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

http://www.nps.gov/carl/forkids/images/youngcshead285textwrap.jpg

figured it was about time

FREE

Thee Oh Sees, Mother of Tears, Paul Cary
When: Thu., Oct. 2, 10 p.m.
Cobra Lounge
o West Loop 235 N. Ashland
o phone 312-226-6300

I am going to this instead of watching the VP debate.

My lunch. I win.

"Grecian Chicken" which is a 1/4 chicken (breast), potatoes, rice, and bread for $4.15 and it's delicious. From Mr. Greek's.

guys this thread title is ridic
almost as bad as "momplacation"

Aw, I kind of liked it!

i'm sure it's fine
sorry to offend
just so long

it's way better than mumplacation at least

it's fine

too much stuff going on thurs night:

VP debate
cubs game #2
oh sees show

i'll probably have to miss all those for FF practice and early bed because i have to wake up and drive to champaign on fri. morning

Yeah, it's pretty long. It's from a poem by Carl Sandburg.

http://carl-sandburg.com/chicago.htm

xposts

i'm feeling hyperbolic because i'm nervous about tomorrow
i want blood

i have a rare free evening tomorrow. i wish i could watch the office AND the debate ;_;

i'm working on this project where i have to go to the library and pretend like i'm looking for information on something and then assess the "reference interview" the librarian is supposed to conduct. but it's making me feel deceitful, like a spy, and a little guilty

you're a secret shopper!

What is the dummy subject you're researching?

we get to pick our own and we're supposed to use things we're interested in so it's not all fakey, so i'm asking for information about building musical instruments. i'm asking for something general to see how they get more details out of me. in fact i'm going to actively try and make them look bad and ask "where can i find books about musical instruments?" first to see if they just point me off somewhere without getting more information (which they're supposed to)

not sure if this will work...
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oops

try this http://alfocus.ala.org/videos/national-library-week-reference-desk

That's so interesting, Nick. When I worked at a bookstore my favorite part was helping people find books they didn't have enough information on, kind of sleuthing out something they wanted. As long as that's your JOB, which hopefully for reference librarians it is.

But I can so easily imagine that a lib's job is sixty other things AND reference desk tasks and people who want to know how to make instruments but can't even say so are ON THEIR OWN and rightly so. There's a difference between "There was an author interviewed on the radio, he was talking about tennis and I think his name was three words" which, being kind of current-eventy, you'll probably eventually find...and "I'm looking for a book, it's about this big, and it's blue", which, those people are welcome to look in our blue book section. If they can find it.

dude totally failed

jesse i suspect i'll end up just listening to the game on the radio at home because i've got a lot of stuff to do before going out of town this weekend, but i'll call you if that changes

Hey, if you don't want to drink but you want to watch the game, Chicago's Pizza, at Wellington and Sheffield, right next to the El tracks, has a nice new fancy T.V. and free refills on your soda and decent pizza by the slice.

When I worked at a bookstore my favorite part was helping people find books they didn't have enough information on, kind of sleuthing out something they wanted.

me too

I've decided that I REALLY need a hair cut, plus I'll be out tomorrow, plus I have soup on at home, plus I don't care enough to watch baseball before it gets to a really critical point.

Go Cubs, Go Tampa.

Are you anti-Sox?

I basically root for the Sox as long as they're not playing the Cubs.

It's like I told my friend Deepak the other night: I don't really care about baseball, but if I did I'd feel compelled to support the White Sox. Or maybe Detroit, but I don't live there any more.

PS Guise this song is stuck in my head:

Or maybe Detroit, but I don't live there any more.

lol "there" meaning MI

I wouldn't mind calling the D home at some point tho.

i'm not sure if i'm embarrassed or not, but i have no idea what that song is. i listened to it and i still don't know.

It's a Death Cab for Cutie cover band.

No srsly it's Canuck indie hearthrobs Tokyo Police Club. I don't know why I like it but I kinda do.

i can't understand a thing that guy's saying /grandma

i support all chicago sports teams. despite living here for almost five years now, i still feel like i can't support the cubs or the sox over the other without being a poseur. i'm pushing more for the cubs this year because they're the better team and thus deserve to win more, plus the whole 100 years thing, but i want the sox to do well too. i also vaguely like the brewers and would support them more if they weren't in the same division as the cubs and also didn't totally suck ass.

the rays are going to crush the sox unfortunately. i called the sox in four on the i love baseball thread because literally no one was calling the series for the sox and i was feeling contrary, plus if the sox somehow end up winning i'll look like a genius.

I like Tokyo Police Club but was sort of disappointed by the full-length, apart from "Your English Is Good" (which I'd heard a year ago as a single, anyway).

Sports-interested parties should definitely consider the Fire v. Columbus game on 10/12 (Sunday, 2PM). Columbus is in 1st place overall, the Fire are in 3rd, and it'll be a pretty important match in determining who wins the regular season.

It'll also be the second to last regular season home game, there will be a visiting contingent from Columbus to provide someone to shout at, and the Fire supporters group is putting together a tifo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tifo) display for the team. Tickets can be had as cheap as 20 bucks, I think, and there's not a bad seat in the house. AFAIK Kates and I are going, I think mattttttt is going to be out of town. We can tailgate or whatever, too.

(I swear I will stop posting about the Fire one of these days if no-one is interested. But believe me, I was once like you, and now I am hooked.)

To the extent that I care about baseball, I find the Sox and their fans and their marketing grating. True, a train full of Cubs fans is no treat, but that whole "show the swagger" ad campaign plays to their their fans' macho "bad-boy" arrogance. I didn't care too much until they won the world series and they became insufferable.

Also, there is....someone whom I don't like who is a Sox fan and it helped push me over into really disliking them.

Also that Ozzie and the sex doll rape thing seemed about par for the course.

xp

par for the course for pretty much any male athletic team anywhere

OK, this is annoying. There is approximately a 10 second delay in between the Cubs game broadcast and what is actually happening. I have the windows open, so I hear the crowd cheering, then 10 seconds later see DeRosa has hit a homerun.

This is Jeff, not Jenny.

I bet you're still tit deep in abomination, though.

i'm pretty sure all "live" tv and radio has at least a short delay so they have time to bleep out any unintended vulgarity

i'm listening to the game on the radio. ron santo is old

And awesome.

I am following the game on MLB Gameday (still at work).

par for the course for pretty much any male athletic team anywhere

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I can't comment as to whether Ozzie's behavior is standard for male athletic teams anywhere (though the fact that it got so much attention suggests that it is exceptional), but the subsequent defense of it fits in with the macho, salty, roughneck attitude I referred to earlier. He could take a cue from fellow dickheads John Rocker Tim Hardaway and at least grudgingly apologize.

i can't decide whether to watch the vp debate or go see trombone shorty's band tonight.

i guess i can catch all the debate zingers on youtube tomorrow.

This new gym I go to has TVs fucking *everywhere* and I kept hearing bouts of sporadic cheering and clapping while doing my thing last night. It was people watching the Cubs, of course. I'm glad I got out of there before they started to lose.

What is the "sex doll rape thing"?

I got an amazing haircut last night at Big Hair. I feel really beautiful.

i like big hair, even though it's kind of a crapshoot which stylist you're going to get. most of them are good but there's one sullen woman who i don't like

When I lived in Roscoe Village, it seemed like any friend I ran into was on their way to or from Big Hair.

John, Jordan: puzzle job.

Nick, why don't you make an appointment with a non-sullen stylist?

wow!

i voted at the humboldt park library and there was no line at all, but that was like two weeks ago.

I'd just wait til Tues but i'm going to in.

yeah it only took a half-hour on tuesday

I got in line at 440. Still in line.

ok so that took approx 2:45 mins

I LOLed at the "I know..." part of John's post.

Stick with it, it gets interesting at around the 1/4 mark.

Nick, is Nate Silver gay?

i almost got cut off by a dude in a pickup truck this morning, but i didn't even mind because he had both Marines and Obama bumper stickers.

i almost picked up a dude in cut-off shorts this morning.

r u drunk at work wildman

ugh i created a kate bush station on pandora and so far it's played me tori amos and the cranberries

http://www.courttv.com/graphics/onair/shows/hollywood_heat/new/photos/AD_nevernude167.jpg

i'm gonna go to hannah's bretzel

fuck you

They do make a mean bretzel. I should go there more often. I always tell myself it's too expensive, but it's about the same as Cosi.

I should have met up with you, Nick. And with Sarah. And Jenny and John. And Jeff maybe.

They are testing the fire alarms here and it is very jarring.

i'm not going for a little bit, i'm still wrapping up work at home and then i have to catch the train downtown to eat and go to harold washington library for SERIOUS LIBRARY SCHOOL RESEARCH

Oh. Well too late anyway, cuz I got my 1/4 Chicken + 3 starches from Mr. Greek's.

I didn't have to work today (lol impending layoffs) but I had volunteered to make chili for the annual Halloween party, so I came in anyway... aaand now it looks like I'm going to do some work. A sucker is me.

Campus report 2008:
Just talked to two guys, probably born in 1988, who are dressed convincingly as Slash and Rick Astley.

pics plz, want to see a convincing astley. Slash is easy.

I can't clear the full queue in my phone, but will post a picture when I can. Just think puffy blonde hair and khaki trenchcoat for Astley.

i have to catch the train downtown to eat and go to harold washington library for SERIOUS LIBRARY SCHOOL RESEARCH
i was just there with my stoods!

What did you guys think of those Hum tracks? Just curious.

oh I forgot to say. Loved it, and thanks. Great stuff, made me feel like I'd missed something a long time ago that I'd have been better off knowing.

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z128/ericzieg/rickslash.jpg?t=1225478145

Really?! Wow. xp

I forgot to download the Hum stuff -- I'll do it tonight.

That guy has the right physical look for Astley. Slash is missing his top hat, though.

must be on the chicago thread somewhere

RIP Studs Terkel

also, jesus, that is one good rick astley. He has to looks like that every day, though. Poor bastard.

Hannah's has a new sandwich. I'm disappointed I wasn't in town when it debuted. Usually I'm on top of these things.

i just had the veggie bomb, it was good

i am hungry, what should we have for dinner? i have been looking at restaurants online:
* udupi palace sounds good but i hate driving or taking the bus
* found an italian place near us that makes fresh pasta and sounds delicious but kinda $$$
* go to whole foods, get fun things from deli area, bring them home and eat them while watching a movie
* royal thai
* chicago diner
* house of wah sun (chinese)

i will check back in 5 minutes

Costello's at Damen/Roscoe.

* found an italian place near us that makes fresh pasta and sounds delicious but kinda $$$

Terragusto? It's good.

well sarah wants to try udupi palace so i guess i'm driving :/

That's good, too.

it was good, so many delicious fried doughy things

I'm drinking scotch like a big girl and watching Joan Collins axe murder people HAPPYHALLOWEEEEEEEEEEEN.

i'm watching rashoman on the laptop and trying to stay awake

oh damn this movie just got CRAZY.

You should watch Straight Jacket starring Joan Collins and you will have no problems staying awake.

I feel asleep watching it.

chili part two, electric boogaloo (getting rid of extra ingredients edition)

ancho chiles
onion
garlic
cumin
oregano
ground beef
salt
beer
chicken stock
canned tomatoes
kidney beans
red jalapenos
brown sugar

and

ketchup

and bay leaves, but you don't eat those

Campus Report 2008: Men's Room Graffiti
http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z128/ericzieg/vamp.jpg?t=1225599290

my first party in Chigago = success

Thank GOD for the time change.

Man, I hate this thread title. Next time: "Chicago: so 'literary' and lofty and ridiculous and just kill us all right now before we go on about ourselves any longer"

Chicago: home of the President of the United fucking States