Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

or what kenan said.

i found some other page with my spelling on it.

Yeah, I saw that, too. I thought it was a word game, though.

it's the eskimo word for "hysteria"

http://www.deutsches-filmhaus.de/filme_einzeln/f_einzeln/fassbinder/fassbinder_t-z/warum_pl2.jpg

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=4049004&dopt=AbstractPlus

A man is found dead in a room with 53 bicycles: what happened?

The Onion crossword this week was pretty fun.

Oh man Eazy, that one killed my 5th grade class.

Wanna hear a CTA story? You do?? GREAT!

I was riding the red line last night at around 11:30 and the lights kept going out in the car. Not even the lights over the doors stayed on, so it was very dark (the trains are running above ground now, so we had some light from the streets). There was a group of 3 teenage kids, including a girl who every time the lights would go out, would scream at the top of her lungs until the lights came back on. The lights went out maybe 4 or 5 times, and at some point the kids found a dirty rag on the floor and every time the lights would go out they would throw it up in the air and then when they came back on they would pick it off the seat or person it landed on.

The train stopped at Wilson, and before exiting one of the guys picked up the rag and threw it in the face of an old lady who was sitting in the seat by the door. Then they stood outside the train car and laughed and pointed.

http://www.emagictricks.co.uk/images/Lp1037.jpg

I got the bicycle puzzle from Dynamite magazine in about fifth grade.

I know the answer!

xp ....before kenan's "hint"

kind of a big hint, i admit

i just wanted you guys to know that i am not just another big-titted blonde

ha

i just got this huge pang in my heart to move to nyc.

like, all the sudden.

Did I read it right that there is some kind of Labor Day party going down in Minnesota? 'Cause I'd go to that.

Why, K?

BIG labor day party

Eric beat me to it! It's the GREAT MINNESOTA GET TOGETHER. You can eat fried foods on sticks. It's excellent.

S, I have no idea! I think I am just having bigger city cravings & I feel like I may have missed my opportunity to live in nyc b/c Leaf will probably never want to move there. It just seems like such an exciting city & I'm craving that kind of energy right now. Sometimes Minneapolis feels so small...which is ironic b/c I grew up in a truly small town.

omg i miss the state fair so much

I've been to the MN state fair twice, but not since I was like 13 or so. I haven't been to the Cities in a while, either, and it's been a while since I took a trip solely for fun...

If anyone wants to venture up here, we'll get you tickets!!

pizza on a stick!

We weren't able to go last year, but we did go the year before & I was completely star struck. The only fairs I had been to were smaller "free fairs" in the next county over. Next weekend we're going to an agriculture-heavy county fair & we'll probably hit the state fair on labor day weekend.

The man in the room was playing solitaire, and then someone with a Schwinn came in and ran him over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-5Lr2IhB_o

it's 52 foods on a stick...

it's not really worth watching all the way through, mind you.

Also: PRINCESS KAY OF THE MILKY WAY!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/e/e5/MNStateFairButterHead2005.jpg/483px-MNStateFairButterHead2005.jpg

I would eat all this stick foods.

(except the huge penis "Jurassic dog")

My friend Adam is a big fan of the walleye on a stick.

I think you'd be a blast to go to the state fair with, Jordan. I suspect you could be convinced to eat a lot of the stick foods...

butter sculpting: A++

I have had lots of people tell me about bad dealings they have had with MPShows, including Sh@rks and @leks and the Drumm3r, and I believe them, but I have to say that most of our dealings with them have been as easy and pleasant as with most other booking people. They also seem to have different booking people assigned to different venues, and the woman we dealt with for SUA was very nice. Finally, they are pretty much the only Chicago booking co. left who is actively offering us shows without us having to nag them, so that's cool. The only issue we had with them was after we played two shows at R0nny's that both sold out, they asked us to headline a third show, and we asked for a guarantee, and they wouldn't give it to us. But maybe we were out of line.

I want something on a stick. My healthy lunch (grilled salmon with potato and veg) is not going to see through till 11 PM. Such a long day!

Sushi on a stick?

Haha, there's no convincing about it!

they also have fried cheese curds which are not on a stick, but AWESOME.

Salmon air on a stick?

Leaf & I tried the deep fried snickers bar. I think that might have been the only on-a-stick food we ate that year.

I could go for a Big Mac right now. On a stick.

Now I'm hungry. I ate those little Morningstar Farms "buffalo blobs" for lunch. They're pretty good for junk food, I guess, but they're not really enough.

I had delish NY stylee pizza, all thin and floppy and greasy and nom nom nom

Last night I decided to fucking relax, not to go the gym, and have a burger & fries for dinner. It was nice but I still don't feel very relaxed.

I don't think asking for a guarantee was out of line, but I suppose it depends on how much you asked for.

xpost tonight: black tar heroin

My lunch:
http://www.kvue.com/sharedcontent/dws/img/01-07/0116amysbean.jpg
and a side salad

Tastes much, much better than it looks.

Part of the reason we wanted a guarantee was that it was a Sunday night.