Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

that bear is singing very enthusiastically

who ever heard of a great band or musician FROM Vegas.

http://www.chicagogigs.com/images/content/the-killers_the-killers__tickets_137779.jpg

Great is debatable, I guess.

I'm a beeeeeeaaaaaarrr!
Suck my diiiiiiiiiiick!

there are also pictures of bears from that trip. the UP is the land of wild creatures!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1063/1127981501_e3bb40e4e2.jpg?v=0

hmm. that one kind of goes with kenan's statement above. not intentionally, though.

The problem with Brenda is (bad to not-so-bad):

A #1: claws. EVERYTHING is clawed. I clip her nails, and I tried those caps (they fall off) and I tried a scratching post which she ignored in favor of the couch. But it's not enough to focus on the couch, now she's after my chair and the bed and she claws THE WALLS in the bathroom!!!!!! If it weren't for knowing that I would never hear the end of it, I would declaw her and we would live happily ever after.

2. Shedding. Wow. She sheds a LOT.

3. Vomit. I can deal with vomit. Actually this doesn't even belong on this list. We all vomit hair on the floor every now and then.

What I would like is to have a friend have her where I could keep tabs on her.

Aren't all those things just part of having a cat though? Nothing listed is surprising.

Thanks for reminding me why I don't do pets.

Clawing the walls?

Jenny and Jeff have 3 cats and a nice couch without claw marks.

hairballs are not bad, but my cats always ALWAYS do it in the middle of my rug, where it never quite comes all the way out, so there are faint little light spots

my #1 is the shedding. Sometimes even washing my clothes and sheets fails in getting the cat hair off of them.

My criteria for getting a cat were 1. DECLAWED (by someone else), 2. short hair. But then ding dong Brenda walked into my yard and wrapped herself around my feet.

Oh, there are claw marks. most along the top of the back, they pull the cover down and go at it when we aren't there sometimes. We also put sticky tape on all the corners and cover the arms.

Hair is kind of a big deal I guess. I have to run a lint roller over all my clothes as a part of laundry to remove the little wads of hair that form on every fucking thing during washing and drying.

Oh, and #2 should actually be that Courtney can't visit me for more than a few minutes. It makes me sad.

you are not a cat person, perhaps. not everyone is.

I'm not a cat person.

I love cats. But Brenda is extra special catful.

Plus, she gains weight to spite you.

I have no immediate plans for her relocation but I'm keeping my eyes open and if I find the right parents for her, then we're both better off. Kenny will probably be sad though.

haha--YOU did that to her!

No. It was to punish you.

Speaking of punishment, I've been trying to sneak in sentences of INNOCENT TRAITOR (about Lady Jane Grey) today, but it's been too busy here, so Lady Jane has been waiting to be beheaded all day.

I feel bad for prolonging her anxiety.

http://www.willitblend.com/

Brilliant.

Ha! I had seen that a short time ago, totally awesome.

http://chicago.menupages.com/restaurantdetails.asp?areaid=26&restaurantid=44274

Has anyone eaten here? who wants to brunch here?

Sometime in February.

BREAKFAST:
Tapsilog
Longsilog
Tosilog
Dasilog

Pancit is yummy.

I don't think I've had Filipino food. There used to be a place near Nick and Sarah's place called Rambutan, which was very highly regarded, but I never made it there. Ditto Little Quiapo, which was at the exact same cross streets as Fishpond, but it always looked a little too hole-in-the-wall for me. Seemed like the kind of place where if I ordered wrong I'd end up with balut (fertilized duck egg) on my plate.

On the blender tip:

http://www.ssiworld.com/watch/bmw.htm

BMW vs. PRI-MAX shredder

I composed an email about 15 minutes ago and have been waiting as long as possible to send it because I don't want this woman to get back to me with more questions before I leave for my minibreak.

Oh yeah, and LJGrey was finally put out of her mortal misery.

poor lady. Barely got to be queen!

Goddamn it I love this shit

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8383275341979021003&q=kids+in+the+hall+doors+fan&total=31&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0

R U A DOORS FAN?

Wow. Thread died early today!

Someone advise as to how long it will really take and best route from my house to Jackson and Peoria (1 street west of Halsted). RTA trip planner makes me LOL--it says that if I take Red to Blue (UIC stop) I will take me 39 minutes include transfer and walking. If I take the Red to either Jackson or Halsted buses it will take take 45 minutes. An all-bus trip is supposed to take 40 minutes as well.

I'm thinking at the very least an hour.

At the VERY least.

I did it all for the lucy.

The trip planner is about +10 minutes, in my experience, but it's not totally hilariously wrong or anything.

Brian Z. and I just chatted:

Brian: guess what i did this morning
me: what?

Brian: an old prof of mine is doing this big deal art piece where he is photographing the feet of straight men who are masturbating (at the point of orgasm)

me: uh

Brian: (he is gay)
me: tell me you didn't
...

Brian: so he goes around and asks his straight friends and such and sets up in their apartments...i might not have...but since i am currently living in Allen Ginsberg's old apartment....I kind of thought I should take part in this....
project...
so...
this MORning...
i jerking off in front of a camera

me: eek
Brian: jerked
for the first time ever
(only pointed at my feet)
and he was out of the apartment at the time
i was sitting on a radiator in the same place the gisnberg was standing in the photo on the back cover of his last book of poem, "death and fame"

me: http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0060930837.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg?
oh
you said back cover

Brian: yah that would have been more difficult especially b/c my roomate was still sleeping near there

Brian: my feet will be two of 200
me: that's interesting

Brian: then i went to work
me: i still want to know how the fuck you were sitting on a radiator
Brian: it's the summer
me: i know but radiators are pointy
Brian: there's a cover on it and a cusion that i was told ginsberg used to "hold court" while sitting on

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZutgOyA9EY

brutal

I went to the Cubs game last night, it was a good time despite the loss and the hour and a half rain delay before the game even started.

Surprisingly good crowd in our section, not the steretypical drunk douchebag Cubs fans. Lots of older dudes who were very knowledgeabel about baseball.

fried chicken hangover

I'd take that over the Bellhaven Twisted Thistle hangover I have now.

45-minute bus ride hangover

http://www.aa2sbu.org/aaezine/images/C/MargaretChoNYTimesPNee.jpg

I don't know why I posted that.

hm. No one's around this morning. Did Chicago take the day off, or did the red line explode?