Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

http://mamadigdown.com/jazzfest9.html

so you 'found' them on your own band's web site?

nice job sherlock

there's a lot of weird shit buried in that site! i had never even looked through it before, i just look at the "dates" page to see when i have to leave the house :>

you see, you marry your band members, while my band is structured more like a temp agency

to be fair, i only married one band member

so far

http://www.hbo.com/events/biglove/img/bg.jpg

Today I had a HILARIOUS employee ID photo taken (I look insanely excited in the picture and every time I look at it I LOL) and while I waited for the picture taker, I watched a disaster safety video about this building. Every scenario started with, "In the event of (insert disaster here), the glass and steel in the main building can become deadly..."

http://www.aviewoncities.com/img/chicago/kveus3772s.jpg

THERE IS NOWHERE TO RUN.

I'm just going to pop in here once a day around lunch and say something about this building.

Dress Barn is having a 60% off clearance sale!

I still can't form an opinion on whether Thompson Center is ugly or not. It confounds me.

It's pretty ugly.

Originally, the design called for curved, insulated (double paned) glass panels, but these were found to be prohibitively expensive. Flat, insulated glass had been suggested, but were dismissed by Jahn. Single-paned (non-insulated), curved glass panels were eventually used and resulted in the need for a more expensive air conditioning system, which remains very costly to operate and is insufficient on hot days (internal temperatures have reached as high as 90 degrees Fahrenheit).

Oh goodie.

I always kind of get a kick out of there being a food court at the center of all that curvy glass.

http://img122.imageshack.us/img122/1337/lobbymy0.jpg

That's a couple floors higher than me, I think, but is pretty much the view from our "break room" which is really just large cubicle with a microwave in it.

wau

I really do talk about this building too much. Sorry.

Likes: The Thompson Center, Dress Barn, Cobb salads
Dislikes: Two-faced people, static cling, nausea

Yeah, that's open, too - no glass, so if I get overwhelmed with the hopelessness of it all one day while I'm waiting for my pop corn to pop, I can just jump right over.

i used to transfer there everyday, from the green line to the blue line.

that happened in the Federal Building in milwaukee where my friend worked (suicide via atrium)

Somebody took a dive in Marshall Fields not too long ago. I'm sure somebody has killed him/herself here at some point although I've been unable to find anything about it.

Okay, that is your daily update from Clark and Lake.

Jenny out.

Here's the latest crossword.

mattttttttttttt just sent me this, figure some of you guys would enjoy perusing through the list

http://www.post-punk.com/ppvideos.html

i'll always have a soft spot for the j&m chain.

ugh, jenny i'm there with you on the static hate. for the past month, pretty much anytime i touch ANYTHING or ANYONE, there's a huge shock. it's so annoying, and kind of embarrassing to meet someone, shake hands and have them recoil in pain. WTF is up with this? can i do anything about it?

jaymc, i'm printing your crosswords and saving them for jan-march when my bosses are gone for 2 months and i have no work to do at work...it's nice to have something fun to look forward to in that time!

p.s. killing yourself inside marshall fields seems way more wrong to me than killing yourself in the thompson center. DEATH BY DRESS BARN!

yay crossword

WTF is up with this? can i do anything about it?

You need to be grounded.

Go to your room.

So it looks like the good Dr. and myself and hopefully a few other peeps will be hitting the Small Bar on Division tomorrow. I know it's probably gonna be really cold, but if anyone feels like coming out, the more the merrier. Last year on my bday I was at a bar trivia and we named ourselves the Stingies for that night, but when we surprisingly won a round the host (purposefully) called our name out as the Stingles (rhymes with Pringles), and continued for the rest of the night. Then all my friends started calling me Stingle for a little bit. I'm hoping tomorrow lives up to that.

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/full/P04200.jpg

Proud negro lad poses fro his portrait at 1355 So. Morgan

fro

racist

I should tell you that the typo is NOT mine.

Oh, those negroes. Such a proud people. And so musical!

Fro sho.

There was another one of "A pickaniny sitting on steps at ___"

http://purl.dlib.indiana.edu/iudl/archives/cushman/screen/P12901.jpg

Sorry if these are not as much fun for everyone as they are for me, but I think they're awesome.

The location here should be obvious - Block 37 is on the upper left.

Or whatever. It's where the TWA sign is.

Ah, TWA. Such a different time.

ok, if i type the date as 11/27/09 one more time i'm going to bounce my head off my desk.

Will it still be connected to your body?

boing-oing-oing-oing

I am a superball, throw me at the wall

i love photos like that, keep posting!

jaymc, this is a good-ass puzzle. i'll e-mail you when i'm done.

more fun w/ deej's terrible job:

i am expected to work 9-5 on saturday and 9-9 (12 hrs) on monday!

Thanks, J-man.

What is Block 37, anyway? I run across that term every so often, mostly having to do with CTA construction. What does it mean?

Wait, I just found a website called "Google" that can find me the answer to that question.

tuomc