Chicago MMXII

In the meantime, Jesse can make a guerilla documentary in which he sits in the front of busses and engages in conversation with the driver (and others) while the bus is moving. Serious Q&As alternate with disguises and Borat-type pranks.

I like the Chicago cabbies, they always have good music playing and their cabs smell nice. I don't know if "taxi cab confessions" did Chicago cabbies or not.

xp - I'm sure the CTA would agree to that.

Oh, I meant to say it's all filmed with Jesse's phone to get around CTA and the union.

i think this is something important for all IL residents to read http://www.wbez.org/news/inside-vienna-state-illinois-prisons-104408

...“It was very, very open,” Whitnel said. “You could drive in and out of the prison. Of course, that’s almost unheard of today, is unheard of today.”

Indeed. This year, with little explanation or discussion, Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn has fought to keep reporters out of state prisons, including Vienna.

...

But none of that prepared me for seeing it in person: Dozens and dozens of men sitting idly; lined up on rows and rows of bunks.

I simply can’t describe it. Words don’t do it justice.

...

Despite the conditions of Building 19, inmate Michael Johnson gives the warden credit.

“I can honestly say they are doing improvements,” Johnson said. “I don’t know who scared them but somebody put the fear of God up in ‘em, and they trying to do what they supposed to be doing to get the place together.”

Go journalism! I'm afraid it also has something to do with efforts to let CCA set up camp here, but I realize that I tend to always assume the worst.

CCA

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. Ugh, just the thought makes me want to puke.

I know right?!!?!?! I know they have been trying to build an immigrant detention center in Joliet.

I have a google alert for CCA and it's totally repulsive how half of them are people protesting various abuses and the other are reports from the stock market.

For-profit prisons are right up there with arms manufacturers on my 'most hated industries' list.

Seriously, it makes me want to flip out.

Therefore, I must have news about it delivered to my inbox ASAP.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/608ed280949c260f49c0ddadd5142525/tumblr_mf5x6jGOdP1qckahko8_r1_250.jpg

For-profit prisons are right up there with arms manufacturers on my 'most hated industries' list.

― dansplaining (dan m), Monday, December 17, 2012 8:33 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

OTM

Also: Amway.

LOL

It's been a glorious 288 days. Sadly today, it will probably snow.

Go back to North Carolina, hippie.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2012/12/18/two-inmates-escape-from-federal-jail-in-loop/

http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/545/article/p2p-73740257/

Careful out there Loopites

Xp

Misread that as "Loopholes." How has that never been slang for downtown dbags?

http://www.letterstosantachicago.com/

SCHEDULE
6:00PM guest improvisers OLIVIA WILDE & AIDY BRYANT
6:30PM Skyping from Dublin GLEN HANSARD
9:00PM JEFF TWEEDY
10:00PM JEFF TWEEDY LIVING ROOM CONCERT AUCTION
11:00PM guest improviser FRED SCHNEIDER
12:00AM KIM DEAL
12:00AM Cecily Strong joins the cast until 3:00AM
1:30AM guest comedian FRED ARMISEN
2:30AM JC BROOKS & THE UPTOWN SOUND with FRED ARMISEN
4:30AM MIKE KOSINSKI
5:00AM TBA
7:00AM BONNIE PRINCE BILLY
10:00AM STEVE ALBINI interviews NATE SILVER
12:00PM JENNY GILLESPIE
2:00PM ROBBIE FULKS
4:30PM THE BLISTERS

I'll try to get an 8:30 a.m. photo of Will Oldham and Nate Silver for the "famous people you wouldn't expect to see together" thread.

Pretty sure the escapees are just lingering around in the loop. I plan on being carefree.

@MrFlyNation: If two dudes escaped jail and got from downtown to tinley park they deserve to get away

Eh, they're just a couple of bank robbers. Good speed, escaped felons!

Hey, does anybody know a good accountant?

I live with one.

(she's not CPA tho)

I just spread some holiday cheer and it felt great.

carliffer, I know a couple through work, but I am afraid they'd be really expensive.

I neither want nor need someone really expensive. Basically, I want to know if I can deduct purchases of office equipment from my taxes since I work from home 2-3 days/week. I did some halfassed research and if you have an actual home office, you can take a home office deduction from some kind of homeowner's something taxes blah blah taxezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, but we don't own our home, so I just want to deduct stuff I buy for work purposes. Basically we want a new computer and need a new desk chair and I'm considering getting one of those things that you can use to convert your desk to a sit/stand desk (my poor back, y'all) and it will be a lot more palatable to spend that money if we can take some tax deductions.

So I want someone to 1) tell me if that's a thing and 2) if it is a thing, do our 2013 taxes for us when the time comes.

I was dining in the Marquette Diner at lunch and a news story came on about the escaped felons and all the old school Chicago Marquette Diner denizens cracked the hell up and cheered on the escaped felons.

You should be able to deduct rent that covers the % of your apartment that you use for work and should be able to deduct your home-office stuff, says I.

I'll attach your post to my 2013 tax returns.

i mean if it were me, i wouldn't spend a lot of time trying to figure it out on my own -- i'd go to an accountant. i'm sure R could recommend someone whose services would be reliable and affordable?

Eazy, do you do your own taxes? You deduct working-from-home stuff, right?

carl, I don't think you want the one person I know b/c he's a lawyer/accountant, and IIRC, his rate is $500/hr. (Which maybe you could deduct from your taxes.) I will find out about the other one. She's not a lawyer, so she is probably cheaper.

There is no shitting way I want a $500/hour accountant. I'm not running a multinational corporation here. I'm just trying to deduct a new iMac from my taxes.

That's why I say you probs don't want him.

You were right!

To answer your original question carl, R sez:

Yes. You can bundle it in with other work expenses. Like if you think of that Shawshank Redemption scene when Andy tells the cop he can deduct his gun & holster. If they use Turbo Tax it should pop-up. But really, it's not an issue. You can deduct that, and then expenses that you get when you're searching for a job, too. But make sure they have detailed receipts!

(btw I c&p'd that from IM conversation so sorry if it's a little disjointed)

Ooo really? So phone and internet, too? Is it hard to do one's own taxes if one itemizes them? We've never done that before. Well, I itemized back when I freelanced in the olden days but I was one of those horrible people who handed the accountant a bag of jumbled receipts and hoped he didn't murder me in a rage.

Matt, K8e's husband, is trying to figure out similar things as you are, carla, so maybe you gals should collaborate.

fuck someone pay me a regular wage and i will figure out accounting for you

seriously i'm fucking broke

*kills thread*

http://hrservices.uchicago.edu/jobs/

worked for me

clouds if you are hungry i will feed u

maybe this will feed your soul -- it was in the first page of results for "illustrated jesus"
http://www.studiothree16.com/resources/Jesus+Portrait+BW+450x450.jpg

:)

i'm okay food-wise but i would like to eat your food anyway! i applied for a librarian job at my school, i hope something comes of it. i'm just afraid that my work experience is basically useless apart from more awful telemarketing and retail jobs.

basically i just don't want to call ppl at home or wear tucked-in cotton polo shirts