Chicago: I posted in your thread, but I did not add to the discourse.

discourse more like discharge, amirite?

right up in your face and dis you

yeah i think i am still down for trivia

The song in this video is the dance song I've been looking for: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4JLE-Mkp3s

But is it actually a Cha Cha Shuffle remix? I don't think so?

OK, I think it starts at 8 and we get up to five people on our team.

where is that pub again?

sarah might come to watch but i don't know if we can convince her to actually play

1934 W. Irving Park Rd.

okay i guess it's "the Mississippi Cha Cha Slide aka the Stomp" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMW0TMlA3_0

nick, you should totally make your own pasta...it's kind of a pain, but can taste so good and is really satisfying. especially nice right now with some of the yummy mushrooms that are around just cooked in butter with parsley. mmm.

the game was fun but yeah, the wings looked like crap. it was weird trying to explain rules to hockey to toby when i don't necessarily know them myself.

also, we were at a dinner party on saturday where 5 of the 8 people were mathematicians, and it was still really fun! we were also the only people without kids, the youngest people by far and the only people that weren't jewish. it did make us realize that we're bound to ask people over for a dinner party and then it'll turn out that they're kosher, and we have no idea how to deal with that-- does it help that our kitchen is essentially vegetarian?

That probably helps, although if they're really strict it would matter if meat had ever been up in there, I think. But if they're not orthodox that shouldn't matter, they just won't eat meat with milk or unkosher meat.

Depends on their own standards, but...probably not? It wouldn't count as "vegetarian" unless you could certify that no meat (esp pork & shellfish) had ever touched the surfaces, dishes, silverware, sink interior, dishwasher interior, cookware, utensils, etc in the entire life of the kitchen. And even then your word wouldn't really be good enough for kashrut, because having something kashered requires rabbis and rituals and stuff.

Ahh xp, yeah, the Jewish people I know are sort of nuts for the rules, they don't play no "essentially vegetarian"...but your dinner parties will obv be a lot easier if your guests are more relaxed.

But to make it easy peasy, fish isn't considered fleishik (meat)! So you can serve it in butter, in cream sauces, with a side salad incl shaved parmesan, etc etc. So much easier than trying to serve meat w/o dairy, in my opinion (at the very least because soy milk in my after-dinner coffee is just not okay).

Also my mom told me that pretty much all beer is automatically kosher.

"Entire life of the kitchen" implies previous tenants, though, so you're probably fucked.

Also my mom told me that pretty much all beer is automatically kosher.

Then what's the point of this?

http://www.sevenpack.net/wp-content/uploads/2006/10/HebrewMessiahBold.jpg

marketing

not kosher:

http://www.wisconsincheesemart.com/images/usingerspbr-web.jpg

xp Good point.

yeah, i guess the previous tenants part would be the problem, i'm pretty sure that we've never cooked any kind of meat at our house-- the closest thing would be smoked salmon at a brunch where we used paper plates anyway. it's interesting to think about, though.

Are your dishes and silverware and pots and pans and cooking utensils all new since your move? If you brought anything with you from the UK and you've ever cooked meat in it, it's treyf anyway. :)

I have to work at Catch tonight. Don't wanna. I got written up last night. I was at the bar waiting for change from the bartender, with one buttock on a barstool, one foot on the floor. The manager we call Elmer Fudd (bald, strong Polish accent, constantly on the hunt for someone to write up) told me I was making a joke of my job and asked me if I wanted to be sent home. I said yes, I did.

Don't you have to kasher your kitchen stuff even if it's all new?

Also, your dishes are irrevocably treif if they've ever had nonkosher food on them. Something about the food being able to seep into pottery, whereas silverware, teflon, etc. have no such issues.

for the first time in my life all our pans are new, as are our dishes and cutlery (international move followed by wedding registry). however, i think if we ever have people over that are kosher, there must be some caterer that does delivery that we can just use? or just not invite people around, this may be easiest.

jesse, did they send you home in the end, then? that really sucks...

just get a bunch of meat from romanian kosher sausage co. and toss it on paper plates

If you're entertaining strictly frum guests, you can get away with catering and plasticware. That's the simplest solution; I certainly have attended my share of Shabbos meals that take that route. Depends on how elegant your party is, I guess.

i could be up for trivia tomorrow

I'm guessing those folks never get to go out to eat?

but i'm a vegetarian! our dinner parties are almost always vegetarian, which was kind of my original point. unless there's a specific reason (like it's someone's birthday and they requested toby's famous pork belly), you get no meat at my house when you come for dinner.

They sent me home. Which was actually pretty great. I worked for 3 hours, made $120 and had my whole evening free. Though I could have made a lot more had I stayed....

The money is what keeps me there--I can't really live like I want to on my current office salary, and I make nearly as much if not more at Catch in 10-15 hours as I do here all week.

I like working, just not there. And yes, I am starting to look for a new PT job. ALL REFERRALS WOULD BE APPRECIATED.

Sarah, my mom never goes out to eat, but in Chicago there are a bunch of legit kosher restaurants, I'm told.

I'm guessing those folks never get to go out to eat?

Au contraire, KitCat - Chicago is sort of a Promised Land of kosher eateries throughout the Midwest. We were still keeping kosher last time we visited, and we were able to keep ourselves fed just fine.

I mean, there's nowhere near the volume you'd get in someplace like Brooklyn, but there's still way in Chicago than St. Louis.

speaking of inviting people over...

i'm thinking of having a little festive drinks thing in celebration of my new citizenhship. the ceremony is the first wednesday of december. should these drinks be that evening, the thursday or the weekend? i know in years past every weekend in december was booked up way in advance and obviously don't want nobody to come, but also don't want people to not come because it's a school night. any thoughts?

Thursday, b/c it's a Thirsty day.

Historically.

i was thinking thursday might work as a gentle lead-in to the weekend. i'm not imagining a rager, just some mulled wine and cocktails or whatever. i like having people over for mulled wine.

A Thursday seems like your best bet!

not this thursday though

please

It doesn't happen 'til December anyway, Nick.

oh yeah

I'm so sleepy.

I just read a reviewer somewhere describe something as "explosively funny," and I chuckled to myself a bit, because it's a terrible cliche, but also because there's something vague funny to me about the word "explosively" all by itself. To the point of explosion. That's quite extreme.

Anyway, I think I may be explosively sleepy.

I believe the problem may be that I ate too heavily at lunch, because provious to that I was explosively hungry. Not I'm explosively sated.

NOW I'm... man.

I am an explosively bad typist today.

Now you're waiting for the next explosion.

Happy almost-bday.

And a Happy Belated Birthday to Jenny too. :-D

I had my first insured doctorial visit in....wow...6 years! He was nice, and he's sending me to an opthalmologist (I'm seeing what I call a "calalmari ring" in my left eye) and an ear/nose/throat specialist because he says my tonsils are "nasty and cryptic" (they have divets that form from being a fatso with fat tonsils) which is contributing to my terrible snoring and sleep apnea.

I am turning 28! Hurrah! I noticed upthread there was mention of trivia somewhere - have people been going to this? Do you have a full squad? I'm a big trivia fan and would definitely go.

The first 2/3rds of that Bruce thing could be a Nice Pete blog post.

trivia is today ... wouldn't be able to do it today but maybe next week

Stingy, we went to trivia at the Globe Pub a few weeks ago. It was kind of fun -- I think we all agreed it wasn't really our style (by which I mean it didn't play to our strengths), but we'd probably go back.

Kevin, have you received e-mails from the trivia dude? Because I haven't.

Other places that do trivia

no, no email.

i'd go back but can't do it tonight. next time i'm not pre-gaming at another bar and i'll only have like one or two beers during the festivities.

How was the trivia host? Back in Chapel Hill I'd go to this one trivia every week even though I was not very good at it because the host was really hilarious. He'd have difficult historical and legal categories, but then he'd always have something like 3-named celebrities or something that was easier.

I also noticed they were having Rock n Roll Jeopardy at Pontiac. Not sure if it's still going on or what the format is, but if that was a team-based thing I'd be up for that one.

oh man i bet we could assemble a pretty awesome r'n'r jeopardy team

This has it listed as only in November, with the last one last night: http://chicago.going.com/event-188210

The trivia host was plenty friendly but also a little smug.

i haven't been to the pontiac since the ffs first-ever show

Yeah I got an e-mail from Going about it originally. I wonder if they'll continue it though if it was successful.

i googled the RNR jeopardy event and found the myspace page for the host ("L0rd Aw3som3"), and there is a comment on his page from my newest coworker.

this says every monday so maybe they will continue:

http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/7499/adsmallwx9.jpg

I hope rock and roll means popular music and not just rock and roll.

Unfortunately, Monday is traditionally band practice night. :(

wow it really is Jeopardy then, not just simple trivia. I do wonder if it's only individuals then, kinda looks like it from that photo. I don't know how they could do that though with a bunch of people.

does anybody here watch I Love New York 2?

Never heard of it.

I'm kind of interested in this: http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/sharpdarts/071122/

it's a trashy show on VH1, sequel to Flavor Flav's show starring one of the women he jilted. it's very over the top.

i got to see the salt n' pepa show at a friend's house over the holiday, that made me happy

dan that was 3 days ago! show/afterparty was at beat kitchen.

FUCK

My problem is I never read the Reader on the day it comes out, so I'm constantly learning about shit after the fact.

i went to see eraserhead last night too, but we were at the 6:15 show! then i ran into an old friend at the lake red line station and we chatted all the way home. good times.

now i am swamped with work and would love nothing more than to purge my brain of the mutant baby.

I read the Reader today and saw that I missed MIA. Damn.

I'm trying to find a radio edit of the new Cafe Tacuba single. Do you think I should write a 19-year-old Mexican kid who has it on his Last.fm page to see if he'll e-mail it to me?

¿Y-griega ese i?

why do you want the radio edit?

jesse, we talked about the fact that you missed MIA in the taxi on saturday!

Because I want to include it on my 100-track Best of 2007 mix, and unlike longish songs by Gui Boratto, Supermayer, Studio, etc. that I'll undoubtedly include, I feel like the last couple minutes of the Cafe Tacuba song are sort of pretty but pointless meandering: the best parts of the song all happen in the first four minutes.

gotcha. i'm not sure i've ever heard a cafe tacuba song at all. are you ranking your 100 tracks?

Oh dear....you're right Colette. I had other things on my mind (ie, booze).

No, not ranking them, but they'll be artfully sequenced! Also not sure it will be exactly 100.

For reference: 2006, 2005, 2004.

(There are 104 tracks in the playlist right now, but I usually nix a few that I decide I don't like all that much and add a few that I discover through end-of-the-year lists.)

so my boss gave me a kind of ultimatum of sorts

"i've noticed you've been tuned out ..." massive understatement, i hate my job as many of u are aware...

Basically, my job as a researcher isn't really needed right now, and shes asking me to assess my commitment to the organization ... and i'm having trouble faking enthusiasm

she gave me the option of part time, (not really financially realistic) or becoming a grant writer or working in one of the specific areas she needs. i want to quit, badly, but it is a very bad solution cuz i don't have anything lined up, have some decent-sized CC debt + college loans and a not particularly cheap rent.

i can try to fake it, convince her i've changed my ways and am fully committted!!! but its totally untrue; she's trying to get people to work evenings, come in on weekends, etc. Fuck that.

advice???? i'm applying everywhere i can think of but it might not be enough.

Also: I hadn't heard Cafe Tacuba before recently, but they were reviewed on Sound Opinions and I really liked that song.

kot's been a tacuba fan forever.

i was thinking of trying to be an intern at sound opinions, but then i saw that all npr internships require a certain amount of work during normal business hours, which i can't really do right now. why didn't i do one of these internships when i didn't have to have a real job at the same time? ugh.

deej - you could always try to sign up with a temp company if you want to quit. that's what i've been doing since i moved here. might not pay as much as you're making now though i suppose.

is your temp co. any good? whats a good temp co?

they've been keeping me at jobs pretty well, and the job i'm at now is pretty chill, that's basically all i can ask for. if you don't want to commit to your current job then you definitely wouldn't have to worry about that as a temp

do they sound less like dads in other episodes?

-- Jordan, Tuesday, November 27, 2007 3:25 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Link

THEY ARE DADS

New thread plz someone.

But there are only 1697 posts!

Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

Oh no! The image tag wasn't closed!!

Deej: join aquent. good pay, insurance after four weeks, etc. Give em my name and maybe i'll get a bonus.

lol @ dads