheese and chocolate.
― sisut, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

See also: Canada. Guns everywhere, rednecks abound, no shootings.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:45 (eighteen years ago)

i heard something interesting yesterday from a professor at northeastern, he said that these types of events usually happen in the sunbelt states, california and texas because those are the states that have seen the greatest influx of migrants and immigrants in recent years. he hypothesized that people moving across the country or across the world are usually doing so as a last effort and if they fail at that then they have nothing. and they have nothing in a new place without the support systems of home. it kind of made sense but there were some holes in it or if not holes at least some questions i had.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:48 (eighteen years ago)

I see, there is a much larger Franco-Armenian population than I had realized. The recent news in the country surrounding their population relates more to the recognition of genocide in Turkey, while the Algerian-related news is about bombings and unrest inside France.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

man, i shoulda got some mini burgers last night. by the time i got off the train i decided i needed to stop at the green-eye grill for cheese burgers. i had four cheeseburgers yesterday, i'm eating like shit these days.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

I think I might go get pad thai for lunch today.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:07 (eighteen years ago)

Get pad in full.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:11 (eighteen years ago)

I want to see this play. I have decided that Kenan does, too.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2004/03/25/paidinfull.jpg
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:14 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Jenny, I can do that. Let's make a date.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:20 (eighteen years ago)

Probably after my last exam in law school ever, which is on May 9, I think.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

In this party-time look at the heyday of Stax Records, the music is a foot-stompin' mix of soul classics and lesser-known numbers. The slender narrative, by David Barr III, is structured around fictional 1980 events: a 20-year Stax reunion concert and the imminent sale of a bar, Pop's Place. Jimmy Tillman's brass-heavy eight-piece band keeps the energy high, and under Jackie Taylor's direction the performers are funny and accomplished. Five dancers perform Rueben Echoles's savvy choreography

Sounds good
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:24 (eighteen years ago)

I'm supposed to review a bunch of Kate Bush songs for Stylus's Kate Bush Week, except it's sort of hard because all but a couple of them are pretty much straight-up awesome.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

You should write an entire review about how they suck and about how people only liked them because the singer was hot and because he's going out with Gwen Stefani and they just ripped off Pearl Jam.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:36 (eighteen years ago)

A friend of mine in high school had a t-shirt that read BUSH SUCKS and I was like, "That shirt's awesome, man. I hate that band, too." And he was like, "Uh, it's about the former president?"
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:43 (eighteen years ago)

HA!
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

why bitch about a former president? and why go for bush, i mean, christ, andrew jackson was a WAY bigger prick and murderer.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

REGAN SUCKS, YOU GUYS
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

reagan, even.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:50 (eighteen years ago)

William Henry Harrison butchered native americans and was a long-winded fucker, too. He sucks!
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:00 (eighteen years ago)

Both my dental hygienist and my dentist asked me what my favorite food was yesterday, presumably because it was lunchtime. The dentist was all "Ya like burgers? How can people be vegetarians? I mean, burgers, right?"

And the hygienist was going on about how I could've gotten free fries at Arby's yesterday because they sponsor some NASCAR driver from around here.

xpost galore
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

I want to learn more about Millard Fillmore.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://lambiek.net/artists/t/tinsley_bruce/tinsley_mallardfillmore2.jpg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:12 (eighteen years ago)

^^^Former resident of E. Aurora, NY, my mom's quasi-hometown. His residence is a historic site.

xpost
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:13 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2d/Fillmore_campaign.jpg/300px-Fillmore_campaign.jpg
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

Those Whigs were some fun-looking dudes!
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

I did a report on Calvin Coolidge once.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/CoolidgeAmherst.png
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

Dapper!
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I like how women dressed in the early 20s. Just pile on whatever you've got and top it with a funny hat.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/HardingCoolidge.jpg
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

Mmm, needs more dead animal carcasses.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.hooverassociation.org/PHOTOS/OLD%20BW%20PHOTOS/Lou%20Henry%20Picts/pict3.jpg
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

Harding's wife looks like she could be an extra from Dances with Wolves with all that fur she's got on.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

(xxpost)
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:43 (eighteen years ago)

She probably got cold on the way to the event and grabbed the dead animal for warmth. It was the way they did it back then.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ragtime player piano music was going in the background the whole time.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I mean seriously. Fuck a pair of jeans. I want a big floppy drop waisted dress and a hat with an ostrich feather in it. I can gain and lose 40 pounds and the only part of my wardrobe I'd have to adjust is my belt.

http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/0/0/7/prod_794.jpg
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Also, I'd get a pet racoon.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/holiday/historicalpets2/images/1923-gcoolidgerebecca-398h.jpg
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:47 (eighteen years ago)

Or as that lady calls it, "my new sweater."
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:49 (eighteen years ago)

Let's see if we can exhaust the GIS for Grace Coolidge posing with animals:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/holiday/historicalpets2/images/1923-mrscoolidgedogs-398v.jpg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

I also think all male children under 14 should wear newsboy caps and short pants and break into spontaneous four-part harmony on street corners.

xp - with that, I think you just exhausted it.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Look at that dress! You could shoplift a watermelon with that thing! It's less structured than most of my loungewear.

Damn it, I'm bringing slouchy back.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Another one of the 'coon:

http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/kids/inside/images/calsgirl-s99.jpg
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

I want to know why Cal is wearing a black armband above.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

Presumably somebody died.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

"Ahoy-hoy!"

http://www.forbeslibrary.org/coolidge/img/Coolidge2.JPG
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:54 (eighteen years ago)

See-through!
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

Have any of you eaten at the Riverside Deli?
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:01 (eighteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/RSPOD/RS259%7ERita-Coolidge-and-Kris-Kristopherson-Rolling-Stone-no-259-February-1978-Posters.jpg
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

Ahhhhhhh waist-less dresses are the bane of my sartorial existence, they make me look like a full sack of flour.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel 8080
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:04 (eighteen years ago)

What's the 8080?
Infinities? Multiple infinities?
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

They make everybody look like a full sack of flour. That's the beauty of it!
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:06 (eighteen years ago)

Let's see if I get this right:

8080 was the port through which computers connected with the nu-ILX server and was often blocked by people at work. DC people started saying 8080 instead of OTM.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know why, but then again, DC doesn't really need a reason, nawmean?
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

I think they make boxy thin women look just fine, though. also all those 20s minidresses work for women with nice gams.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

xxpost nerds
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

I think they make boxy thin women look just fine, though. also all those 20s minidresses work for women with nice gams.

Not so! GFY is full of similarly thin women in sack dresses looking very flour-bag-esque.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:10 (eighteen years ago)

Jenna Jameson seriously looks like a different person in that picture.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

Come on, ladies. Embrace, nay, revel in our natural roundness. Nothing but floppy yards of natural fiber fabrics with nary a constructed waistband in sight. Our biggest fashion concern will be how to get the skirts out of the way when we ride bikes and not getting our hems caught in subway doors.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, she's not looking real great, sack dress or no. Poor woman.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:12 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know who Rita Coolidge is, but I did think it was funny that when I did a GIS for "coolidge" that Jennifer Coolidge suddenly popped up in the third row, underneath all sorts of flapper-era presidential portraits and whatnot.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

August 2005 was a great GFY month for otherwise socially acceptably constructed women to look not so great in sack-like dresses.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:15 (eighteen years ago)

okay, but someone like Kirsten Dunst, I think she pulls off the sack dress look (I realize this is a controversial opinion.)
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:16 (eighteen years ago)

I'm actually just accepting the GFY opinion as the norm. Unless they are talking about something really outrageous, I usually don't see what the big deal is, personally. Pam from the Office on the Aug 05 page is a good example - I love that dress and I love her and I would totally want to wear that dress and be her friend. I just read the site because the women who write it are funny. We also have a shared befuddlement with formal shorts and Uggs.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Like, I am almost 100% okay with wearing dresses over jeans, which makes the GFY writer apoplectic. I also think leggings are a great invention.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

I love go fug yourself, it has saved me from boredom many a time, but those women operate on a really conservative aesthetic, yeah. I hate leggings, though, but only because they look awful on me.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:20 (eighteen years ago)

I actually appreciate some of the conservatism, at least as far as their shunning of trashy, "my thong is the centerpience of my dress" type outfits. I also think they have some sound advice w/r/t foundation garments.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny, you know I luff you, but I must take serious issue with your campaign to dress all women in an old potato sack. Here in this land we call the Midwest, we lack the sweeping vistas of a mountain range, an ancient forest, or an ocean. Our greatest resource of natural beauty is nice round Midwestern girl parts, and depriving us of the view would make our land a much bleaker place indeed.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

Here in this land we call the Midwest, we lack the sweeping vistas of a mountain range, an ancient forest, or an ocean.

Uh, I like looking at girls, don't get me wrong, but aside from the mountains we actually do have these things (more or less in the case of the latter i.e. the Great Lakes).
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

I wish they'd leave Kirsten Dunst/Maggie G/Chloe S alone about not wearing bras, though. Sometimes the girls just need to roam free, fashion be damned.

xp - you're right, Kenan. The great flaw in my campaign is that I failed to consider the desires of men. What was I thinking?
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Plus women can wear what they want, it just makes the task of getting them to take it off more... interesting?
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:26 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny 8080 that's the part of fashion snarkiness that always gives me pause, where it becomes super-overtly antifeminist. I was talking to a friend of mine recently about bringing bralessness back.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

I'm for stardard-issue unitards for everyone.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

Because then we will know it is the Future.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

I was talking to a friend of mine recently about bringing bralessness back.

i will be a tireless worker for this campaign. sign me up.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:29 (eighteen years ago)

I could also hang with this look, I think:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MMPH/246497~Logan-s-Run-Posters.jpg
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

Somehow through four years of college I managed to just not wear bras. I remember my senior year I went on a job interview and had to go buy a bra and I had totally forgotten how it worked.

My boobs are actually big enough now that I appreciate the supportive assistance of a bra. I do wish somebody could figure out how to make them actually comfortable, though.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

lol Michael York
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, are bras still a Male Gaze issue so much as a practical consideration?
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:35 (eighteen years ago)

well, the context of this discussion was this friend of mine noting that in the 70s bralessness was more of a widespread practice. obviously there are women who need bras for support; I'm not saying bras are evil. it was more of a "fashion status quo has become more restrictive over time" observation. bc the nasty thing that often accompanies "she needs a bra" snark is, you know, what a tramp/slattern/etc. (not saying that's true of gfy, but still)
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

Bring bralessness back:
http://www.eye.net/eye/issue/issue_05.11.00/music/nekocase.php
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

I think they are both. For example, I chose padded bras because I don't want to walk around with my headlights on and have to hear a lot of smarmy "Is it cold in here?" comments. I would probably pick something a little more minimal otherwise.

xp - or a snark on the unacceptable state of the unsupported breasts in question, which basically says that breasts in their natural state (ie saggy), particularly on older women, are not only undesirable but gross and in dire need of immediate correction.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

Bralessness, bralessness, brazen bralessness, brazen bare-ass bralessness.

...

That was fun.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

oh and the other thing that accompanies that snark is OH NOES SAGGY BOOBS, which, whatever, who gives a shit?
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:39 (eighteen years ago)

beartrap with Jenny with whom I always agree.
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

Eric, that is a little more than bralessness.

What a tramp! ;)
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:40 (eighteen years ago)

I never understood the OH NOES SAGGY thing, either. Here's news for ya: big boobs are gonna droop a little. So look on the bright side, yo. Big boobs.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:42 (eighteen years ago)

beartrap with Jenny with whom I always agree.

Except for the leggings thing, but I'm not going to let that come between us.
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

There's a dirty joke about not letting leggings come between us in there somewhere, isn't there?
― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:43 (eighteen years ago)

haha, I'm fine with leggings on other people, really!
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

It's very nearly at the surface.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:44 (eighteen years ago)

2x

John, I started listening to your mixes. The SY one is great, it gives the impression that they rock it all the time. I love their tempos, too, they're very 90s (not too slow, not too fast).

xpost to saggy boobs
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:45 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, SY can not-rock-it sometimes, too. In selecting songs for the mix, I def. went with a lot of the tight rockin' singles. But I still think it's a good overview.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

sonic boobs kill thread, film at 11

xpost
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:57 (eighteen years ago)

I'm sort of testing out the bra-less thing, but then I haven't done laundry in about 8 weeks either so we'll see. And not to teh office.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:58 (eighteen years ago)

Hey guys, can we stop talking about boobs and bras and go back to talking about gun control please?
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

ps joke
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:00 (eighteen years ago)

maybe it's just me but bra-lessness and the thin cotton t-shirt? match made in heaven.

god, i can NOT start thinking about this at work. back to the salt mines with me.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:03 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin's just right.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:05 (eighteen years ago)

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/6302068967.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:16 (eighteen years ago)

I have learned something today!

http://www.snopes.com/history/american/burnbra.htm
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:28 (eighteen years ago)

Back to Jenny's gofug link for a sec... It looks like both of Jessica Simpson's arms are broken!
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

oh, god that Jessica Simpson picture. what was she thinking?
― horseshoe, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Update: Apparently there was a stabbing at the Note sometime last week, and for one reason or another, no turntables. So the DJs are out, but stabbing is in, everyone bring mom's cutlery, I'll have my grindstone, blade-tango starts sometime around midnight and rages onward and upward until the bands start playing at 1fuckinAM.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

blade tango!
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah the stabbing = no turntable thing. What the hell?
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

another update, apparently the Emergenza thing that goes on there earlier in the evening doesn't get over until midnight so i'm guessing the bands won't start until 1:30 or so.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:43 (eighteen years ago)

THAT MEANS IT WILL BE A LONG F'ING NIGHT FOR SOMEONE STAYING UP WITHOUT HELP.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

Is that Emergenza thing another one of those Gojangle-esque pay to play scams?
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

i have no idea what it is but this will be the last busy signals show for a while as kevin is going to europe with the feelers and won't be back until july or august. also on the bill is the really fantastic screaming yellow zonkers and the tuff bananas.

dan, i don't understand the correlation between the stabbing and the banning of turntables either. unless the guy got stabbed with a tone arm or something.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

STAB THE MOTHERFUCKER IN THE BACK
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:48 (eighteen years ago)

I am frustrated by this work situation: There is a woman who was hired a few months ago to handle specific duties. Last week she said she was handing off this one aspect of her work to me, based on a request from someone else. It's not a lot of extra work, but I was hoping that this "someone else" would talk to me directly about it so I put her off for a few days. They never said anything, so I just caved and took over this assignment. Here are the things that are frustrating: 1) essentially being given an assignment by someone who has been working here a lot less longer than me, 2) the fact that this basically makes the assignment impossible to refuse, because if I say I'm too busy than she doesn't have the responsibility to send it elsewhere, 3) this woman's tone, which is really condescending and annoying for someone who has only been here a few months.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

xpost those Technics needles are f'n sharp, man
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

mr. que, are you familiar with the flakes? russell quan from the mummies band?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:52 (eighteen years ago)

Can't you talk to the someone else, Nick, just to "verify" or whatever?
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

nick, yes, apparently emergenza is a pay to play thing. also, i just checked the emgenza website and it says there is a band that is STARTING at midnight so the busy signals show may not start until.... ? 1:45 at the EARLIEST? 2?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

That's totally insane. On a SUNDAY??
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

Yay, a bunch of US population tables just showed up in my inbox. The Most Populous U.S. Cities table was always the first page I turned to in the almanacs I had as a kid, so it's awesome to actually work on them as an adult.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:03 (eighteen years ago)

At a lot of those pay to play things, the bands only play 15-20 minutes. So maybe earlier, kevin.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

Nick, I'm sorry that lady is being such a jerkface. If this new project requires more hours, perhaps your boss would give you permission to work overtime? Also, in asking he'd know about you working on it...
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:04 (eighteen years ago)

It's not really a significant amount of work. That's not why I'm frustrated. It's mostly just about being given assignments by people who have only worked here a few months, whose actual position I don't really understand. It's not really worth making a fuss about with anyone higher up, I'll just sound petty.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Just pee on her keyboard.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

they have the set lists listed and bands start at the top and bottom of every hour. then there is ONE MORE band listed AFTER the midnight band but i'm discounting them. so if the last band is off at 12:20 it will take at least a half hour to clear the club. re-open doors at 12:50, get people in, have the bands load in, the first band set up (no sound check, obv), start playing i'm guessing another 40 minutes so yeah, at the earliest 1:30. originally there was supposed to be an hour between doors and the first band so if that's the case then it's 1:50 a.m.

laurel, it's saturday night/sunday morning.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Ice Factory is closing, you guys.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

on June 1
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

Hard Times Sunday Morning, dudes.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

:( :(

I was hoping to get a gig there this summer for the Kid Jordan Second Line.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

xp No! Well, it was a good run.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

[cue trumpet mute 'wah waaaahhhhh']

what happen? are they not renewing their lease or is a lease not being offered? will they try to open up a new place or are they packing it in?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

laurel, i know, sunday it's supposed to be 75 and sunny and i'm gonna sleep through ALL of it.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know any details at this point.
― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

OK, Google is getting too good. I accidentally typed "m" (and nothing else) into my address bar, and it immediately took me to the IMDB page for the Fritz Lang movie.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:25 (eighteen years ago)

Would any of you bro'dogs and wo'dogs be interested in meeting up for brunch on Sunday?
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

john... is that what you were looking for?
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:37 (eighteen years ago)

Time and place t.b.d... though it would be great if we could find somewhere we wouldn't have to wait for a really long time.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

i fully expect to be getting home between the hours of 7 am and 9 am so i may or may not be awake for brunch. i'd say it's about 60-40 no for me though.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

If you can get to Lula before about 10 it's a breeze.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

No, Kenan, it was an accident. I meant to type out a whole URL.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

I'm still full from that haystack @ Arnold's.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

I totally could. I love Lula.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

M is one of my favorite movies ever.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:39 (eighteen years ago)

long xpost to Kevin, no I haven't heard of them, are they good?
― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:41 (eighteen years ago)

xpost It's damn fine, for sure.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:42 (eighteen years ago)

Do you think you could come, Kenan? Let's GET A POSSE GOING!
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I am interested, but I'm not sure what's happening with me the night before so I am gonna say "maybe" for now.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

If you can get to Lula before about 10 it's a breeze.

I don't think that counts as brunch!
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

I would LUV to have brunch with all this chicago, I haven't seen you people in forever
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Can we do Flo?
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

mr que, yes. fun and loose a la the mummies but at a faster pace and they can play a little better. but it's still russell on drums so...
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

Aw shit, I want to play at the Ice Fac again before it's gone. That stinks.

I think I'm seeing a kids' show at 1 p.m. out in the 'burbs on Sunday, so it would have to be a mid-morn brunch and that would make it more breakfast than brunch. (xpost w jmc)
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think that counts as brunch!

Yeah but it does count as not waiting in line, so whichever is more important... Plus, you'll be in MN right? So who cares? Go to Bryant/Lake Bowl while you can.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

I'm just arguing semantics. I don't think I could force myself to wake up that early, anyway.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

What can I contribute to today's conversation?
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

(xp I'll be in a motel in Iowa.)
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

Looks like I need to be on a Metra around 10 a.m., so it's looking unlikely for me unless you guys want to be like hunters and go get an early plate of 'cakes.

Bras and tits, Jesse.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Saggy boobs = Dud.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

Actually, what I really mean is that upright boobs = Classic.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.funky-stuff.com/jamesbrown/covers/135/TaleALookAtthosecakes1.jpg
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

"upright"?!
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

Just what I look for in a boob, a strong back and good posture.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

Whoa, the verse of this new Kelly Clarkson song sort of sounds like Sleater-Kinney.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

http://lonewacko.com/images/monkey-walking-upright.jpg
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:08 (eighteen years ago)

I meant pert, more than upright. Boobs that are at attention.

Medium-sized boobs = classic. Small-medium also.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

Droopy balls = classic.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

jesse, are you shure you're allowed to have opinions on boobs?
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:14 (eighteen years ago)

The media-dictated ideal boob is a perfectly shaped, perky b+/c-. But once you make a habit of handling real-life boobs, you figure out that you have been duped.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

jesus dudes, it's not even friday yet.

xpost- kenan i may beg to differ with you there. BUT I'LL SAVE IT FOR FRIDAY.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

there is no such thing as a bad breast, I have come to believe.
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

A/B/C/D are all are wonderful in their own ways.

xpost, heh.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

Maybe gals/gays say the same thing about dicks. The beauty is in the person, or in the thing that is what it is.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:33 (eighteen years ago)

Sorry, I'll go back to editing something about Supertankers and Newbuildings.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:38 (eighteen years ago)

I think ppl have been entranced by the dude peeing thread.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

newsflash: 10% everything in the store at Sam's booze emporium.

xp - no way am i being baited into talking about genitals on the internet.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

10% off, i mean.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

SHOW US YR TOOTER
― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:41 (eighteen years ago)

waht
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

I think ppl have been entranced by the dude peeing thread.

I know, I looked away for like 5 minutes and there were suddenly 208 new answers.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:43 (eighteen years ago)

I was avoiding, but now I'm reading it. :(
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

http://north-sea-ship.dk/ship1.gif

I'm editing a report about these.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

They're called boats.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.libyaninvestment.com/advertisement/images/container-ship%20melissa.jpg

And these!

Enough kittens, time for some industry!
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

Boats are so cool.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:49 (eighteen years ago)

My dad's midlife crisis looks very similar to this:

http://www.lymanboat.com/brand.jpg

SCRAPING PAINT AND VARNISH SO MUCH FUN YOU GUYS
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:51 (eighteen years ago)

is that a crisscraft dan?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

I was just thinking the same thing about boats being cool. I'm sort of scared of being in the middle of the ocean, but I've never been on a boat trip. Seems like fun for the ages as long as it wasn't on a giant cheesemongering cruise ship.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Lyman. The Chevy to Chris-Craft's Caddy.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:53 (eighteen years ago)

Did the Pontiac Bar and Cafe on Damen go out of business? I called the number from the online listing and called 411 and it says the number is disconnected!
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

And the 411 guy says that at their address there is a place called "Pontiac Fruit and Produce."
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

Oh beautiful runabout, Dan!
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

And these!

They're called lego boats.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

i went deep sea fishing when i was in hawaii a few years ago. we didn't get so much as a nibble. it was me and jen and this dude she worked with and his wife. the girls got sea sick, me and blaine split 48 beers between us. it wasn't half bad.

i used to go deep sea fishing with my pop when i was a kid, we'd catch a lot more fish but it was mostly cod and mackrel and the occasional flounder.

xpost- pontiac was open last weekend.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

That there's a SuezMax!
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Pee thread is killing me softly.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:57 (eighteen years ago)

Thx Laurel, that one looks slightly nicer than the old man's but is nearly identical on the base level. Fucking things are so much work, I can't even begin to count the hours of scrape scrape scrape, paint paint paint...

Best summer trip ever though was driving the sucker out to Isle Royale and back.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:58 (eighteen years ago)

For me at least, there's something so terrifying about being on a boat with people. I mean, I wouldn't hang out in a small, doorless walk-in closet with people, so why would I want to be trapped on a similarly-sized watercraft with no way to escape (aside from swimming.) Still, the idea is appealing for that very reason. Boats scream: TRAPPED! That could be good or bad, but at least it's not boring.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Well, what the fuck, Pontiac??
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 20:59 (eighteen years ago)

Dude why are you using 411 when you are online?
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:00 (eighteen years ago)

Because I Googled them and used 411.com and came up with a dead number. Then I called 1800 FREE 411 and they gave me the same number.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:02 (eighteen years ago)

way too many steps
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:03 (eighteen years ago)

Pontiac Cafe & Bar
1531 N. Damen Ave.
773-252-7767

that the # you have?
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:04 (eighteen years ago)

Srsly.
Why do you wanna call them anyway?

So, no brunch for Eric or John. Dan might be asleep. Kevin might be asleep.
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:05 (eighteen years ago)

"asleep".
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

I want to make party for J**ny for her g*ad*at*on! I want to see if they will make special arrangements. And yes, that's the number I have that is disconnected.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

Dan, we had a wooden boat too, but it was a little bigger & heavier and not all nicely restored. At the time we were still too young for the painting & scraping and re-puttying, and having to worry about whether it would sink on the first trip out every summer because we didn't have a slip to keep it in so it stayed swelled up, so the burden was, helpfully, all on my dad.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:06 (eighteen years ago)

THEN I HOPE TO GOD IT IS CLOSED BECAUSE I HATE THAT GODDAMN PLACE.

but it is handy having a bar right next to the park, even if i do have to pay $5 for a beer i could get for $3 at any other bar in the city.
― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:07 (eighteen years ago)

this is a sign that the party should be held elsewhere
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

i mean p*rt*
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

OK.

We'll handle this off-board.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

I meant *K.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

I like the patio part of the Pontiac in the summer.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:13 (eighteen years ago)

I like people watching the people at the patio at the Pontiac in the summer. I pass them just about every day then since I live over there.

Jeff, Jenny, Jesse contingent... What are your Sunday brunch plans??
― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

I've gone out for brunch exactly 1x since moving to Chicago 5 years ago. It was because an out of town friend suggested it. Usually I prefer "breakfast at home." I probably get up earlier than any of you.
:(

(usually around 8:30 at the latest)

The more I think about it I'm starting to feel a little bad about my homebodiness. It's just the way I am, though, so I shouldn't feel bad about it. I guess.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:20 (eighteen years ago)

In other news, I took photos of my food last night but can't figure out how to get photos off of the camera and onto the rehabilitated computer. Since I know you were all biting your nails in anticipation of my lentil photos.

Don't lie.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:35 (eighteen years ago)

One of the specials at Lula the other night had lentils that were cooked w/ beets and therefore became bright red and looked like Fruity Pebbles. They were delish.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:36 (eighteen years ago)

Srsly, brunch crowds can be tough to deal with in this city, but you can't deny yourself delicious brunchy goodness at places like Victory's Banner or Over Easy or Tweet Let's Eat or Orange or wherever.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:39 (eighteen years ago)

Or Heartland! You live close to Heartland! Go there, buy a NYT, have a nice leisurely breakfast and coffee. Good cornbread.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:40 (eighteen years ago)

Uhhhhh I just remembered one other brunch. It was with Jenny! We went to the same place I went to brunch the first time. (M Henry) It was good. But expensive breakfasts that I could just as easily make at home in my pijamas are just not my bag.

I've gone out for breakfast a few times too, but usually against my will. Maybe I have a problem.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:42 (eighteen years ago)

Ah this is why I go out for duck sausage omelettes with fontina and wilted greens, and a side of masterful skillet potatoes, with a couple of mimosas. Because I will never have all of those ingredients at home and a long enough attention span to get them all ready.
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:43 (eighteen years ago)

Tweet's is off the chain, and better than I could make at home, but when I went with Cam and Justin it was the longest wait ever. We spent 45 minutes in that little lobby between Tweet's & Big Chicks, easy.

(the free coffee did make it go down a little easier)
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:44 (eighteen years ago)

Agh. I guess a major part of the problem is that I have had 1 day off per week for about 2 years now. That one day is not usually spent doing/having a leisurely anything and will definitely not be spent waiting in line to eat breakfast.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think I have identified my problem.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:45 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, Amanda, that's got to be more the First Cause than anything grocery-related!!
― Laurel, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:46 (eighteen years ago)

Yup.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Laurel 8080, and also it's just kind of nice to get out of the house, especially when it's a nice day, instead of sitting at home and feeling lazy.

xpost OK I see your point.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:47 (eighteen years ago)

Dude feeling lazy is not part of my vocabulary

BUT right now I am being lazy by not grading papers.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)

:(
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I should go.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

I like restaurants, even when it's in my financial interest not to eat at them so often.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:49 (eighteen years ago)

Same with bars. I like public spaces.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:50 (eighteen years ago)

Actually what I just said is untrue. I feel like being lazy all the time, I just rarely get to indulge that urge.When I have the chance I allow myself some easytimes.

Which reminds me: how many of you shower and put your clothes on IMMEDIATELY after waking up on a weekend? (versus wearing pijamas or a robe or whatever loungewear around the house for hours) (note: i do NOT shower/dress immediately...but i'm wondering if anyone does)
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:54 (eighteen years ago)

hell no
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

Nope. Unless I have to be somewhere within a half hour.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:55 (eighteen years ago)

u mad?

xpost
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

Me too. I am the 21st century equivalent of the guy who goes to the diner most days for cheap coffee and eggs.
― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:56 (eighteen years ago)

My sweatpants and robe and I have a very good relationship on weekend mornings. Last Saturday I didn't put real clothes until right before I drove up to Milwaukee at around 6.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

However, I almost always shower before leaving the apartment. That one Saturday a few weeks ago when Kr and I inexplicably woke up at 8:30 AM and went to Harvestime to get ingredients for Korean pancakes, she had to persuade me that I could shower later, after breakfast.
― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:57 (eighteen years ago)

Man, I LOVE walking around in my jammers until the last possible minute. The only reason I ask is because I realized the other weekend that FiL is like Mr. Efficiency and he wakes up and showers, gets dressed and CLEANS THE TUB all before breakfast. I think that's NUTS.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 21:59 (eighteen years ago)

"hell no" is the correct answer to my question, thank you jc.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:00 (eighteen years ago)

I do sometimes have a burst of energy in the morning, when I'm all rested and shit. I'll wash the dishes or go to the gym before my body knows what it's doing.
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:01 (eighteen years ago)

Well, I mean as long as it's occasional and not REQUIRED.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

Alright. That's it. Time to grade papers. "My Neighborhood", here I come.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:09 (eighteen years ago)

Brunch is hell, you have to get up so early. I hate hate hate Victory's banner. They have no room to wait, and are so glassy eyed they can't think of any system to deal with the people waiting. Heartland can be good, but those "biscuits" are stupid. Tweet is great, because you can wait in the BAR. That's awesome, I could wait hours. I want to try Odessa in our neighborhood. It opens at 10:30, so I could wake up at 10:15 and be there when the doors open.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:21 (eighteen years ago)

<I>Brunch is hell</I>

OMG, for me this is like saying "sex is hell" or "bacon sausages are hell".
― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:45 (eighteen years ago)

Honestly, I kind of like Wishbone for weekend morning meals.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

I say "honestly" because it kind of surprises me, though I can't say why.
― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 22:51 (eighteen years ago)

Am I hermity because I have dogs or do I have dogs because I am hermity?

These little fellas need me to be at home to keep them company, after all. They're happier when I'm here and can't go for walks without me. That's my excuse.

http://i19.tinypic.com/29xdcsh.jpg
http://i16.tinypic.com/2r269w0.jpg
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 23:25 (eighteen years ago)

EEEEEEEEEEEEE sorry for the giant pics. it's time for a new thread anyway, i guess.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 23:26 (eighteen years ago)

I like eating brunch, I just don't like the process of getting it.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:11 (eighteen years ago)

Sam & George's on 3000 N Lincoln was very good. Probably the best skillet I've had in the city.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:14 (eighteen years ago)

wait there are sausages made out of bacon???
― river wolf, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

I had brunch at Flat Top last weekend, across from Schubas. Eggs, fresh veggies, potatoes, nan bread, etc. Good stuff.

I have a weird thing about wanting to be productive on the weekends when I get up; I don't really want to start my day at 3 p.m.
― Eazy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

Wait, what about my p*rty?

JOHN I LOVE THE SONG ROSCOE A LOT TODAY.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 02:20 (eighteen years ago)

I drank with lawyerz tonight.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 02:27 (eighteen years ago)

the trick with brunch is that you have to balance brunchy goodness with getting up early enough to avoid brunchy interminable waits. i rarely can combine the two, but when i do lula's is my favorite. because i can refresh myself with a mimosa while i endure the inevitable wait (see above: cannot wake up early enough to avoid lines). on other important matters: i don't wake up, shower and immediately dress on the weekends. but i do dress pretty much immediately after showering. and shoes. i must have shoes on before i feel awake.
― sisut, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:25 (eighteen years ago)

the key to brunch is mimosas and eggs.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 04:29 (eighteen years ago)

J****, Y*u will have p*rty.

Or Heartland! You live close to Heartland! Go there, buy a NYT, have a nice leisurely breakfast and coffee. Good cornbread.

"Leisurely" is the staff's middle name! Their other names are Slow, As, Fucking, and Hell.

The food is good (except those awful, awful "biscuits,") but fer realz, the service fucking sucks.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 06:11 (eighteen years ago)

"Biscuits"?

I'm trying to think of bad, complaint-worthy service I've had in this city, and I honestly can't. I don't really get the people who post on Metromix and are all like, "The service was terrible! I'm never eating here again!!!" Some places are quicker with your food than others, some might have a server who's new and doesn't understand the menu yet, but hey man, that's life. *I'm* the one who is setting foot in *their* restaurant, I don't expect to be treated like royalty just because I'm paying them money. Plus, some places just have bad days from time to time.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 06:40 (eighteen years ago)

My doppleganger pitched a no-hitter last night.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:45 (eighteen years ago)

ESPN could have done better with this headline:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/465016991_db9254af5e.jpg?v=0
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:47 (eighteen years ago)

This is my favorite part:

The pitcher said his teammates tried to avoid him on the bench as the game progressed, following baseball tradition. But he went up to a couple of players in the dugout around the fifth inning and said, "You know I got a no-hitter going."

"People try to jinx and I was trying to jinx on myself," Buehrle said.

― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:53 (eighteen years ago)

Good mornin'.

Hmmm... I love Victory's Banner. I don't know if my tolerance for the wait is built more on my patience or my love love love for their food.

You know what's fun and very unbrunchlike? Sunshine Grill over on Chicago. It's a little diner place. They also have a small back patio that's open in warm weather that makes you feel like you're eating in someone's backyard.

Usually, on the weekend, I'll make (or Nick will make) one breakfast at home, almost always muffins of some sort. Then the other morning, we go out to eat brunch. Personally, I love brunch a million times more than any dinner foods. Perhaps this relates to me being veggie, or perhaps it's just because I have a sweet tooth.

Oh, I love Flo too, but it's super noisy, so not good for any conversation.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:56 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't been to Ann Sathers in a while. Would anyone be up for that? Or Clark's Diner? The only downside is that they are both pretty loud.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:57 (eighteen years ago)

But Lula is pretty amazing... Maybe I should just pick a place and time and see if anyone can make it?
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 11:58 (eighteen years ago)

Meeting up with folks at Uncommon Ground was fun that time, even though the food wasn't that spectacular. It's nice to see you guys in the light of day for a change o' pace, as opposed to a dark bar.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:08 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, yeah. We also met up at Heartland one morning.

Talkin' to myself about brrruuuunch... Talkin' to myself about bruuuunnncchhh....

My eyes shoot open by 8am usually on the weekend. I'm just too excited about free time to waste it sleepin'. I do, however, almost always end up taking a nap at some point in the day. I want to get out and about.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

I am an early bird, which I guess explains why I'm the only one posting on here at 7am, while a ton of people seem to post after midnight.

Ok, I guess that's a hint for me to go to work now.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

Victory's Banner is one of those places where I really have to balance my patience with my desire for their food. I also have to have come out on the right side of the brunchy goodness/intolerable wait for that one since there's not much room to wait once you get there. But when all is right with the world, VB is spectacular.

Jesse, the last time we went to Heartland it was almost okay. We got a table before I could really get into any free radical newspapers. But then we had to give up on jelly, salsa, ketchup, and something we actually ordered because our server somehow never managed to come to our table again.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

I'm awake! And now I'm hungry!
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:26 (eighteen years ago)

Oh, I don't like Ann Sather. Their sticky buns are great, obv, but their savory brunch food is really just so so, I think.

Tweet Let's Eat is lovely for brunch.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 12:28 (eighteen years ago)

Oh man, PF is hating on the new CoCoRosie album today. I quite like it.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:18 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't heard the new one, but their old stuff annoys the hell out of me.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:20 (eighteen years ago)

We've met up with you guys at Tweet Let's Eat. I liked it, though the neighborhood was kind of scary. Or maybe it was more sad than scary. We had to walk around about 3 or 4 crazies on the way back to the car, which was less than a block away.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

That's not scary, that's entertainment. I love the guy who does cigarette tricks.
― Jeff, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:35 (eighteen years ago)

Regarding the "biscuits": they are hard lumps of whole grain held together by plaster of paris. They are like my mom's biscuits, and that's not such a good thing.

As far as bad service, they are pretty consistently slow. It's funny when the service is so bad that you are glad when the worst thing that happened is that you don't get your jelly and ketchup.

I don't expect to be treated like royalty, and I recognize that every server and restaurant has off days (look what I do for a living!) but Heartland is consistantly unnaccountably sloooow. Their seating is jacked up (I hate waiting while there are open tables) and the servers seem paradoxically always in the weeds and lacking a sense of urgency.

But I will probably go back, but it falls on my list of places to frequent each time I visit.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:43 (eighteen years ago)

Huh. I didn't get an xpost--

Sarah, there is a halfway house right across the street.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:44 (eighteen years ago)

Jesse, where is your favorite place for brekkies/brunch?
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:46 (eighteen years ago)

I made this vegetarian pho recipe last night. It was pretty good.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:47 (eighteen years ago)

I usually go to Tweet.

A guy at work was telling me that he went to M. Henry and it was great (loooong wait, of course), but a woman at another table had a birthday and one of the women who worked there came out and sang really boisterously, whistled, and did a dance around the dining room!
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

I liked Orange too. Balsamic reduction belongs in all meals BECAUSE IT'S WONDERFUL.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 13:54 (eighteen years ago)

I haven't been to orange before. It didn't get great reviews online.

One brunch spot I actually hated was Brett's in Roscoe. We only ate there once. They brought us this basket of SO much bread that, for the first time in my life, I was grossed out by bread.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:11 (eighteen years ago)

Heaven's Gate (VB) is really good too.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:13 (eighteen years ago)

One place Nick basically hates that I like is Milk & Honey. The staff are a bunch of biotches and you have to bus your own table and it's crowded as hell... BUT the food is good and they have patio tables. Also, it's close to our place.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:14 (eighteen years ago)

Ok, I think we should descend on Victory's Banner at 10:30 on Sunday. Who is with me??
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:17 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think there is a "10:30 AM" on Sundays.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:19 (eighteen years ago)

Sarah, I was waiting for you to say something genius like that. Yes, I would love to have brunch. Maybe even a late breakfast.

Jesse, get up and come with us, lazy.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:20 (eighteen years ago)

I was going to say that it's the weekend and I shouldn't have to get up that early on my day off, but the opposite is true. I work weekends, so I am up late on Saturday, so I sleep in (11 or 12) on Sunday and then work in the evening.

Still, I might make it.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:24 (eighteen years ago)

The last, and only, time I was at Ann Sathers we had a waiter who would say he was going to go check on something and then never return. He'd come back to the table next to us, but then just wander away again without giving us any information. He also seemed disturbingly unconcerned about the nasty crustiness that we found on all five of our water glasses.
― sisut, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:31 (eighteen years ago)

ew. Is that the Belmont location, or the Andersonville? I've never had trouble at either, but that's no good at all.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:35 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, how do you feel about the song "Stairway to Heaven"?
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:42 (eighteen years ago)

Belmont location. Also, please make my officemate stop fighting/making up/doing household finances on the phone. We have an agreement to avoid personal calls in the office (she's on her cell phone)...but apparently she's chosen to define this as "any personal phone calls, excluding my girlfriend." Her stupid phone calls with her girlfriend are the reason I suggested the stupid rule.
― sisut, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

Neutral.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

xpost
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:46 (eighteen years ago)

I want some fucking hash browns right fucking now.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:47 (eighteen years ago)

Guys, how do you feel about the song "Stairway to Heaven"?

Man, I have no idea. It's impossible to listen to it without thinking it's cheezy and cliche, but it's also impossible to tell if that's the song's fault.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:50 (eighteen years ago)

Bleh. I'm going to be dozing off today, I just know it. Played a weird show last night at the K1net1c Pl@ygr0und -- we had a 10-minute set early in the evening and then a half-hour set at like midnight -- and then came home and typed up a few Kate Bush reviews and wrote a long e-mail to someone to whom I volunteered to give feedback re his EMP paper on the changing meaning and context of the song "Hallelujah." Crawled into bed at 2:30.

I'm glad that my late-night post didn't prove to be as contentious as I thought it might. I don't want to argue about restaurant service and customer expectations.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

See, I never heard the full song until I was in my 20s so I was just listening to it and was able to think "Man, this is awesome." Except for the lyrics.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

When I am listening to the radio in the car I usually listen to NPR talk programs, but I think I just like the sound of talking. When I hear music I don't like I will change the station and as often as not I will leave it on any station where any talking that is not a Christian--this includes long commercial breaks.

I can't tell you how many times I am surfing the radio, hear commercials and stop, and only when another terrible song comes on a few minutes later do I realize that I have contentedly been listening to ads for 3-5 minutes.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

When I was in 9th grade I shoplifted a cassette of advertisements from the '50s and '60s.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

the solo in that is scorching but the first half of that song.... well, it seemed better when i was in middle school.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:54 (eighteen years ago)

Except for the lyrics.

yes, well... welcome to led zeppelin.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

Oh yeah, we're playing this dealie tonight if anyone wants to hang out. It should be fun, and it's for a good cause:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/152/428187731_7a0542add0_o.jpg
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

And listened to it on my Walkman over and over. In between the beatings by my peers.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:55 (eighteen years ago)

I have high cholesterol.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

My mouth is shaped like a rabbit.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm reading a book about word salads.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

I'm going to work.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

It was the first LZ song I heard and I remember lying in bed and thinking, "huh, I guess he IS an awesome drummer!" Then my drum teacher got me waaaaay into them and it's probably my least-listened to Zep song since then.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:56 (eighteen years ago)

xxxxxxp I should also say that for our midnight set there were maybe 10 people in the room. MAYBE. We didn't promote the show because it was being put on by this organization that promised us they had a built-in crowd (and we're playing the Abbey Pub in a few weeks anyway), but obv. they didn't have enough of one. I actually don't care about that too much. The venue is less than a mile from from my apartment, and I drank for free all night. Still tired, though.

Also: EL found out last night that someone who was in the band she was in in high school (who was, in fact, older) is now in the Decemberists. A guy whose name I recognize, even. (Not C.M.) But even though she likes the band, she doesn't read about music, so she never wondered, "Hey, I wonder if C.F. is the same C.F. I was in that band with?" Instead, she had to find out from her parents, who called her after reading an article in the local newspaper and said "Did you know C.F. is in this band you might know about?"
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yeah same here, I always skip it. It's just a bit... much.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 14:57 (eighteen years ago)

Is anyone else listening to Panda Bear as compulsively as I am?
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:00 (eighteen years ago)

Nope.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

No, listened to the EP, didn't think much of it. I'll stick to the Animal Collective full-lengths, thanks.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

I am listening to John's Stereolab mix, though. It's great.

Unsurprisingly, I like the songs with, like, breakbeats and fusion vamps and funk beats in 7 more than the rockish ones.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:02 (eighteen years ago)

xp I mean, not that it's *bad*, it just feels like filler.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

The Panda Bear album is awesome.

Not so awesome: the building next to ours is evacuating because a health care co. received a bomb threat. This company also has an office in our building, down the hall from my office.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:03 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, Jordan, I figured that that would be true. Most of that mix is what I would make for anyone, but knowing that I was making it for you, I made sure to include stuff like "Parsec" (the drum'n'bass song in 5/4).
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:05 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, indeed.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

I want my cell phone ring to be Omar from the Wire saying "indeed".
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:08 (eighteen years ago)

John, is there one album that has more of that type of thing? Or is it all spread out?
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

Person Pitch > Feels
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:09 (eighteen years ago)

I want my cell phone ring to be Omar from the Wire saying "indeed".

I just want a wav of it that i can embed in threads.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

Person Pitch > Feels

huh... I'd put it up there with it, for sure, but I love Feels too much to proclaim anything better than.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:10 (eighteen years ago)

I finished season 3 last night btw. I knew the big montage was coming but it was still effective.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like Feels.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:12 (eighteen years ago)

John, is there one album that has more of that type of thing? Or is it all spread out?

I'd say your best bets are Emperor Tomato Ketchup and Dots and Loops. The former is funkier and the one that seems to be the critics' favorite, while the latter is more electronic and is my personal favorite. Later albums do stuff like that, too, just not as inspired (you'll notice I have nothing from 2001-06 on the mix). Although the First of the Microbe Hunters EP (from 2000) gets pretty funky, too: the first track is basically an 8-minute vamp.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:16 (eighteen years ago)

I don't like Feels.

I prefer Sung Tongs, it's true, but I kinda love anything AC puts out. I am... how do you say?... a fan.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:17 (eighteen years ago)

I keep clicking on the L O S T thread out of habit, forgetting that I haven't watched last night's episode yet.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:19 (eighteen years ago)

It was a little weak.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:21 (eighteen years ago)

Yep.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

but... "Have You Seen The Words" has kicked off two of my mixes already!
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:22 (eighteen years ago)

oh, i thought we were still talking feels
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:23 (eighteen years ago)

both
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:25 (eighteen years ago)

So. Bored.

Come on, guys. BRUNCH!
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:33 (eighteen years ago)

I want brunch right now. I brought leftover pho fo' lunch but now I am craving something more substantial, like HASH BROWNS.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:34 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.mrbreakfast.com/images/g_10.jpg
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.tsbvi.edu/Education/vmi/images/hash%2520browns.JPG
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:39 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.aues21.dsl.pipex.com//images/DanElectroDJ8.jpg
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:42 (eighteen years ago)

i've got that pedal!
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:44 (eighteen years ago)

We have the Danelectro distortion, tremolo and EQ pedals. I am sad because I actually want to use the EQ pedal but it's messed up and makes weird noises instead of working.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

My homie up in Milwaukee made some perfect mf'n hash browns on Sunday, along with scrambled eggs w/ lobster! Man, the life of a cook is pretty sweet sometimes, especially when your chef GIVES you lobster!
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:47 (eighteen years ago)

Mmmmmmmm.

(where does he work, Dan?)
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

i've got the distortion, vibrato, and flanger.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

but it's messed up and makes weird noises instead of working.

Cool!!
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:48 (eighteen years ago)

xposts Here: http://www.universityclubmil.com/index.cfm?menu=5898&openitem=5898
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

you can get a really cool, shimmery sound from the vibrato by turning the speed way down and putting the intensity at about the 10 o'clock position.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

I think I played a wedding there once. :>
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:49 (eighteen years ago)

before i fixed the ground problem on my jaguar if i had the vibrato plugged in it sounded my amp was breathing. it wouldn't happen if i linked the distortion or flange though.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:51 (eighteen years ago)

chicken salad:

http://www.activemusician.com/images/store/full/MC_DJ15C.jpg
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

Spider solitaire doesn't give me the same thrill it used to. :-(

I haven't played my guitar in such a long time. When we take breaks at practice, I jump on the drums.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:53 (eighteen years ago)

It smells in my office and I'm pretty sure it's not me. There is a cover for a sewage pipe in the middle of the floor.....
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 15:59 (eighteen years ago)

i went and saw two friends band play at the bottle last night, my friend jon was playing a danelectro bass and it made me think of sarah. their songs were good but they couldn't play them. it was their 3rd show ever, their first in over a month and they had practiced exactly once since their last show. too bad, if they could just get through them they'd be a lotta fun.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:02 (eighteen years ago)

and by "couldn't play them" i mean "couldn't play them without one of them making a noticeable mistake at some point". the aural equivelant of a pothole on the freeway.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:04 (eighteen years ago)

I keep telling myself I need to get out more and see more bands. Last weekend I planned to see B0x S0cial (@ Pontiac down the street) and Klax0ns (free at U.O., also in my 'hood), but after our one Grand Rapids show Friday night I was just dead the rest of the weekend. La-ame.

Thanks for thinkin' of me.

I wish it were time to play the show and there weren't 5 1/2 hours of work and then equipment moving before then.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:06 (eighteen years ago)

hey hey, frank kreusi resigned!

this can only be good.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:10 (eighteen years ago)

either that or we had NO IDEA how f'ed up the cta actually is and our collective heads will explode at how bad it will be.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:11 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, I heard that on my way into work. I forget the name of the "high-level" advisor that is going to replace him already...
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:15 (eighteen years ago)

mayor's chief of staff ron huberman is replacing him in the interim.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:16 (eighteen years ago)

actually it doesn't say it's an interim position...
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:18 (eighteen years ago)

Dude actually has a masters in Social Service Administration... hm, might not be a bad thing. How connected do you think it is to the Olympics BS?
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:26 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, my first thought on hearing that Kreusi is out, even after all my "HEAD ON A PLATTER" demands, was "Oh shit, what if this next guy is even worse? Maybe we've made a terrible mistake!" I'll call that Daley Syndrome.

Oh hey FFs, I saw Ben last night walking down Wabash. I said, "Hey, Ben!" and he totally didn't recognize me and I said, "It's Jenny, Nick and Sarah's friend" and then he said OH HEY! and gave me a greeting hug, which I thought was nice (I'm a hugger, if you all haven't noticed), and then we had a really nice two-block long walk and chat. And that's the story of the time I saw Ben walking down Wabash.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:29 (eighteen years ago)

All this brunch talk is making me want some serious brunch food. Brunch is my favorite meal of the week, for sure.

Nick, where did you get your pho?
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:30 (eighteen years ago)

I MADE IT (I linked to the recipe upthread)
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:32 (eighteen years ago)

Ben must have the same thing I have where I can't recognize people out of context.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

BEN TOTALLY DOESN'T REMEMBER ANY OF NICK & SARAH'S FRIENDS EVEN THOUGH WE SEE HIM ALL THE TIME.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

er, xpost.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'm jonesin' for some Tokyo Lunchbox today.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:33 (eighteen years ago)

Mornin' Chicago. This Noisettes album is really floating my boat today.
― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

So, Jenny, can you make brunch Sunday? 10:30 @ VB?
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:34 (eighteen years ago)

I think I can make brunch on Sunday. yay! I love brunch.
― horseshoe, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:35 (eighteen years ago)

:-)
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:36 (eighteen years ago)

You know, I think the brunch buffet is becoming a lost art.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:37 (eighteen years ago)

I usually get plenty of food in a regular brunch meal without spending the extra mula on a buffet though.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:38 (eighteen years ago)

I guess I do usually end up eating myself sick at every buffet ever.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

I am almost certain I can make it to brunch at VB on Sunday at 10:30. I will give you a definite response shortly.

Sorry I missed the pho recipe - It was in the skipped messages no woman's land. I am impressed with your moxie, Nick. For me making pho is like making sushi in that I can't justify the effort when five minutes on a Broadway bus will deposit me in the pho wonderland of the world.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:40 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.hibernianpub.com/index.php%3Fmodule%3Dphotoshare%26func%3Dviewimage%26iid%3D101%26viewkey%3D
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

I should finish that sentence in case it's not clear: ...where I can buy pho that is 1000x better than any I could make at home.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:42 (eighteen years ago)

It was really great. He even set up the goods on the counter, so you could decide what you wanted in your bowl: broth, noodles, scallions, tofu, cilantro, sauces...
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Yay for Grand Mart (and Nick)!

Inspired by John's Easter food, I will try making a Moroccan stew sometime soon.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:45 (eighteen years ago)

Also on tap: KOREAN PANCAKES & THAI SPRING ROLL SALAD.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

We need to take more food photos.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:46 (eighteen years ago)

Like pho photos.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:51 (eighteen years ago)

Phood Photo from last week (reposted from cooking thred): Chana Masala a la me...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/456185978_d344c2cf22.jpg

(sorry for flickr pics, Kevin)
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:52 (eighteen years ago)

Woah! How did it taste?
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

that's ok dan, EVERYTHING is now blocked (except picasa).
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:53 (eighteen years ago)

It tasted very good! Next time I will put more hotness in it because it was not quite enough, but M@ttttt had a package of whole garam masala spices straight from India that he toasted and ground up, then I used them and it was the BOMB.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:55 (eighteen years ago)

I still haven't totally gotten over my aversion to vietnamese food caused by walking down argyle street every day for a summer.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 16:58 (eighteen years ago)

I would, however, in the near future arrange for my diet to consist chiefly of Thai, Middle Eastern, and Indian food.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

TO arrange
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

The Korean pancakes that Kr and I made didn't really turn out, although we're not sure exactly why. They tasted too starchy.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:02 (eighteen years ago)

anyone up for a visit to the hc tonight? i kinda want to go, kinda don't want to go.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

i have this cool book about the chemistry of food and cooking, but i forgot what i was going to look up in it.

anything with freshly toasted/ground garam masala sounds AWES.
― JuliaA, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

Julia, you should have smelled the kitchen while he was doing that and I was browning the onions! HEAVEN
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:08 (eighteen years ago)

That looks good, Dan. Tomatoey?

Lunch: meatloaf & salami sandwich w/tomato soup, sandwich cookie (sandwich filling = frosting). One of these days I will start eating like a healthy person again.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:09 (eighteen years ago)

It contained 4 tomatoes, but I mistakenly pulverized them into sauce (basically) instead of just chopping them up. This meant a lot longer cooking time but it came out great in the end. The beans needed extra time as it was, they were a little raw to start out with.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

I mean, a sandwich really doesn't require a dessert sandwich, WTF.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:11 (eighteen years ago)

was it a very involved recipe, dan?
― JuliaA, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:13 (eighteen years ago)

free lunch: mini burgers from sullivans and magical salad
― coco, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:18 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, pretty involved. Not hard, just a lot of steps... Infusing veg oil with bay leaf and crushed red pepper, browning lots of onion in the oil, then in with the tomatoes, garlic, garam masala, coriander, chili, cumin, beans, and some water. Then lots and lots and lots of simmering/reduction (I actually had to add about 2-3 cups water along the way) until it was thick enough and the beans were cooked through, and chopped fresh cilantro at the end. All in all, about 4.5 hours of work/attention.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:19 (eighteen years ago)

MAGIC salad???
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:21 (eighteen years ago)

it disappears!
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:22 (eighteen years ago)

It's not magic unless you can make it reappear.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:23 (eighteen years ago)

xp

that seems to be the case with a lot of indian recipes...lots of spices and simmering. we made an aloo ghobi in my apartment a few weeks back that was good, but in the end it was concluded that the recipe wasn't worth the work.

i need to get me some garlic pickle from devon street. instant spicy indian goodness on rice.
― JuliaA, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yeah I guess you're right. If you saw a woman in half and can't put her back together, it's not magic.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:25 (eighteen years ago)

Voice of experience?
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:27 (eighteen years ago)

"This isn't magic."

:|
B|

"It's murder."
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:28 (eighteen years ago)

magical dressing i should say that has blue cheese in it (but not blue cheese dressing)

i just finished eating it was wonderful

there is also cheesecake (which I love) but someone called me "fat........tire" today at work. He said he forgot the name of the beer but the "fat" portion hung out there for a while. i dont think i like my new nickname
― coco, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:30 (eighteen years ago)

you should punch him, and then go have a piece of cheesecake.
― JuliaA, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:32 (eighteen years ago)

Why was he calling you Fat Tire anyway? I regret not drinking a FT last weekend, I don't see it around here much.

(nb u r not fat)
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:34 (eighteen years ago)

"Fat Tire"? He's calling a girl "Fat Tire"? Is he not from this planet? WTF?
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:37 (eighteen years ago)

"Say there, Baboon Butt. What?! It's an affectionate nickname!"
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:38 (eighteen years ago)

He knows I like Fat Tire but we have not gone out for beers in a while so why start now?

i think he is gone for the day, but he will most certainly pay for this when I see him next
― coco, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:48 (eighteen years ago)

I KNOW! That is what I told him!
― coco, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

I had a fat tire last week at Green Eye.

I can't hc it up because of the show we're playing. We're supposed to go on pretty early though (9?), so if anyone wanted, they could come to our show then go to hc. *cough cough* If they wanted...
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:49 (eighteen years ago)

where are you playing?

i probably won't be going out because i can either afford cigarettes or i can grab a couple beers but i can't do both ;_;
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

Darkroom.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 17:56 (eighteen years ago)

Guys it's getting nice outside.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

YES YES YES
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

Like I just went outside to move my car and I didn't wear my jacket and yet I didn't freeze.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:07 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, very. I just took a long lunch walk up to 55th and back, the sun is great.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:08 (eighteen years ago)

shit, you're playing at darkroom? what time? the sound there was surprisingly good to me.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

PLUS IT'S RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET FROM MY LOCAL.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:12 (eighteen years ago)

I thought Darkroom was a dancey club? It sure seemed like it the one time I was dragged there.

xpost stop it you guys are tempting me
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:13 (eighteen years ago)

dan, normally it is but on thursday's they have decent rock bands. i saw h3adache city there with submarine races. i believe the night ended with jered from the ponys sliding across the floor on his knees playing air guitar. it was like something out of footloose.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:15 (eighteen years ago)

It's a nice room. We played there once a couple of years ago on what had to have been the coldest day of the year. One of the bands cancelled. Literally the only people we played for were Jody and Joren Nueva Cat, Ben's gf Amy, the other band and the staff of the Darkroom.

It was also a notable show because we had a female soundguy. This was the only time this has happened to me.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:37 (eighteen years ago)

is a female sounguy analagous to a male soundgal?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:39 (eighteen years ago)

Isn't Sarah's friend Sarah a soundguy? I think she did sound for MDBB once (at one of our worst shows ever).

xpost, all soundpeople are soundguys regardless of sex
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

I think Nick means he had both male and female organs.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:40 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Yep, she is.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

Also, tusks and a trunk. A female soundguy pachyderm.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:41 (eighteen years ago)

soundgal
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:44 (eighteen years ago)

soundbabe
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

soundbroad -- not to be confused with the soundboard in front her. The broad is behind the board.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:45 (eighteen years ago)

One of the best ways ever to fuck with a soundguy is to mime talking into the microphone like it doesn't work, then make confused faces and pointing gestures at the mic.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:47 (eighteen years ago)

That's a recipe for feedback.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:50 (eighteen years ago)

Our favorite soundguy is this older guy named Gary who used to work at Gunth3r Murphy's but now works at B3at Kitchen. He's just really sarcastic and he's constantly complaining about some other show he worked where the bands all brought Marshall stacks to play some tiny bar and he's really grizzled and he's one of those people that is really negative all the time but in a way where it seems like he's actually a pretty together guy who just thinks it's really funny to be miserable about everything. He's really entertaining. The thing is, I don't think he's a very good soundguy.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:56 (eighteen years ago)

All-time crankiest occupations:

1) ????
2) soundguy
3) studio engineer
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 18:59 (eighteen years ago)

1) crank shaft manufacturer
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

rimshot.jpg
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:00 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/40/MPW-20391
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:01 (eighteen years ago)

There is a soundgal that works at the Empty Bottle and Schubas (or maybe she was just filling in at Schubas with Le Frenchie was on vacation). I forget her name. She's really nice, though.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:02 (eighteen years ago)

Frenchy at Schuba's = "F@b"

When the FFs were just starting out, we practiced a few times in his basement, which he rents out as a rehearsal space. The last time we were supposed to go there, we found out we had gotten our own space so we just didn't show up at his space. However, there was a $20 fee if you didn't cancel before an hour before your reserved time. Sarah kept trying to go back and pay him the cancellation fee but I wouldn't do it. Flash-forward to last year when we played at Schuba's, Frenchy was our sound guy and we got really paranoid he would recognize us and a) demand his $20 or b) intentionally fuck with the sound to "get back at us." It was pretty ludicrous.
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:05 (eighteen years ago)

Jordan, don't tease.
― Laurel, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Haha. REVERB REVENGE!
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Our sound guy in Grand Rapids last week told us to call him "Hillbilly."
― n/a, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:07 (eighteen years ago)

Chev Chelios looks like sissy compared to Chris Chelios, 'specially if you take that gun out of his hand.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

Do you have a bald British dude crush, Laurel?
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:08 (eighteen years ago)

#1 crankiest profession is surely chef, no?
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:09 (eighteen years ago)

they're cutting the grass on campus for the first time this year. i stood in the middle of the quad and just breathed deep for a while after i finished my cigarette. made me feel pretty good.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

I have a Jason Statham crush, which I assume is what you meant. That movie sucked, though, even by my standards.
― Laurel, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:10 (eighteen years ago)

dammit, i really want to go out tonight but am broke broke BRO-EK.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:16 (eighteen years ago)

I don't blame you, he makes bald & stubbly work for him like many men only dream about.

I actually thought the movie was a pretty good time, but then again I saw it on the day my ex moved out and I spent all day in the theater.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:17 (eighteen years ago)

I am listening to fake fictions, and I think I like this band. Have you heard of them?
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:19 (eighteen years ago)

where did i read that the bald-dude look was the combover for the new millenium? because that's fairly otm.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

nah, because the bald dude look isn't nearly as hilarious.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:20 (eighteen years ago)

but it is though, that's kinda the point.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

if you are going bald, esp at a young-ish age, it is the only dignified way to deal with it.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:21 (eighteen years ago)

:(

(I say this as a future bald man)

xpost, 8080
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

god you people....
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:22 (eighteen years ago)

You could always go the Mr. Hooper route, I suppose.

http://www.wrathofkahn.com/archives/hooper.jpg
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:23 (eighteen years ago)

they're cutting the grass on campus for the first time this year. i stood in the middle of the quad and just breathed deep for a while after i finished my cigarette.

That would have potentially put me in the hospital. The breathing deep of the cut grass, not so much the cigarette.

where did i read that the bald-dude look was the combover for the new millenium? because that's fairly otm.

I have said that often, possibly on ILX, but I did not come up with it myself.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:24 (eighteen years ago)

dudes i need a hobby.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

one that doesn't involve pouring beer and/or gin down my gullett.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:28 (eighteen years ago)

The difference is that I do not love the combover.

Kevin: Whittling. Will keep your hands busy.
― Laurel, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

I could show you how to crochet. It's very soothing.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:29 (eighteen years ago)

I need more toys in my home to keep my hands busy. Like, a Rubik's Cube and such.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:30 (eighteen years ago)

Topless Latchhook (nsfw)
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, I didn't even know you played guitar, so that's something.

This thread is killing me http://www.ilxor.com:8080/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=60&threadid=5847#unread
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:31 (eighteen years ago)

There's a guy I work with who has a really sad combover. It sort of epitomizes everything that I find depressing about him: he's been working for the company for 25 years and only got promoted to supervisor (i.e., a non-hourly position) like two years ago. He also talks very slowly and deliberately.
― jaymc, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:32 (eighteen years ago)

Knitting/crochet is brilliant for giving you something to do with your hands, plus hats for everybody!

I'm going to learn how to knit one of these days soon. I'm kind of excited about it.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

i just remembered what i wanted to investigate and i just looked into it but it's not really a hobby.

xpost- knitting would either be really awesome or i'd drive myself absolutely insane.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:33 (eighteen years ago)

omg giant isopods now have a permanent place in my nightmares.

xp to Kevin - yeah, there's an element of obsession to it at times that is both scary and comforting. Like, "Wow, I sure am kind of obsessive almost to the point of mania about this, but it's yarn! Yarn is benign and wonderful!"
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:35 (eighteen years ago)

ooh! The bunny!
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:36 (eighteen years ago)

jenny it's more along the lines that if it isn't something i totally love i'll wind up getting really frustrated. but then i still have this compulsion to finish something when i start it so i wind up just compounding my frustrations.

god i wish the weekend were here. NEED DRINKS ASAP.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:38 (eighteen years ago)

Your new hobby has arrived:
http://www.winnipeg.ca/cms/animal/images/dog6.jpg
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:43 (eighteen years ago)

Best idea ever!
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

GET A DOG AND KNIT A SWEATER FOR IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:44 (eighteen years ago)

Building mailboxes for dogs!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

OMG THAT DOG
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

check out that little mailbox man's cheeks. they're plump.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

Breed dogs for mailboxes!
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

i have been resisting getting a dog because with each passing weekend it's more obvious that i can barely take care of myself. i was supposed to go out to san diego july 3-8 to see my dog and whats her name but now that is up in the air and i'm all ;_; because i was really getting excited to see my little man.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:45 (eighteen years ago)

I think having a young man to take care of will help you substantially in taking care of yourself. You will have no choice because you would never ever let that tiny man down.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.westcoaster.net/images/updates/060306/060306-oscar001.jpg

Dog has seen better days.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

i did look after my upstairs neighbor's dog and his sister (the dog of a mutual friend of ours) last sunday, it was fun having them out in the back yard playing fetch and crap like that.

xpost- can't take that chance. ;_;
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

I don't know about that Amanda, that's one step away from having children because yr lonely/bored.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

i have been resisting getting a dog because with each passing weekend it's more obvious that i can barely take care of myself.

This is why I have cats. Cats are not hobbies, though. They are... objects.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:48 (eighteen years ago)

Cats are bros.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

But I think Kevin would be a good dog dad. Also, the weather is about to be wonderful tous les temps, so you can take him with you to sit out on bar patios and back decks and parks...
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

I'd get one but it's a big no-no for our apartment and Jonesy would be PISSED. Before too awful long I will have one, though. Either a beagle or a little mutt dog, I don't really care about breeds as long as the thing's hair is short.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:49 (eighteen years ago)

xp - Eh, not necessarily. There are lots of loving animals out there who need homes. If it helps you and it helps the animal, no one gets hurt and everyone is cared for the end. I mean, it worked for me. 9 years later, I'm taking better care of myself and I have an old cocker spaniel who knew me when.

ps i am allergic to cats and i met my dog at a party, where someone asked, "do you want him?" and i impulsively said YES.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:50 (eighteen years ago)

also, i don't want to be a single father. i know it works for some people but not for me.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Re: cats, I can get home on a Friday and be like "What is up, dog. I'm splitting for the weekend, y'all take care of the place for me, alright? Thx."

xpost
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:51 (eighteen years ago)

Kevin, if you got a wee dogster you could take him to the dog beach and we could all play with him!
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

yeah, I don't want to have to take an animal out to poop and have no one to shuffle that duty onto every now and again.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

i couldn't take him to the beach, dogs aren't allowed on the el or bus ;_;
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:52 (eighteen years ago)

You call your cat 'dog?'

xpost - you could walk or bike there. You need a doggie bike basket.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, I got Sample the Cat via an impulsive response to a "free cat" email at my old job and now we're BFFs 4lyf.

xp - if he's a wee man, you can put him in a tote bag and nobody will ever know!
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:53 (eighteen years ago)

I can see what you mean. But someday you may meet a canine man who needs your love and it's always good to have an open mind about it...

I kept Junie illegally in my apartment for 6 months until I could move out. No one even knew he was there, or at least they never said anything.

ps re: beaches that is why my dudes and i live within 2 blocks of the beach!
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Obviously what is happening here is that I want a wee dog to carry to the dog beach in a tote bag.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

i think what i need immediately is a book. i need something else to look forward to instead of going out and socializing.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:54 (eighteen years ago)

Who wants to go live with Kevin?

I do! I do!
http://www.dogdoright.com/images/untitledma10362900-0002_000.jpg
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

I agree that going out of town when you have a dog is a major PITA.

OMGOMGOMGOMG dog armpits are the cutest things since their chins.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

You call your cat 'dog?'

Hell yes, I do.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

!!! woo little dude!
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

The obvious solution to the beach transpo problem is to get a dog with his own car.

http://media3.guzer.com/pictures/small_dog_driver.jpg
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

GISing "small dog" is the most fulfilling thing I've done all day.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:56 (eighteen years ago)

Wow, Kevin, I think Own Dog could be the best thing you do all year?
― Laurel, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

Or it was until this:

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/ap/img/DAR10203270803.jpg
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:58 (eighteen years ago)

AHHHH that dog has hair on his fur!
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

Reason #1 to be single dog father: it may attract potential dog mothers.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

OTM
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

just sayin'
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 19:59 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.smalldogcarriers.net/images/home_photo_1.jpg
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:00 (eighteen years ago)

You'd think the ladies would like a sensitive cat-loving dude, but you'd be wrong most of the time.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:01 (eighteen years ago)

I took Stella (k@tie's cousin's dog, whom some of you have met) for a walk once and got more lady attention in that half hour than in probably the month prior. Stella being a cutie pie probably had a lot to do with it.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

http://mfrost.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/puuuug.jpg
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:02 (eighteen years ago)

I have a habit of saying hello to dogs that I pass on the street while completely ignoring their humans.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

death by pug cuteness
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

Cat people are not necessarily sensitive. Some... ahem... people I know very much appreciate a cat's emotional aloofness, and the fact that cats will often totally ignore you for hours on end. Unless it's cold, in which case they are right there with warm fur ready for you.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:03 (eighteen years ago)

that's why i don't like cats
too aloof
too cool
dogs are not cool and they poop outside and don't care
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

my dream doggie:

http://www.dogbreedinfo.com/images17/MalShiSofie8Months6Pounds.JPG
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:04 (eighteen years ago)

hi there mr buttons
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

I am sure most of our cats would poop outside if we let them out there... Right before they were mauled by 9000 rats because they're wimpy from living indoors forever.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:05 (eighteen years ago)

Gurl, Sample is neither aloof (she runs to the door to greet strangers and will jump on your lap as soon as look at you) nor cool (she falls off things all the time). I find that indoor cats are pretty loony tunes friendly (except Acker who is Satan) but indoor/outdoor cats, who have experienced a world outside the domicile, are pretty much over human companionship.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Dobler is another excellent example of v. friendly cat.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:06 (eighteen years ago)

Our cats aren't very cool. I mean, in a good way...
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

well, ok. being allergic to cats has limited the spectrum of Cats I've Known. i agree that they're cute and all, but dogs are more to my liking.

that's it. i am taking carl for a walk. my man needs exercise (and, frankly, after three days of eating mountains of lentils, so do i)
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

hi there mr buttons

heh.

No, I want a girl doggie and she will be Miss Wiggins.

Dobler is another excellent example of v. friendly cat.

True. She's a sweetie and does demand to have her ears scratched. But I still don't have to walk her. :)
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:07 (eighteen years ago)

Well, Lucy is pretty cool...
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/1/126356462_6dbd60ab43_m.jpg
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/34/73585395_b560ff4cc8_m.jpg
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

http://lh5.google.com/image/kevin.rys/RifMLHVNIcI/AAAAAAAAADQ/hphgNJAymfE/s400/C%3A%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5Cvhahinrysk%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5Cfamily%20portrait-%20christmas%202004.jpg
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:09 (eighteen years ago)

Awww... :-(
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

What's his name?
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

I like walking them. Except for in the winter, when I hate walking them. But it's worth it because they're good boys and they need someone to help them with doors and whatnot.

awww you can barely see that guy but for his little grey snozzle.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

linus bucko jones.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:10 (eighteen years ago)

Don't get me wrong, I totally want a dog. I just don't want to live in a zoo, which is what would happen if I added one more little animicule into our mix.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

Cute name too! Omg!
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:11 (eighteen years ago)

that was the day after me and jen split up. i was still in shock at the time.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:12 (eighteen years ago)

grief kills thread.
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, I don't know how you did it, I could not have been in a pic if I were in that situation.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:18 (eighteen years ago)

Dude, I don't know how you did it,

i was still in shock at the time.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:19 (eighteen years ago)

Oooh right sry
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:20 (eighteen years ago)

was it The Departed we were watching the other night, where he shoots the guy in the leg, gets information out of him, and the guy screams, "I thought I was supposed to go into shock, but this still fucking hurts!"
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

it was xmas break, cold as fuck, i had to stay in the apartment. it all worked out eventually. i miss the dog something fierce though.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

Get a doppleganger.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:21 (eighteen years ago)

the women always get the kids. :(
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:22 (eighteen years ago)

i don't think i could get another chi, i'd probably go with a pug or boston terrier.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:25 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I wasn't going to say but Linus looks like the only person who isn't dead in that photo.

XP PUG PUG PUG PUG
― Laurel, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah I wasn't going to say but Linus looks like the only person who isn't dead in that photo.

That's known as "Chicago Winter Face"
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

it was a hard day. our one tradition was taking a family photo on xmas and we didn't get to it that christmas. it was really rough on all of us, even linus knew something was up. trust me, he's usually much more photogenic. i wish i had more pictures of him here.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:28 (eighteen years ago)

sarah/nick what time is the show tonight?
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:29 (eighteen years ago)

Stella bella is pretty charming, as long as she's not jumping on people or impolitely forcing toys into strangers' private parts....which is to say, she's charming approximately 12-25% of her waking hours. But she is adorable. I once went into Walgreens while on a walk with Stella and my brother, he said that in the 6 minutes I was gone 4 (separate) attractive ladies came over to talk to him.
― sisut, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:32 (eighteen years ago)

why did i never replace any of my buzzcocks records? 'cause i'd really like to go home and listen to the buzzcocks.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Doors at 8. Almost 100% sure we go on at 9.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:37 (eighteen years ago)

cool. i'd say it's doubtful i'll go but maybe. put it at like 40%?

in the mean time, who else wants a drink?

http://lh4.google.com/image/kevin.rys/Rh6uGxKyhyI/AAAAAAAAACM/3nW-T7JztJ0/s144/C%3A%5CDocuments%20and%20Settings%5Cvhahinrysk%5CMy%20Documents%5CMy%20Pictures%5Cdrinking_duck-thumb.jpg
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:45 (eighteen years ago)

kevin i will send you buzzcocks if you want. no one should go without
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:46 (eighteen years ago)

http://static.zoovy.com/img/handsnpaws/W152-H180-Bffffff/v_preppy_dog_sweaters/rockin_skull_tee.jpg
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

i'll survive, thanks que. i'll listen to the penetrators instead, which, unfortuneately, always sounds better after a couple of pops.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:47 (eighteen years ago)

http://cyoes.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/beerwinewatercat.jpg
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:48 (eighteen years ago)

i'll bet that cat made a fortune in tips that night.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:52 (eighteen years ago)

^^ the official mascot of thirsty thursdays ^^
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

why are those beers unopened???????
― Mr. Que, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:54 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.thepetcare.net/images/dogs/43/tb_main.jpg

I like springer spaniels most of all. I took care of one for a month once and it ran like crazy. My uncle had one, and you could throw a stick out into the middle of a lake and she would go get it.

The first page of google image search for springer spaniels links both to the White House and Susan Orlean's personal page.
― Eazy, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:55 (eighteen years ago)

in the mean time, who else wants a drink?

Damn it, I do! But I'm not s'posed toooo...

Also I have Singles Going Steady on vinyl, if ya wanna borrow it or something. I haven't listened to it in a long time.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 20:56 (eighteen years ago)

I kilt thred ded ;_;
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

Still want beers tho.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:08 (eighteen years ago)

no, i'm just trying to figure out how i can afford both cigarettes and beer without incurring any overdraft fees.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:09 (eighteen years ago)

er, xpost.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

I realized I've had some serious overdrafts on my checking account recently, I'd just been going along my merry way. Somebody's gotta tighten up.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

xpost Dude, I have totally smoked a pack of your cigs, I will get you some.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:10 (eighteen years ago)

And don't give me any back-talk.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

save yr money dan, i ran out a while ago and i need nicotine asap. i'm taking the train to division, going to the chase at milwaukee & ashland then hitting the slashie just east of paulina for smokes.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:12 (eighteen years ago)

i wonder how long it takes to process an atm withdrawal? i mean, i get paid at midnight, if i took the $$$ out after business hours would they process it immediately and would i incur a fee?

i really don't think i'm willing to find out but i am curious.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

I think you would be ok.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

now that i think about it, there should be like a quarter pack of smokes somewhere in my apartment. i forgot to bring mine to work the other day.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:14 (eighteen years ago)

Very good question... I know mine is only instantaneous if I use one of my bank's ATMs, so that might be something to consider.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

julia has my smokes, i know she is enjoying them. :(
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:15 (eighteen years ago)

yeah but i'm not gonna chance it. if i had plans maybe i would but just so i can stop off and have a couple of beers is definitely not worth the risk.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:16 (eighteen years ago)

Also in the course of dealing with my debit card theft nonsense I learned that all the fees for using non-bank-owned ATMs come out in one lump sum at the end of the month, which I thought was kind of strange.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:17 (eighteen years ago)

you guys i have a crush on wanda jackson circa 1965

http://www.actionpackedevents.com/Wanda%20sings%20for%20capitol.jpg
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:18 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think it's gonna work out.
― KitCat, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:22 (eighteen years ago)

i'll bet the microphone has aged better than she has.

xp
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:23 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.lauralevine.com/biography/large/wanda.jpg
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:24 (eighteen years ago)

That's one hell of a shirt.
― dan m, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:25 (eighteen years ago)

It's one hell of a helmet.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:26 (eighteen years ago)

what a drag it is getting old
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:27 (eighteen years ago)

Haha, you guys, so I'm feeling all nostalgic today, and I found a review of my high school metal band still online:

http://www.stormbringerwebzine.co.uk/Reviews/D/DemoTapes.html

scroll down to 'Waiting for Dawn' lol
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

There's a good heavy guitar riff.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:33 (eighteen years ago)

i'll bet she could still show you a thing or two kenan. don't knock it 'til you try it.
― chicago kevin, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

i'm not sure anyone got my pun about "drag"
― kenan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 21:34 (eighteen years ago)

lay off the old ladies, whippersnappers! jesus. you're gonna get old and wrinkly some day too. at least she's WANDA JACKSON.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

Hey, I think she'd look alright if it wasn't for that hair.
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:04 (eighteen years ago)

holy shit wanda jackson is a treat
― river wolf, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

and sorry, kenan, for being rude on the gun thread. i was cranky and tired.
― river wolf, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:05 (eighteen years ago)

omg kenan your college photo
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:10 (eighteen years ago)

i have never been so glad that there were no digital cameras when i was in college.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:15 (eighteen years ago)

When did digital cameras become omnipresent anyway?
― Jordan, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:19 (eighteen years ago)

i dunno, 5 years ago? i mean, if we're talking omnipresence. they existed before that but not eeeeeveryone had one. now everyone has one or they're getting one for their birthday this year.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:30 (eighteen years ago)

this is an obvious "what the fart do i know about when anything became omnipresent" answer, since i honestly have no idea. i just know when they seemed to become omnipresent for me.
― La Lechera, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:35 (eighteen years ago)

I bought a digital camera in 1998 in an attempt to cure a broken heart with gadget-retail therapy. It was $259 and like one megapixel or something and ran on regular batteries and when I brought it out to bars, it was still pretty novel.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

If that helps at all. I think that was pre-omnipresence.
― Jenny, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:43 (eighteen years ago)

Jenny gave me that camera. I used it for about 2 days, but it died soon after that.

Can someone make a new thread? I'm really sick of this one.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

And I'm not feeling very clever.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:47 (eighteen years ago)

Also in the course of dealing with my debit card theft nonsense I learned that all the fees for using non-bank-owned ATMs come out in one lump sum at the end of the month, which I thought was kind of strange.

There was that one from the Green Mill that showed up about 6 weeks after I made the withdrawal.
― Jesse, Thursday, 19 April 2007 22:53 (eighteen years ago)

Attn: Jenny
Re: jam bands

:D

_E
― river wolf, Friday, 20 April 2007 01:10 (eighteen years ago)

How can you be sick of a thread?
― Jeff, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:00 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have a single picture of me when I was in college.
― Jeff, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

I wasn't there for very long.
― Jeff, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:49 (eighteen years ago)

I've dredged a few up, but I'm not a picture person. They all come from other people and I remember seeing them, then ask for them later.
― dan m, Friday, 20 April 2007 02:55 (eighteen years ago)

you're gonna get old and wrinkly some day too.

And when I do, I will probably happily have sex with old women who have so much makeup on they are are starting to look like drag queens, but why rush things?

omg kenan your college photo

an old ID photo. I wish I had a shot of me with a long goatee and a do-rag! (PS I am not kidding.)

When did digital cameras become omnipresent anyway?

Depends on the college, but I guess total saturation was acheived about three or four years ago, even in the filthiest state schools.
― kenan, Friday, 20 April 2007 03:11 (eighteen years ago)

I don't have a single picture of me when I was in college.

You're in college now. Do what Evan does--post pics of yourself as you are now.
― Jesse, Friday, 20 April 2007 04:27 (eighteen years ago)

I was sick of this thread because if I missed over 50 messages, the conversation here is consistantly compelling enough for me to load ALL unread messages, and with all the images, that was taking way too long. But really, more importantly, when I loaded all the messages it all in italics after a certain point.

Let's not let that happen HERE.
― Jesse, Friday, 20 April 2007 04:35 (eighteen years ago)

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