Chicago: customers are advised to allow extra travel time

ice bath sounds like emergency treatment for burn victims. Cold shower should do.

you don't put ice on burns, ice will restrict the flow of blood to the affected area. you should use cold, sterile compresses.

PWNED

kevin otm

if i have three dollars and half a pack of cigarettes i'm going to walk down to tuman's for $1.50 domestic bottles.

i have learned something useful from this pwnage

???

I'm looking for a used high-quality tambourine. Something with history, family, travels would be nice. I'm willing to pay top-dollar.

Location: Madison-East
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

four dollars and three cigarettes, close enough for me. i'll be sitting in the air conditioned glory of tuman's a.a.c. for the monday night specials.

Better drink slow!

i just went outside for the first time in about 4 hours, it feels about 15 degrees cooler out there than in here.

And he lays down the medical SMRTS, ladies and gentlemen.

I'm going home to put my AC in.

Morning.

Hi Sarah.

'Sup?

I sold that bass last night for my asking price. That was pretty cool.

Even expecting all of Michael Moore's usual antics, Sicko still depressed the hell out of me.

It's not something I want to see in the theatre unless I'm gonna sneak into another movie right afterward.

I need to buck up and call this credit card company to try to get a lower rate. Why am I so wussy???

Do it! You are obviously a wheeler-dealer! Arm yourself with facts, gird your loins with the power of your spending dollar! Fuck them, you're paying them for a service!

Tell them that if they don't give you a lower rate, you will transfer all your debt with them to another card with a lower rate. They will want to keep your debt/business because otherwise they don't get interest.

Yeah, it didn't work.

Instead, the lady kept trying to talk me into transferring money from my credit card into my checking account. HA!

WTF.

If you qualify (and from what you just said via IM, you do), you could actually get a new card and do the 0% balance transfer rate. Just be sure you're still paying it off and not buying Dolce and Gabbana, Fendi and then Prada with your new spending power.

The way to do it is to go to the Century and see Sicko and then see Once.

I thought the first 30 mins of Sicko was very depressing -- the way it is whenever you hear stories about uninsured people who need extensive medical care. But I also thought that it made so many good points, one of the main ones being that in any other country in the Western world the idea of paying for medical care is as foreign as the idea of a government charging tuition for its schools. Also, it really drove home that basic idea that if a government runs the hospitals it is a social service, with wellness as the yardstick, whereas insurance companies to not base their success on wellness.

Wow. The tags on my music are FUCKED. That's what you get when you steal from a 2nd rate torrent site, I guess? They're so bad that I'm just going to live with them.

I have gotten used to the idea that I have "Smiths," "the Smiths" and another "Smiths" on my iPod, and I've learned to navigate around it. But if I could pay Jeff to fix this, I might just do it.

But iTunes just did that thing AGAIN (the one Kenan says is impossible) where I tried to add a file (Meat Puppets) to the Library and instead of adding it, it made it disappear entirely--searches reveal no presence of the folder, including in the recycle bin.

I am thisclose to quitting my job today. I have a three and a half page long list of things that apparently "need" to be done this week. Working 16 hours a day and all weekend will not even get me close to finishing this stuff.

:(

I got a call message yesterday from the firm where I applied and just talked to them--no job at doggie law firm for me--they found someone with more legal research experience, but the attorney referred me to another, larger firm that does similar work.

Hey, that's a good sign, that they're referring you.

I know! I'm experiencing mixed emotions. I don't want this to come across the wrong way, but I've rarely applied for a job that I wasn't hired for. This could be the result of not pushing my boundaries.

Oh, speaking of which, one of the new hires at C@tch tells me that he had a 2nd interview at 7ru, but he was already hired with us. He's had a good bit of experience, but their requirements are only having "more than 1 year" fine dining experience. The first "interview" is essentially dressing up in a suit and following a server--from

oops.

Anyway, he was most impressed by how easy-going the work was--with so much support staff (backwait, sommelier, bussers, runners), the front-wait's job was basically to have in-depth knowledge of every foam and reduction that Rick could throw at them (not literally).

I think there could be a family restaurant called C@tch, with a baseball theme and where waiters throw plates of food at the customers.

Or, more precisely, call it "C@tch!"

I just thought, what would be worse than Jesse c+p'ing Dan's IM onto the Chicago thread would be to then paste it into ILEpitaphs.

Dan, you should convince the other guys in your band to change the name to Skeleton Crew.

Or Clop Clop Clop Clop.

Is it too late to rename FUNZONE Clop Clop Clop Clop?

jesus fucking christ I am never going to live that down

I'll get you for this, K3hr

dan I love you.

In other news, a dude m@ttttttttttt and I know is djing at this thing on Friday:

http://i141.photobucket.com/albums/r47/dodizzy/Rad_Animated.gif

I might go, but I really just wanted to post this silly gif.

xp thx

"jesus fucking christ I am never going to live that down"
the first CD by Clop Clop Clop Clop

also, i will not be convinced that jesse doesn't know how to use iTunes until I see this disappearance happen with my own eyes.

Hey, I saw Patricia Barber again at the Green Mill last night. Still holds up as my favorite act in all of Chicago.

Major points if those are actually their class photos.

Looks like a good time as well, but I'll be at Double Door that night. C4n4st4 is headlining a benefit for the Chicago Ind3p3nd3nt Radio Pr0j3ct, which is a new non-profit that sprung up in the wake of Loyola's decision to take back WLUW. I hate to beg people to come to shows, but I'd be very heartened if some of you showed up, since we've never headlined a club that big that wasn't a free show with a guaranteed crowd. There will be two new songs (and probably more than that if you haven't seen us in a while). There will be projected films behind us. It should be fun. I'll buy you a drink, too.

I am 99.9% sure the top photo is him.

Driving home from Lolla Sunday night I caught the very tail end of a C4n4st4 song on Local 101 on Q101. Not sure which song, just caught the fade-out and the DJ calling it out as such. Usually when I tune into the show its an endless parade of cookie-cutter pop-punk bands, so I thought it was a nice surprise.

most days I cut myself, so a day when I don't cut myself is a nice surprise.