Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

Awesome, Smoke Daddy is like two blocks from my house. Now I just need to remember to show up.

I went to dinner at Smoke Daddy last night, really good.

Will someone get me a copy of the comp? I'm on it, but I'm not going to be around on Sunday.

Nutrition drives me fucking crazy.

My insane diet ended before it began. I went to buy a little light fish for baking and some veggies, and walked out with a couple massive hunks of catfish and a boz of Zatarain's southern-style fish fry. Mmmmm. Fried.

Jesse, it's not okay, but you will do it anyway.

Could someone grab a copy of the comp for me too, if there are enough (I'm on it too)? I could pick it up...sometime.

I'm watching some Trapped in the Closet and I think this is my favorite youtube comment ever:

guyricodo (4 days ago) Marked as spam
i love to be trapped in the closet with a hole lot of food
(Reply) (Spam

ha!

This is an example of one of the few times when horrible misspellings don't annoy me terribly.

So last night one of the dudes in the band said he only really liked 3 or 4 musical acts after about 1980. I'm not really sure what that means, but do you think I should be worried about it?

The important question is WHICH ONES?

Sounds like pretty typical music dork hyperbole, I wouldn't worry about it.

Sarah OTM.

Oh shit, dan, I forgot about this ... we are cool with trying to set up a show with you guys, but we probably wouldn't be able to do it until october. I can call a few places and try and get a weekend date.

I didn't ask which ones! I was kind of blown away by the statement, and then we started playing again. Later on, I was kicking myself for not asking.

TIN MACHINE
DIG
T-PAIN

LUCY'S FUR COAT
ELECTRONIC
PHOTEK

lol Dig

etc.

KJSL just turned down a New Year's gig b/c the money wasn't good enough. I'm glad we stuck to our guns that and that no one will feel taken advantage of, but it would've been a really fun gig. :(

Do you think you guys will be offered something else?

I mean, by another venue?

Dinosaur Jr.
Hilary Duff
Lords of Acid

I was pretty proud of "LUCY'S FUR COAT"

http://www.adequacy.net/images/feature/45-1.jpg

Their name was a plan on "Lucifer's Goat."

or a play, rather

Eve's Plum
Shai
Rammstein

Not with this band, but hopefully the main band will get something.

Ah, but of course.

Actually Dinosaur Jr. might be a very good guess.

Atari Teenage Riot
Toby Keith
Frente!

Wham!
Des'ree
Built to Spill

OK, I'll stop.

Marissa Marchant
Southern Culture on the Skids
The Blue Man Group

This book is making me all teary-eyed at my desk.

In conclusion, that book was extremely depressing. Good, but depressing.

Kelsey, you may talk about it now (unless someone here was planning to read it?)

What book is it?

This one:
http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/414YYHBMYKL._BO2,204,203,200_PIsitb-dp-500-arrow,TopRight,45,-64_OU01_AA240_SH20_.jpg

I read it, it made me sad too.

are they siamese twins? I hope so.

Is she the one with the large photos of herself on the back of her books?

I am sort of interested in reading The Time Traveler's Wife, which Kr just finished, although Kr said that the constant Chicago references were sort of annoying (like she couldn't say "He walked down the street" without specifying "He walked down Damen Avenue"). But the premise sounds vaguely Eternal Sunshine-y.

the constant Chicago references were sort of annoying

aren't they always? Man, that bugs me about this city. No celebrity can ever set foot in the city without the city laying some kind of spurious claim to him or her. It's infuriating.

I started this the other day after giving up on Naipaul. It's pretty good so far:

http://www.kgbbar.com/files/kgbbar/images/childrenshospital-vert-right_0.jpg

the book I'm reading was on The Daily Show last night, which charmed me. I've boght books because I saw it on TDS before, but I've never beaten it.

No celebrity can ever set foot in the city without the city laying some kind of spurious claim to him or her.

Wait, I don't understand this complaint.

I liked TTW, in spite of myself (I was expecting chick lit + sci-fi lite, which it kind of is, but pretty good).

http://blog.sme.sk/blog/350/49618/clanok_foto.jpg http://inkeehong.com/articles/image/Adrian_Childrens_Hospital-thumb.jpg

I LOVED the Time Traveler's Wife. loved it.

I was kinda meh on My Sister's Keeper. I think I was far more distant with the characters & less emotionally entangled than the author was hoping for so I think I was a "bad reader" of that book, if that makes sense. It's been a long time since I read it though. I found the major dilemma compelling though.

I'm still delighted by Chicago references in movies.