Chicago: How can I be removed and go home? I really need to.

I wonder what prompted him to wear that?

"The juror sent the judge a note which read, "How can I be removed and go home? I really need to."

Oh, that link is working now, looks like Kels got cleared of all charges.

Keep an eye out for a big yacht off of Navy Pier tonight.

Finally, DeRogatis cited the Fifth Amendment against self-incrimination and declined to testify. Attorneys had said he might be accused of child pornography for possessing and viewing the tape.

That would've been crazay.

J. DeRogatis: "that shit's digital"

There is an article in the Reader about how he had reason to believe this is true. The article references another reporter's article in Salon, which she titled, "Why I need to see child porn."

That's the title for the next thread.

I'll be taking some time off then.

Chicago: I could suuuure go for some hard candy about right now.

Yeah, that Reader article made child-porn laws in the US seem really draconian:

In another, a couple in Maryland whose home surveillance camera caught a neigh­bor boy performing sex acts with their dog turned the tape over to the police but only after telling the story to friends. They were charged with possession and sentenced to probation.

Yeah, you can never be too safe when it comes to kiddie porn. I like his little bandit mask, though. The mask is an underused fashion accessory.

well it certainly is daring to be a black man in chicago wearing a mask. cpd being what they are and all.

kels has nothing if not derring-do

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k307/ohmygowda/stipe_420x284.jpg

Duet?

well, that and a mole

michael stipe's mask (which appears to be makeup?) gives him a distinctly weenielike look. r's mask is bandito style and more appealing.

R. looks like Zorro and Stipe looks like "Zorro."

Stipe looks like he's going to try out for Blue Man.

Neither look like Zero:

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/broadway/stars/images/mostel_z_pic1.jpg

Or for that matter:

http://www.dkmorgan.co.uk/pics/Bandpics/smashing_pumpkins.jpg

And if you'll indulge me one last free association:

http://www.sbarro.com.jo/Sbarro/uploaded/history1.jpg

when i was a kid i had a book that featured many pictures of zero mostel in a diaper. to this day i don't really understand it. all i know is that it was him, he was wearing a diaper and i guess it was supposed to be funny.

also neither of those dudes are wearing a mask in those pictures, so wtf ;)
are we not talking about masks?

I was just going off "Zorro."

Man, Des Moines must be pissed off that part of their city is being evacuated and all the headlines are Russ and R.

further proof that iowa is maddeningly boring

But listeners hungry for some opera weren't totally out of luck. When it came time for "Feelin' on Yo Booty," he sung it through, then disappeared. When he came back, he wore a Zorro mask, a top hat and an opera cape, and stood in front of a music stand. Sure enough, it was time for the opera remix. "Boo-oo-ooty," he sang, or maybe lip-synched. "Boo-oo-ooty!" A pre-recorded orchestra swelled. "Boo-oo-oo — " he paused and paged frantically through the sheet music. Finally he found the page he was looking for and sang the final syllable: "Ty!"

When I see Michael Stipe looking like that I either think of Marylin Manson or recent Boy George.
http://anemicroyalty.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/boy_george_og_rosie_111679a.jpg

Boy George is shilling for Sherwin-Williams now?

jesus christ

http://www.geocities.com/skaterman.rm/hamburglar.jpg

So gonna happen

I have to tell you - I love Boy George.

Please don't start painting yourself like that.

http://img18.photobucket.com/albums/v55/schauspielerin/IMG_0268.jpg

I love him, but I don't want to be him.

I read his autobio, and while it was all over the place, and he is a fucking mess, I decided that my feelings toward him were no longer ambiguous.

http://www.t-shirtz.us/images/masks/burglar-mask.jpg

Halloween 2008

http://www.rational.org/img/maaskedmaan.jpg

it was a NEWSPAPER interview, how 'bout you just don't run a photo?

heh heh

http://www.rational.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/AA.masked.jpg

Old-school AA meeting.

good old akron

Whasshappening with Trapped In The Closet? I was well into that.

i just found out that one of the nearest bars to my house has $1 draft pbrs, all day every day

whoa. which one?

i like these masks, i may have to get one.

handing my car over to the buyer actually made me cry. in the parking lot of the k-mart on addison. classy.

goldie's on lincoln, like a block north of grace

aw. I can understand that. xp

Dead Man's Cell Phone was spectacular. This is a quote from A Tale of Two Cities that is referenced in the play, printed in the playbill, and that reflects the theme of the play.

* A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. A solemn consideration, when I enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it! Something of the awfulness, even of Death itself, is preferable to this. No more can I turn the leaves of this dear book that I loved, and vainly hope in time to read it all.... It was appointed that the book should shut with a spring, for ever and for ever, when I had read but a page....

My friend is dead, my neighbour is dead, my love, the darling of my soul, is dead; it is the inexorable consolidation and perpetuation of the secret that was always in that individuality, and which I shall carry in mine to my life's end. In any of the burial-places of this city through which I pass, is there a sleeper more inscrutable than its busy inhabitants are, in their innermost personality, to me, or than I am to them?

The tone however is comedic and lively.

If anyone knows who Brian McBride is (probably stingy if he still reads the thread): the Fire just acquired his services.

He looks concerned, but in a very sympathetic way, like you were just complaining to him about something troublesome but not life shattering over coffee.

-- Jenny, Friday, July 25, 2008 9:39 AM (Friday, July 25, 2008 9:39 AM) Bookmark Link

OTM!

that dog would make a good bartender.

slow day eh

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-relig_anonymous-scientologyjul25,0,980144.story

I just came here to say the same thing, but without a link. Thanks.

http://chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_karl/anonymousflyer072508%282%29.jpg

dudes are serious

http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/misogyny-bares-its-teeth-on-internet/2007/08/20/1187462171087.html

like I said in chat, that smacks of anti-Anonymous slander from $c|3nt0l0gy

ok this is awesome.

Man charged with shooting lawn mower

http://graphics.jsonline.com/graphics/news/img/jul08/lawnmower_72508_125.jpg
Keith Walendowski is charged with shooting a lawn mower.
A 57-year-old south side man, who might have been struggling with a hangover, is charged today with shooting his lawn mower with a sawed-off shotgun.

"I'll tell you the truth," a criminal complaint quotes an apparently inebriated Keith Walendowski. "I got pissed because my lawn mower wouldn't start, so I got my shotgun and shot it.

"I can do that. It's my lawn mower and my yard, so I can shoot it if I want," Walendowski told police.

Ignorance of the law, however, is not a legal defense.

Walendowski is charged with a felony count of possessing a short-barreled shotgun and a misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct while armed. If convicted of both charges, he faces up to six years and nine months in prison.

The shooting occurred Wednesday at a home Walendowski shares with his mother in the 3500 block of S. Austin St.

According to the complaint, Walendowski had been drinking all morning. Around 9:30 a.m., he attempted to start his 21-inch Lawn-Boy - unsuccessfully.

After shooting the mower, he went in his basement, where he was arrested by police, the complaint says.

Police recovered the shotgun, shells, a handgun, rounds for the handgun and a stun gun.

Dick Wagner of Wagner's Garden Mart, 6075 N. Green Bay Ave., said shooting the mower didn't help Walendowski's odds of getting it repaired.

"Anything not factory recommended would void the warranty," he said.

i fucking love milwaukee.

those last two lines are gold

crazy!

ok, next week when my paycheck hits i'm definitely hitting this place for a louisiana dog.

Drew Peterson seems to be playing this with a little too much arrogance. When this gets tried in the media, that could work against him.

i think after getting away with at least one murder and probably two the arrogance has grown unabated.

That strip mall is a half-mile away from my high school.

i have a serious america's dog jones working over here.

America's Next Dog Jones.

Also thought it was remarkable how they kept Marina Tower, Sears Tower, the Hancock, and the Trib and Wrigley buildings out of the movies entirely

love ya eric, but rong. Marina City is visible out the windows of Bruce Wayne's penthouse, most notably in the scene where he's brooding most intently and Alfred decides it's best to not show him that letter. The Trib and Wrigley buildings are similarly part of backgrounds, out of windows and out of doors, in at least a couple-few places each. Sears... how could you miss Sears? Batman stands on the edge of it, with that crazy view splayed out before his mighty brooding BatBrow. (Bale apparently stood there for real, no CGI -- he says he got cool enough with the edge that he just walked up and down it.)

Hancock, I'll give you. I saw no Hancock, either.

Oops, oops.

Someone needs to make a good Edgewater thriller, with these high-rises. An old widow getting bilked out of her fortune or something.

The penthouse would have been in Hotel 71, right?

So I didn't wind up doing much outside of eating a lot with my grandma and playing scrabble, but I did go to Improvised Shakespeare at I/O which was surprisingly awesome.

http://jessgibson.com/blog/2008/07/22/draplin-vs-usa/

Anyone going to the Matmos show tonight? If so, not very prominent ilxor.com posters en i see kay and s. morris will be in attendance.

no, better show at the bottle.

Where is everyone? Time for a new thread?

i'm around

road dog, back from tour

we left NYC at about 1:30 a.m. yesterday morning and got home at about 3 p.m. it was one of the most retarded things i've ever done

Ayo. How was the tour, guys?

Kr and I came over on Friday night to feed the kitties and ended up watching Can't Hardly Wait, lol.

that's fucked up.

i got back from denver last night around 1:30 am, but that's nothing.

tour was good, i'm vacillating between writing a retroactive tour diary and not bothering. DC was awesome all around, troy was cool and we played well but it was a long way to drive to play for like 20 or 30 people, brooklyn was fun but our performance wasn't our best (starting to play at 12:30 = too late for the ffs).

one of the bands we played with in brooklyn was from DC and it turned out their singer teaches english at my old high school in maryland

Did you HAVE to leave at that time? I've done NC-DC starting at 2 AM a couple of times - but usually with the help of either Mini-Thins (RIP) or harder drugs - even then, it sucked.

It's hot. Yesterday I lay on the couch staring at the grey sky, pretending that I saw snow flakes falling and for a moment I was happy.

You should have come to Ally's house, you driving nuts.

The stupidest driving mistake I ever made was leaving Memphis at 9:00 PM after having been up since 6:30 in the morning and driving straight back to Chicago, alone.

we could have stayed with a friend of the prairie spies in NYC and driven back sunday but we didn't know the dude and we wouldn't have gotten home until late last night. our original plan was to drive an hour or so out of NYC and get a motel room. we got off at two different exits and all the motels we stopped at were either full or charging $150 for a room so we decided just to keep moving. later we figured out that we were in the poconos and people were probably vacationing.

driving around pennsylvania at 3 a.m. was insane. the sky kept flashing and we couldn't figure out what was happening, we thought it was some kind of signal from a tower. eventually we figured out it was a crazy electrical storm, it was lightning literally every couple of seconds but we couldn't see most of the bolts because it was too cloudy.

it was nice getting home in the afternoon and having time to relax at home. we ate whole foods and watched back to the future and went to sleep at about 8:30

My bf and I went to Atlanta on a whim, and while there I called in to work with the excuse of car trouble b/c I knew that the flower shop where I worked would be absolutely dead and we were overstaffed. My insane boss (who was jealous b/c I was seeing someone and he wanted me) told me that I had to come back and that he was going to either fly me home or rent a car.

We wound up leaving at around midnight and getting home just in time for work, and having minor hallucinations of deer and other obstacles for the last couple hours.

Of course when I got to work I sat and twiddled my thumbs for 8 hours. Worst job ever.

xp- that sounds like a lovely afternoon

This is the same boss that told me that he worked for the FBI, solving crimes with his psychic powers. The FBI stole him from his parents and kept him in a bunker under downtown Charlotte.

He. Was. NUTS.

Obviously. Everyone knows the FBI psychic storehouse is under Raleigh.

eventually we figured out it was a crazy electrical storm, it was lightning literally every couple of seconds but we couldn't see most of the bolts because it was too cloudy.

this is what it was like driving back from chicago after my switzerland trip, until i actually hit the torrents of rain.

the dumbest driving choice i ever made was going back to madison after a gig in minneapolis, left around 2 am or whatever.

also dan m
i made salsa verde version of the salsa you made and whoa was it good
a little too spicy for the bbq attendees i made it for, but they survived. i added some pineapple to it and put it over fish. yum.

hello

would anyone be interested in karaoke aug. 9 ?

maybe

tribune is doing an 'occasional series' about western ave.

really digging sic alps these days guys. like royal trux with a little bit of maybe swell maps mixed in there too

sic alps = former member(s?) of henry's dress, yes?

they're pretty f'ing good.

i'm craving a western omelet.

Chicago: The 10.25 Percenters