Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

No codeine, no credibility.

OMG Pandora just played TWO Duran-Duran* songs in a row!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Precious and Come Undone, 2 of my favorites)

*in Spanish this means "they last-they last"

Lost
In a snow-filled sky
We'll make it all right
To come undone

Hi.

Hey!

Yo

Hip-hop hooray!

I'm doing the LA times crossword.

I'm doing the Highlights crossword.

I did that one today. Also 2 Ben Tausig puzzles (at Metro Times and AV Club) when I had some downtime at work, which used a fair amount of the same answers.

I don' wan' to drive to band practice tonight in the snow.

I'm having fun on the pizza thread. Pizza turns people into assholes, I think, but that's fine.

The roads, at least around here, are completely fine now - even some of the side streets that were a bit treacherous this morning. The sun and traffic has gotten rid of pretty much all the ice/snow on the roads.

God I have made way too many pizzas to be on that thread. When people started talking about how they liked their pizzas constructed I was all thinking no, no, no, NO, NO.

Oh good, Jon. I haven't been outside since this morning. I'll still have to scrape snow off my windshield, though.

THE HORROR

I know.

I'm just bitching because now that the el stop is literally right around the corner from my apartment, it makes me want to drive less.

I hear ya there, except as of late I have been too lazy in the morning to get up in time.

hi chicago; how are you guys doing?

I am pretty alright, but hating PostScript at the moment.

I am pretty alright, but hating PostScript at the moment.

huh, i was just hating authors who upload 45 MB .ps files. seriously. fuck you guys.

I want to live where John lives.

i found a secret stash of graham crackers on top of the fridge in the break room

If you lived where I live, you'd be drunk on crab legs every week.

OMG you guys, i'm british!

BEGONE

j/k

jaymc-- i know liz through the wedding website that she and sarah and i were all on. we met last xmas to have a champagne and cupcake tasting at my hotel.

jesse-- you could go to volo, especially on a monday (half price wine bottles), it's dim and cozy and not stupidly expensive.

A-ha! We went to high school together. Now I'm really bummed I can't make the party -- I haven't seen her in about a year and a half.

I had one of the best lunches of my life yesterday at a place that fits Jesse's description (actually, Napa and Sonoma Counties are full of places that fit Jesse's description). It's called Market and it's fancy at dinnertime but they have a lunch deal of soup/sandwich/treat that was so so so so delicious.

I think expensive restaurants with high-value relatively inexpensive lunches are the best thing, besides a good heart and empathy and stuff like that.

I made an awes sandwich for dinner the other night: Tofurkey, havarti, tomato, arugula, avocado, and hummus on wheat toast. Delicious.

(oh, and J, I did win that Scrabulous game -- I was thinking that I would be about 5 points short.)

So what would've happened if I'd played WET and you played GEL and we ended up tied at 345? Would I have been able to keep playing tiles?

The game ends goes on until either of us runs out of tiles, and whoever has tiles left has the remaining points subtracted from his score.

(cut 'ends')

Hmmm OK. At least I got a bingo, finally.

I think I'll stick to constructing crosswords, though, for linguistic kicks. A couple times in the games I've been playing in the last week (you, Kelsey, and Kenan) I've had the tiles to make hyphenated words like IN-LAWS or fun proper nouns, and of course neither of those are legal, but bullshit like AE is. Kind of dumb.

do you get the big fake turkey tofurkey, or is there like lunchmeat version as well? i've only had it once and would like to try it again.

the tofurkey deli slices are pretty good, better than the smartlife (?) ones. i bet that's what he's talking about

So I just had to make a short run to the store in what my computer tells me is ten degrees -- sorry, once more with proper emphasis, ten degrees -- and I promised I would have a new expletive when I got back. I came up with: "Colder than a dead man with his dick cut off." I do not know if this will catch on. For one thing, it doesn't make much sense. And yet, in an abstract way, it is powerfully evocative, and appropriately foul.

Jesus, it's cold.

colder than a witch's tit

I just caught a ride home from the bar that is 4 blocks from my house.

It's not really that cold though, the ride was just convenient (thx April).

I think Dan just called me a pussy. I think I shall be offended!

Kenan, if I was going to call you a pussy I would have said, "Kenan, you pussy".

I really just wanted to use the witch's tit line.

Surely a dead, dickless man is colder.

Especially if it's ten degrees outside.

Colder than a breast that's been suckled by Satan himself?

I think Satan is hott. And real.

I'm at Courtney's house. I don't want to go outside. The forecast calls for tits.

Sheeeeit. Tits was yesterday. This is way more... sloppy. Stay inside if you can.

morning, chicago! I am waking up with Paul Simon. :)

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me...