Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

I liked The Man Who Wasn't There.

I love the guileless way Scarlett Johansson says, "No, sir, it was written by a man named Ludwig van Beethoven."

me: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGRRRRGGHGHHG

Jen: que?
me: i just entered a TON of billable time
the field where you enter time looks like this 00:00:00
so
for 15 minutes, guess whta the fuck i entered???
00:00:15 -- 15 seconds
by the way, 15 seconds of an attorney's time will run you around $3.75

Jen: haha
i'm laughing at that last joke
not at your mistake
which is too bad

me: why the FUCK does this need a seconds field???

Sarah and I have very different views on movie snacking. My family would never buy concessions when we went to the movies, while Sarah's family is very big on buying popcorn EVERY TIME you go to the movie, and sometimes candy too. I think Sarah's dad goes to movies just to have an excuse to eat popcorn.

I like the WTF UFO part in The Man Who Wasn't There.

I like movies best without snacks or drinks. Drinks means having to pee sometime before the movie's done. Snacks mean eating. And doubling the price of a night out. A curmudgeonly miser, I know.

My family would never buy concessions when we went to the movies

Mine neither. I think the last time I bought popcorn at a movie was when Kr and I saw Children of Men downtown, just because it was in the middle of the afternoon and we hadn't had lunch or something.

Drinks means having to pee sometime before the movie's done.

YES.

I don't care for popcorn too much, so I don't buy it. Usually I bring my own snacks and more often than not, (esp. when I go w/ Courtney) we bring wine. Great times, but talk about having to pee.

I'd rather not.

No, you're right. If I'm going to eat at the movies, I get a hot dog and always finish it during the previews. I do not need a sugar rush while watching a movie or really anytime ever, and laurel otm about that filthy artificial butter crap.

xpost to eric

Last night Kenan and I double-teamed the cat I'm sitting for, affection wise.

A BAGEL, Laurel? But the point of movie snacks are to last for awhile during the movie.

These days I don't buy snacks or drinks there, but on a date a few months ago we snuck in a huge back of pretzel sticks & and bottle of mustard. :>

My family would never buy concessions when we went to the movies

that's because the prices are like something out of a Zucker movie. There is no excuse for buying candy and soda at the movies; you may as well set a ten dollar bill on fire.

I like to have a drink because I get thirsty really easily. It's a constant battle between the fear of getting thirsty in the middle of the movie and the fear of having to go to the bathroom during the climactic moment.

I haven't been to the Sundance theater here yet but I heard they use real butter on the popcorn.

xxp Yeah, my dad was big on no soft drinks at restaurants, too.

A New York-style bagel piled with cream cheese and salmon?? That shit lasted for hours, I nibbled away at it. Hey, I was hungover and it was a retardedly bright and sunny and hot and windy day -- basically an assault on all senses -- and crm cheese/tomato/lox is my hangover cure: salt, protein, and richness, but not too stomach-challenging.

Wow, I don't thing a bagel has ever withstood me for more than 5 minutes. Kudos.

One of the best times I had in college was bringing a grocery bag full of Mickey's Big Mouth into a screening of Cassavetes' Husbands. And now that I think about it, I passed around a bottle of not-Champagne at The Garden State at the Davis, and that was good too.

Dude, it was like four inches high with ingredients!! And you know a New York bagel is half the size of your head to begin with.

Okay, maybe not YOUR head.

oh noes mickey's big mouths

Last time we went to the Logan, they actually looked in Sarah's purse, so we were kind of paranoid about sneaking the candy in. Sarah took the Twizzlers out of their noisy bag and put them in a ziploc bag, and put a paper towel in the Raisinets box to dampen the rattling. I think she went a little overboard.

I think I'm going to start sneaking better snacks into the movies from now on.

Having a pile of bones leftover after a meal is oddly satisfying.

xpost, zing!

Pancakes.

I just eat way, way too fast.

Mickey's makes me think of http://www.everlastworld.de/images/Cover/HouseOfPain/HouseOfPain.jpg

Nick, maybe next time you could save up a bunch of those cardboard tubes that tampons come pacakged in and put a few pieces of licorice in each one. I bet they don't look too closely at THOSE.

mmm... licorice applicator.

GODDAMMIT if only I had a prosthetic leg.

I think I'd turn around and leave if a movie theater employee decided to search me, assuming I hadn't already bought my ticket.

I tried to convince Sarah that we should buy a fake pregnant lady stomach for her to wear and fill it up with candy. Then we would also have to smuggle in a plastic baby, so that as we leave the movie, it wouldn't be suspicious that her stomach got smaller.

this all sounds very elaborate. Just sneak shit in, that's all. It's not hard. You're just afraid of embarrassment.

They didn't really "search" us at the Logan, just asked to look in Sarah's purse. They also made this dude check his messenger bag, without looking in it. I agree it's pretty lame, but if they're selling tickets at $3 each, they're probably making all of their profit from concessions.

Which is why we snuck in candy.

They may also be looking for guns/Mickey's.

While you're at it, sneak into another movie after the one you paid for. A whole afternoon of air conditioning! They do not pay attention, believe me. :)

well, i don't know about the logan. But multiplexes are ripe for all kinds of exploitation.

I can take planning, though... you have to figure out which movie you want to vote with your dollar on, see that one first, and sneak into the movie that you figure doesn't need your dollar. Pay for the indie film, sneak into "Pirates," that kinda thing.

Search: Secret zippered compartment in virtually every purse ever made.

Destroy: People who sneak in foods that have a very strong odor OR booze that causes them to behave like baffoons and/or litter.

Quiet booze drinkers and non-odor food sneakers, I have no problem with you. I sneak food into virtually every movie theater I visit.

"You're my buddy Dewar's. I'm gonna sneak you into the movies in my tummy!"

(approximately one of you will get that reference.)

"At least one thing will go smoothly today."

Do people really sneak booze into the movies? That's a level of sad that I have heretofore managed to avoid.

My Mickey's/not-Champagne stories are the only two times I have done so.

I think people who get the shakes without a nip sneak in booze.

I've never had any desire to sneak booze into the movies. (I'm using booze to mean "alcoholic bevvies.")

What's sad about sneaking booze into movies?!

this:

I think people who get the shakes without a nip sneak in booze.

In fact, I got a beer at the Siskel on Friday and only drank like 1/3 of it. Mistake!

With the not-Champagne, I was supposed to go to a play opening with some friends, but we got there at 8 only to find that it started at 7:30, and I had brought a bottle of not-Champagne for a Franco-American actress in the cast, and so the bunch of us bought paper cups at the White Hen and brought the whole thing into the Davis.

P.S., I meant to ask El Lechero about how he ended up shooting Chicago from the corncob towers.