Chicago: The 10.25 Percenters

I'm glad there was something appropriate in the image search results.

I did not get invited to the party that my boss's boss's boss threw this past weekend.

revolting!

The link in the old thread leads to New Answers! I clicked and went back a few times while figuratively scratching my head.

bleh (party)

I would prolly go to karaoke on the 9th, and I work with someone A knows who has expressed interest in the past, as well.

I just found out that an ophthalmologist that I went to last summer is married to Pritzker money.

weird, we were just talking about that (karaoke) on the bus last week.

yeah -- that's another reason i was trying to get it together, dan! she told me she really wanted to go.

let's say it's on then.

ps this will be at the HC.

That's a pretty fascinating read. There are quite a few architecturally "interesting" houses in that 'hood, I used to walk around there quite a bit when my wife lived near Dickens & Racine.

(xpost to jaymc's article)

apparently smog was playing in the pritzker pavilion at lunch today. sarah saw him

Damn, missed that.

Yeah @nn@ from Small Bar was hyping that the last time I was in there, she was going to go too. Wish I worked downtown.

Hey when is that Ex con saxaphone player show down there?

I'm probably going to go see Tortoise next week, since I missed them at the Bottle a few weeks ago.

aug 19 i think?

the show at LSA is on the 17th
so i guess it's monday the 18th

sarah:

Bill
Callahan might be my new back-up, if he takes his happy pills.

i wish i could catch tortoise sometime. i'm going to be in chi to play a wedding on on aug. 16th, probably won't have time to do much though.

guys

let's go to a bar and sit outside and drink after work some time this week, just like the good ol' days

how about friday?

or how 'bout this

I am going to go sit outside and drink after work on Friday, and if anyone reading this wants to come too, let's figure it out.

that sounds fun. i might have to work on set-up for NOTAPALOOZA but that shouldn't take the whole evening

Good idea, Dan. I think I can do that.

...developing...

let's go to a bar and sit outside and drink after work some time this week, just like the good ol' days

heh, i was just about to send an email to you two seeing if you'll be here friday.

Yeah, I will. Give me a reason to drink!

i may be going to six flags? it's in the works.

Can't make it this Friday, but karaoke's a good possibility...

I have a "date" this Friday; the fact is that my reason for continuing to see this guy is that I want to join his darts league. I'm not sure why he continues to see me, honestly.

"darts league"

"bull's eye"

"join"

"cricket"

"rubber-tipped barroom regulations"

"league play"

""date""

"know"

"continues"

"."

"Jesse"

news that probably benefits only me, at least among the folks reading this thread.

I occasionally ride the 49/x49. I discovered recently that there is an x54 Cicero bus. Might come in handy if/when I have to go to Midway again...

Hi.

If anyone has a piece of antenna cable that I can use to hook up my rabbit ears, I'd be much obliged, as I threw mine away in a fit of purging :(

Morning, chums.

i woke up with a big, bloody scratch on my nose. stupid cat.

hi guys

high

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i know i already posted this but everybody should come to this

Is there a start time? (when do you guys & prairie spies play b/c I will be coming from Bridgeview)

Haha, I saw I Heart Huckabees at Piper's Alley the night after Election Day 2004. It made perfect sense, as this completely red-state-vs-blue-state story.

My trouble with the EB is probably that I see quieter bands there and, except for Smog, they get drowned out. Seriously, I've now seen a bunch of bands there get onstage and realize that they can't hear themselves because of the noise from the bar (saw this happen with Mia Doi Todd, Azita, Lavender Diamond, others). Then again, saw The Go there once and that was just fine.

Sound at the Empty Bottle really depends on where you're standing. When I saw M83 a few months ago, the sound seemed weak and not as enveloping as I'd have liked. Then I took a few steps forward, and suddenly it was awesome. I've also heard mixed reports from friends after C4n4st4 shows, and a lot of the discrepancy had to do with what side of the stage they were on.

The elevated area by the sound booth is not a bad place to be for a show there: if you manage to get up front, you have a great view of the stage, and you can be sure that the sound will be decent.

yeah, i was going to say the one time i experienced bad sound was some quieter band opening for bill callahan but they had like 7 people and weird instruments and it seemed like they hadn't soundchecked so i just blamed them

Did you guys decide where you're watching the game?

the late Chicago Kevin.
what happened to this guy?

i am not being flip. i really don't know.

he's sitting across the little wall from me at the moment, typing away

I only called him "late" because in the midst of typing that post I realized I hadn't seen him on ILX lately.

oh ok sheesh
i thought something had happened
or that i had missed a big incident of some kind, since i have been sort of a hermit lately.

right this second i'm wearing a bright orange t-shirt, a blue and red striped cardigan, and a green white sox cap (which i got for free at the rained-out sox game and i like to wear sometimes when i'm reading stuff for school). i just wanted to share my stunning combo with you guys

that could only be improved on with a mustache.

or pleated denim shorts

i'm working on the mustache

I broke out the Crock-Pot tonight for my FIRST EVER attempt at slow-cooking. All the recipes for lentil soup assume that you have some kind of massively voluminous Crock-Pot, which resulted in a hitch.

In other Crock-Pot news, I got a free 1975 edition office Crock-Pot cookbook over the weekend at the antique store. In that book there is a recipe for "Male Chauvinist Chili."

i made the following in my crockpot over the weekend. it was pretty good, but was a little too heavy for me. i could only eat a little.

layer the following in the crockpot (the onion is on the bottom) and repeat til your foods are gone. put a little tin of pickled jalapenos on top and sprinkle some pickling juice in there and cook for 6 hrs on high

plenty of salt and epazote or cilantro
chicken thigh
tomatillo
potato
onion

when it's done, the chicken will shred. squeeze some lime over it and sprinkle some cilantro. eat.

the onions, tomatillos and potatoes should all just be sliced to like 1/4 in, thick slices. the thighs should be whole. i got the recipe from that cookbook dan m recommended to me. the dish is supposedly called pollo pulquero, but there was no pulque in there, nor do you have to be a pulquero in order to eat it.
thisis the recipe verbatim from the book.

jesse, you've got to post that recipe

speaking of which, i just started watching mad men last night.

that sounds good and easy, amanda. so you just shred the chicken and mix it all up when it's done, or do you serve it in layered form?

well it all kind of mixes up -- just make sure there is some chicken and some potatoes on your plate and the rest becomes sort of a sauce. i bet you could also cook it for like 8 hrs on low while you're at work.

oh, and i found that hot sauce also made it v tasty.

oh so the cubs game starts at 5:30 tonight. i'm now leaning towards just going somewhere with lots of tvs so i can be sure i'll be able to see the game well. maybe the globe or the rail

Jesse, all my recipes for lentil soup involve a pot. Just...a pot. Maybe even a stewpot, but possibly just a regular 2-quart saucepan. I can put a couple together, if you want!

So is layering of ingredients important, generally speaking? When putting my soup in the pot, I stirred everything up.

Jordan - the recipe is unremarkable. It contains Italian sausage and lots of bold ingredients, so maybe that accounts for the name, I don't know.

xp - Laurel, that would be awesome. (I know I have expressed anti-soup sentiments in the past, but I've changed my mind a little lately.)

I bought a bunch of smoked neck bones for my soup, which I found are far preferable to hocks b/c they have a ton of meat on them and no skin.

i want to know how to make sultan's market's lentil soup. it is delicious

oh so the cubs game starts at 5:30 tonight.

In that case I probably won't be able to make it.

So I've almost come to the end of Then We Came to the End, and for the past few days I have been trying to remember who recommended the book to me, but it wasn't until I flipped to the acknowledgments page in the back and saw "D@n Kr@us" that I remembered that not only had Amanda recommended the book a year ago but she had also recently piped up, when someone else recommended it, to say that she had originally recommended it.

It's a good, breezy book. An office sitcom in novel form. The use of the first-person plural is intriguing, too.

if no one else is coming to hang out i'll probably just go to goldie's or brownstone

Yeah, sorry, I was kind of excited about watching the game, but I probably won't make it home until like 7:15 at the earliest, at which point the game's half over.

i don't even really want to drink, i wish i could just go and watch the game somewhere without having to buy booze. i guess i could go to ESPNZONE and get some TOUCHDOWN! CHEDDAR JALAPENO BANGERS

or i could just listen on the radio, old-school style

Nick. I would like to watch the game, but I don't get off until 5 and I kind of should go home and make sure the Crock-Pot hasn't burned the house down. Though if you did go to ESPNZONE, I could be there by 5:30. I dunno. I am not sure I even care this early in the playoffs - short attention span and all.

Let us know what your final deicision is.

I don't layer soup at all, I just put things into the pot in a certain order and then let it simmer. Plus I just use bacon instead of fancier pork products, plus I normally just buy the regular GOYA green lentils because I don't how where to get the red or yellow or puy kind, I'd have to visit a specialty store for those. I'm pretty low-rent like that.

yeah, lentil soup is way easy -- just use a pot. also as i mentioned, the addition of parsley and a dash of chili sauce makes it extra good. i don't use any pork products at all. crock pot cooking is good for slow cooking meats and making stew-type meals. as far as i know, layering is not important, but it can help to combine flavors (onion + potato, for example)

also ha to jaymc for reading the acknowledgements page -- i think d had something to do with changing the ending? i can't remember.

ps i use small brown lentils

also i am excited because d's book has an ISBN number!

Kevin and I are fucking living that book right now.

i am not actually going to espn zone

TOUCHDOWN! CHEDDAR JALAPENO BANGERS -- good screen name

I used whatever lentils I acquired over 4 years ago in NC and moved between at least 3 apartments.

I had a date with the accountant for ESPNZONE. He's a Log Cabin Republican - blech.

Commas Make a Difference, exhibit 1:
Kevin and I are fucking living that book right now.

vs

Kevin and I are fucking, living that book right now.

ps sorry - i am teaching about commas

pps i will not use this example in class, scout's honor

Let's watch the Cubs game at Old Timers!!!!^&%^(!@#$&^@

Say, John has a good idea!

I would be "down" for that.

On a related note to "living that book" I just went and said goodbye to my boss b/c it's her last day today. That was awkward as all hell.

At least there were donuts.

I was sort of kidding about Old Timers. I still couldn't be there until 6:30, probably, and Nick isn't going to come downtown. But if other people were already there, I would probably stop by.

yeah i'm not going to old timers, sorry. you have to understand that i live in my apartment full-time now so downtown is like timbuktu to me

Oh. I'm sort of conflicted. Just let me know where you're going to be.

nick, you should open a bar in your living room

Chicago: Show me another city with lifted head singing -- so proud to be alive and coarse and strong and cunning.