I'll be arriving Sept 2nd, and I won't have much money, so I don't need to spend hours getting trashed like at a regular FAP. But who wants to come have some Belgian beer with me? Huh?
I recommend the Abbey de Leffe Blonde... so sweet, so creamy....
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 22 August 2003 05:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Mr. Diamond (diamond), Friday, 22 August 2003 06:31 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm totally flexible on when.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 22 August 2003 06:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 22 August 2003 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)
Also, I haven't been to Hopleaf in a month or so, but I don't know about any outdoor seating. They just added a section in the back, as well as a kitchen, but it's indoors, I think. Still, it's a nice bar, and esp. if you're a beer connoisseur.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 August 2003 14:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 22 August 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:20 (twenty-two years ago)
Where are you moving to, am?
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 22 August 2003 15:35 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 22 August 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)
― ryan t hoffman, Friday, 22 August 2003 18:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― jennpb (jennpb), Friday, 22 August 2003 23:57 (twenty-two years ago)
And we all know around here: lurkers are very special people.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 23 August 2003 05:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:52 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 19:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― jennpb (jennpb), Tuesday, 26 August 2003 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:43 (twenty-two years ago)
― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 13:55 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 27 August 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Sunday, 31 August 2003 03:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― nabisco%%, Sunday, 31 August 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 1 September 2003 02:01 (twenty-two years ago)
Walked to the lake today, and tried to imagine it frozen. Couldn't get my head around it.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:57 (twenty-two years ago)
― luna (luna.c), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:04 (twenty-two years ago)
Only problem with the new Hopleaf is you can't smoke in the back.
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:46 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Ann Sterzinger (Ann Sterzinger), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:50 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:51 (twenty-two years ago)
Hmmmm ... 'sprall'?
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)
Besides everyone knows that fall is the time when the Cubs and Sox blow it, of course.
― hstencil, Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops in da windy city! *wink wink* (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:02 (twenty-two years ago)
With all due respect, hstencil, I'd say the Cubs and Sox have usually blown it well before a night like this. Meh. Can anyone remember the Cubs ever winning a doubleheader? It's like at best an opportunity for them to might as well not've played.
Nice grammar eh? Bitch bitch bitch ... sorry everbody, I've been rehearsing in a sweatbox for the last month and a half, and the fucking weekend we open, summer ends (yes I saw it coming). And then we get a bad review, sigh. I really like it here quite a lot, the downside (yes there's a big upside also, to be fair) of the Gray Season excepted; something to the old saw, "if it weren't for the weather, everybody'd be here."
(G'night; sorry for the mess ...)
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:18 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:19 (twenty-two years ago)
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:20 (twenty-two years ago)
I hope I'm wrong, but with no closer for the Sox, and no Patterson for the the Cubs, I think it's all been a very enjoyable tease. (If either makes it, I predict a typically quick first-round playoff series.)
But here's hoping I'm wrong.
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:22 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:23 (twenty-two years ago)
I am bound and determined to be the one guy in the entire metro area who doesn't give a flying mess of runny shit about baseball. Go ahead. Just TRY to change my mind. Recite the James Earl Jones speech from Field of Dreams, whatever. I am a rock.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)
i feel like you guys have me surrounded.
― amateurist (amateurist), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 03:35 (twenty-two years ago)
Question: if you order a hot dog with everything, and you don't get celery salt, have you been gipped?
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)
Do you mean the one next to the Berwyn el station, or the one on Clark just north of me?
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:29 (twenty-two years ago)
But maybe what he saves in salt, he makes up for in lamb. The gyro would choke a pig -- i.e., me.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:30 (twenty-two years ago)
Interesting fact: "gipped" is a racial slur against gypsies. I just learned that. But I don't know anyone else who knows that, so I feel safe still using the term.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:35 (twenty-two years ago)
(the Jewel on Clark, Kenan)
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― s1utsky (slutsky), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:55 (twenty-two years ago)
(Xpost--the cereal for a new generation)
― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 04:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 5 September 2003 01:25 (twenty-two years ago)
Oops, I realized you're right about the cicadas being in 1990 once I thought about it...I was miscalculating.
― JuliaA (j_bdules), Friday, 5 September 2003 01:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 5 September 2003 10:49 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm excited too! I told my mom last night and that's what I was dreading. I was worried she'd be upset with me. When I told her we might move to Philly, she said Nick was trying to steal me away from her. But she's over it now apparently.
SO Andersonville is nice? We've been doing lots of research on neighborhoods.
― Sarah McLUsky (coco), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)
Actually, there are two Jewels in Uptown - the one on Montrose is much better. Better still is the one in Wrigleyville on Broadway - that's the best Jewel around.
Depends on what you're looking for, though.
Most Dominicks in Chicago suck as far as I've seen, except for the "Fresh" stores.
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 5 September 2003 12:53 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kerry (dymaxia), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)
i would go to trader joe's and treasure island if i had a car.
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 5 September 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)
Yeah, that's Edgewater Produce. I find it to be pretty decent and cheap, but a friend of mine says it "smells like death."
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 5 September 2003 14:37 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)
Nuthin'. Slowly running out of money. Wanna have a beer tonight (Friday)? Doesn't have to be at the Hop Leaf, either. I hear Simon's is okay. I'm heading out to the movies soon, but I'll be around later in the afternoon.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 5 September 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)
Man alive, my feet hurt. I have never lived in a city where walking was even socially permissible, much less life-or-death necessary, and I fear I will have bloody stumps by the end of the week. And then there I'll be, with a sunburned face and no feet and unable to find whole wheat flour at the grocery store... utter defeat. I don't want that.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 5 September 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh, Kenan: have you been hipped to the Whole (Paycheck) Foods option? There's one at Ashland just north of Belmont.
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Friday, 5 September 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 19:03 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Friday, 5 September 2003 19:26 (twenty-two years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 5 September 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 5 September 2003 19:31 (twenty-two years ago)
― hstencil, Friday, 5 September 2003 19:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― brian nemtusak (sanlazaro), Friday, 5 September 2003 19:37 (twenty-two years ago)
Brian, I'll call you if we're still out. Who knows what the evening will hold. I just remembered Kenan is at a movie right now, so plans may change?
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 19:38 (twenty-two years ago)
Eight at the Hopleaf will be fine. This will be me: buzzed head, rectangular black glasses, blue shirt, khaki pants, red shoes. You can't miss me.
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 5 September 2003 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)
i won't be able to make it, but have fun. maybe another evening.
― amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 5 September 2003 20:51 (twenty-two years ago)
Oh, and Jessa is welcome to come, too, of course.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 20:56 (twenty-two years ago)
Definitely before you leave for France...
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Friday, 5 September 2003 21:41 (twenty-two years ago)
About to leave work in a few mins. See you soon.
― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 5 September 2003 21:47 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 6 September 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Saturday, 6 September 2003 20:01 (twenty-two years ago)
― phil-two (phil-two), Saturday, 6 September 2003 20:08 (twenty-two years ago)
― Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo (cindigo), Sunday, 7 September 2003 00:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Sunday, 7 September 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)
― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 7 September 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)