Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

I wonder if it's a Simpsons reference?

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Casino Royale is excellent.

And Superbad looks fantastic.

I wonder if George Michael will ever cease to be George Michael in my eyes.

You should all have invitations to sarah's b-day at this point ... if you don't, let me know.

That's gonna be one busy weekend. I think we're gonna go to Hideout Block Party on Sat. afternoon.

We're going to the Dan Deacon show that night. I guess he goes on early at the block party.

Us too after another party.
It will be a CRAZY PARTY TIME EXTRAVAGANZA!

Yeah, that is kind of an insane weekend.

Cubs are tied for first in their division.

I wish I could afford to go to a game anytime soon.

I had a kobe beef hot dog for lunch.

Woah. Doug's?

kobe beef hot dog

that sounds either extravagantly delicious or like an oxymoron. I will have to try one.

Nah, Rosebud Prime, the steakhouse that opened in the same building as my work. It was pretty good, it's served kielbasi style. I don't know if it was worth $15, but tasty nonetheless.

I prefer Kobe Bryant hot-dogging.

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I say I bought a $15 hot dog right after I said I couldn't afford to go to a Cubs game. Something is wrong with me.

No, your priorities are in the right place.

great. Now I want a hot dog. Damn you all to hell.

I need to talk to Horseshoe -- can someone email me her number?

I want two hot dogs.

hi Amanda! I can totally email you my number!

did you get my email?

oh, I just got your email. awesome!!! I emailed you back.

Tim Harrington, who once shoved his face in Jenny's crotch, is the subject of a good Guest List column in Pitchfork this week.

I read that. It was funny.

>> Best Thing I Did This Year

I could talk about my baby <laughs>. That was probably the best thing in terms of, like, I'm going to be talking about how cool it was: We had a kid and it was a natural childbirth and I sat with my knees up and my wife sat in front of me and I looked over and saw "poosh" blood and head shooting around. That was the best thing ever; totally a winner.

I guess I did something-- I probably did something a little earlier...if you catch my drift <clicks tongue>. If you know where I'm coming from...Intercourse. The sex act. It happened...Yeah, that was pretty cool.

And just like that, 'shoe and I are now coworkers.

I only make job pimpin' look easy because I'm so good at it.

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I know, right? SO EXCITED YOU GUYS!!!

Details?

There was an open comp class at our west campus, she's got the goods (MA English) and teaching experience, presto. Coworkers.

Sweet.

I haven't seen Horseshoe in eons, either. Let's change that!

She is invited to Sarah's party. Will she attend? Nobody knows. It will be a surprise.

I wasn't evited....

Oops.

We went to Green Zebra. I was going to post what we ate but they don't have the correct menu up on their site. But it was delicious.

This is from memory so I don't remember all the details:

I had:
Maple and pecan soda
Papaya and kohlrabi salad, with currants and homemade pickle slices
Blue cheese beignets with fig and some kind of greens
Egg with potato puree and some kind of green sauce <- this was my fave, very rich
Peach tart with peach and plum compote and creme fraiche ice cream

Sarah had:
Peach ginger ale
Beet salad with some kind of foam
Corn soup with corn bread croutons and goat cheese <- my fave of the things Sarah ordered
Lentil cakes with squash blossoms and some other kind of squash
Cherry ice cream sandwich with candied cherries and cherry soda

It's amazing how all the dishes are pretty tiny but you still end up feeling stuffed at the end.

that all sounds great, except the beet foam thing (i'm not into either beet or foam, and fancy restaurants seem to inflict it on vegetarians a lot at the moment). we should really go back there.

hi guys, I think I will be attending Sarah's party! My mom is visiting that weekend but surely I can get rid of her somehow.

and yes I haven't seen any of you in ages.

1. The 7th and the 15th are equally attractive to me, and I am equally likely to be able to make either one.

2.

3) what does god smell like?

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I bet Jesse knows.

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He smells like one of us.

3. Squash blossoms are surprisingly delicious.

4. Yes, horshoe, I have a new job, and so do you! I am an admin at a little law firm (they describe it as a "boutique" firm) with a golden retriever with a goiter.

5. Superbad was this summer's LOLfest. It was LOLapalooza. Michael Cera is brilliant. I've read nothing about the movie, but I would be very surprised if people aren't saying that it is what American Pie would have been if it hadn't been stupid.

I LOL-LOL-Loved it, don't mean maybe.

yeah, it's pretty damn great.

I should have asked you earlier when I was trying to find people to go see it with me! I went alone. Although you're never really alone when you're in a packed theater of people howling with laughter and occasionally breaking into applause. Michael Cera's singing nearly got an ovation. :)

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he has a snake.

I've seen that guy! On Broadway and Addison.

We just watched (well, Jeff watched and I listened to since I have the same aversion to R. Kelly's physical appearance as I do to that of Don Rickles) all of R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet and now I really want to shoot some people. Gwen, Bridget, Rufus, the midget... all of them.

Like, that physically hurt me to hear all that.

That pic was taken in front of the Jewel next to your house. Wrapped inside the Onion that Courtney is cradling is a Dom Perignon bottle filled with Miller Lite. This was at Pride. A guy brought the Dom, we drank it, went to the Cell Block and filled it with Lite there. Then she hugged a guy with a big snake.

First of all, straighten your hat.

You crazier than a fish with titties.