Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

They had hamburgers, hotdogs, chicken, and vegetable kebabs on the grills, toppings and sauces galore, potato salad, fruit, many different desserty things like cobbler, cheesecake, etc, lemonade, pepsi, no beer (which is weird because they always have had booze at these things before)... I think that's all I saw. There was a lot. I am very full and not too interested in working the rest of the afternoon :\

Me too. My coworkers and I all had Breyers AGAIN because we don't want it to go bad in the freezer (had it early this week for coworker's bday).

ed, did toby email you with drinking tips? i know he meant to...

temp testing is kinda hard. they actually had me do a typing test on a typewriter. which was weird.

That is weird! Maybe you will end up working for James Spader.

http://www.8by5.com/images/Westtown.jpg
http://www.8by5.com/images/bridgeport.jpg

OMG AWESOME

haha
waiting for north side

Smells like bread/chocolate is the best.

i don't think there exists a north/NNW side map yet. will post when it happens.

Word quiz: Identify a word that has the letters *STST* in the middle.

"ANARCHISTS" intrigues me

me too!

where did you find that, rw?

conteststation

wriststrap

on a chicago-oriented bike nerd message board.

guys, I'm worried: is Ronny's really a hipster scum hangout now???? I liked it better when there was free pool and no one hanging out except for Ronny and me and Ben and, like, two older Hispanic dude.s

I've only been there once and Kev'n and a lot of his crew were there for a show. Do they count as hipster scum?

oh please. that bike messenger is probably hipster scum too.

get over it people

"ANARCHISTS" intrigues me

Some quick googling reveals that the zine LUMPEN has its HQ here.

psst... we're all hipster scum

wriststrap

Oooh, nice one. Not in Webster's, though, and not what I was thinking of.

Every hipster scum is beautiful.

Blame Brian Peterson.

I don't know who that is but I plan on blaming the hell out of him.

who?

Brian Peterson is the guy who runs MPShows, which books Ronny's.

rest stop

http://edinaimages.fnistools.com/images/uploads/teams/104593/Web%20photo%20Brian%20Peterson.jpg

looks like a bar-wrecker to me

One I remember from Games magazine years ago was; which word uses three dotted letters in a row?

Fiji?

bike messengers are automatically hipster scum.

xp MPShows! I was trying to remember those guys. Awful, yes?

Ouiji

The one they had was hijinks.

I thought of Fiji, too, but wondered if it didn't count because it was a proper noun.

xpost Totally.

Ahhh, HIJINKS.

I figured. I was just throwing it out anyway.

The answer to mine is

BREASTSTROKE.

All the more amazing for having 5 consonants in a row.

Dirty! Good for a Friday afternoon.

haha

gaijin, even though i'm slow and too late

Max was telling me about some bullshit where Sh4rks had booked a show months in advance, only to get an irate phone call from MPShows saying that they had planned on booking the place (too late, as it turned out) and that Sh4rks would have to cancel or something. They didn't, and words were exchanged.

Something to that effect. Anyway, the way Max and Fong tell it, the dude that runs MPShows is a grade-A asshole.

Farm fresh?

ahahaha music promoter? asshole? srsly?

He put South Union Arts together, so he's OK in my book.

I've met Brian a couple of times, and he seems like a reasonably nice guy, but Dan is pretty much OTM. It's kind of a cutthroat business, and when you're below a certain level, you need them way more than they need you, so they can afford to be assholes.

Having only played in bands in the middle of nowhere where there are no booking agent types, it was kind of shocking to witness the amount of asskissing mickey-mouse that the first group of dudes I played with here had to go through to get booked. They were going for kind of lousy venues, though (M@rtyr's, for example).

Btw, Webster's also shows

POSTSTIMULATION
POSTSTIMULUS
POSTSTRIKE

"Post-structuralism" has a hyphen.

"Foster beach will be closed for the remainder of the day due to the high levels of hipster scum in the water"

ew. Sticky.

One of my dad's colleagues gave him the following brain-teaser:

MALAYSIAN MAN : AMOK :: ESKIMO WOMAN : ?

I spent about 15-20 minutes on this, rearranging letters, translating into rot-13, etc., but could not make heads or tails of it.

I just googled to see if it existed anywhere online and found that "amok" is a mental disorder known among Malaysian tribes. I don't know if this is a coincidence or is key to solving the puzzle.

(To me, it made more sense if it was ESKIMO WOMAN : AMOK, since the word AMOK is embedded in ESKIMO WOMAN, if you read it backwards.)