As fall beckons.
― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 15:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
― Squash weather (Eazy), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 15:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
got a copy of this from work last year, great read
― dan m, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 15:56 (1 month ago) Permalink
^^ I get excited every time I'm reminded you're at the press
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:17 (1 month ago) Permalink
Who is going to give nabisco the bad news?
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
my entire department got laid off, nabs :(
― dan m, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
just applied for a marketing job in the books division yesterday, though
― dan m, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:24 (1 month ago) Permalink
oh, man, I'm sorry! hopefully something works out on the books/marketing end, though -- then I could get excited that you're in my actual old division
― oɔsıqɐu (nabisco), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:33 (1 month ago) Permalink
― unused user (Jesse), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:34 (1 month ago) Permalink
Those animals are
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 17:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
Chicago seems tired today.
― dan m, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 21:07 (1 month ago) Permalink
i certainly am. i went to sleep at like 9 last night with a headache, then after i was able to check out of work this morning i slept for another hour or two on the couch. and i still feel groggy. part of this may be because i never put in my contacts, wearing my glasses all day makes me feel sleepy for some reason.
btw ZOMBIELAND is fun.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 21:18 (1 month ago) Permalink
i'm so tired of writing exams
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Wednesday, 7 October 2009 21:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
check it out guys, a great blue heron in Humboldt Park
― dan m, Wednesday, 7 October 2009 21:41 (1 month ago) Permalink
I bet Hot Doug could make a good wiener out of that.
― Jeff, Thursday, 8 October 2009 03:11 (1 month ago) Permalink
I LOLed
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 8 October 2009 13:20 (1 month ago) Permalink
Did you take that picture, Dan?
― unused user (Jesse), Thursday, 8 October 2009 14:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
I did not, but a friend of mine did.
― dan m, Thursday, 8 October 2009 16:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
I approve of the thread title, and especially the accompanying video. :)
― tie me up, dress in drag, and read to me from the bible (kenan), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:05 (1 month ago) Permalink
Chicago seems tired todaythis week.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:27 (1 month ago) Permalink
writing (and printing and distributing) an 8-page two day midterm for 222 students is unusually stressful
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:42 (1 month ago) Permalink
Ugh. I have nothing interesting to say. I wish I were at Macy's buying a jacket that will change my life.
― unused user (Jesse), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:44 (1 month ago) Permalink
i made a delicious salad last nightthat's about as interesting as it gets for me
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:45 (1 month ago) Permalink
i'm making an academic poster that is 90% cannibalized from papers i wrote over the last two semesters, and trying to work on a group project due a week from yesterday where no one from my group is communicating about how the hell we're going to do this thing
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:46 (1 month ago) Permalink
I was learning all about structural welds and their corresponding symbols during lunch. Does that count as interesting? Didn't think so.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:47 (1 month ago) Permalink
nick you should make a video of yourself screaming LET'S DO THIS THING and then post it on youtube and then email them the link
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:47 (1 month ago) Permalink
i got two great records at laurie's yesterday: the new dutchess and the duke and the feelies "crazy rhythms" reissue
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:49 (1 month ago) Permalink
In my world: -I've got some mundane work to do, but I'm reading old memos by my 2 predecessors.
-I think a donut is called for. -Email and the internet are not satisfying me today.
-I can't wait to see The Road.
― unused user (Jesse), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:52 (1 month ago) Permalink
i made a soup using CSA stuff last night (under the direction of my gf). thai yellow curry w/leeks, celeriac, dumpling squash, cabbage, and peppers.
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
'the road' is getting ominous prerelease press i think (partially because the studio shelved it for a year), but the preview looked pretty great
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:53 (1 month ago) Permalink
Jordan that sounds amazing. Please consider being my houseboy and cooking awesome things for me while I work to support us both.
I'll be happy with the road if it just shows a fucked up world*. Same w/ 2012.
*We're all veterans of a fucked up world.
― unused user (Jesse), Thursday, 8 October 2009 19:58 (1 month ago) Permalink
god 2012 looks so terrible and offensive. i've seen the preview like four times and it always pisses me off.
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
Offensive how?
I just like seeing it all come down.
― unused user (Jesse), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
offensive like i feel offended when i see it
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:02 (1 month ago) Permalink
no shit.
― unused user (Jesse), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:02 (1 month ago) Permalink
are you able to identify where it offends you? do you want me to bring out the doll?
I wish now that I had said "No shit, Spurlock."
― unused user (Jesse), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:04 (1 month ago) Permalink
What bothers me about 2012 is how horrible the CGI is. When your movie is 95% apocalyptic world-ending CGI, at least spend some money and time on the effects.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:06 (1 month ago) Permalink
I'm in the grips of end-of-decade music stuff. Also, I made a couple Sporcle quizzes this week: Cities by Rapid Transit System and Largest University Campuses in the U.S..
― katherine helmand province (jaymc), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:10 (1 month ago) Permalink
I'm switching off between writing about the 1njur3d W0rk3r's B3n3f1t Fund and trying to find a pair of black waterproof boots that aren't hideous in size 10 W.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
Oh and dealing with some ridic union bullshit.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:22 (1 month ago) Permalink
oh nowhat happened to duo boots?
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:28 (1 month ago) Permalink
Oh, I got my Duo Boots and they are stylish and perfect for cold, dry weater! They aren't waterproof, though. I need some serious, I-can-stand-in-four-inches-of-frozen-slush-and-stay-dry type boots.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:30 (1 month ago) Permalink
Jenny's heard this but I still think it's funny. My mom - who is 78, non-native-English-speaking, extremely sheltered, and batty - told me that her two favorite movies are The Bird Cage and Coming to America. She is trying to get the social events person at her apartment building to screen them, but that lady is a "muy Protestante" (my mom is also Protestant) and won't let them watch "dirty" movies.
Last week they watched some sort of horror movie in which creatures invade bodies and come out of their ears and eyes.
― unused user (Jesse), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:35 (1 month ago) Permalink
She explained how Coming to America is dirty during the part in Africa and I was praying she would not utter the line "Your royal penis is clean, Your Highness."
― unused user (Jesse), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:38 (1 month ago) Permalink
sexual chocolate
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Thursday, 8 October 2009 20:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
Hey Chicagoans - please do this*! It's fast and easy!
http://www.plannedparenthoodillinoisaction.org/blog/2009/10/vote-yes-for-bubble-zone-ordinance.html
*Unless you, too, are a Compulsory Pregnancy Advocate, in which case please do not do that, kthx.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Thursday, 8 October 2009 22:19 (1 month ago) Permalink
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 9 October 2009 12:01 (1 month ago) Permalink
'Sup, Carl.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 9 October 2009 12:48 (1 month ago) Permalink
'sup. just chillin' with my magical eyeball ball.
--Carl
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 9 October 2009 12:50 (1 month ago) Permalink
i'm not very good at napping but i think i'm going to try as soon as i write this post
i try to avoid making comments about what an old man i am because the fact is that many of my friends (and my wife) are older than me but i get sick of people ("hipsters") who fetishize childhood and teenagehood and try to live a life of eternal youth and crazy parties. i think there's something admirable about "growing up" and being more mature and responsible; i'd say i worry more about not being mature enough (like imagining what kind of life a 30-year-old man would have had 50 years ago vs. the life i have now) than i worry about losing my youth and not being able to be a crazy kid anymore.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:35 (Yesterday) Permalink
that's not really apropos of anything, just something i think about a lot. there are too many bands of 30+ year old men who write songs about teenage beer blasts and not enough bands or 30+ year old men who write songs about actually being adults. i understand it in the context of rock'n'roll tradition but i still wish there were more of the latter.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:36 (Yesterday) Permalink
Grinderman is good 30+ songs. And Tunnel of Love.
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:42 (Yesterday) Permalink
The challenge is write a good 30+ song in the present tense, or about present-tense things. I wrote a bunch of songs around '05 that all talked about "the old ___" or "our old ____" and it was all past-tense.
L@ura P@rk made a neat poster for the show I'm playing Sunday:
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:45 (Yesterday) Permalink
My favorite old-man song:
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:46 (Yesterday) Permalink
i'd say i worry more about not being mature enough (like imagining what kind of life a 30-year-old man would have had 50 years ago
I'm currently reading Updike's The Maples Stories -- a collection of short stories, written over a number of years, about the same couple, Richard and Joan Maple -- and I was struck that by the third story, when they're described as "thirtyish," they already have three kids and a house in the suburbs. Story takes place in the 1960s, but I think in a lot of places, that's still fairly normal. And even though I'm not sure that I even want kids or a house, and even though most people I know are in the same boat, it still makes me feel a little out of step sometimes.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:48 (Yesterday) Permalink
(Digression, but, attn Jordan: a non-music friend, not sure where she's living, had a Facebook update yesterday: Saw Cougar last night: see this band if you get a chance!)
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:49 (Yesterday) Permalink
Does anyone want to drive me to 4900 N. Cumberland today? I will buy gas and lunch or whatever.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:51 (Yesterday) Permalink
Also, I don't really know the lyrics that well, but the National's Boxer sounds like an "adult" album -- ha, maybe just because they wear suits on stage. But maybe that's why you like it, Nick?
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:52 (Yesterday) Permalink
xp Sorry, Jenny, would if I could.
Things I need that I cannot find: SS card, I-Go membership number.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:54 (Yesterday) Permalink
Huh, that just stirred up a memory of a dream I had -- must've been last night -- in which I'd travelled abroad but didn't have a passport, and whatever country I was in was lax about it, but I was anxious about being able to get back into the U.S.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 19:59 (Yesterday) Permalink
Although that actually happened once: I went from the UK to Ireland having forgotten my passport and basically just pleaded with the customs agents on both sides to let me through.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:01 (Yesterday) Permalink
What are you going up there for? I thought I knew what you were doing today, but this trip to Cumberland is not part of the plan that I'm aware of.
― human centaurpede (Jesse), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:03 (Yesterday) Permalink
Over the past few years I've been increasingly concerned about being left behind by my maturing friends. I feel like as a gay man, I'm pretty much on track as far as maturity goes, and I'm fine with that, but since my close friends are all straight, I feel out of synch.
― human centaurpede (Jesse), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:08 (Yesterday) Permalink
Drug test. One would think an employer would have a slightly more accessible option, or that an employe would warn an applicant in advance that any peeing in any cups would require serious travel, but then one would be wrong.
Also, I don't know how many times I have to tell people that an applicant does not need a freaking SS card for an I-9 form, but it's like, how blatantly can I tell an HR lady that she is completely and totally wrong before I ruin my chances of getting hired?
I am so annoyed right now.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:09 (Yesterday) Permalink
On the bright side, my family sent me timely birthday greetings for the first time in about five years.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:10 (Yesterday) Permalink
Hey, happy early birthday!
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:11 (Yesterday) Permalink
If you can say anything here regarding your job, do so. If not I will ask you later. I think I know, but the drug test is confusing me.
― human centaurpede (Jesse), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:11 (Yesterday) Permalink
Things I can find: Jeff's social security card, my Marshall Field's charge card, Dairy Queen frequent buyer card
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:15 (Yesterday) Permalink
Teaching a class. Not a full time thing, just a supplemental thing.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:16 (Yesterday) Permalink
Thus making the hassle all the more annoying.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:18 (Yesterday) Permalink
OK, that's what I thought you were doing, which is why the whole "going to Cumberland" thing was confusing me.
― human centaurpede (Jesse), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:30 (Yesterday) Permalink
Cumberland makes me think of Slumberland, a bed store in my hometown.
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:32 (Yesterday) Permalink
l;kajsd;flkasdklj this place isn't even in Chicago.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:38 (Yesterday) Permalink
Is it near the Cumberland L stop on the Blue Line?
― Action Orientation (Eazy), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:45 (Yesterday) Permalink
Saw Cougar last night: see this band if you get a chance!)
nice, i heard the chicago hit went really well.
― hey trader joe's! i've got the new steely dan. (Jordan), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:49 (Yesterday) Permalink
they're playing in madison tonight, but i have another gig (this happens every time)
― human centaurpede (Jesse), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:56 (Yesterday) Permalink
Near is a relative term, but that is the closest train station, yes. It's not entirely inaccessible, but it would take awhile and I actually have other things I was planning on doing today.
It matters not. There is an easily accessible south loop location that they failed to mention, and I have already emailed them and told them they will get the "receipt" from the test on Tuesday which is the earliest that I will be able to return to their offices after surrendering my pee, and if they don't like it, they can stuff it.
On the bright side, I did find my I-Go number and my social security card.
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:56 (Yesterday) Permalink
i can drive you there at some point, but it probably won't be today. does it have to be today!?
xp nevermind
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:57 (Yesterday) Permalink
i didn't have to take a drug test to work at youknowwherewonder if this is a new thing o que
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 20 November 2009 20:58 (Yesterday) Permalink
oh heyforgot to tell you guys that i used to work with the wife of a guy who is in another of the bands playing tonight. i took pictures of them and their infant (who is now like 5) when i went to see bob pollard at the depaul library.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:03 (Yesterday) Permalink
is it ch@d's wife? he and ben go way back
i know most of you are at work right now but b3n d@vis, who is friends with gbx and the sharks/prairie spies crew, is on jeopardy right now
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:37 (Yesterday) Permalink
I never get to see Jeopardy!, much less episodes featuring some dude who's friends with some other dudes I know. :(
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:39 (Yesterday) Permalink
is it ch@d's wife? yes!
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:43 (Yesterday) Permalink
i don't know if i've met his wife but we've played with his band a few times and they are really good. ben, ch@d, and the bass player from very truly yours all used to be in a band together
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:44 (Yesterday) Permalink
why is jeopardy on at 3:30 in chicago!?!!? it is a crime against humanity, I am used to it being on at 7.
― Chillwave Is an Ill Wave (askance johnson), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:44 (Yesterday) Permalink
she's nice too -- we worked together at my last office job before i started teaching.
i always think that oprah should be on at 4 pm, but here it's like 9:30am or something stupid like that. who watches tv at 9:30 in the morning? (i guess a lot of people must, but still)
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:45 (Yesterday) Permalink
Oprah airs again at night, doesn't it?
― she is writing about love (Jenny), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:48 (Yesterday) Permalink
at like 11 maybe? but i never stay up that late and if i am up that late, i am not watching oprah.
― figgy pudding (La Lechera), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:51 (Yesterday) Permalink
Yeah, at 11. That's when I see it.
why is jeopardy on at 3:30 in chicago!?!!?
Twas always thus. It was great when I'd come home from school and it was on right away -- I remember watching it with my dad, who was usually doing leg lifts on the floor in Spandex after a bike ride -- but now not so much.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:52 (Yesterday) Permalink
well gbx's friend won today's game by a pretty significant sum, good for him
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 November 2009 21:58 (Yesterday) Permalink
Have I met him? He looks familiar in his Hometown Howdy.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:01 (Yesterday) Permalink
Took me like 5 full minutes before I noticed the "SHIT" in that picture.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:49 (Yesterday) Permalink
john i don't know if you've met him but there's a strong chance that if you ever went to a sharks/prairie spies show, he was there ... he may have come to a party at our old place as well?
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:54 (Yesterday) Permalink
ha - what were you doing looking at that picture for 5 whole minutes?
― human centaurpede (Jesse), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:55 (Yesterday) Permalink
Trying to figure out why it was posted.
― & other try hard shitfests (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:56 (Yesterday) Permalink
^I have that reaction to most of Jesse's post, tbh.
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 22:58 (Yesterday) Permalink
*posts
― Nuyorican oatmeal (jaymc), Friday, 20 November 2009 23:17 (Yesterday) Permalink