Chicago is an October Sort of City Even in Spring

me neither. but you knew that.

I've never heard that before, but the Internet tells me that it's Algren. Nice. The Internet tells me that he also said, "Loving Chicago is like loving a woman with a broken nose."

...you may meet lovlier lovlies but never a lovely so real.

is the rest of that quote john.

it was my gmail status for a while.

here it is:

"Yet once you've come to be part of this particular patch, you'll never love another. Like loving a woman with a broken nose, you may well find lovelier lovelies. But never a lovely so real"

http://www.mouserunner.net/anne_geddes/index_content/anne_geddes_preview_2.png

Hmm. I think for dinner I want baby prawns....

Ah, I remember that Gmail status! I wondered what it was from.

We had a thread title that referenced that one too ("A lovely so real").

and damn it, I knew we had done this one before

An October sort of city: Chicago part 6

xp Oh, maybe that's what I was remembering.

Shit.

I've never read Algren.

argh some douchebag put a battlestar galactica spoiler on the lost thread

whoa, i can't believe how warm it is! this is pretty great.

yeah i finally got my bike tires filled up, rode up to costellos for lunch (they don't have my favorite sandwich anymore ;_;), browsed at laurie's planet of sound, rode home, then the sun was out and shining so i just rode around my neighborhood for a little while. only problem was the wind

Holy cow. It's 78.8 according to my widget. No wonder I'm sitting here sweating. The a/c isn't on b/c the HVAC people haven't come to test it yet, sadly.

I bet it thunderstorms like a mf-er this evening, hopefully after we all get home from work.

yeah, the wind is pretty crazy. there's a 4-story pine tree across the alley from me, and it keeps bending down in the wind to about 2.5 stories, and looks like it's going to snap.

anyone tried almond milk? it's ok.

smells like almonds.

I didn't realize almonds lactated.

smells like almonds.

So does cyanide.

Aw shit, high of 46 on Sunday, 44 on Monday...

Yeah, I was eating lunch outside and trying to read the paper, but the wind kept blowing the pages all around, and my napkins. Then I saw the weather report for the next few days, wtf! Possible SNOW on Monday?! I was just about to hang up my coat in the back of the closet, too. Ugh.

living up to the thread title amirite

Exactamundo! Good timing there.

Chicago: Don't Put Away The Mukluks Just Yet

I just called my landlord to have her get the heating dude to come by tonight and change out this faulty wire that had been causing problems. I was thinking there would be no rush to do this, but now I want to make sure I will have working heat on Sunday and Monday night.

oh those weather people have no idea

True, but to go from 70 to 30 is pretty extreme. I would hope they wouldn't be too wrong about that. Actually, I do hope they're wrong about that, of course.

OK, now it's gone all dark and windy...boo!

my widet tells me 77.7º

don't worry about the tickets, jon, i'm going to sell them to amanda. and also, just got an email that there's still tickets available for the braves series this week if you want to buy a pair.

well shit, i guess i'm going to have to go to sat. AND sun. of the pfork fest. now that they've added some good bands (HEALTH, Mahjongg, Times New Viking and LES SAVY FAVVVVVV) to sunday's lineup

Yeah, Sunday for me is about Cut Copy and Les Savy Fav.

What up.

nothin'

just got back from walking toby to the stars of the lid show. am now home cooking vegetarian bacon for my snack. rock and roll, huh?

What law is it the describes the relationship between weekends and Monday workdays? An inverse relationship that says something along the lines of, "the more enjoyable and relaxing the weekend / the shittier the return to reality on Monday morning"?

prince covering radiohead's 'creep,' pretty great: http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/page/forkcast/50247-prince-creep-radiohead-cover

Hey, when I was in Minneapolis I had dinner at this place (reviewed by Dara) and it was so very good.

I'm here. Nick. I'm right here.

oh

we went to ikea yesterday, then i broke two (2) frames

At Ikea? What did you buy?

i'm guessing two frames.

i did buy two (2) frames, though i broke one (1) that we bought yesterday and one (1) that we've had for a while. so one (1) of the two (2) i bought yesterday has survived intact so far

also bought a rug, some baskets for organizing and a dish drying rack

The Strangerer was interesting, although I'm not sure I would recommend it. I like absurdism in general, but here the absurdism was so heightened that it sort of tried my patience after a while -- like when everything is nonsensical, what are the stakes? The fact that the staging was necessarily static (since it's a presidential debate) didn't help. I was impressed, however, by the character work: none of these guys looked anything like the personalities they were playing (Bush looked a little like Dave Foley), but all of them got the mannerisms and speech patterns down pretty well.

Jesse will also be interesting to know that Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? plays a small but significant role.

Ahem, "interested."

But I do have legs. xp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-KOj7YKYvX0

no it would be mostly online. i think i would have to go down to champaign once a semester or something for a weekend, and there was an introduction class that would involve me being down there for a couple of weeks but if i started in the fall i would be skipping that i think? still figuring it all out

Socratic method via IM.

My plans look a helluva lot like Nick's plans this weekend, except that I'm actually working a bit tomorrow.

oh crap, tonight's lost! i'll live in squalor until sunday.

Oh wait, why do I keep thinking you're going to law school?

Tonight - Lost
Tomorrow- pre-clean house
Saturday - Jenny is helping me deep clean in preparation for having regular visits from cleaning ladies.
Sunday - wait on hundreds of visiting oncologists

how long does it take them to get lost online after it airs? maybe we can watch it when we get home from kids in the hall

I'll be watching Lost at Court's friend's new place in the New York building on Lakeshore. I have never been to a highrise apartment before. And she has a balcony! (35th floor)

jesse are you doing something for the ASCO conference? we're dreading it here because we cover oncology news and the conference always sends our story load over the moon

also the reason why our out-of-town friends have to stay in a hotel out near o'hare

and why no one could find hotel rooms for our wedding last year

fucking oncologists

onc onc

Catch is a big conventioneer restaurant, so they come and they $pend a lot of money. Then next week is NeoCon, and they spend a lot too.

cancer? that's hilarious!

fucking oncologists

I saw those guys last month at Reggie's.

I'm reviewing a bunch of plays and likely going to that same birthday BBQ over the next few nights.

I went to NeoCon one year.

did you remember to tip jesse?

Have you guys heard about Rachel Ray's being a terrorist?

ahhhaa Michelle Malkin is the real terrorist

an introduction class that would involve me being down there for a couple of weeks but if i started in the fall i would be skipping that i think?
i dunno, i'm pretty sure dan had to do it and he started in the fall.

that was a while ago though and maybe things have changed, as they do

well i wouldn't be doing it until later, i guess? like i said, i'm still trying to figure this out

i bet dunkin' donuts iced coffee is pretty good. too bad we don't have any here.

i personally recommend the TURBO HOT

https://www.dunkindonuts.com/images/aboutus/products/turbohot/banner_turbohot.jpg

a product i endorse thanks solely to its completely ludicrous name

either way i remember he had fun in spite of the fact that he had to stay in a dorm room with a stranger. nothing to worry about.

huh, they have the dana carvey show on hulu now

oh christ i just narrowly escaped being the emcee of our graduation ceremony

*phew*

Have you guys heard about Rachel Ray's being a terrorist?

When I read about that yesterday, the first thing I thought of was the "Middle Eastern guy" Halloween costume I had in 1990. Two months after Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, and my mom dresses me up with a checkered headscarf and painted-on beard, wtf.

classy!

Topical!

I got a ton of free bumper stickers supporting the troops in the Gulf at school. Being crazy patriotic and not having a car, I plastered them all over my school binders. Punk rock! (Oh wait, no..)

I played "Fortunate Son" on the jukebox in a diner in the lumber part of Washington state.

And I'm pretty sure I was a part of this.

Do people still display yellow ribbons? I remember that being a big deal during the Persian Gulf War, but I don't see it at all these days. Could be because I grew up in a mostly Republican suburb, though.

! Jerry's Sandwiches AGAIN today!

Odds are tomorrow as well, since all this free lunch is a result of unreasonable busy-ness, and they are Jerry's converts. Fine by me.

tony orlando still does.

xpost.

There were yellow ribbons tied on every single last lightpole in downtown Ho-town this past weekend. Also my camera is apparently fuxxored, thus no pics :(

chicago's best fries?

i got the regular fries and toby got the duck-fat fries when we went to hot dougs, and he said there was hardly any difference...

the yellow ribbons are all magnetic and stuck to people's cars now doy

one thing i have found interesting is that this war has been going on SO LONG that people see that their magnetic yellow ribbons are faded, so they replace them. that has to be a depressing purchase, eh?

just thinking about that bums me out

my favorite entry in this week's chicago journal police report:

Evon Celander, 29, of Evanston, Ill., was charged with battery after an incident that allegedly occurred on the 1700 block of W. Grand and at the 13th District police station, 937 N. Wood, at between 12:50 and 1:40 a.m. on May 26, police reports say. The incident began when Celander's husband, Daniel Celander, was pulled over and placed into custody, under suspicion of driving under the influence, according to the report. Evon Celander, the offender, was in the passenger seat, and she started arguing with police officers after they arrested her husband. According to the report, she appeared quite drunk herself and soon lost her cool, screaming and swearing at the officers. When the police began preparing to tow her husband's car to an impound lot, she tried to jump inside it, the report says. The officers put her into handcuffs and tried to talk her down, but she only started squirming and protesting even more loudly, according to police. First, she allegedly told the officers she was going to "f*** you bitches up." She then escalated her rhetoric even further, police reported: "I'm going to eat you," she said. She then allegedly opened her mouth and tried to bite two of the officers on their hands. After finally getting control of their arrestee, the officers drove Celander to the 13th District station house, though her rage allegedly remained unabated. "I'll rape you motherf***ers," she yelled, the report says, "F*** all of you!" While handcuffed, she lunged forward and kicked over an interview table, causing it to crash into an officer's leg. Police soon transported her again, to the 11th District, where she was charged with battery.

"I'm going to eat you"

She then allegedly opened her mouth and tried to bite two of the officers on their hands

NEVER CHANGE CHICAGO.

wow

"i'm going to eat you" should be next thread?

first post, that story

done. chicago, i'm going to eat you.