Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

Oh man....

shut your face, I'm putting a request to fix it

i will agree that the map is awesome

i'm trying to see how many i go through in a day but my eyes are killing me from staring at this monitor.

Jesse, it's funny that you asked for a new thread and now that there is one you have only posted one time.

I'm busy. But it's good to know it's here if I need it.

Ha:

my.barackobama.com/gochicago

Oops, I just posted on the old thread.

oh cool, john... you get to meet Obama! Maybe he'll sit in for a couple of numbers.

hey, where is the N/A Q4 2007 MIX? the people want to know (was there a Q3? i can't remember).

ASK THAT GUY IF HE KNOWS HOW TO PARTY

the answer will be YES

yes. And wink in that way that says, "What I'm saying is, cocaine backstage, and boobs to snort it off of."

If Obama isn't going to get the Democratic nomination, the least he can do is get caught pantsless with powder on his nose and surrounded by freaky freaky bitches.

it worked for marion barry

obama for mayor!

Deej: join aquent. good pay, insurance after four weeks, etc. Give em my name and maybe i'll get a bonus.

-- Eazy, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:45 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Is it easy to join? will knowing you get me in??

Eazy, can you get me in the Masons? Or maybe the Elks or something?

lol or phi beta sigma???

haha i had no idea that was a black fraternity, i just searched for 'sigma fraternity' and it was the first one that came up

Easy if u got writing/editing skillz/portfolio but it's blood in blood out no exceptions and i'm your plus one next time you're an hob vip.

i may make another crossword tonight

eazy whats yr email? do i have it already?

i've got to finish up @ work but i'll hit you up later tonight

I'm writing from my phone anyway i'll write you later.

apparently one of these jokers was going to buy the amp i put on craigslist but he never showed. so i sold it for extra extra cheap to music go round. it's worth it, i'd hate to think i was somehow encouraging that kind of thing.

A giant space squid eating the planet would suit me just fine right about now. Either that or a giant space glass of beer being eaten by my my face.

there was a q3 mix at the end of q3 (july-sept). there will be a q4 mix at the end of q4 (oct-dec). so far there isn't much in q4 that i'm superpsyched about but maybe some good stuff will come out soon.

cococoma record release on 12/11. free show at the bottle. just sayin'.

grrr i got our computer back and they saved most of our files and documents but some programs seem to be gone, including logic audio, which i paid like $300 for back in the day. still have the USB key but can't find the installation CD anywhere. :(

cococoma record release on 12/11. free show at the bottle. just sayin'.

-- chicago kevin, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

O RLY?????

oh yeah.

DUDES IF I KEEP WATCHING THIS SHOW ON WTTW ABOUT THE HISTORY OF FOOD IN CHICAGO I'M GOING TO BLOW MY BRAINS OUT.

AND I CAN'T STOP!!!!

wow, the tootsie roll factory cranks out 66 million tootsie rolls a day.

seriously, i think i'm at a point where i don't need a woman in my life anymore, i need a pastry chef.

speaking of good food, we went to the hopleaf tonight...fries with aioli, onion ring bits with mustard sauce, and CB&J (cashew butter, morbier cheese and fig spread...sounds weird but is so so good). YUM

we also went to the botanic gardens to see the little chicago made of leaves, which was pretty cool, although next time it's freezing out i won't suggest taking the metra there to save money-- stupid idea!

also, about the first image:

"We regret to inform you that we've found an error on the Spicy Red Chicago poster. Specifically, Ukrainian Village is mis-spelled, 'Ukranian'. "

this weekend i think i'm going to devon avenue and do nothing but eat until my colon explodes.

fuck, they're doing italian beef now. i think i need to go for a walk.

johnny's on north ave in elmwood park is the best italian beef i've ever had.

cococoma record release on 12/11. free show at the bottle. just sayin'.

-- chicago kevin, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 7:09 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

O RLY?????

-- gbx, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:11 PM (Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:11 PM) Bookmark Link

not really. the 10th is monday not the 11th.

soon i'll achieve mastery over the gregorian calendar then watch out.

i'd kick a crippled child with cancer in exchange for two hot dogs right now.

really kick him good too. right in the chops.

running start then *POW* uwe von schamann soccer style right in the chimes. you provide the kid, show me the dogs, and i'll do it.

for a hot dog?
i could see doing that for delicious, zesty indian food, but for a hot dog?
please.

hey btw i am sorry i waffled on the bike/amp-driving trade
i just realized i did that.
sorry.

for TWO hot dogs!! TWO!!!

don't worry about the amp, it worked itself out.

still, though...you're talking about a lesser sausage: the frank. that's not worth it just because there are two of them.

you're crazy, you're a crazy person with crazy talk. you're out of my will.

Mr. Beef is open nights now.

Kevin, whenever I read about you and hunger I think about the two of us going to the grand buffet in the strip mall at Ashland and Barry, bringing some newspapers to read and a chess board.

i'm down man! i haven't played chess since 4th grade though and do not remember how to play.

this weekend i think i'm going to devon avenue and do nothing but eat until my colon explodes.

-- chicago kevin, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:58 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

can i come with

i haven't been to devon since i've been back

this weekend i think i'm going to devon avenue and do nothing but eat until my colon explodes.

-- chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 November 2007 02:58 (1 hour ago) Link

went there sunday. zam zam i <3 u

tonight i went to kumas and have finally tasted every burger on the menu

the minsk is :D

tonight i went to kumas and have finally tasted every burger on the menu

-- deej, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:00 PM (Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:00 PM) Bookmark Link

i'm just glad i didn't read that sentence on the cougar thread.

“OUR FAMOUS KUMA BURGER” Bacon, Cheddar, Fried Egg
10

CLASSIC I LIKE THIS ONE A LOT BUT REALLY ITS JUST A BURGER W/ A FRIED EGG ON IT

KAIJO Bacon, Bleu Cheese, Frizzled Onions
10

THIS IS DECENT, NO COMPLAINTS BUT NO RAVES

BLACK SABBATH Blackening Spice, Chili, Pepper Jack, Red Onion
10

THIS IS XLNT LIKE A HAMBURGER SLOPPY JOE

YOB Smoked Gouda, Bacon, Roasted Red Peppers, Roasted Garlic Mayo
10

THIS IS NICE TOO, GOOD BALANCE BETWEEN THE PEPPERS AND THE GARLIC MAYO

IRON MAIDEN Avocado, Cherry Peppers, Pepper Jack, Chipotle Mayo
10

I HAD THIS TONIGHT, WAS NOT BLOWN AWAY BUT THE CHERRY PEPPERS DO GIVE A NEEDED ZING

SLAYER Pile of fries topped with a ½ lb. Burger, Chili, Cherry Peppers, Andouille, Onions, Jack Cheese, and Anger
12

THIS IS A MONSTER. DELICIOUS BUT U HAVE TO BE READY TO DEAL WITH THE ANDOUILLE. ALSO THE ANGER

NEUROSIS Cheddar, Swiss, Sautéed Mushrooms, Caramelized Onions, Horseradish Mayo
10

THIS WAS VERY VERY SOLID. B+ BUT I LOVE SAUTEED SHROOMS

METALLICA Buffalo Sauce, Bacon, Bleu Cheese Dressing
10

THIS IS TOP FIVE MATERIAL MAYBE, YOU DONT NORMALLY THIS WITH BEEF BUT IT WORKED HERE

MELVINS Fresh Basil, Prosciutto, Mozzarella, Tomato, Onion
10

THIS IS IN MY TOP THREE, MAYBE TOP TWO. FLAVORS ARE INCREDIBLE!!! GET THIS

CLUTCH Cheddar, Swiss, Jack, Smoked Gouda
10

THIS WAS PRETTY NASTY, WAY TOO MUCH DAMN CHEESE. PROBABLY AT THE BOTTOM OF THE STACK

MASTODON BBQ Sauce, Cheddar, Bacon, Frizzled Onions
10

PRETTY STRAIGHTFORWARD BUT ITS HARD TO FUCK UP A CLASSIC

LED ZEPPELIN Pulled Pork, Bacon, Cheddar, Pickles
11

I WAS LESS OF A FAN OF THIS, I THINK ZEPPELIN DESERVE BETTER, BUT ITS NOT TERRIBLE OR ANYTHING, LIKE THE CLUTCH

JUDAS PRIEST Bacon, Bleu Cheese Dressing with Apples, Walnuts, and dried cranberries
10

THIS WAS OUR DESERT BURGER TONIGHT. IMPECCABLE!!! A TOP FIVE BURGER FOR SURE. I NEVER WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THESE INGREDIENTS TO WORK TOGETHER AS WELL AS THEY DO

MOTORHEAD Goat Cheese, Kalamata Olives, Oregano, Tzatziki, Onion, Tomato
10

ANOTHER TOP FIVE, IF YOU LIKE GREEK FOOD, AS I DO, THEN U WILL LOVE THE MOTORHEAD!!!!

MAYHEM Sliced Jalapenos, Pancetta, Pepper Jack, Gardinera Mayo
10

I BARELY REMEMBER THIS, BUT NOT IN THAT GOOD 'BECAUSE IT ERASED MY BRAIN'-ALCOHOL RELATED WAY, MORE IN THAT SOLID BUT FORGETTABLE WAY

DARK THRONE Chipotle Peppers, Goat Cheese, Fresh Pico de Gallo
10

THIS IS AN AMAZING BURGER, IF U LIKE SPICE U HAVE TO GET THIS ONE. POSSIBLE TOP 3

GOBLIN COCK Bacon, Cheddar Cheese, ¼lb. Vienna Hot Dog, Tomatoes, Onion, Neon Green Relish, Sport Peppers, Pickles, Celery Salt Mustard
12

THIS IS PRETTY LOL BUT ALSO PRETTY ONE-NOTE GIMMICKY. I DON'T THINK I NEED TO EAT IT EVER AGAIN BUT IT WOULD BE WEIRD TO SAY ITS 'BAD' THAT IS KIND OF THE POINT

MINSK Pastrami, Swiss Cheese, Sauerkraut, Brown Mustard
12

5/5 TASTE EXPLOSIONS!!! I LOVE A REUBEN AND IF YOU DO ALSO THEN GET THIS BURGER, THE PASTRAMI AND KRAUT ARE LOADED ON THIS SHIT. DELICIOUS

I MEANT DESSERT BURGER NOT DESERT BURGER LOL

omg they are named after metal bands, i never knew

mevlins burger w/prosciutto sounds like the best food in the world

Of course bacon and bleu cheese and fruit go together, they are basically my favorite pizza toppings.

SEE ALSO SALADS

oh man i would kill for a mastodon or a zeppelin right now. fuuuuuuck, pulled pork.

deej, this is good work, thank you for the information.

i am MOS DEF going to Kuma's when i'm in town in february. right now i'm aiming at the dark throne, the motorhead, or the melvins. previously i was going to get the iron maiden or the kuma burger.

http://chicagoburgerproject.blogspot.com/ i check this blog often because i like how they do.

i'm glad they liked Hot Chocolate, i still think about the burger i had at that place sometimes

johnny's on north ave in elmwood park is the best italian beef i've ever had.

Ha, my dad grew up in Elmwood Park, and I've heard my uncles talk reverently about Johnny's.

your dad is the best italian beef i've ever had

oh man i would kill for a mastodon or a zeppelin right now. fuuuuuuck, pulled pork.

-- chicago kevin, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 11:23 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

there is a sandwich called the Pig Destroyer that is just pulled pork

nom?

Katie and Jessie = bonded.

who is jessie?

please tell me you didn't misspell your own name

god you're picky.

I can't believe Minsk are already deserving of a burder.

FFs appearance on Chic-a-go-go is finally available on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTbC4m-7j2s

Is the awesome map available printed anywhere?

Of a "burger", christ I'm sleepy.

Ed: http://orkposters.com/chicago.html

Ta

I'm back again in december btw, anyone up for pre-christmas beers? I promise not to have sunstroke this time.

anyone up for pre-christmas beers?

pleased to meet you Ed.

I saw this ad on the subway today for a hospital with new, roomier MRI machines. It showed a big man about to go into it with his hands behind his head, straight relaxin'. It said they can accomodate people up to 550 pounds.

Fatties be MRIin'

i love ben's fake drumming in that video. nick, that's a good look for you.

thanks dawg

I had a big milestone this morning: this was the first time I have ever fallen asleep oin the train and missed my stop on the way to work. Awesome!

I woke up at Randolph. I get off at Clark and Division. I got a good extra 15 minutes of sleep in there.

Better Randolph than Chinatown.

lucky that you actually get to sit down on the train in the morning!

The trains have been really empty the past couple of days. Maybe I'm just lucky. But even on a regular day, you can usually get a seat if you are getting on north of Sheridan.

yeah, I get a seat more often than not. North siders represent what? The butt.

I get a seat maybe half the time when I first get on the train, but if I don't, I'm usually able to score one at Belmont, when riders switch to the Red Line.

Also that Chic-A-G0-G0 video was rad!

i've told you about the time i left the h0liday club at 2 in the morning and got back to my house at 7 because i kept "falling asleep" on the train, right?

Why is "falling asleep" in quotes? Were you actually not falling asleep, but giving the treatment to Rebecca De Mornay, Risky Business stylee?

can someone tell me about this holiday train? it's supposed to be on the blue line today. i don't want to miss out!

"falling asleep" after being at the h0liday club for four hours with a bartender who doesn't charge me.

holiday train has a couple cars done up in lights with hoiday ornamentation on and in them. usually accompanied by screaming kids. i got caught on it on the green line once a couple years ago, i try to avoid it.

It went past the Clark/Lake elevated platform while I was waiting for the Orange line the other day, but it didn't stop. I don't really know anything about it, other than it looked pretty funny with no-one but an operator on it.

Ben Tausig's puzzle here is really good.

I'm guessing that's the same as his Reader puzzle, in which case I'm going to save it for the el this evening.

The holiday train is fine. But the Blessed Train is the BEST train.

I joined the Y yesterday. I'm a little apprehensive 'cause it was totally crowded and cramped in the gym afterwork, but my last gym was run by Xtian fundamentalists folks, so at least I'm not supporting evil.

Also it's way cheaper.

but my last gym was run by Xtian fundamentalists folks, so at least I'm not supporting evil.

what does the c in ymca stand for again?

Yeah, but it's not so Christian these days, right? They probably wouldn't refuse to support an AIDs walk?

Jordan, there's no need to feel down.
I say, Jordan, pick yourself off the ground.

Jordan, are you listening to me?
I said, Jordan, what do you want to be
I said, Jordan, you can make real your dreams,
but you've got to know this one thing.

No man, does it all by himself
I said, Jordan, put your pride on the shelf
And just go there, to the Y.M.C.A.
I'm sure they can help you today

LOLghter.

Quiet up in hurr.

lol @ ymca

i'm going to a corny-looking chain fondue restaurant tonight!

y'all gon' make me lose my mind, up in hurr, up in hurr

y'all gon' make me go all out, up in hurr, up in hurr

i couldn't think what song that was at first, but finally i remembered it was DMX - Party Up

It went past the Clark/Lake elevated platform

I WORK RIGHT THERE IN THAT BUILDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've never seen the holiday train and this makes me sad.

WERE YOU WORKING ON WEDNESDAY MORNING LAST WEEK BECUZ I WAS TOTALLY RIGHT THERE OUTSIDE??!?!?!?!?!?!

YES. Well, as of 8:30 I was.

I see the holiday train a lot. I have seen one at least 4 times in 3 years.

i want to see it but i guess it doesn't make sense to have it running during the rush hour if there's going to be a bunch of screaming kids on it.

This building has everything. A train station, a Taco Bell, a Dress Barn... EVERYTHING.

xp Jesse stole all my holiday train views. Selfish.

In 2005, the Holiday Train derailed.

I keep forgetting that you work in that building, Jenny. We're like two blocks away from each other. Lunch at Cosi sometime?

xpost ahahahahaha

does anyone work near adams and wells?

Yes, John, that would be lovely. Why don't I send you my workplace contact information and then you can contact me at my workplace with regard to lunch at Cosi sometime. They have a tasty cobb salad, although it's not really a cobb salad since it's lacking eggs and something else that I can't remember.

I am really into cobb salads these days.

jenny is basically saying "have your people call my people, we'll do lunch"?

She's such a lawyer.

Cobb salad just reminds me of this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5ULYWaUZMLA

I don't have people. I don't even have an office! But this is the nicest cubicle I've ever occupied, and they gave me an ergonomic keyboard, so I do feel like a valued member of the organization.

Also, if you work as a cook for the county hospital system for 23 years, you will make as much as I do here.

jenny, has your work led to anyone being imprisoned yet?

Not that I am aware of, but I may be partially responsible for the levying of fines or penalties.

Okay friends. Back to work. TTFN!

The veggie muffaletta sandwich at Cosi is A+++ (probably not "authentic" muffaletta but it is tasty).

I just had a Quesadilla Explosion (TM) salad at Chili's.

gross

I miss Bojangles.

I'm actually not a fan of their muffaletta. It's too salty or something*. My old standby is the caprese, which they call a TBM.

*This could just be the location I get it at. I used to not like Cosi very much because their bread was too salty, but then someone assured me that the one I was going to (this was back when I worked at Michigan/Jackson) was notorious for oversalting their bread. I started going to the one across from the Art Institute, and voila, so much better.

The Quesadilla XXXPLOSION (TM) was actually pretty tasty. It's basically a salad that has some tortilla strips in it and a tangy sauce and then you get quesadillas on the side.

i had shrimp bisque and a salad for lunch

I had Kr-brand spicy sweet potato soup (feat. coconut milk and peas) and a banana and a tiny sliver of leftover pumpkin pie.

Essentially: mush. But tasty mush.

K-ZA-DILLLLA XXXXXPPPLLLOOOOOOSSSIIIOOOOOONNN (TM)

i did not have a megarita or an awesome blossom

http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/movie_pix/twentieth_century_fox/office_space/_group_photos/jennifer_aniston7.jpg

one of my ex-gfs worked at TGI Friday's and had to wear actual items of flair

actual flair

A muffaletta is not authentic at all if it is VEGGIE. How is that even possible? You need the additional saltiness of pork products.

I said before, it's a SALT SANDWICH.

it has lots of olives

and i don't give a crap if it's authentic, it is tasty as a mothra

from the cta regarding the holiday train:

The train operates approximately from 1 p.m. to 9 p.m. on several Saturdays, and 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. on select weekdays (schedules for each individual line will vary), and will make stops at all stations along the respective routes.

quesadilla xxxplosion all over your face, all over the place

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rogers/mothra.jpg

?

yeeeeeah

ew

tasty as a mothrafucker

i dare you to GIS "mothrafucker"

i am scared

nick, where's your office in evanston? i still think we should do an evanston lunch (and invite kr as well? and toby?) sometime, but it's kind of insane here at the moment so closer to the holidays would probably be better...

oh yeah i keep forgetting you're out here. I'm like a block north and a half-block west of the big movie theater, on un1vers1ty pl@ce.

we can eat at CHILI'S (just kidding)

fave evanston eatery: cozy noodles

gis for "mothrafucker" was clean! also:

A real S.O.B., a step up from motherfucker (but perhaps less offensive when heard in public). Evolved from motherfucker and inspired by the monstrocity Mothra, a foe of the famous Godzilla.

"That mothrafucker just stepped on my sac!"
"Mothrafucking Godzilla is always going around stepping on people's sacs."
"Only a real mothrafucking mothrafucker would commit such an inconsiderate act."

WTF. Who doesn't accept cash as a legitimate form of payment? I just wasted 40 minutes sitting at the DMV to renew my registration only to find out they don't accept cash. No credit card, no debit card, no cash. Checks or money orders only. What a fucking joke. Now I have to waste another lunch hour there tomorrow too.

I bet the person who told you that was really fucking smug and aloof about it, too.

Yes. As if they were taking tremendous pleasure in knowing I'd wasted all that time for nothing.

Isn't it ILLEGAL not to accept cash?? It's legal tender, for fuck's sake!

wow, i had no idea how much it costs to fly business class from LA to hong kong. i'm shocked. anyone want to take a guess (without cheating)?

$2500?

I would imagine it depends on the lead time for buying the ticket. Given a couple of months notice, I'd say $1200.

Oh, from LA. That changes things. Business class is still retarded money, though.

$2501?

$1?

TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. and i just bought it (for my boss). that's f-ing crazy.

(i'm sure you can do it cheaper, but this is refundable and the client is paying anyway.)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v642/shakespeares_sister/eurythmics.png

oh, and it's not like they're leaving tomorrow-- this is for mid january...

Wow, United economy class for about that time is only 1400.

"only" about half my monthly salary

don't you just love it when you can't concentrate on reading the newspaper at lunch because the restaurant you're in is playing aerosmith's amazing?

I like that song, too.

that's never happened to me because i would not remain in a restaurant playing post '78 aerosmith.

unrelated: i remembered to bring my carmex with me for the first time in a week and boy are my lips happy.

the songs kept skipping too, so i assume it was a mix cd that one of the workers brought in. other songs were aerosmith's cryin', ben folds' rockin' the suburbs, hey jude, and some recent green day song that i can't remember the words to now.

die die die die

That playlist would make me psychotic.

wuzzup dudes
tomorrow is PENULTIMATE CLASS OF 2007!

then exams
then a bunch of other stuff

xmas break?

Yes!
I have to stick around after the semester's done for some administrative stuff, but nothing that will require teaching/grading/dealing with slimy cheaters who must think I'm an enormous moron if they think I don't know how to use google as well as they do.

why is it so warm outside today?

"only" about half my monthly salary

I want your job.

I told you guys we were hiring! Kevin got it. :D

I just read a good portion of "Nighttim3 0ptical Turbulenc3 Vertic@l Structur3 ab0ve D0me C in Ant@rctica" and it was damn interesting.

Isn't it ILLEGAL not to accept cash?? It's legal tender, for fuck's sake!

Apparently not...

http://www.treas.gov/education/faq/currency/legal-tender.shtml

"QUESTION: I thought that United States currency was legal tender for all debts. Some businesses or governmental agencies say that they will only accept checks, money orders or credit cards as payment, and others will only accept currency notes in denominations of $20 or smaller. Isn't this illegal?

ANSWER: The pertinent portion of law that applies to your question is the Coinage Act of 1965, specifically Section 31 U.S.C. 5103, entitled "Legal tender," which states: "United States coins and currency (including Federal reserve notes and circulating notes of Federal reserve banks and national banks) are legal tender for all debts, public charges, taxes, and dues."

This statute means that all United States money as identified above are a valid and legal offer of payment for debts when tendered to a creditor. There is, however, no Federal statute mandating that a private business, a person or an organization must accept currency or coins as for payment for goods and/or services. Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise. For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy."

Actually, no I don't want your job. I'm editing an article on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, which is more interesting, even at the expense of $800 a month.

Or however much more you make, I'm not counting.

I'm editing an article on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, which is more interesting

yes, the cosmos pale in comparison to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

I'M EXCITED FOR THIS PAY CHECK SO I FINALLY SEE HOW MUCH I MAKE!!!

AND HOW MUCH YOU GET TAXED!!!!

i mean, like after taxes and shit so i can try to make a budget. i know what my salary is, natch.

exactamundo mr. c!

yes, the cosmos pale in comparison to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Agreed.

wow

"Science? Who needs it?! Give me data mining and targeted marketing under the false pretext of social interaction!"

Jeez, all I'm saying is that I'd much rather read about an interesting tech entrepreneur like Zuckerberg than about "Nighttim3 0ptical Turbulenc3 Vertic@l Structur3 ab0ve D0me C in Ant@rctica." I'm not making some grand statement about their relative worth in the world. I spent a summer in college editing accounting textbooks; that wasn't much fun, either.

People like what they like.

exactly amanda.

Exactly Amanda, the new fragrance from Coty, is a fresh breeze on a winter's day

it's a handful of peanuts when you're hungry for salt and protein

it's a good hearted mud wrestle with a couple of steamy co-eds

it's Exactly Amanda!

In the end, you should like what you do. As a man of many interests, I especially like that I get to edit articles on a variety of subjects -- the next one on my pile is about the new president of Argentina -- so that works out for me much better than if I were only reading articles on a single discipline, like astronomy. But YMMV.

People like what they like.

-- La Lechera, Wednesday, November 28, 2007 10:58 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

i disagree

no you don't

I misunderstood

yes, the cosmos pale in comparison to Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg.

Agreed.

as being a grand statement of relative worth.

you'll like what i tell you to like
and you will like what you like

Diverse subject material would be a perk, for sure.

how about either of you get me a job :D

i haven't looked at u of c in a minute so i probably should do so again

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS, Books Division

Editorial Associate, Acquisitions (E-27)

Reports to: Senior Editor

Position Summary:

The Editorial Associate, Acquisitions supports work related to the acquisition of original titles for the Senior Editor for economics and law. Under editor's direction, arranges for the review of new manuscripts. Supports editor with regard to new manuscripts, series titles, imported books, revisions, and translations from review to publication. Works extensively with authors and scholarly reviewers at universities around the world. Attends scholarly meetings either with or in place of Acquisitions Editor.

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree required; a minimum of one year experience in publishing in a similar position preferred; familiarity with scholarly books/journals preferred; excellent written and verbal communication skills required; strong proofreading and organizational skills required; word processing and spreadsheet skills required; courteous, tactful, and good judgment about the confidential nature of the review process required; ability to assume considerable responsibility required. A cover letter and resume are required to be considered for this position. High degrees of attention, concentration, and systematization; initiative and focus on detail

motherfucker, i'm gonna need that job in 11 months!

too late 4 u!!!

courteous, tactful, ... High degrees of attention, concentration, and systematization; initiative and focus on detail

i wasn't a good fit anyway.

i don't pay enough attention to detail to notice those things when applying

seriously, does calling a studio apartment a "jr one bedroom" fool anyone?

Ahoy. I have been to the suburbs for a reason other than going to Ikea, and having done so, I declare:You can keep 'em.

I feel like I need to be decontaminated.

Though I did get free wine and dinner, which were mitigating factors. Still, to paraphrase Ogden Nash, "The suburbs? No thonx!"

I like the old downtowns of the western suburbs, like arlington heights and hinsdale and downers grove.

i ate so much fucking food

I discovered today that the place I was working at over the summer, doing SAT tutoring, has an envelope full of money for me - over $800. For what, I'm not quite sure, but I'm not going to ask any questions.

I'd rather read about Cristina Kirchner than Mark Zuckercorn OR ding dongs over the Antarctic SO HOW ABOUT THAT?

i made a hilarious response to that post but ilx coding kept fucking it up so you'll just have to take my word for it that it was hilarious and start laughing right now

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

it wasn't that funny

whoops

i overlaughed

Speaking of suburbs, there is a two-page advertisement for Bolingbrook in this week's Time Out Chicago. It mentions the IKEA, the new mall, and about a dozen restaurants that weren't there at all when I lived there. I'm afraid I'd barely recognize the place if I went back.

Chicago's shortest streets (some of the writing in this article is pretty bad but it's still interesting)

Wow! We were a million miles away from Chicago. http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&time=&date=&ttype=&q=winestyles+20290+lagrange+rd,+frankfort+il&ie=UTF8&lr=lang_en&cd=1&ll=41.717005,-87.488251&spn=0.447956,0.933838&z=10&om=1

Like Courtney said, it was a good thing that they gave each of her employees a free bottle of wine and free dinner, cuz it would have pissed a lot of people off to drive that far for a tasting of 5 wines at a chain wine retailer.

Sorry about that link. Need to install BBCode extension at work.

That article was pretty great.

I just typed in someone named McGee, and it made me think of McG, that music video director who did Fastball - The Way and some Sugar Ray videos. Remember him? I feel like he actually made a full length movie too, but I don't know anything about that.

didn't he direct the charlie's angels movies?

Director:
In Production
2000s
1990s
Untitled Matt Cirulnick/McG Project (2008) (announced) (attached)
Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (2009) (pre-production) (rumored)

"Chuck" (1 episode, 2007)
- Pilot (2007) TV Episode
We Are Marshall (2006)
The Offspring Complete Music Video Collection (2005) (V) (videos "Pretty Fly [For a White Guy]" and "Why Don't You Get a Job?")
Dan Finnerty & the Dan Band: I Am Woman (2005) (TV)
Charlie's Angels: Full Throttle (2003)
"Fastlane" (1 episode, 2002)
- Pilot (2002) TV Episode
Cypress Hill: Still Smokin' (2001) (V) (videos "Illusions" and "Throw Your Hands In The Air")
... aka Cypress Hill: Still Smokin' - The Ultimate Video Collection (USA: reissue title)
Charlie's Angels (2000)
... aka 3 Engel für Charlie (Germany)

Sublime: Sublime (1997) (V) (video "Santeria")
Korn: Who Then Now? (1997) (V)

3 Engel für Charlie sounds so much better than what we get.

Terminator Salvation: The Future Begins (2009) (pre-production) (rumored)

Stupid time travel, it'll never get us anywhere.

he looks like a douche:

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/00/07/12m.jpg

i know, it's difficult to believe that the guy who directed "The Offspring Complete Music Video Collection" looks like that

i didn't realize he did we are marshall

he's a graduate of the school i'm going to--UCI.

So where should I go tomorrow for my birthday? Is anyone able/wanting to go out for some drinks?

I might be hanging out with this Bulgarian Yooper guy I know, we'll see.

did you guys know that almost all calico cats are female? i did not know that.

Yes, but I am a crazy cat lady.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2156/1882495319_7da1c26574_m.jpg

One of the people I was out to dinner with last night is a vet tech, and when I showered her a phone pic of my cats she said "oh, a girl and a boy?" And I asked her how the hell she knew that, thinking it was some vet school thing about the facial ratios or something. She told me about the calico thing, and then goes "and the other one just looks like a boy!"

I should say "man". He is old. Man-cat.

omg evil kitty was SO SWEET this morning. Purry and cozy and very very soft and warm. Really everything you want in a cat, and nothing you don't.

I especially like the ones with bits of gray.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/150/413132803_b69674324e_m.jpg

Boy cats tend to have bigger heads.

Here's mine getting sat on:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2209/2074219662_430de94bb6.jpg

didn't mc g have something to do with the OC as well?

those cats are so cute, and i didn't know all calicos are girlcats. i want a cat!

Can you get one?

actually i think it's just that girls have small heads

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2318/2074225396_ea37c3d1b6.jpg

XMAS LIST:
1) calico kitten

http://www.snopes.com/photos/risque/graphics/fire.jpg

oops

xpost You want mine?

How about a black one?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/38318468_4a5e8d5172.jpg?v=0

(or a tabby)

ILX WILL BE DOWN THIS WEEKEND. (just in case none of you ever check the main page)

is there a sandbox still?

dolly parton + amy sedaris video

THE SANDBOX WILL ALSO BE DOWN THIS WEEKEND

(on the same server, according to the admin thread)

http://www.nataliedee.com/081007/shitboxes-for-catlovers.jpg

it doesn't really make sense to get a cat yet since we don't know when/if we'll go back to london. and if we do, it would suck to have to put a new pet through the crazy quarantine!

I finally figured out where my cat left that rogue turd one day while she was mad at me. I lived with it for days before that, though. Lots of febreeze and window opening. Really kind of a nightmare.

Quick Bitch
I just discovered another coworker who is pissed at me for being out yesterday. Male Coworker comes to my desk and asks me where he can find some checks for some draw he's working on and I don't know where they are kept for that project, so he heads to Accountant. Accountant calls me from her desk telling me it doesn't exist and all those checks came out of another common file and I should get them there. BUT he's at her desk at the very back of the office AND the files are in the drawer BESIDE her desk in alphabetical order... So then he comes all the way up to the front and hands me the same paper again. Then I go to the very back to her desk while she's sitting there and take out the two pieces he needs and go and copy them.

That's a v. good point, C.

Like Boxes Of Shit In Your House? Get A Cat

http://www.theonion.com/content/files/images/onion_imagearticle1378.jpg

(The Onion)

Rogue Turd was way better as a four piece.

Sarah, did she know where the papers were?

This is a more recent Onion article on cats that made me laugh:

Point/Counterpoint: Cats Are Better Than Dogs

I do similar things around here sometimes, but usually b/c it's easier for me to just get something than to explain where it is, and possibly have my directions be met with confusion and more questions.

(The answer to "where is ________ document?" is more often than not, "On J's coffee table" or "Under J's desk.")

xpost- I liked that point-counterpoint a lot

She knew they were there though right beside her. It would have taken her 5 seconds to grab them out! I wouldn't have minded getting them if I knew they were there in the first place. She was just being deliberately annoying.

you were out yesterday?

Yup. I was out sick.

lol @ counterpoint

yeah, I hadn't seen that one. Cat lady vs. bro: no contest.

I'm in sick today.

Blech.

sick sucks :(

i've been hitting airborn, vitamins, coldeez every day just to keep this cold from taking hold basically

http://www.forgottenchicago.com/pics/LSD/cushscurve.jpg

Old curve on LSD (from that streets website)

Frankfort, like most of Will County, is barely a suburb.

that LSD photo is great-- when's it from?

1963

http://www.forgottenchicago.com/lsd.php

That S curve would have sucked and been a collision-magnet.

I need to stop making crossword puzzles because once I start one, it is very very hard to take a break, even if I should be working. Anyway, I did a theme one, or at least kind of a theme one, and it turned out all right. I'll link to it later.

do you mean because you get involved in it, or because of that fucking demo software? :>

i've resisted downloading it at work, and i'm dying to make another one but i won't have the time until next week at the earliest

I mean because I get involved in it.

me and mattttttt's cat and some stains on my shirt

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2266/2073620669_714f869b5a.jpg

this is before she got fat

not before I did, though

quality

Btw, Jordan, I did that Tausig puzzle this morning: did you notice he used "half a rack" for ANTLER??

haha, i did notice that! except yours was "half of a gun rack", right?

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/screen/P02386.jpg

the other i found some pics from when i was fat ('04/'05)

show us

http://mamadigdown.com/jazzfest9.html

so you 'found' them on your own band's web site?

nice job sherlock

there's a lot of weird shit buried in that site! i had never even looked through it before, i just look at the "dates" page to see when i have to leave the house :>

you see, you marry your band members, while my band is structured more like a temp agency

to be fair, i only married one band member

so far

http://www.hbo.com/events/biglove/img/bg.jpg

Today I had a HILARIOUS employee ID photo taken (I look insanely excited in the picture and every time I look at it I LOL) and while I waited for the picture taker, I watched a disaster safety video about this building. Every scenario started with, "In the event of (insert disaster here), the glass and steel in the main building can become deadly..."

http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/chicago/kveus3772s.jpg

THERE IS NOWHERE TO RUN.

I'm just going to pop in here once a day around lunch and say something about this building.

Dress Barn is having a 60% off clearance sale!

I still can't form an opinion on whether Thompson Center is ugly or not. It confounds me.

It's pretty ugly.

Originally, the design called for curved, insulated (double paned) glass panels, but these were found to be prohibitively expensive. Flat, insulated glass had been suggested, but were dismissed by Jahn. Single-paned (non-insulated), curved glass panels were eventually used and resulted in the need for a more expensive air conditioning system, which remains very costly to operate and is insufficient on hot days (internal temperatures have reached as high as 90 degrees Fahrenheit).

Oh goodie.

I always kind of get a kick out of there being a food court at the center of all that curvy glass.

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1337/lobbymy0.jpg

That's a couple floors higher than me, I think, but is pretty much the view from our "break room" which is really just large cubicle with a microwave in it.

wau

I really do talk about this building too much. Sorry.

Likes: The Thompson Center, Dress Barn, Cobb salads
Dislikes: Two-faced people, static cling, nausea

Yeah, that's open, too - no glass, so if I get overwhelmed with the hopelessness of it all one day while I'm waiting for my pop corn to pop, I can just jump right over.

i used to transfer there everyday, from the green line to the blue line.

that happened in the Federal Building in milwaukee where my friend worked (suicide via atrium)

Somebody took a dive in Marshall Fields not too long ago. I'm sure somebody has killed him/herself here at some point although I've been unable to find anything about it.

Okay, that is your daily update from Clark and Lake.

Jenny out.

Here's the latest crossword.

mattttttttttttt just sent me this, figure some of you guys would enjoy perusing through the list

http://www.post-punk.com/ppvideos.html

i'll always have a soft spot for the j&m chain.

ugh, jenny i'm there with you on the static hate. for the past month, pretty much anytime i touch ANYTHING or ANYONE, there's a huge shock. it's so annoying, and kind of embarrassing to meet someone, shake hands and have them recoil in pain. WTF is up with this? can i do anything about it?

jaymc, i'm printing your crosswords and saving them for jan-march when my bosses are gone for 2 months and i have no work to do at work...it's nice to have something fun to look forward to in that time!

p.s. killing yourself inside marshall fields seems way more wrong to me than killing yourself in the thompson center. DEATH BY DRESS BARN!

yay crossword

WTF is up with this? can i do anything about it?

You need to be grounded.

Go to your room.

So it looks like the good Dr. and myself and hopefully a few other peeps will be hitting the Small Bar on Division tomorrow. I know it's probably gonna be really cold, but if anyone feels like coming out, the more the merrier. Last year on my bday I was at a bar trivia and we named ourselves the Stingies for that night, but when we surprisingly won a round the host (purposefully) called our name out as the Stingles (rhymes with Pringles), and continued for the rest of the night. Then all my friends started calling me Stingle for a little bit. I'm hoping tomorrow lives up to that.

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/full/P04200.jpg

Proud negro lad poses fro his portrait at 1355 So. Morgan

fro

racist

I should tell you that the typo is NOT mine.

Oh, those negroes. Such a proud people. And so musical!

Fro sho.

There was another one of "A pickaniny sitting on steps at ___"

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/screen/P12901.jpg

Sorry if these are not as much fun for everyone as they are for me, but I think they're awesome.

The location here should be obvious - Block 37 is on the upper left.

Or whatever. It's where the TWA sign is.

Ah, TWA. Such a different time.

ok, if i type the date as 11/27/09 one more time i'm going to bounce my head off my desk.

Will it still be connected to your body?

boing-oing-oing-oing

I am a superball, throw me at the wall

i love photos like that, keep posting!

jaymc, this is a good-ass puzzle. i'll e-mail you when i'm done.

more fun w/ deej's terrible job:

i am expected to work 9-5 on saturday and 9-9 (12 hrs) on monday!

Thanks, J-man.

What is Block 37, anyway? I run across that term every so often, mostly having to do with CTA construction. What does it mean?

Wait, I just found a website called "Google" that can find me the answer to that question.

tuomc

Catch 35
Bin 36
Block 37

one of these things is not like the other, etc

I still can't find out why it is called "Block 37."

Even though I now know that it's that construction zone across from Marshall Field's.

Wikipedia says it is one of the original 58 blocks of the city. So I'm guessing they refer to neighboring ones as 36, 38, and so on? No idea which way they're organized.

A-ha

My building is in Block 3.

OK that's really cool. I love that site.

There's a book called "here's the deal" that is all about block 37.

Catch 35
Bin 36
Block 37

http://www.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=City+of+Chicago+School+District+299:+Walter+Payton+High+School&fb=1&cid=0,0,12641960498683027126&near=Chicago,+IL&cd=1&ie=UTF8&ll=41.90627,-87.633262&spn=0.008208,0.023518&z=16&om=1&layer=c&cbll=41.902076,-87.636161&cbp=1,130.21514470907914,,0

Counting down...

http://www.planet99.com/pix/10346_1.jpg

(That's on Lincoln.)

http://oldtvguides.com/all_thumbs/medium_32-wfld~.jpg

Here's 31

Huh. I didn't know why it was called Block 37.

There is going to be a ton of retail, glass-front TV studio, condos, and hyperdupermega CTA station.

29

http://www.kscakes.com/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/pink-floyd-has-determined-that-we-will-not-need-the-following-1-education-2-thought-control-3-dark-sarcasm-in-the-context-of-the-classroom.jpg

Sorry it's such a mess, but I's has no Photshop skilz LOL

[quote="Jenny"]Morrissey wants to know why you're on your own tonight given that you are:
1. So funny.
2. So clever.
3. So very entertaining.
4. So very good looking.[/quote]

Nice.

30

Oops, I meant 28.

http://www.planet99.com/pix/10277_1.jpg

Oh btw, that Obama fundraiser we're playing next weekend? Headliners are Jeff Tweedy, Jill ("I Kissed a Girl") Sobule, and an acoustic set from ... Third Eye Blind. (It's now at the Riv, too.)

OK, I screwed up the count--29 was actually 30, so we're missing 29.

that is crazy, john. what night is that?

It's the 7th. Actually, I don't know if I should've mentioned it here. They were kind of strict about how it should be publicized. Like: our website is OK, but MySpace is not.

Why do you think that is? Congrats, BTW!!

Seriously, I fucking hate my boss. Everyone in this office takes short trips for personal stuff - dropping cars off at mechanics, picking up kids, dentists appts, whatever. I asked if I could run to the DMV first thing this morning, right when they open to avoid long lines, but he said no. So I'm fucked. Old sticker expires at midnight and I can't get a new one. So fucked. I hate this shithole.

Looking forward to tweed/nast/sobule/obama jamming "all along the watchtower" at the end. How much are tix? also, check out the lineup for the second city's letters to santa next tuesday (small theater).

e/z - going to try and remember to come to yr uncommon ground gig next sun.

Tell them what you just told us, jon. the first part, anyway. Xpost - great, it should be a good show (w sax on a song or two).

I plan on it, but it doesn't really do me any good now. I'm supposed to go see my grandma in the nursing home this weekend, but theres no fucking way I can risk getting a ticket for an expired sticker. Fuck.

Your mistake: you asked. Should've just gone and come in a little late.

ok, i think i'm going to have to change my commute in the mornings until jersey boys closes because if i have to walk by the lasalle theatre and hear "I LOVE YOU BAAAAAY-BEEEE...." first thing in the morning for much longer i'm going to shoot myself in the face.

How much are tix?

Between $35 and $500.

Unfortunately I was here at 7. I hoped coming in a fucking hour early might help entitle me to run out for 20 minutes.

http://img526.imageshack.us/img526/4516/seegerfyihw6.jpg

Anybody know how much a ticket is for an expired registration sticker?

you can buy them at all the check-cashing stores ... you can't just run out on your lunch break? I don't know how much the fine is, but i know the stickers are more expensive past the expiration date.

Yeah, $98 after the date. I can try to run out on my lunchbreak, but the nearest check cashing place is like 25 minutes away. Stupid rich suburb. Its just so frustrating because the DMV is, quite literally, right across the street from our office.

I have received such a ticket in NC, and I would say that it was around....$75 + court costs? (I received it along w/ 5 other citations on bs trumped up shit by cops in a small town known for its shady cops. Cop told me he didn't have room on one ticket for all 6 charges, but I was "really lucky" he didn't just decide to write each citation on a separate ticket b/c each ticket would cost me $95 in court fees, and he was tempted to write each one separately to teach me a lesson.)

Later that year my bf and I wanted to go to Washington DC for a mini-vacation but my tags had expired and we were too broke to afford new ones, so we took a razor out on the street, scraped a current sticker off another car, and glued it to my plate.

Those were some good times....
http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:0wSf-ZsXRQqT4M:http://www.tvsquad.com/media/2006/07/jerri.jpg

Ugh. Thats why I'm really nervous about not getting my sticker. I have to drive to a small town about two hours outside the city to see my grandma on Saturday, through two or three really notorious cop "speed traps".

Anyone heard of Elon College?

If I had, I'd have used it in a crossword by now.

Jon, just git-r-done. stay out too long for lunch, whatever. what would your ideal job be?

i am in my pajamas and am unshaved. i haven't even put in my contacts yet today.

in case you were wondering

My ideal job? Bits and pieces of what I do here. Just not with a boss that is great at architecture, but horrible managing people.

My ideal job would be:

Working here, making $10K more (to start), not having to do billing or make copies (but doing more writing).

And having the job responsibility to burn Catch Thirty5 to the ground (sorry Leo Burnet Building).

Leo Burn It

http://www.theage.com.au/ffximage/2007/01/04/2_BD_061228030608870_wideweb__300x375.jpg

my ex rolled with an expired sticker for 3 years, i think you'll be okay for a few days

A buddy of mine in college got his car towed and impounded for an expired ticket, so you know... roll the dice I guess.

A buddy of mine in college got his car towed and impounded for an expired ticket, so you know... roll the dice I guess.

well, this may not be the best time to test them. the winter parking ban starts at 3 a.m. (i think?) so the cops and tow trucks will be out in force tonight.

Shiiiiit.

nick, on the way to work i started listening to that recent seven second delay where they rebroadcast a show from '93, it's pretty f'n funny

I have the same birthday as Bo Jackson, Winston Churchill, Mark Twain, Billy Idol and Ben Stiller.

There's a good 7 Second Delay where they go back and forth playing 5 second clips from their iPods on random, and have callers vote on which person's song was better.

Happy birthday Stingy. :)

thanks!

do you think third eye blind will play semi-charmed life at the obama show? has some questionable lyrics.

they fucking better for $500 a ticket

c@n@st@ should cover 'semi-charmed life' before 3EB gets on stage. cockblock

xpost lol

will 3EB play Jumper?

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/screen/P15376.jpg

i'd pay $500 to never hear 3rd eye blind again.

I feel bad for a lot of 90s one hit wonder bands. If they never had a hit, people might think they were a decent local pop band that's cool for sticking it out. Now it's like, Better Than Ezra, wtf, why haven't they given up yet?

I saw them at BLOCKBUSTERROCKFEST (1997?)!

One time I saw this girl do Jumper at karaoke. It was a solid performance. She also complimented me on my performance of Runaway Train. The songs are somewhat similar thematically, I guess.

jaymc, that's really exciting about the show, i'm sorry you'll be partying with obama instead of me, though!

also, where is the aragon ballroom on the hierarchy of venues in chicago?

j/v/c-- i know you know this, but you need to do something about your manager. i suffered through a year with a really bad, incompetent manager who was borderline abusive by the end of it, and certainly played fucked up mind games just like the whole "i don't care if everyone else is going out early, i said you can't, so you can't" you describe above. i started writing down each incident with dates, and also writing down other shady behavior by her (she took a LOT of sick days, like at least 1 a week), and eventually got so pissed i was ready to walk out, burst into tears at my other job because of a nasty email from her. went in to the director and said i was either going to have to leave or stop working for her, and you know what? he found me another manager-- one i didn't even know was coming back to the organization, so thought wasn't an option. she was awesome and we even hang out outside work. the end.

my goal in my musical career is to be a one-hit wonder. there's something so pure about it. like they have one awesome song. and it was so awesome they could never do better.

i narrowly missed having to see hootie play at the gore/lieberman rally in 2000. (as in, i stood outside the gates until they finished on principle)

actually a lot of my favorite pop songs are one-hits. "I Touch Myself," "Groove is in the Heart," "Jesse's Girl," etc. (don't be pedantic and point out some #32 follow-up "hit" these bands had).

aragon is a huge ballroom, holds probably 2,500? i saw the pixies there and psoi open for wilco (left after psoi because it was roughly 98 degrees outside and SO MUCH WORSE inside).

i've only seen pixies at aragon. i guess it's pretty good for a larger venue? i got claustrophobic but shit was sold out obviously.

my exi rolled with an expired sticker for 3 years

pls tell 3rd eye blind guy that he had mad acting skillz in that one lifetime movie with the "girl" from "just one of the guys."

he played a ne'er-do-well boyfriend who gets his just desserts!

Didn't just about everyone on this thread go to one of those Pixies shows? I am pretty sure we lined up that way once before. I went, too.

is aragon the one by the green mill?

why would i have gone to see the pixies? :)

i went

back to class bye bye

huh. the random dude i ran into from high school at the caribou/battles concert is apparently a big deal then, they've got 3 dates there and one of them t0rt0ise is opening for them. which seems a little weird to me!

what band is he in?

oh nevermind, i see. :> one night, they were playing at the aragon and we were playing at the green mill, and i had a hilarious conversation with a drugged-up hippy girl who had wandered in afterwards. she was going on about their 20 min guitar solos and how they just, like, make it up, maaan!

(that's crazy that t0rt01se is opening!)

Never been to the Aragon. I think it's probably the biggest non-arena venue in Chicago. Q101 does their annual festival there. Bands like the White Stripes, the Strokes, and the Flaming Lips are typical, along with a lot of huge Spanish-language bands.

Wait, Colette, you know someone in U|\/|p|-|rey's McG33??

Don't you mean Umphr3y's McG33?

I saw Pixies at Lollapalooza that year, that was enough for me. I've only seen a few shows at the Riv (Sonic Youth, PJ Harvey, Belle and Sebastian, Kraftwerk), but there have seriously been no shows that I've wanted to see at the Aragon, and from what I understand, it's a pretty terrible place to see a show, anyway (bad acoustics, etc.). I don't really like big shows.

them and tortoise is kind of a weird pairing, but i guess tortoise DO like to jam.

xp Yeah, guess I should've googleproofed that.

i mean, i've never heard of this band, have you, jordan? and three nights at the aragon? and t0rt01se opening for them? he probably thought he was going to really impress me when he told me what his band was, i just assumed it was some college band that decided to move to chicago.

xpost-- yeah, please googleproof, i really don't want him to stumble on this. i've edited my above post just in case. i went to high school with the bassist. do you know my last name? he's sta i'm ste, which in a school as small as mine meant lockers next to each other and sitting next to each other in every class for 4 years. he recognized me at that show and i looked at him and thought "i have no idea who that is" which is weird because he looked pretty much exactly the same as high school.

xxp-- we saw the pixies at alexandra palace in london-- a venue that's so big they put a carnival INSIDE. i was so bored that we left early. and got lost on the way home, so spent several hours on random busses.

but i guess tortoise DO like to jam.

They do? I don't think Tortoise would describe themselves as a jam band, but jam-band kids seem to like them quite a bit. When I saw them at the Abbey a few years ago, there was some be-dreaded hacky-sack dude bopping around in the middle of the room. And they play Bonnaroo pretty much every year, too.

actually a lot of my favorite pop songs are one-hits. "I Touch Myself," "Groove is in the Heart," "Jesse's Girl," etc. (don't be pedantic and point out some #32 follow-up "hit" these bands had).

rick springfield had 4 other top 10 hits and a slew of other top 20's. he also put out a record of bubblegum pop in '74 or so for a kids show that is one of my favorite records of all time.

yeah, i've heard of them, they are a college jam band staple. they seem to be playing all the time everywhere (never actually heard them, btw).

xpost, jaymc otm, t0rtoise is not noodly at all, but i can see why they get that crossover crowd

actually, only 3 were top 20, but a slew of top 25!

i mean, i've never heard of this band, have you, jordan? and three nights at the aragon?

That's the thing about jam bands. If you're not into the scene, there's no reason for you to ever hear about them at all, and then suddenly String Cheese Incident or O.A.R. is selling out three straight shows at the House of Blues or whatever.

my pixies experience, in hindsight was the worst night of my life. didn't know it 'til months later though. i've never felt so stupid in my life.

yup, because it's not like they're on the radio or anything. it's insidious.

looks like ilx is shutting down IMINENTLY

i've heard of umphr3y's mcg33, though have not heard of any of their music. there is probably no need to googleproof, i think they're pretty big in the jam band circuit

well yeah it's not the same kind of jamming, but I mean that they can have songs that kind of go on for a while and have different parts, that would be the connection. actually come to think of it I think I saw someone at a t0rt0ise show wearing an UmphMg shirt.

String Cheese, OAR, and Umphr3y's are all HUGE among the hippies I associated with in college. HUGE. Also, Keller Williams, Big Wu, all these bands who I've never heard and only heard people ramble on and on and on about...

(what everyone else said)

but I mean that they can have songs that kind of go on for a while and have different parts, that would be the connection

So what you're saying is, Beethoven was a jam band. :D

yeah I realize that's pretty broad

I submitted a googleproof request anyway. There is an ILM thread about them.

Hey, so since ILX is disappearing in a half hour, what are people doing this weekend?

Kr and I are going to Red Rooster, the French bistro that was recently on Check Please!, for dinner tonight. We're also having lunch with a friend of hers tomorrow afternoon and having my mom over for dinner on Sunday. But that's about it. I'm guessing we'll watch some Six Feet Under, too.

Besides going out tonight to Small Bar, I'm thinking of going to see the Brotzmann Chicago Tentet tomorrow at MCA, if anyone's going to that.

You mean we're not all going to start a gmail chat group for this occasion?

My weekend plans:
* crafting
* laundry
* band practice

Ten bucks at the Second City next week (thing I mentioned earlier): 24 straight hours of music and improv, $10 cover, Jeff Tweedy, Steve Albini, Kim and Kelley Deal, Will Oldham, Robbie Fulks, and Jon Langford.

you can have group chat in gmail?

Jam bands are more indie than indie bands, as far as working independently outside of PR and media circles.

For a lot of the (live, primarily instrumental) N.O. bands that I like, getting into the jam band kid's pockets is so key.

I just typed in a person whose last name is Brab0y.

Part of why we don't have a clear fix on what Umph and OAR and Moe do is because the description of what they do and the narrative of who they are (the PR part) isn't part of their success. I may not like their music if I heard it, but that's very refreshing, that they're these kinds of anonymous bands.

I was on the Red Line a week or two ago with a car full of giddy college kids having just seen the John Butler Trio at the Riv.

Where can I get tix for that, EZ? What date? I'm looking at their site but can't find it.

(getting Bonaroo and "Jam Cruise" gigs, and some guys have even gone so far as to start jam bands, ranging from terrible to pretty okay)

While jam band kids may have terrible taste, at least they're receptive to that kind of music.

Oh, I found news on Pfork. Why oh why do they have to do it mid-week?

Here's some info. It's goes from 7p.m. Tuesday to 7 p.m. Wednesday. I think the schedule will get filled out more closer to Tuesday -- looks like the Deals are playing at 1:30 a.m. (I didn't see this until now), so you may want to have a "doctor's appointment" Wednesday morning. You can buy tickets at the door -- I don't think you can get them in advance.

I've gone the past two years -- saw Shellac at 3 a.m. last year (with about 50 people in the audience in the middle of the night) and saw Tweedy and Jason Molina the year before (pretty full house) as well as the Blissters (Tweedy's then-10-year-old kid's rock band). And the comedy can be really good too -- some of the best Second City folks.

I think they do it on Tuesday nights because mainstage Second City shows on weekend nights are big moneymakers for the theater company.

hee hee bl1sters are wrapping it up

hey, is anyone else here yet?

You are the first real post.

Hi.

we are obsessed, huh?

How many times did you refresh today?

colette how did you find this? You were here before I'd even published the address!

i did a bit of jaymc googling... i googled "ilx sandbox" and then that took me to the lastFM page with this site, which i remember from the olden days.

i only refreshed about 5 times today, but i just got home and thought it might well be working by now. yes, i am lame.

heheh, well timed anyway!

Jaymc did you get my Facebook message to you about exciting upcoming event?

Yes, thanks for that! I think I can go, too.

Yay. He gave a good reading. And he's a nice guy. And he's a friendster friend of mine, even.

Also the map at the start of the thread is pretty great.

By "friendster" I meant "facebook" of course.

Mornin'. Hi, Casuistry!

My desktop weather widget shows snow, snow, and then some snow.

I'm listening to my myspace song over and over. (Bonafied Lovin by Chr0meo)

Oh, hey. I went to a basketball game last night! It's because I'm a huge W0fford Terriers fan.

Uh, I also kind of enjoyed being more productive while ILX was down, so I'm going to try to spend less time here for awhile.

Hi Sarah. Hi everyone.

It's still rainy out here.

Huh! When you drop liquid on the floors at the office they go directly through the floor and into the suite below, without much of anything mitigating the flow.

Did you knock over the water cooler?

Oh man. That was a bad start to the day.

The kitchen sink spigot pulls out, so I stick it directly into the coffee maker. The phone rang and I thought I turned it off, but I hadn't.

TBH, I already knew the floors leaked b/c one time I heard a CLUNK above my office, then someone cursed and a few seconds later we had a coffee fountain. Such is life in the West Loop Lofts.

Sorry, Jesse.

It's quiet around here.

TOO quiet....

awesome:

Jad Fair would like to be added to your MySpace friends list.

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

Click the following link to view Jad Fair's profile and accept or reject this user as your friend:

Blind Boys of Alabama would like to be added to your MySpace friends list.

By accepting Blind Boys of Alabama as your friend, you will be able to send Blind Boys of Alabama personal messages, view Blind Boys of Alabama's photos and blog, and interact with each other's friends and network!

I wonder if they run their own myspace?

hey guys, it was weird working all day yesterday with no ILX. i didn't like it.

it looks like Jad Fair somehow has like 10 myspace pages all under the same name

Jad Unfair

It's freezing in here and my outfit is a mess--bunch of nice pieces of clothes that look dumb together.

Fuck.

I feel like an asshole.

maybe you need a scarf?

C@n@st@ mentioned on Pitchfork: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/news/47428-jeff-tweedy-cool-kids-rock-for-obama

I moved on Saturday, it was awful but it's done, and my new house is crazy and also freezing. My space hea(r)ter arrives from Amazon today. The crazy part I'm just going to have to go with -- at least all the bands that played on Sat were enjoyable.

Laurel update complete.

weekend update:
fri - saw no country for old men at the davis, thought it was weird structurally but enjoyable. some parallels with the jesse james movie, though i liked the latter more
sat - hung out at home most of the day reading the charles schulz bio and working on mixing the ff album. watched most of a bulls game for some reason. went to king khan & bbq show at the note, got in a really really bad mood because of density of assholes and general tiredness
sun - woke up in a bad mood still, had band practice which put me in a better mood, went to ben's house for enchiladas, drank a really strong margarita and got buzzed, went to target and bought god of war II, went home dreading doing my sunday work half-drunk only to find i had no work to do, played gowII and read more schulz bio.

pretty good weekend overall except for saturday night which was ironically the one "activity" i had planned

God. A scarf might get me sent home. I wouldn't want to look at me all day.

I have on

- pinstriped brown pants
- lovely checkered blue shirt
- tan argyle zip-up sweater
- brown shoes (they really clash with the pants bad--they're warm brown and I now see that pants are decidedly cool)

This sounds very fussy and like I know something about fashion, but I am just describing possible reasons for the self-loathing I'm experiencing when I look down at my sartorial vomit-splash.

Fri- had head/chest cold. Hacked and sniffed.
Sat- Did H&O work in daytime, worked my ass off at Catch ($$)
Sun- Worked my ass of at Catch (not so much $$) and had mini burgers at Crew.

I've written our old pal Dave to thank him for the Pitchfork mention. :)

DAVE-O! DAVEY BOY!

is how you should have started the note

fri - went to a sports bar
sat - rehearsed all day, left car at rehearsal studio b/c of ice storm, ate and drank and ate and drank. a dude at the bar gave me basketball tickets and one of his anti-depressants, for some reason.
sun - recorded all day (got 4 songs out of it), ate mexican food, hung out w/a girl

jesse, i think if you zip up the sweater, you'll be fine! the shirt sounds like it might be a bit busy, so that might make it less annoying to you.

or you could have the dog rub up against your pants, and you could pretend to have a fit because it's against your religion, and that you have to go change clothes because of it?

Hahahah oh man

Weekend:

Went to Red Rooster for dinner on Friday. Delicious and surprisingly reasonable, although we kind of splurged and got appetizers, dessert, and wine, which turned it into the second most expensive dinner we've had. Also really cozy and romantic.

Had lunch on Saturday at First Slice Cafe with Kr's friend Melissa. Grumbled about the weather. Went grocery shopping. Casted about for things to do at night: I really wanted to go out and drink, since we came home right after dinner on Friday night, but neither of us were thrilled about leaving the neighborhood. Ended up walking five blocks in the freezing rain to my friend Mark's place, where we had a couple beers and got stoned before he and his girlfriend left for a show at the Hideout. Went to bed early.

Sunday was all about cooking and cleaning. We made two (two!) lasagnas (spinach w/bechamel and mushroom and soymeat w/marinara) and served the first with an arugula salad and a bottle of pinot noir for dinner with my mom.

Somewhere in there we watched a few episodes of Six Feet Under, too.

Not a bad weekend, but I kind of missed getting drunk and smoking cigarettes. I know that probably makes me lame.

I'm pretty sure that makes you normal.

Friday: bands and beers w/ out of town friends at Beat Kitchen. The dude from Roadside Monument's new band was not very inspiring, the opener that sounded exactly like Explosions in the Sky was only slightly more so.
Saturday: drove to fucking Joliet to get a treadmill w/ mattttttt. The snow started just as we arrived in town. The treadmill was slightly too large to fit in my car, so we tied the hatch closed and drove back ~30 mph the whole way on slippery roads. Everyone else went slow which was fortunate given my open-door status. After that I ate pizza and fell asleep, then played video games and screwed around until I went back to bed.
Sunday: Lots of kicking it, watching soccer, doing laundry, etc. Wore pj's and didn't leave the house all day. A winner is me!

A side benefit of the trip on Saturday was driving through everyone's favorite local site of national scandal, Bolingbrook.

I bet you drove right by the truck stop where Drew Peterson allegedly met some truckers to help him dispose of the body. There's a Bob Evans right there, or at least there used to be.

friday- got a little loose at my local after work, when i walked home my upstairs neighbor and a friend were heading out so i went to some bar up north i think? damen and foster maybe? i don't know. i stayed out too late, got home real early and didn't sleep much.
saturday- went to my friend's house and drank beer and ate pizza with mark & khan before going over to the note. place was oversold by about 100 people, couldn't move, got massive amounts of drinks spilled on me, took way too many elbows to the kidneys. bold ones sounded good with zac on bass. johnny and the limelights were depressing. busy signals did not play any of the songs from any of their singles. incidentally, busy signals full length is reviewed in the latest issue of spin (which also has an article in the back that name checks c0c0c0ma). i think they gave it 3 1/2 stars.
sunday- watched football, slept, watched football, went to grocery store, slept, watched football, ate, etc etc.

i've been sick the last couple days, my head is so congested that when i woke up this morning i couldn't open my left eye all the way! it looked like someone punched me. no one has (yet).

so i went to some bar up north i think? damen and foster maybe?

This was probably either Leadway or K's Dugout. Was there an easel in the corner and amateur art on the wall and the top 40 being played on satellite radio, or was there an Internet jukebox being commandeered by Vietnam vets?

Morning all. Barely. I wanted ILX to be up yesterday when I had time for it.

while king khan & bbq were playing, we were standing at the side of the stage, by the stairs. dude from busy s1gnals squeezed his way in front of me and then proceeded to pull like three of his friends in front of me too. then this big dude came pushing through, but i wouldn't move because i was tired of people shoving me. he said "get out of the fucking way!" i was pissed off and so i said "where the fuck are you going?" he gave me a dirty look but just kept moving up to the stage. i think maybe he was security or worked for the note but he had no item of clothing or badge or anything identifying him as such, and didn't say anything like "security coming through." probably dumb behavior on my part as dude was like twice my size but i was in a really bad mood, as noted.

This was probably either Leadway or K's Dugout. Was there an easel in the corner and amateur art on the wall and the top 40 being played on satellite radio, or was there an Internet jukebox being commandeered by Vietnam vets?

i could not tell you. i'd go with the easel place with top 40 music. there were a lot of girls there.

My thoughts re: said show:
* first band I really liked the music, could take or leave the vocals (probably leave) as they were were a bit obvious and affected
* second band had some good slow songs, but mostly were embarrassing to watch - then guy behind me dropped all this pizza on the floor that I had to dodge
Then I did this wonderful thing that hasn't happened at a show in a long time where I got extremely claustrophobic and overheated and felt like I couldn't breath and like I would faint soon. So I rushed over towards the door and sat at the bar there. It was freezing cold but I didn't care because all I wanted was space and fresh air.
* KK &BBQ were so entertaining. Great vox. AMAZING guitar playing SKILLZ. Nice costumes. I was really annoyed by all the shoving but was still glad I went.

What is up with KK/BBQ shows being INSANE? At Cakeshop here the sight lines are terrible to begin with, so if you weren't within about 12 feet of the stage you couldn't see anything...and I was up there but having trouble breathing and could not actually move my arms and hands, it was so tight. I gave up. Show was...well, not ruined by any means, but frankly I liked the opening bands better.

Props to n/a for holding his ground though. I hate when people shove their way to the front after arriving late. When I went to see *cough*thekillers*cough* at the Congress a couple years ago, I got burned by a cigarette for refusing to move when this girl and her 18 friends tried to push past us.

Oh, forgot the third band. They played while I was breathing at the bar, so I didn't see them in action. I liked them well enough, especially one song which I can't remember now, but mostly every song sounded the same. I'm sure I would have appreciated them alot more had I not been off in a corner.

I've mentioned this before but I really hate on the shorties at shows that think that because they are half as tall as I am they can shove past me. I got here first, bitches! Of course, rock n roll doesn't usually shine on punctuality.

Sarah just changed my whole life for the better. COLORED LABELS ON GMAIL ARE AMAZING.

Oh yeah, no problem, I'll just listen to the set while staring at the middle of your back. With laser beams.

Get there earlier and get a good spot closer to the stage.

Which is what I do and then a zillion girls shove in front of me and call over to their friends to join them.

Really I don't like anybody that feels they deserve to be closer than people who got there before them, for any reason. Also, if you can't make it through a 45 minute set without four trips to the bar for more beer, just stay by it instead of making us all suffer as you attempt to shove your way through the crowd with four full beer cups.

I'm just bitching -- at the last few shows I've gotten shouldered aside by much taller boys who then planted themselves right in front. Asking them to move for you sometimes backfires when you don't realize that there's going to be a mosh pit starting in approx 7 seconds and you've just moved to the front of it.

Also it's not my fault they banned smoking indoors.

What does the smoking have to do with it?

This show was so crazy smoky.

Maybe instead of getting in front of the earlier/non-smoking/slow-drinking people, then, I should just ask them to all move closer together? Because as the club fills up the large gaps they've left between each other aren't really the appropriate spacing anymore.

Oh, Sarah, because with the ban here, I usu go outside to smoke between sets. :)

Also, if those dudes shouldered you aside to get in front, they were doing exactly what I hate!

http://www.scienceaid.co.uk/biology/plants/images/osmosis.jpg

Exactly.

down with tall people!

My best anecdote from being the tall guy in front is from when a ton of my college friends and I came to Chicago to see Fugazi at the Congress. We were the first people in line, like 5 hours before the doors opened, and we got let in in time to see the opener finishing their sound check. We were up against the stage almost all the way across. Photographers and asshole fans tried to push in front and gave me all manner of shit for being "too tall" but they didn't wait outside on the street for hours, so fuck them. Plus I was (and still am) bigger than them, and so could be intimidating. I think I was wearing a tshirt with the sleeves cut off that day, too!

Also at that show matttttt and my friends Brad and Rachel got their picture taken down in front by the stage and were on the front page of the Trib lifestyle section.

xpost: I can't hear you down there!

As a 5'6"er, I say tall people have every right to be as far up front as they want--as long as they're in a squatting position.

Yeah, like we'd cede our advantage and open ourselves up to your lilliputian kickings!

i get so annoyed by all this stuff at shows as well, it makes me feel old that for a lot of shows i think i'd prefer assigned seating.

dan, was that the show they did with shellac? i was there as well, although standing more towards the back. picked up cute boy that was waaaay too young for me,though.

Yes! And the Ex. That was the shit. $6 for that show, what a deal. One of the best shows of my life.

Bell's returns in six bars: Clark Street Ale House, Lemmings, Silver Cloud, Northside Bar & Grill, The Handlebar, and Twisted Spoke.

Four of those six are within a half-mile radius of The Crotch. :(

Hell, 3 of them are within 3-4 blocks on the same street. I haven't been to Lemmings in a long while...

Yay for the crotch. ha ha
I love handlebar so much, so very very much.

hola amigos
my weekend was not notable.

i did just devour a me-made spinach pie. this was my 3rd attempt to get it right (making, not eating -- i'm pretty awesome at that part) and i think i'm almost there.

I haven't been there in a while, but I've always been kind of underwhelmed by Handlebar. Still would like to go back, though. I tried a couple of months ago, but it was way too busy and so we went to Treat instead.

Handlebar is gooooooood

i think i need to stop going to shows that other people want to go to

Yeah, you probably need to find a more inaccessible/exclusive genre to explore.

too many people like music

Bbbut the VEGGIE SIDES. Also, they have bottled root beer there, which makes me so so very happy.

I recommend taking up experimental sound installations, instead.

I went to one of those recently, in Millennium Park. Lots of space there!

Like, you know, a drop of water falling every 3-7 minutes onto a sheet of glass, that's miced and sampled and fed back to the speakers as a child crying. That sort of thing.

that was the wrong venue for that show but whatever, i know why they played it. when they were here last year they packed the abbey and before that mark practically banged out the empty bottle by himself. i wasn't shocked that it was crazy insane packed but i was hoping the weather would keep some people away.

unrelated- being so congested that you have to breath through your mouth = not good times at all.

that stinks, kevin!

our building is having a holiday party in the lobby. i feel like the loser kid at middle school lunch, because there's nobody else in my office (literally), so i don't know anyone. i got a plate of free food and am now having a holiday party with you guys instead!

Let's go for drinks on Thursday. I'm going to Old Timer's after work if I don't hear anything beforehand.

i'm going to a champagne tasting on thurday, and then getting food ready for the party...which you're all really excited about, right? right?

ooh sounds like fun
but i can't because i will be hopping around gree hee hee

collette! that reminds me. i am not going to be able to make it to your party because it conflicts with another holiday party related to d's work. :( i'm sorry. i do celebrate your citizenship.

aw, we'll miss you! have fun at the other party, though...

That reminds me, I'm a "maybe" for the partay.

Just heard: Winter storm on the way, could generate 6" of snow.

I'm listening to the Democratic candidate debate live on NPR. Kucinich is astonishingly on point almost across the board.

All this talk of snow and no action...

it's coming down here

all i have to do tonight is drive to a bar for a book club meeting. luckily, this bar is close to my house and serves chili.

What's the book?

I am ready for this party Friday. Also, I'm pumped for our show Saturday. :-D

Hey- random question. If my company doesn't match 401k contributions, would I be better off investing for retirement some other way? Also, does the current state of the market make 401ks more risky? I need to fill out my benefit changes for 2008 asap.

Michael Perry, Population 485

Never heard of it. Thumbs up?

Yeah, pretty good. It's by a dude from a tiny town in Wisconsin who moved back there and became a volunteer firefighter (and writer obv.). It's some autobio, some ruminative small town stuff, some EMT/firefighting stories. Not the sort of thing I would usually pick up, but he's a good writer and I've heard he's a bro (from people who have gone to readings).

Snow!

I'm not seeing any yet!

drive home tonight is gonna suuuuuuuuck

I've got a friend in town doing residency interviews, and I'd like to convince him to move here but I don't know how what he'll think of a big winter storm. It's too bad they can't do the interviews in the summer.

where's your show on saturday?

i think 401Ks are risky if they invest heavily in one company (like, some companies give you a load of their own stock) but if you can pick a good index fund they're fine...you're putting money in regularly, and when the price goes down it's like you're buying a stock-market bargain!

I know we're not supposed to talk about 401ks, but just the other day some dude accidentally opened up my paycheck envelope and was like "I didn't see my 401k deduction, and I realized it wasn't mine", and hey, he was right. I swear to god I set up all that shit, like, a year ago, but apparently I never confirmed it. I just did, I think with the investments I picked back then...no idea what they are, but how bad can it be, right?

I think I have the option to choose my own or have someone else choose for me.

Our show is at R0nny's in logan Square, colette. COME!

i'll certainly try to...this week is kind of insane, but i'd really like to see you guys play!

i just found a questionable short curly hair on the lid of my coffee cup

i am not pleased

Blech.

New printer just arrived and is about to be installed! :-D Later dudes.

A way you don't want to sign off in your letter to the Editor after your manuscript has gotten negative reviews:

"Sincelery"

sin celery, tomate o cebolla

If my company doesn't match 401k contributions, would I be better off investing for retirement some other way?

This is a good question, since mine doesn't, apparently.

i've been rather AWOL but this article will make a lot of you want to come & visit.

http://articles.citypages.com/2007-11-28/restaurants/cheese-supreme/full/

Hmm... Based on this bl00mberg.com calculator, it would be really nice to have a matching contribution.

Anything cool going on the 14th-16th? I'll be there for sure this time. (I'm speaking at this conference.) I'll have some time to check out the city during the day on the 16th for sure. Am looking forward.

sincelery = food porn?

i just walked to walgreens to get claritin (why i didn't go to the much closer cvs is beyond me, other than i keep forgetting it's there) and i can confirm that it is indeed snowing in the ukrainian village. enough to dust the ice on the side of the road.

Kevin you missed it: we just had a wine and cheese soiree for the new hosting platform launch. There was easily 40lbs of cheese (hard, soft, stinky, gooey, all varieties) up there, plus pate, salami, fruit, and of course WINE. I want to go home now, and I think I will shortly.

Hi Sundar, the only thing I know for sure that's happening is that my band is playing a show on the 14th. But you'll probably be at the AACM thing that night. Come back next week, and I bet we'll have a better idea of things to do.

im sick, i get off work at 10pm and have an hour+ public transportation commute home :-((((((((

then have to leave for work @ 11am tomorrow

deej and jvc should get together and have a complain-off about work

damn, picked the right time to get sick.

also, it appears my apartment is unheated during the day. but it was starting to come on when i got back from the drug store. i've spent my day on my couch under my duvet trying (unsuccessfully) to sleep sitting up. if i lay down the sinus pressure is too much and i start coughing.

but i did make a big cheesy baked potato so it wasn't all bad.

i think we're going to see shellac that weekend. and isn't there some thrill jockey anniversary party all that weekend as well?

Rave for August: Osage County

If you are ever in San Francisco and are in a band (Nick, Sarah, John), you should play at The Make-Out Room, and I would highly recommend dinner with the predictibly debonair M. White.

that's right around the corner from my friend dan's place. should have told him you were playing....

if you were going to curate a summer film series to a general audience, using "los angeles" as your theme, what might you pick (pick 4, plus 2 backups). i was thinking:
LA Confidential
Heat
Chinatown
Boyz in d Hood
Shortcuts?
Killer of Sheep?
Collateral?

Obviously the choices here are infinitely, but what is appropriately middlebrow that it will still bring in a crowd?

I'd pick Collateral over Heat, just because of the shorter length. If the audience doesn't need to know the movies already, Echo Park and Miracle Mile are both middlebrow movies themselves, just not well known.

Oh! Laurel Canyon -- that would be a good one.

I didn't play the Makeout Room but saw the Sc0tland Yard Gosp Ch0ir there last weekend, surprised them by showing up. Afterwards, a block away, at almost midnight on Sunday night, I came across this thing called Classical Revolution at a coffeehouse/bar called Revolution. Absolutely packed little room -- four musicians (strings and piano) playing Mozart, but in this live, boisterous coffeehouse way. The room was mostly lit by music-stand lights.

that sounds like a very eazy moment.

what about LA Story for yuks?

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z128/ericzieg/coff1.jpg

appropriately middlebrow

lol "Crash"

Also:
The Player
The Big Lebowski
Boogie Nights or Magnolia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_from_L.A.

i just ran into jesse at the argyle station! i think i scared him.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090728/

1980s L.A. double feature: Into The Night and Body Double.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/6/69/Into_the_Night_.jpg/200px-Into_the_Night_.jpg

How did I miss the news that Kevin DuBrow died? Such a bummer you guys.

Oh, I was going to mention Big Trouble in Little China, but Wikipedia said it's set in San Francisco. I've never seen it. IMDB says L.A., though.

i just ran into jesse at the argyle station! i think i scared him.

Ha, I ran into Jesse and Katie last night at the gay bar around the corner from my house.

so i was in the kitchen and i noticed that one of the metal things that sits above the burner on the stovetop wasn't locked in place, so i went to shift it back into place, but i forgot i had JUST been using that burner to boil water and it was incredibly hot and i burned the dickens out of my thumb and index finger. this was like 3 hours ago and it still really hurts even though i've been icing my fingers all morning

not the good kind of icing either

nick and his dickensless fingers.

i was just coming here to say that i saw amanda at the argyle train station this morning and i'm still scared shitless.

arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
http://www.crocuta.net/weaselgrowling__tc-weasels-com_weasels-htm.jpg

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHGGGGGGGGGGG
http://crabwalk.com/pix/rodent.jpg

You look cute today, Amanda.

That second one is totally stuffed. Ick.

What I've had to eat today, by me:
* 2 pieces of cinnamon toast
* coffee
* a bagel with cream cheese (it was free at work!)
* a piece of chocolate (free treats at work!)
* hot chocolate

There are free treats at work from Thanksgiving to New Years. I am going to get so far on cookies and banana bread and coffee cake.

i've got a pretty gnarly thumb blister coming in

My power flickered 15 min before my alarm was supposed to go off, so I got a bonus 45 minutes of sleep :) :/. I've had some vanilla yogurt and coffee.

i just made cheese toast with cheddar cheese and herb chevre, it was nice. also on my third cup of coffee

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thanks you
http://www.mnh.si.edu/lewisandclark/images/long-tailed_weasel.jpg

burns like that suck. i get them too often because of clumsy.

Haha "far," I meant "fat."