Chicago: Steppin Out

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0YyUqUnZiU

I skipped the apostrophe in Steppin', since sometimes they turn into Steppin$R(*#$

O Amanda, I would've posted pt 2 instead if I'd seen it. This is for you. I suggest opening five separate windows and playing this slightly out of sync:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzc7iqR2-hA

From Belton v. Gebhart, Delaware Court of Chancery, 1952 (one of the cases that led to Brown v. Board of Education):

Claymont has many more extra curricular activities than does Howard. Thus, Claymont has a school newspaper, an Art Club, Drivers Club, Mathematics Club, Square Dance Club, Leaders Corps and an organization to tickle the imagination called "Tumbling Girls."

Claymont girls remain, to this day, well known for their tumbling tendencies.

WHOA that guy is scattin up a storm

I am just fascinated that there is "court of chancery" in Delaware. It sounds like some sort of mystical hermetic group that meets in a secret dungeon to perform black magic.

We have chancery here too.

since sometimes they turn into Steppin$R(*#$

Only if you paste it out of MS Word.

DE is not unlike Bleak House, environment-wise. Chancery courts, fog, urchins galore.

I have some very negative things to say about the people who handled the filing related to this big, dumb, ugly case and exactly how well they know their alphabet. It's like somebody vomited legal documents into a filing box.

Hey I just made a huge post on my library blog about the controversial public hold system at CPL that we talked about on CHILX a few months ago

I saw that, Nick. I like it.

Only if you paste it out of MS Word.

Seems to happen when I use Explorer as well, or at least it did when I started the Public Enemies thread.

Nick, where's your blog?

http://infinitemonkeys.tumblr.com

I swear I'm not going to post here every time I update it, I just thought people might be interested since we talked about it on an old Chicago thread.

Whatever, keep reminding us. As for me, I never check my Google Reader, so it's nice to see when there are updates to sites I like. Though I guess I get that from you on FB. So nevermind.

Just use your google reader.

Not that I mind Nick posting about his updates here, I just want Jesse to use technology better.

I don't really like it, though I don't know why not, exactly. It's just sort of meh.

You'd be proud of me for my extensive use of Google Docs and Gmail. I'm obsessed with them.

I love Google Reader now. I used to not love it when I had only subscribed to really boring library blogs but I gradually added fun stuff and now I have it open all day and read new entries as they come in.

I recommend that anyone interested in music and how it is created subscribe to David Byrne's blog btw.

I'm on it now. It just seems sort of overwhelming, I guess. The problem is with me, I'd say.

Oops - xp. I'm on Google Reader, not Byrne's blog.

Nick, I'm way ahead of you.

biked to work for the first time in 2010! didn't wear a coat!

OMG ok that rocks. Not that I could have done that even if I'd thought of it, but I wish I'd thought of it.

There were people out wearing shorts and sandals this morning.

I am going to bike to start biking to work, but I think I'm going to only go as far as Jackson, then park the bike and take the bus.

jesse why on earth would you do that? just bike all the way. how much further could it be? i'll tell you what, biking is vastly easier for me this year than it was last year.

Because I already had an admittedly semi-irrational fear of biking in traffic, and now that I've used up one of my nine lives on my head injury, I'm even more frightened.

I would take the lakeshore path all the way down, with only a few side streets between my house and there.

ah yes, that makes sense. i'm sorry :( you do have a good helmet yes? maybe you should look at heading south on a more westerly (less trafficky) route, and then cut east instead of heading down the lakefront?

i am thinking of getting a new helmet. any suggestions?

Why would I ride on a street when I have the lakefront path?

i will go on record as preferring the street. i know that in the past i have expressed a preference for the path, but i have changed my mind.

the path is full of commuters/olds/babies/strollers/dogs/joggers/people standing in the middle of the path and the bike lane is usually not nearly as crazy. in fact, it's usually not crazy at all.

also lakefront is windy/not shady in the summer.

lakefront is ok if i'm riding all the way downtown, but i rarely do that so i guess it's just not for me.

I've given up on my girlish dreams of being a bike commuter. Two people getting creamed by buses in my neighborhood kind of put a damper on my biking enthusiasm. I'm comfortable with this.

i live 12 miles from work but i'm looking forward to restarting my once-a-week bike commute

btw that david byrne blog is great

Fun facts about ME: I did not learn to ride a bike until I was seven or eight. I lasted about six months until I decided I hated it and stopped riding a bike until I was 17, at which point a bike became my main mode of transportation until I got my second car when I was 26.

On second thought, those facts aren't very fun.

Ditto (xp to being comfortable with not being a bike commuter, at least on the streets). It was a goal to become comfortable with street biking, but I am very OK without it now.

The lakeshore path may be full of people on bikes and with strollers, but they're not two tons, made of steel, and going 40 mph.

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/05/11/stroller%20bike.jpg

Haha - no need for a helmet for that lady - she's got the kids there to soften her impact.

http://www.manhattanagency.co.uk/artists/images/bb4.png

http://www.manhattanagency.co.uk/artists/images/bb6.png

Fun facts about ME: I did not learn to ride a bike until I was seven or eight.
Fun facts about ME: I didn't learn to ride a bike until I was 12, and I taught myself by riding up and down the driveway until I could do it three times without falling or wobbling. This was the year after the summer of stilts, so I knew I could do it. Once I learned to ride a bike, I didn't ever ride it anywhere because all of my friends lived 30 min away by car.

i was jealous of people whose parents taught them how to ride their bikes
maybe i still am

My dad, who felt that training wheels were a crutch that made children soft, taught me by running along with the bike while he hung on to the little handle on the banana seat and I shrieked at him not to let go. He let go, I fell, and now I have trust issues and don't ride a bike anymore.

Fun fact: there exists film (actual super 8, converted to DVD) of my first non-training-wheels bike ride when I was oh, maybe 5-6 years old? I rolled down a little hill in front of our house, rode around a tree, then ran out of momentum, stopped, fell on my balls on the top tube of the bike, then tipped over. Then I got up and ran around in circles holding my crotch. The camera captured all of this.

THERE IS A THING FOR THIS IT IS CALLED YOUTUBE

That was actually an xpost, but a very contextually appropriate one.

This is also an xpost.

Dan, I would give good money to see that movie. Make it happen.

I'm LOLing at just the visual of Dan's First Bike Ride. Dan. Dan. We need to see this.

haha i would also pay to see that

not much but i would pony up at least $3

My sister used to get kicks out of pulling out this video to play in front of my friends/girlfriends when I had them over.

I'll see what I can do about it, the thing is buried somewhere in my mom and dad's house.

by lost you mean "in the locked glass cabinet with the fine silver"

Where it belongs.

oh man i ruined my joek
nevermind

still though, what a nice fambly you have
one time i went to dan's house and his dad forced us to watch the video of d's performance in OLIVER!

Isn't it ironic how your need to control your bike caused you to have issues that now control you?

xp - Why have you not converted that to VHS??? And DVD???? And Youtube??? more xps

The only video the video I have of me of a child is when I went to space camp. Otherwise there is a family video somewhere out there documenting activities at our yearly hog killing.

We have some awesome footage of me standing around being 14 and bored and sullen while my family visits breathtaking ancient temples in India. My dad actually converted it from videotape to digital format so that we could relive these memories of me being a terrible ungrateful American teenager.

nothing of me as a KID-kid, but i have the following:

* a video from my friend's 16th birthday party where i look into the camera and say "someday i am going to be old and watch this and look at 15 year old me [she was 6 mo older than i was] and think this was a long time ago" and then when i was 23 or so, i watched it and was like WHOA but now i am genuinely much older and haven't seen this in years.

* a video of me giving a speech about my agoraphobic second cousin who committed suicide

also cue dan's (my dan) "my teenage movies blog" - - have you guys seen this?

haha. the only videos that might exist of young me are my black belt test and some footage of my first gig ever (with a terrible metal band at a teen center). who knows where those are though.

all vids collected here http://www.youtube.com/user/ddk75

this was actually on fairfield public access tv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YCgcx1S01g

luckily, afaik, my family never videotaped me as a child.

there are, however, several "movies" various friends and I made as teens:

1) "Eric's World" -- a wayne's world homage
2) some sort of gangsta rap inspired gunfight thing
3) this slacker movie where a hurricane comes to town but we are too busy smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee to care

parts of the slacker movie were later turned into a music video for the song "heroin"

in "Eric's World" do you extol the virtues of coffee, smoking, and not giving a fig?

I actually just found out that a childhood friend digitized videotapes of our old quiz bowl TV show apperances on public television -- junior and senior year of high school for me. Some of those are going to make it onto youtube for sure.

DK's movies are highly entertaining.

There are school band concert videos and I think one or two school play videos of me, but that's it, and I would bet good money that my parents chucked those a long time ago. We're not a very memento-focused bunch.

I will state for the record that Jeff's space camp video is one of the best things I have ever seen.

teenage dan k. is an awesome dude

OTM

Adult DK is also pretty awesome.

that is so obvious it doesn't even need stating

hey sure it does. love that guy. when he was in CA this past weekend he did a followup interview with Joe, one of his main actors in the highschool movies. the "nooooooooooooo" guy. (also dk insists that his movies should be viewed within the context of his blog which has wistful memories in with the fake blood but i didn't want to post b/c url has real name in it)

i have been cleaning my desk/area and WOW am i a slob

http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2010/news/100315/shelley-duvall-320.jpg

i was just wondering what happened to shelley duvall and i read that dave grohl would like her to play him in a nirvana biopic
perhaps this is 2 week old news, but i don't read people magazine, so it's news to me

I am proofing over 6000 abstracts for header style!

ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

srsly not a temp any more but I still do temp work this is BS

at least you can listen to music/podcasts while you do it?

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

what's that italian place that you guys are always talking about in logan sq?

The one my former landlords run? Buona Terra, corner of California/Logan Blvd.

Yes. Thank you.

Informal poll time!

I have a question for you all, because I was reading something about personal grooming and someone made the assertion that Brazilian waxes are so ubiquitous that he's never been sexually involved with a woman who did not have a Brazilian wax job, and that question is this: Do you personally know anybody who has had or regularly gets a Brazilian wax? Because I don't think I do, although I wouldn't be surprised to find out that some folks have tried it in the past.

I don't know the exact specifications, but I think I do, and if I'm right most all of you do too.

and I feel crepey writing that

Wow there's some pretty graphic pictures on wiki regarding this topic. But yes, I know at least one woman that regularly gets a Brazilian wax.

pretty sure i don't know any at the moment.

except for dan, apparently.

A Brazilian wax is the one where you get... how shall I put this (where is Jesse when I need him?) all of the hair between your belly button and your tailbone waxed away. So it's different than a bikini wax.

And FTR, I'm not judging, it just occurred to me that for something that was supposed to be so wide-spread (lol), I couldn't think of anyone who was a regular consumer of Brazilian waxing services.

http://photos-f.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc1/hs156.snc1/5813_143631626069_713441069_3838334_5185788_n.jpg

Haha, whoa, I was confused on which was which. I rescind my former comment, I don't know anyone currently that gets those. But I did know quite a few in college.

Me: have never done it, will never do it, fuck that shit
Other people: I think I know someone who's done it but we did not discuss it in detail

there was an interesting documentary about it too -- about women talking about their experiences -- horrifying

here you go:
http://jezebel.com/5300064/slap-ooorgh-pow-kaboom-rrrrip-film-explores-pubic-waxing

A couple women at C35 used to do it as a regular part of grooming. One of them was very matter of fact about describing to me how she had to lie face down, ass up (child's pose in yoga) with her anus very exposed.

I wonder if that guy knows what a Brazilian wax truly is? Maybe he is thinking about something else.

1. If he means exactly what he says, then he has
-not had truly casual sex
-paid really close attention
-asked too many questions
-doesn't know what he's talking about
-is totally full of shit

There is room for overlap.

I have attempted a self-waxing of the "Scrotum" (ball sac) and "slippery slope" (cha-cha-cha) and JURRRLFRIEND, that was so. fucking. awful.

(disregard that 1.)

I'm thinking maybe he was confused like me. I had my terms all messed up. I thought "Bikini" was, well, trimmed into the triangle to match the shape of a bikini and "Brazilian" was the landing strip. I was wrong. I'm wondering if he was thinking the same.

Jenny, is this someone we (or I, at least) know? Can you tell me who? Also, what do you think?

pretty sure i don't know any at the moment.

― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:54 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

except for dan, apparently.

― rinse the lemonade (Jordan), Tuesday, March 16, 2010 4:54 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

got me good, fucker! :)

in light of some of the updated definitions of this I'm not so sure any more, but I don't really want to talk abou tit

ATTENTION DAN M:
Hum is playing for free in the Pritzker Pavilion this summer
http://gapersblock.com/transmission/2010/03/16/awesome_downtown_sound_line-up_announced/

I'm not superexcited about any of those bands but I wouldn't mind seeing Besnard Lakes, Tony Allen or Konono No. 1.

Odd pairing with Kid Sister.

Jenny, is this someone we (or I, at least) know? Can you tell me who? Also, what do you think?

No, it was just some random a-hole (cha-cha-cha) on the internet. What do I think about what? Brazilian waxing? I think it's ridiculous and I am struggling to envision any scenario, short of some one standing there with $1,000,000 in cash to hand me on completion of my wax job, in which I would voluntarily submit to such nonsense.

xps I saw that a while back! Definitely going to check it out.

Let's be honest, I'd probably go as low as $10,000.

Hey, some of those bands are interesting!

AND IT FUCKING FIGURES that it's the same night as a show I really want to see @ Ronny's (Cheap Girls). FML.

I'll go see just about anyone (except She & Him) for free in Pritzker Pavilion, which is a really pleasant place to see bands IMO, I'm just not superjazzed about anyone on this year's lineup like I was with Dirty Projectors and the Feelies (who I missed) last year

I don't think "I live in a city where awesome bands come and play all the time" is a FML situation, honestly

The Pritzker shows are early, you might be able to see Hum and then jet over to Ronny's in time for Cheap Girls

I have a pretty high level of jazzedness about the Thermals.

I agree, it's def. possible to see both. I've just also missed both on occasions in the past, and them both being here on the same day seems a bit like a cruel twist of fate.

i think it would be fun to go to the she & him show and surreptitiously take pictures of people in various states of rapturous glee
i think we know the man for this job, and his name is kenan

Who is she and him?

zooey deschanel and that indie dude

Weird.

why is that weird?

got my census form y'all
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2793/4440127957_cf1b708ccd.jpg

us too

i haven't opened it. that was this morning when i checked the mail.

As did we. I think Jeff even mailed it in today.

do you think the US is ready to move forward now that you've sent it back? i sure hope so. did you know that individual responses are not available to the public for 72 years? (but after 72 years, they are?!) my mom told me that last week.

I received two. Is this normal?

two forms or one letter saying "a form is on its way!" and a form? i got the latter.
if you got two forms maybe one is for brenda.

I got one letter saying that my form is on its way. Then two forms.

I am expecting to get a form saying, we sent you those forms we told you about in that letter we sent earlier.

I sent it back because it's very important that all the straight, white, middle class Americans be counted. I'm tired of being underrepresented.

Introducing Albini, the Sandwich

I got my census form yesterday as well. Perhaps I will take a photo of myself with it. But later.

I received two. Is this normal?

If you ended up with two asses, then I'd worry. Two census forms is not a cause for alarm.

I sent it back because it's very important that all the straight, white, middle class Americans be counted.

Question #11: Who would you fuk?

It's officially spring the first time I leave the house without a coat and/or a sweater. Actually, I got a new spiffy track jacket in the post yesterday, so I'm wearing that. Interesting, because I didn't order that. But this is far better than what I ordered.

maybe it's b/c you got it in the post and not the mail like a genuine american

who are you anyway?

In the post?

kenan is now a britisher so he clearly cannot be counted in OUR CENSUS
OUTLANDER

xp bikes: my parents also thought that training wheels were the mark of a soft child, and I learned the same way as Jenny, albeit without the bike/trust issues. As a result, when I then rode a friend's bike, with training wheels, I promptly fell over and hurt myself because I did not understand how the training wheel part worked. I thought it was like a tricycle, but it was not, and threw me for a loop, and then over the handlebars.

xp brazilian waxing: I used to engage in brazilian waxing with some regularity. It can be completely bare, or it can involve the so-called landing strip. Though controversial, there were 2 very specific reasons that I enjoyed it. One was practical and related to burlesque. The other I am willing to discuss in private, but not on the interwebz.

http://www.boingboing.net/blind_rubik.jpg

i have been having weird olfactory hallucinations all day
first garlic, now something smells like it's burning

maybe this is all part of my slow transformation into a demon

In the post?

When you order Ben Sherman clothes, they come in the post, not in the mail.

One was practical and related to burlesque. The other I am willing to discuss in private, but not on the interwebz.

Desperately looking for a clip of Larry David making that hacking sound, after he got... that one thing... stuck in his throat.

oh noes pubes kill thread

I just went to get some tea and noticed a burnt plastic/ozone/electrical fire smell and by the time I got back to the office, the ISP made an announcement that the trains at Cl&La are accidentally filling the building with exhaust and fumes. I noticed that it was really hazy outside my window about ten minutes ago, so I guess there is something going on down there. Apparently this is no cause for concern, this building full of train fumes.

Please keep working please! No need for alarm!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ke7hRdpYw1I

Please keep working please! No need for alarm!

Yes! That is pretty much exactly what the announcement said! We got the same one when the post office caught fire.

pay no attention to tbe burning

wondering if this is gonna fuck up my ride home somehow

don't let it bring you down; it's just your workplace burning

God, Jenny. Lighten up, already.

Haha Amanda, that is good, and now I have Neil Young in my head, which is always appropriate for a workday.

Probably not, Dan. It sounds like things are moving along now, and I neither smell burning nor see smoke anymore.

neil looks really cute here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mU9_Q7PJuNQ&feature=related

in the video, not necessarily the screengrab

Embrace the snarl.

he has baby animal face par excellence

Dogs on a beach

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=norcsii#p/u/0/pkPNa4DBFHI

Did I give one of you my slow cooker? It's fine if I did, I'm not asking for it back, but I just can't find it and I remember thinking I was going to get a new one and get rid of that one. It seems like maybe only the first part happened.

You didn't give it to me.

i got my own slow cooker

You gave it to me. It is currently in my refrigerator, filled with amazing meats and vegetables, all ready to be portioned into tupperware.

Ah! I totally forgot! I need to follow through on the part where I buy one. I want one with a timer. It's strange - the one I gave you, Kenan, is 5 quarts (or 6?) but the slow cooker recipes i made were too big for it.

I just put things in it until no more things fit. Then I turn it on and wait.

you guys, alex chilton, i think it's true
so sad

link plz

aw shit, that sucks

I was going to say: speaking of things fitting in other things, here is my nephew Christopher

http://photos-b.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs473.snc3/25941_105568986133482_100000411424144_140199_5455886_n.jpg

No more salad from that bowl ever.

That is an awful, awful cute picture.

omg alex chilton :(

normally I don't care when famous people died but alex chilton

i know!! that man's music seriously quite literally changed my life!!!
sad

I'm trying to list in my head all the things the world would lack if it had lacked Alex Chilton. This could be a long-term project.

This is really upsetting, you guys.

indeed, but try to celebrate his life instead of mourning his death

I do just so happen to have all the Big Star records. I don't think I can jump right into Third/Sister Lovers right away, though.

all the Big Star records

envy my huge collection of three records.

i was gonna say, big star were not...say, rush :)

i used to have a live alex chilton cd somewhere but i think i lost it in a move. it was pretty good, when he was playing with those guys from the posies

What is an Alex Chilton song I would know? Youtube is not coming up with anything.

I thought at first you were talking about this guy

http://www.filmdope.com/Gallery/ActorsH/7725-17344.gif

Must show someone before it's too late!

http://imgur.com/RwKwi.jpg

Too good.

I'm going to put that on facebook. I will give you full credit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TF8fnoA1VNM

so maudlin, you guys
cried in the car on my way home from work, drinkin wine and trying not to cry myself to sleep

why is this so devastating? [not a real question, please do not attempt answer]

I've kinda decided that I can't listen to Big Star or anything Chilton-related at all tonight. It's just a mess of tears and runny nose.

I'm going to bed, damnit. There's nothing left for me today.

yeah i've gotta stop crying or i will have a monster headache tomorrow
NO MORE ballad of el goodo, which makes me cry anyway
luv u guys
luv you alex chilton

Yeah, god, I can't even try to listen "El Goodo" tonight.

it was a terrible idea

hugz
goodnight

phew! no more genuine human emotion for me this week. i've had JUST about enough of it.

Ease your mind:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rT1Kuy922c0

What is an Alex Chilton song I would know? Youtube is not coming up with anything.

He was the singer of the band Big Star. You would possibly know the theme to That '70s Show (a Big Star song covered by Cheap Trick) and maybe "September Gurls."

I tried to get into Big Star a few years ago and it didn't take.

RIP to a rock'n'roll legend, though.

i have heard two different people use the phrase "jolly good" on NPR this morning
WTF

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lINneylEo0U

I found this little pile of CDs the other day and I realized that for some reason these are my exam-grading albums:

Robert Wyatt, "Rock Bottom"
Bert Jansch, "Black Swan"
John Fahey, "Red Cross"

Old Dude, "Two Words"

If you grew up listening to oldies, you also most likely know "The Letter" by the Box Tops, for whom Alex Chilton was the lead singer (I think when he was like 16?):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD9mCp8SifM

i loved that song so much when i was a kid. it was on this "american bandstand" tape that also had "in the still of the night" and "at the hop" and i freaking loved all of those songs. in 6th gr three other girls and i did a lipsynch routine to "in the still of the night" and we were ROBBED by a couple of twins in the grade above me with their lipsynch routine to some stupid horrible chipmunks song.

we weren't even allowed in the talent show! that is a travesty! i was the lead singer and they were the sha-doot-n-doobie-doo backup singers.

these days 6th grade seems a little late to be doing something as lame as a lipsynch routine. couldn't we have played actual instruments or something? in retrospect, lame. but i don't remember anyone else having any genuine talents. there was the girl who sang "Zip a Dee Doo Dah" every single year, but come on. every year?

Remember the "Nate's Challenge" mix? It was basically to try to make a 790MB mp3 mix of your favorite songs ever. This is not even remotely possible, but I did manage to come up with 100 or so songs that I love.

Anyway, "The Letter" made that mix in the first round.

I also totally love that Box Tops video. It had to have been several years after that song made them all famous -- Chilton was 16 when he sang it the first time, and had a much sillier Beatles haircut. That clip is them all being so sick of the song that they're basically just goofing on it. Except for Chilton, who uses it as an opportunity to put his best "fuck me, I'm so hot" looks out front.

And he is SO. HOT.

I just had a conversation with a coworker that ended with me realizing that the source of our misunderstanding was that she doesn't understand what a URL is. Some people should not be allowed to leave the house, I swear.

Lots of people who don't leave their houses know all about URLs.

that video is all lol intense eye contact.

you guys last night one of my students typed her email address into her browser and then told me that her computer was broken.

xp I can't quite fathom that this is a person who ranks far above me in the department.

You've got it backwards, Jenny. xp

Those people who don't leave home are not a problem. It's the people who do leave home and who don't know what a (an?) URL is.

I can think of several people who ranked above me at the Press who didn't know what a URL is.

that makes me so sick I think I might URL

i was just listening to "the story" on wbez and it was about this guy who was trying to reunite the kinks, but then this other guy started to make a movie about this guy's quest to reunite the kinks, blablabla.

apparently part of the movie was the guy going to various musicians and letting them talk about their love for the kinks and possibly even play/sing a kinks song. many people refused, but some agreed to talk to him.

so

he was marveling, like over the top marveling, at his conversation with zooey deschanel because "she didn't just want to be in some guy's movie, she actually knew the music! we talked about b-sides and she just seemed like someone you would walk down to the record store with"

F U dude.

i find her rather annoying in general, but i am certainly not surprised that she knows the words to "david watts"

I am a dull and simple lad
Cannot tell water from champagne
And I have never met the queen...

Oh wait I forgot the most important first lyric:

"Nice and smooth."

http://fluxion23.com/images/nicensmooth.gif

haha

Something Else is so so all-time.

i just dug mine up -- haven't listened to it in forever, but have been totally obsessed with arthur for the last few weeks. i think jude law needs to make ARTHUR the MUSICAL pronto.

yes sir, no sir is so fun to sing in the shower

"Death of a Clown" is my jam.

that's a good one. that's a dave davies song, isn't it? he wrote some good ones. "love me til the sun shines" etc

The trainer of insects is crouched on his knees
And frantically looking for runaway fleas

^ How great is this?

And yeah, that's a Dave song.

I got into the Kinks via J3ff L3sch3r of Gr33n, who burned me a copy of Something Else. He also got me into the Beach Boys when he gave me a copy of Smile demos.

srsly nice outside u guyz

weatherection

I walked the dog and did not wear a jacket! Only a short sleeved T-shirt. Woo.

Nabisco finally figured out a way to make Oreos palatable: Peanut butter filling!

omg that just made my stomach lurch. gross.

Whaaaaaa?? Peanut butter and chocolate! You sound like Tim's sister.

Nabisco OTM.

Now if only we can fix the problem of "Oreo teeth".

Jenny, I think you and Leslie are gaslighting me.

Bill Callahan is playing two shows at the Hideout on Apr. 10. Tickets are $20 but it's a benefit show. I don't have the money for this but I'm probably going to go anyways.

I guess that message was for Jeff? I don't know if anyone else cares about Bill Callahan.

I've never even heard of her.

I'm Jesse, and I don't hear about people.

it's the dude from Sm0g

My benefit money this month all went to send Neal Pollack to school to be a yoga instructor.

well it's NEXT month OK!?!?!?!?!?

sorry I just had iced coffee

Yeah, cold-brewed coffee is a kick in the head. Gotta love it.

I think I just have a very specific idea of what I want to happen between the chocolate layers of an Oreo brand sandwich cookie and peanut butter, which I am kind of iffy about to begin with, is not part of my Oreo-related world view.

also: lol jaymc, good one!

Oreos used to also come with a lemon-flavored filling. That's just not right.

ew ew ew
i just don't like oreos very much unless they are mushed up in a DQ blizzard

Thing that I hate: content writers and department managers revising copy dozens of times, and taking their sweet time doing it, but not changing the deadline to reflect how much time they ate up arguing over commas and shit. So that by the time it gets to me, it's a freakin' emergency.

I hate that.

Yes. A failure to plan ahead on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part. Except that it does.

Peanut butter Oreos - Oreo teeth = Nutter Butters

xp I guess no one should be surprised at the direction that the shit rolls re: the hill.

buy Laura Palmer's house:
http://www.redfin.com/WA/Monroe/534-S-Lewis-St-98272/home/2450728

That is so cool. I would have nightmares forever if I lived there.

Also that entire house is cheaper than many Chicago condos.

but you have to live with BOB hiding behind your couch

no way no how would i be able to sleep in that house
i have been having bob nightmares since the early 90s!!

oh god Bob.......... We just watched the episode with what I really hope is the worst Bob scene ever (because if there is a more brutal Bob scene coming up, I very sincerely don't know if I can deal) and oh god. Bob. I watch some horror movies, and seriously, the scene from I think it's the end of the first ep of season two, when Bob comes crawling over all the floral print furniture into the camera is one of the scariest things I have ever seen on any movie or television show. (The Worst Bob Scene Ever (Hopefully) was scary, but it was more horror, as in I felt the actual emotion of horror watching it happen, whereas Bob creeping across the furniture was just fucking terrifying.)

The day after we watched the creeping Bob episode, I was coming down the elevators here and I saw a guy in a jean jacket with long gray hair standing around in the atrium and I involuntarily shuddered a little. I mean, I know that isn't Bob, but what if it is Bob??!?!?!?!?jl;aksdjf;alksdjf;aklsdfj

A native of central California, Frank Silva majored in theater at San Francisco State University where he received a master's degree in light design. He worked with director David Lynch on several of his movies (Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart) as a prop master and set decorator. While Silva was working on fixing up the set for the character Laura Palmer's bedroom in the pilot episode for Twin Peaks, Lynch decided that Silva should be Bob after accidentally filming him in a reflection in a mirror which this long-haired, prematurely gray man gave Lynch himself a jolt because of his sudden frightening appearance.

i shudder every time i see a bob lookalike! seriously! i felt traumatized by that floral furniture scene, that's how scary it was when i first saw it. subsequent viewings have not reduced the scary. at all.

it still makes my heart skip even reading about it
right up here with people talking about "alternative dentistry" for horrifyingness

Jenny I feel like Twin Peaks gets a little goofier and less scary after the point where you are now (I could be wrong, we're behind you on our TP rewatching schedule), but then the last episode is pretty creepy. Fire Walk With Me is creepy too.

Oh, I thought you and Sarah had watched the whole series! I'm sorry. I hope I didn't spoil anything.

We watched the whole series a few years ago, we're just gradually rewatching it now. So you didn't spoil anything.

Okay, good. And I'm actually glad if it gets a smidge goofier because I was a little reluctant to keep watching after the Worst Bob Scene Ever (Hopefully). Although it's hard to imagine anything goofier than Deputy Andy covered in scotch tape.

Is there still a ceiling fan at the top of the stairs in that house? That would be the dealbreaker for me.

Haha, why?

I agree that it gets goofier. It was almost boring after WBSE(H).

Because it's creepy!

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/pics/reference/fan1.jpg

i thought maybe NO CEILING FANS was your NO WIRE HANGERS

i like goofy twin peaks

The ceiling fan IS creepy. It's like the ottoman. David Lynch can make common household items terrifying.

could we talk about something else now?

anyone have any interesting trips planned for the summer?

(sorry i am starting to get bobfear)

Maybe Portland in June or July.

i am considering a trip to great smoky mtn natl park in june/july
some kind of road trip that could include a dog.

Making a surprise visit to my mom on mother's day. Of course the last time I talked to her, she told me that she had a dream that I came to visit her as a surprise (and she wanted to make mimosas to celebrate but she couldn't find the champagne and the orange juice in the fridge was so old that the carton was collapsing in on itself) so... way to ruin everything with your psychic abilities, MOM.

Courtney and I are planning on meeting Brian Z. in NOLA sometime this summer. And I'm going to Mexico sometime. Probably fall.

niiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiice

We are taking a big road trip in late May-early June. Driving down to Asheville to hang with my parents for a few days, then over to Lynchburg VA for Sarah's sister's wedding. Then the baby is coming and we're never traveling again (j/k).

Did I tell you guys my sister is pregnant too? She is about two months behind us.

Hey I forgot to tell you guys the hilarious thing that happened to me this morning.
I was biking across Ridge on Glenwood and I was trying to accelerate, so I was standing-pedaling and my foot slipped off the pedal and I fell HARD on my crotch on the seat, like BOOMP. This is in the middle of the intersection too, and I howled like a wolf because it hurt REALLY BAD.

bonus: was wearing a skirt! did not fall off bike, kept going, not in pain anymore.

oh! yeah for your sister! how nice to have cousins of the same age.

i'm going to barcelona!

woooo!

also JAYMC HAS NEWZ Y'ALL

I've got some soccer tourism planned, unfortunately not to the World Cup...

Yeah, I just posted on Facebook: I'll be on Jeopardy! on July 26.

It feels weird to announce it now b/c it's still over four months before the show will air. But it's also a crazy thing that I just did, and I'm still thinking about it.

YES!!!!!!! I am so excited!

oh man, wtg

That is awesome!

haha yes

Thanks dudes.

* can you talk about the process or not?
* what kind of awesome shoutouts are you going to give during your introduction?
* how many changes of clothes do they tell you to bring?
* are you studying and if so how?

I can't wait to find out what you offered as your Relatable Anecdote.

Clarification: I already taped the show -- it's not airing until July!

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!

sorry i am tupid

But I will answer your questions:

1. Yes, I can talk about The Process™.
2. I submitted a few anecdotes, and before the show, one of the contestant coordinators asked me which one I wanted to talk about. I said I thought meeting Obama would be a good one. The coordinator said, "OK, that sounds good, but I have to warn you, Alex has been really into crossword puzzles lately, so don't be surprised if he asks you about that instead." (Alex apparently has final say.) Sure enough, that's what I was asked about.
3. They tell you to bring two changes of clothes in addition to the outfit you wear to the studio.
4. I studied by reading the Dictionary of Cultural Literacy and by watching as many episodes as I could find online.

i am so proud of you! for real.

If you tell people the outcome of the show, does Alex Trebek come and break your knees? Or do they outsource that?

Not sure.

would you be opposed to me starting a thread for this specifically? I think the ILX massive would like to know about it. But you may want to start one yourself or wait until closer to the air date or not have one, and that is cool too.

Hmmm, I thought about just reviving the "will this guy on Jeopardy ever lose?" thread. But I also thought about waiting until closer to the air date. I dunno. I suppose if you started it, it would feel less like BRAGGIN' 2010.

ha I think it's something that you could be forgiven for bragging about

So, jaymc, I've never met you or anything, but dan m just told me the jeopardy thing via IM - congratulations, first off.

So how did it all happen? Just curious how you heard and everything. I had an in-person audition in Portland two years ago and never heard a thing from them, took the online test again this January and felt like I didn't do very well and subsequently heard nothing about a follow-up. Alas, there's always next year.

I'd say good luck and all but having already taped it that probably isn't very practical.

Hi joygoat.

I took the online test in January 2008 and was called for an in-person audition in June 2008. Was told that I'd be in the pool for 18 months, so when December came and went, I figured that was it. So I, too, took the online test again at the end of January (and also felt I didn't do as well as I had two years ago). But then about a month ago, I got a call and they said they wanted me to come out for a taping. Apparently it was the last week of taping for the season, so I think I probably just barely made it in.

My in-person audition was March of 2008 so I figured it was long over for me too; maybe you did better than you thought on the most recent online one and since they already had you on file they didn't need to do another.

Anyway, that's really cool you got on. Good job etc.

looks like new episodes aren't easily available online?

No, it's kind of annoying. I found some from a few months ago here.

JAYMC on JEOPARDY

Jesus, I hope that VCR works.

PLEASE remind us in advance. I want to get Courtney to DVR it.

don't you have a calendar, jesse? i marvel at people who are able to not keep calendars these days. i can't remember shit, esp shit i don't want to do, like go to meetings. my schedule is a little weird, though, so i guess that's why i have to write stuff down.

Are you fucking me? I have a calendar! I rely on my Google calendar for everything.

Unless you're going to be home at 3 p.m. on a weekday you're going to have a watch a taped/DVR'd version anyways

Are you fucking me?

ps i have sarah's due date on my calendar too
not fucking u btw

ARE YOU FUCKING MY MOUTH?

lol

maybe i'll call in sick that day. make some beats, go for a run, watch jaymc on tv. sounds like a nice july 26th.

maybe i'll have a baby too, you never know.

Every now and then I think that maybe, if I were in the right relationship and settled down, MAYBE I might have a kid.

Wouldn't that be something?

I have Sarah's due date on my calendar, too!

Totally stifling lols at "are you fucking me?"

IT IS REALLY SHITFUCKING NICE OUTSIDE.

just biked home, sweated, did not fall on my balls

I wish I smoked on days like this. There would be nothing better than going outside and smoking in the cool sunshine.

Oh Amanda, I forgot about your accident. Is your vagina OK?

well, thanks for asking. my vagina feels mostly ok, but i can't say it feels 100%. general area feels sorta bruised. balls hurt.

Bruised vagina, on my shoulder, makes me happy.

it's not the vagina that's bruised. it's like, my pelvic bone or something. THE BAGINA IS INSIDE, JESSE.

not "the bagina is inside jesse"

comma humor

i am not a fan of comma humor

Well, I'm not going to start talking about labia.

that would not be toward

i will change the subject

what are you doing in barcelona, jordan?

Has Google Buzz merged with Reader somehow? I'm too sleepy to figure this out.

chillin'. i'm taking my sabbatical from work (it's our incentive for staying here over 5 years), finishing up my album during the first two weeks of may and then going to barcelona with the gf for vacation. i think we're going to try and hit grenada and somewhere on the coast of portugal too.

sweet! nice that you get to do some traveling/vacay that is not with a bunch of dudes.

right? it'll be a new experience for me. nothing against dudes.

I have lots of things to look forward to!

Monday: Figaro! Figaro! Figarooooo!
Next weekend: sewing class
April: David Sedaris
April: Xiu Xiu
Soon: The annual shaving of Brenda
Sometime: 90 min. Swedish massage ($40 instead of $165 on Youswoop)

this weekend: MN
next weekend: NJ (unless MLS players go on strike)
following week: moving
April: gf visit, Sox, Fire
May: Balitmore to meet nephew
June: UP

April: gf visit, Sox, Fire

should be Sox/Twins, due to gf fandom

And so it would seem that Chicago has spring fever. I leave you people alone for three hours, and come back to find you're all fucking each other.

if any of you are fucking me w/o my knowledge, stop it

Jesse, I snagged this off the shelf of the popular library and thought of you:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51PGLB2EBbL._SS500_.jpg

I'll let you know how it is.

i'm going to iowa city next weekend for d's work series series at the movie theater where he used to work and then nyc in 2 weeks

Next week: Living downtown for 7 days and getting paid for it. (Dogsitting at my boss' condo.)

she told me I could feel free to use her house in Michigan too, but I don't think I'm going to bother.

xp - oh! unfortunately I lost my cassette recordings, otherwise I'd let you borrow them.

Haha, Amazon says that Ackroyd's retelling of the C-bury Tales is often bought together with Wolf Hall, and now I feel very predictable in my taste in literature.

Jesse, just call me randomly and start reciting the prologue. Wait, you already do that.

Shit. I can't remember it. When I try, all that comes up is the part of Finnegans Wake that I can quote.

Well don't you know, or haven't I told you, every nizzle has a dizzle, and that's the shezizzle and the hezizzle of it.

http://irishsnoop.ytmnd.com/

that broke my ears

Oh, I have the sound turned off at work so I have no idea what it sounds like. I just did a GIS search for "Irish Snoop Dogg" and lo.

i made the mistake of clicking, my fault :(

and yes I said yes I will yes yes y'all

For a ytmnd, it's not so scary sounding.

xp hahaha John

y'all

Speaking of labia, my ex-bf has a close-up picture of his infant daughter's labia on his FB pictures, such that it crops out the kids head. It is really weird.

Note: I do not think he's a pedo. I do think he's an anti-vax, ridiculous hippie naturopath so I don't know if this is just a terrible uploading mistake or some kind of attempt to honor the flower of his baby's womanhood, but it is just really odd.

There are more traditional naked baby pictures after the close-up, so I am really hoping this is just an auto-zoom mistake followed by an uploading mistake.

WHOA that is beyond odd
it is super wrong

i sure hope it's a mistake

In less o_O news, I have 13 stoods in my next class so I'm going to be rich! RICH!!!!!!!

That Irish Snoop thing is infinitely worse because the music behind is patched together horribly.

ooh that reminds me jenny i have to ask you something

IT IS REALLY SHITFUCKING NICE OUTSIDE.

No more.

Unless you're a polar bear. Then it's still shitfucking nice outside.

Chicago weather is really mean. 65 and sunny all week, then on the first day of spring, and a Saturday... this.

FU TS. March is the cruelest month.

Basically November thru April are all tied for the cruelest month.

An RFI wrapped in a trivia question. These bands all have something in common.

Pere Ubu
The Breeders
Devo
Dead Boys
The Isley Brothers
Afghan Whigs
Nine Inch Nails
Guided By Voices

Can you think of more? There must be hundreds.

I'm making a mix, is why I ask.

Do the Pretenders count, or is that kind of a borderline case?

Ohio bitches! Scrawl, and yes chrissie hynde counts!!

One or two members from the cramps, rocket from the crypt, death of Samantha, black keys if you must.

Any band featuring Robert Quine

Rubber city rebels
Rocket from the tomb? Can't remember what they're called tbh

thomas jefferson slave apartments
royal crescent mob

lou barlow's sister got married in the chapel of my ohio college -- i think he was originally from dayton?

RFTC is an excellent call, thank you.

black keys if you must

haha

I mustn't

Wait -- RFTC is San Diego. So is Drive Like Jehu, that whole scene. I got over-excited.

there's jim shepard / v-3 / vertical slit

rocket from the tombs -- that's another band

not including scrawl would be a terrible idea

bobby burg (now a chicago indie dude) is from akron and used to hang out with a buncha my friends
i think he goes by love of everything?

also Times New Viking and Psychedelic Horseshit

and probably a lot of other Siltbreeze bands past and present?

really?!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1394/548681236_f22f855bbb.jpg

why are you making an ohio mix, kenan?

black keys are a huge band, though, so ignoring them is kinda lame

why are you making an ohio mix, kenan?

It came up in conversation how so much awesome has come from Ohio. I don't remember how it came up.

black keys are a huge band, though, so ignoring them is kinda lame

Not as lame as, say, ignoring Devo.

have you considered the OHIO PLAYERS?

i hope it came up because you were talking about how awesome i am hahahahaha ha

ha

also please do not front with me about ohio

The Ohio Players occurred to me in about .003 seconds, but I'm still debating over whether it's too obvious. Or too shitty.

xp Nobody is frontin'. Settle.

chrissie hynde has a vegan restaurant a couple miles from my parents' house and they serve a lot of fake meat there.

Humanity has made huge steps forward in fake meat in the last 20 years.

What I got so far:

1. Pere Ubu - Wasted
2. The Breeders - Safari
3. The Dead Boys - Sonic Reducer
4. The Pretenders - Middle of the Road
5. Devo - Blockhead
6. The Isley Brothers - Live It Up (pts. 1 & 2)
7. Afghan Whigs - 66
8. Guided by Voices - Tractor Rape Chain

This all plays very well so far.

Don't forget Bone Thugs

Apparently the lyric of "Middle of the Road" is "I'm standing in the middle of life with my pains behind me." Not pants? I was surprised to learn this. It really sounds a whole lot like pants.

apparently The O'Jays were originally from Canton.

You should have something from a Whigs album when they actually lived in Ohio. Milez is Dead?

Also, cannot forget the Ass Ponys, the band with the worst name ever.

There is a Whigs song there.

i know, but it's a latter day whigs song, and therefore less Ohioey

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skMxfV2ryx0

Also there's Great Plains, who were some sort of pre-Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments group

TS: "Milez is Dead" vs. "Rebirth of the Cool"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ6_4tGuqfc

if you can find scrawl's song "rot" and give it to me i would be very happy. somewhere on some tape i have the whigs covering it and it's so good

so you mean disco version vs guitar version? i like the disco version

Moi aussi.

The Whigs covering "Creep" by TLC is fucking genius.

all of their covers are good -- if you've never heard the uptown avondale EP you must

Also the cover of "Band of Gold" just tears your heart out and throws it on the floor.

al green's "beware" is just wow
that whole ep is magical

xp - The disco version of "Milez is Ded" is from the Uptown Avondale EP.

Don't front with me about the Afghan Whigs.

i know "gentlemen" is the album everyone's heard, but it's not the best representation of what makes them awesome by a longshot

sorry dude -- maybe you downloaded some weird lonely tracks

do you have the what jail is like ep? good covers there too but i'm not fond of mr superlove.

maybe you downloaded some weird lonely tracks

I'm lost. I have, or at least used to have, hard copies of all this stuff.

Best Whigs album is 1965, Black Love is 2nd, Gentlemen is 3rd. So sayeth.

black love, gentlemen, congregation, 1965 (2nd half sucks), that crappy first album with retarded on it
so sayeth me

The second half of 1965 does not suck in any way, it just doesn't have the hooks of the first half.

Which is fine! Black Love is a whole album without hooks, and yet it's fookin' perfect.

i'm leaving the computer so i'll have to let you win this argument FOR NOW

but you cannot argue with LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE DON'T YOU EVER GO AWAY

Fair enough.

This mix is now titled "fROMOHIO" so a little fIREHOSE is u+k.

Do you think i'm beautiful?
Or do you think i'm evil?

I think "Gentlemen" and "Exile in Guyville" are equal and opposite each other, and not just because they came out with a few months of each other. People made some big deal about comparing "Exile in Guyville" to the Stones album, but they were all missing the point of everything entirely. "Gentlemen" is the record that "Exile" is responding to.

"You're an asshole whose opinions are informed by your being a victim of women. Somehow. It's unclear how that works. But moving along, I'm an opinionated bitch whose opinions are informed by feeling like a victim of men. But we are both self-aware enough to realize that we are victims of ourselves.

"Let's fuck."

it's hard to walk in a dress, it's not easy
i'm spinning over like a heavy loaded fruit tree

(pj harvey is the antidote to all of that ^^ bs)

You put it on. Put it on.

like a heavy loaded fruit tree

Such a great metaphor.

I don't think Dry and Rid of Me get enough credit, even if PJ Harvey made a name on their reputation. Those are amazing records.

"I'll make you lick my injuries"

i'm the king of the world

Finest moment for OH: end of Bone Thugs "Thuggish Ruggish Bone" when the singer goes "Cleeeeeeveelaaaaaand, definitely innnn the houuuuuse."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tzSjtuMGOQ

"Rid of Me" and "In Utero": Albini's two finest moments. Also in the same year. 1993 was kind of awesome.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1xf_RWhwso

Last one, but good choice for an instrumental interlude would be Cincinnati's Fat Jon The Ample Soul Physician:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYb_BsQRkrQ

Ohio may need a box set before it's all over.

I wish someone would help me find the Jamie Stewart Interview I'm looking for. In it, he talks about the events of the night he got his chin scar. Anyone know what I'm talking about?

WHAT'S UP

We're all going to be hauled in front of socialist death panels to undergo forced abortions.

and our small businesses are going to fail and our children are going to suffer in the future

uh huh

UH THERE WILL BE NO CHILDREN BECAUSE THEY WILL ALL BE ABORTED, duh.

Also Obama's March Madness brackets ain't lookin' so hot.

Someone suggested Pelosi at the end of the night just pick up the mic and say "Scoreboard, bitches."

Obama's bracket hit the crapper when Kansas lost on Saturday.

I am curious about what the right wingers are going to do when there are not actually death panels or forced abortions and when small businesses don't actually go under due to insurance reform. I am assuming they are going to just make some shit up and get their panties in a twist about that.

It's weird, I am actually incredibly ambivalent about the HCR bill, but I am kind of excited that it passed because it pisses off republicans and because I still kind of "identify" with democrats.

and Jenny, I agree, it doesn't really matter what actually happens -- republicans and reality are not on speaking terms anymore

Honestly, judging from Facebook statuses this morning, we apparently passed a bill last night that enables a new holocaust. I've never seen to many "we're f***ed" and "there goes the country" updates in my life.

They will insist that death panels exist and have taken away grandmas and that there is a special payroll withholding specifically to fund abortions.

jon you must to be friends with a weird group of people on facebook, seems like you always get a lot of conservative backlash messages. I haven't seen much of anything of that ilk, and I'm friends with some of Sarah's ultraconservative extended relatives (though they seem to keep their politics off FB most of the time).

i've seen a few of those "omg holocaust" messages and not a single one has a single sentence without grammatical errors.

unintentional grammatical errors

Tonight at Ronny's:

The Bats
The Plugs
Ultraconservative Extended Relatives
Misty
Unintentional Grammatical Erorrs (DJ set)

dude, for a second I thought the bats were actually playing and I was excited

Well, growing up in central Illinois means a disproportionate number of old high school people and family members are really conservative. I thought I'd hidden or deleted most of them, but they are popping out in force today, including some people I'd thought were smarter than that.

i've had a third grade beef ca. 1983 rear its ugly head on fb this weekend! anything can happen, people

I am actually incredibly ambivalent about the HCR bill, but I am kind of excited that it passed because it pisses off republicans

Me, too! And also because it's something.

Sarah's relatives mostly just post bible verses, which isn't that big a deal. The two guys who I went to middle school in Yugoslavia with who I'm now FB friends with both seem like weird gun nut cigar-smoking republicans but generally aren't too obnoxious. I guess I'm lucky.

we watched the Twin Peaks episode with Bob crawling over the sofa last night. I forgot that comes in the same scene where James, Maddie and Donna sing the weird 1950s-style love song and James' singing voice is magically about two octaves higher than his speaking voice.

need to buy twin peaks boxed set soon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFUGZpKXWiI

that cuts off JUST before the Bob appearance so you can watch it safely

Oh man, yeah, I got some good LOLz out of Jame's singing voice. That whole song is just weird and wrong and terrible and great.

best anti-HCR fb update from any of my people:

I can't believe the health care went though......that is crazy....It makes me mad...they are trying to take control over our lives and taking away our freedom..... its all bull shit.... Can't wait unitl we vote again..we need to vote them out.... busy day....

admittedly there's no mention of "holocaust", spose you have to know the person

just wait until the government bans ellipses

need to buy twin peaks boxed set soon

If you just want to watch it and not own it, you can borrow ours.

thanks, but I'm pretty sure sara is intent on owning it and also probably prominently displaying it

I think the only anti-HCR post in my FB feed is someone I went to high school with who joined the group "I bet we can find 1,000,000+ people who disapprove of the Health Care Bill."

HIGH FIVE to Sara.

I am also intent on owning it one of these days. JEFF: remember this desire in November when my birthday rolls around.

The kid is gonna be raised on SpongeBob minus the Sponge.

I've got a good one!

"I am all for healthcare reform, it is ridiculously overdue. I believe that everyone should have the right to affordable healthcare including the choice to opt for alternative medicines; Chiropractic, Massage Therapy, Accupuncture, Homeopathy, etc. ...BUT...BUT...I don't want my government deciding anything for me. Especially not what coverage is right for me!!! I feel like American Freedom just took a sucker punch. I don't want government in my health care. This is crazy!!"

This debate came up at my mom's house this weekend, with my uncle being pretty much the only anti-HCR person there. I did my best to stay out of it, but really had to laugh when my step-dad accused him of being uninformed about the bill and he responded, with complete sincerity, "but I AM informed, I watch two hours of FOX news every day!".

This status update/response is my favorite though:

FB Friend: Hey, maybe now I have health insurance!
First comment: Or socialization

lol

Yeah, the debate with my FB friends is whether it's good enough as a compromise.

Yeah, I'm generally staying out of it, although I did respond to the first status I posted because this is someone that I know to be generally reasonable and intelligent. I think she is just misinformed.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/what-health-bill-means-for-you/?hpid=topnews

This is a really good link.

xp the majority of my fb friends are the same way, Eric, with a heavy contingent of "Thanks for the healthcare reform, except for the part where the democrats fucked over women again" sentiments, which is pretty much where I fall, too.

still sorta embarassed that Bart is my home rep, it's like he's a fucking sleeper cell or some shit

I ended the debate with my old roommate very quickly this morning:

Him: "I just don't want the government getting involved in my day-to-day life. It isn't their place to tell me what insurance I need or what doctors to see. I will continue to do everything I can to keep the federal government from affecting my life."
Me: "Don't your kids go to public school?"

Hasn't responded in over 2 hours now.

Plus the friend went on to talk about how she can't change the government, but she can change her health insurance provider, and she doesn't want the government to prevent her from changing her health insurance company if she wants to. So I had to point out that anybody who gets insurance through an employer can't actually change their healthcare provider, which she should know as she is an employee who does not buy her own health insurance. Plus that whole "voting" thing re: changing the government. I don't know. There's some disappointing willful ignorance in there, too.

There is also nothing in the HCR bill that mandates what insurance a person needs or what doctor that person can see. There is, however, PLENTY of existing internal insurance rules that do mandate that. PEOPLE ARE NOT BEING LOGICAL.

still sorta embarassed that Bart is my home rep, it's like he's a fucking sleeper cell or some shit

― he takes the account of everything in the universe into consideration (dan m), Monday, March 22, 2010 11:22 AM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

this dude sucks but tbf my understanding is that he kind of saved the bill at the last minute. the repubs tried to break shit up by trying to pass stupak's tougher abortion wording at the last minute, but stupak said "no way jose, you guys are just trying to confuse the issue" and supported the original deal, so I guess that's somewhat of a point in his favor.

that is all based on a two-minute story I heard on NPR while driving to Evanston this morning so sorry if it's wrong

After the vote to adopt the Senate version of the healthcare bill was taken, and the bill passed by a 219-212 margin, the Republicans made what is called a “motion to recommit,” which would have sent the bill back to committee to readopt the Stupak amendment to prohibit taxpayer funding for abortion under the bill.

Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) and Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Penn.) both spoke about the need to prevent abortion and save the lives of babies, but Rep. Bart Stupak accused them of being “disingenuous.” Saying that the purpose of the motion was “to deny health care to 32 million Americans,” Stupak said, “This motion is to politicize life, not prioritize life.” The motion to recommit failed.

but yeah he still sucks

he kind of saved the bill at the last minute

Yeah, after being an obstructionist douchebag for the year prior, especially since there are already laws in place prohibiting the use of federal funds for abortion services. The Stupak Amendment did nothing new; it just angried up the Compulsory Pregnancy Advocates and gave them a rallying point for their knee-jerk opposition.

I mean, if I spent a year punching you in the face every time I saw you, and then suddenly stopped punching you in the face, you really shouldn't act like I did you a favor.

There is also nothing in the HCR bill that mandates what insurance a person needs or what doctor that person can see. There is, however, PLENTY of existing internal insurance rules that do mandate that.

Yeah, there's plenty not to like about employer-sponsored health insurance, but Obama didn't invent that. In fact, that should be an argument in favor of more sweeping changes!

but yeah he still sucks

― congratulations (n/a), Monday, March 22, 2010 11:41 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Sorry. I hate that motherfucker and I bristle at anything resembling a defense of him or his bullshit.

In fact, that should be an argument in favor of more sweeping changes!

I know!!! That's why the logic fail just makes me want to weep.

i bought the Twin Peaks Soundtrack Vol 2 JUST FOR THAT SONG
togeeeether
foreeeeeever

in looooooooooooooooooove

it's hilarious

i want all the miami vice soundtracks

Jenny, otm re: Stupak. Still, I'm glad he ended up voting yes, but I'm not going to throw him a parade or anything.

From a purely political science/representative government standpoint, however, I will say that Stupak's opposition to abortion is a view widely held by his constituents--so, at the very least, he wasn't putting forth a personal agenda at odds with the folks who put him in office. Unlike some other folks I could name.

And, I agree that the bill doesn't go nearly far enough, but, man, it does make some great strides in areas that will positively affect a lot of people I know and love.

this healthcare shit is not hilarious
but i agree with kucinich in that passing this bill keeps the conversation going and that's better than another 50 years of no one doing shit about it

i cannot express how tired i am of hearing people talk about abortion

Best Miami Vice (TV series) song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCqmpq2rEUI

Hmm. Maybe this one works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NiZxwdNvAI

Nick, have you seen The Limey? It kind of out-Miami Vice-s Miami Vice, as far as music and editing and revenge.

that song was great until that dude started singing

Love The Limey.

Ha! I used to really like that song. I always equate it with Would it Be Good, by Nik Kershaw. They were both out in 1984, so I'm pretty sure they were on heavy MTV rotation at the same time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvC2LRTR8UI

Wouldn't It Be Good, rather.

The "Voices" video I first saw on some mid-morning PBS show that taught phonetics by captioning the lyrics to music videos. They showed that one a lot, as well as Sparks' "With All My Might."

Crazy list of songs Russ Ballard wrote.

I have seen The Limey, it was a while ago though.

Love the scene in the Miami Vice pilot where Tubbs (undercover as a drug buyer) sings along manically with Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me" in a "strip club" (where the women dance in sexy lingerie but do not actually strip)

"wouldn't it be good" was on the pretty in pink sdtk right?
ha

I don't think I know any of the songs on that Ballard list other than "God Gave Rock and Roll To You" (when Sarah and I saw "the Zombies" (actually the singer and keyboard player from the Zombies with anonymous session musicians backing them) a few years ago, they played this song, as Rod Argent of Argent was also in the Zombies)

http://www.nypl.org/blog/2010/03/17/stuff-teen-age-2010-highlight-monster-variations

awesome!!

today is angelo badalamenti's birthday apparently

Hey, are we going to have a Special Edition Thursty Thursday with Guest Star Ken C? I need to get my schedule in order for the week.

i am going to see the runaways movie on thurs
sorry ken c

(out of town this weekend and next, want to see it soon)

(as if anyone cared)

Thirsty Thursday sounds really fun but Thursdays are our birthing classes and this Thursday is an important class we can't miss (labor)

wow some dingaling from gradeschool just posted this

psalm 2010: Obama is the shepard I did not want.He restoreth my faith in the Repub. party,guideth me on the path of unemployment.Yeah, i walk through the valley of the bread lines,i fear no hunger for his bailouts are w/me.surely poverty and hard living will follow me all the days of my life.Iwill live in a mortgaged h......ouse forever. im glad im American,glad im free but i wish i were a dog and obama was a tree

should i defriend her or wait for more crazies

If this were someone that I knew from gradschool and I didn't have a whole lot of FB interaction with her to begin with, I would defriend. I'm not afraid, though.

I don't know if Thursday was the only day to hang w/ Ken C or not. Dan? Kenan?

i defriended because i never liked her and only friended her because i wanted to see what she was doing. apparently she has been worrying about her mortgage. BOO HOO. her family was very weird and very rich.

I'm down for Thursday. If Ken is into MLS action, there is a watch party for the first game of the season up at the Globe.

Not sure yet about Thursday, since it is my birthday.

I don't know either. I'm being drawn into S@yj@l's birthday party, which is a Wednesday and it's my first week of no obligations.

OK, looks like I am having dinner w/my mom at 6:30 on Thurs., could probably stop somewhere afterward.

Thursday is your birthday!!! How exciting!

Indeed. I was thinking about having some sort of celebration but maybe not for a couple of weeks, like Ben Stiller on Curb Your Enthusiasm.

Please give us (well, me) lots of notice b/c I'm ultramegabusy these days and I need to put shit on my calender far in advance to ensure that I have any fun.

Word. I'm very busy these days, too, hence delaying my own birthday.

Potentially of interest per our previous conversation about whether religious entities can discriminate in hiring on the basis or religion (short answer: and how! plus for lots of other reasons, too, although the courts are getting wise to it, and it's probably because of that Godless, abortion loving president of ours): http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/laborprof_blog/2010/03/retaliation-and-the-ministerial-exception-to-the-ada.html

two bands that the FFs opened for have been pictured in large color photographs in the NYT's coverage of SXSW over the past three days

I had a first-round phone interview for a PT library job. There are definite pros and cons to it but hey at least I got some kind of response.

Sometime this week we are going to eat fish. Neither of us have eaten fish in about 15 years and I have never cooked it. Adventure!

Yay Nick! About the library job, I mean. I am neutral about your decision to eat fish, but I sincerely hope it works out well for you.

if you need any fishly advice, i can help.

Fish tacos!

Wow! As someone who has never cooked meat in his life, I'll say that cooking fish is pretty easy and not that gross. Of course, I've always just gotten it frozen from TJ's and put it in a pan and baked it. Other sources of origin and methods of preparation may yield different experiences. Is the fish for the benefit of the baby?

seriously tilapia is cheap, very mild tasting and easy to cook, makes great tacos, can be drowned in lime juice and condiments to distract you...

basically the same as tofu once it's dressed up (repeat to self)

Yeah we just haven't been eating it because Sarah considers it part of her vegetarianism and I was never a big fan of seafood so I didn't even really have to give it up. But Sarah's supposed to boost her protein intake and it's a really good source of protein so we thought we'd give it a shot.

We got some frozen TJs tilapia, was just going to bake it, but fish tacos are a good idea too. Amanda if you have a fish taco recipe for the future, it would be appreciated.

Sarah's mainly worried she's going to get sick from not eating meat or fish for 15+ years and then eating fish but she's been taking fish oil tablets so my theory is she won't have any problems.

i don't really have a recipe, but here are my suggestions:

prepare/buy fixins that you like (pico de gallo, other salsas, guacamole)
get some cheese

to cook the fish (not breaded) all you have to do is defrost, then bake in the oven (i use toaster oven) with a little s/p/oo at about 400 (?) for maybe 10 min? then check, then cut it into pieces and make tacos!

also a good idea: the panko breaded tilapia they have at TJ's -- all you have to do with that is bake it and it is already fried and delicious. top with whatever you want

here are some photos:
unbreaded tilapia over spinach smothered with stuff from my freezer
http://www.flickr.com/photos/marshmallowy/4448865949/sizes/m/

tacos with panko breaded tilapia (and sauteed frozen peppers from TJs):
http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4030/4246467652_9e846c9c02.jpg

tilapia with tomatoes, zucchini, dill, and lemon juice:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2574/4107280753_414044f0ba_o.jpg

sorry

unbreaded tilapia over spinach smothered with stuff from my freezer
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2692/4448865949_7f933d2f1c_o.jpg

iphone camera really sucks
sorry
you can hardly see the fish, but that's sort of the point. i put stuff all over it and that way it's just like in with a bunch of veggies and flavor.

Yeah we just haven't been eating it because Sarah considers it part of her vegetarianism and I was never a big fan of seafood so I didn't even really have to give it up.

This makes it sound like you (Nick) don't consider yourself vegetarian?

I do consider myself a vegetarian, I just never worried about whether I was going to be one of those vegetarians who also eats fish because I never particularly liked fish.

oic

basically here is my advice:

take things you like, and put them on top of fish:

* olives and tomatoes and basil
* zucchini and tomatoes and lemon and dill
* mango and corn and salsa verde and lemon/lime
* oranges and fennel and thyme and...?
* whatever you like

and serve with a side of quinoa, rice, couscous, potatoes, whatever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O4eWfFgTG8&feature=player_embedded

reposting from facebook:

CHICAGO FRIENDS! we need ideas on cool places for a photo shoot, in and around the northbrook area - preferrably architecturally-backgrounded, but nature-y places also accepted. indoor/outdoor options also a plus!

thanks!

The Northbrook area? Hmm, used to work up there. There's a great little nature preserve on Portwine road between Dundee and Lake Cook a couple miles west of 294 that can be really pretty in the summer and sorta creepy in the dead of winter. Not too sure how it would look now. Architecturally? It's kinda boring around there, unless you can get into some of the huge houses the rich folks there have. Not a whole lot of cool stuff coming to mind that is open to the public, but then I've never visited the libraries around there, that may be an option. I'll see if I can think of anything else though.

I mean, there is the huge and intimidating modern architecture of the Takeda campus right off 294 on Lake Cook, but don't know how keen they'd be on a photo shoot.

Oh shit! Duh. The Chicago Botanic Gardens! Tons of great places out there! It's east of the Edens (94). Can't believe I didn't think of that. Lots of great outdoors stuff and some of the buildings are pretty cool.

http://www.chicago-botanic.org/

Be forewarned that its spendy to park there now, if you don't know someone with a membership.

can possibly get free parking at the botanic gardens from their local library, with http://www.museumadventure.org/index.php

xxxp is that the oak savannah area you're talking about, jon?

yeah, we're probably gonna get some photos at the botanic gardens, i just wondering if there were some other, lesser-known places.

I guess its officially called the Lake County Forest Preserve, its right between the Des Plaines River and 294. If you head west on Dundee, you'll see it just after you go over 294. You'll see tons of trees and some signs for the forest preserve. Theres parking there, or if you turn right and head North on Portwine you'll drive right through the heart of it.

And if you stay on Portwine until it dead ends at Riverwoods Road, you can take a left and there is another preserve about a mile down Riverwoods Road called Ryerson.

Quite a few trails through there, but I haven't been there myself in about 6 or 7 years.

I used to hate all fish and seafood, but now I love it. The first thing I liked was scallops - they're totally not fishy tasting, and the texture is pretty inoffensive.

I first accepted fish when my ex-bf cooked me what he said was breaded pork tenderloin, but which was actually catfish.

tell your tales of fish acceptance

were those the sorts of suggestions/ideas you were looking for, nick? i just realized that it's possible you guys were repulsed by my food pictures. sorry :-/

i have no tales of fish acceptance. i always liked arthur treacher's and gross "fish sticks" when i was a kid.

yes, thanks Amanda. That seems pretty straightforward. We don't have to talk about fish acceptance. It just seemed like a funny thing to say.

i was just hoping you guys weren't repulsed. shrimp tacos are good too, and they are the easiest things on earth to cook.

also i live with a non-fan of fish, so i am familiar with the subterfuge necessary to get someone to eat it

hey chicagoers

woo, arriving Chicago tomorrow! I'm going to this thing
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=410958793792&ref=nf

where my friend is DJing, which might be fun? (although apparently the bar is very hipster! which may be off putting)

otherwise, can always meet somewhere to FAP on a thursday night! thirsty thursday = winner. also, if you can recommend somewhere IPSO FATSO to eat, it will be excellent!

Kuma's and Hot Doug's are the obvious recommendations for IPSO FATSO. Hot Doug's is lunch only but you should definitely go there.

thanks! i'm planning to have both lunch and dinner to be extra IPSO FATSO

I went to the Burlington once, it seemed nice. But I went in the early evening so it was not crowded at all.

i'm planning to have both lunch and dinner to be extra IPSO FATSO
i always eat lunch and dinner!?

you live the true spirit of IPSO FATSO!

The first thing I liked was scallops - they're totally not fishy tasting, and the texture is pretty inoffensive.

You're right that they're not fishy tasting, and they're nice when they're cooked well, but I've had rubbery scallops on too many occasions.

ken, i eat breakfast and two snacks too -- does this make me Andre the Giant!? i sure hope so!

ken c, where are you staying? We can tailor IPSO FATSO eating recs to your location.

Chicago is a pretty great IPSO FATSO destination imo

i'm staying near here...
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=60622&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=27.423305,37.880859&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Chicago,+Cook,+Illinois+60622&ll=41.901319,-87.682743&spn=0.012553,0.018497&z=15

but willing to travel to pursue IPSO FATSO

actually the actual place is like a little bit down from that? and left a bit

I heart fat.

Possibly ironically, considering my heart and all.

what was that melodramatic movie with marisa tomei and christian slater? ______ heart?
i remember thinking that movie was hilarious

did he have like a baboon heart or something?

tender heart?

I'm at home today. My assignment ended. It only FELT permanent, turns out. They have a budget or something. Assholes.

If I don't get any important and crucial phone calls by about 11, which I am about 25% expecting, I will paint a wall today. Paint it orange. Really, REALLY orange. The color I decided on is called "navel".

I think it was untamed heart -- in retrospect, that movie was probably where it all started to go wrong for c. slater.

xp

no, untamed heart
xpost

Untamed heart.

XP

Never saw it. Why do I remember the titles of movies I never saw?

hahahahhaha
http://dreamers.com/indices/imagenes/peliculas.3539.IMAGEN1.jpg

omg HIS HAIR

Slater was on the show with Ty Pennington where they knock down poor people's houses and build them ugly mansions instead the other night. I'm guessing he's on a TV show on the same network.

What is with his hairline, really? He hasn't lost a millimeter of hairline since 1990, but it's been four inches back on either side since then. Was he born like that?

Was there scarring involved somehow? Some horrible twin gas jet accident as a youth?

plugs

Very possibly. That plus weird-shaped-head.

people used to always say I looked like christian slater xp

though I don't believe I have a weird-shaped head. it is weirdly lumpy though

Which is different how?

shape vs. texture

I do not see that resemblance at all, but maybe it was more pronounced when you were younger?

xp Ah, you mean BUMPY.

Come hither, I will phrenologize you.

Speaking of hair plugs:

1. http://www.apeculture.com/images/qrthen.jpg
2. http://www.apeculture.com/images/qrnow.jpg
3. http://hardrockheavymetal.files.wordpress.com/2008/11/kevin_dubrow.jpg

Also, I didn't know he was dead. But I must have known because it happened not that long ago so I surely would have seen it on the internet somewhere. I think I forgot that Kevin DuBrow was dead, which makes me a little said for some reason.

I was almost an extra in Untamed Heart. Was also, that same year, almost an extra in Feeling Minnesota. Was an extra in Mallrats. Not a great year for movies shot in Minneapolis.

yeah, the christian slater thing was in high school / college...nobody has said I looked like him for 10+ years.

I admit I had to look at the url to figure out what band that was. But I was so close to guessing I could taste it.

That last pic is just the worst kind of hair desperation.

What about Grumpy Old Men, EZ?

BTW, since I don't have anywhere else to mention this, I haven't put shampoo in my hair in ten months. And it's perfectly well-behaved all the time, always. I can get up in the morning after a night of tossing and turning, run my fingers through it, and it's ready to go. I never imagined I've ever have halfway decent hair, much less perfect hair always.

(Bit of verb trouble in that post. I am aware of it.)

There was Grumpy Old Men, Beautiful Girls, my one other extra role in In The Line of Duty: Hunt for Justice, Jingle All The Way, and then around that time there was Fargo.

I've probably mentioned this before, but a friend of my parents -- an actress in the Twin Cities -- served as Jack Lemmon's driver on Grumpier Old Men.

Who's the friend? If she did much on stage, I might've seen her back then.

C4thl33n Full3r. Her husband N@t (same last name) is a company member at the Guthrie.

Hmmm hmmm hmmm

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/reliable-source/bidenobama24.jpg

i am already SO PUMPED about MAY y'all

1) my favorite month
2) professor at the siskel!!
3) josephine foster AND spires (last time i saw them live it was TERRIBLE but whatev) at the hideout!!
4) flowers!
5) other great smells abound in the month of may
6) 500 folk songs about the month of may
7) bunch of other stuff i probably haven't even found out about yet!
8) SCHOOL's! OUT! FOR! SUMMER! (please don't burn down)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh so excited

9) my birthday

10) tons of other birthdays! i have three birthdays of good friends all on the same DAY!

i wish i were as pumped this morning as i was last night. today i just feel dread at all of the things i have to do (and get other people to do) by the end of may.

I have the "1-800-Kars for Kids ... K. A. R. S. Kars for Kids" jingle in my head

Our fish experiment went well. I baked the tilapia with butter, lemon juice, garlic and pepper. I was surprised how non-fishy it was ... very mild, tasted almost more like chicken than fish. Sarah even said next time she'd be willing to try a fishier fish.

http://imgur.com/bBN2k.jpg

Haha - I just saw that this morning!

I have been using Google Breeder and it's given me a whole new way to goof off at work.

I think you're ready for sushi and raw oysters.

I started eating fish in 2006, and it took me about three years to fully feel comfortable with raw fish and oysters. (When I ordered sushi, I always got, like, shrimp tempura.)

No raw fish or oysters for Sarah. We also have to keep a close eye on mercury content.

i don't even like oysters and i'll eat pretty much anything
anything except oysters

Grilled oysters from Acme in NOLA are divoooon.

I like oysters -- I've had them thrice now -- but simultaneously, I'm not really sure what the big deal is. If you're wondering, though, oysters at Publican > Topolobampo > Spring.

I'm going to Green Zebra tomorrow night with my mom since they're doing a $30 three-course prix fixe for Chef Week. I'm really curious what it will entail, though, since GZ is a small-plates place and three courses off the regular menu works out to about $30 anyway. I'm hoping it's a better deal than that.

yum Green Zebra

Yeh, I'm not sure I really understand raw oysters. I think it's about the really subtle flavors.

I used to hate them. Then I tried some and I liked them but they freaked me out. Then I ate some more and I liked them a lot but then still freaked me out. Now I have cravings for them, like a lot, and they still freak me out, but I'm going to make eating some a priority before I run out of months with "r" in them.

I guess I've probably never had good ones? I dunno. My life doesn't feel empty without them. Oysters are those slimy things that people slurp, right? I'm pretty ignorant about oysters, as it turns out.

They have the mouthfeel of a really gelatinous loogy.

I've never actually had raw oysters because they look so disgusting to me. I guess I should try them at some point.

An Irish customer at C35 who was super into oysters said "they should taste like the sea." Which is about right. They kind of taste like the ocean smells.

Yes, what was good about the ones at Publican was the brininess.

Yes, exactly re: tasting like the ocean smells. Although as someone who grew up next to the ocean, I will add that they should taste like the ocean smells on a good day when you are out in a boat and far away from any canals or wetlands, because if your oysters smell like, for example, the Lewes Canal, they are bad and you should not eat them.

They're kind of like wine or cheese or coffee in that different oysters from different places that are harvested at different times of the year taste different, so there is the potential for that obsessive foodie classification thing that some people do about certain types of food. I have eaten enough of them to know that I like the really briney ones the best. There are also sweeter oysters, and the texture and size differs depending on where they are from, too.

Also, please don't say "They have the mouthfeel of a really gelatinous loogy" because that's not entirely true and it totally makes me want to vomit and never eat oysters again.

I really want to try the little teeny tiny ones from the West Coast....gah - I can't remember and I can't find it online. It's a tiny variety that is kind of rare. I think it's from off of Mexico, which seems weird b/c I imagine the water being too warm there for good oysters.

the fewer oysters i eat, there more there are for the rest of you. how about that.

I really get tired of hearing people talk about oysters'* being a aphrodisiac. At C35 there was always somebody who had to crack wise about it when oysters appeared at the table. And then there were some people (particularly the Latino staff) who insisted that they were as effective as Viagra to the point of giving unwanted erections.

* I know it's right to put the ' there, but I always think it looks wrong.

hyperbole abounds about these slimy little guys

I really get tired of hearing people talk about oysters'* being a aphrodisiac. At C35 there was always somebody who had to crack wise about it when oysters appeared at the table. And then there were some people (particularly the Latino staff) who insisted that they were as effective as Viagra to the point of giving unwanted erections.

* I know it's right to put the ' there, but I always think it looks wrong.

― it's an old pantyhound, that's who (Jesse), Wednesday, March 24, 2010 3:11 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

that's because it is wrong.

unless you're talking about the being of oysters, like their spiritual essence

also, are you fucking me?

No, I think Jesse is right. People are talking not about oysters but about a quality of oysters, namely their being an aphrodisiac.

(No different from "I get tired of hearing people talk about oysters' brininess.")

No, it's right, but I forget why.

What the shit is the name for it?

also, are you fucking me?

Will this ever NOT make me laugh? Stay tuned and find out!!!

They have the mouthfeel of a really gelatinous loogy.

It's gross and unmentionable, but this, I think, is the reason they are "aphrodisiacs." They are not chemically inclined to make you all randy, but they are... suggestive.

http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/possessives-and-gerunds.aspx

That's funny. Gelatinous loogies never fail to make me ready for lovin'.