Chicago MMXII

Sorry, the lack of terminal punctuation, and I just couldn't resist.

i read the reader every week while eating saturday morning breakfast and drinking tankards of coffee. not looking forward to sun-times level coverage AT ALL.

Wow, I was wondering whether Sun Times was buying just the Reader or Creative Loafing and Creative Loafing doesn't even own it anymore. I feel like I should start reading it because I now have a narrative of it as a scrappy little paper that keeps on trucking even though everybody sells it.

xp Well, if the Sun Times just lets it keep on being the Reader, like the previous two owners have let it keep on being the Reader, it should be okay.

I sure hope so.

I bought the physical Sunday NY Times a few weeks ago for the first time in years and it was GREAT

Yeah, I do this maybe twice a year. (I try to pick up the fall arts preview, but I don't always remember.) I particularly love when I'm drawn to stories that I know I wouldn't have bothered clicking online.

I've basically eliminated all suntimes from my life. Paper and avoid clicking on links whenever possible.

This bit is ominous, however:

The acquisition may also give the chain a tool for attracting a younger audience and battling RedEye, Tribune Co.'s daily Chicago tabloid that targets that audience.

"The Tribune's got RedEye and that's a competitor with the Reader and this gives them a vehicle to go after some of those advertising dollars," said Thomas Yoder, one of the Reader's former owners who still has stakes in alternative papers outside Chicago.

puke

The RedEye is a fucking blight, a perversion of the written word.

also not sure how a weekly would compete with a daily?

fuckin print media

I'm ok with print media as long as it does NOT SUCK.

^^^

I'll say this for the Sun Times. They are not the Chicago newspaper company dumping reams of garbage on my front step under the guise of coupons and advertising circulars and Parade Magazine. *glares angrily in the direction of the Tribune building*

Its pretty disgusting that anyone would hold up the RedEye as a good example of anything.

litterbox liners

vase/jar protectors

papier mache and/or piñata materials

for me to poop on

i missed piñata bashing this past halloween
i'm so good at it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5vNBzoLdK0

If it came to deciding things like this, I could be mayor.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-0510-trash-pickup-cmyk-gfx.eps-20120509,0,2917966.graphic

lmao at the old system. Seriously, who put that together and was like, "Yeah. Now that is a trash collection system that makes fucking SENSE!" *shotguns beer*

OIC

Aldermen have long resisted the change because trash pickup is one of the few city services over which they have direct control. The current system allows aldermen to promptly respond to constituent requests. Council members also have a say in the hiring of ward superintendents, the Streets and Sanitation employees who oversee trash pickup in each ward.

Buncha buttholes.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-garbage-pickup-510-20120510,0,7529621.story

are you guys familiar with these pronunciation videos? are they some kind of internet phenomenon that i missed out on?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a--_a-WFDuU

i had never seen one of those before but they seem like a potential sample goldmine for instrumental hip-hop/electronic/dance producers

yeah, they are super weird, and have a ton of hits, but i have never heard of them.

Here is another one. Mugini Fusk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N16Z6uAlhig&feature=relmfu

Jesse loves the hell out of those things, and will actually quote them at you if you're not careful.

Those videos are one of my favorite things on the internet ever!! I put them on a play long list sometimes and lol while I do housework.

carl, what was the one I posted on your G+ page? It was great.

xp!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTOa0bloGzA

It was this one, which I nominate for the best of them all

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqp_0B3zq1E

I won't post any more after this one, promise.

can you explain anything to me about the origin of these videos?

brontupisto

You should post Goethe, so everybody else can think about the bus stop voice guy announcing "Goethe" that way.

There are actual pronunciation videos on YT (Pronunciate Guide?), and these are parodies. That's all I know.

BY REQUEST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbYBlzOHxiE

i see. it's a problem for googling esl students, i would imagine.

Could be. Though hopefully they would figure it out from some of the absurd examples with silly voices.

My boss lives at 15th and Indiana in a 5 story condo, which has hired off-duty CPD as 24 hour security for the NATO days.

speaking of language, i'm reading this book and it's really interesting so far:

http://si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-QP888_bkrvla_DV_20111117135905.jpg

That totally sounds up my alley. When I was a kid I was a big fan of books about etymology, wordplay, and other linguistic topics. Bill Bryson's Mother Tongue: English and How It Got That Way, for instance. Books by avuncular British authors explaining Cockney rhyming slang.

Lx lite

not a judgement btw, just how i categorize books like that in my head
i like some of them, not all of them

Lx = linguistics?

What do you think about Deborah Tannen?

Yes.
Interesting, but kind of pseudosciencey and therefore not really very interesting to me personally as I don't really enjoy speculation about why as much as observation of what happens in people's language use. Basically I like description and not analysis.

I like George Lakoff a lot.

sittin in the lol terry gross window here

http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2004/08/images/lakoff_1541_2.jpg

http://ia600206.us.archive.org/zipview.php?zip=/17/items/olcovers9/olcovers9-L.zip&file=94263-L.jpg

I'm more interested in other various language issues than gender issues too, so that's another reason i feel ambivalent about 'men and women in conversation' type socio stuff. if i am reading about language, i'm usually reading about stuff more related to what i do at work.

I ask about Tannen only b/c my mom used to teach her books in her days as a speech/communication prof, and I thumbed through one once.

I think I read Lakoff's Moral Politics but don't know much about his straight-up linguistics work. IIRC, he seems influenced by the Wittgensteinian notion of "the limits of my language are the limits of my world" -- which I'm sympathetic to.

i'm ok with linguistics light because i don't know anything about linguistics. same with pop science, pop history, whatevs, i just want to know a little bit about everything. that book though is more about the battles over the ideas of good grammar/spelling/etc than linguistics per se, it's more of a history book than a linguistics book.

I love linguistics light because linguistics heavy, even as distilled into wikipedia articles, is nearly incomprehensible to me.

That book looks inneresting to me.