Chicago: Sweetness, Studs, Sneed & Kogan

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― Eazy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Rick Kogan on public access TV yesterday interviewing a poetry-slam poet. Whenever I've seen him, live or in person, he managers to wear bifocals precipitously close to the edge of his nose. Old-school newsroom, like if Larry King had never moved into TV and radio. He was interviewing a poetry slam champ, and seemed to geniunely love this guy's performance.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

More on this tomorrow, as the day is now... OVER.

― kenan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

still at worrrrkkkk...

― Jordan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

"Sneed"?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sun-Times columnist Michael Sneed.

Of course, after arguing on ILM all day, my first thought was "FRANK Kogan?"

― jaymc, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

That was my first and current thought. :>

― Jordan, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:28 (nineteen years ago)

He's got some Royko in him.

Hey, last night I passed by the basement-level sushi place on Clark, just south of Belden, and there was a crowd of 20 or 30 waiting to get in, and I figure they must've been on Check Please.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Sneed is awful.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 16 May 2007 23:51 (nineteen years ago)

michael sneed makes me ill.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 May 2007 00:26 (nineteen years ago)

All I could think of when I saw the new thread title was "Skidmore Owings and Merrill".

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:38 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks to the person who posted the following comment on my Myspace page:

May 16 2007 10:54P

Your mouth is like a pussy for crab. Pounds and pounds of crab.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/220/501289835_9576863f2c.jpg?v=0

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 04:54 (nineteen years ago)

Psssst....I'm no big Sneed fan.

Sweetness, above, offers a good male alternative to the asstxt.

― Eazy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

In an interview in The Onion, Mindy Kaling, the actor who plays Kelly Kapoor on The Office, referred to herself twice as "pudgy." Does anyone else find this odd?

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nope. I mean, what?

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:13 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't even SEEN her on the US office and yet I find that completely unsurprising. She's short, right?

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:14 (nineteen years ago)

yeah. I dunno, she often talks in interviews about how she loves to eat and her weight fluctuates. I think either she was a chubby kid and hasn't quite shaken that self-image, living in LA and seeing herself on TV with very thin (and taller) women has gotten to her, or she's crazy.

I still love u, though, Mindy!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:35 (nineteen years ago)

also in entertainment-speak there is really no way to talk about women's bodies except skinny and fat. it's a problem.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:36 (nineteen years ago)

I wondered about the LA/show-biz thing too. She's so not at all pudgy, from what I've seen of her on the show. She has a sort of round-shaped face....but no pudge that I can tell. She calls Kelly Kapoor "a pudgy Paris Hilton" type. She is not even on the pudgy side of completely normal. She looks petite and svelte.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

She could never be on a Dove ad.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:39 (nineteen years ago)

she's really tiny, yeah. she has a blog where she talks about stuff she buys (love!) and she once posted about bathing suits and posted a picture of herself in a bikini and she's tiny.

I feel like a big creep now. my love is pure, Mindy!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://l.yimg.com/img.tv.yahoo.com/tv/us/img/site/74/98/0000007498_20060920143752.jpg

My favorite Office character, a lot of the time anyway. She deserves more attention.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

she makes me sad.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:43 (nineteen years ago)

There are not a lot of body shots of Mindy Kaling out there. http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo.com/images/hv/photo/tv_pix/emmys/emmy_awards_press_room_2006_photos/_group_photos/angela_kinsey14.jpg

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:46 (nineteen years ago)

omg so cute! they all look super-cute there, actually (Angela's such a stealth fox). I love Mindy Kaling's dress.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:47 (nineteen years ago)

I love Meredith because she's kind of homely and we know her character is an alcholic, but it's not overemphasized. Just occasionally you see a throw-away shot of her pumping out and licking some hand sanitizer.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

okay, if she's calling herself pudgy wrt Paris Hilton, fair enough. who isn't?

― horseshoe, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:50 (nineteen years ago)

I think she meant that she is saying that she is playing a character with Paris Hilton's mentality, but in a pudgy body--not a comparison to Paris' body most likely since she called herself that at one other point in the interview.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:53 (nineteen years ago)

She could have also said that Kelly is an Indian Paris Hilton.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm. It's 2 AM and Lost is 61% downloaded from bittorrent. Think I'll just say fuck it and watch it tomorrow. :(

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, no, I figured, but still. almost anyone who's Paris Hilton-esque in personality is going to be pudgy in comparison. I don't know, if I were describing someone as such I'd be compelled to point it out, too. but I wouldn't say "pudgy," because it's an odious word.

Jesse, we should go to sleep.

xpost

― horseshoe, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

seriously, I feel like Paris Hilton's skinniness is more of an essential trait than her whiteness!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 17 May 2007 06:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think it is her pointedness.

Pudgy is a very subjective term.

Angela is my favorite.

― Jeff, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:40 (nineteen years ago)

WAHT
NAPERVILLE'S RIBFEST with RANDY TRAVIS, HEART, PSYCHEDELIC FURS, BLUE OYSTER CULT
Knoch Park, 6/30-7/4

What's up with the ribfest? Akron's ribfest had all kinds of ridic musical acts over the years too, but none matched the weirdo factor of this superawesome lineup. We had, like, Rick Springfield and Eddie Rabbit. That's not so hard to conceive. There is a real art to ribfest musical programming.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

Also I turned in my grades yesterday. Yay! Only 2 Fs for people who simply stopped showing up and didn't drop and one D for the girl who didn't show up for three weeks and then took the final. She could have done much better, but...oh well.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:55 (nineteen years ago)

What, no one's up for chatting at 6:56AM?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

PS I am going to make a trip to W0rking B!kes next Wednesday around noon. SO EXCITED.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 11:57 (nineteen years ago)

Fave nu-Office character: Toby. So so emo.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

Though Stanley is pretty consistently hilarious too.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

So here's a resume/reference related question. What do you do for professional references when you've only worked one job since grad school and you can't use supervisors since they wouldn't react well to knowing you're looking elsewhere? And most of our clients are pretty close-knit, so they'd most likely mention it to my boss if they were contacted. I'm so not sure how to resolve this.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:40 (nineteen years ago)

Professors? Other people from school (in the field, whatever that is) who can vouch for you?

I dunno.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, see thats the problem too. The professors I would have used have all left the school and I'm really not sure how to contact them. I've been out of school for seven years now, so I'm not too sure how valid those contacts might be at this point.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm. Then I guess I have no answers for you. CRYSTAL BALL CLOUDY.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

Heh, it's okay. I was just hoping that maybe one of my fellow esteemed CHILXORS might have gone through a similar sitch.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Esteemed? Well, see, I'm not esteemed, so there's your problem. Maybe someone else will have a better idea.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

GIS for "esteamed":

http://www.phy.duke.edu/~mprior/fresca/mefull.jpg

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:02 (nineteen years ago)

All I could think of when I saw the new thread title was "Skidmore Owings and Merrill".

Since I was just reading the Stylus Singles Jukebox, my first thought was "MARTIN Skidmore?"

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Dave?!?!

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

I envy his shirt!

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Man alive, guys, I TOLD you I was going to be sore today. My left arm especially. I woke up in the middle of the night feeling the soreness. Apparently in my sleep I had made the mistake of fully extending it. :( Then when I got up this morning, it was all folded up again, and I had to very slowly, very gingerly, straighten it, all while making sounds like someone was touching my bad sunburn.

Today, some light cardio, thank you very much.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

i have the keys to my friends' loft and will be going there after work to bring their little dog to my place. i can not wait. we're going to play "GET THE BALL!!!" and "WHERE'D IT GO??!?!?" all night.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Songs I am feeling today:

"Mr. Big Stuff" by Jean Knight
"I Gotta Man" by Positive K
"Close to Me" by the Cure

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know the Positive K song. And maybe I should reconsider "Mr. Big Stuff," since it's prolly been long enough since it was in an Oreo commercial.

Mmmm... Oreos.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

we're going to play "GET THE BALL!!!" and "WHERE'D IT GO??!?!?" all night.
sounds like your prom night.

kenan you totally know that song. "what's your man got to do with me?"

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know the Positive K song.

Guh!?! This needs to be rectified, stat.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

kenan you totally know that song.

I totally do not. Is it on the radio or sumthin?

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS_efleFKrk

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

It never ceases to amaze me that as much music as I consume, I'm always missing something that everyone else knows about. *shrug*

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

It was in 1990-something. You know it. Or at least you've heard it. You seriously have never heard that song?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even like that song and I remember the video with the girl and the guy walking down the stairs. Maybe that says something about my social life in the 1990s.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Or at least that part of the '90s.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, thanks, Nick. See, I think I have heard people quoting that song, and I just laughed along. "Haha, good one. Cause of that one song! I'm witchoo!" But I was lying. :(

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

haha I didn't even know it's not a new song! But I was thinking while listening to it, "This has a real old-school vibe."

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

This has been my jaymc moment of the day. Carry on.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Weird. I guess everyone has their musical knowledge gaps.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I love the new Art Brut.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

Should I listen to the Battles album this morning? I haven't heard anything but "Atlas."

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

I thought I hadn't heard it either, but I not only have heard it, but I know a lot of the words. I do feel sorry for the woman in the song. I mean, sheesh, if he won't leave her alone even though she has a boyfriend, imagine if she'd tried to just tell him, "No thank you. I would like to continue jogging without being bothered!"

I'm jogging.
I'm not trying to hear that, see?
I'm jogging.
What's your cardiovascular exercise plan got to do with me?

Jon, I have recently had the "joy" of having to dig up old professors for the bar stuff and I have found, that even when undergrad happened... Jesus, 13 years ago they are pretty okay with old students contacting them. You can usually get in touch with them through their department and school, drop them and email, and let them know that you are looking for a job and need a reference.

Alternatively, you could list personal references. Is there anybody at work who isn't a supervisor who you could list?

But really, unless the job description specifically asks for references, you don't need to send them. "References available on request" is an antiquated resume notion, or at least it was in 2003. It might have come back in style since then; I haven't really been paying attention.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

My mom has been applying for a special licensure which requires references from various advisors and profs and she discovered most of them were dead (and none from old age!).

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

This from the NSFW terrible internet jesus pics thread:

http://www.cynical-c.com/archives/bloggraphics/bankteller.jpg

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

"References available on request" is an antiquated resume notion, or at least it was in 2003
No one told me this. ;_;

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Jenny, that helps. Maybe I'll do a little digging and see what I can find.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

My job required three letters of recommendation as part of the application packet, so I guess it doesn't really matter. But still.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

"I Gotta Man" reminds me of "Biddies in the BK Lounge" by De La Soul, though that probably came out later. That is another rap battle of the sexes, though the female rapper gives just as good as she gets in the DLS song.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=41&threadid=57872#unread

Please listen to this. Friend of a friend's song.

― Jeff, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Unfortunately, there doesn't seem to be a video for "Biddies in the BK Lounge," just lots of terrible cartoons made for some Dane Cook Burger King routine.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Also instead of an "objective," you should put a "summary" and summarize how awesome you are, since everybody's objective is to get a job.

Don't worry about it, Amanda. The only people who notice or care are 1) people who took a resume writing workshop in MBA school and 2) career counselors and their administrative assistants (moi).

xp - I love Biddies in the BK Lounge.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I searched for "Your Man" on youtube as sort of a social experiment and found this old Zapp and Roger song and it's pretty great.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I love Biddies in the BK Lounge.

You get to cheer the funny reversal of the sexism, but in retrospect, the classism is almost as icky.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, especially coming from squeaky clean Lond Island boys.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I hate the subgenre of songs in which women fight with each other over access to men, but this song is really catchy.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Don't even lie. He's a hot trade and I gave him a try.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

That was good but it needed a breakdown of some sort.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

"What's your man got to do with me?"
http://beeker.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/rhelf_2.jpg

(i've been searching for pictures of bert and ernie and i found this...?)

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, remix it!!!

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

I totally wanna learn how to do that stuff. Whenever I try to sample something, I have a very hard time matching up beats.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, Are you familiar with the lip gloss song?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

The good thing about Biddies, though, is that BOTH of the characters are assholes, so it's ok that they're being nasty to each other.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

xp to Sarah: I am not.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

WHATCHOO know bout me? WHATCHOO WHATCHOOO know bout me? WHATCHOO know bout me? WHATCHOO WHATCHOO know??
they say My lipgloss is cool
My lipgloss be poppin
Im standin at my locker
And all the boys keep stopping

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

here tis

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

It makes me happy.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

The framing/plot device for that video is so hilariously unnecessary.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Because it's all about the dancing silverware in the cafeteria anyways.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Also - HAS A BREAKDOWN
and DANCING

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

She learns an important lesson in that video though: LIPGLOSS is what makes you popular.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Only magic lipgloss though.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

True. And MAC makes it apparently.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

They need to use her song for their commericals.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

"No wonder you're looking thin/when all that you live on is lipgloss and cigarettes."

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

gross.

one time when i was like 2 or 3 i ate an entire orange chapstick in the frozen food aisle of the grocery store. i remember spitting it into my hand and chucking it on the floor from the little cart-seat. kids are gross.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

gross.

no wai that's a great song

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

philosophy: if it smells good, eat it.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I was SO SAD that my mother's tangerine chapstick didn't taste like tangerines.

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Baby girl
I'm the man from the big Va
Won't you come play round my way
Gotta listen to what I gotta say
Timbaland
Don't you know I am the man
Rock shows from Virginia to Japan (what)
Have people shakin shakin my hand (what)

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Guys, I would totally not know the Positive K song at all if I hadn't listened to WGCI (Chicago's R&B/hip-hop station) religiously in 1992-93. I mentioned on ILM recently that I was excited that Positive K was on some forthcoming DJ mix (Hot Chip's DJ Kicks maybe?) because I hadn't heard it in almost 15 years, and people were like, "Uh, that's a pretty popular song." I had no idea!

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite Office people:

Tier 1:
Meridith
Todd
Jim

Tier 2:
Stanley
Ryan
Angela

Tier 3:
Roy. I wish his character weren't such a complete unlikeable tool sometimes, because he's adorable.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that maybe there was a resurgence of interest in that song due to the similarity to "Promiscuous" or whatever that Nelly F song is called.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I liked to suck on wet soapy dishrags and eat dirt and grass as a kid, but the idea of eating mixed vegetables all together without separating them into their appropriate categories grossed me out.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I still have the urge to eat dirt and grass and flowers. I don't indulge it, but I still have it. AND I AM NOT PREGS.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I am thinking about Bingo and Karaoke tonight at The Closet. The Bingo is going to be "sexy" bingo, with porn on the TVs (it's a lesbian bar, so they promised "male and female" pornos, whatever that might mean) and sex toys as prizes (to be presented without batteries).

Jenny, I know you liked the bingo, and you like sex toys....is the porn a deal-breaker?

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Creed
Pam
Dwight
Jim
Karen

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I do not watch The Office so that looks like a list of random names:

Ellen
Posie
Reginald
John
Carol

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jeffrey
Tiffany
William
Mary Frances
Stacey

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sharice
Leo
A
Mr. Whiskeys
Steve

― Eazy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

SLAMS

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

JAMS

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

That reminds me. I don't know if I mentioned this, but a little while ago my mom emailed an embarassing love poem I wrote in high school to my sisters and I. She was saying we should use it as a reading at our wedding. Never mind the fact that it used the word "Lust" and variations on that theme over and over... It was an acronym for an exboyfriend's name. ha ha

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Hahah that brought back this random memory of driving around in the car with my hs friend Michelle listening to that Thrill Kill Cult song that goes "slam it WOO! jam it WOO! here's what you do, take it and make it...i'm comin' for you" while there was all of this construction on what was to be a new strip mall. Is that song called "Waiting for Mommie" or something like that?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

not sarah's memory
but slam-jam

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

slam-jam sounds like the beginning of SCATTING to me

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

SLAMJAM scoobity poop poop poop WAH doo WAAAAAAAAAAAAH

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

poop poop poop

My eyes are watering from laughing. I r immatur.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

wait a second, sarah -- you wrote a love poem to your sisters using the word "lust" a lot because it was an acronym for your boyfriend's name? wha?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dang it, the National are going to play at the Metro while we're in San Francisco. I really want to see them. Their new video is up on Pfork today, it's very ... moody. I am still obsessed with this band, in case you couldn't tell.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Her next boyfriend was Christopher Orlando Craig Keller.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

It was an acronym for an exboyfriend's name

I wrote poems in high school about crushes I had where the title was an anagram of the person's name.

Viz:

"Riot is Rum Kake" = Mar1e Rutk0sk1
"A Shy Circler" = Chr1s Carl3y

(although I'm now realizing that his name also = LYRIC SEARCH!)

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

favorite office characters:

kelly
andy
stanley
dwight

xpost - No! I wrote it and it ended up in some high school poetry zine so my mom had a copy of it and typed it out and emailed it to all of us.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

"[E]nded up in"

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Are there like 25 characters on The Office?

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

There are quite a few, yes. It's an office.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I am a big, big fan of the picture of Pam's ex when he got arrested for DUI. Big fan.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

There are a lot of characters. I was just thinking it's one of the few shows where the main, normal characters with whom you're supposed to identify (ie Pam, Jim) aren't inherently suckier than the wacky characters.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

True true

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Nick, what do you think of the new National rekkid? I'm a big fan (especially live), but it just hasn't clicked with me yet. I don't know, I kinda feel like there's a lot of slow burn that builds to a whole lot of nothin' as far as climactic payoff goes. It feels more claustrophobic and less cathartic than other albums, but maybe thats the point and I just don't feel it as much.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha the cover of the new Smashing Pumpkins album:

http://www.chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_julene/2007_05_smashing_pumpkins_cover_l.gif

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

new Smashing Pumpkins album?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Get with the program, Lechera! COME ON!

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

But yes.

Though the lineup hasn't been announced.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well, jon, the new one was the first one I heard, so I can't really compare it to the old stuff (I just downloaded Alligator yesterday and have only listened to it once). I agree that Boxer is restrained, which makes it odd that I am so obsessed with it because I typically need to rock out at some point. Basically for me it's just all about dude's voice and lyrics, though the music is solid throughout too. I'm a fan of the way the drums sound too (production + playing), kind of dry and upfront and interesting without being flashy.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

Lineup: Billy Corgan, Jimmy Chamberlain, and some bozo session musicians, I'm guessing.

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

haha the NAME of the new Smashing Pumpkins album

Oh man, is this going to suck.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

no D'Arcy, no credibility

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'm just kidding. She was useless.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

I used to work with one of her family's neighbors. He said he felt sorry for her grandma because D had all these drug problems and was too skinny and weird.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry. I am muy out of the loop. All I've been listening to lately is:
The Free Design ("NOW now is the time for loving me NOW NOWNOWNOWNOWNOWNOW")
Colombia comp (roolz)
The Ex/Getachew M. album
soundtrack to Valerie and her Week of Wonders
whatever's on the radio during my endless commutes
Patsy Cline

I never much liked SP anyway.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, of course you like the Free Design! Do you happen to have any Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross?

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

No...should I?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

What's more perfect for summer than frothy harmonies and songs about bubbles?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm two or three dvds away from starting in on US Office. So excited.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Uhh, I was late to work today and missed the first part of a 9 am meeting that apparently got scheduled this morning. I'm just getting my first coffee now. :(

Jaymc do u like TAKE 6??

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Just seemed like something that would be up your alley, Amanda. Harmonic jazz vocal group from the 60s. I think Annie Ross (who you might know as the torch singer Short Cuts) did a lot of vocalese, if the two songs of hers that Joni Mitchell covered are any indication. I keep trying to find an album in stores; I should probably just order something online.

Actually, all I know of the Free Design is "Kites Are Fun" and maybe one other song I randomly downloaded. And the Stereolab song that's named after them.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, "the torch singer *in* Short Cuts." Although it would be cool if there were a torch singer named Short Cuts.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I have their Best of the Free Design and I love it! I want the children's album, though, I should go find that.

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I plan to be a torch singer when I'm 60ish (basically means a lounge singer, amirite?).

I haven't seen LOST yet and I hear it's a good one.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

I have had a cocktail with Ann1e R0ss, or at least at the same table. She is oooooold now.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh, I have Heaven/Earth and You Could Be Born Again and listen to them constantly, despite the occasional blush I get when someone sees (or worse yet, hears) me singing in the car. I used to have the greatest hits but I lost it. Those two albums are RECOMMENDED (if you like that kind of thing.)

Know who's perfect for warm summer nights? Julie London.
http://www.jitterbuzz.com/lifcovfil/julieboa.jpg

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Well, maybe not that old but I don't think her voice has held up very well.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, when I was going through cds to sell last weekend, I came across that girl mix you made me. I need to pull that back out! I remember Julie London was on there.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

She's 76, apparently.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Yaaay. Now that I have more time I can do more fun things like that.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

The only Julie London I have is a song called "Go Slow" on this album:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51BKMBD9K3L._AA240_.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! I want some lounge tunes for the summer. Can you yousend that comp, John? Pretty please?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Horseshoe, are you still around? Did you get an evite?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I would, but the album technically belongs to my brother, and I only have a couple of tracks on my iTunes for some reason. I'll see if I can get it from him -- or maybe he's already reading this.

I have to confess, I haven't listened to it that closely yet, but I was sort of not feeling the Frank Sinatra album I bought. I thought I would like it because I like standards, but I realized that I've never been particularly attracted to Frank's voice or anything. Not that it's bad, just that it doesn't excite me like Chet Baker's or Ella Fitzgerald's does. I mean, Chet's "I Get Along Without You Very Well" breaks my heart. Frank's version is good, but he's just singing a song.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have maybe 3 of her records that I bought at a flea market. She's sultry and awesome. I also remember seeing her in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Hour, I think.

http://www.nndb.com/people/672/000107351/julie-london-1-sized.jpg

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Know what else rules for summer? HERB ALPERT.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I think maybe of everyone on the Chicago thread, your record collection is the one I most envy.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

(Husker Du notwithstanding, lolololol)

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hey N+S I want you to play "Cherish" by the Association at your wedding, pls. Goddammit I love that song.

WHEN ALL THEY WANTED WAS TO TOUCH YOUR FACE YOUR HANDS AND GAZE INTO YOUR EYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYES

Ok, you don't have to, but I'm going to listen to it when I get home.

xp - jaymc -- really?!

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

hi Sarah! I'm around at the moment, though I shouldn't be. I did get an evite, thank you! I would love to come, but it's a few days before my exam, so I kind of doubt I'll be able to. and I would be a totally anxiety-ridden drag if I could make it. but it is a bummer, because I'm sure it's going to be awesome. I expect to hear epic tales of the fun that was had!

xposts

― horseshoe, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

oh noes, horseshoe!

Amanda, Cherish is definitely on there! It was one of my first must-haves.

This is where I remind everyone that my grandfather (pop) cowrote a frank sinatra song.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

(and then gave up jazz for his wife and gave the song to his friend who got credit for writing it)

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

xp - jaymc -- really?!

Yeah, I mean, Kenan and Jeff and Nick and Sarah and probably other people all have huge collections of music, and I'm sure among that is stuff I wouldn't mind owning. But I feel like you're constantly mentioning stuff that I really wish I owned, especially since it's not usually the kind of thing that I would automatically think of buying, unless it was ten years ago and I was picking it up in vinyl format for 25 cents at a thrift store.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

That is pretty cool, Sarah. Except the part where he gave it up and didn't get any credit.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Here's the guy who got credit for it.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Was "East of the Sun..." the song? I've heard that.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

yup I've never heard it

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone recorded it: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=17:424645

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

LOL:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v11/mettalchikk/bands/fictions/beat173bw.jpg

― n/a, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

YOU GOT THE MUSIC IN YOU

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

especially since it's not usually the kind of thing that I would automatically think of buying, unless it was ten years ago and I was picking it up in vinyl format for 25 cents at a thrift store.
that's how i got most of it! i really want to buy one of those vinyl-to-mp3 thingies. then i could listen to sergio mendes ALL DAY LONG.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Hey.
Are US military bases considered US territory?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. What makes that photo especially great is that Ben & Sarah are looking at you like "Dude? What are you doing?"

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

Is that "east of the sun and west of the moon..."?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I have enjoyed Sarah Vaughan's version of that song many many times.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

Are US military bases considered US territory?

depends where they are but for the most part if they are on foreign soil they are usually leased from the sovereignty.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

so while they are not us territory they do have the benefits and protections of embassies and such.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I have whole boxes of records in my closet on the order of Martin Denny and the Umbrellas of Cherbourg soundtrack and Ornette Coleman, but the cheap-o turntable I used to have broken on me a while back, and so I haven't bothered buying vinyl in at least six or seven years.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Get thee to a thrift store, John.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

I finally got around to watching Blue Velvet last night. I liked it but it was not as weird or dark as I expected, in view of his later movies I guess.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

There's nothing quite like listening to a record on a lazy Sunday afternoon.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Blue Velvet is great.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Unrelated to anything -
This morning I was trying to cram just ONE MORE THING in the top of a closet at home, and something jumped down and onto my left ankle. That something was a cute wooden frog instrument. Anyway, it was way more heavy than I expected. I had even thrown my foot in the way, worried it would hit the floor and break. And now all day my ankle has been hurting and I'm limping more and more. NOOOOO!!!

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Get thee to a thrift store, John.

To buy a turntable, you mean? Actually, I have a turntable that my brother bequeathed to me, I just don't have a receiver/speakers to hook it up to. (My last turntable had internal speakers, which was fine when I was in college, but I'd like something nicer now.)

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I meant. Do you not have a stereo then?
You could find a receiver/speakers for cheap at a thrift store too.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I like that Lipgloss song! It's ridic.

I would go for sex toys and bingo but I am giving a worker rights workshop instead and by the time it's done, the bingo will be OVAH.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

i read that as

the bingo will be OVUM.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

No, I don't have a stereo. I listen to music on my computer, my iPod, and, increasingly rarely, on a CD boombox (when I was single, I used this a lot to listen to music while falling asleep or while in the shower).

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

pianist cat

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

Guise I don't feel like giving the workshop. I just want to sit on the couch and watch these shows about the inquisition that I DVRed.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.qrz.com/uploads/post-7-71517-Monty_Python_Spanish_Inquisition.jpg
NO-ONE EXPECTS A WORKER RIGHTS WORKSHOP!!!!

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'll give the whole thing in a funny accent.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

John listen to music while falling asleep in the shower.

I can't hear the piano cat but the visual is pretty funny.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

You probably know this, but to find annie r records go to lambert hendricks & r0ss. kelly hogan's recent shows are very in this vein too but unrecorded. jenny, spice up the workshop w sex toy bingo

― Eazy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

Today and tomorrow are Staff Appreciation Days at the U bookstore. 20% off books, 10% off anything else. The question is: do they have anything I really want?

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

they have something i want:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/13937.ctl
[Removed Illegal Link]

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

woops

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

You probably know this, but to find annie r records go to lambert hendricks & r0ss.

I don't get what this means! I *am* trying to find Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross records.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Asparagus pizza is pretty good.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

Why did I have to go f up my foot like that? I'm a total gimp now.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

:-(

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://i2.tinypic.com/263tweb.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Have you tried...walking it off?

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

No, sorry, that was mean. :)

That sucks.

If it makes you feel any better, I'm in a fair amount of self-inflicted pain today, too.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

From working out?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, I kind of did try to walk it off, worrying that if I didn't put pressure on that foot I might make it harder to recover from it..?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Yeah. My left bicep is vv v angry with me today. I hate the "tearing muscle apart" phase of building muscle. I can barely straighten my arm. :(

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.siestacrafts.co.uk/__uploads/catalog/THS%20Croaking%20Frog_1.jpg

SAAARRRAAAAHHHHH, I WANT TO EAT YOUR BRRAAAAIIINNNNSSSS (but I guess for now I'll begin by just banging the hell out of your left foot).

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I have one of those frogs!

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

What is the logic behind what drug stores do and don't lock up? The Walgreens on Broadway and Belmont locks up most of its deodorant. The Walgreens on Broadway and Waveland doesn't lock up any deodorant, but locks up most of its toothbrushes, but not the most expensive ones. In fact, regular $2.99 Colgate toothbrushes were behind bars, but $14.99 special Oral B electric toothbrush replacement things were free for the stealin'. I DO NOT GET IT.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

The theives don't have very high standards around there?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, that is without a doubt the worst part of lifting. Besides getting injured. My right shoulder still twinges occasionally thanks to some overzealous military presses 6 months ago. :(

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I hate it with a passion when you have to ask a sales person for condoms. (or, worse, stores that don't carry condoms - I'm lookin' at you, Joanne's Fabrics)
I mean, sure, people probably steal them all the time, but I'd rather pay more for everything else than risking some poor kid getting preggers because they couldn't steal protection.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

or, worse, stores that don't carry condoms - I'm lookin' at you, Joanne's Fabrics
I was really referring to grocery stores. There were a couple of them back in VA that didn't carry them at all (religious right owners).

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

OK wait, why would JoAnn Fabrics carry condoms? Wouldn't those be at JoAnn Rubbers? Or is this a joke I'm not getting...

xpost ahhhhh

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Razors are always locked up here, presumably b/c they are a HUGE RIP-OFF. One of the few things I've been tempted to steal on general principle.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

Just the blades are locked up at this Walgreens, including the $4.99 old-fashioned safety razor blades. But not the actual razors, which are about the same price as the blades.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

And more expensive than the safety blades.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan OTM. $12.99 for three razors of a high enough quality to not cut my face to shit? What a racket.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I meant just the blades. The Gillette ones (esp. the old 2-blade ones I use?) can be ridiculous.

xpost

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK EVERYTHING, WE'RE DOING FIVE BLADES

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, fine. If you want to lock up your products and force people to hunt down an employee to unlock a cabinet so they can buy acid reflux medicine and deodorant then fine but at least do in such a way that makes LOGICAL SENSE. That's really all I'm asking for.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

FUCK EVERYTHING, WE'RE DOING FIVE BLADES

HA!

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

It wouldn't be so bad if 90% of the employees didn't act like it was THE BIGGEST HASSLE IN THE WORLD EVER OMG to unlock a freakin' cabinet.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I've just decided to apply for a Book Designer postion here at the Press. I don't think I have 100% of the listed qualifications, but I didn't have that for this job, either. The worst they can say is "no" right? And if they say "yes"... HELLO DREAM JOB! Plus, it pays more.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh. That sounds cool, Dan. GO for it!

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Go Dan go!

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Also, OTM re: everything negative said about razors. If I could grow a reasonable beard, I would never shave again.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks peeps! :)

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I just had a stroke of genius. Are you ready? Open your mouth, baby birds, cause Mama's about to drop you one sweet, fat nightcrawler. Here she comes: Put another aloe strip on that fucker, too. That's right. Five blades, two strips, and make the second one lather. You heard me—the second strip lathers.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

and YEAH, GO DAN, THAT IS AWESOME.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

The have a new thing now where there is a button to push and then, over the loud speaker, it will say: DING CUSTOMER ASSISTANCE IS NEEDED AT THE LOCKED FEMININE HYGIENE DOUCHE AND CONDOM AND LICE SHAMPOO AND FOOT FUNGUS MEDICINE CABINET DING, over and over until something shuffles over to help you out. It's really great.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I want a button like that in my house.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mum.org/lovequiz.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I want a button like that in my house.

heh

DING DAN IS OUT OF SODA, DAN ASSISTANCE NEEDED IN THE SODA DEPARTMENT.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

God that ad. Nothing like the scent of Lysol to bring to mind the "precious air of romance."

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Your husband hates you because your vagina smells like a vagina!

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

DING DING

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Leaving her at home alone will teach her a lesson.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

TIME OUT for you, lady.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Look how wracked with guilt she is! OMG PUSSY ODOR ANXIETY, NO WONDER SHE NEEDS THOSE PILLS.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

Embarrassing confession time: I'm a casual fan and occasional watcher of the original CSI.

Question time: When did Grissom and the brown haired woman start dating?

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

Sometime after he stopped being her boss, that's all I know.

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/7325/1389160702ffb202fa4beg6.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

"...keep you desirable!"

Wow. They can really make women hate themselves for EVERYthing, can't they.

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

If she'd just give up the @n@l, none of this would matter...

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently that ugly pugly SP's album cover is supposed to be a comment on global warming and the corruption of US politics.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

If she'd just give up the @n@l, none of this would matter...

After a lysol enema to maintain her dainty feminine allure.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh right, I forgot that in it's natural state, the butt smells slightly of fresh evergreen forest.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Mine has new car smell.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry I said that.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Now you all know my secret.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

No! I LOLed.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.austinchronicle.com/binary/9c035b30/pols_feature-34133.jpeg

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god I just got tubgirl'ed while img searching for a picture of one of those. :(

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

The only thing that could have made it better would have been to say "that new car smell".

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

scratch n sniff!

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Does that work on an LCD display?

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

Er, LC display I guess

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

uh... what?

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

scratch n' sniff

nevermind, dumb joek

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.geocities.com/~dr_casto/repo8opt.jpg

"There's one in every butt. You'll see."

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

A small scented tree in the butt can do wonders.

― Eazy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

I hate it with a passion when you have to ask a sales person for condoms.

I don't think I've ever bought condoms in my life! Wait, maybe once. But in college I had a bunch from the Women's Resource Center (not that they were ever put to use), and then at some point someone gave me a handful that they didn't want anymore, and then I guess my partners have sometimes had them around, too. The vast majority of my experience with intercourse has been within the past year, though, and she uses birth control.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I might go see a band called Fat Little Bastard tonight feat. Keith Jarrett's son on bass. They're playing at Subterranean tomorrow.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha

John, they had free condoms at our health center in college, and one day everyone got a little notice under their dorm room doors that the blue ones were defective. SURPRISE!

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cartoonbank.com/assets/1/123940_m.gif

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so glad I figured out how to hotlink New Yorker cartoons.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

me2

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

GUYS I AM GOING TO SEE THE RED WINGS IN DETROIT ON SUNDAY

NO WORDS FOR HOW SO EXCITED THIS MAKES ME YOU GUYS

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

Everything's coming up Dan!

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

whoop whoop!

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

2 H O U R S

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

college memory: frat bro at the health center scooping up a bunch of condoms with his ballcap.

― Eazy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Haha.

I don't mind buying condoms, although I didn't have to worry about it for years. Free condoms usually suck.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

OTM re free condoms. Ow.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

i have learned not to buy condoms in bulk. the last two times i bought the 18 pack i've wound up losing the girl before i could get through a quarter of them. nothing but the 3 pack for me from now on.

but there's just something so hopeful about the 18 pack! like, "i'm havin' lots 'n' lots o'sex and i'm gonna KEEP ON havin' lots 'n' lots o'sex!"

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

plus, having to go in a different direction because you ran out of skins is a real bummer.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

18 pack jinx OTM.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

"different direction"

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

"it hurts if you just leave it that way"

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

"blue"

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.math.hmc.edu/%7Elevin/JD/AlbArt/Different.jpg

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

haha I thought that was John Ritter at first

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

But I don't care darling, because I love you, and you've got to let me eat your brains.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago: Ribbed for Her Pleasure

― Eazy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Graduation festivities this Friday at Galway Arms, 8 PM. Feting Leslie.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Is it so wrong that I'm not really into talking to strangers?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

This old richie realtor (late 60s?) has been waiting for a meeting for about 30 minutes and won't stop complimenting me and making jewish jokes. I smile and nod, even though most of the time I don't know what he's talking about. (Do I look jewish? No.)

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

xpost-Are you referring to the Party Till You Puke, Pt. 2? Jenny, Jeff, Courtney, and I will be there! And there will be beer.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha ha NO! You guys aren't strangers.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I realize this is part of my job description though, making the visitors feel welcome.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

If I squinted, you could maaaaybe look kinda Jewish, Sarah.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

But that's, uh, still weird for him to be telling Jewish jokes.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Though the other day one of my coworkers stated that she finds i-pods to be extremely antisocial in public situations. I agree wholeheartedly. I don't want people talking to me on the bus! Come on!

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Well, the higher ups here are all jewish, so maybe he thinks they only hire jews?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

(or maybe that should be Jewish and Jews)

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

You don't really look Jewish to me.

Brilliant revelation just happened--since I dowloaded the Lost bittorrent I can do Epic Laundry Event whilewatching Lost. Brilliant.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Fab.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://web.mac.com/tigershark/iWeb/OfficeDepot/Blog/8EA14CF7-6A5F-408A-9FF6-E4A5B7C2DF6A_files/TheOffice_Toby.jpg

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

I really like Jewish jokes, mostly, except only the kind that make light of the law & traditional yiddishkeit, not so much the Catskills-style knee-slappers. Those are just as bad/dumb/tacky as the worst dad jokes.

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

However I love that NYCers almost never assume you want to talk to them or vice versa. In fact my very ladylike, polite grown-up colleague rode up the elevator this morning witha bunch of visiting account people from the middle-South, and she said they were all like "Wuht company dew YEW work for? Isn't this just a peachy-keen day?" and all chipper an shit and she was like "MURDER DEATH KILL MURDER DEA-" but they were in a glass elevator and someone would have witnessed it.

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel can make Jewish jokes because she is an HJ.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost Or worse, "take my wife" jokes.

I like the way Rodney Dangerfield does it. It's the same jokes, really, but instead of him hating everybody, everybody hates him.

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Don't get me wrong. I'm fine with people saying Good Morning or just smiling and making eye contact, but that's where I draw the line.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Well Jordan, you know what they say: where you have two Jews, you have three opinions.

XP: That's generous, I ignore people altogether.

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! 69 minutes again

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Being extra nice and friendly in New York is like admitting that you have nothing to do and no ambition to do anything. "I'd really like to stay and have this quaint little chat, but IN THIS CITY WE HAVE SHIT TO DO."

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

My new retro 60 minutes parody

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Don Rickles was on The Daily Show last night. Dude is funny as hell.

iPods are the best friend a commuter can have. When I was riding around with my mom earlier this week, this became even more apparent. We couldn't talk because she was sitting and I was standing -- babies crying, tourists giggling, and a crazy dude ranting was a lot to put up with.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Jazz one-liner I read today, attributed to Shelly Mannhole: "He's so hip, he never plays the same solo once!"

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I miss the way people behave in New Orleans. So fucking easy to talk to people, but not in that annoying fake-friendly NC way.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

(cue Kevin/crazy ranting dude one-liner)

xpost

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I totally agree, Jesse.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

So fucking easy to talk to people, but not in that annoying fake-friendly NC way.

Well bless you're little heart...

... you bitch.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I will not be at the galway arms tomorrow night.

― Jeff, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think I get to drink for free, so I will probably stop in but I am feeling very isolationist right now and don't really feel like interacting in a significant way.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

I will be practicin'.
Also, I want to see Pan's Labrynth.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

You can start a conversation with virtually anyone at any time, and surprisingly it is a good thing. I feel a little defensive about the whole hick overly-friendly Southerner stereotype when talking about this, but it is really great. It's not just natives that are like that, but transplants. NC's version of Southern hospitality was really thin and weak, but NO's is awesome. I mean there is still an us/them division (you're not ever considered a local if you aren't at least native-born, and preferrably generations-long resident) but as long as that's clear, it's a love-fest.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, Leslie told me that you would be there. Check your calendar, she's rarely wrong.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe this explains why my mom is the way she is? She grew up in Texas.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

I could maybe swing Galway Arms on Friday. Later that night I'm supposed to meet up with Kr at some bar in Wrigleyville, where she's hanging out with a bunch of college friends who are in town for the weekend. Although Restaurant Club is at Katerina's jazz club on Irving Park, so I was thinking about doing that first, too.

Also, I want to see Pan's Labrynth.

I read this as Penis Labyrinth.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. I want to see Penis Labyrinth for inspiration for my new 69 minutes show.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

After a weekend in NC I could have killed someone for small talking next to me. They weren't even talking TO me and I wanted to strangle them. The people sitting next to me on the plane there were from NC and AL and they DID NOT SHUT UP the entire time! I would have thought he was trying to bag her except she had a giant ring on and they were both yakking about their spouses and kids and whatnot. I wanted to shout DO NOT TELL ME YOU ARE ACTUALLY ENJOYING THIS CONVERSATION but i didn't. I cannot stand talking to strangers unless I have something worthwhile to talk about, ie I actually have something to contribute to the conversation, which is rare.

Talking to strangers ANYWHERE is a sore spot for me. I hate it. My parents -- my dad specifically -- have tried to convince me that it's an "art" and that it's "fun if you're good at it" but guess what...

I DO NOT WANT TO BE GOOD AT IT. I HATE IT.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

If you go to Katerina's, let me know if you think it would be a good place to gig? The Kid J0rdan Second Line really wants to get some work in Chi.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha ha Me too, Amanda!

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

My dad is STILL trying to convince me that it's "really great" and that I would "enjoy it if only I would stop being so stubborn" but I do not want to be like him, ie the kind of person who tells strangers about my colonoscopy while sitting next to them in a fucking RESTAURANT.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

It makes me die a little inside whenever the person beside me on the plane starts asking me what I do, where I'm from, etc... I prefer to be completely left alone. I especially hate it when I try to be nice and give them little clues that I don't want to play that game - even to the point of picking back up my book and reading - and then they keep trying to keep up a convo. NOOOO!

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha ha
I could tell mom stories, but many of you will see her in a couple of weeks and possibly be drunk and I love her, so...

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

It's weird. I agree that talking to strangers is not that much fun, but it's really different in the context that it occurs down there. The bayous must release a happy gas that makes talking to strangers OK. I guess it didn't hurt that I was very lonely so any conversation was good. But really most of the time it was not insipid small talk, but more like, "Hey, what's up? Do you want to join me, a stranger, and go crash a party?"

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Listening to some old fart talk about his colonoscopy = major dud anywhere, but ffs, in a restaurant? Please. This is not enjoyable. My mom has even admitted that she's embarrassed by him at times. Like when he tells the waitress at their favorite restaurant how "elegant" she is and what "great posture" she has every single goddamn time they go there. Jesus. Can it, fogey!

Some of you have already met my dad and can see him doing this, I'm sure. He still talks about Jordan's band and chides me for being embarrassed by his heckling.

I do not enjoy crashing parties or talking to strangers pretty much ever.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

i don't know, all of my friends were strangers to me at one point.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

The thing is that in Chicago and other metro areas, when someone starts talking to you, you KNOW that it's because they want something, whether that is ass, grass, or cash, you always feel like a mark.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

My mom talking to strangers = dud

Strangers talking to me on a plane = dud

Me talking to pretty girl next to me on a plane = cool

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I've had fun encounters with random strangers when traveling, and it's ok then, but generally not in everyday life. Usually only if I'm never going to see the person again like EVER.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

That sounded dirty.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, maybe your generally relatively low level blood alcohol content has something to do with the way you feel about party crashing and stranger talkin'.

xpost-
talking to a stranger in a bar- can be not-dud
stranger on a plane- dududdud
on the street- can be not-dud

it has to do with being free to break away.

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago police officer pleads not guilty to videotaped bartender beating, intimidation

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps. I think in general I resent my dad's criticism of my non-socializing tendencies and I'm not really as averse to it as I say I am.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

When I'm not feeling isolationist, I actually love talking to random people. Which I only do if it's clearly a welcomed exchange - I have been experienced too many unwanted interruptions while reading in public to not be sensitive to people who want to be left alone. Plus also sometimes I just want to be left alone, too.

8080.

The problem with talking to strangers on airplanes or whatever is that you have to eventually end the conversation and go back to doing your own thing, and that can sometimes be awkward because you can't just be like, "Well, I'll let you go now" and hang up. You have to metaphorically hang up on them and then sit there beside them for another hour or whatever. But I don't mind the conversation itself. I'm not necessarily the type to strike up conversations with strangers, but I'm almost always glad to have them.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

"He’s pleading not guilty because he is not guilty," [his attorney]Peter Hickey said after the hearing. "And we expect at the end, the conclusion of the trial, that that’s what the outcome will be."

xpost

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah that's the thing about the plane situation. I've had some pleasant convos at times, but most of the time it's more like a struggle, trying to get the other person to give up talking to me without just coming off like a huge bitch. In worst case scenarios, I take a nap, even if I didn't feel like it.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

8080 right back to you on that one, John.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

What is this 8080, and can I eat it?

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

PS i love you dad even if you make me really angry on a regular basis

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

My mom doesn't give me too hard a time about not being a social butterfly like that. She just seems to talk to strangers more to embarass me. I don't know if she does it on purpose though.

― KitCat, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I have no problem with cutting off conversations with strangers, especially if they started talking to me. I ain't no open-source sounding board.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I actually find it exhilarating sometimes when I have an interesting conversation with a stranger because I feel like we're breaking down social barriers, and it makes me wonder how many other interesting people there are that I pass every day. This doesn't happen that often, though.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

Headphones are the answer!! Even if you don't turn music on, you can always put them in and then make the "what? WHAT? Sorry, I CAN'T HEAR YOU." sort of gestures at your seat-mate. Or if they absolutely MUST talk to you, you can take a good 60 seconds to set yr book down, disinter and turn off your ipod, remove phones from ears, etc. Nothing says "reluctant" like a TEN-MINUTE DELAY.

― Laurel, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

You know something? I really enjoy when I can help someone who is lost. When there is someone on the CTA who is obviously confused I will sometimes volunteer help. The risk here is that the problem might run deeper than just "which stairway do I use to get to a northbound train?" Jenny could tell you a story about that....

― Jesse, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

Is it the guy who ran after you asking for hot dog money?

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

I like conversations with strangers where my role is clearly defined:
giver of help
taker of order/deliverer of food
teacher
(in my pre-wedded days I would add flirtee/-or

It's the other ones, the ones where there are no roles or no clearly defined social boundary rules that make me extremely uncomfortable. The airplane conversation is a perfect example of that.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

COME ON! And bring your HOT DOG MONEY!

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

I really enjoy when I can help someone who is lost.

OMG I LOVE DOING THAT.

I actually beat myself up about it afterwards because it sometimes requires me to think on my feet, and it's only after the person's left that I've thought, "Shit, that's more like 2 miles north instead of a mile and a half."

But it allows me to show off my knowledge of Chicago geography and also be helpful, so it's totally win-win.

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

The risk here is that the problem might run deeper than just "which stairway do I use to get to a northbound train?"

"...and... what city is this, again?"

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.blogajuda.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2006/12/marty-mcfly.jpg

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, what year is it???

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I don't mind talking if there is an interesting subject at hand, or if help/directions is genuinely needed, but people that want to talk about baseball, or some similarly-mundane-to-me topic... I've got no time.

― dan m, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Word. I also do not want to talk about my work, where I'm from or 'what's fun to do around here.'

― La Lechera, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

He's talking about two women that I overheard on the train who, after figuring out that they were going the wrong way on the red line, decided the best course of action was to just stay on until it turned around at Howard.

I corrected their misconception and, being friendly to strangers, attempted to verify my advice to them about switching to a southbound train by asking the guy I was sitting next to if I was right (I hadn't lived here that long) and he was DRRRRRRRRRRRUUUUUUUUNK and probably a little crazy and he started babbling at these women about he was was FROM CHICAGO and they were only from New Jersey and I thought they were going to either kill themselves or me. And it turns out that I told them to just go to the other side of the platform, but it was Belmont, so if they listened to me, they would have gotten on the Brown Line and ridden straight into the mouth of hell.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

In a bit of cosmic balance, I was just last month able to direct a woman who wanted to go to Addison and was erroneously waiting on the southbound platform, because of some misdirection offered by someone else waiting for the train, to the northbound platform.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Southbound platform of the Belmont stop.

I do get a little anxious when people ask me for directions since I'm so very bad at knowing where I'm going. I'm pretty good with CTA instructions, though.

― Jenny, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

or 'what's fun to do around here.'

At some point I think I said to someone in response to this, "Well, it's Chicago, so whatever you do, you should start drinking heavily."

― kenan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, Katerina's would be a good place for you guys to play -- good for jazz and funk. It's small, and sometimes the cover is steep, but the few times I've seen friends play there they seem to get a good crowd as well. K's and Silvie's are on the same block, and in some ways when I'm there I feel like I'm in a small Eastern European town with two bars, one rock and one jazz, one deliberately seedy/sporty and the other classy/soft.

― Eazy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Reminds me a little of Cafe Montmartre in vibe, though it's not thought of as a touring venue.

― Eazy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks Eazy. We're at least going to iRiver the gig next weekend and then hopefully send a rudimentary press kit around.

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

I don't talk to strangers.

― Jeff, Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Shocker.

― Jeff, Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Even if they offer candy?

― Jordan, Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

Nah. I have a hard enough time talking to people I know.

― Jeff, Thursday, 17 May 2007 23:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/92/280749641_b30ca0f0fe.jpg

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

Ally excelsiored that.

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

At the Mexican Fine Arts Center we saw a mural that listed as its media"semen acrylic on canvas," which it turns out is what you might think it is--the artist mixes his bodily fluids with acrylic paint.

A testimonial from a visitor to his show, as quoted on his website:

1. The most magnificent painting with ethereal, spirituality feeling I have ever seen. Complete movement of the universe that can be experienced and I am still understating.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 07:04 (nineteen years ago)

This guy teaches at UIC, if I recall correctly.

The semen mural was the only painting marked "DO NOT TOUCH."

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

talking to strangers is awesome wtf u r all weird

― deej, Friday, 18 May 2007 07:26 (nineteen years ago)

I got my haircut last night - I am told it is very Captain & Tennille. Not sure how I feel about it...

― coco, Friday, 18 May 2007 12:46 (nineteen years ago)

That is a confusing description ... the Captain & Tennille were two different people. Is your haircut schizophrenic?

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:00 (nineteen years ago)

Whichever one is the woman - is that Tennille?

― coco, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.fanboyplanet.com/ontv/images/MXCkennyandvic.jpg

― Jeff, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney, post a pic! Also, don't go out of town the weekend after this.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Sarah. What are we doing tonight, after practice?

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Dunno.
Renting Pans Labrynth?
Going to see Spidey 3?
Going to a rock show of some sort?
Lazing it up at B&N?

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

The semen mural was the only painting marked "DO NOT TOUCH."

That is not true.

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Going to the Galway Arms?

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh.

Well, it's the only one you pointed it out on, so I guess that's why I think that. My instructions come from you, not some museum authoritarians.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/9/9a/300px-Toni-Tennille-&-the-Captain-56sq-555.jpg

Courtney, love will keep us together.

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

ugh, i couldn't even get crappy bus station coffee this morning! the "convenience" store at the forest park blue line was locked because the proprietor was upstairs with the cops pressing charges against some dude (over what i don't know). fuck it, my boss has a meeting in two minutes, i'll leave my post and walk over to get some java.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

What's happening at the Galway Arms?

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Leslie's graduation.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I've ever met Leslie, have I?

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

HAVE I?

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

Graduation festivities this Friday at Galway Arms, 8 PM. Feting Leslie.

-- Jesse, Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:51 PM (Yesterday)

AKA Party Till You Puke, Reprise.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if you've met Leslie. She drinks wine from her water bottle during law school classes. Er, make that DRANK.

Jenny, Courtney, and I will be there.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, We've never met her.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:45 (nineteen years ago)

You would love her on contact.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

"DO NOT TOUCH."

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently its the bangs - I will try and post a pic I have one on my camera but no tools to upload at work... : (

― coco, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

I love Leslie

― coco, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

Leslie is the new Jenny.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney, send a picture msg from your phone to your e-mail address and upload it to flickr?

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/108/290682903_7fbfa9592e.jpg?v=0

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney's new haircut makes her look like a Ford Festiva.

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

SPOILER ALERT.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

stupid esprit d'escalier....

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

Spoiler alert! HAHAHA

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH I am sick of all the music on my ipod.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Hi guyz, I had Whole Foods vegetarian sushi for both lunch and dinner yesterday.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having it for lunch today!

Courtney, your hair sounds cute. I've seen lots of girls with that haircut recently.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH I am sick of all the music on my ipod.

Don't we all just know that feeling.

But I have fallback options. Like, I was listening to Battles this morning, and I got halfway through the record and then I got restless. I feel like I'm supposed to like it more than I do. Which makes me even more restless.

But then I put on Vision Creation Newsun, and everything was ok again. HOORAY NEWSUN!

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

I had a very healthy day until about 10:00 pm last night, when I went out for beerz and ended up watching Lynch movies & eating a catfish sandwich at 1:00 am.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH I am sick of all the music on my ipod.

Me too.

Hey. I think people should make me mix CDs of music you think I would like.

It's funny that amongst most of my work friends I am the one who is known for having knowledge of indie stuff, but around you guys I am solidly the most ignorant. My friend Sheila--who goes to festivals and stuff--asked me to make her a mix CD so she could be exposed to supposed esoterica.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

I am so sick of the music on your guys' ipods.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

Music and I have such a rocky relationship. I love, love, love what I already love, but it's hard to break into that realm of love. Though there have been cases of love at first sight when the music is dramatic enough: Scott Walker, Xiu-Xiu, Dresden Dolls, Modest Mouse, Built to Spill.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

didn't daryl dragon build and operate rumbo recorders until recently? that kinda almost makes up for "do that to me one more time".

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm, Boredoms. Maybe I'll listen to Super Roots 9, since I've only given it one listen so far.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

is rumbo recorders famous for something?

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have a Boredoms problem. I admit it.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://m.assetbar.com/uuatKM4tJ.gif

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

don't be cocks to strangers

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

My ipod ran out of juice when I was only a quarter of the way to work. NOOO!!!

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

kenan, fame is relative:

http://www.captainandtennille.net/rumbo_pgs/clients.html

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

FORTY FIVE DEGREES.

That looks like fun weed.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Boredoms are pretty awesome. But I don't really "enjoy" listening to anything I've heard prior to Super Ae. Is that wrong?

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

The cover of Vision Creation Newsun is my icon for work chat right now.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I have always thought that regular Coke has a distinct cinnamon flavor to it.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

ALWAYS.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember a time when I did not believe that.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's like a priori knowledge for me.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's one of those things in shared conscious.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

No.

Anyone remember when ILM/Freaky Trigger had some thing where you send someone else an album and they have to review it in 100 words, or something? Daddino sent me VCN and I never wrote about it. I still feel guilty about this, like maybe I'll get around to it one of these days.

xpost to nick

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Does everyone think that Dr. Pepper tastes like caramel?

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

But I don't really "enjoy" listening to anything I've heard prior to Super Ae.

I don't think so. My favorite stuff is definitely the sun worship krautrock jams. I can do Pop Tatari or Soul Discharge on occasion, I just have to be in a real specific mood. It's not the kind of thing I pop in in order to PUT myself in a mood, you know?

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

A guy I went out with insisted that you could make Dr Pepper by adding Grenadine to Coke. I was all like, uh, no, dude, that's, like, Cherry Coke, yo.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

"Dr Pepper" contains no punctuation, Jordan.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to Pop Tatari now, but I had to put in headphones after being accused of recording a murder.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I can imagine that Dr Pepper has some caramel taste to it.

You know what's delish? Berries and Creme Dr Pepper.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I should try that.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Dr. Pepper, PhD.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I have an announcement: Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist is a bad, bad, bad movie.

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Pepper, Bachelor of Arts.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

A guy I went out with insisted that you could make Dr Pepper by adding Grenadine to Coke.

This seems like a very cost-ineffective way to make Dr Pepper. Like, just buy Dr Pepper, dumbass.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

omg you guys, I need to trot over to the deli and snag a Cel-Ray RIGHT NOW.

NEED.

I don't know where this sudden need came from. Maybe Dr Pepper = Dr. Brown's?

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Dude, you can make coke by mixing caramelized simple syrup and cinnamon and seltzer and instant coffee! It's like magic!

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Dr Pepper has 23 flavors, so caramel is bound to be one of them.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://members.tripod.com/skintigh/drpepper/pepper.jpg

I HAS A 23 FLAVORS

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

beware the tripod hotlink.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

boo-urns

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

BLOOPER

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

jenny, since you changed your display name from "Jenny B*****s" to "Jen" you can not begin to imagine the number of times i have started to gchat you because i thought you were someone else.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://kscakes.com.nyud.net:8080/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/i-has-a-23-flavorz.jpg

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

You know, Kevin, I'm not entirely sure when, where, or how I changed it. It should be "Jennifer B******" but I guess it's not...

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i guess it's because i think of you you as jenny not jen. if i'd always referred to you as jen it would probably be different but i haven't so it's not.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

The Cel-Ray is too far away. :(

I guess I could get some Gatorade or something from upstairs? But they rape you up there. It's Gym Prices.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

The guy was telling me that he was waiting tables and a woman ordered a Dr Pepper, which the restaurant did not serve, so he just brought her a Coke with Grenadine and she balked. He then insisted that it's "EXACTLY THE SAME THING!" But it's not.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Way to get those tips, asshat.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Yeh, and way to argue with me, your date.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

It was an amicable argument, actually. But he was still wrong. And the story was meant to show why he could never be a waiter. I'm not sure if the point was that he couldn't be a waiter because he argued with a guest or that he knew nothing about the properties of Dr Pepper....

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

"Too Stupid To Wait Tables" is not a class of folks I care to hobnob with.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

When I was a kid, like 8 or 9, and wanted ginger ale, one particular bartender would always combine Coke and Sprite, and damn if it didn't taste the same. (It must not have been very ginger-y, but it tasted right to me.)

We should all just plug our iPods into each other's iTunes. Boredom cured. "WTF?" ensues.

Dr Pepper tastes like prunes. I like it.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

How many bartenders did you know at age 8?

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I remember inventing soda flavors and brands and drawing the can designs in a notebook while on a family trip. I think one was chocolate-mint, and other had coconut, maybe some kind of tropical flavor.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

This was at the press club where all the reporters hung out, when my folks were newspapermen.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

How many bartenders did you know at age 8?

at least 3.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

I want a bubble gum flavored snow cone.

I am a big ball of need this morning. I crave flavor.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

OMAHA, Nebraska (AP) -- Four days after suffering a stroke, Bo Diddley walked around the intensive-care unit at Creighton University Medical Center, and doctors were encouraged that the singer-songwriter-guitarist would be able to perform again, his manager said.

The 78-year-old Diddley told his audience that he wasn't feeling well during a show in Council Bluffs, Iowa, on Saturday night. Diddley's manager, Margo Lewis, said she had the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer taken to the hospital by ambulance when he appeared disoriented at the Omaha airport on Sunday.

Though Diddley's speech is impaired, he's made significant progress.

"We're going to get a guitar for him and put it in his lap and let him entertain people here," Lewis said from the hospital. "People think that would be good therapy for him."

Diddley, with his black glasses and low-slung guitar, has been an icon in the music industry since he topped the R&B charts with "Bo Diddley" in 1955. His other hits include "Who Do You Love," "Before You Accuse Me," "Mona" and "I'm a Man."

Diddley was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1987 and was given a lifetime achievement Grammy in 1998.

Lewis said it's uncertain how long Diddley, who has a history of hypertension and diabetes, will be hospitalized in Omaha.

He played two Saturday night shows at Harrah's Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs. He planned to fly home to Archer, Florida, before starting a monthlong tour of the Midwest and United Kingdom on May 20 in Dallas.

Those shows are canceled, Lewis said, but she believes Diddley will sing again, even though he'll require speech therapy first.

"Singing a song is different than speaking," she said. "Even when there is a problem with speaking, or hesitancy, we've seen where people can sing perfectly."

Copyright 2007 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

"We're going to get a guitar for him and put it in his lap and let him entertain people here," Lewis said from the hospital. "People think that would be good therapy for him."

the best therapy would be to PUT THIS 78 YEAR OLD MAN BACK TO WORK BEFORE HE'S EVEN LEFT THE HOSPITAL.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Go Bo!

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Did that Ford Festiva come off my flickr site? I've totally got that same picture leftover from some old lolz messagebored post.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

hey dan martin, how do i shot u of c via the cta?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Where is the show happening? That will determine my answer, in part.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

58th and University

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

green line i take it?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

green line stops at 55th, right? i suppose i could check the cta website. in fact, that's what i'll do now.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

You didn't meet Leslie at the first Trivia Night? Wasn't she the moderator?

― jaymc, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

'Cause I usually take the 2, but it doesn't run on weekends, so you're left with the 6 to from somewhere along State (I suggest Van Buren) to either 57th or 59th street and Stony Island.

The other possibility is the Red or Green line to 55th and then ride the bus east to the north side of campus.

xpost: On looking at Google maps, I think the 6 and then a short walk west would be easiest. I hear that bus can get crowded on the weekend, though.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

People should come hang out. It'll be sunny, there'll be good tunes, college kids, etc.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think the "Jenny B******" --> "Jen" thing happens for the same reason that Kenan occasionally shows up as "Kenan Herbert." That is, someone has his name like that in their Gmail, and then your contact list imports that info from all the mass e-mails you receive from that person.

― jaymc, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

xp What time does it start? I am going to Detroit tomorrow.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

what douche has me as "Herbert"?

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

We are playing at nooooooooon, then there's a bunch of bands after us.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan Sherbert

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pumped for carnival food (and bands).

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

That would be your Ben & Jerry's flavor.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

What's mine?!

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe we met her briefly then, John, but I don't remember hanging out with her.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

oh fuck there's no way i can get down there by noon.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I've never hung out with her, either.

― jaymc, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a little lost. This is at U of C tomorrow?

I will be sadly stuck in the house tomorrow, waiting for the cable guy.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

I have a feeling no one will make it out there by noon, even students, but it will be fun playing outside and I'm hyped for the rest of the day.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I don't actually expect you guys to make it, I know it's a long haul and we're playing early. It would just be fun.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

i'm watching a little dog this weekend and he's so f'ing awesome. you should have seen him jumping up and down on his stumpy little legs when i came in to get him yesterday.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

i'll try to get down there but you guys could be playing at clemente high school at noon and the odds would still be 50/50 that i'd make it.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Kernie Andbert

Are the FFs playing at noon? I'd like to get down there. Ben and Jody may go.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Playing music before noon is not natural.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

Extra incentive: It's our last show until early July.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Good thing we're playing AT noon.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Touche.

(and actually I have 11:30 rehearsals this weekend & next)

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

I like practicing on Sunday morning, it's when I feel the most vibrant and vivacious.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

I love a good noon show, in-store or outdoors. I'm cat-sitting in Rogers Park again, so it's a long trek down there, buuuut...

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

REEEEEEADYYY OTOOOFFOR WWEEKKEENNDN!!!

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, I hadn't realized my article about Bjork was published today.

― jaymc, Friday, 18 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Ben Fiction walking through the DePaul student center yesterday afternoon. We both had headphones on, I wasn't about to upset the balance of things by jumping up and down and waving and shouting "hi".

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, congrats on writing and publishing, John.

I'd like to read a history of the quivering voice in pop music, ending up with Bright Eyes and Bjork.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

It turned out that McLusky was the perfect music to listen to today.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Ben Fiction walking through the DePaul student center yesterday afternoon.

i saw him last friday? he remembered me this time, he saw me first and said hello. he introduced me to amy, i was also with an amy so it was easy to remember.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

OMG. We just had a coworker bday:
HUGE slice of chocolate cake
part of a peanut butter chocochip cookie
milk

There were 4 different flavors of ice cream too, but I had reached my sweets capacity (for the moment anyway).

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

John, Good work on the bjork article. I liked the comparison to film techniques.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

I think today might be the day to continue my sporadic tour of Western Ave.'s diners, possibly with a visit to Flo's Grill at Western and Montrose. What do you guys think?

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

don't get the chili

― deej, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

i want to try the newly re-opened western round up at augusta and western. place has been totally remodeled.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

My typical diner meal is some kind of omelette, with hash browns and toast. So that's probably what I would order.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm, Western Round-Up you say? Maybe sometime, but I want to go somewhere on my way home, to make the drive shorter. Another option is the one at Western and Fullerton.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

i want eggs, bacon, toast, some sort of potato, oj, and coffee.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

i may give the western round up a shot on sunday. usually i'll go to tuman's for brunch (screwdrivers & mimosas instead of oj) but i'm off the sauce for a while so i think the round up will be it.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh the place on Montrose is Jeri's Grill, not Flo's Grill. Oops.

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://i.pbase.com/g6/97/653197/3/74873351.qYOInU3B.jpg

― n/a, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

U GONNA GET GREASED

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

The Cozy Corner at California and Milwaukee is my favorite greasy breakfast place in our neighborhood. Either that or Johnny's Grill.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

The Cozy Corner at California and Milwaukee is my favorite greasy breakfast place in our neighborhood

i was there two (three?) weeks ago, good stuff!!

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

I know how chilx feels about mayonaisse, but the combination of mayo + hot sauce has magic in it.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

HEY I LOVE MAYO, DON'T TAR ME WITH THAT PASTRY BRUSH.

― Laurel, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Mayo lovers are a silent majority, is all.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

Who does a song called "Action Party?" It's on my itunes with no other info, and I like it.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

According to AMG it might be The Sinatras.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm.. I found an mp3 of that one, and it's not it. Oh well. I'll just have to wait and ask Nick.

I WANT TO GO HOME/OUTSIDE/NOT HERE! I've had no work to do today. The office is so dead I've just been listening to music and playing online and occasionally sticking my head outside. There was that brief social interaction during cake time...

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone eaten at the diner at the corner of Damen & Chicago?

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

No! I totally know which one you're talking about though. We're intrigued by the signs in the window.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

(random - Why do I have to sign AND print just about everything? Why don't people ONLY require your printed name - so they can read it - and do away with two signatures?)

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

I think I have. Obviously it made a strong impression on me.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone eaten at the diner at the corner of Damen & Chicago

lorraine's? yes. it's great at 4 in the morning, and according to a friend of mine it has the best biscuits and gravy in chicago.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

Because no one can forge a signature, Sarah (lol).

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Riiiiiiigghhhtttt. Whatevs. I'm just lazy.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

My sig is pretty comical. One time I went in the bank with a check I had written to myself to transfer funds from one account to another, and the guy behind the counter squinted at my name on the TO line and was like, Um, excuse me, but is this you??

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVE Bialy's biscuits and gravy, at Chicago and... between Ashland and Noble. Sausage gravy, with chunks of sausage in it, and two fried eggs on top... heaven.

I have for lunch today: a half of a baked chicken, a heap of rice, a heap of potatoes, and a mess of garlic bread. SO GOOD.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm hyped about having Nick's last name though because then I can just sign an A and then a whole bunch of humps.

xpost Good ol' Bialy's. Nick and I went there for Christmas Eve one year.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Hay there doods

I am listening to Skylarking and could not be happier. Actually, I could be happier if my throat didn't hurt.

Also the history of warbly voices would need to include Jean Ritchie, Edith Piaf and Lotte Lenya. And maybe Joan Baez? Is that the sort of warble you're talking about?

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

If you guys are interested in diner food in Hyde Park this weekend, go to Salonica, 57th and Blackstone. In a word: Unfadable.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

My signature has degenerated into a J and a C with straight lines following both letters.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Scored for cheap from Staff Appreciation Days at the bookstore on campus:

http://www.amazon.com/Wheres-My-Jetpack-Amazing-Science/dp/1596911360

http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Middle-East-Cookbook/dp/0804838763/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/102-2626346-2014549?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1179511598&sr=1-1

Also, they gave us all these little care package bags. Inside were a tube of fruity facial scrub and a bottle of "eye brightening" cream. I gave those to one of the women in the office who didn't make it over to the event.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

My coworker (a nerdy guy about my age) got the facial scrub and an obviously woman-targeted disposable razor kit!

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

Women be readin'.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

(and shavin')

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, Notes on a Scandal at the budget theater.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

To clarify: those products were the only things in the bags. I kind of wondered why the person handing them out was laughing when she gave me mine...

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

Inside were a tube of fruity facial scrub and a bottle of "eye brightening" cream.

No way I would have given those away. Scrub me! Brighten me!

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Julia loads me up with beauty products. I have, because of her, several lotions, body scrubs, mouthwashes, and a bar of really awesome man-smelling black soap. Anyone who feels the need to gift me is encouraged to buy me dainty items like these.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I do fine with Lever 2000, I think. Plus if these eyes got any brighter, I'd be albino.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

My signature has degenerated into a J and a C with straight lines following both letters.

HI DERE.

Actually, no, that's not quite true. I make dramatic H's in both names, too.

― jaymc, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost to myself
No shampoo, though. I'm picky about shampoo.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

One of my friends (dude) likes soap that looks like it tastes good.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

I miss the old smell of original Lever 2000, back when it had the yellow cap.

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

i've been to lorraines so many times i've lost count. the woman who works the counter their is incredibly nice! and she remembers what i usually order

― deej, Friday, 18 May 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I feckin' love facial scrub.

I want to try Lorraine's sometime. Apparently I've got some haiku on the walls at At0mix, so it's high time for me to get back there too.

Yes, 'manda, those are the warblers.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

dan m otm about Salonica!

― horseshoe, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

hi guys!

― horseshoe, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

hi!

I like the sandwhiches at at0mix, even though they would be easy to make at home.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Have I ever mentioned that the office that leases from us brings in beer ever Friday afternoon?

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Are they hiring?

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

No!

Also: you suck! :) I want beer!

xpost

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

omg beer, how i luv u! i don't even remember waht u taste like!

― horseshoe, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Friday afternoon is drinkin' time at M@tttt's office, from what I hear, too.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

There is a phone support opening at my place of work, if anybody wants to apply.

― Jeff, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

how much does it play?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

and by play i mean pay.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

and by play i mean beer

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

Good one.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

this doesn't sound like a very silly clown at all:

Clown ordered to stand trial on sexual assault, battery charges
Associated Press
Published May 18, 2007, 1:32 PM CDT
WAUKESHA, Wis. -- A professional clown was ordered to stand trial Friday on sexual assault and battery charges.
Ronald E. Schroeder, who performs as Silly the Clown, waived his preliminary hearing Friday in Waukesha County court on 32 counts, including two counts of second-degree sexual assault of an unconscious victim, 27 counts of capturing an image of nudity, illegally accessing computer data, battery and possession of a switchblade.
Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel said he will add a child pornography charge to the case when Schroeder, 37, is arraigned next week, although it was already noted in online court records Friday. That is from an examination of Schroeder's personal computer seized this month.
The domestic violence charge alleges Schroeder threw a woman against a wall and stuck his fingers up the her nostrils "until her nose started to bleed."
The sexual assault charges accuse him of assaulting the woman after she passed out after a night out. They also accuse Schroeder of taking numerous pictures of her while she was nude and passed out and while he was sexually assaulting her.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Nightmare.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, my friend J3ff lives in Waukesha. Watch for clowns, dude!

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

How many micrograms in a milligram?

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

I guess it's 1000.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

1000 I think?

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

That's a tiny-ass thing.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

1 / 1,000
10 -3
milli m

1 / 1,000,000
10 -6
micro Âµ (u)

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

1000

blah blah blah xpost

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

There once was some kind of crime committed by a clown in Mpls., and the newscasts put out a be-on-the-lookout bulletin. Unfortunately, it was the same day as a clown-school graduation, and a bunch of innocent clowns got harassed. True story.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Good latin skillz, Sarah.

In a meeting today I suggested that the plural of persona is "personae" instead of "personas" and dudes acted like I was making a joke.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha

I'm going to try to not look at the computer for 8 whole minutes because my eyes hurt. Wish me luck.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

More like ZERO MINUTES.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

a bunch of innocent clowns

as if there were any such thing.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b2/Bedclown.jpg/180px-Bedclown.jpg

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://images.quizilla.com/J/JuggaloChick/1038163611_esJUGGALO1.jpg

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

What is going on there?

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

(I waited exactly 8 minutes. ha ha)

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone doing anything this afternoon/evening? I believe I have earned a couple of beers.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

Anyone doing anything this afternoon/evening?

laundry.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

There's that graduation party that Jesse keeps talking about.

I'd be up for something if a certain lady is otherwise occupied tonight.

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah, the leslie party featuring jenny and jesse and courtney.

I will strongly consider that.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse who?

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

When I was a kid, like 8 or 9, and wanted ginger ale, one particular bartender would always combine Coke and Sprite, and damn if it didn't taste the same. (It must not have been very ginger-y, but it tasted right to me.)

That's a common bartender trick. Our bar does not have ginger ale (the restaurant soda fountain does, but not the bar, which is dumb since GA is a common mixer) so when someone orders a Jack and ginger, they are as often as not getting Jack and Sprite with a splash of Coke for color. Which tastes like most crappy Fanta and Canada Dry ginger ales anyway.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

Nick is now one of the first fatalities believed to be linked to cheese. Cheap, addictive and often deadly, the new drug has spread virulently in the Dallas area. Since 2005, the year of the first confirmed cheese death, an estimated 21 people have died from the drug. Most of them were young, white or Hispanic males. Cheese arrests among students in the Dallas Independent School District jumped from 90 in the 2005-2006 school year to 145 so far in 2006-2007.
DEADLY CHEESE

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

I did not know that about ginger ale.

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

the year of the first confirmed cheese death
the year of the first confirmed cheese death
the year of the first confirmed cheese death
the year of the first confirmed cheese death
the year of the first confirmed cheese death
the year of the first confirmed cheese death

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

WTF

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18628591/site/newsweek/

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

CHEESE: THE KID KILLER

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

cheese arrests

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I was just thinking today about the thing about NYCers not talking to strangers, and while I'm sure that my limited experience does not a broad enough sample make, when I have visited I met and conversed with a reasonable number of people in a variety of settings. My ex and I met a woman on the street who was walking her dacshunds, I talked to strangers at bars and coffee shops, and was able to get directions without trouble.

xpost--cheese??

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I have been in a cheese coma before, but I think it was a different situation entirely.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

If you don't feel like reading the article, apparently cheese is not cheese as we know it, a harmless, tasty dairy product. O NO. It's "a deadly mixture of" cold medicine and heroin that kids are snorting. And it resembles parmesan cheese. And kids LOVE IT. But it is not good for them.

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

At Cedar Point they serve cheese on a stick, which is a block of swiss cheese that has been impaled on a stick and dipped in cornbread batter like a corndog and fried. OMG. SO GOOD. (and so deadly...)

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Put yourself in that kid's mind," [James Capra, Special Agent in charge of the DEA's Dallas field division] says. " 'It's got a funny name, and it's only a couple of bucks'.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.southplainsfair.com/images/unknown/cheese_stick.jpg

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

One of my Dallas cousins sold drugs for her dad when she was a young teen because my uncle is AWESOME.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Was she a cheese vendor?

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that was the in thing at the time. This was back in the late 80s.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I could go for some cheese curds, fried, w/heroin.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ wikipedia:

Most cheesemakers by virtue of their knowledge and experience are adept at making particular types of cheese. Few if any can quickly turn their hand to making any kind of cheese. Such is the specialisation of cheesemaking.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

All the kids are doing it! Come on, it's just CHEESE!

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

i'll take a 30/70 gruyere/blow blend, please.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Lethal Pepperjack

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Carlos ran into what we call an Asiago Goodbye. You won't hear from him again.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Whatchu need? I got shit that's aged five, six years.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Don't touch the cojack.

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

yo man, i got some 40's of some fiiiiine baby swiss but if you wanna spend a little more i got some 60's of this here chedder my man. it's worth it yo, this shit is SHARP.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Brings new meaning to being "jacked up."

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

And this one... this is the madman. It's a little more expensive, but when you eat it, you will know where your money went.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GAxCeyuR1LE

"CHEESE IT, THE FEDS!"

― dan m, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

I needs to get me some cheddar
to go buy some cheddar.

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I needs to get me some cheddar
to gets me some cheddar

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

So, so sad.

http://home.pacbell.net/mabjo/cheese2.jpg

― KitCat, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Only as a decorating idea.

― kenan, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think they should have called it headcheese.

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.barbarakrakowgallery.com/stuff/contentmgr/files/9c5629614aa3292553d41ea6d70e9ff3/img_two/paine_headcheese.jpg

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

you are a bunch of maniacs

― horseshoe, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Headcheese is not nearly as attractive nor as "funny" a name, so the kids wouldn't be as into it.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

True. But the real strong stuff? That's headcheese. It's only for the veterans of the cheese scene.

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

I am fascinated by headcheese in the same way I am fascinated by scrapple.

― sweet tater, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

kelsey! drawn to the flame by headcheese!

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

indeed!

― sweet tater, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pages.drexel.edu/~ikh23/website/photos/MmScrapple.jpg

― sweet tater, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Notice his last name is "Kelso" . . .

― sweet tater, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

HOW BEST DO I GET OUT OF JURY DUTY??

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

I need sure-fire strategy.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe that no one has said Cheesehead yet!
http://www.the-playground.com/graphics/headshots/45_Brad%20Grusnick-Cheesehead.jpg

Claim cheesehead status?

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

I think I'm getting another goddamned cold. WTF.

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

jordan must be slacking!

jesse: if you have an out-of-state address, just say that you'll be living there in the next couple of days or that you're leaving the country or something.

― sweet tater, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

Are you sure you're not just phlegmy from all the cheese?

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Nah. Unless cheese does something to my throat and makes me sneeze?

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really want to shirk my civic duty, but then again I really don't want to fulfill it either.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Actually Cheese would probably help cold symptoms considering its make-up.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

good point

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

i bought some morels today . . . anyone have good suggestions for preparation?

― sweet tater, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

mix with heroin and snort?

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, if I were on trial I would rather have you in the jury than most of the folks who would take your place. Take a vacation and sit on a jury. Maybe it'll be the R. Kelly trial.

― Eazy, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

No suggestions, but I want to know where you bought morels!

EZ--I was really thinking that if I were on trial I would much rather have me on the jury than most of the other jerks in this world.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, wait. There was a recipe for morels in last weeks Reader.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I was gonna say. It was also the argument I gave D when he was complaining about jury duty. What EZ said!

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Morel recipe, transcribed just for Kelsey.

10 oz fresh, cleaned morels
4 eggs
1/2 c half-and-half
1/4 c water
panko (Japanese bread crumbs)
clarified butter
salt and pepper

Combine eggs, half-and-half, and water; mix well and season to taste with salt and pepper. Cut morels in half lenthwise if large; dip into egg mixture, then into bread crumbs. Heat clarified butter in a frying pan. Fry morels in small batches, season with salt and pepper, and serve warm with mayonaisse.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Shit. Fine. I will not buck my duty. But if I get on a jury, it better be a fucking important trial and a very, very short one. And no jerks on the jury with me.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

I got morels at the co-op near my work. they're local minnesotan morels!

― sweet tater, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, there is also a recipe for the mayo that is to go with the morels.

Her mayo

1 egg plus 1 yolk
1 anchovy fillet
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 c grape seed oil
1/2 c chopped chervil, tarragon, chives, and parsley
salt and pepper
Tabasco sauce

Combine eggs, anchovy, and lemon juice in a blender or food processor; blend till smoth. With motor running pour in oil slowly till emulsified. Fold in herbs, season to taste with salt, pepper, and hot sauce. Refrigerate. Add vodka and drink in shots.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

HERB mayo.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

You don't want to try his mayo.....

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a headcheesehead.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Not really, because it is not cheese and is gross.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

Don't lie.

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so psyched to see Arcad3 F1r3 tomorrow night, third row of the orchestra pit!

Yes, I realize this makes me terminally unhip.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

I really wanted to go see this, but it was sold out and I gave up very easily.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't care if it's unhip, and I don't care that Jeff sold his tickets for $8 because he's terribly hip. I love them.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

They are so great live. This was the first concert in years that I've been actually sitting at my computer at 10:00 a.m. ready to pounce on the tickets. I think making them all will call only kept away the scalpers and allowed me to get some great seats.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Arcade Fire is...nevermind.

― Jordan, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mirandala.org/images/timer.jpg

― La Lechera, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

Arcade Fire is...nevermind.

I know what you were going to say, damn you.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Some guy is coming to buy my old TV, but he's like 1.5 hours late. He's called, but he's not showing up. I don't think he understands the layout of Chicago.

I love selling stuff.

― Jesse, Friday, 18 May 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Thank you for the recipe, Jesse! I think that Leaf & I are going to try it out for dinner!!

― sweet tater, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

Scrolling to the end to say:

Scrapple f'n ROCKS. I should have asked my mom to bring some when the come visit tomorrow. Kelso the Septa driver has that shit CORRECT.

― Jenny, Friday, 18 May 2007 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

TV sold.

I just want to sell things.

― Jesse, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sell me some scrapple.

― Jenny, Saturday, 19 May 2007 00:12 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamn.

― Jeff, Saturday, 19 May 2007 02:58 (nineteen years ago)

― Jeff, Saturday, 19 May 2007 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Electrelane is opening for the A.F. tomorrow night -- neat. I'm open to hearing some A.F. songs that don't sound like John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band.

― Eazy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 04:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have returned from the bar whence I left the rest of the crew and then some (except Courtney who bailed way early). I'm eating a ton of beets. So many that I'm assured of pink urine in the morning. It's always a terrible shock-- though it's happened dozens of times, it's still far worse than the asparagus surprise.

I love pickled beets with salt.

― Jesse, Saturday, 19 May 2007 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

You are so gross.

Also: I'm sorry for making a freak show big deal all the time out of you being tall, Dan.

― Jenny, Saturday, 19 May 2007 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

I am repentant. Also drunk. Also repentant. And hungry.

― Jenny, Saturday, 19 May 2007 07:06 (nineteen years ago)

What? I'm always tall, who cares?

Kenan came over. We ate Mexican food at 3:00.

I want to see Electrelane at the Bottle on Tuesday.

― dan m, Saturday, 19 May 2007 08:57 (nineteen years ago)

Jen's bro came later and he 6'8" tall and I was all like OMG TALL WHEEEE and then he was giving me a ride home (he's as kind as he is giant) and some dumb frat boy walked by and said, "Dude yer tall" and then I realized that I'm a dumbo.

More importantly, where are my parents!>?!?!?! I am starving and need a shower but am afraid I'll miss their "We've arrived!" call and then they'll be trapped at O'Hare or wherever the hell they are.

― Jenny, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I had a dream about Kevin last night. And the cats. And getting a pedicure.

― Jenny, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

my bag was stolen last night. i have been angry for the past 14 hours. like furious, even little dog companionship isn't cheering me up.

― chicago kevin, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

also, should i go to a party being thrown by a 21 year old? how bad could it possibly be?

― chicago kevin, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Pick us up on the way, bro.

― Eazy, Saturday, 19 May 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I didnt know until last night that you had a little dog! Pictures??

― Jesse, Saturday, 19 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

it's not his dog

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

also, yes, mexican food, and at some point i think there was me gushing, "OMG, Dan, this neighborhood is SO COOL!" and Dan trying his best not to be smug and I-told-ya-so.

Although, one drawback -- no cabs. At least not at 10am on a Saturday. Also, no easy lake access, which is bummer. I love me some lakefront.

Ok, so this was a duh moment: I've been meaning to get my bike fixed up, but just haven't gotten to it yet. I figured it would be a hassle, because there are no bike shops around here. RONG. There is a bike shop AT THE END OF MY FUCKIONG STREET. ONE BLOCK AWAY. I just never noticed it before. Problem solved.

I hate waiting for the cable guy.

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

There's no one to even call to confirm or get updates on my cable guy appointment! I am wholly at their mercy.

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

The no-cab debate continues.

― Jesse, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

and Dan trying his best not to be smug and I-told-ya-so

he largely failed at this, btw

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

The debate RAGES.

― Jesse, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:28 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes my hood rules, all joking aside.

― dan m, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

There is an echo in my apartment, it's so big.

― dan m, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

And while there may not be any cabs around when people need them, there's always one or two at the cab stand by the train station when they aren't needed. So, the thing is, you have to trick yourself into thinking you're going to catch the train, and then there will be a cab waiting around. But probably not.

― dan m, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Kevin, we will hunt down and destroy those who stole your bag.

― dan m, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

OK, now I'm going to Detroit.

― dan m, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

you have to trick yourself into thinking you're going to catch the train, and then there will be a cab waiting around. But probably not.

WHY U BRAKE BRAIN

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mcsweeneys.net/links/lists/acdc.html

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

what neighborhood is Dan in?

― sweet tater, Saturday, 19 May 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Logan Square.

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

I HAS A MAC.

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 23:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/IMG_0557.jpg

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 23:44 (nineteen years ago)

I was holding out for a bigger machine, but yesterday Vista told me I have 13 days until it just kills my computer, unless I buy a new copy of Vista. That's the deal with the "trial" version. Try it, and if you like it, buy it. If you don't like it, fuck you, buy it anyway. I for one HATE it, so this two-week warning only served to make me go buy a Mac immediately.

― kenan, Saturday, 19 May 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

I CAN'T LIVE WITH PCs ANYMORE! I AM BEYOND PC! I AM BEYOND OBNOXIOUS!

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

chicago, i'm all up in ya area come june 2nd.

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 20 May 2007 00:55 (nineteen years ago)

Like, to visit or forever?

― jaymc, Sunday, 20 May 2007 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

june 2nd = wedding

― n/a, Sunday, 20 May 2007 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

IN CASE ANYONE FORGOT

― n/a, Sunday, 20 May 2007 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

roxy you will be essential at the wedding :)

I look forward to meeting you.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

WORD TO THE WISE

Avoid the RED and BROWN Lines to the Loop this weekend. This means you, Jenny, if you're taking it to graduation ceremonies (although I expect you'll be in a cab). Today the Red line ran on the Brown line tracks as expected, but then it stopped for 20 minutes at Sedgwick, then instead of turning east at the Loop, it went south down Wells. Also, all Brown lines stopped at Merchandise Mart and returned to Kimball. Also, no Loop trains ran along Wabash or Lake Street.

Ahh... I just looked and found that this is due to a crane accident, so I wouldn't be surprised if this is a problem tomorrow as well.

What a seriously fucked up commute.

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 05:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2007-05/29916312.jpg

Crane accident.

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

Who knew that there was a http://www.craneaccidents.com?

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

Hi duders and dudetters. I am in Detwat.

― dan m, Sunday, 20 May 2007 07:16 (nineteen years ago)

mmm... twat.

Morning kids.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

Where did you come from lady
and ooh won't you take me there
right away won't you baby
tenderoni you've got to be
spark my nature
sugar fly with me
don't you know
now is the perfect time
we can make it right
hit the city lights
then tonight ease the lovin pain
let me take you to the max

I wanna love you (P.Y.T.)
pretty young thing
you need some lovin (T.L.C)
and I'll take you there
I wanna love you) (P.Y.T.)
Pretty young thing
You need some lovin' ((T.L.C.)
Tender lovin' care
I'll take you there

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

TENDERONI! MY FAVORITE NOODLE!

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:09 (nineteen years ago)

LET ME TAKE YOU TO THE MAXXXXXX!

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:10 (nineteen years ago)

There's a song on the new Chromeo album called "Tenderoni."

― n/a, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

awesome.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

omg it's been so long since I have listened to music through my computer that didn't crackle and hiss! THIS THING SOUNDS AWESOME!

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think I did a good thing. This is not the monster machine that I was dreaming of, but it's a perfect little machine for managing music and photos and browsing the web. Which, let's face it, is all I really do with my computer. The PC will remain, in a downgraded way, as a torrent machine.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:33 (nineteen years ago)

Bjork still gives me a music chubby.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 12:34 (nineteen years ago)

Why am I up at 8 on a Saturday?

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

How annoying. I might as well go grocery shopping.

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Because it's Sunday?

― La Lechera, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. Even dumber.

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

"Daft Punk Is Playing In My House" is playing in my house.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:55 (nineteen years ago)

Which segues nicely into actual Daft Punk, "Revolution 909," also now playing in my house. In my house.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.in-finite.info/dotclear/images/house/house1.jpg

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 14:00 (nineteen years ago)

Bobby Brown Roni

My heart (Woo) belongs to tenderoni (Sheâs my only love)
Sheâs my only love (My only heart, baby)
My heart (Yeah) belongs to tenderoni (Sheâs my only love)
Sheâs my only love

― Jenny, Sunday, 20 May 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations on yr new Mac (Woo) Kenan
I'm finna go graduate (Yeah) from law school today
Jesse, you and Courtney should probably get there early (probably get there early)
I'm thinking at around one (if you want to get a seat, baby)

― Jenny, Sunday, 20 May 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://kscakes.com.nyud.net:8080/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/grajuatin-from-law-skoo-brb.jpg

― Jenny, Sunday, 20 May 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Yeehaw, Jenny!

― sweet tater, Sunday, 20 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

YAAAAY JENNY
Unicorn says CONGRATS!
http://www.mondotees.com/ProductImages/Decals/D0111.jpg

― La Lechera, Sunday, 20 May 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

That unicorn looks very...muscular.

― La Lechera, Sunday, 20 May 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ourspecialkids.org/adoptions/congratsgradgirl.gif

― Eazy, Sunday, 20 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have listened to the entirety of Anita Baker's Rapture album, and now I am listening to it again. SO SO GOOD.

omg where's my sade?

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Mom?

― La Lechera, Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh there it is. Cherish the day, indeed.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

"Smooth Operator" makes me want to put on too much aftershave and dress like a huge guido.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Coast to coast, L.A. to Chicago...

― Eazy, Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

OMG AWESOME; CONGRATULATIONS, JENNY!!!!

― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

wait, what was Amanda's made-up song to the tune of "Smooth Operator"? something about toilet paper.

― horseshoe, Sunday, 20 May 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Smoooooooooooooth toilet papaaah

― La Lechera, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

In fact, I am ashamed to admit that every song I have ever tried to "write" ended up sounding like a Weird Al song. The world does not need more "funny" music so I stopped immediately upon realizing this.

― La Lechera, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

Has anyone ever heard of a "pounding"? [pause for your IMMATURE jokes]

When I lived in rural NC a woman who was pregnant was treated to a sort of kitchen and pantry-stocking shower called a pounding. I think that's how it worked anyway; I just remember a friend of mine was pregnant and her relatives threw her a pounding.

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

: : What is the origin of this phrase. "food pounding" usually describes when a pastor is given food from the congregation.
: In the movie "Cross Creek," about writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, one of the characters had a "pound party." Each guest had to bring a pound of food. Maybe there's a connection.
I found it under "pounding." It's like a gift "shower" or party. Also called "pound party." Eastern Alabama, western Georgia. 1909. "The custom of sending to the minister's home groceries, preserves, etc., each participant being suppose to give a pound."

I guess this sheds some light on things.

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

In rural NC women's husbands often gave them a pounding when they scorched dinner, but that was different.

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's not what "pound party" brings to my mind.

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://s1.dontstayin.com/18/73/187313cd-fb28-4e8c-9421-2830b7ecffd6.jpg

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

What is The Sweetest Taboo, btw? What is so taboo?

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm wearing so much brown today.

― Jeff, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

It took me a minute to realize that the line across that photo is a leg.

― Eazy, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Leaf & I just finished our thank you note writing!

― sweet tater, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

In the world of Sade, I think the sweetest taboo is going to a Dusseldorf sex club with your married boss at the accounting/consulting firm.

― Eazy, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

WOW is that ever a sweet taboo!

Although, I did once go to a female strip club in new orleans with a co-worker. this was after we closed down two bars, the latter of which featured the singer g3nnifer flow3rs of b1ll cl1nton fame.

― sweet tater, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Another interesting NC foothills word: "untelling," meaning "hard to foretell" or "unpredictable." As in, "The car tore up and it's untelling what it will cost to fix it."

Results 11 - 20 of about 604 for "it's untelling". It seems that most of these are from CourtTV and 4-wheeling message boards, which seems about right.

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Wait. The REAL GF?

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

YES. The real GF! She even gave me a shout out from across the room!

― sweet tater, Sunday, 20 May 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know why that is so surprising to me.

― Jesse, Sunday, 20 May 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I just bought My First Ever pair of glasses.

― jaymc, Sunday, 20 May 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.autographsuccess.com/john_ortiz.jpg

Do they look like these?

I watched Miami Vice again recently, and didn't realize until just now that John Ortiz founded an off-off-Broadway theater co. with Philip Seymour Hoffman.

― Eazy, Sunday, 20 May 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

Nah, they're half-frames. I think they look good.

I had my pupils dilated, too, and am still seeing a little blurry. Luckily, Kr came to LensCrafters with me and was able to drive home.

― jaymc, Sunday, 20 May 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

gosh, there's a lot of cross-post on this thread.

i'll be there on june 2nd to play at the pontiac cafe. where is good to hang out? buy records? get blitzed? it is the last night of tour and presumably my birthday celebration day, as well

― roxymuzak, Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

Aw, most of us will be at Nick and Sarah's wedding that night.

Pontiac Cafe is in Wicker Park, so there's lots of good places to hang out. I'm sure folks who live in that neighborhood will chime in, but Reckless Records on Milwaukee Ave. is not bad for tunes, Sultan's Market has awesome falafel and other Middle Eastern delights, and Quimby's is a good bookstore (mostly comix and small press).

― jaymc, Sunday, 20 May 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

aw bummer, why you have to come on wedding saturday?

― kenan, Sunday, 20 May 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dinner took over 4 hours to eat.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, the Arcad3 F1r3 show was really fun. Supposedly Tim R0bbins and Rach3l Mc4d4ms were in attendance, but I didn't see either of them. Electrelane flew my fucking socks off with their opening set, I really want to go see them at the Bottl3 on Tuesday.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 21 May 2007 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

flew = blew, but I suppose they flew off too. M1a Clark3 is my new indie crush.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 21 May 2007 04:22 (nineteen years ago)

M1a Clark3 is my new indie crush.

OTM 2x etc

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 04:59 (nineteen years ago)

Psych3del1c H0rseshit = great
Plast1c Cr1mewave Sound = great
V33 D33 = good
P1nk R3ason = fine
G0lden B3ar = lame

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 12:57 (nineteen years ago)

I got the last PH 7-inch on white vinyl.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the U of C campus = pretty fucking sweet.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:05 (nineteen years ago)

Hey doodz.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hey.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

We're going to the zoo today.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:27 (nineteen years ago)

Dope.

Sarah and I have decided that this is our summer of psychedelic music and sushi, so feel free to recommend items in either category.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Tuesday night is all-you-can-eat sushi night at the place across the street from us. I've not been there properly for sushi but I've had other food that and it's really good.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

I watched For Your Consideration last night, boy did that suck. What happened to those guys?

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:46 (nineteen years ago)

I believe you should drop acid and go to one of those weird sushi places where you eat off of a naked woman.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

While listening to 13th Floor Elevators.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe that will happen by the end of the summer as a thematic climax.

Good work, Kelsey! We're saving all our thank yous until after we get back from San Francisco, especially since the trip is our pressie from most folks. Did you get lots of great stuff? Where did you end up registering?

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, also... I pretty much agree with Nick's synopsis of the summer breeze bands, though I really liked V33dee's songs towards the end of their set, the ones that were alot faster and catchier.

Also of mention - the songs they were playing in between the bands were perfect. If they had a comp of those laying around, I totally would have bought one. In fact, I would have settled for a list of those songs for me to find myself...

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

I've missed a lot of ILX the last few days... is Kelsey married now?!?!

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

Waitasecond. Have you guys started to eat fish? Sushi's not nearly as much fun unless you're eating fish. Otherwise it's the Summer of Mushrooms and Pickles.

I listened to Ash Ra Tempel for the first time yesterday. WHOA.

Also went to clothing swap last night and scored lots of great dresses, although my midsection is too large for one of them. : /

XP -- YEAH -- IS KELSEY MARRIED NOW?

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

I watched For Your Consideration last night, boy did that suck. What happened to those guys?

Surprise, Guest's movies were never very good.

― Dr Morbius, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

RONG

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think Kelsey's getting married until after us, later in June maybe?

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

We have not started eating fish. So we're just eating veggie sushi. On Saturday, we had asparagus rolls, avocado rolls and tempura sweet potato rolls. I realize this probably isn't "real sushi" but fuck it I want to eat wasabi.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I thought, but if so, how can she write thank you notes? Have people already sent all of their gifts? THANK GAD you have a year for these things! I have never given a wedding gift on time in my entire life.

A long time ago I made a pretty good wasabi salad dressing from the Orange vinegar at TJ's, olive oil, ginger and wasabi powder. YUMMMM. I should make that salad again.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

why did I capitalize "orange"?

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

And iirc, YOU HATE MUSHROOMS, amirite?

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:27 (nineteen years ago)

I am glad that I have a bunch of new dresses, but sad that my friend who gave them to me is leaving town. :( So many friends have left in the last year.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Kelsey's gettin' hitched at the end of June. I think she recently had a shower though and so they decided to go ahead and send out Thank Yous. Most people don't send 'em until after the wedding, traditionally speaking.

Also, I didn't think I would like sushi, and whenever someone would tell me there were lots of veggie options, I doubted them. One thing I don't understand though is how much you are expected to order. Nick and I ordered three different kinds to split at a restaurant in our hood this weekend which was plenty of food, but our bill only came to $15 total, which seems unfair, so we left a hefty tip.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/507728794_c69a3604b5.jpg

This picture makes me laugh because it looks like Jesse is saying something that he knows is pissing Courtney off.

I keep forgetting it's Monday.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Veggie sushi is pretty cheap. Tokyo Marina has a huge selection of critter-free sushi.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

I do not want it to be Monday. I want to go back home.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I usually order more than that, but I am a sushi HOG. If a roll is roughly 6 pieces and you ordered 3, 9 pieces of maki would not fill me up enough for dinner. Lunch, maybe. Were you guys not starving like an hour later?

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

I've had some fancier mushrooms that I thought were pretty good. What I really hate are the tiny gray slimy mushrooms that you get on pizza and in subs and stuff like that.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

We wanted a lighter dinner because we had been eating festival foods all day (cotton candy, pizza, popcorn, ice cream, etc.).

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

fresh mushrooms on pizza: delicious.

canned mushrooms of any kind: the worst thing ever.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

But we've been through this before, I think, after a baaaad experience with canned mushrooms on pizza.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I wasn't starving later, but yeah, we had a nice base of junk food in our bellies.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I just accepted a new teaching assignment for the summer. Yay? It's only 2x/week, low pressure. It means no vacaciones this summer, but whatever. Must earn bacon.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

You could still take weekend trips.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

And congrats by the way!

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Well, not really, since I work on Sat. too. Oh well.

Congrats on what?

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Getting a summer job.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

But you're only working 2 days a week, right? one of which is Saturday? So you could take a mid-week trip then.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Every college teacher I know teaches summer school for the easy cash and also hates it (rightly so, I'm guessing).

I don't want it to be Monday either, guys.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Me either. :-(

Bbbut... two weeks from today I'll be on my way to San Francisco! :-D

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I guess in order to supplement my income to the point where I can become financially stable, I have to work in the so-called "off months" so I took a summer class. Whatever. I cannot and will not complain about working 3 days a week.

The good news: I am ready for some TT whenever you guys are.

Yay honeymoon!

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah and I have decided that this is our summer of psychedelic music and sushi, so feel free to recommend items in either category.

Tank in Lincoln Square (not to be confused with Tank Noodle in Little Saigon) has 1/2 off all maki on Saturday and Sunday afternoons (like noon to 5 PM or something). I'm not a huge sushi fan, but it's a great deal for such a nice place.

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

i woke up, took a shower, ate breakfast and was getting ready to leave for work this morning when i saw the wgn news say it would be 80 degrees today. i put my bag down and called work saying i was sick. i'm totally going to read in the park in an hour.

cigarettes, book, ipod, and iced coffee in the park = awz.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

That Jesse/Courtney photo could be an ad for Yahoo Personals.

I like sushi, but I don't like cream cheese and mayo. There's a good inexpensive sushi buffet at Belmont/Ashland/Lincoln, but most of the rolls have one of those two ingredients.

― Eazy, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

Also I am glad that I don't have to "teach" Tourism for Chinese English Professors again this year. The $$ was good, but good LORD it was not fun.

N0hana on Broadway has "happy hour" until 6 pm (4-6maybe?) every day with super cheap sushi. I've never eaten there when it wasn't happy hour and have always been relatively pleased. I order tons of things without cream cheese OR mayo! Their yellowtail/scallion rolls are GOOD.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

kevin, i thought your iPod was stolen?

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

NB: Kelsey is getting married on June 30. There was a shower last weekend, so I'm guessing that's what the thank-you notes were for. I'm also guessing that she'll write thank-you notes for actual wedding presents, too. Kelsey's better than anyone I know with writing thank-you notes.

There's a good inexpensive sushi buffet at Belmont/Ashland/Lincoln, but most of the rolls have one of those two ingredients.

Also $5 charge if you don't clean your plate.

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm bummed that Weather.com forecast for this weekend in Whitehall, MI, is 50s and rainy. :(

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Kevin, I envy your decision. It's too busy around here right now for me to miss any work. Even if I WAS sick, I'd still be here.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

i got the bag back, the bar back saw it sitting there while i was in the bathroom and thought i'd left and forgotten it. he stowed it in the back room but he neglected to tell the bartender so when i came back no one knew anything about it. the next day's bartender saw it and saw my work id in the bag and she gave me a call.

it's good to know the bartenders have my cell phone number.

xpost- all my bosses are in madison today, i wasn't going to be doing anything anyway. so i'm actually missing a really easy day of work but i'd rather be in wicker park watching the sundresses.

― chicago kevin, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Wait ... I think I just figured it out. Is a bar back ... the guy who's behind the bar washing glasses, etc., but isn't the bartender?

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm glad you got your bag back, Kevin! And what a great way to spend the day.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

ah gee, jaymc.

yay for getting bag back!!

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

How Kevin Got His Bag Back

(wtg dude)

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

"ah gee"?

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

That is a bar back, yes. A runner, if you will.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

that's me sighing and saying "oh dear how did you not know that." i refuse to say oh jaymcpaws.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

i feel like listening to carl perkins today. i love that dude.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard people use the term "bar back" quite a bit, esp. on ILX, but I never knew what it was and I never really stopped to think about it. I was always just like, "don't you mean ... bartender?"

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

i refuse to say oh jaymcpaws.

You just did! And your meaning was made more clear.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I am not at work today.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

MBRMFN

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

but i didn't say it earnestly.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I was not at work. I am totally unfocused.

My big project for this afternoon: Adjust my new guitar's intonation. I've never done it before, should be exciting!

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, also sign up for that Old Town School class before I forget and it's too late.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

EMO GUITAR CLASS you know you want to

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

This is how you adjust your intonation:

http://www.marshallamps.com/images/web%20tuition/graphics/Adjusting_Screws.gif

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff reviews Tru:

Buffalo mozzarella dumpling with green olive emulsion & black olive powder

Came in a little spoon and was really slippery, the powder sort of explodes in your mouth. I wanted like 4 more of them.

Zucchini pea geleÃ©, crunchy zucchini, orange, ginger, spring vegetable cream

Served in a little cup with an angel wing on it. It was green as was very refreshing.

Selection of sashimi grade fish, complementary garnishes

Good as sashimi is, but the white soy sauce was probably the best part. And the soy salt. Tasty.

Roasted white asparagus, shallots, parmesan

"A Study in Asparagus" is what they called this. Good, but it wasn't enough, I didn't even get a hint of asparagus pee.

Rabbit consommÃ©, morels, pea & lavender emulsion

Now this was good. The rabbit juice ws the best part, also had fava beans, which I don't think I've ever had.

Whipped salt cod, creamy potato, smoke geleÃ©, caviar

Salty. I loved it. The geleÃ© had a weird texture.

Tagiolini, peeky toe crab, uni

Probably the least memorable course, it was a frothy soup.

Scottish king salmon, red wine bouillon, white bean

Very good, the beans were pureed.

Braised val shank, sweetbread cappelli, carrots, veal bouillon

Extremely good. More veal please.

A selection of cow, goat, and sheeps' milk cheeses

The best course. There was an entire cheese cart, with about 15-20 cheeses that I've never seen before. You could pick your on or let her pick them, I chose the latter and ended up getting 4, including on oozy one that I would never have known was cheese unless someone told me. Fantastic.

Black currant mint lemonade

A precursor to the sweets. It was good.

Chocolate hazelnut mousse, orange sherbet, cardamom-scented oranges

Was probably one of the larger courses. I love orange and chocolate, so A+++.

Mignardises & lollipops

A bunch of chocolates and lollipops. I was full by this time, so I really couldn't tell if these were really good or not. After that, they brought some more chocolates over, one was a white and green tea chocolate that was tasty. The ladies also got pound cake while walking out the door. Haven't ate that yet.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Service was good.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

goddamn

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Another helpful diagram:

http://www.kinman.com/images/inside/toneWorkshop/tone/glass2.gif

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds amazing.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Especially because I am starving.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm... Fancy food...

I'm having half a leftover scone from bleeeeding Heart for my morning snack. It is delish.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/507728794_c69a3604b5.jpg

OMG. I look like a burn victim in that picture!

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

A smoooooth burn victim though.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I am suffering from dinner envy.

Also I am glad that I don't have to "teach" Tourism for Chinese English Professors again this year.

What did this involve?

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, what is wrong with my face in that picture??

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Basically I was told that I was to teach a class on "modern teaching methods" to a bunch of Chinese English professors who taught at giant universities to groups of like 400 people. Then I was told something else about teaching them about qualitative research. When they got here, all they wanted to do was go to free museums and shop for Lancome perfume. There's more to it than that, but I won't bore you.

Your face looks fine in that picture! What are you talking about.
I also have dinner envy.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes it's Memorial Day weekend coming up! What is happening? I am hearing rumors of BBQ from some fronts...

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to Laurelville, Michigan.

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

My face looks blotchy and overly brown.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

News that I learned last night: I am good at cunnilingus.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

Now THAT'S news you can use!

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

What for, regurgitation?

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, John, exciting! I send hopes for better weather, altho West MI being what it is, you can pretty much count on something changing within half an hour.

― Laurel, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I want to go to a BBQ (at someone else's place, woo ha).

Yes, I am ready to start talking about this coming weekend. First, I will be drinking with the ladies. Then I will be trying not to freak out about wedding stuff and just relax. That's about it.

Hey, Dan, isn't this Thursday a great time for GUITAR HERO??

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to Michigan too.

Jesse, how did you stumble upon this fact?

― Eazy, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

News that I learned last night: I am good at cunnilingus.

Maybe, but you can only improve with more practice. Besides, don't vaginas pretty much gross you out?

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Dan, isn't this Thursday a great time for GUITAR HERO??

Maybe... the weekend might be better though.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Hi. I had a good weekend, lots of sun, outdoor gigs, bbq, and drinking.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

Well Sarah and the ladies are have a bachelorette party on Friday. So I will be free if the DUDES want to do anything (note: not go to a strip club).

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Vaginas don't gross me out. How dare you project that stereotype on me.

I already posted this on the gay thread, but the girl I hooked up with showed up at the bar where a bartender from work was having his bday party. While I was getting teased by co-workers she told me that I was "really good at it" and that you would never know it was my first time. She told the straight guys to defend me. She is built like a fucking tank, this woman.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

What for, regurgitation?

A nation turns its back and gags.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

When did you hook up with her? I don't remember hearing about it before now.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of such things, I'm enjoying Superstud. I ended up getting this one first just because the library didn't have Kick Me in at the time.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

This reminds me, a nice-looking girl was talking to (hitting) me as Leslie's party was winding down on Friday. I was a little too drunk to realize it at the time, and then I didn't see her again. I suppose it's a forgone conclusion that I would ever be able to figure out who she was, huh?

Perhaps the lost camera owner? A guy can hope!

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha (hitting on)

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

How dare you project that stereotype on me.

I'm sorry, I just had you confused with every other gay man ever. Also, did you not report a markedly decreased sex drive after that incident?

Hooray for being good at it! That is always happy news. "That sex thing you do is most enjoyable!" = increased self-esteem every time.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Hitting ON. That makes a difference. I didn't even think that might be what you meant, and I wondered how the hell you didn't realize that this girl was hitting you until later. She was not the owner of the camera. That was Leslie's lost camera.

Sarah, it was a couple months ago. It was an...accident.

I'm sorry, I just had you confused with every other gay man ever.

Again with the stereotype. This was recently discussed over at the gay thread. Get the to the faggery!

You are right though, my drive did wane due to blown circuits....

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

yes, the camera is safely back in Leslie's possession.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

SHIT

I can't possibly take out a missed connections ad about this.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Sure you can.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Well yeah, but it won't do anything except make me look drunk and stupid. Well, more drunk and stupid.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Jesse, I see:

Gay guys at all gay guy party talking about how icky vaginas are for ten minutes: dud or dud?

And you are correct about asserting your own sexuality by demonizing the Other. Thing is, I have heard the "vaginas are nasty" thing from more than one gay man, often with some kind of physical expression of ABSOLUTE REVULSION, like a full-body shiver, as vaginas were invented by David Cronenberg or something.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

as IF

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Only bummer of the weekend = playing a fifty dollar gig and getting a twenty dollar parking ticket for hanging out "6 inches into" a driveway.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, that sucks, Jordan.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

We are supposed to get $$$ for playing the college show on Saturday but I had to fill out TAX FORMS and then they are mailing us a check! So un-rock-and-roll!

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

I am baking a pound of bacon. Yum.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nypress.com/19/23/news&columns/FEATURE_STRANGERS-WITH-CAND.jpg

The bacon strip is sizzlin'!

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

Anybody seen this? They serve it at the L&L.

http://www.agwabuzz.com/graphics/left_bottles.jpg

Distilled and produced in Holland, AGWA de Bolivia is an Alco-Jolt made from the Bolivian coca leaf and contains Guarana and ginseng.

Available in standard dosage of 32 grams of coca leaf flavour per litre, or the more potent 40 grams of coca leaf flavour.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome. I bought some bacon yesterday for the express purpose of bakin'.

How many strips of bacon are in a lb?

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Like...a million. I would say around 18. I am not going to eat them all at once. I like to pre-cook bacon and then pop it in the toaster oven when I need it.

NEED it.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Re-heated bacon is good?

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's fine. But only in the toaster oven. I guess you could put it in the frying pan, but that kind of negates the time saving benefits of precooking.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

wtf cocaine liquor?

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

I had some. It gives you energy, but that is probably as much from the caffeine as anything.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

For over 4000 years among the native Andean population the coca leaf has been used for ancient rituals and for everyday gift giving. Today it is drunk as a tea and chewed for hours by farmers and miners. The result is similar to a prolonged caffeine or tobacco buzz. But it's more than that. It improves stamina, is a sacred symbol central to community life and provides essential nutrients. 100 grams of coca would more than satisfy the daily-recommended allowance of calcium, iron, phosphorous, vitamin A and riboflavin. The World Health Organisation and the UN's Inter Regional Crime and Justice research institutes cocaine project maintains that coca users show none of the classic signs of addiction. In fact coca is not a major component of cocaine as only 0.5% of the alkaloid cocaine is found in coca and 41 chemicals are needed to extract cocaine from the coca leaf.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

Three cheers for bacon.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard the same thing about black people from more than one white person. It must be true for all of them!

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

yeah yeah, gross generalizations, of course of course

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.neumagazine.co.uk/upload/patrickwolf300.jpg

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

is he any good? I've never heard him.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:34 (nineteen years ago)

I like him.

Series of classic things I have done today:

Reading at the lake front.
Coming home and having central air.
Eating a turkey sandwich.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

dudes seriously need to quit rocking the feathers/sportcoat thing

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

you have central air? That is unheard of!

I bought a whole rotisserie chicken at Jewel, which I anticipate will be a major component of lunch for three days.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Things I have done today that range from classic to unclassic

-baked bacon
-made an "OTB" sandwich--Vidalia Onion, Tomato, and BACON
-burned my finger on the bacon pan
-thought about bacon
-bacon

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Why are none of you working today?

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

I long for central air. Courtney has it too! Courtney and the JayJays are living the dream--the live practically inside of a Jewel and have central air!

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

PTO

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Baked, not fried? Weirdo.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.gayattitude.com/photo/p/h/pheel/20070103-864913984459c0c52c1544.jpg

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.dollbox.com/usrimage/16955.jpg

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I am "working" today.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Baked bacon is pretty great. It's evenly crispy--no curling--and the grease drips right off. I bake mine on a wire grate.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

I am "bored" today.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

I am about to make 240 labels. woo.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I'm having roast duck soup w/ udon today and it is LIKE WO.

― Laurel, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

is he any good? I've never heard him.

No, but he's hot.

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

How much do air-conditioning units cost? If this summer is anything like last summer (easily the hottest since I've lived in Chicago), I think I should invest in one.

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

$100-$200 seems about right

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

In my estimation, that dude pictured above does not even get in the zip code of hot.

What is hot is the SPINACH AND FETA PIE I am eating from the middle eastern bakery. YUMMERS. I want 6 of these. Trying to eat slow so I don't pig out.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

eat slowly.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost Try if you can to get an Energy Star qualified unit. Otherwise they can be a serious electricity suck.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

They're not too expensive. You can get one for around $100-150 easily. It will be enough to cool a bedroom. How big is your apartment? My mom is giving me a big giant window unit that will cool my entire apartment. It's the next best thing to central air. BUT! I can't run the a/c and the microwave, toaster oven, or dishwasher at the same time. Ridiculous.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Our window unit was great. I don't remember how much it was.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I have central air, but I'm going to stick with open windows/sliding door for as long as I can.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp;jsessionid=IS5BY2XQW5OIDKC4D3LVAGQ?_dyncharset=ISO-8859-1&id=pcat17071&type=page&st=air+conditioner&sc=Global&cp=1&nrp=15&sp=&qp=&list=n&iht=y&usc=All+Categories&ks=960

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

whoa.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Take two.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I have a 1BR. The way it's laid out, though, I don't expect the AC unit to cool the whole apartment.

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

5000 BTUs will cool a bedroom perfectly, but not a whole apartment.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

That was the best $1.35 lunch I have ever had.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

* Many people buy an air conditioner that is too large. ENERGY STAR suggests making sure your unit is properly sized. An air conditioner that is too large not only wastes energy, raising your utility bill, but also may cool a room too quickly without removing enough humidity, leaving it feeling cold and clammy.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

I'll prolly buy an AC in about a month, but it doesn't seem like an immediate need. July and August can be rough without one. I can't sleep and sweat at the same time. That's pure misery.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

I would vote for just putting one in the bedroom, John. Sleep is important! You have a room to retreat to when you need it.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

xposty

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

A quality accessory to any air conditioner is a fan to move some of that cool air around to other areas of the house.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I was worried that my living room would get too hot in the summer, what with the direct sunlight and all. But there's a big tree right outside, and once it got leaves on it, there is cool shade almost all day. Brilliant!

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

Unless it shorts out your entire apartment. ;_;
We had some bad experiences last year involving our fridge and the a/c unit. Almost lost tons of food (nightmare for me, the hoarder of frozen meats and seafood) but fortunately it was fixed. Still, scary that this could happen again at any time!

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

I agree, Sarah.

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

Good!

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.marietta.edu/~biol/biomes/images/deciduous/cicada3.jpg

Hey, Chicago! I'm gonna be in town tomorrow and be hanging out for a while. Wanna FAP??

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

My coworkers have already had big sitings in the 'burbs.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

I thought that was a typo of "stings" at first, and thought "Oh fuck, these things sting too?"

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

No, they are totally harmless.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Unless you consider being annoying a harmful thing.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

That's why people eat them. Revenge.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Today's Achewood is kinda (b)romantic.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Uh, yeah, wow, that's a good one.

― n/a, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

And topical.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Too many words. Can someone distill it down to three panels?

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

oh, beef.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

just read the last two rows.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Actually I was only talking about the last 3-4 panels.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Too weird for me.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I thought people posted more during the day.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes. I got crazy busy, though.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff kills threads.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

It is because I'm here. Fine.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:34 (nineteen years ago)

I've just killfiled myself. Continue, please.

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Now that Jeff is out of the way we can talk about baseball and Cook's Illustrated.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

Btw is Cook's Illustrated available at normal magazine-selling places? I feel like I never see it.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Probably not, but I don't know. Everyone I've ever known who read it regularly had a subscription.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

I just signed up for flickr pro.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

COME ON!

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

GOB?

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I should probably subscribe. Maybe that would help me cook more often.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

I was really close to getting How to Cook Everything at the Uni store the other day, but that Middle Eastern book was so much more tempting.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Is it hard to make (veggie) sushi? I'm guessing yes.

― KitCat, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've never done it, but my guess is getting the rice to cooperate is a pain.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pixelydixel.com/img/20050901mk01.jpg

― Mr. Que, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've hardly made anything out of HtCE (and in fact I didn't like the look of some of the recipes in there for things that I already know how to make), but all the same it's reassuring to own it.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

You know, just in case I need to know how to cook everything.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, you should ask Kelsey about hommade sushi. I was over at her house one time when she was making it, and I remember the hardest part was, indeed, making sure the rice stays together. She used some sort of bamboo thing to roll with.

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

we've made lots from HtCE. it's a really great basic cookbook. recommended: lentils and rice recipe, buttermilk biscuit recipe, soy marinade (we used it for tofu), double garlic kale.

i might be getting rid of my little a/c when i move at the end of july, but that all depends on whether i end up in a studio or one bedroom.

if you buy a/c units from craigslist, you can get them for 100 or less a lot of the time. my little bedroom one was $40 last year and it's great.

― JuliaA, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Worst part about window A/C units: getting them to balance/fit on the sill. What's awesome is one of the former tennants in our building left an old weight set in the basement, and the 5lb. plates are perfectly solid and stackable.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

No, the WORST part is when they fall out of the window and kill a child three floor below. That'll flat upset ya.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, that happens to me ALL the time. How could I have been so silly to forget it?

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

"So THAT'S how I broke my air conditioner! I totally forgot!"

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

Cook's Illustrated is available at a local quality periodicals dealer near you.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

The VERY WORST part of a window a/c unit is when they leak into the window and rot the wall.

― Jesse, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

ok, i'm sneaking out of here. I got hung up on work and did not make it to the gym today, and did not take a lunch, and I came in at 8, so they can all bite me.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hey this kind of applies to some of our own today!

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2007/05/21/onthejob.DTL

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Kevin isn't begging for rent money, though. That guy sounded like the mayor of sleaze city.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I didn't mean that!

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't figure.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

Homemade sushi is one of those things that makes no sense to me. It's more work, doesn't taste as good, and probably ends up being more expensive since you have to buy more of the goods than you would need if you just wanted to make a meal's worth of sushi. Plus there are sushi-making experts right across the street.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

OTM.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Seconded. Sushi is the one thing I don't even bother trying. And generally, when I have something tasty in a restaurant I immediately want to try to make it at home. For the most part, I've done alright. But sushi? Forget it. I want someone else to make that shit.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Thirded. I'm not even interested in making it, and I love the Asian foodstuffs.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

Another thing that I've decided is not worth the trouble:
Vietnamese spring rolls.

I love them. They're fresh, tasty and are more assembly than cooking. Seems like a perfect thing to make at home, right? WRONG.

1) Too many ingredients that all need to be fresh at the same time
2) How many of those things could I possibly eat? They don't last more than a day because the wrappers dry out.
3) The tedium of assembling these things is monumental. Soak wrapper. Arrange stuff on wrapper. Wrap tightly without breaking rice paper wrapper. Repeat.
4) I could buy the perfect portion of these babies for $3.95 at the most. That's worth $4 to me.

Verdict: I would only make these again if I were going to a potluck and felt particularly ambitious.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:55 (nineteen years ago)

well put

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Making them in the restaurants is fun, though.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Making them would be the perfect thing to entertain a 10 year old for the afternoon. But that's not likely to happen to me anytime soon, so no more spring rolling for me.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think we were very different as children, Amanda.

― Jordan, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I was going to amend that by adding "a 10-year-old just like me"

Hehe.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

That article is kinda interesting. I've always wondered the same thing, and it seems like with the exception of the self-employed, most of these people would rather be at work.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, but tell that to the dude who works 3rd shift! He would not rather be at work. All sorts of people works all sorts of jobs during all hours of the day. When those people are not working, SURPRIZE they are on the street relaxing. Why is that surprising? Not everyone works 9-5 inside.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

I just thought it was funny because when I was crusing around town with Moms last week, she mentioned all the people out shopping, walking around, hanging out, etc and said "don't these people work?" I had to remind her there are ~3 million people around, and if just 1% take the day off to screw around (like I had done) that's still 30 thousand people out and doing stuff.

― dan m, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I just wanted to point out that I thought it was unfair to the out-and-about during the day people to assume that they were mostly out of or looking for work. Due to the numbers you explained, that's just not true. Not all of those people took the day off. For some of them it IS their day off.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:18 (nineteen years ago)

I often have the same sort of questions about managers. The managers at my old job were always "running reports" and going to "meetings", but it was never clear to me what they did, aside from keeping an eye on the rest of us. (And not a very good eye at that...)

I am not kidding, btw. I honestly wonder what managers do. Are managers generally just well-paid toadies?

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

Kr and I took the day off together a couple months ago and were surprised at how many people were at M. Henry for lunch. Although we did get a table as soon as we walked in, so I guess the difference is crowded vs. crowded with an hour-long wait.

xpost I am not altogether sure what my boss does, to be honest. I have a little bit better of an idea now that I am a supervisor and have to talk to her about schedules and the like, but I still couldn't tell you how she fills her 8 hours.

― jaymc, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

I've been a retail manager at a record store and a customer service manager at a psychic hotline. Both jobs had very defined sets of duties that were separate and arguably more challenging than the duties of those I supervised. At the record store I had to count the register at the end of the night and order stuff and make sure the clerks weren't stealing or jerking off in the bathroom or being assholes to customers and deal with angry customers and process returns plus still do all the clerk things, only better and more knowledgeably. The CS supervisor job was a little less defined. I had to make the schedule and hire/fire and deal with fuck ups and handle complaints all that but I was also in charge of stream lining processes and setting policy and dealing with interpersonal beefs.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Oh and in both jobs I talked to the owners/regional managers about the biz and what was working and what wasn't and applied their "big picture" business strategies to the departments I supervised which included doing things like explaining why an unpleasant operational change was happening or figuring out how to meet a sales goal or something. I was like a go between.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

I needs a manager
http://vipfibers.com/store/images/Cockapoo.jpg

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

Did someone say beefs?
http://www.retrieversandfriends.com/images/APR06/buddy042506.jpg

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

I am obsessed with cockapoos.

I am 75 years old.

― La Lechera, Monday, 21 May 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I LOVE COCKAPOOS.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

that is the only dog equal to a shi tzu in cuteness

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

This is Jenny posting under Jeff's log in so I can just copy and paste from his flickr account (mine is not pro so and I did not have enough space to upload all these pictures). Here are some zoo pics:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/204/508479740_86b004f73c.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/225/508498357_302391f773.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/218/508496003_80e4953027.jpg

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/208/508446366_bf7cd2a4e6.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/197/508422212_b67ac502c7.jpg

And my favorite, fucking meerkats. (Literally - check out the two on the right.)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/220/508437694_743fd0c959.jpg

― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2007 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

Me as me again. LP Zoo has some pretty sweet critters. The otters were not out and about (SO SAD YOU GUYS) but the fucking meerkats and the friendly sea lions were almost enough to make up for it. I will probably go back and try to see some otters again soon, since the 151 bus goes right to the entrance that is closest to the otters' house. Also it's free. The end.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

PS I swear that sea lion was smiling at me.

― Jenny, Monday, 21 May 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

i hope to see those meerkats while i am there

― roxymuzak, Monday, 21 May 2007 23:49 (nineteen years ago)

I will have to go see the meerkatz. I am distinctly unexcited about seeing them fuck, tho.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 23:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am transferring my whole iTunes library to my new computer, and it's taking forever. 72 gigs does not move easily. But even while it's only about half done, I am discovering things that I forgot about. OMG Dungen! I never listened to this record enough when it was new to me.

― kenan, Monday, 21 May 2007 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

hey, can anyone help me out on rent this month? if so write to p.o. box 12fu, chgo, 60622.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 02:23 (nineteen years ago)

Not I, my friend. I'd love to, i really would, but I spent my last dime on computer shit, and put myself in a bad spot for the month.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 02:28 (nineteen years ago)

omg kevin i'm so sorry. Srsly, I owe you, but I just can't this month. It's just not there.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

1. I would like to make sushi at home. Not raw fish sushi necessarily, but veggie and shrimp and stuff. It's really not that much work; I became convinced of this when I saw one of the guys on Queer Eye counseling a Str8 Guy to make it for his date (the guy used wasabi in a tube and squeezed about 1/2 of the tube inside of one roll, making for an OMG moment later I'm sure). I just think it would be fun and it's really pretty easy. Plus if you're lazy and have a few extra buck to spend you can buy frozen pre-cooked sushi rice at Golden Pacific (right next to the beef and pork blood and the beef bile).

2. I sometimes wonder about the people who are at the gym or at Starbucks at 1 P.M. I have asked couple people and those who I talked to either worked off-hours (I don't recall any waiters or bartenders) or were on vacation.

You've got to figure that in addition to that 1%/30K, you've got servers and bartdenders, night workers in hospitals, factories, security, UPS, etc., etc. Plus tourists and conventioneers. We have tons of conventions--the radiologist convention alone brings in 60,000 people over a 4 day period, plus tons of smaller ones. And then consider the unemployed and slackers.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, upon review, I think I kind of just restated what that article was saying.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 05:12 (nineteen years ago)

And the National Restaurant Association ("The Other NRA") brought in 73,000 people.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

That NRA convention, so huge.

I spent years wondering who has the weekdays free, and then I've spent time being one of those folks with weekdays free.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am one of the populus of Michigan Avenue while the rest of yous are slaving away.

Tomorrow is LOST. I am not going to wait for Thursday. I'm going to watch it at a friend's house on DVR after we get off work. Big day.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

UGH. UGH! I say. You know what makes Jesse say "UGH!"? Grey Poupon honey mustard. AWFUL--simply VILE.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 06:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3J0F_Dgq9I&NR=1

A++

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 07:03 (nineteen years ago)

I went out this morning at 6:15 to walk the dogs and saw zero cicadas.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently the cold over the weekend is going to keep the cicadas away for a couple days. The soil temperature needs to reach a certain point for a consistent length of time before they will come out, from the news story I heard yesterday.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 12:29 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think my dogs will try to eat them?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 12:30 (nineteen years ago)

Probably. Same news story said that many dogs find them very tasty. In fact, one expert said that it would "be like Thanksgiving" for some pets.

Obvs, I've spent way too much time reading/listening to stories about the cicadas.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 12:31 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Shit. I have a dog who has attempted to eat broken glass*, so something tells me this will be the pinnacle of his 14 years. I suppose I should be happy for him?

*I had to fish it out of his rotten little mouth. His chomping was audible.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 12:36 (nineteen years ago)

There is a Rye Coalition song called "Thanksgiving Day for Cats."

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 12:37 (nineteen years ago)

Awww. Thanksgiving day for pets...

I made a Vietnamese salad a while back that was actually a spring roll recipe minus the rolling. It was really very refreshing, but yeah, it required a million crazy ingrediants (crazy = ethnic, ha) and I could have bought spring rolls for way way cheaper. It was a fun change of pace though.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Bbbut... Amanda, if even YOU don't enjoy making your own sushi, I think I'll leave it up to the experts too.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

Song of the day: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWh8XKvsYqc

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I'm not saying I'm all expert and shit (I'm not) but some things are not worth the trouble. For me.

Today I am wearing jelly shoes that I got at the swap and they look like they are made of rice. I don't know whether I love them or hate them. Either way they're pretty comf.

I am getting excited about Ladiez Nite.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

I was looking at the top 100 charts for the 90's and 00's last night and Ginuwine had a lot of hits! It seemed like he had one or two songs in every chart from like '96 to '01, almost none of which I had heard. So now I'm listening to Ginuwine songs while I'm working. "Pony" is still the best though.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

Of course it doesn't hurt to have Timbaland produce most of your songs.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:38 (nineteen years ago)

Oh I remember this one too: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ny0uQQq3bw

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

I think that one might have been from the "Godzilla" soundtrack, hence the Godzilla sounds in the second half of the song.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

So, you know how I switched to flickr pro? Well, I had no idea it would BRING BACK all those photos from the past that went over my 200 pix limit before. I figured they had just disappeared into the ethers. Pretty cool.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Important photos, too, like this one:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/12/16064817_6e0a777d44_m.jpg

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:47 (nineteen years ago)

Niiiiick , HI. I downloaded a ton of psychedelic music this morning.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:49 (nineteen years ago)

Oh hi. No one wants to talk about Ginuwine, that's cool.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

What did you download? Songs or albums?

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

I downloaded songs by Pink Floyd, Strawberry Alarm Clock, and 13th Floor Elevators. I don't know how to download albums, remember?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

I just used Poison.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

Awww "Incense and Peppermints"! Hi dere Nuggets etc.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

Sooooo tired this morning, and I don't know why. I did end up going out last night (what is up with people who rarely call me calling me to get beers on Monday nights recently?), but I only had a couple and I didn't go to bed too late.

Is it a Ginuwine video where he's working at a convenience store, and like moonwalking with his magic broom out front?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

e, Missy and Timbo, rap in any tempo
Huckleberry Finn, Magoo the South Pimple
Caught up in my lingo, be not girl, I'm Bingo
Help I see a Beatle, cool out that's only Ringo
Missy sang a jangle as I commence to tango
Ginuwine ridin on a Pony, put Monie in the Middle
Check the riddle, got your girl pants hot a little
Thinkin that she dime when you only just a nickel
Take a tickle, cause your man, pickle green and resentful
Mag and two-ohh, from down South and here go

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 13:59 (nineteen years ago)

strait up on dat 1. my neice 17 dis year thinks there was 2 timberland had a big asss debate on it. Told her he brang out aaliyah (whom my daughter is named after) and missy. she was so determined dat da 1 singin with nelly furtado was a different 1.I ses silly lil itch u wouldnt no music if u blew it out of ur asss.lol

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

The Strawberry Alarm Clock songs on the BtVotD soundtrack are the worst! "I'm Comin' Home" sounds like "Generic Classic Rock" song. I was disappointed by everything I've heard from them outside of "Incense and Peppermints."

I have Nuggets 1 and 2 and like them, though. Duh. As far as psychedelic-sounding new toons are concerned, I can't recommend Josephine Foster and the Supposed "All The Leaves Are Gone" enough. I think I've listened to it 10,000X. I want to listen to it right now. It's trippy and melodic and perfect for all occasions except maybe first communions.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

No, it's even perfect for that.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://fourfour.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/kelly_eyes2.gif

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

That gif is perfect for all occasions as well.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I think I just had a seizure.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

So far I liked Black Butter, but felt like Midnight Confession was not at all psychedelic. It will be deleted from the playlist. I always love Crimson & Clover, and Incense and Peppermints is just funny (but has a really cool guitar lead sound towards the end).

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I sometimes wonder about the people who are at the gym or at Starbucks at 1 P.M.

I am at the gym at 1 p.m.! I work in the same building! That's lunch!

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have a Strawberry Alarm Clock record. I think it's just called "Incense and Peppermints" maybe.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I just listened to a little bit of Josephine Foster and the Supposed on Amazon. I like it! Did that come out this year?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

OMG "Crimson and Clover" was my favorite song for like a whole year. 1997. I listened to it yesterday, for some reason, and was reminded of how perfect it is. My favorite part (and one of my favorite "yeahs" of all time) is right before the "la la la la la"s start and he says yeeeah like he means it. That song is the auditory equivalent of rolling around in the grass.

No it came out a few years ago. She rooooooooooooooooooooolz.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i forgot to shave this morning. BUT IT'S OK because I can go upstairs to the gym and shave. Which I think I will do now, for propriety's sake. Not shaving is gross on me.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to the Powerhouse Sound album and it is making my morning. I need to listen to more new jazz.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm listening to a selection of my favorite Timbaland guested/produced/written songs.

Guess what? I have to start studying for the bar today. We got an email that says we should be dedicating nine hours a day, seven days a week. I say RONG.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

Oh please.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

You don't have to score 100% -- you have to pass! Nine hours a day. I'm sure. What's the threshold for passing on the bar?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Bar shmar, that's what I say. Bar shmar.

I am super excited for the movie version of No Country for Old Men:

http://www.variety.com/index.asp?layout=cannes2007&jump=review&reviewid=VE1117933677&cs=1

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh also:

As explained in our workshops, working during the bar review period â including caring for a family â or otherwise not treating bar study as a full-time job is a risk factor for bar failure. Studying productively for six hours a day outside of BAR/BRI requires a level of energy and concentration that you will not likely have unless you free yourself from work obligations.

I'm sure the people with kids who lack the luxury of a spouse who can take off work for two months to relieve the student of all family-related obligations feel really GREAT about that little nugget of advice.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

I heard that the bar is REEAAALLLY easy, and that you don't need to study at all.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

I heard that a puppy passed the bar.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

A PUPPY, Jenny.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

And I heard that it was kind of stupid puppy.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

OK, a mildly retarded puppy.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

A mildly retarded puppy that didn't study AT ALL.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I heard, anyways.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what the passing score is - they scale it! It's a mess. 83.6% of DePaul students pass it and 80% of everybody who takes it passes it, so I should be okay but their "scare the fucking shit out of you" tactic makes me furious.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, you're a dork.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

http://auroracountryclub.com/images/bar1.jpg

I will help you achieve BAR SUCCESS

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Interestingly, Ave Maria School of Law, which is the super conservative Catholic law school founded to train lawyers to get in those courts and stop women from killin' those babies, has a 100% bar pass rate. Actually, I think I mean "terrifyingly" rather than "interestingly."

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Ave Maria isn't as bad as Regent. That place makes me sick to my stomach. Actually, wait. They are both sickening and awful.

EM1LY J0Y SM1TH (student, Regent University School of Law): I am going to view every perspective, every situation, every client that walks in my office through kind of glasses that are Christ-colored.

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/religionandethics/week903/feature.html

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, enough Timbaland, enough rage, enough procrastination. TIME TO READ SOME TORTS!!! YEAH!

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses Christ-colored glasses

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

nick, you're a dork, but you made me larf

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

I HAS A SHAVE

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I AN SMOOTH AND TOUCHABLE KNEEL BEFORE ME

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/adc/10101814A~Terence-Stamp-General-Zod-Posters.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

oh bother

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

Christ glasses:

http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/medieval/images/c169g.jpg

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I shaved this morning, but it was tough because I have this self-esteem-ruining zit on my cheek that I had to kind of shave around, you know?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to taste every perspective, every situation, every client that walks in my office through kind of flavor-enhancers that are Christ-flavored.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

i has a christ flavor

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

1. Regent trumpets "150 students have servied in the Bush Administration".

2. Jenny quoting Timbo reminds me of a Missy E lyric I haven't thought of in years: "You used to hold me closer to your side than the beeper, 'til you smoked that cheaper reefer."

3.
http://www.humboldt.edu/rwj1/104i/210.jpg
Those are all flowers.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Christ-colored glasses

maybe when white people start admitting that Jesus was brown and swarthy, I'll accept this as a legitimate color.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

So, they are basically sunglasses, right?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Amber sunglasses. Not Blu Blockers.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

ANND YOU STAARE AT MEEEEEE
THROUGH YOUR CHRIST COLORRED GLASSES
ARRRMS HELLD OUUUWOWT
LIKE YOU'VE BEEN CARRYIN' A LOAAD

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

We've had the Soundgarden discussion before.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Who's going to see 3l3ctr3lan3 tonight? Think it'll sell out after their recent opening slot for teh A.F.?

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

FYI: [link Hamsters on Viagra Have Less Jet Lag, Research Shows]http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601202&sid=a7yhCXSQGlaQ&refer=healthcare[/a]

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

oh: Hamsters on Viagra Have Less Jet Lag, Research Shows

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

They changed the linking rules again!

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm so out of it this morning. The only thing I've been able to concentrate on is casting imaginary adapations of Cormac McCarthy books using the Kids in the Hall.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

Who's going to see 3l3ctr3lan3 tonight? Think it'll sell out after their recent opening slot for teh A.F.?

I would not be surprised.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Really, on a Tuesday night? Then again, there must've been about 8,000 people who saw them play last weekend. I'm planning to go.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

EB isn't that big. Shit. EZ did we miss that show last night? I completely forgot. Wasn't it somewhere in the 20s of May? If so, DAMMIT.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

EB isn't that big = could sell out easily. Maybe I have a warped perception of how quickly that place fills up.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I just bought a ticket on the web to be safe.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really understand what sells out at Empty Bottle. I'm still confused by the time that Sarah and I went to go see Kaito UK, got there before any of the bands started, and it was sold out.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

KAITO UK!?!?!

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe people who like that band are the kind of people who buy advance tickets?

Personally, I am totally paranoid to make the trip all the way there only to find out that I can't get in. I always buy tickets in advance.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Buying tickets also helps ensure that you won't wuss out of going to the show at the last minute because you're "tired" or lazy, which is what always happens to me.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

Buying tickets in advance, that is.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

ok, this is violent:

http://www.aintitcool.com/node/32721

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

i mean REALLY violent

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

SHOCKING, really

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I should look at that.

I wish I had a special sundress account.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

xposts Yeah, m@tttt's xbox has been fixed and that could be a definite laziness-inducer.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Nice to see Rambo movies haven't changed much. Cynical "civilian" Rambo, Rambo turned to fight on the side of good, comically oversized machinegun Rambo, exploding arrow Rambo, etc.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

DISEMBOWELMENT RAMBO

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

DECAPITATION RAMBO

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, that can't be a theatrical movie trailer. It would be rated X.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

all Rocky movies even the shitty ones >>>>> Rambo

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ninjapirate.com/images/websense-puppy.jpg

Searching for puppy pictures, I found this.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

You know what that footage made me think of? The part of UHF where Weird Al turns into Rambo. The grunting is exactly the same.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

Rambo < Rocky < Stop or My Mom Will Shoot

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.lovefilm.com/lovefilm/images/products/2/14442-large.jpg

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

i have never seen that movie, but I feel now that I must.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

UHF, I mean. Not the mom movie.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Have you music people heard of Malcolm McLaren? He has a song called Buffalo Girls? http://youtube.com/watch?v=qtUdoJP3_qA The beginning of Eminem's "Without Me" ("Two trailer park girls go 'round the outside, 'round the outside, 'round the outside") is a reference to that song.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

BIG MAN HAS SMALL GUN, TINY WOMAN HAS BIG GUN LOL

xposts: UHF is great

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

Stallone doing comedy < dental work < crushing your own testicles at home

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

* When Estelle Getty found out that filming the movie would involve guns, she said that she would only do the movie if there were no guns in it. The producers lied to her (and told her that there would be no guns in the movie) in order to get her to sign on.

* Sylvester Stallone considers this the worst film he's ever done.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

UHF is great.

Malcolm McLaren has some good songs. Also, he discovered/created the Sex Pistols and Bow Wow Wow.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Have you music people heard of Malcolm McLaren?

ok, that's funny.

I love you, tho.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Tutti Bomowski: His ass was the grass and I was the lawnmower.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

This is not flattering.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I am not familiar with the movie No Country for Old Men, but I want to see it just because its name is a ref. to one of my favorite poems. I heart Yeats.

The Lake Isle of Innisfree
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honey-bee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet's wings.
I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shores;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart's core.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I like that one.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Buffalo Gals is old-ass cowboy song, no?
Buffalo gals won't ya come out tonight , come out tonight come out tonight
Buffalo gals won't ya come out tonight and dance by the light of the moon.

Right?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

It's an adaptation of a Cormac McCarthy book, Jesse, which you should read b/c it's really good.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/images/george%20lassos%20moon.jpg

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

S - That dress you linked to looks like the dress of the old woman who lived in a shoe and had so many children she didn't know what to do. You could hide tons of people/things/animals in there. NOT flattering.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

I was in the shower thinking that the only way I could ever prepare for the bar properly would be if I won the lottery or was incarcerated. And then only wrongly incarcerated since a crime would make me unfit to practice law.

I am going to go lie in a bee-loud glade. Where is there one of those in Chicago?

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I know, right, Amanda? And it's only FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

If I am going to buy a single item of clothing that costs that much, it better have a well-defined purpose, like saving my life from the cold or getting me laid WITHOUT FAIL.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

this piece of clothing does exist, and it does not cost $500.

http://www.thephatphree.com/image.asp?w=200&FileName=shirt3200540.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

you, my friend, are coming home with some pussy.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

What are you talking about -- that chin is not for sale.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

true, that's a Douglas family chin.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

OMG They're having a shower for me at work today. I knew I was having one, just not when. I'm nervous.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

OMG We get Memorial Day off! We never get holidays off! Plus our boss is taking us to Walker Bros. Pancake House for lunch today! Today just got like 900 times better.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

They better shell the fuck out for your presents. Walk the walk!

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, Nick!

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:41 (nineteen years ago)

I admit I'm pumped for pressies. I'm just not good at opening them in front of people.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Especially these people. ttfn

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

He stole Aaron Eckhart's chin?

Oh man, I think that's the place that is a clone of my favorite breakfast joint ever, called the Original Pancake House here. Like, the menus and decor are exactly the same. Does it have gigantic four egg omelets, the "dutch baby", salami & eggs, etc.?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

OMG We get Memorial Day off! We never get holidays off!

Whaaaaa...? I mean, I know things like MLK Day and Presidents' Day are sort of optional, but I've never worked anywhere that didn't give off for Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's. Is that even legal?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

It is in retail. At least from my experience.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Restaurants too. If the 4th was on a weekend, for example, the place I used to work would be open and busy. as. helllll.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

We had to be at work when everyone else was off work. Someone has to be working at the leisure establishments (restaurants, etc) when everyone else gets the day off. Not fun. Not that Nick works in this sort of environment, tho.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I forgot about retail/food service. But Nick works in an office.

---

DEAR JENNY:

I asked Renee about the bar:

ME:

do you have any advice for jenny as she begins to study for the bar? she got an e-mail that says she should study for 9 hours a day every day until the exam.

RW:

well that is just plain silly.
who sent that to her?
she would die if she did that.
i do have advice, but cannot do it right now. but tell her this: i know a few people that failed, half cause they seriously never studied, the other half cause they studied too much and freaked out.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

He stole Aaron Eckhart's chin?

I hope not, because he needs it to play TWO FACE IN THE NEW BATMAN MOVIE OMG AWES.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Batman/Bruce Wayne: Mark
Two-Face/Harvey Dent: Scott
Joker: Bruce (or Kevin?)
Barbara Gordon: Dave

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.newsarama.com/movies/darkknight/HeathJoker_t.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

I think it's just that photo, or at least I hope it is, but that Joker looks like he stepped out of some shitty early 90's alt-rock video.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

There is no law anywhere that requires an employer to give specific days off. All holidays are optional and at the discretion of the employer.

Illinois does have the "One Day of Rest in Seven" act which requires employers to give employees a minimum of twenty four hours off in each calendar week . This law also requires that anyone working more than 7.5 hours get an unpaid 20 minute break in the first five hours of work. If you work 15 hours or more, you get TWO unpaid 20 minute breaks.

The US should be ashamed of itself w/r/t its employment laws. I mean, like really, really embarrassed.

John, tell Renee thank you! I need all the voices of reason I can get. Although I did use that "nine hours a day" excuse to get a break from my parents. My stepfather and I have completely run out of neutral topics of discussion and it's kind of painful to sit there and bask in our deep and divisive socio-political differences.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, that's Heath Ledger in that photo?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

He looks like Marilyn Manson impersonating the cover of Bonnie Prince Billy's I See a Darkness.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

What you learn in a worker's rights workshop is that US labor laws protect employers, and most states do even less to protect worker's rights than the US does. Louisiana does not have a minimum wage law, for example, so if an employer is not conducting interstate commerce, that employer can pay $1 a day if they want to. The safety net in this case is that the market prevents this from becoming a reality, and the definition of "interstate commerce" is being tested in trials and is coming to mean any business that accepts credit cards or deals in products that have crossed state lines.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

As far as holidays? The best answer is "HAHAHAHA." If you get holidays off you are being extended a privelege that not all that many employees get.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

You've made your point. Am I wrong, though, that it is unusual for office jobs to not give off for those six holidays? I mean, LABOR DAY??

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

This is the only non-temp office job I've ever had, so... maybe? The U, suprisingly to most, does not give us many holidays off.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're right, John. I even got got the major holidays off at my temp job (although I didn't get paid for them, so it was a mixed blessing).

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Thanksgiving and the day after
Christmas
New Year's
MLK
Memorial
Labor

... I think that's it.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

I've gotten Christmas, Thanksgiving (but not always the day after), and New Years day for sure at every office job that I've had. My last office job was AWFUL and they treated people like shit and I know that there were a couple major accepted holidays that we didn't get off, but I can't remember which ones. Probably July 4 fell on a weekend so we didn't get an extra day off or something.

It's probably a little unusual, but definitely not unheard of.

xp - July 4, not MLK day.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't get MLK off, but I do get 4th of July. Otherwise pretty similar to Dan's list.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

MLK

I've never gotten MLK Day off in my life.

Independence Day is the sixth.

XPOSTY TOASTY!

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

I never got an MLK day off when I lived in the south, and DePaul just started giving students a half day off for MLK day my second year of law school, and only then because students made a stink.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Ditto re: Independence Day but not MLK. Also a half day for Good Friday, which always takes me by surprise.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

Now I can't decide if we get the 4th off or not. Maybe. Definitely MLK though, I think that's a big one among educational institutions.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I also sometimes have gotten Good Friday off (either whole or half day) and Yom Kippur (or maybe Rosh Hashanah, I forget) -- but I know that that's certainly not standard or expected.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

I have worked Labor Day more often than not, actually. Honestly, America is weird about this kind of thing... Holidays are always a privilege, never a right, except for maybe Thanksgiving and Xmas. Even then, working the day after Thanksgiving is not unheard of. Taking vacation time is looked down on unless you're bullshit middle management who doesn't do anything anyway. It's cultural, really. We can't be like those lazy eurrrpeans.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

I have absolutely no work in my inbox right now. I think I'm going to go on a long walk.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Okay "xposty toasty" made me laff because I can just see the goofy John smile that would accompany such a statement.

I think that's a big one among educational institutions.

Except DePaul. The student who led the "WTF do you mean you don't celebrate MLK day here???" brigade got a Senior Service Award at graduation in part for her efforts in that area and my mother commented that "students who whine about not having days off don't deserve awards." And then I died a little inside.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, BarBri sent out a "welcome to hell" email and "questions during the lecture are not permitted." I feel like I'm in bizarro nine-hours-a-day no questions "Another Brick in the Wall" video world.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

"students who whine about not having days off don't deserve awards."

like i said, cultural.

Black people in my office often insist on taking MLK day off, and white people work, because working that day is standard, and MLK day is for those lazy black people who want a day off. It's all kind of ugly and divisive.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

Imagine the whispers...

"Oh, she's off today, because... she's black. If you know what I mean."

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm taking an informal poll for an ILM thread. Does anyone here not have at least a token jazz record in their collection?

(obviously John, Amanda, etc. listen to jazz but I'm wondering about Nick & Sarah, and, uh, Kevin?)

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, my alma mater caved on the half-day thing, but what do you really expect from a 90% white male institution? (exaggerating, but not all that much)

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

We don't get a lot of holidays off, I guess because our clients are working and expect to get their nooz? However, since we are also hourly employees, it behooves us to not have many days off.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

I own a few jazz albums: a couple of Albert Aylers, "Space is the Place," an Archie Shepp album, an Ornette Coleman album, in addition to a few random mp3s. I can almost guarantee that Sarah owns zero jazz.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

i own a lot of jazz. surprise.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

so does jeff, iirc

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I absolutely do NOT have a jazz record in my collection.

And Jenny hates driving and John just has never heard of something....

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

This may be controversial, but I would pick Bruce for Batman and Mark for the Joker. Mark has that sly half-grin that reminds me of the Joker, and Bruce has the squat body and the mock seriousness of a Batman. Kevin would play Robin, obviously.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

Regarding Malcolm McLaren--I doubt most of my friends would know who that is. I'm going to have to ask.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:05 (nineteen years ago)

All my jazzish records were stolen in the Great CD Heist of '99.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I support the Bruce Batman wholeheartedly.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I have done something wonderful. I seared a pork chop and put it in a sandwich. Topped with....BACON!!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://uashome.alaska.edu/~jndfg20/website/2010pic2.gif

"Something wonderful"

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

This is good on pork sandwiches:

http://img.products.howstuffworks.com/cctool/PrdImg/images/pr/177X150/00/01/c6/24/51/29762641.JPG

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

I've always confused Malcolm McLaren with Marshall McLuhan but I have known who the former was since I saw SID AND NANCY in...hmmm..8th? grade. Marshall McLuhan is more of a mystery to me.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

I looked into the eye of this sandwich and what I saw...was beautiful.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, I'm eating some kind of sweet and spicy pickle slices.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and sweet chili sauce.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

bitchin'

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.spoiltvictorianchild.co.uk/images/Malcolm.jpg
http://www.mcluhan.ca/images/content/mcluhan_fp.jpg

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I never said I was proud of myself.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, you may find a picture of a certain girl here.

Other pictures from that night

http://lh6.google.com/image/lesliejward/RlEA5ktamgI/AAAAAAAAA-o/EsWtq0HvJt4/IMG_2161.JPG?imgmax=512

http://lh6.google.com/image/lesliejward/RlEDCktanYI/AAAAAAAABFo/iAbl09XL04A/IMG_2223.JPG?imgmax=512

There are also videos of girls trying to hang wine glasses from their cleavage.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:27 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny sent me a link to that photo album, and I found a certain girl, but apparently she has a boyfriend. ;_; I can't read flirtatiousness worth a crap.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

:-( Sorry, Dan.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I'm right there with you. Unless someone is jamming their tounge in my mouth I stand an even chance of missing flirtation or seeing it where it doesn't exist.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, maybe her boyfriend sucks, right?1?! sigh

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you could be the guy in the romcom who comes along and sweeps the female lead off her feet. Who cares about the other guy? No one ever roots for him.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

maybe that's what she was trying to tell you

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't that happen to SOMEONE ELSE WE KNOW?!?!?!?!

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hugh Grant?

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Yep. IIRC he had the wherewithal to move on the possible flirting, whereas I probably just grinned like an idiot drunk on pilfered Harp lager and probably said three or four sentences and disappeared.

xp: jaymc

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Remember when Kr's boyfriend "didn't have a job"? A guy we know was like "I have a job!"

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think you're right, D. They exchanged numbers, at least. But still. It can and does happen.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

I would not have remembered that if there had not been major handwringing about whether or not it mattered that she had a boyfriend.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

"Take my boyfriend... PLEASE!"

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

also, someone plz post Relativistic Cat.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

It doesn't matter to me that she has a boyfriend, however it makes the prospect of tracking her down or some shit seem kind of... pointless? I'm a little lazy sometimes.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

Her boyfriend does indeed, suck, but they've been together forever and I fear that way lies madness, or at least heartache.

Jeff and I both intentionally own a number of jazz records and CDs. Also mp3s, but I don't know if "own" is the right word for them.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

ppl with boyfriends do not often read Missed Connections, it's true.

She is damn cute, though.

And to think, you went home with ME instead. That's just a shame!

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, you are totally right, Mark has that wide mouth and pillowy lips that are perfect for the Joker, how could I have been so blind.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/217/492609601_b1f477e55d.jpg

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Which girl is it in that photo album? Give me coordinates.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

http://picasaweb.google.com/lesliejward/GraduationBender/photo#5066832010515487218

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

girl in the middle

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

My advice:

Take her, dude.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Take her?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

I don't have a bag big enough for any "taking".

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

Take her?

old joke, something i'm infamous for once saying on ilx... skip it.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Good advice. Take it.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

And to think, you went home with ME instead. That's just a shame!

Hey, I already said I was drunk, right? I had a bowl and burritos on the brain.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

as did I, by the night's end.

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm taking an informal poll for an ILM thread. Does anyone here not have at least a token jazz record in their collection?

Haha, funny you should ask, because I just went on my promised long walk, and I found myself at Jazz Record Mart, which I'd never been to. OMG YOU GUYS. That place is amazing. I walked out with a 2CD Nina Simone anthology, but there are any number of other records I could've bought (there was a Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross CD, but it looked kind of cheap). I want to buy more jazz, but I was realizing while in the store that I'm not really equipped with knowledge of the jazz canon (or not as much as I'd like to be) to inform my purchases.

Token jazz albums I own on CD, not including indie-jazz stuff like Tortoise and Isotope 217 (although it does include that album of Pavement covers):

Best of Blue Note, Vol. 1
Best of Chet Baker
James Carter, et al., Gold Sounds
Stan Getz/Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto
Herbie Hancock, Head Hunters
Herbie Hancock, Sextant
Keith Jarrett, Lausanne, March 20, 1973
Antonio Carlos Jobim, Wave
Thelonius Monk, Thelonius Alone in San Francisco
Charlie Parker, Ultimate: Charlie Parker

I also have a bunch of stuff on vinyl that I inherited from my dad, like Miles Davis and Ornette Coleman best-ofs, Stephane Grappelli, Chuck Mangione, etc.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

I love the JRM.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

I'm Sarah "No Jazz" Johnson, unless Jordan plays in the band or likes the band.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, we love the JRM.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Well, D mostly. I like it ok. I like Dusty Groove better.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

Does flapper music count as jazz at all? Because I do dig that shit.

I like Dusty Groooooove for new-to-me things. I should go there to look for some psychedelic stuff.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yes, we love the JRM.

I thought of you when I was strolling past displays of, like, Blossom Dearie. Your world made a little bit more sense when I was inside that store.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

haha Sarah

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oooh Blossom Dearie! I love her.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

I know!

I still have never been to Dusty Groove. Must rectify soon.

You know, I was probably most interested in jazz from the ages of 14-18, but I never really capitalized on it at the time. Maybe because I discovered Tortoise, The Sea and Cake, Stereolab, etc., at the tail end of that span and was able to get what I wanted out of "jazz"
from those bands.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

I still have never been to Dusty Groove. Must rectify soon.

Maybe so, but you're probably just as well off at their website, because then you can read descriptions of things and get some guide to the store instead of just being like, "Well... this is... odd."

http://www.dustygroove.com/

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

I was a little disappointed in Dusty Groove (smaller than I expected, a little snobby) but they do have some cool stuff.

xpost, good point

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

They have a computer set up with their Web site at the store though, so you can look things up there too if you are curious. I often do. They need a fucking listening station though.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

Dusty Groove is a place for browsing open-mindedly, not so much a place for looking for something specific.

― n/a, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, DG in-store selection is pretty small. But their soundtrack section is unrivaled, and there's all kinds of neat stuff there that I would never see otherwise. They only occasionally have what I'm looking for, but I always find something I want.

Nick gets it.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

Last time I was there I bought:
Good God! Gospel Funk from Numero grp
oft-mentioned Colombia comp
previously mentioned OST to Valerie and her...

All three are supergreat. I doubt that I could have found those CDs elsewhere on that particular day. I left happy. That's all I ask for.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

As for snobbiness, I make a habit of never talking to the staff. Anywhere. I know what I want and don't want to talk about it.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

(In music stores, that is)

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

that previous post makes me sound like a truly awful person. that's not how i meant it.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Good God! Gospel Funk from Numero grp

I just downloaded this from the Sound Opinions message board a couple weeks ago. :)

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

xp Not nearly as truly awful as snobby music store employees.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

I don't mind music store employees because they generally don't come up and start bugging me about stuff, whereas salespeople at alot of clothing stores do (and I can't stand it). I think I've mentioned that before though. I don't need 5 different sales people to tell me about the discount I can get if I buy $100 worth of stuff or try on their new style of pants...

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. I still have never personally witnessed the famed snobbery of record-store employees, and Sarah's right that there's a virtue in being hands-off, compared to employees at other retail outlets.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

the only thing i have to look out for at DG is whether or not what i'm getting could be obtained through emusic. a lot of the fania releases i almost bought were right there waiting for me on emusic. see also : "the in-kraut" which i saved $15 on by downloading legally instead of purchasing (you might like, jaymc -- it's swingin' german music from the mid- to late-60s) that's exactly the kind of shit i get sucked into buying at DG.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

i love dusty groove
a lot of the appeal is the vinyl selection tho, and the pricier stuff they keep behind the counter.

― deej, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

The snobbery usually comes in the form of me asking about something they don't have/haven't heard of, and them assuming that it a) must not exist, b) that I must have it wrong, or c) that it's not available.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

(not at DG per se, just record stores in general)

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

I have Lush Life, a Benny Goodman album, Ella Fitzgerald Christmas stuff(does that count) Django Reinhart, and some of my dad's records in a bin somewhere.

― jocelyn, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

odd you mention dg as having snobby employees because the owner actually tries to hire people with little musical knowledge.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

really? why is that? i never talk to them, so i don't really know what they know or don't know. (hence, i have no idea whether they're snobby)

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I have a Benny Goodman album, too. I forgot about that. That was from briedly dating someone who was obsessed with him.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. I never ask any employees any questions.. um... anywhere.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe that's why I thought they were snobby, b/c I assumed they must know a lot about their stock and were just being unhelpful.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

really? why is that?

my friend bill (who DOES have a near encyclopedic knowledge of all types of music) used to work there and the owner said the staff was buying up all the best stuff before it could hit the floor so he actively sought out people with pedestrian tastes.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

which is beyond fucked in my opinion.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

Weird.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Why doesn't the staff just order what they want when they know it is going to come out? (Admittedly our staff bought all but 1 copy of The Prestige when it came out, and Planet Earth)

― jocelyn, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

that's a pretty messed up reason to hire people

but i admit that i did this (bought up the good stuff) when i worked at a record store. and that's hard to do at $6.50/hr. but i had a 20% discount, so...

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

That's actually kind of a smart business strategy, I suppose. Well, if the employees were buying stuff on some kind of discount.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Seriously, just order more stuff. Selling things to employees at slightly above wholesale is better than not selling things.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

Uh guys, my friend just sent me some photos from the batchelorette party I went to this weekend. I don't remember this. Evidentally it happened.
http://photos-774.ak.facebook.com/ip002/v72/236/49/586046897/n586046897_81774_6861.jpg
I spent the next two days in a haze as well.

― jocelyn, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

I'm guessing they were buying rare vinyl that can't be reordered?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Not the people in the picture...

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ photo

I'm listening to the last Jeff Parker album via the Thrill Jockey website while I still have nothing to do at work.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

I'm guessing they were buying rare vinyl that can't be reordered?

otm. hard to find stuff that they couldn't get easily but could make a pretty good margin in reselling.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Why doesn't the staff just order what they want when they know it is going to come out? (Admittedly our staff bought all but 1 copy of The Prestige when it came out, and Planet Earth)

you can't really order 'more' raer vinyl. they are primarily a record collector heaven, dudes

― deej, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

d'oh, multi xposts

― deej, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

JRM>DG, at least for me.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

Check out my new plant!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/213/509810007_e94a151f73_o.jpg

It lives in the shower. It's a stag horn fern and it is an epiphyte, so it lives off of air and water, so it is quite happy living stapled and strapped to a piece of board and getting splashed during my morning shower.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

"Neon Cactus"

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I know. It used to be a honky-tonk bar and now it's the grossest VD- ridden place on campus. But $1.25 drinks that fit in those cups.

― jocelyn, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

JRM is so expensive!

― deej, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

It is expensive, yeah. I save it for one or two visits a year to buy a couple Criss Cross cds, which are never ever in stores around here.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't notice that it was exorbitantly expensive. The Lambert Hendricks & Ross CD that I skipped was $9.99.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Chicago. I know nothing about your record stores, but would anyone like to go out this Saturday? I will be visiting a friend in Logan Square and doing job stuff during the day. I know from the "folder"
that jaymc is in MI and the girls are having a party Friday night. Jen and I are thinking a trip to Hot Doug's is in order.

― jocelyn, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Joce, will you be here Friday??

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Jocelyn, are you one of those ladies kissing on He Man?

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah-I have to work Fri. night but I'll see if I can switch with someone.
Jenny-Yes, I'm the one on the left. In the middle is Naruto/Brett (my gay best guy friend) and on the right is Elektra/Kristin (my straight best girl friend)

― jocelyn, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

I live in Logan Square, and I am almost always up for going out. Small Bar's patio is open for business!

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Small Bar's patio is open for business!

txt me if this happens...

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

10-4

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, you should come over to chez moi--I've got a 9" pan of potting soil in my oven on 500 degrees.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

Why?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I took a pot from outside that had no plant in it, but it had grass growing in it, so I'm killing the grass. I'll be using the soil to plant Jenny's herb garden.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I love herb garden.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

I need to transplant a cactus. How to I avoid getting hundreds of small stab wounds? I was thinking of using an oven mitt to hold on with while I work it out of the current pot, but I don't know if it'll be thick enough.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

I LUV this cactus, btw.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

i am seriously fucking bored over here.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

God being bored & sending silly emails is a luxury after this day. I am going to kill a bike tonight.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, when I was a florist we would wrap cacti in towels to transplant them.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

We didn't sell many cacti.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

i'm in half luxury over here. i've got a half gallon of tanqueray waiting for me at home. when lisle called and said "we have a surprise for you..." i didn't know what to expect then they walked through my door and BAM! whipped out this crock-pot sized bottle of gin.

yesterday was the best day ever.

xpost.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Gin, you say? I have a half-bottle of Tanq sitting around at home that hasn't been touched since my birthday. Maybe before the show tonight...

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

that was the beginning of the improptu bbq last night. we went out in the back yard to have cocktails and people kept coming by and the next thing you know it's a party. nice night for one too.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

so i've moved to logan sq

its too bad really, my apt. is nicer but i definitely prefer the ukranian neighborhood ... its better living w/in walking distance of a bunch of my friends' apt.s tho

― deej, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Why did you move?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Where at, deej?

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Did you move in with Amy Ph!ll!ps?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

near California stop

its a nice place - i moved cuz my roomate and i were not getting along as roomates. and because my old apt. kind of sucked, to be honest. Despite being cheap as fuck

― deej, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

i have like 8 friends living w/in 4 blocks of me now though which is nice

― deej, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:27 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm Taqueria Moran

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

what kind of cactus do you have, dan?

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Ooops.

and why are you transplanting it?

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what kind it is, and I am transplanting it because it has grown to the very boundaries of the pot it is currently in, the roots are coming out the drain holes a little bit, and it is top heavy and falls over all the time.

It looks like a bunch of green, spiny fingers. Each finger is rounded with spines all the way around.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

I got it when the main sprout was about the size of my pinky. Now it's about 8-9 inches and there are 5x as many of them. It's grown a shitload.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:32 (nineteen years ago)

That is kind of amazing. I have never been able to keep a cactus alive. But then again, I have some plants now that I've kept alive for record time (almost two years for two of them!) so maybe I should try a cactus again.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

Attention: An internet friend from Tennessee is in town and we will be hitting Old Timers on Thursday, if any one else wants to join us.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

How the hell do you not keep a cactus alive? All you have to do is ignore it. Water it once every couple of weeks. Or once a month. Whatever. Just not too often.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I watered it too often.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:45 (nineteen years ago)

In direct opposition to my other plants, which I generally fail to water enough. One would almost think I was doing it on purpose, except that I then have nightmares about killing plants, babies, and baby animals that have been left in my care through my own neglect.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:46 (nineteen years ago)

Like, I'll dream that I open a box or a cupboard that I haven't opened in weeks only to find OMG A BABY that somebody dropped off for me to baby sit that I stuck in the cupboard and forgot about.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Once in the dream the baby stayed alive by eating cheese straws and stale saltines. Clever baby!

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Article:

What is it about lolcat speak that makes it so much fun to repeat and reuse? Hard to say. Blogger Anil Dash wrote about the unusual grammar of lolcats, speculating that it was a "pidgin language, used to help cats talk to humans." A reader pointed Dash to a San Francisco Chronicle article about MeowChat, where people maintain cat identities online and speak in a cat language that slightly overlaps with lolcat speak. (Genius detail: Some cat lovers disdain MeowChat because it implies that cats are not intelligent, evolved creatures.) Mark Liberman at Language Log posited the best theory, arguing that lolcat was more like kitty baby talk, and cited a 1922 passage from The Clicking of Cuthbert by P.G. Wodehouse: "Little Tinky-Ting don't need no liver-pad, he don't," said Mrs. Luella Mainprice Jopp, addressing the animal in her arms, "because he was his muzzer's pet, he was."

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:52 (nineteen years ago)

Awesome.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! Here's something fun and kind of unique! Let's analyze it until it loses all those qualities!

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, I am a lil' curmudgeonly this late in the day.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think lolcat speak is funny because cats are not very good at grammar.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

We can talk about grups instead, if you'd like.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan OTM. They don't spell very well, either. Those people who think that cats are more evolved than that are really projecting.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 21:59 (nineteen years ago)

literacycat.jpg

(I can't find the actual jpg :()

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

I think lolcats are funny because they're made by nerds who do that shit wrong on purpose for lolz. I don't need bloggers to expound upon that simple concept.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! Here's something fun and kind of unique! Let's analyze it until it loses all those qualities!

I don't get this. I think anazlyzing* things like this can enhance the fun. Not always, but in this case it was fine.

*unintentional lolcat speak.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:04 (nineteen years ago)

xpost oh relax and look at monorail cat

http://blog.dev-scene.com/mrshlee/files/2006/11/monorailcat.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

I know we've had this conversation before about analyzing things versus enjoying them unselfconsciously, and apologies to those on the other side, just skip to the next post...

I'm fascinated by the layers of humor behind "teh": the idea of text that someone is on the Internet and hyper and so they misspell; the idea that someone is sloppy and misspells; the idea that someone feels like they are publishing their writing on the Internet when it doesn't have the credibility of a proofread piece of writing.

xpost - "doing that shit wrong on purpose" also fits here...

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

TS: monorail cat vs Catbus

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/3/30/Catbus.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:05 (nineteen years ago)

lol @ monorail cat

― Jordan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://kscakes.com/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/im-a-lolcat-anazlzyze-me.jpg

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

I look at this case like this: Explaining jokes to people who don't get them makes them lose funny factor, right? Either you get it or you don't, and if you get it, it's funny. If you don't get it, it's not. If you get a joke and then sit around and write ten paragraphs explaining why it's funny, guess what? No more humor.

I knew I should have kept my mouth shut. :)

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

I just like cats.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:10 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think that article is explaining so much as examining. It's not directed to people who have never heard of lolcats, but those who are quite familiar with them and want to take their relationship with them to the next level.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:11 (nineteen years ago)

testy dan is testy

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

Aren't there things you find funny and you laugh every time, and you think, what is it about that thing that makes me laugh.

Our friend Sayjal says that in her comedic training she has learned that most of humor originates in surprise.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, can't we let them get played out on their own (which is seriously already happened IMO) and move on to something else? Do there really need to be a series of Master's theses written on this stuff?

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://img516.imageshack.us/img516/9519/churchsigncu3.jpg

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:14 (nineteen years ago)

And it's certainly aimed at people who've never seen them before, because it attempts to explain the larger concept of "image macros".

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://lolcats2.com/full/fascinating.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:15 (nineteen years ago)

"pleasingly daft"

PUKE

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Well I think the lolcats are just now starting to breach the mainstream. Those of us on internet forums off and on all day have been seeing them for quite some time, but within the last month or so I've had less net-savvy friends e-mail them to me as if they were the latest, greatest thing. We may be seeing more analysis because the lolcats are starting to become more pervasive to those unfamiliar with message board memes.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you're right Dan. Maybe you're pie. Pie be you're pie, Dan, pie be you're pie.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Not getting involved in this conversation. You know where I stand.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

I agree that analyzing lolcats in particular, but just funny internet memes in general, is generally a clear sign of that meme sliding down the far side of the internet popularity bell curve. And I don't mean to be exclusive about it, but I do tend to agree that it's either funny to you right away, or it isn't, and once somebody decides to take the time to explain it to the casual internet users (I sort of envision my stepmother, who used the phrase "kewl beans" in her last email to me, as the epitome of the internet user to whom these explanations are directed) then all the funny has been wrung out of it.

I don't feel that way about all social phenomenon, but I think part of the joy of certain internet funnies to me is the absurdity of them. Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

I really don't want to make this into an argument since that would be ridiculous. However, I think Jon's got a point--talking about the origins and macros is for the benefit of those who are new to the lolcats, but familiar with them nonetheless.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.
Once you explain the absurdity, it loses its magic.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

http://lolcats2.com/full/i_is_burito.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

THERE IS NO LOSING THAT MAGIC. LOOKIT, IT'S A LITTLE KITTY BURRITO!

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

For me it's not just that the article is about lolcats, it's about how and why humans have cats speak the way they do and why it works. And connecting it to Wodehouse, that's interesting to me. It's like trying to solve "teh" and suddenly finding out that there was an article in Punch in 1919 that made the same joke. (But, Dan, I'm not trying to pursuade you; I hear ya.)

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm interested in the result of others' observations on why it is that "your pokemons, let me show you them" tickles me every time.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Go on the SA forums and I guarantee you you'll find widespread memes that make absolutely no sense to you or me but the forum goons love them, and then they will start popping up everywhere eventually.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, fuck it. The Slate article and the Anil Dash blog post actually don't go far enough in examining the specificities of kitty pidgin (Dash says that he recognized one lolcat as being grammatically wrong -- but he doesn't say how).

But the analysis is great for the same reason this thread is:

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://usemycomputer.com/indeximages/2007/May/.thumbnails/th-sense_2053.jpg

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

I think this discussion turns on whether you find the article to be an explanation or an exploration.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:22 (nineteen years ago)

shit

http://usemycomputer.com/indeximages/2007/May/sense_2053.jpg

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

http://a6.vox.com/6a00c2251c691f549d00c2251da64ef219-120si

Or better yet, don't go on the SA forums. *shudder*

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I've seen lolcats all over ILX for some time, but I wasn't aware of the term "image macro." Also what EZ said about the unlikely connection with Wodehouse.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, they're pretty horrible for the most part.

xpost: "image macro" is made up by the people who are attempting to explain this stuff, is my guess.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:24 (nineteen years ago)

On the flip side, I do see the appeal in dissecting the "kitty pidgin" but that's more my general interest in languages* than my interest in what makes lolcats funny (which is in line with the Dan argument advanced in other similar discussions).

*Like, I wrote and deleted a response to Jesse's post that "corrected" his grammar because it should be "I R LOLKAT" or something similar. See also: Jeff's lolcat of Ed being funny for it's property grammar and spelling.

PS: The fact that somebody even named them "lolcats" (or anything at all) sort of takes away some of the fun for me.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://usemycomputer.com/indeximages/2007/May/you.cant.park.there.20041109.3.jpg

l-r: thread, dan m

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'm am not pleased that I made a half-assed lolcat. But it was my first one!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

I can't even address "image macro." It's too reminiscent of corporate speak and attempted to give smart-sounding names to mundane things.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

OTM

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/star-wars-rocks.jpg

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:28 (nineteen years ago)

PS: The fact that somebody even named them "lolcats" (or anything at all) sort of takes away some of the fun for me.

I feel the same way. I liked unnamed things more than named things.

Dan's photo made me laugh.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

xp: classic

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

If today is any indication, I am going to fail miserably at "bar study." I think it's pretty clear I need to be out of the house and away from the internet to succeed.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'd never seen the version with leia in it, and she's SINGING, so the speculation on what song they are playing just gets more and more interesting

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Eric - naming something is like the intellectual equivalent of building a road to a heretofore untouched piece of wilderness. If you name it, they will come, and then probably ruin it somehow.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Duh. Barracuda.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

Hie thee to a library.

xpost to Jenny w/r/t studying.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

If today is any indication, I am going to fail miserably at "bar study." I think it's pretty clear I need to be out of the house and away from the internet to succeed.

Jenny, I can't tell you how true this is.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno... does "Barracuda" really require wires?

― kenan, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

HERB GARDEN = DONE!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, getting out of the house is urgent & key, not that you're going to fail at bar study. you'll be fine.

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of which, bye chicago!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

Luckily, I don't need a computer to study for this so I'm totally portable. It's not worth going anywhere else now since I'm just waiting for Jeff and Jesse to come home so we can go eat with my parents. But starting tomorrow, Operation: Isolation begins.

BYE 'SHOE! I miss you!

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

If you want to see a rumble, come to the Empty Bottle tonight. Dan will punch me while I try to talk him out of punching me.

If today is any indication, I am going to fail miserably at "bar study." I think it's pretty clear I need to be out of the house and away from the internet to succeed.

Sociological prediction: the fad of Internet self-control is on the way, in the same way that AA followed the repeal of Prohibition by half a decade. Today my cousin (a Scrabble enthusiast) sent me an essay by Nora Ephron about her love of on-line Scrabble. On my LJ, I've got a link to another similar essay by Stephen Elliott. Just a prediction.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

oops, forgot to mention that the Ephron essay is about her love of online Scrabble and the bad effects of it on the rest of her life.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, maybe I read the slideshow too quickly, but I didn't think that it was about "explaining why lolcats are funny." Maybe because I only really focused on the bit that EZ quoted about the particular grammar, which, for someone who's already acquainted with the memes that converge with lolcats, is the most interesting part of the analysis. And the discussion of memes, image macros, etc., isn't really explaining why lolcats are funny as much as simply providing a backdrop for the phenomenon for the casual reader.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

If you want to see a rumble, come to the Empty Bottle tonight. Dan will punch me while I try to talk him out of punching me.

Oh stop! :D

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry, lots of xposts and we've clearly moved on.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Similar, related prediction: A rise in the popularity of analog accessories, like date books and paper address books over PDAs.

NB: I didn't read the lolcat article. HA!

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Nora Ephron feels bad about her Scrabble habits?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Like, as people start to suss out their relationship to the internet and computers, they will start to be more choosy in the electronic peripherals they use so that they can come to a comfortable equilibrium of internet/computer usage.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

That would be a good thread title. "Chicago: Nora Ephron feels bad about her Scrabble habits."

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:38 (nineteen years ago)

It would probably be a better DC thread title.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

Every ounce of humor lost by the article is replaced by an ounce of humor in finding out that there is a chat site where people assume cat identities and speak in cat pidgin.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, if you end up not liking law, we could start a "speak to the Psychic Cat" hotline.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Pretty funny and weird, but unsurprising. After I found out about furries, most things in the world got a whole lot less bizarre by comparison.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

I am reading the article now (I was way more willing to read it after I realized that it contained a slideshow of cat photos!!!) and I think this is potentially fascinating for research/study/discussion:

"The furious social networking of Web 2.0 makes the Internet even more like high school than it already was. Message boards and blogs develop their own language, references, and games as soon as they acquire an audience."

I've always found in-jokes and internal language to be pretty interesting, from peer group slang to secret twin language.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:44 (nineteen years ago)

"Web 2.0"

PUKE again

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

internet2

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Another thing that's funny about the photos and the Wodehouse passage too is that they are text. Mr. Rogers' Meow Meow Henrietta Pussycat uses a whole different part of the brain.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

The Lolcat Builder website has a link to "cat macros."

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, it has a couple of links to them.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Results 1 - 10 of about 195,000 for "cat macros".

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

In a surprise change of heart, I know love that article because it led me to this:

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/4.jpg

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

And this...

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/04/uprgaded_ur_banazaz.jpg

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/asljs0.jpg

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, never mind everything I said. This will be funny forever, no matter what people say about it.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/02/298994067_5bdd356e05_o.jpg

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

One more thought on this and then I have to go home. There was a link to a TV news story about emo that was posted on the noise board. It was goddamn hilarious, because not only was there a bunch of silly looking kids talking about cutting themselves, wearing girl's jeans and feeling sad, but the news story referenced several joke emo videos that have been on the internet for years and treated them as real. It's the same kind of thing as when that Chinese newspaper cited the Onion. I don't really know what the point of this is in relation to lolcats, but I guess it's to take most internetting with a large cube of sodium chloride, because someone is almost always going to be having a laugh at your expense.

xposts: The "Dude... Wait, what?" stoned kitten will also always be funny.

― dan m, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

On the cover of this week's gay rag

http://wouldjesusdiscriminate.com/assets/images/billboard-images/wjd-billboard-born-gay.jpg

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:55 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus said some are born gay. Matthew 19:10-12
Here Jesus refers to "eunuchs who have been so from birth." This terminology ("born eunuchs") was used in the ancient world to refer to homosexual men. Jesus indicates that being a "born eunuch" is a gift from God.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

The Further Adventures of LOLRUS and His Bucket never fail to amuse me, either.

OH Dan just reminded me - my mother photocopied an Onion article about Bush and privacy (she's the HIPAA lady) and handed it out to her coworkers during a meeting for LOLz and her coworkers thought it was real and she had to collect the articles again.

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:56 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHA

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/cheez_doing_it_wrong.jpg

― Jenny, Tuesday, 22 May 2007 22:58 (nineteen years ago)

Hey all, I feel like a jackass for arguing about cat photoshops. "The internet makes you stupid." Sorry.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 00:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.kscakes.com.nyud.net:8080/LolCats/Uploads/Saved/hai-guys-lets-go-score-some-coek.jpg
Okay I had to recreate it because I couldn't find the original, but this one will always be funny.

― jocelyn, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 01:19 (nineteen years ago)

I are watching California Split on my new computer, and I love this movie a lot.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

Dan and John were O T M. E-lane was sold out by the time I showed up.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.thetrukstop.com/articles/2007/images/10_star_wars_images/ajedicanbeanyone.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:09 (nineteen years ago)

I'm drinking homemade peartini.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

My bus did not stop when I requested it to. The driver got snippy with me: "I didn't hear it, OK?"

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:11 (nineteen years ago)

I have to post this again, because I think something's wrong with it.

http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2006/09/star-wars-rocks.jpg

First of all, Han is playing bass. Han is NOBODY'S bass player, bitch. That's Luke all the way. (Um... no offense to our resident bass players. :))

Second of all, Darth's guitar looks kinda stupid and metall-y. But they are getting down with some rock and roll boogie, not thrashing. Darth is all like, "Guys, I think we should play more metal, cause I'm like a huge Metallica fan," and the rest of the band is like, "No fuck you, we got the music in us."

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

Also, even if Han WAS playing bass, which we know IRL he would never be, it is not necessary to leap high into the air to do so. That's the lead guitarist's job.

This picture is stupid.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:18 (nineteen years ago)

I'm unable to weigh in on this. I'll just let you keep posting till it's out of your system, I guess.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:22 (nineteen years ago)

thanks.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:23 (nineteen years ago)

My cat is galloping. Jeff, Jenny, and her parents, and I ate and drank at the Duke of Perth. Good beers and some tastes of scotch, plus killer fucking meatloaf--made with pork, veal, beef, lamb, and Italian sausage! As of tonight, including lunch, my tract contains 7 different forms of meat!

I WIN!!!

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

you win a colonoscopy!

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:26 (nineteen years ago)

Do you think you can see inside there with your personal one-eyed endoscope?

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

Man. That's not right. I don't want that at all.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

I'm uneasy about where you're going with that question.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:29 (nineteen years ago)

STRIKE, STRIKE! ABORT, ABORT!

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

Have you heard of this band "The Pixies"? They're totally rad!

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

news break: Jesse wants me to fuck him.

More as this story develops.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

It's headed by front man Charles Thompson.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

Are you listening to Pixies by any chance?

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

You know what? There's some sort of switch that gets triggered when you become friends with someone and you stop being able to seem them as sex objects. It would be incestuous to think of...pretty much anyone who has read this as a sex object. I don't want to see my friends naked! Except boobs. Boobs are different.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

A certain guy named J**f and I flew from Chicago to NC and we got drunk at the KY/Cincinnatti airport and when we got on the plane he took a pic of his malarky and I really, really couldn't look.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:35 (nineteen years ago)

Except boobs. Boobs are different.

They really are. I would view all this boobs.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:37 (nineteen years ago)

No, that's not even true. Chilx boobs would also make me feel v uncomfortable.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:38 (nineteen years ago)

Mayyybe DC thread boobs.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

The Pixies are all the music a person should ever need.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Pixies, Radiohead, Portishead, Antony, Modest Mouse.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Eminem.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:43 (nineteen years ago)

Those are all great, right-on, and really boring choices.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:51 (nineteen years ago)

The Pixies are all the music a person should ever need.

this is of course rong, but I must admit, no band makes me wish I was in a band more than the Pixies.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 05:52 (nineteen years ago)

If I were stuck on an island with just one band, it would be The Pixies. If I were stuck in Chicago with just one band, it would be The Pixies.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:01 (nineteen years ago)

Chilx boobs are other men's boobs. OPB.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

If I were stuck on an island with just one tomato, it would be yellow.

If I were stuck on an island with boobs, they would be a man's.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:02 (nineteen years ago)

xpost It's not a bad choice.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

Pixies, not man boobs

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

I am on a quest to turn my boobs into pecs. That is what I want out of working out. Everything else is incidental.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

I am on a quest to turn dollars into boobs.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:06 (nineteen years ago)

I work with a girl who lives with a (super-femme Guatemalen) ballet dancer who smokes a ton of weed and eats a lot of pizza and avocadoes, but he is super thin and muscley. I asked my friend how he does it, and she told me that he has 2 gym memberships and works out at least 3 hours per day, every day, plus he teaches ballroom dancing and performs in a show. And he waits tables. I don't know if this is good or bad news.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

I can't imagine what ~~would~~ WILL happen when I stop waiting tables--besides the harrowing waiter nightmares stopping--but I know I will have to work out regularly otherwise I'm gonna balloon. My work involves miles of walking each day, and that makes a difference.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

Just "Pixies" guys.

I think Katie and Matt will back me up on this: This is what happens when you sauna with friends. Or, at least, when you are friends to this point, then you can sauna.

The Red Wings lost tonight, their playoffs are over. :(

Eric couldn't get into the show, and it was very good. :(

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:10 (nineteen years ago)

I have friends I am comfortable in mutual nudity--actually, probably only ONE--the rest I don't want to see naked, nor do I want them to see me naked.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

Candidate for video of the day, May 23, 2007. http://youtube.com/watch?v=4PS_Gz8_3oA

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:18 (nineteen years ago)

Boobs are like lolcats. You can deconstruct them and talk about them, but they don't lose their appeal.

Alas, alas, would have liked to have seen the show. Invited Leah to go along at the last minute, so we both met up outside the Bottle and then went for a drive in her car. She wanted to go to the suburbs to get cheaper gas. We drove up to Skokie and then through Lincolnwood. It's some Jewish holiday tonight, and we saw lots of Orthodox Jews, both men and women, along and in groups, walking home, because they can't drive on this holy day.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:20 (nineteen years ago)

my desktop, kinda nsfw:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/vintage_desktop.png

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:24 (nineteen years ago)

I met a roadie guy (or something) who said he knew the band, had been drinking with them all weekend, the guitarist was the next Jimi Hendrix, etc etc. He bummed me a Newport, too.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:26 (nineteen years ago)

Great Pixies song: cover of Leonard Cohen's "I Can't Forget"

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:41 (nineteen years ago)

It made my best-of comp, which I am listening to now

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:42 (nineteen years ago)

Said roadie guy was wearing... A PIXIES SWEATSHIRT

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 06:44 (nineteen years ago)

I would be comfortable seeing all of you naked. I would be uncomfortable being naked around any of you.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 11:22 (nineteen years ago)

I dreamed a song last night. It was an all-male country music ensemble harmony-type song about the democratic process in America called "Everybody Gets a Say." The clever thing was that everybody in the band gets to sing a verse - each member gets a say. In the dream Alton Brown had the band on his show and he sung a verse with them. I totally remember how the song goes, too, but not all the words. Something like:

Everybody gets a say!
From the mountains to the valleys!

― Jenny, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:04 (nineteen years ago)

KENAN - I think Han Solo is ALSO playing a guitar in the picture. If you look closely, it looks like it has six tuning pegs, which would make it a guitar, unless he's playing a six-string Flying V bass, which I find HIGHLY unlikely. SO this either means the band has three guitarists and no bassist (possibly with C3PO and R2D2 filling in the bass parts on keys a la the Doors), or that it is actually DARTH VADER playing the bass (it's a little hard to see whether he is wielding a guitar or bass). It makes sense that Vader would be playing bass, he's all about the low end. I would assume that Luke Skywalker is the rhythm guitarist and Han Solo is the shit-hot lead guitarist.

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:25 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I had never seen that version. I never knew Leia was the lead singer, I'd thought it was Han for the longest time:

http://www.unc.edu/~jmspille/images/awesome3.jpg

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno, man, I don't see six pegs. But you're right about there being no flying V bass.

If Vader is on bass, why is he on wires? Who puts the bassist on wires?

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.unc.edu/~jmspille/images/awesome3.jpg

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:52 (nineteen years ago)

SO CORNFUSED

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Why would he need wires? Couldn't he use the Force to just, you know, fly around?

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:12 (nineteen years ago)

Also, what kind of lame-o is in a band with their dad?

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Aside from little kids who don't have a choice, of course.

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

Wait... wait... I got it. Luke is the lead singer/guitarist for this shitty opening band. But Han and Vader are the rock stars of the headlining band and are storming the stage. Han runs out and kicks into the first chord with a huge jump while Vader lowers to the ground, KISS-arena style. Or not.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

Who do you think is a better drummer: Chewy or Animal?

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want to see any of you naked, but during college, I had crazy crushes on several of my female friends and routinely imagined ways I might "accidentally" see them naked.

Also, what kind of lame-o is in a band with their dad?

I saw a Serbian guitar trio last night that featured a father and son.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

It's kind of like John Bonham vs. Keith Moon.

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

So ... a Serbian lame-o, then?

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:18 (nineteen years ago)

ANIMAL

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you're probably right.

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

He's wiry and agile. Chewie is better at crushing things with his massive paws, but delicate motor function? Eh.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:20 (nineteen years ago)

Animal is better technically, but Chewy has a quad pedal

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

This morning as I was taking out the dogs (at 6am!!) I remembered that Gonzo was touted as a mammal known as a "weirdo." I also remembered thinking as a kid that a weirdo might show up in my backyard someday. Who knows?! There could be weirdos everywhere.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:26 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks wikipedia
A running gag related to Gonzo is that it is not clear what species he is supposed to be, though some say he resembles a buzzard. John Cleese, in his appearance on the show, referred to him as "the ugly, disgusting little blue creature who catches cannonballs." In The Muppet Movie Kermit, while having his inner conversation, says "And Gonzo, I don't know what he is. Looks a little like a turkey.", to which his inner self replied "Yeah, a little, but not much." In the film The Great Muppet Caper, he is shipped to England in a crate labeled "Whatever" (while Kermit the Frog and Fozzie Bear are respectively labeled "Frog" and "Bear"). In Muppet Babies Gonzo (voice of Russi Taylor) was simply referred to as a "weirdo" or "blue weirdo." He has referred to himself as a "whatever," resigned to ignorance of his actual species. In one episode, he dreams that he is an anteater (most fans believe he was intended to be one). In Muppets from Space it is revealed that Gonzo is an alien. It is not clear whether this is to be considered a canonical statement of Gonzo's origins.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think we've covered a lot of good ground this morning and should be proud of ourselves.

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I can say honestly that I am not proud of myself.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

Mornin'.

What is "A/S/L" (in lolcat/dog pic jenny posted)?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

Age/sex/location?

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, ok.

Niiiick, Hi.

Jesse, I'm with you on the Pixies love. I can barely remember back when no one else around me had heard of them and they seemed obscure.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

I can barely remember back when no one else around me had heard of them and they seemed obscure.

Oh, I remember this. Tenth grade.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

What would a Chicago mobster CAT say to someone on their birthday? (I'm making a card for my sister)

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

"Fuck you, pay me"

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:30 (nineteen years ago)

Gimme yur dollarses.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

Keep 'em comin'.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of mobster cats, on my way to work today I saw a cat just totally toying with a rat. The rat would be trying to get away and the cat would be all like "oh, you're leaving, that's cool" and then casually walk over and bat at it a little bit like it was no biggie then kind of watch it for a while. I stopped my car in the street to watch this for a minute.

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

sarah plz post link to this photo, i cannot caption on thin air

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

This is gonna be me later today, provided that WB has a bike that meets my needs! I am so excited.

http://growabrain.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/muppets.jpg

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Amanda, I SCREWED UP MY PSCYHEDELIC DOWNLOAD! NOOOOO!!! Now it's saying the site is busy. I'm so bummed. The world is a scary place. I'll have to seek safety on a purple moonbeam.

Kenan, It's something I cut out of the back of a set of magnets. I'll see if I can find it online...

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I need to go to Working Bikes too. I am wondering how feasible it is for me to ride a bike to work in Evanston.

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

xxxxpost Cats are v cruel like that. Dobs killed a mouse once, and it was like she didn't want to kill it, she just wanted it to talk.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I give up. It's a cat wearing a fancy business suit, a hat, and a nice watch (on his tail).

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

S -- you can try again from home? I think the link will be good for a while.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

--Nick is right, Han is playing guitar

--I agree that lolcats as we know them may be on the verge of passe, but I still like trying to figure out why things are funny. Probably because I myself am not that funny. I mostly do this when I watch a whole lot of the same comedy show, like Kids in the Hall or Strangers with Candy.

--I would probably be comfortable being nude (so nude) in Chicago

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

http://m.assetbar.com/uuaH1fJh4.gif

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

--I would probably be comfortable being nude (so nude) in Chicago

you have not been nude in Chicago yet? Someone out there is frustrated.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to propose a double feature of
http://www.astoever.no/poop/en/Troll%202%20(1990).jpg
and
http://www.disneydvdmovies.com/images/dvds/gnomemobile-large.jpg

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

Bad Bad Mr. Whiskers Brown

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

xxxpost haha also see Wyckyd Sceptre party tape. "Yeah baby... you are SO NAKED."

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I just mean, you know, communally. Out around town, maybe.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Are the kids in the Gnome-Mobile the same kids from Bedknobs & Broomsticks?!?!?!

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, I first heard the Pixies (or, Pixies) when a friend put them on a mixtape for me in 1995. He put on "Broken Face" and "Isla de Encanta." A few months later, I noticed that my public library had a Pixies cassette. It was called Doolittle, though, and didn't have the songs I liked on it, so I was like, "Fuck that." So I didn't actually hear Doolittle until several years later.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Troll 2 has the benefit of being hilarious and completely immune to analysis.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I think so! And there are two best parts of that movie

1) when they sing a song called 'Me Johnson Car' that eventually becomes (in reality and in song) 'The Gnomemobile'

2) an extended, trippy gnomes-in-the-forest sequence that goes on like 5 minutes too long

Both movies are immune to analysis and about little people. WELCOME TO NILBOG.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I might actually be comfortable nude in Chicago, too, since so many people's bodies are so much worse than mine around these parts. But I could never be nude at, say, Hollywood Beach.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/MG/206263~Darby-O-Gill-and-the-Little-People-Posters.jpg http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/AQUA/24-404~Leprechaun-Posters.jpg

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://cache.cinemanow.com/images/boxart/175/leprechaun_hood_175.jpg

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://students.washington.edu/mbassn/mbalmer/archive_03/images/lucky_charms_med.jpg

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Stuffed Toy Offer

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

That toy looks nowhere near jolly enough.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Hey I am bored. People should gchat with me: naamme at gmail dot com.

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I don't do chats.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

COME ON!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.turbulence.ch/shop/images/jm%20les%20chatGD2.jpg

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

lolchats

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

That's kind of a Derridaian lolcats, with the cat averting the "human gaze" and looking at text instead of having the text ascribed to the cat, breaking the illusions of character and narrative...

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

you're hilarious.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

It takes the subtext, I, a human, enjoy this picture because I love cats, and acknowledges it, repeating it like the scrawling of a human who just wants to see one more lolcats before going to bed, and one more, and one more. The actual cat refuses objectification.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

Eric, You are wonderful.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Aw. Thanks.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! I got Amanda's download to work! Now I can space out as I count the tiny plumbing fixtures on these plans.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

Uh... what is up with the quotes in this headline?

MySpace "fingers" website's sex offenders

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-05/23/content_6142538.htm

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

"Not literally fingering them, you understand ... just metaphorically."

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:36 (nineteen years ago)

HA !

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently if I would have walked to my car after getting wings last night about 20 minutes later than I did, I would have seen a guy get shot in the face. Huh.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

good thing you missed that. i was reading an article about an honor killing in iraq and i have the video cued up but i can't possibly handle watching that, wtf was i thinking? bad enough to read descriptions of the video in text.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

Oh god Julia no, I couldn't watch that for a SECOND. I don't need those vids on tap, the text story/knowledge of the world is bad enough, and enough to act on, without giving my mind over to images that won't help me live or be well or work for change.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i closed the window. it's one thing to watch rambo decapitating people--i don't have much problem with fictional violence.

another thing altogether to consider something that's real. it's appalling that some bystanders took cameraphone video of men beating and kicking someone to death.

ok, thinking about other things.

i have been trying to write a tactful email for the past hour--it's a bit tricky to tell someone that you'll be delighted to see them as long as they visit you for a reasonable amount of time rather than for two weeks, which was proposed COMPLETELY LAST MINUTE.

she's a great person, but i am crankybitch and can't deal with someone staying on my futon for superextended periods of time.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

is this h3ather again?

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

of course it is. i think we'll have it bargained down to several days next week, which will actually be an enjoyable visit.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

"finger" is a common *nix system command to find a user's identity. But yeah, it's pretty funny.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

see, this is why I hate hippies. They think the world is their fucking commune.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

Guys want to see a video of one of my half-dozen college bands? I didn't think so. But here it is anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RS2672SxGE

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

xpost "It's cool, we all have hairy armpits around here, right? LOL"

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

is she bringing the girlfriend with her? Because fattie lesbians trying to have quiet sex on a squeaky futon = hilarity.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.couchsurfing.com/

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

no, it's just her. which is better, anyway, than having two extra ppl here. much as her gf rocks, i need my damn space.

the squeaky futon sex only occured when they were drunk. i'm quite glad i slept through it.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I saw 'shoe in a spring dress crossing Logan Square but didn't have the chance to give her a shout.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

the squeaky futon sex only occured when they were drunk.

Yes, that is what drunk is for.

You know, when you move, I think I'm really going to miss the House of Fuck Me.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH! This lady at work keeps making me redo the same freakin' project because she keeps changing her mind about what she wants. She'll ring my desk and say, hmm... you know what, Sarah? How about you take this out and add this this and this... Which means I have to keep going back to the beginning and recounting things.

Sorry. I'm a loon today. I'm crazy busy and while trying to multi-task, the door keeps buzzing. And the buzzer is broken and beyond repair (will stay this way) so I have to run and get it while the person trying to get in keeps hitting the buzzer and banging on the door and ... le sigh.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

i'll miss it lots, but not for the sex noise.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

No. But it is a very sex-positive domicile! It's very nearly decadent.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

in other words, the PERFECT place to walk around in a yukata 94/7

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

There aren't any videos of any of my old bands on youtube ... I checked. ;_;

However, I am listening to my college radio station over the internet.

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Project lady gave me another project for when I finish this one.

3 hours 2 minutes

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah - you are only working two days next week! Three day weekend coming up!

― n/a, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

I know. I'm a Complainy McGee.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

I guess everyone is realizing how much they'll miss my amazing productivity skills pretty soon.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

So nice to feel wanted. Kinda.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

my post just got erased.

i has a bike

1) upright handlebars
2) small enough for shorty
3) girl bike ok for skirts
4) i can carry it
5) bonus: rack already mounted to rear wheel for the carrying of things

note to nick & others: GET THERE EARLY and preferably not on the weekend. On a Wed. there were already people lined up before they opened. Maybe you already know this, and I knew it to some extent, but man -- busy place. also not terribly amenable to bikes for shorties but very amenable to the wallet. $50.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

I rode a bike on Monday for the first time in years! And I, uh, didn't forget. Although I've always been kind of awkward on grown-up bikes, I mean with high seats and curvy handles and pedal straps. I'm used to cheapo department store bikes or my mom's Bianchi that I rode around for years.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

except that it seems that at your work, instead of SARAH, WE LOVE YOU!....it's SARAH, DO OUR BIDDING!

that's less fun. xp yay bikes

i'm wearing your strappy black dress, sarah--my roommate altered it for me and now it's perfect.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Wow guys, we got our severance options today... if I stick around through the end of 2008, I get six months full salary after that. If I leave before then or take another job at the U, I forfeit it, but get this: if I get a non-U job at the end of that time period, I still get the six months pay! $_$

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

6 month vacation, I would jump at that shit

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

A Bianchi is a very nice bike, Jordan!! I don't know exactly what their range of models is, but their standard work is pretty covetable.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Also I can wait up until my last day of work to accept or decline the severance!

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

hell yes to 6 mo paid vacay.

dang.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

At this point, however, I am still gunning for a new job in another dept. I like it here.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

The female Bianchi is actually still my bike, it's just in the garage with flat tires and a rusty chain. I'll get it fixed up one of these days. It must be from, oh, '91 or something? It's red.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

i have no idea what the year of my bike is but it's a fuji.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

also red

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

DAN + ALASKA = SUMMER OF '09.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Or visit your sister in Benin or wherever she is. Don't you have a sister in Benin? Gabon?

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Shit i could think of 1,000,001 places to go for 6 mo.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

No, she's in Baltimore at Hopkins. The Benin/Togo/Ghana/Burkina Faso thing was a big-ass vacation for her and her bf fiancee guy.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

ooooh i thought she was in the peace corps or something. oops. but at least i remembered where she was!

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

observation: it's really easy to eat a lot of hummus.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

OTM. I have slayed many a bag of baby carrots and hummus.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

YAY for all this bykes!!

Jordan, there is no excuse whatsoever for flats and a rusty chain keeping you down, mang. Get on that.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

You know what else it's easy to eat a lot of? Flourless chocolate cake. Yup.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

i eated about a 1/2 pound of vermont sharp cheddar last night. i should have used more on my potatoes but while i was prepping i kept eating cheese.

i used the rest (with the gruyere and mozz) for mac 'n' cheese tonight before heading out to the white savage record release.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

remember: cheese is highly addictive and young men are especially vulnerable to its lure...

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

i've got the cheese monkey on my back. i know from now on i'll spend all my life and my money as well trying to re-capture that first cheese-high.

hey hey:

Wednesday Jun 20th
at Metro
Superchunk
The Ponys

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

The DJ at the Garden Bowl/Majestic/Magic Stick spun a song off the new Ponys album while I was hanging out there last Saturday. I was all "WTF" because I didn't expect to hear anything like that, and then enjoyed it.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

the last time i was in detroit i got beers at some brew pub then went bowling at the garden bowl then me and the 3 others i was with blew off a sparklehorse show at the magic stick.

YEARS AGO.

wait, that wasn't the last time i was there. the 2nd to last time.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Supposedly the Garden Bowl is the oldest continually operating bowling alley anywhere.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

That area of Detroit has changed A LOT. It's insane.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:30 (nineteen years ago)

Only been there once, for that amazing Dirty Three show seven years ago.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

To the Magic Stick, that is.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

i think i'll google the other people i was with that night. i can remember keri's married name though.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

kerri still goes by her maiden name (at least professionally), tom still owns the graphic design business he left oak park to take over. i never met her husband or his wife.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

whoa just got back from a little ride on newbike

it's hot out there

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

yes, yes it is

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

sweatymanda

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

Wow! 6 mos of full salary. I would take one month to travel, try to get a job for the other 5 months and save the extra money and maybe get a jump on my student loan.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

this is not the season for bangs

unless you like sweaty, plastered to the forehead bangs. if so, go for it.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

So sleepy.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

If I stay at this job for another 2 years I get a one-month sabbatical (!).

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm working a double, and it was all I could do to not take tonight off of work, but now I'm the closer and I am going to be rich and tired. And then I'm going to watch LOSTED!

I need a job. I need to finish my degree already!

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Um...what happened?

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

WAHHHAAA HAppened?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Jesse. I too am pumped for LOST FINALE.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

I was doing all these "working" things.

xposts: Me three!

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/untitled-5.jpg

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Pobrecito!

I've been busy. Remember my post about being busy? Yes. Now I'm taking a break.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

PIONEER OF AERODYNAMIIIIICS (little eiffel, little eiffel)

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am pumped about watching LOST on a big-screen TV ... tomorrow night.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

i believe kitty is looking in the real estate section, he'll have better lucj a couple more pages back

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

THOUGHT HE WAS A REAL SMART ALEC

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:18 (nineteen years ago)

.. it was so hush-hush. They were so QUIET about it. And then the next thing you know...

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

YOU FUCKING DIE

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, Pixies for the rest of the day...

YOUR MOMMA's A PRETTY THANG!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:21 (nineteen years ago)

No no no I wasn't saying anything about anything

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

Kim said nobody better touch my stuff and I said or YOU FUCKING DIE

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

HE THOUGHT BIG AND THEY CALLED IT A PHALLIIIIIIIC

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I used to have their live banter memorized from a few bootleg shows, because I'm dorky.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

missy aggravation
some sacred questions

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

T minus 1 1/2 hrs to my oral exam!!! so nervous...

― robotsinlove, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Who else saw them on their reunion tour?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

LUCK!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

We'll move to Califorrrrrniiiaaaa

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

Is anyone else having trouble with gchat?

I saw them on the reunion tour.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I saw show #4 in Chicago, right after moving here. Good, but exactly the same as when they were on Austin City Limits around that same time.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

I also saw Slint and Dinosaur on the reunion tours. I am olde.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

AAAAAGHHHHH YOU BREAK MY ARMS! THAT IS SO UNCOOL!
AND WHAT THE FUCK GET AWAY FROM ME WITH THAT SPOON, OH THAT IS SICK AAAAAGHHHHRRRrrrrblbbb

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

good luck, robotsinlove! that is going to be me in 1 week! you'll be great.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

When I saw them in Philly (actually Camden, NJ) they played "Head On" twice because at the end of the song Kim Deal asked Frank Black, "What key was that supposed to be in?" He asked back, "What key did you play it in?"

"Uh...D?" she replied.

They then played it the right key.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

I'M TAKING MYSELF TO A DEADER PART OF TOWN WHERE ALL MY TROUBLES CAN'T BE FOUND

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

THIS IS A SONG ABOUT A SUPERHERO NAMED TONY

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

xpost well, that a Jesus and Mary Chain lyric technically, but Pixies do it better.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know any Pixies songs.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

After the reunion tour i experienced massive pixies OD, but maybe in a few years i'll recover.

omg i just found one of my old hairs on this tank top and it was BRIGHT red. i must have not worn this for a LOOOONG time!

deader? i thought it was dirty.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think "Gouge Away" is my favorite Pixies song. I like "chained to the pillars, a three day party" part. And the break my arms/spoon my eyes.

JORDAN? HOW the FUCK do you NOT know ANY Pixies songs??

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Me too, A.

a big big love

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Why would I etc.. I was never an indie kid.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I just googled the lyrics and some people say dirty and one says dead end town, which makes more sense than deader anyway.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

i haerd the JAMC version first and always thought it was dirty then too.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I am happy happy rocking out w/ the Revelers today, and some Replacements. Keeping the day alive oh yeah.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

I was wearin' eyeliner
She was wearin' eyeliner

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. I guess you're right, Amanda. I don't know if I like the change. I've been singing it that way for a long time. Dirty part of town.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:31 (nineteen years ago)

You know when you grope for LUNA

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

i used to have "automatic" on the A side and "pills-n-thrills etc" on the B side of this shitty maxell tape.

i was '90s teen.

pixies and replacements almost remind me a little too much of HS to listen to them now for reals.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

it's almost too ouchy

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

almost

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

I want my 9th grade year back. What a waste of life. I spent most of it walking alone in the empty school.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I only started listening to the Pixies when I was in 12th grade.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

That builds character, Sarah! If you hadn't done that, what would you have written bad poetry about?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I was at the same show as Dan. Also, does anyone have interest in a Memorial Day bbq. While currently at the whim and mercy of Moroccan wee beasties who have taken up residence in my intestinal tract, I have faith that I'll be fully recovered in time to drink beer and eat grillables in memory of things.

Also, is she weird always has me singing along.

― sisut, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

I AM UN CHIEN ANDALUCIA

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:37 (nineteen years ago)

Me too!

I would def be up for one! (Isn't supposed to rain all weekend??)

I hadn't heard the Pixies in 9th grade. It's too bad I hadn't morphed into my constant headphones wearing self at that point. I could have at least listened to some music while pacing.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

My me too was to sisut obv NOT DAN.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

My least favorite Pixies song ever is "U-Mass." I actually hate that song.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Bbbut the ED DU CA SHUN SSSTTTITONONON STHTHTIONNN! TIOOONNN!!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, come on S, you're an andalucian dog too. In a way, aren't we all? Think about it maaaan...

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

I guess.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

My listening habits went something like this:

grade school: radio rap/r&b
middle school: thrash metal & Nirvana
high school: metal, prog rock, jazz
college: jazz, rap, electronic
post-college: whatever

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

When I first heard that song I sang along, "Don't know about you, but I am moved--SHIT!--and I loose ya."

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Listen to it, and it kind of makes as much sense as a lot of their other lyrics.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:42 (nineteen years ago)

hahahahahahhaha

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Don't know about you, but I had just learned about Andalucia in Spanish class, so I actually knew what they were saying.

Yours is funnier though.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

That's all the affirmation I need. Sarah, Stella and me do a bbq make. And, to set your mind at ease, the weekend is supposed to be kind of crappy, but Monday should be full of sun. Or so Chicago Public Radio assures me. I can give you the full tour of the apt, too, and you can decide if you still love it.

― sisut, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

YOU ARE THE SON OF A MOTHER FUCKER

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

http://entimg.msn.com/i/ShockingMovies/UnChienAndalou_300x298.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

But there was plenty more carousing an hour later when the Pixies took the stage. It occurred to me for the first time that the Pixies aren't really an indie-rock band anymore. I mean, historically, yes, of course they are; it's not like they ever even sold out. But as I stood on a grassy slope overlooking the massive sea of people, everyone from muscle-bound frat dudes to nerdy dads with preadolescent daughters huddled close and singing along, the term didn't make much sense. Not to mention the musicians on stage dressed like fun relatives that happen to be in a rock band, Frank in a pink Oxford shirt and Kim in a modest PTA-mom sweater. What an odd career.

If I wasn't absolutely overjoyed at hearing "Gigantic" and "Here Comes Your Man" live in 2005, it's because the Pixies don't occupy the same nostalgic corner in my heart as they do many of my friends'. (I heard bits of Surfer Rosa in late high school, found Doolittle in college, and only know the rest through osmosis.)

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

There really aren't many unpleasant Pixies songs. Maybe some toss-off like "Dance the Manta Ray" or something.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Is that from your blog, John?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

A Lollapalooza wrap-up I wrote two years ago for Stylus.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, i remember pixies being the Great Uniters even in high school

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

at least among the weirdos they were.
i was a quiet bookish weirdo, yet all of my friends and i liked them
there were the skater punk weirdos, and they all liked them too
and really, even some of the ski bunny popular private school girls liked them too.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

"all of my friends" = 2 people

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

I was one of those ski bunny popular private school girls.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

Ok not really.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

i just remember being really like WOW everyone likes this band. in 1991!

Doolittle was the tape you could always play in your car and make everyone happy. JOSE JONES TOLD ME ALONE HIS STOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORY

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

"Motorway to Roswell" is a cute, sorta sad song. Poor alien--he was just trying to find lodging while on his vacation--"how could this so great turn so shitty? He ended up in Army crates."

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

ok, add the crackity crackity song to the list of bad ones

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

RONG

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

yeah you crazy kenan

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

it is v short, so there's that

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

That's as close as they ever got to xhXcx

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

why don't you go marry snorg girl kenan

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

she will kill me

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

No. Crackity Jones is not my favorite, but it's not bad either. I don't so much for "Here Comes Your Man" and a couple that Kim Deal sings.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

What about Chuck Eddy?

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite Pixies song is "Monkey Gone to Heaven," easy.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

xposts i will marry snorg girl when ally is the new snorg girl.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

"Paco Picopiedra" (as in "He got friends like Paco Picopiedra") is apparently Fred Flintstone's name in Spanish.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite Pixies song is Here Comes Your Man.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

What is going on on that snorg girl thread. I stopped reading about 50 posts in.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

my favorite is every last second of Surfer Rosa

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

they ran out of photos of snorg girl, and had to start drawing them.

― kenan, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Here Comes your man is way played out for me. I don't think I can fix that. I always liked #13 Baby and the under-appreciated Hangwire.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

I like Crackity Jones

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Tame is my favorite, I think maybe

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

No wait, Dead. Dead is my favorite

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Jesse!
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a393/jrdeanel/nbc_the_more_you_know.jpg

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

All solid choices. I don't know if I can pick only one.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know if I can either. I was trying to, but then I'd keep thinking of some other song... Though Where is My Mind was the first one I sang all the time.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

mmmmmmmmm iced coffee and the first moment all day when i have not been sweating. yay.

i have a hard time picking, but they don't have THAT many songs and whatever. my favorite will only be my favorite for a while. my favorite is definitely NOT lala love you.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

i am very fond of monkey gone to heaven. also hey.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

live version of 'something against you' kicks ass.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Off to the BARNZ.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Wave of Mutilation (UK Surf)!

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

I think Velouria might be my favorite. I even like the Weezer cover of it.

― dan m, Wednesday, 23 May 2007 21:53 (nineteen years ago)

ok, i have a casserole dish full of mac 'n' cheese in the oven, it will be out in 17-22 minutes. i swear, i'll just do this one casserole dish of it and then check myself into hazleton.

so good though.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 24 May 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

oh my god i would mainline this shit if i thought i could get it through a hypodermic needle.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 24 May 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

I only know "Here Comes Your Man". I might recognize "Monkey Gone To Heaven" if I heard it. I was into a lot of independent/underground music at the time, but didn't spend a lot of time with indie rock.

I was at Quimby's a little bit ago, and Magnet has a list of something like 50 lost records of the past 20 years. Now, this is much more the kind of article I like to read -- record that stand the test of time -- versus just reading reviews of 100 records that happen to be released this month.

I walked through Bucktown for the first time in a long time. God, some of those glass mansions are huge.

― Eazy, Thursday, 24 May 2007 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

Magnet's 75 Lost Classics

― Jeff, Thursday, 24 May 2007 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think it is great that The Glands is on that list.

― Jeff, Thursday, 24 May 2007 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

I have only owned two of those: The Go and Royal City. I have the Seam record on a 90 minute cassette somewhere, with Luna's first LP on the other side.

― Eazy, Thursday, 24 May 2007 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that's a great list. I think I own about ten of those listed. It's hard to think of The Sea and Bellsand Yank Crime as "lost" anything though, I listen to both all the time. It was nice to see some Delta 72 love as well, thats a fantastic album.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 24 May 2007 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

I've got 8 of them, including the Delta 72 and DLJ. GodHeadSilo being listed makes me smile.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, how was the mac?? Am drunk -- it used to be that the ride home from Wburg was enough to sober me up, but as I get into better shape that ride seems shorter and shorter. You dont' even know how many typos it took to get this post cleaned up.

― Laurel, Thursday, 24 May 2007 03:41 (nineteen years ago)

I think Velouria might be my favorite. I even like the Weezer cover of it.

Have you heard the Bad Plus version of it?

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 04:13 (nineteen years ago)

I own these albums from the Magnet list:

unrest: perfect teeth
brainiac: hissing prigs in static couture
rachel's: the sea and the bells
neutral milk hotel: on avery island
the notwist: neon golden

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 04:23 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wait, also:

papas fritas: buildings and grounds

I also bought that Chavez record, decided I hated it, and sold it back to the store the next week.

And I have a different Number One Cup record (Possum Trot Plan), but I like it a lot. Also a different Delta 72 record, but I think it's just OK. Basically I bought them because I liked Pavement and JSBX, respectively.

I remember wanting the Geraldine Fibbers and Cornelius records but never actually buying them.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 04:28 (nineteen years ago)

Now, this is much more the kind of article I like to read -- record that stand the test of time -- versus just reading reviews of 100 records that happen to be released this month.

Something bothers me about this statement, though.

One, I didn't see the article, so I assumed it was just a list, with maybe a sentence or two about each record. Is it actually worth reading as an article? Does it actually go into why these records are worth hearing?

Also, I hate the phrase "stands the test of time" because it implies that an artwork's ability to last is somehow passive, like "when the dust settles" it's still left, rather than it requiring a vast web of people and institutions (critics, tastemakers, the public) to make it so. That is, these records have stood the test of time strictly because writers at Magnet say that they have, which then maybe makes Magnet readers buy them, which then makes those people recommend them to other people, etc. (None of which has any bearing on whether the record is actually any good, either.)

Third, I kind of hate what Magnet represents. Even though I subscribed for several years and probably got turned onto a lot of cool bands because of it, it's hard to look at it now and not see it as the magazine for aging guitar-rock hipsters who like to reminisce about the time they saw Guided by Voices in 1993. Really, it's not that different from Paste in its conservatism. But maybe that's just my problem.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 04:42 (nineteen years ago)

The Bad Plus, "Velouria"

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's actually a pretty thorough article, with at least a substantial paragraph for each record.

I just mean that Magnet and Paste usually aren't that exciting to me because 99% of its content (including the ads) is publicity for current releases, whereas a magazine like Mojo finds good records from the past 100 years.

And so an article about 1990s indie rock -- something that was too faddish in some ways for me to get involved with the first time around -- might turn me on to something, because the articles are not commissioned by labels and PR firms the way most reviews are (at least any of the reviews/features that stick to the label's one-sheet, which most of them do). These 75 little features aren't built around those one-sheets.

I remember noticing in the late 90s how each REM record bred the same feature articles about how their new release was a return to form and a comeback after their last letdown, etc.

― Eazy, Thursday, 24 May 2007 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

I own like 12 of those albums. I heartily approve of these choices:

drive like jehu: yank crime
brainiac: hissing prigs in static couture
silkworm: firewater
chavez: ride the fader
chisel: set you free
the dismemberment plan: is terrified
space needle: the moray eels eat the space needle

ANNOYING INDIE GUY STATEMENTS: I like "Are You Driving Me Crazy" as a better Seam album and "Voyager" as a better Space Needle album.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

And Drive Like Jehu and D-Plan are hardly "lost albums."

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

Magnet is pretty dumb.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

silkworm: firewater
chavez: ride the fader
chisel: set you free
the dismemberment plan: is terrified

These are seriously like the four defining albums of my senior year of high school. I saw Chisel and the Dismemberment Plan at the 9:30 Club (with Trusty) the summer between junior and senior year. Still sad that I never got to see Silkworm or Chavez.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 12:58 (nineteen years ago)

So...

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Five day weekend this weekend! A much needed mini-vacation/roadtrip to Ann Arbor and Bay City, MI.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 24 May 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

Yay, Jon! Mine is only a three day weekend, bbbut THREE DAYS (!)

John-with-an-H, I downloaded that file but it wouldn't open on my computer. Boo hoo.

Ok, two new-to-me things I've fallen in love with in the past 24 hours:
COKE ZERO and
THE GRATEFUL DEAD

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 13:52 (nineteen years ago)

the last hour of lost made me want to watch season three again.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 13:53 (nineteen years ago)

or... er... the last few episodes anyway.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

We better not talk about Lost ... John hasn't watched the finale yet.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 13:54 (nineteen years ago)

my coworker Katie has barricaded herself in her office and is watching it right now. :)

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.economist.com/images/ga/2007w21/Presidents.jpg

Nobody does useful/entertaining graphics better than The Economist.

― Eazy, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:04 (nineteen years ago)

useful?

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:08 (nineteen years ago)

Coke Zero is grebt. I lurve it.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

I actually watched Lost after not seeing any other episode this season, it was great.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

so kev, WHEN are you leaving Chicago? With every passing day it looks like my coming there in early Aug would be highly irresponsible...

― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

So excited about LOST.

Sarah, I was worried that that file might not open. I'll try to post it again later. Unless Jordan's got the goods.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

Who knew that breast implants are more aesthetically pleasing outside of breasts than inside?

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/05/24/fashion/24skin600.1.jpg

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Reminds me of Terminator 2.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Ha.

I have that BP cd around somewhere, but I only ripped the drum & bass track and 'Iron Man'. I don't remember the Pixies cover doing much for me, since I didn't know the original.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

teh boobinator

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Have you heard the Bad Plus version of it?

Nope.

Only a 3-day weekend for me, too. I thought about taking vacation days to lengthen it, but enh, who cares. Y'all should come BBQ on Monday @ Katester's.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Give us BBQ details. What time? Are we supposed to bring stuff? Will there be slivovic?

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I know few details, she is not being forthcoming. Katie! Post or email deets!

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

waht is slivovic

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dd/Sljivovica1094.JPG/250px-Sljivovica1094.JPG

DELICIOUS

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think anyone here is having a bbq on MD, I will probably eat a hot dog and drink a beer on my porch in honor of the holiday though.

Also cleaning, starting the Office, making beats.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

This also came up in image search, I hope it is how it is made:

http://us2.pixagogo.com/S5CnjFua68proEk4wy6x0HOzfWukWBwIEzKwclhDwEo4W!4nY4eNtpGKu0qCfynf5-p9ajMwWKVUNMacRfmV0PoTfOFDClES!mL8jFOMzg6sgesrXtgiVPyA__/near_Butmir_015.jpg

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Is it more or less delicious than malort?

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

This is the other part of that picture:

http://us2.pixagogo.com/S5CnjFua68prptmrTb6xFlFqfg5MT0Vf!L2gNjD4fOhnwCEJ3W!YB0Xt2eKhyYbtZjH9ncelr3KzDPADVbDkdaUHiD8e5zFymbQ1qVRlnXapPdKoa6Vf155g__/near_Butmir_018.jpg

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

It's plum brandy. It's pretty good.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Type
Bitters
Also known as
MalÃ¶rt
Description
Generic for bitter-sweet spirit produced at one time by several companies, now apparently only by one: Jeppson, in Chicago. Malort is flavored by a European herb called the malort plant. Originally a product favored in Chicago's central and eastern European ethnic neighborhoods, it has been adopted enthusiastically by bikers and is a mainstay at biker bars.
Flavor
dill and bitter
Availability
Limited availability. Produced and sold in United States. Known to be distributed in United States and around the world. Export and/or distribution unreliable. Rarely exported. Regional. Available for on-line ordering in some markets.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

A old-timer Slovenian (I think) neighbor of my family made it in his garage, evidently. He gave a bottle to my dad for pulling his wife's car out of the snowbank with his truck. Supposedly it was very very strong. The stuff we had at the Easter party was commerically made, and surprisingly tasty.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, you should grow malort plants in your herb garden.

First GIS result for "malort plant":

http://static.flickr.com/89/260793403_ffba457b85.jpg

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Also:

http://www.adambaumgoldgallery.com/words_in_pictures/dorothy_parker.jpg

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

that's pretty sad

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://pwa.rollplaygames.com/lolgore.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

That is sad too.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

I know, it kind of kills me how happy he looks in the first photo.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

happy & skinny

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

lolgore kills thread

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

Remember beardy post-election Gore? That was funny.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Like he had to go spend three months in the mountains by himself just to get over it.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, 3 mos. in a cabin, just listening to emo.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Depressed, beardy Gore vs. depressed, beardy Jack

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

If I ever tried to grow a beard because I was depressed I would just end up more depressed because my beard would be all lame and patchy.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. I was just coming here to say that I am dreading diving into the LOST thread.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Don't bother, it's mostly wackos with stupid theories.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

I made fun of them.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

That was my single favorite LOST episode.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

I want to leave work now.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

NO TALKING ABOUT LOST ON HERE OR JOHN WILL FUCKING LOSE IT

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Jack...?

http://www.tvpredictions.com/departed.jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

HE WILL FUCK YOU UP LIKE JACOB IN A CABIN

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

You can say that you liked the episode, that's cool. That only makes me more excited about tonight (only 10 hours away).

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm being very careful and I'm going to stop talking about it anyway and start reading about it.

I have questions. I'm going to losteastereggs.blogspot.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Am I wrong, or is season 4 starting in FEBRUARY????? Please god let me be wrong.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

You're not wrong.

-God

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the episode and no one has a beard in it.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha. You're right! There are no Bizarro-Lost goatees.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Not even Beardy Beardinien.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

That isn't true, jordan.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Ok Chicago, I have a lot of questions today.

1- Can anyone sendspace me Surfer Rosa? I LOST that CD.

2- Can anyone recommend the best tattoo shop in Chicago? I was thinking of that one on Broadway near Montrose. Tattoo Factory? There is also the gay-owned next to the Eagle.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't gotten a tattoo in Chicago. Maybe I should!

Someone said on the Lost thread that it's actually starting back up in January.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

yeah but that was sam

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

OOH COLD DISSED

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

John, that cover of Velouria that you posted yesterday isn't working for me.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

It ain't workin' for no one no how.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

That isn't true, jordan.

SHHH, I'm trying to cover my tracks, I don't want John to know that there is a (SPOILER)beard(/SPOILER) in the finale!

You and Nick should get wedding tattoos.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I think the file extension is fucked up or something. I'll post it again later.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Oh idea:

Nick gets FAKE tattooed across the knuckles of his right hand.

Sarah gets FICT tattooed across her knuckles.

Ben gets IONS!

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ions?! That's awesome.

― Laurel, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Bbbut FICT doesn't mean anything. :-(

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Physicists be insane:

"The core of the Earth being made of protons flowing through gold in a never ending engery fashion with a secondary core of Iron which is negatively charged is imperative to how the atmosphere is set up."

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

Okay, Ben gets FICT and you get IONS.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Or you could get FICT on one hand and IONS on the other.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

Ok. As long as I have some options.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

And when your powers combine...

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I lurve Nick's tattoo, but I don't know what he could possibly think of to top it.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

I want a UP tattoo (surprise) either on a forearm or across my shoulders.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:24 (nineteen years ago)

Tattoo party!!

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I don't want any for myself though. I'd hate it a year later.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Wtf, there are plenty of beards in LOST. I started to make a list and then realized that just about every male character* has sported at least some stubble. Even Tom had that fake beard.

*Possible exceptions: Jin, Walt, Ben, Goodwin, Ethan, Karl, Richard, Cooper, and Christian Shephard.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:26 (nineteen years ago)

Nick was talking about how in last night's episode (no spoilers really) Jack's hair looked freshly professionally cut. I suggested maybe he had it done when he was with the others on the compound.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

It makes sense they'd all have stubble, being out on the island without great razors with 5 blades.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Best beard on LOST:

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/8/84/200px-Kelvin(lost).jpg

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

I suggested maybe he had it done when he was with the others on the compound.

Tom is totally a hairdresser in his spare time.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember who half those characters are.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Man there's a great lolphotoshop from last night's episode in the season 3 thread. I lost my shit.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, Nick has a tattoo?

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

You know who the actor who plays Tom has also played? (John knows)

The naked guy chasing Thomas Hayden Church down the street in Sideways.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, I will not being growing the malort plant. Or maybe I will and I will invite you over for a spaghetti dinner seasoned with "Chicago oregano."

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

I thought Jack's hair looked kind of dorky last night. Like it was really short but had a mini-part in the middle.

Is this the new rule, that we can talk about Lost spoilers but only in terms of hair?

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Sayid's locks looked fresh, curly, and completely bad ass.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:33 (nineteen years ago)

I don't remember who half those characters are.

I'm assuming you know Jin, Walt, and Ben.

Goodwin was an Other who was sent to infiltrate the Tailies, just as Ethan was sent to infiltrate the mid-section Losties. Ana-Lucia killed Goodwin, and Charlie killed Ethan.

Karl is Alex's boyfriend who was in the Clockwork Orange room.

Richard is the 400-year-old man who wears eyeliner.

Cooper is Locke's dad and a Republican senator from Arizona.

Christian Shephard is Jack's dad.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

Deluxe Tattoo on Irving Park.

― Jeff, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

lost.xls

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

It makes sense they'd all have stubble, being out on the island without great razors with 5 blades.

no wai locke brought 400 deadly knives!

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, where did you get this info? They have only good reviews on Yelp. Is that where?

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

The funny thing is, if you had written Carl I would have known who you meant.

I still don't know who this is: Richard is the 400-year-old man who wears eyeliner.

And is the latter part of this a joke? Cooper is Locke's dad and a Republican senator from Arizona.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

The actor who plays Locke's evil dad was Nick's evil dad in Freaks & Geeks. He was also evil in Eight Men Out, and in every other role he's ever had.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

OOooh Richard. Right. I remember now.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

n/a do you has a tatto y/n

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

locke should have seen that shit coming, i guess

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

"Dad, come on! We all know you're always the evil guy!"

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Richard Alpert. The dude who recruited Juliet, who then gave Locke the file about Cooper, who appeared to Young Ben in the jungle looking exactly the same as he does now except with longer hair, leading one to believe that he's ageless (NB: If any of this has been verified, I don't want to know about it).

And yeah, I think the actor Kevin Tighe looks like John McCain. (xpost Oh yeah, I forgot he was Nick's dad in F&G.)

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

Question: If you get a tattoo on your wang, is it acceptable to call it a "cockatoo"?

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

n/a do you has a tatto y/n

John?

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

XPOST!!!!!!

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha ha.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

is it acceptable to call it a "cockatoo"?

never

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, Nick has a tattoo on one of his biceps. It's a cassette tape overlaid on a heart, I think.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.eurotattoo.co.nz/chicken.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

one of his many biceps

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

"wang" lolz

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

It's on my shoulder, is that where one's biceps are?

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't you have a pic of it online somewhere, Nick?

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

your tattoo is on your deltiod, yo

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

I googled for Nick's tattoo and found a really dumb FF review:

The F4ke F1ctions do not utilize the inherent qualities which, as humans, allow us to connect on a more vital basis; where you feel you need the band to live

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

It's on Nick's arm, just below his shoulder. I guess that's not a bicep, I just don't know what else to call that area.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Hmm... I can't find it right now, but I did find this.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v207/naamme/IMG_0093.jpg?t=1180025786

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

I googled for Nick's tattoo

Does it have its own MySpace profile?

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

SASSY

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:57 (nineteen years ago)

That recursive photo thread was fun, we should do it again.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

The wind! It's so strong that I'm worried about my window getting blown in!

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ha ha Jordan, which review is that?

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.blogsmithmedia.com/www.tvsquad.com/media/2006/10/colbertp200.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

There is more than one picture of me wearing the Texas sunglasses.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know where they are any more. :-(

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

(nick, don't forget to email me the addy)

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

It looks like the rest of that review isn't online any more. Whatevs. I didn't like that cd.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

oh yeah

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

WTF no one posting while I'm at lunch?

Let's talk about me some more. Would you guys say I'm a "folk hero"?

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

I had SUPER RAMEN for lunch today, ie ramen with extra teriyaki sauce, thai peanut sauce and lots of tofu. AWESOME

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost You need to start playing acoustic guitar for that to happen.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

xpost
You're like Paul Bunyan. Except you're just legendary for your grotesque thumbs.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Nick = http://library.thinkquest.org/5679/americanmyths/images/pbcover.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha xpost

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Bunyan must have been too obvious

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, you're going to need a beard, too. All the best male folk heroes are beardos.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Thumbyan.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm rotting my brain with LOST. Current tabs open on Firefox-Losteastereggs, The Lost Experience, Lost The Tail Section, Entertainment Weekly's Lost section, ILX Lost thread (and Yelp, and Gmail too).

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

As Dan might put it, my mind is a pussy for Lost.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

You forgot Lostpedia.

And you came up with the "my ______ is a pussy for ______" construct, don't pin it on me.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Man I'm going to have to leave work early today, I can't take it.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:23 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Oh. I guess you're right, but I would have forgotten about it if you hadn't posted it on my myspace page.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Thank god for the wind. My windows are like _____ for wind.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, personal recommendations from several people, including the nice person who cuts my hair. Whenever I finally get mine, I'm going there to see Tim.

― Jeff, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

3 cheers and muchos hugs to JULIAAAA! I am listening to Bone Machine now and I'm happy.

You buy me a soda, you buy me a soda, you buy me a soda and you try to molest me in the parking lot!

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, Yelp folks had great things to say about them. There is an artist named Ben Wahhhh, apparently.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, here's the review:

http://64.233.167.104/search?q=cache:-4-A35bxpVcJ:www.lucidforge.com/index2.php%3Foption%3Dds-syndicate%26version%3D1%26feed_id%3D5+%22Nick+Ammerman%22+tattoo&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:35 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't like that cd.

I like that cd, u r rong.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

I still can't find the review on there, but that's ok. I'm in too good a mood today to read a bad review.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

I'm totally over that album. I am trying to buy some kind of reel-to-reel analog setup to record the nexxxt episode.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

That review is kind of awesome in how terribly written it is. It's going straight on the bad reviews thread on IMM.

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

Lostpedia is teh best. Sometimes I just go on there and read various articles to refresh my memory about certain people or events.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Totally.

Nick, I sometimes record with a friend in Milwaukee who used to do reel-to-reel, and he might even have one to sell. He stopped recording bands with it because when something broke he had to send it to some specialty guy and it would take weeks for it to be fixed.

xpost

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

WowwWw! we are having a windstorm of biblical proportions! But no rain or anything.

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

If you go to Deluxe, I want to go with you.

― Jeff, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

This is Tim's website. There's some really good stuff there. I like his paintings and drawings a lot better than the tattoos.

http://www.timbiedron.com/drawings.php?imgIndex=9

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, I am thinking of going by there today to look around. Want to join me?

― Jesse, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe there is a "folk heroism 101" class at Old Town School?

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I remember that review now! This is the most touching part:
"Nick and Sarah are actually recently engaged so you can expect some kind of elated vibe on the album. Unfortunately it sounds like they are more in a coma than they are in a state of euphoria."

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

I went out to lunch my "team" and had a big fuck-off jalapeno burger and waffle fries. This is Fattey Week for me (a lot like shark week but fatter).

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Like Shark week but you get to be a Shark.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://ken_ashford.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/sharksjets.jpg

― n/a, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's like if I was a shark on shark week but all the fish, seals, and caged divers were already breaded & fried.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, is Jenny off studying today?

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I were outside.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Never mind, Jeff.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I were outside.

You may not feel that way once you get there and it's hot. I went for a little walk today and was already manufacturing husk musk by the end of it.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

Grody.

No, I need to sweat a little. It could do me some good.

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

This guy just myspace messaged me asking if I remembered him from one of my high schools, but he's completely covered from head to toe in army gear in every single photo!

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, yeah! The army gear guy... of course!

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see younger Jordan as metalhead Bruce McCulloch nursing one beer and learning to love jazz.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

("husk musk" made me think of all the KITH references, which led me to that)

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

That sketch is all-time.

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I think my way into jazz was Buddy Rich (loud, unbelievable drumming + playing in high school big band at the time).

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, I just changed to the black stylesheet.

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

harder to read, isn't it?

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Jesus, it's horrible.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I actually like the variation btwn the message and the meta info, but black background is kind of the worst idea ever.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

8080

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

I should write a stylesheet already.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

gettin off at nooooon tomorroooowwwwwww
getttin off at noooon tomoooooorrrrooowww

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

huzzah

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:27 (nineteen years ago)

i should be allowed to leave immediately. I came in early and am out of things to do. Or, anyway i'm out of things that have to be done right now.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

une huere left for me today

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/oh-hey.jpg

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:36 (nineteen years ago)

Wasn't Jeff going to write a plain text stylesheet or something?

― Jordan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

i broke our paper shredder with vast masses of paperwork and my cable is out. rcn, come back to meeeeeee.

but since my battle with teh gvt seems to be resolved, i suddenly have extra space in my brain to handle stuff like transferring a bit of music. omg.

yay, glad you got the album, jesse.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 24 May 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

So everything is settled then, julia??

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

Ahaha pretty sure I've mentioned this before, but if not it's happened again: I just got a manuscript submission from Aristotle Socrates.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it seems like it. carol ronen and dick durbin kick ass for helping set this bullshit right. as does jenny, for helping me write a Very Strongly Worded letter to them.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

WOO HOOO!!!!

― KitCat, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, that really rocks.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, I'm going home, fuck you all.

Not you guys. Everybody else in the world.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~socrates/

...this guy's name is awesome, I can't get over it.

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

Dearest Chicago,

I have invaded Jocelyn's lungs and therefore have made travel plans for this weekend impossible. Rescedule later date, please?

Sincerely,

Upper Respiratory infection

― jocelyn, Thursday, 24 May 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

http://ebimg.sv.publicus.com/apps/pbcsi.dll/bilde?Site=EB&Date=20070503&Category=FILMFESTIVALS06&ArtNo=70503001&Ref=AR&Maxw=438

― jaymc, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

Werner's new movie looks... conventional.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:06 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait to see it.

I do use a plainish style sheet.

― Jeff, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Are you guys still going to Old Timer's today?

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:13 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.

― Jeff, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:16 (nineteen years ago)

sweet

― dan m, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

I can't wait to see it.

I can't either, truth be told, but the trailer makes it look frighteningly mass-appeal-y. Prolly because it's a trailer.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

also, sorry to hear that jocelyn. Another time. You rest.

― kenan, Thursday, 24 May 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Um, holy shit you guys... from wikipedia:

Rescue Dawn is a 2007 movie starring Christian Bale and Steve Zahn. It is written and directed by Werner Herzog, based on the director's acclaimed 1997 documentary, Little Dieter Needs to Fly. NBA all-star Elton Brand is the film's producer through his production company Gibraltar Entertainment, which he co-owns with partner Steve Marlton

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Friday, 25 May 2007 00:15 (nineteen years ago)

waht

― jaymc, Friday, 25 May 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

See if this works: The Bad Plus, "Velouria"

― jaymc, Friday, 25 May 2007 00:36 (nineteen years ago)

works. thanks.

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 00:56 (nineteen years ago)

uh... I don't want to insult to the cook, but this is pretty tough and WAYYYYY overcooked.

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 00:57 (nineteen years ago)

I have secretly scraped it into the dog bowl.

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 00:58 (nineteen years ago)

Apologies to those who heard this in person, but I have to tell everyone here on my blog---

Today I went to H@1s7ed B3@ch tanning salon and was assulted by the Queen of the Tanning Evangelists. I wanted to take advantage of their 5 sessions for $20 special, but in order to do so I had to wade through a 20 minute spiel and tour by this copperheaded fag who seemed convinced that tanning was the one true religion.

Bullet points:

-After I had already told him what plan and which bed I wanted to use, he still showed me each and every single bed and service they had. He referred to the beds in the feminine: "This is the Deluxe; I visit her every day. We just gave her new bulbs, so she's packing quite a punch!

-He showed me how to operate the car stereos that are built into each bed.

-He told me how they could hold onto any of my personal belongings I wanted to leave--not just tanning supplies, but clothing and other personal items: "We ask that you write your name on each item so that it's more personal and we know you by handwriting!"

-They are only closed 2 days per year, on Christmas Day and on the Sunday on which the Pride parade falls. He made a point of letting me know that they are open on Thanksgiving and New Year Day and every other holiday.

-He tried to sell me lotions, but when I declined, he pulled out three big pump bottles from behind the counter, telling me that dry skin cannot tan and I needed a lotion. Then--in an extended monologue--told me that he would rather give me free lotions than allow me to tan dry. "If you aren't going to buy our products then at least let me give you free samples because otherwise you won't feel like you're getting a deep, dark tan!"

Finally, he showed me a letter from Citysearch saying that they had been nominated as the #1 tanning place in town and told me that he liked to "cold-call" his customers to tell them about specials and tell them to vote for them in the poll. Worst of all he told me that he and his manager made personal visits to the clients in their database, handing out coupons, asking that they vote for them as the best tanning place in Chicago.

I am their customer.

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, you are a snooty asshole.

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Old Timers no longer has PBRs, and no drink specials on Thursday. In fact they have stopped selling PBR entirely, and now the best you can do is $8.75 Bud Light pitchers.

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, you are a snooty asshole.

I am neither proud nor ashamed.

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 10:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, trailers are horrible ways to judge movies. The Rescue Dawn one gives me goosebumps though, just because I know the Dieter story.

― Jeff, Friday, 25 May 2007 11:30 (nineteen years ago)

YES, that is true, I think it's the same story iirc?

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 11:56 (nineteen years ago)

Uh ... have you guys heard this album?

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/cov200/drd100/d175/d17559xcpd3.jpg

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

It's pretty bizarre.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:19 (nineteen years ago)

is that the one with "these are the daves i know i know" on it? if so, yes i have heard it.

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

OUR LOVE

Bruce: The only reason I ever licked you baby--was the salt.

Woman: Stop it.

Bruce: Take your lumbar roll and *get out*!! [mumbles] Futon woman.

[song, lyrics spoken--]

Bruce: Our love is like standing on an ice flow outside your house; watching you mount--another man.

Our love is like jiffy pop. It takes a long time for it to rise, and when it does, it doesn't quite seem like the real thing.

Our love is like our best friend's love...only *better*!

It's clear to me now, our love is like Santa Claus. The only ones who will believe in it are small children who don't understand how the world--really works.

Our love is like work gloves...owned by someone who...never works.

Our love is like having sex with a dwarf when you're drunk. Oh, it's great at the time; but when you think about it the next day at work, you feel shame and guilt, and an array of sadness.

Our love is like the book Johnathan Livingston Seagull. I tried reading it when I was fourteen, but I just couldn't get through it.

Our love is like a Bruce Springsteen concert. It's not that great; it's really long, but *wow*! What energy!

Our love is like the Brady Bunch, no, the Partridge family! No, the Brady Bunch, no, the Partridge family! No the Brady Bunch, no, like...WKRP In Cincinatti.

Oh, I know what show our love is like. COPS. That racist, welfare hating crack-hunt.

Our love...and I mean this in a nice way...is like taking Lassie to the desert, removing her teeth with a hunting knife; and shooting her in the head with a gun that you and she built together.

Our love is like licking the ass of a dead squirrel that's laying bloated in the sun; but also...there's a negative side?

Our love is like my parents' love. The only difference is; I won't wait 'til you *die* to leave you.

Don't get me wrong. I *like* our love. It's just not very...funny?

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:22 (nineteen years ago)

It does have "Daves I Know" on it, yes. It also has "The Doors," which is basically the Doors sketch from KITH in song form.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:23 (nineteen years ago)

does it have a song about the baby jesus? that one's pretty good.

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 12:24 (nineteen years ago)

man, no one wants to talk about the baby jesus. fine.

successfully rode my bike to and from work yesterday, it was fun! i rode on sidestreets and it wasn't nerve-wracking at all. also my bags didn't fall out of the milk crate i rigged to the back, so that was a bonus.

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 13:19 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't you sweat to death?

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

I saw a sign at the Hopleaf advertising âDrinking & Writing Festival: Write Til You Pukeâ with a picture of Bukowski.

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

Nope. I lived. I brought extra clothes in my trunk. The wind kept blowing shit into my eyes, though. That sucked.

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, do you have a blog?

Amanda, HURRAH I wd take all this bike rides w/ you. You are being v brave! Also, sunglasses.

― Laurel, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

Check 'em out though to make sure the frames aren't in the middle of where you need to see when you look over yr shoulder.

― Laurel, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

man, no one wants to talk about the baby jesus. fine.

try again when it's not 7:30 in the morning

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

Also:..................tanning? Er. ...why?

― Laurel, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Last night Jeff, Jenny, and I entertained an out of town guest who they know from the internets. We went to OT's, Top of the Cock ($40 for 3 beers and a Cosmopolitan), Hop Leaf, and Simon's. I thought there was something more interesting to tell you about this, but I guess there isn't. We were thinking about going to Pippin's but we wanted to visit a neighborhood and Jenny pointed out that people gang up and make fun of us for going there. Also, Chicago is more interesting than Johnson City, TN by a country mile.

I have no blog. I have 3 failed blogs in my wake. Message boards always steal the thunder from my content. Chris P. suggested that I create a website in which I pull content from my message board posts--a sort of "Best Of."

I am tanning because I want to be tan, but reall mostly because I want to even up this outta control farmer's tan.

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

tanning is the second level of health-paranoia, right after getting thin. Firsat you get then, then suddenly that's not enough.

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

jesse is teh gay, so it's different for him. it's not paranoia if they're all out to get you.

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was wearing sunglasses! I couldn't believe the amount of shit that was flying around in the air yesterday. I am going to ride it to work again today and also to other work to drop something off there.

Kenan when did you become health expert?

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

You should be glad I waited til 7:30. I was up at 5:45!

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yet still unable to get work done. ;_;

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

At the tanning place there were posters everywhere with pictures of MDs with quotes like, "I go to a tanning salon because it is more sensible to tan in a safe, controlled environment" and "I tan because after my 16 hour residency shift it recharges my batteries."

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

laurel is your bday on saturday? am i remembering correctly?

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

(tomorrow, i mean)

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:29 (nineteen years ago)

YISSSSSS! I will be oooooooold.

Jesse: his batteries are solar-powered? At least it's green, I guess.

― Laurel, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and there was a holistic health magazine whose cover story was an "expose" of the evils of sunblock. Some of it actually made sense, mostly the part about how sunblock manufacturers want you to see their product as essential to your daily life, not as something to prevent sunburn during prolonged exposure to the sun, and saying how the skin cancer associations are funded by sunblock manufacturers and therefore are compelled to push their products.

OK, I'm done talking about tanning!!

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

That Bruce McC album has Doors Fan on it, yeah.

Jesse, farmer's tans rock, you silly boy.

Jeez, happy bday, Laurel!

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Happy bday in advance, Laurel.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, guys. There's a happy my birthday thread somewhere, for tomorrow, but I appreciate the advance warning.

Amands, when do we get to see pictures of yr wheels????

― Laurel, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm...as soon as I take one, I guess? Maybe this weekend. I am going to ride it A LOTS! Unless it rains, and then I will not.

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

I have not heard any of Bruce's albums, and this is a Kid-shaped hole in my life.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

just one i think

― Dr Morbius, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

There were two listed on allmusic, I didn't look at what the other one was.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently he released "Drunk Baby Project" in 2002.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drunk_Baby_Project

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I've just been brainwashed by the sunblock industry, but I wear spf every day on my face and every day of the summer on any exposed skin. I got horrible burns EVERY SINGLE SUMMER growing up, there was skin cancer on both sides of the family, and I don't want to age any faster than I already am in terms of wrinkles/blotchiness.

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Now you've got me reading the script for his sitcom pilot: http://www.brucio.com/writing.php?vID=24

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, I think you have found a good reading for your wedding.

― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

LEILA
Marmaduke has an interview.

Gracen and Leila share a secret look. This is big news.

GRACEN
Really?

MARMADUKE
Yeah, can I borrow a shirt with a
collar and a whatcha' call it...tie?

GRACEN
What about pants?

MARMADUKE
Da-ad, I don't need pants. It's an
online interview. Like they all are
nowadays. Don't you know anything?

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

So are tanning beds not dangerous then? I thought they were for some reason...

I keep toying with the idea of buying some self tanner so my legs don't blind people this summer. My skin is always either bright white or red, no in between.

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

sarah 100% otm re: sunblock.

i don't ever ever ever ever want to peel off my skin again.

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

I already have a bit of a farmer's burn. :-(

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah I don't want you to be tan.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

DOUGIE
(to Laird)
Hey, do you want to see a picture of
the baby?

LAIRD
No.

Uncomfortable beat.

DOUGIE
And why not?

LAIRD
Because then I'd have to ask your
kids' names and ages, which means I'd
have to memorize your kids' names and
ages. C'mon, this is your third day
in the car, and you're already
whipping out the family photos?
What's next, gonna tell me your
'hopes and dreams?'

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

xp - that sounded definitive

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

The bachelorettes should go to a tanning salon for one last hurrah.

― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

Yuck. No way.

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

I'm scared of those tanning beds. They look pretty claustrophobic.

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

(I've never been to a tanning salon)

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Self tanner = streaky : (

Lotion that has self tanner = pretty good

Spray tan by a person = best thing ever! (but an expensive habit)

Yes, I should be ashamed but I have tried it all. I'm the palest person ever!!

― coco, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Answering Machine" used to be the answering machine message at one of my college houses.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

haha

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

Baby Jesus don't give me no shit, and he don't fuck around.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

see, someone wants to talk about the baby jesus.

― La Lechera, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

I like "I did all my acid ... in Grade 8."

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

You can buy it for $.07 at

http://music.allofmp3.com/r2/Bruce_McCulloch/Shame-Based_Man/group_6815/album_1/albref_7/mcatalog.shtml

(and there's a preview, which is what I was listening to just now)

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was not previously familiar with Bad Plus. This is a bizarro cover!

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

Wedding Dress
02/01/07

WEDDING DRESS - 1.2.07

The âtroupeâ stand on stage. They are all wearing wedding dresses facing the audience - confident, happy.

IRENE
I have no plans to get married. Yet I wear a wedding dress. I wear this wedding dress, all day, every day. I wear my wedding dress... everywhere...

JANET
I wear a wedding dress...

BRUCE
Hey, I wear a wedding dress.

ERNIE
As do I...

STEPHEN
Me too.

IRENE
Iâm still wearing mine.
They look at each other and back to the audience.

ALL
We wear our wedding dresses all around.

JANET
It can get tricky on a first date.

All agree.

JANET (CONT'D)
Iâm not getting married. But I admit it is something on my mind. So I wear my dress. Just in case it somehow, you know, happens. Iâm prepared. Like if you go hiking you wear special shoes...
(weakly)
Donât you?

No one knows.

STEPHEN
I wear a wedding dress because itâs easier to get a cab. And service tends to be better. I mean you rush into a delicatessen wearing a wedding dress, theyâre going to serve you first.

BRUCE
I wear a wedding dress to punish society. To hold up a mirror and say, âLooky society are you proud of what youâve created society?â Didnât think so...

JANET
They wonât give you a traffic ticket if youâre wearing a wedding dress.

IRENE
I wear a wedding dress because itâs really pretty, and I spent a lot of money on it. But more importantly, to remind myself âitâs my day.â Everyday.

BRUCE
And my pumpkin costume didnât punish society enough. Society, as usual, didnât get it.

We all make the universal âover the headâ gesture.

ERNIE
I wear it as a reminder of my virginal vows. My virginal vows I have broken many times, starting in a teenager where a Dungeons and Dragons tournament turned âtouchyâ.

BRUCE
I wear my dress to work at Kinkoâs. They canât fire me for wearing a wedding dress at Kinkoâs. I checked. Thatâs why I work there. That and the free paper I will get for my wedding invitations.
(beat)
I have a confession. I will NOT get the paper for free. I will steal it. Do you have any idea how much paper you can steal and hide under a wedding dress? I do...

STEPHEN
I wore it last year to my sisterâs wedding. I tried to explain to her that I was wearing it as a âtribute.â She didnât listen. But, how can someone REALLY listen when they are yelling? She was yelling because, secretly, she knows I look better than she did - and Iâm a man.

ERNIE
I wear a wedding dress for my best friend. Sheâs not much to look at, and her personality is even worse. Sheâs bi-polar. Although bi-polar would imply she has âupâ moods. She is this type âHow are you? ...uh tired...â Sheâs no oneâs first choice. The only aisle sheâll ever walk down will be that of a K-Mart.

JANET
But please understand we donât just wear them for ourselves...

ALL
We wear our wedding dresses for those who canât...

STEPHEN
The farmer loosing his land...

IRENE
For the woman sitting alone in a restaurant, reading FountainHead-

ALL
-Again-

IRENE
-Ordering wine by the glass.

ALL
-Again-

IRENE
Sheâs wondering, âWhy canât I order wine by the half-glass?â

BRUCE
For the guy that loves the girl but heâll never have her. The closest heâll get is the feel of her mattress on his face, as he helps her move.

JANET
I wear a wedding dress for the single soccer mom, whoâs so busy she only eats at drive-thruâs. And hasnât been out of her mini-van in THREE YEARS!

BRUCE
We wear them as a symbol that gay marriage should be legal!

They all take one step forward.

BRUCE (CONT'D)
We wear them in hopes that one day we will witness the first gay jumbo Tron proposal! âMarry me...Rick!?â

STEPHEN
We wear a wedding dress for no other reason than âwe want to.â

ERNIE
We wear our dresses because in this act of nonconformity we are connected to the spirt of punk, beat poetry and be-bob.

JANET
As a sign of the promises we make to ourselves and each other.

IRENE
As a reminder that we are our own families...we create our own families.

STEPHEN
What is a family? Not a âmommy and a daddy.â We all know how THAT worked out.

IRENE
We are our own families...

STEPHEN
A family can be whatever we want - A widower who cooks for you - and you cut his hair. Nothing more...

JANET
A family can be - A parrot and a vibrator...

ERNIE
...Or all the punks, beat-poets and bebops...

IRENE
...being part of a close knit, phone-sex community...

BRUCE
...How âbout every record Johnnie Cash ever recorded? Thatâs a family...

All agree.

IRENE
See...We donât wear our wedding dresses for us...
They take another step forward.

ALL
We wear our wedding dresses for you...

End.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

A family can be - a parrot, a cat, a lobster, and a vibrator...

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Brucio kills thread.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

ARGH Why do I keep opening the Lost thread? So annoying. :(

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I"M SERIOUS DUDE THE TSUNAMIS GONNA TAKE EM OUT

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

What do you guys think of this place, from the very little included in the ad?

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/apa/336969009.html

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

Sounds cool! Are you moving?

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:23 (nineteen years ago)

No, we re-signed our lease, but it's interesting to look once in a while. My friends T0mas and Sh@wn are looking at it.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:25 (nineteen years ago)

I look at apartment ads all the time, especially ones with pix. They entertain me.

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Rest of PF2007 announced:

Mastadon
Brightblack Morning Light
Cadence Weapon
Junior Boys
Voxtrot
The Field
Cool Kids

― Jeff, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

Cadence Weapon A+++++

― Jeff, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

mastadon a++

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:29 (nineteen years ago)

they will metal that shit HARD

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:30 (nineteen years ago)

Mastadon: the metal band it's OK for indie rockers to like

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

There were some guys on the el going to see mastadon the night we saw bjork. They were in a pack of about 10, all raging drunk, drinking on the el, swearing at each other loudly, and about to break out in a fight (they were getting lost because they were all messed up).

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:31 (nineteen years ago)

S-

Are you still interested in our apartment? We're starting to set up appointments to look at new places....I'll give you the full tour on Monday if you're still coming over.

― sisut, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah! I would love to get the full tour on Monday. We need deets on the BBQ when you get 'em though. :-D

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

the metal band it's OK for indie rockers to like

yeah ferreal. How did that happen?

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

WHOA good adds! I've been wanting to see Mastodon for a while now. I don't care if they are the "metal band it's ok for indie kids to like," they are still awesome. Plus Junior Boys and BBML, nice.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

"for a while now" = since I started listening to Mastodon like 6 months ago :(

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:39 (nineteen years ago)

you didn't get the email? what is WRONG with my gmail??? it hates jenny, too.

― sisut, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan wrote the funniest thing this morning elsewhere:

Dogs will get all like, "What's wrong with my owner? He's making noise, I better check it out," or else they will be like, "Something sounds like fun, I better jump on the bed right now!"

Cats are like like, "I was comfortable here. Why are you moving your legs? Stop that."

― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

I just read that Van Morrison's full name is George Ivan Morrison. Can you imagine him as "George Morrison"?

― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

you didn't get the email? what is WRONG with my gmail??? it hates jenny, too.

I'm guessing the problem is you don't use copy/paste and you spell their addresses rong.

The Mastadon thing is just something I've noticed. They had a feature on NPR, are playing Pfork now. Even when I first heard of 'em they were being pushed by one of the more indie-ish metal labels IIRC.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, if anyone wants to recommend me obscure metal bands that are as good as Mastodon, I'm happy to listen to them.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

I'm kind of tired of metal, but I don't begrudge other people liking it.

xpost: In Flames was always huge among the metal dudes I knew.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Also, the Sword, though I kind of got an impression that they might be a joke? Dunno.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I've been downloading more metal recently but too much of it is slow boring doom metal.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

I listened to a lifetime's worth of metal in high school.

I think In Flames kind of sucks, although if you can't get off without hearing Iron Maideny guitar harmonies then you will love them.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

I liked most of jon via chicago's metal mix, I should listen again. I think the Sword was on there. I like a lot of stoner metal. I bought a CD by W@rhammer 48k at P3rmanent Records last week, they are from Missouri and are pretty awesome.

That reminds me, jon via chicago should come to Hungry Brain tonight. I don't remember if he was on the emails or not.

― n/a, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

This is one of my top 5 metal albums ever, it's one 40 min track:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimson_(Edge_of_Sanity_album)

(don't pay any attention to the "story")

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

It seemed like I couldn't get away from the up-and-coming metal bands in college when a lot of my associates listened to that stuff, but I'm hard-pressed to name any new stuff now.

I didn't know Jon's email, so I didn't add it. Come out, Jon!

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

i like japanese metal best, i think

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Boris, namely

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Iceburn Collective was one metalish band I kind of liked for a while. I think they are/were on Revelation.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 16:56 (nineteen years ago)

Haha oh yeah and there was this Chicago band called The Chasm that the metal MDs brought to my college as part of a radio station metal fest that was absolutely insane.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

later! see some of you this weekend

― KitCat, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

Another year has come and gone, and it is BRATFEST this weekend.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

My friend John that works at your company is going to that.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

There is no one who is not going to Bratfest. I think you get a city fine if you do not go.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

There Is No One Who Is Not Going to Bratfest.

Wisconsin post-rick album of the year.

― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

post-rock, I mean. My trademark is a typo in each post. I am going on the road -- enjoy the weekend, you all. Congrats Julia, congrats Nick & Sarah.

― Eazy, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

I like post-rick better.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

hey, would anyone be interested in biking the drive on sunday?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

katieburger and m@tttt are

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Have fun Sarah & party! (I want to go to Bratfest)

― jocelyn, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

The board for my old radio station has a great thread called "Spam Subject or Math-Rock Song Title?"

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

haha link/examples plz

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

http://wmtu.mtu.edu/cgi-bin/ikonboard/ikonboard.cgi?s=2434e7743031f118cf346de928fb7db9;act=ST;f=5;t=4712

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

Shit, copy/paste

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

My personal favorite: What Further not Known, my Sacrifice, of Judah

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 18:24 (nineteen years ago)

Am I the only one left at work today?

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

No, I'll be here for a good three hours at least.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

And then coming to Chi. to drink beerz and blow up fireworkz?

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

i'm here for you, bro

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Unfort. no, I've got gigs in town this weekend.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/202/512422630_531cb3ffe9.jpg

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm leaving in 9 minutes - yay!

― coco, Friday, 25 May 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

You know, even though I'm digging the Battles album, I'm kind of dumbfounded by the reviews and hype this thing is getting.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 20:53 (nineteen years ago)

I watched a video of one of those songs on OnDemand, and thought kind of the same thing. Oh well, indie hype non-shocker.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

8 or 9 tonight?

― Jeff, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

I think it was kind of left open to interpretation... I'll probably shoot for the earlier end of that spectrum.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

I AM GETTING COLOR ALREADY!

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

I went back to the Temple of the Tan.

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

http://tanningtruth.com/

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Fine. We can talk about Baby Jesus then.

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

He's just the fuckin' coolest guy, and I wanna say, I love the baby Jesus.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Dear 8 lb. baby Jesus, bless this food.

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

I bought an awesome hutch at the Brown Elephant. It's '70s modern.

― Jesse, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

ok dan and i have talked each other into being at the hungry brain tonight, despite both of us being agonizing broke. BUT WE WILL BE THERE. Who else is on teh rsvp list again?

― kenan, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you can do some quick busking to make drinking money. Dan can play buckets and Kenan can give street html lessons or something.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:50 (nineteen years ago)

Okay today has been surprisingly productive for me, but now I am officially slacking off for the next 1/2 hour or so.

― Jordan, Friday, 25 May 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Kenan, I talked you into it! I was going to go no matter what.

― dan m, Friday, 25 May 2007 23:57 (nineteen years ago)

hi dere i am running lat on porpoise

― kenan, Saturday, 26 May 2007 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

I walked home from the Brain. Hope everyone was suitably drunkified.

― dan m, Saturday, 26 May 2007 07:45 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks for the party, guys, I had a blast! And I don't feel too bad this morning, just a little headachey and dizzy but nothing disabling. Sarah, on the other hand, didn't get off so easy.

― n/a, Saturday, 26 May 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Where is that wig?

― Jesse, Saturday, 26 May 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

In a bag on our bedroom floor.

― n/a, Saturday, 26 May 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

DAMP MERKIN

― n/a, Saturday, 26 May 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning!

― Jeff, Saturday, 26 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

Happy birthday!

― Jeff, Saturday, 26 May 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see pictures.

― dan m, Sunday, 27 May 2007 00:39 (nineteen years ago)

Pictures coming up soon -- I had to spend some time today recovering and not looking at screens that were spinning against my will. Tomorrow for sure. I must say, the ones with the wig are particularly fetching.

― La Lechera, Sunday, 27 May 2007 04:56 (nineteen years ago)

Lookie loo it's photos from the partiez.

― La Lechera, Sunday, 27 May 2007 06:07 (nineteen years ago)

One more thing before I retire for the evening:
Katie has the most amazing eyebrows I have ever seen.

― La Lechera, Sunday, 27 May 2007 06:12 (nineteen years ago)

This is Sarah posting under Nick's name, I think.

It took me all day yesterday to recover basically, but I had a perfect night. Here are my pix.

Last night Nick and I went to Ben's bday dinner and then to the Ice Factory Funeral where we played two songs very sloppily (I was half asleep) but it was fun to play there again for a little bit.

Nick is making me cofffee cake muffins right now. He's a keeper. (watch out, dudes - sappiness factor on the rise today) I'm listening to Tiffany Shade.

― n/a, Sunday, 27 May 2007 14:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/bensassy.jpg

― kenan, Sunday, 27 May 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

I want to recommend the new album by The National personally to Jesse. It reminds me of him and the way he likes Interpol and Wolf Parade. It's also just a great record, and I recommend it to anybody. Kinda dark, tho.

― kenan, Sunday, 27 May 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/article/record_review/43053-boxer

― kenan, Sunday, 27 May 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

I've been raving about that album for like a month now! It does remind me a little of Interpol but more ... American somehow? I know Interpol are American, but they sound European to me.

― n/a, Sunday, 27 May 2007 22:00 (nineteen years ago)

BBQ shopping trip accomplished, burger thawing, beers chilling, pico de gallo made. Cute girl invited :D Now, a Tanq & tonic.

― dan m, Sunday, 27 May 2007 22:12 (nineteen years ago)

hey everybody, i'll be moving in this friday, june 1st. putting stuff in boxes really stinks, but i'm sure it will be worth it in the end. looking forward to having some beers with people. word

― stingy, Sunday, 27 May 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, nick, we should have listened to you. :)

― kenan, Sunday, 27 May 2007 23:18 (nineteen years ago)

We went to the Logan Theater and saw Hot Fuzz, I had never been there before. It's nice, similar to the Davis but cheaper - two tickets, small popcorn and medium coke for $11.

― n/a, Monday, 28 May 2007 04:04 (nineteen years ago)

NICE

julia and I watched Point Break, and it was... YESSS

― kenan, Monday, 28 May 2007 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, we watched it today, because she mentioned it somehow at some point in the past, and I said it was essential, and then she rented it.

Keanu, after surfing at night, says, "I can't describe what I'm feeling."

Obvious retort: "Because I don't have the vocabulary."

― kenan, Monday, 28 May 2007 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

another great moment... Keanu jumps out of a plane without a parachute, saying, "FUCK IT!"

Swayze, after they all live through it, says, "You are one radical son of a bitch!"

I'm not kidding, this is the best movie ever made.

― kenan, Monday, 28 May 2007 04:39 (nineteen years ago)

how do you guys know @my L3grand?

― robotsinlove, Monday, 28 May 2007 05:56 (nineteen years ago)

I don't, I think she was with the ladiez party.

Point Break is retarded but I still like it.

Tonight I got my keyboard working. Now I must rest for there is food to be prepared in the morning.

― dan m, Monday, 28 May 2007 06:54 (nineteen years ago)

@my is the girlfriend of B3n, the drummer in the F@k3 F1ct10nz.

― n/a, Monday, 28 May 2007 13:43 (nineteen years ago)

strangely (or not so strangely given that chicago is small this way sometimes), i used to hang out with @my fairly regularly. i knew her from d@nny's and she was a friend of my then girlfriend. i think they had some sort of falling out and so that was that.

― robotsinlove, Monday, 28 May 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

crrrrrrrrazy

― n/a, Monday, 28 May 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

I narrowly missed going to a co-worker's awkward house party. Some of my other friends from work told me they weren't sure if they were going b/c everytime he gets drunk and coked up, his roommate (both are named Tyler) gets really gay despite being "straight." Apparently he did his usual last night--he started to sweat profusely, so he took his clothes off and did some freestyle gay-themed rap in his underwear. He likes to wrap about getting fucked and while I didn't find out if he did it last night, he regularly puts things into his ass--bottles, kitchen utensils, pens. While it sounded fascinating, I am not ready for that jelly.

― Jesse, Monday, 28 May 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Apparently turnout was poor b/c people were forewarned about butt-boy.

― Jesse, Monday, 28 May 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

ok maybe but that is some seriously funny shit to hear about second-hand.

― kenan, Monday, 28 May 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

BUTT BOY

― kenan, Monday, 28 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

Another day on the grill like today and I'll have my cooks' hands back for reals. Mmmmm kebabs.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 05:04 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, folks.

Is anyone seeing cicadas yet?

― kenan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't!

DUDES. How do you put an away message on Outlook? JUST WONDERIN'. :-D

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

Good morning, folks.

Is anyone seeing cicadas yet?

i saw literally a couple hundred of them on the walk through the campus this morning, haven't seen any at home yet.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Oh wow. My parts hurt. Hangover.

I went to a different co-worker's party (Patty, for the couple of you who know her) and who was there but Tyler (not butt boy) and his other roommate. Turns out their kind of annoying too. Tyler kept kissing the gay guys on the lips and then getting sort of angry and defensive, saying, "WHAT'S EVERYONE STARING AT?? I just kissed a guy on the lips, what's the big fucking deal? Why can't people be more accepting?" and his roommate smacked his ass and touched him.

I have to work today.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

HOLY POOP!

I left the poor bird on his shower perch since yesterday at 2:30! I'm surprised he didn't fly off. Poor critter.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:28 (nineteen years ago)

tools > out of office assistant

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I hate Outlook. Well, Entourage.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Jarts and High Life mimosas = best Monday ever

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

Hi guys.

I had a great weekend full of booze and BBQ and the beach and board games and (unfortunately) bug bites.

It sounds like the parties on Friday went off well. Wish I could've been there. (Weird that Mark knows Amy.) Looking forward to the big to-do on Saturday.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't find it, so I clicked on help. Perhaps I don't have a server email exchange. Oh, whatevs.

Some guy was super rude to me on the phone this morning. He asked about something and I told him who could help and transferred him. Then he called back enraged that he got a voicemail. I said, hey, sorry, how about I put you in this other woman's voicemail? She might be able to help you. So he was like, "THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR KIND OFFERS OF VOICEMAILS YOU COULD PUT ME INTO!" and slammed down the phone. It was very dramatic.

xpost - Yeah, that was the best bach party combo ever. But yes.. SATURDAY!!

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

The Ic3 Factory funeral on Saturday was more emo than I expected, lots of speeches and Justin formerly of Cr@p 3ngine announced that he and his gf are getting married. Then we played two songs and split.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I liked this three-day weekend.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

Getting married is so emo.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Justin formerly of Cr@p 3ngine announced that he and his gf are getting married

I'm assuming this is still Thea? I can't keep track sometimes.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

Oh cool. They've been together 4-EVA.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

my friends bi11 & 1isa joined the esteemed ranks of independant clothing designers who have been ripped off by urban outfitters. not only did uo steal the exact design of one of their shirts they've been selling for almost 3 years, the bastards even printed them in the same colors!

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

also, i had no bbq this weekend but i did go to a puppy breeder's place in indiana. i almost od'd on squee.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

What breed? Did you pick out a pup?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

I have to throw a kitten shower soon.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

you have to throw a kitten in a shower? That's really mean.

― kenan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

The kitten is dirty.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

i did not pick up a puppy. my friends were picking up a little brother for their existing weiner dog. this one is a dapple dachshund, he is the cutest little thing ever. i think he's the one with his nose under the blanket:

http://classifieds2.breedersclub.net/files/2274_4.jpg

they also breed chihuahuas which is why i went. i did take one of the breeder's cards however.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

No, friends are getting kittens and they want a kitten shower. Except I don't know anyone other than myself who would be willing to buy them cat toys.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagggggggggggggggggghh puppies

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

i was in a whole house full of puppies. it was insanity. i wanted to stuff handfuls of them in my pockets and run for the hills. but it was indiana, there were no hills, ;_;

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

i would have had to bring a tooth guard because otherwise if i were in a room full of puppies i would grind my teeth to dust.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

a houseful would send me over the edge

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

i can't believe you guys kept that disgusting wig.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

It is living out on the porch at the moment. I s'pose I should toss it before my family gets here tomorrow. It was so purrrty.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I want me some puppies. Ok, just one...

You know what I love? My apartment, especially when it's REALLY REALLY clean like it is right now. (Also: Nick, the cats, you guys...)

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

(when you're really clean)

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

I tried to do spring cleaning yesterday, but my vacuum cleaner started smoking so I had to stop. :(

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

It's up to a pack a day.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Cryin' shame.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I think every single person I've interacted with today is hung over. That kind of slow, spaced-out dumbness is rampant.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Heeeey... It's almost lunchtime.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://web.umr.edu/~mch9q7/webdesign/ass7/dancingcat.gif http://wmcprojectgraduation.com/images/Dancing-Cat-Animated.gif http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/8972/dancingcat1nu2wk.gif

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.avatarsdb.com/avatars/dancing_cat.gif

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

http://lasr.cs.ucla.edu/awang/humor/anim/yeamau.gif

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

That's still the best one.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Do you guys think this rate plan hike is going to scare anyone into giving the CTA more $$? I don't know that I can talk intelligently about this, but I can say

$3.25 per ride at "peak hours" WTFF?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I like porto bella mushrooms but sometimes the texture kind of grosses me out.

What is going on on that 'I threw a woman out my hotel' thread? (I last looked at it when it was < 50 posts)

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry to interrupt the kitty madness, but here's an amazing story that happened to a friend of mine who I just saw in LA this past weekend. I'm taking the liberty of posting his email here, for your amusement/horror.

I decided to be social and "go out" last night. so I went to a steve
aoki party.

I met this rich dude. he bought me a couple drinks, with
hundred-dollar bills, and then we got in a cab and went downtown, "to
go to another party." but before the party, he "had some stuff he had
to take care of."

so he took me to skid row, where he bought himself some crack from a
bum. he squatted down and smoked it; I watched for cops. then he
asked the bum if he knew any "girls." the bum introduced him to a
withered black lady bum, who sucked his dick in a bum tent.

then he smoked another rock, with the lady bum. romance isn't dead!

then he bought me an omelette at IHOP.

then he put me in a cab and sent me home.

― robotsinlove, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

yay rich people

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

Weekend walk

― Jeff, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

So Mark, fess up, was it Dennis Hopper or Vincent Gallo?

― Eazy, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

CTA is raising fares?

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:22 (nineteen years ago)

It's going to take a lot of dancing cats to counteract that story.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:26 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cpsc.gov/CPSCPUB/PUBS/5053.jpg

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

but lawn darts are fun!

― kenan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

(he has a giant jart penis!)

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

eric, he is a bit vincent gallo-ish, now that you mention it.

― robotsinlove, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:30 (nineteen years ago)

Btw I tried baking bacon in the toaster oven this weekend and it didn't go very well. I had foil underneath, but the grease started burning/smoking before the bacon was fully cooked. Between that and the vacuum cleaner it's a miracle I didn't set off the smoke alarm.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

the friend in question

― robotsinlove, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

I like the art on the pillar in the background on that photo.

So between everything social this weekend, I spent a while watching waves and how each one either did or did not reach and fill a little divot in the sand. And then I spent a while watching how burning embers in a fireplace did or did not catch and spread.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds lovely. (Eric's weekend, not Mark's friend's story, ha ha)

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

bad cta news

― kenan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

what internet service should i get? i figure dsl since i don't really have fortune to spend on internets. recommendations?

― deej, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

eh. I would recommend avoiding at&t if you can. They will screw you, they just will. Maybe one of those cable/dsl/phone packages from RCN or something?

― kenan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

re: cta news, isn't that basically just to bring pressure on lawmakers when they make 'announcements' like this? a bunch of senior citizens get mad and write letters to lawmakers in springfield, etc

― deej, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

bad cat news

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

What's that supposed to link to, J?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, the 'my cat ate some thread' thread

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

SARAH I KNOW IT'S LAST MINUTE BUT WE NEED TO CHANGE OUR WEDDING PLANS RIGHT NOW

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

Best wedding ever =
http://www.jul.com/images/Porthole.jpg

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

Haha I was just reading about that place.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

I stole it from the noize board.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, well maybe not that specific operation, but the book I just finished has a chapter on underwater cities (or, rather, the lack of underwater cities).

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

No.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

I need to figure out how to ask for a raise. One of my coworkers is taking a job in another department and that means his work will be falling to me, most likely. There's been talk of hiring a temp to fill the gap but that will mean a lot of training and babysitting. Either way I end up with a lot more work to do. Any advice?

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

Dan:

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/TRND/fp8756_b%7EThe-Office-Dwight-Posters.jpg

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Determined
Amazing worker
Ntense

Masterful worker

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

I was trying to do it with "Daniel" and use Determined and Intense that way.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

haha I have that pic taped up in my office.

― kenan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

I spent Sunday alternating between watching the Office, the computer, and the fridge. I did not don pants that day.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

That sounds like my Saturday.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

So they opened that new organic pizza place at the Hoyne/Damen corner. It's ok. It's got outdoor seating, which is nice. However, while its outdoor seating is pushed up against the storefront, leaving some sidewalk space next to the road, the adjacent Jun Bar has taken the opposite tack, moving its seating up to the road while leaving a "path" for sidewalkers between the bar and the street. So this means when you're walking down Division you have to cut out to walk around the pizza place's seating, then zig in to walk between Jun Bar and its seats, then zag BACK OUT for the outdoor seating for the gelato place and Picante. Is it wrong that this bothers me? Should I complain to my alderman or just get over it?

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I like to take the most direct path possible.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

It bothers the shit out of me, too. And Kevin IIRC. I hate the place on the corner of my block the most because not only do they block the sidewalk, their fucking giant umbrellas hang out over the area that is left for walking and the umbrella corners are right about at eye level for me.

Srsly one of my biggest pet peeves about this city.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:19 (nineteen years ago)

Also, that pizza place has a valet which blocks the entrance to Hoyne. Of course, the restaurant before that had one too, but I can still be annoyed by it.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

FUCKING SHIT I HATE THAT NICK!!! i used to walk on that side of the street because i hated the one person wide aisle that inn joy and small bar left on the south side of division. i think i'm going to spend tonight standing on the sidewalk smoking cigarettes and hoping to annoy as many people as i can.

also, i went by that pizza place four times on saturday and sunday and there was a line everytime i passed it.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I want to open Jordan's Synthetic Pizza.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:37 (nineteen years ago)

Kid Jordan's Synthetic Pizza and Second Line

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm, it's blocked for me but someone said this is from a recent SYZ show. can anyone tell me what venue?

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I can't believe Crust is finally open. It was supposed to open back in early April, I think. Did you actually eat there?

That sidewalk situation seems like pretty small potatoes, guys. I can't imagine that I would even notice it.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm, it's blocked for me but someone said this is from a recent SYZ show. can anyone tell me what venue?

Live at the Brian Costello Show, April 28, 2007. So I'm assuming Empty Bottle?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. Btw the KJSL gig + iRiver recording went great, I'ma toss up a myspace site this week.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm embarrassed to ask, but KJSL is a band you're in? For a while, I thought that it was friends of yours.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

That sidewalk situation seems like pretty small potatoes, guys. I can't imagine that I would even notice it.

i walk that sidewalk everyday after work, it's TEEMING with people. it goes down to 3 feet wide (one person wide) at several points between paulina and leavitt. i have to come to a complete stop then shuffle past an eatery before i can regain my stride. it is a huge pain in my potatoes.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

Live at the Brian Costello Show, April 28, 2007. So I'm assuming Empty Bottle?

ok, yes the bottle. i think i stayed at the bar for their whole set. are billisa sitting on a couch on stage for that?

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

yes

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:44 (nineteen years ago)

ha! take that targeted gmail advertising; in a conversation about going to see hot fuzz tonight the ads on the side are all for guitar effects pedals.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be interested to find out what, if any, kinds of extra fees/taxes/licensing hoops businesses have to jump through in order to have sidewalk seating.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yes John, it's my new band. Me & Kid are the co-leaders.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

OK, you're right, I guess it would be annoying if it created a bottleneck. I was just imagining having to zig and zag at a regular clip, no big whoop.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Me & Kid are the co-leaders

Ha. Hence the single "d" in Kid.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

John gets it. :>

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

John, we ate there. It was pretty good, but I like Nick's homemade pizza better. It was kind of weird because we wanted to just get take out, but they didn't have it set up yet. I was wondering how much could be involved in me just carrying a pizza around the corner to our place... Then I saw a guy with a take out box. Maybe it was a leftovers box? It still seemed weird they wouldn't let me order to go though. Also, they only have one size pizza (a personal size), which I found a little odd.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be interested to find out what, if any, kinds of extra fees/taxes/licensing hoops businesses have to jump through in order to have sidewalk seating

there was a thing in gapers block or chicagoist last year, it's surprisingly easy. i don't think there are any extra costs, you just have to abide by the regulations. there needs to be a certain amount of greenery hence the flower boxes or planters you see around the seating areas and there are precautions about litter blowing off the tables but it's not much. i know picante got fined last year because they had no greenery and did not segregate their seating area from the rest of the sidewalk but the maximum fine is only $500. not exactly a deterrant when you see how packed outdoor seating areas are all summer.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

they only have one size pizza (a personal size)

That's sort of like those "authentic" Italian pizzerias, like Spacca Napoli or Pizza D.O.C.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I like one-size-only pizza places, I think it's very Italian?

xpost

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, ok. I didn't know that. Either way, SCREW AUTHENTICITY. I would like size options.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really care that much.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I don't know why I said "sort of": that's exactly the deal at those places.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

I'm pretty sure Spacca Napoli tries to dissuade people from ordering take-out.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

What's up with that? They want more tips?

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I can understand if you want it to look like people actually eat at your restaurant, but Crust isn't having a problem getting customers or anything.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know, exactly. Probably some high-minded nonsense about the "art" of their food. Also, it's hard to make easy money on beverage sales when people aren't eating in.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

Makes sense.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

XP: To the whole shebang about sidewalk cafes: who in the freaking hell wants their servers to be CROSSING THE SIDEWALK carrying hot pizzas and giant platters of food & drink??!?! This is wholly insane.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

I like one-size because I get the satisfaction of eating a whole pizza, while probably eating less than I would if there was a large pizza waiting to be ravished.

When I was in Switzerland/Italy there were no pizza size choices.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

XP: To the whole shebang about sidewalk cafes: who in the freaking hell wants their servers to be CROSSING THE SIDEWALK carrying hot pizzas and giant platters of food & drink??!?!

on the south side of the street it's mostly aging former fratboys and bike messengers, on the north side of the street it's the detritus of lincoln park that's been shaken off and landed in the outlying neighborhoods. they're also the ones buying the condos on division i would imagine.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

That's like the place across from my apt-- it's pretty good if you like special "authentic" pizza. Not cheap, but def. tasty. Grupp0 di Am!ci, it's called.

I never eat the whole thing, so it's always like 2 meals.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

also, i now have over 500 unread email messages in my work inbox. i'm not reading a damn one of them.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

I never don't eat the whole thing.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

Srsly, I made a ton of pasta on Sunday with the idea that it would make two meals, and ate all of it just because it was there.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

i made an entire casserole dish full of baked mac 'n' cheese that i thought would last me a couple days. it lasted almost 8 hours.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

Jordan, you're me!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

I hope Crust is at least better than Spacca Napoli, which I really don't like at all.

One thing about the one-size pizzas is that if there's only one size, they can get away with charging $12-$14 for them, which is probably more than you'd pay if you were splitting a large pizza with another person, but still less than most entrees at a similarly upscale restaurant, so you end up justifying it by saying "Oh, well, it's authentic."

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

This is making me hungry.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

I guess my problem might be (Sarah, what is your problem? DO TELL!) that I like variety. So in a perfect world, I would order my own side salad and then split a pizza with someone else. But when the pizza costs that much, I can't. The pizza is just small enough to be too small for both Nick & I and just large enough to be too much for just me to eat.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

I love that style of pizza. Like the Bricks chain in NC.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Brixx.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, the menu for Crust:

wild herb and cheese
kalona cooperative ricotta, provolone, fontina, mozzarella, roasted garlic, wild herbs

flammkuchen
caramelized onion, béchamel, caraway seed, slab bacon, cracked black pepper

clambake
fresh clams, béchamel, fresh-pulled mozzarella, caramelized onion, wild herbs

italian sausage
sweet italian sausage, provolone, melted tomatoes

mexicali blues
wood-fired shrimp, chihuahua cheese, pico de gallo, heirloom peppers, cilantro

shroom
roasted mushrooms, goat cheese, baby spinach

basilico
melted tomatoes, béchamel, fresh-pulled mozzarella, basil

pepperonata
melted tomatoes, pepperoni, heirloom peppers, fresh-pulled mozzarella, provolone

el greco
feta, ar tichoke, kalamata olive, red onion, roasted tomato

b.l.t.
slab bacon, beefsteak tomato, amish blue cheese, tossed arugula

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

I got the el greco. I enjoyed it.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

is that like kalona, IA?
i've eaten cheese curds from there.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

Probably!

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

My mouth is watering. I think I would probably order the Mexicali Blues, although the Basilico is intriguing as well.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 20:47 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't think Crust was that great. Plus, the pizza I ordered (the four-cheese dealy) wasn't even crusty! The crust was chewy. Sarah's pizza was nice and brown and crusty though. I'd rather eat Pizza Metro or even Santullo's, but that's just my style.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

man, there's something about getting off the train and getting a greasy slice of santullo's and an ice cold bottle of pabst that is just awesome under the right circumstances.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

those circumstances = 99% of waking hours

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

my officemate just bitched at me because she's overworked and i'm obviously doing nothing. i told her to get used to it.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

Things pizza places should have:

1) little shakers with parmesan cheese, hot peppers and (ideally) garlic powder (they gave us a little dish of peppers at Crust, but no cheese or garlic)
2) grease
3) at least one ancient arcade game
4) fake wood panelling
5) red and white nylon tablecloths
6) soda fountain with free refills
7) not be Pizza Hut

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

I love Santullo's.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah says she saw cockroaches at Santullo's but I think she's just paranoid.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck, now I want Pizza Metro.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

I TOTALLY saw LOTS of cockroaches. I still like it there, but only if I've been drinking and it's late at night.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah says she saw cockroaches at Santullo's but I think she's just paranoid.

i'm sure she has. there isn't a restaurant in wicker park that doesn't have them. they did give my friend amy food poisoning once too but fuck it, i've never seen a roach on my slice nor gotten sick from their pizza so i still go.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:07 (nineteen years ago)

Pizza Metro is good, but that super-buttery crust is too much sometimes.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

I feel like there are so many restaurants around my 'hood now that charge a lot for mediocre food. That class of restaurant that basically sells overpriced, gussied-up versions of food you could make at home, except it has a bunch of unnecessary crap and it doesn't taste as good. That's how I feel about Crust. I guess if you're really into only eating organic food it might be worth it, but if you want pizza, it's not really amazing pizza, especially for what you're paying. I'd even rather eat the pizza from Innjoy across the street.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

See: basically every restaurant in Bucktown.

― n/a, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

That's how I feel about Dunlay's. It's like... wait, 12 dollars for this?!?

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

On the other hand taquerias are el cheapo and almost always awesome.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

I love Santullo's too!

― horseshoe, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

overpriced, gussied-up versions of food you could make at home

See: restaurants.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

I mean, not to be Cap'n Save-a-Crust (although it's true that I've been eagerly awaiting its opening for two months and so I want to stay optimistic about it), but I like eating out because I don't always have the time or energy to make pizza all the time at home, nor the talent to make a pizza as good as the best ones I've had. And especially with a place like Crust, even if I had the mindset to create a pizza with wood-burned shrimp, heirloom peppers, chihuahua cheese, cilantro, and pico de gallo, when am I actually going to have all those ingredients on-hand? And if I went out to the store and got all those ingredients right now, including pizza dough, I'd probably be paying at least half of what the pizza cost ($13), at which point it just seems like a better idea to go to the restaurant. (Not to mention the fact that my shrimp wouldn't be wood-burned.) It definitely sucks when the food at a trendy, upscale joint is mediocre (viz. my complaint about Spacca Napoli above), but a lot of the time for me, the alternative is making a Tofurky sandwich at home or getting boring Thai food again, so I still like trying places like that.

I have spent way too long on this post.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

The best pizzas I've ever had, I made myself. Of course, at the time, I worked in a pizza restaurant. I feel confident that, given the right equipment (read: a real pizza oven) I could outdo or at least match just about anything from Crust.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:17 (nineteen years ago)

Attention.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

I bought furniture.

Here is my fabulous china hutch from the Brown Elephant on Halsted. How much you think I paid?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/231/520669721_676d7a87a7_b.jpg

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:34 (nineteen years ago)

Wrong. I paid $80.

And here is my desk. It needs some work.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/250/520637890_506a3f59e6.jpg

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

Did it come with the skull?

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Nice skull.

damnit xpost

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

Where did I get the skull? I forget.... I didn't pay anything for it and I got it in NC somewhere.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:41 (nineteen years ago)

I love my hutch. Hutch good. Hutch make JK smile. THROWING AWAY THE FALLING APART PIECE OF SHIT IKEA CABINET THAT IT'S REPLACING MAKES JK SMILE REEEEAL BIG.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted to make a sarcastic comment about how on the west side all apartments come with hutches built into the walls, but I can't make it work.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:47 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted to make a sarcastic comment about Jesse giving good skull, but I can't make it work.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

I had something to say about the west side the other day...it was rude and amusing (to me) but now I've forgotten. But I wanted you to know that I was going to say it.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:49 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder what kind of skull it is. Where the fuck did it come from??

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:50 (nineteen years ago)

Judging only by size, I'm going to say dog or deer.

― dan m, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 22:53 (nineteen years ago)

It didn't have incisors or canines, so I was guessing not dog.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 29 May 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

hooray awesome furniture! that's always satisfying.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 00:16 (nineteen years ago)

My shitty little Ikea desk is peeling. Anytime is senses moisture, it sheds skin. It looks like Michael Jackson's penis now.

I am sad tonight, and the only record that really makes me feel better is "Night and Day" by Joe Jackson.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 03:05 (nineteen years ago)

Michael Jackson's penis....huh.

1. OK so I did sort of a lot of emailing to a bunch of guys from a personals site and one guy emailed me back and I am in sort an awkward position here of wanting to know which guy he is, but not being like, "hey, which of the guys from wide net-casting are you?"

2. My tanning place is open until 11 PM. That's really late!

3. I was walking down Northalsted and a sort of weird-queeny pair of guys was walking toward me and the one guy said pointed to me and said, "Oh look!" The other guy was trying to make him stop, but the first guy persisted going "You stop, I want to say hi to him--Hi, how are you tonight?" as his friend fussed at him, stopping him from waving and urging him to shut him up. It was funny in a way that is not coming through completely here.

4. My hutch and I are getting along smashingly!

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

Re. #1: That worked itself out nicely--he sent me another email telling me what his screen name was.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 03:57 (nineteen years ago)

omg this Fennesz/Sakamoto record is like taking your favorite downer and then having your favorite cat in your lap for an hour. So so nice.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d133/anotherscrewup89/christopher-reeves-heaven.jpg

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 05:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p184/DjASBO/hay.gif

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 05:17 (nineteen years ago)

I am comforted by the idea that when we die, we are mainlined straight into Jesus' neck.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 05:19 (nineteen years ago)

Haha!

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 05:20 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/239/521019036_481381230a.jpg

More hutch.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 05:32 (nineteen years ago)

very pretty, especially the things that are yellow.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 05:34 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder where half of that crap came from? Like the pitcher and glasses. You would think I would remember acquiring those.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 05:36 (nineteen years ago)

They are very nice, at any rate.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 05:39 (nineteen years ago)

http://f3.yahoofs.com/blog/456bce78z16098800/44/__sr_/a0fd.jpg?mgg6TXGBsoTKzuIB

― Eazy, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 08:05 (nineteen years ago)

Ooh, Jesse, I love that hutch! The desk is cool too. If you end up refinishing it, please show me how. I will help! I want to refinish the desk we got from craigslist at some point.

My fam used to (maybe mom still does?) have a pitcher and glasses like that except in purple.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

i was almost 20 minutes late for work today, normally i would've taken a cab from the forest park el stop and i would have been 5 minutes late at the most but instead i decided to wait for the bus. then i was walking through the parking lot (the number of dead cicaidas has increased exponentially overnight) and decided i wasn't going in until i finished my cigarette. they're expensive you know. so anyway, for the next 7 days i'm going to be as big a prick as i want to be between the hours of 8 and 4:30.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:41 (nineteen years ago)

Will that involve using any cicada corpses to your advantage?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

I'm trying to delegate some of my daily chores to coworkers instead of dumping them all on one person while I'm gone. And guess what? EVERYONE IS TOTALLY RELUCTANT TO DO ANYTHING AT ALL FOR ME! Oh, I won't see them for a while after today anyway...

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

fuck em, ferreal

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

I can imagine them now.

Weird. Why haven't we gotten any mail for a week?

Why are these dishes dirty?

So-and-so said they called me back, but I never got a message.

Weeeiiirrdddd....

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:56 (nineteen years ago)

You know what I need? COFFEE!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

i saw hot fuzz last night and thought it was pretty good. i don't pay any attention to press/hype about movies so i had no expectations going in. first and third reels were hilarious, i thought it dragged a bit in the middle where sargeant angel started doubting himself. it was a beautiful night in logan square, when we got out of the theatre it was just past 11 and still in the 80s. we decided to take the milwaukee bus back instead of the blue line since it was so nice, there is a little garden on the southwest corner of kedzie and milwaukee that smelled spectacular in the night air. it was a pretty good night.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 13:58 (nineteen years ago)

ha! i just realized i never turned off my ipod when i came in, i just took off my headphones. i was wondering what that weird sound was, it turns out it was the gun club doing "she's like heroin to me" at top volume in my bag under my desk.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:01 (nineteen years ago)

i saw hot fuzz last night and thought it was pretty good.

HAHA yes.

This is the reason we watched Point Break, and I swear it's nearly as good.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

the two detectives slayed me.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:16 (nineteen years ago)

Truth: I've never seen Point Break.

Finally saw Pan's Labyrinth last night, like whoa. Hand-eye dude is still freaking me out. That scene was like a full-scale Tool video.

Also, I'm currently dling the torrent of the first Pumpkins show from Europe last week. Geeked out, indeed.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I plan on giving the desk a light sanding, then removing the dust with a tack cloth and then using stain on it. I would like to varnish it, but my previous attempts at varnishing things have been less than spectacular.

If you want to borrow my orbital sander for your project, you may!

Other things I plan to do/am doing to desk:

1. replace drawer pulls
2. replace a the rear panel
3. Move the top part back about 3 inches to accomodate laptop (already in progress)
4. put in sliding keyboard tray
5. re-glue rolltop
6. put parafin wax on the part where the rolltop slides.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I'm unpleasantly surprised that it's your responsibility to delegate your specific chores while you're away -- either someone covers the absolutely necessary parts of your job, or your manager should be assigning coverage. It should NEVER be your responsibility to assign tasks piecemeal, because it makes it seem like you're asking people for FAVORS when really you are perfectly entitled to your vacation time!!!! BASTARDS I HATE THEM ALL.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

The two mustache dudes in Hot Fuzz were pretty great. The scene where I laughed the hardest was one of the ones where they were making fun of the main guy, and they walk out of frame and then one of the dudes sticks his head back in the frame. I don't know why it was so funny.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking the same thing (about work delegation). Is there no office manager there?

Reasons I am in good mood today:
* made tacos last night; i ate 4, d ate 5
* took carl for dip in the lake this morning
* going to doc to find out what the fuck is wrong with my finger and get new migraine medicine
* final dept meeting today, then freedom (for a while)
* ate delicious mango for breakfast

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:23 (nineteen years ago)

and they walk out of frame and then one of the dudes sticks his head back in the frame. I don't know why it was so funny.

i know! i actually lol'd at that and in a way that was far out of proportion to the rest of the theatre. there was a dude sitting behind us (right behind my left ear, my good ear at that) who laughed LOUDLY at every minor joke. but that one bit was funny as hell and i can't explain it either.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

You so crazy, Jesse.

You guys are right. We do have an office manager but he likes to stay in his office with the door closed. The reason I was delegating was that I felt bad for one of my coworkers who used to have my position. Even though she only works here part time now (also has an internship and classes) and has a higher position, everyone just assumes she'll do the dirty work when I'm away. So I was trying to avoid that scenario again because I don't want her to resent me. THOUGH when I asked her to do ONE of my tasks while I'm away, she was like how long will that be for? Oh, OK. I guess I'll have to put it in my planner then.

I guess I just shouldn't worry about delegating anything else. I mean, they'll figure out what needs to be done, right?

And yeah, it really irks me that it all has to be a favor to me. I'm soooo sorry I won't be here to wash your dishes while I'm gone. I mean.. COME ON!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

Also, when I approached said coworker, she shot me an evil look and was like "WHAT?!" because she's overworked and stressed. So I ended up asking her if she needs any help. "I'm so glad you asked!" She then gave me a big project that needs to be done by the end of the day. Maybe the day will go by faster then.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

And another coworker, as I expected, responded to my request to check the general voicemail with, "Well, I don't know. Some days I don't even come in the office, so..."

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:32 (nineteen years ago)

I want some mango.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:33 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, please tell your manager that you've been asking around and people are very busy and unable to cover your tasks. Say, or better yet, EMAIL him or her so it's in writing, and say "We haven't talked about how to cover my responsibilities while I'm on my honeymoon, and I'm a little concerned. What do you recommend so that things continue to run more or less smoothly?" AND LET IT BE YR MANAGER'S PROBLEM, AS IT SHOULD BE.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

planes, trains, and automobiles is going straight to the top of my netflix queue.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

You know if you don't raise the issue and take some initiative now, despite all your efforts to get people to pitch in they're going to completely fall apart while you're gone and when you get back everyone will blame you for not finding coverage and/or magically completing your tasks while in Hawaii or wahtever.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, just dump it all on the office manager. Just send him an email with a list of everything that needs to get done and tell him to find people to do it. Quit being a wuss.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

San francisco!

I'll figure something out. Right now, I'm working on this project. Thanks for the concern, Laurel! I'm sorry I'm such a complainer. I'm going to make SUCH the old lady some day.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, as much as I usually hate my workplace, at least the best part is my co-workers (save for 2 of them and 1 manager), so I feel lucky. Remember, if all else fails, FIRE IS A PURIFYING ELEMENT. It really sounds like this falls squarely into the Not Sarah's Job category.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Please, we are all the biggest bitches on this side of the Mississippi. The complaining is not a problem. The not acting in yr own best interests is a problem. :D

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

I will email him and mention that I've asked this person to do this and this to do that, so he'll know I put some effort into it (and call those people on it if they don't do those tasks).

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

B-E A-G-G
R-E-S-S
I-V-E

http://www.nwosu.edu/athletic/Cheerleading/pics/2003/Cheerleaders4.jpg

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah
Aggressive
Responsibility delegator
Aggressive delegator
Honeymoon

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

B-E A-G-G
R-E-S-S
I-V-E

http://www.ticketspecialists.com/concert/concerts_img/faith-no-more.jpg

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

THIS MAKES TWO ALARM CLOCKS THAT I'VE MELTED!!!

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

BE AGGRESSIVE
B-E AGGRESSIVE

http://www.haro-online.com/stuff/requiem1.jpg

― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I should dig up my copy of Angel Dust. It's been a loooong while.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I like Faith No More.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse, I just noticed that I have a txt message to you saved in my draft box. I think it was because my mom called when I was writing it. I just want you to know that Mike Patton is still alive and that he has a record label and lots of bands.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Hahahaha he sent me a text asking about Mike Patton too.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

XP ...and they all suck.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I like Faith No More.

who doesn't?

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

ok, laurel, that's one.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

I like most of the stuff Mike Patton has done, sorry.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Though I am disappointed by the new Tomahawk, and I missed the last couple of Fantomas albums.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

Mike Patton PO3:
1. Angel Dust
2. First Tomahawk album
3. The Fantomas album where they play movie scores/songs

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

You guys have all seen the All My Children episode that name-drops Mike Patton, right?

― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

i surmie that laurel does not like people who like mike patton, and it's not personal at all

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

surMISE

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

1. that live version of Faith No More doing 'War Pigs' where he's babbling the words
2. the song he did with Dub Trio, which I hated and then loved
3. maybe that Fantomas album that Nick is talking about, b/c I listened to one of them online once and it was pretty crazy

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

like most of the stuff Mike Patton has done, sorry.

never liked him, never liked faith no more, never liked mr. bungle. just not my bag.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

Email to manager sent. CHECK!

Getting stuff off my desk. CHECK!

Being aggressive. CHECK!
Wait... don't tell me to be aggressive! I do what I want. I just so happen to want to be aggressive, kinda, to an extent.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

I said nothing about people who like Mike Patton, only ol' Gotterdamerung Guts himself. I will not date another Patton fan -- but I think that's going to be okay with everyone here.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I like that one Mr. Bungle album with the doo-wop stuff.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Where are my IE favorites stored? I got a new work computer and I'm trying to transition everything over.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Angel Dust
California
I can't decide on a third

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I will not date another Patton fan

the key word there is FAN, not DATE

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:12 (nineteen years ago)

I have a Patton fan, it rules.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

i just added about 50 discs to my netflix queue. this is the best week of "work" ever.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

another Patton fan

i'm more of an irwin rommel man myself.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Ha. I still would like to hear California someday.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

I will hear it on Monday.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I switched up my queue yesterday and I'm excited for the next few weeks.

Priority Movie Title Star Rating MPAA Genre Availability Remove Move to Top

The Office: Season 2: Disc 3 NR Television Now

The Office: Season 2: Disc 4 NR Television Now

Blood Simple
R Drama Now

Notes on a Scandal
R Drama Now

I Am Trying to Break Your Heart
NR Documentary Now

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
R Comedy Now

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
UR Drama Now

Bad Brains: Live at CBGB 1982
NR Music & Musicals Short Wait

Chinatown
R Classics Now

Vanishing Point
R Action & Adventure Now

Point Blank
NR Classics Now

Get Carter
R Thrillers Now

The Big Sleep
UR Classics Now

Planet Earth: Complete Collection: Disc 1
NR Documentary Long Wait

Planet Earth: Complete Collection: Disc 2 NR Documentary Now

Planet Earth: Complete Collection: Disc 3 NR Documentary Now

Planet Earth: Complete Collection: Disc 4 NR Documentary Now

Planet Earth: Complete Collection: Disc 5

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

Vanishing Point
R Action & Adventure Now

i just sent this back last week. not very heavy in the way of dialog but i didn't see the ending coming.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

Cool. I wonder how many people have rented it after watching Grindhouse.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

Priority Movie Title Star Rating MPAA Genre Availability Remove Move to Top

The Comedians of Comedy: The Movie
NR Documentary Now

Seven Year Itch
UR Classics Now

Kung Fu Hustle
R Foreign Now

The Office: Season 2: Disc 2 NR Television Now

I Love You, Alice B. Toklas!
PG Comedy Now

Planes, Trains and Automobiles
R Comedy Now

The Office: Season 2: Disc 3 NR Television Now

Black Sunday
R Action & Adventure Now

The Apartment
UR Classics Now

Moog
NR Documentary Now

xpost- i've never seen grindhouse.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Kung Fu Hustle

yes a++ DO NOT MISS

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

towga's been telling me that forever and it's been in my queue forever as well but.... eh, i dunno.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

it will speak to your inner 12-yr-old.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

xpost- i've never seen grindhouse.

You're way hipper than me, then. Vanishing Point is referenced like 8 billion times in Death Proof.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

i've never seen death proof either. i'm far from knowledgable when it comes to movies. i've got a thing for early '70s anti-hero car flicks like vanishing point, two lane blacktop (in the final scene james taylor looks EXACTLY like kurdt cobain, it's eerie), and thunderbolt and lightfoot.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

Which one involves a huge old truck chasing/terrorizing a guy in a sportscar?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

dang:

Legendary musicians Dennis Wilson (The Beach Boys) and James Taylor co-star in this controversial and acclaimed film about drag-racing drifters. Directed by cult legend Monte Hellman, this definitive American road movie tells the story of two drivers who battle across the back roads for possession of each other's pink slips and the affections of a mysterious young hitchhiker.
Availability date is unknown. (Learn More)

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

Which one involves a huge old truck chasing/terrorizing a guy in a sportscar?

duel.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, yes. Duel.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

I really enjoyed that one.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

ok, even if there is no release date for two lane blacktop i put it in my queue.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

DUEL is great.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Just a simple concept, all action and thrills, nothing unnecessary.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, Did you already go move the car?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

oh never mind

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Jordon, under Documents and Settings, under your user profile.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

Yay! I am really enjoying this book and they're making a movie of it!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Thx Jeff. New computer is awesome.

i've never seen death proof either. i'm far from knowledgable when it comes to movies. i've got a thing for early '70s anti-hero car flicks like vanishing point, two lane blacktop

Death Proof is half of Grindhouse. Uh, given you and Tarantino like the same movies, you should probably see it.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

thanks, if it's still around mebbe i'll check it out.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i wanna see chalk next. i think it's playing at the landmark century?

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Today I learned that Henry VIII liked to play tennis.

http://www.antiquemapsandprints.com/p-0445.jpg

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

So did his pops.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Grindhouse is showing (appropriately) at the Brew-n-View this week. They even list different showtimes for each half.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

I'd be into seeing that.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

I've seen it already (at Webster Place), but it's a pretty good time. If you don't want 3 hours, just see Death Proof.

I never reported back here that I did end up seeing Smokin' Aces at the Brew 'n' View but due to scheduling obligations was not able to stay for Black Snake Moan. SA has a lot of good character actors getting a scene or two to do their thing. For me, not so bad. But I'm glad I didn't try to convince anyone else that they might like it.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:14 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see Chalk, too.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Some friends of mine wrote and acted in Bug, so I want to see that sometime soon.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Bug looks pretty good. Chalk can wait for DVD.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Bug looks fantastic.

Smokin Aces can just be Eric's "thing." That's cool. Everybody has a thing.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

I just made the mistake of walking one way and not another to get to where I had to go and heard my name whispered. Then I made the mistake of walking back and saying, Yesss? And now I have this crazy huge spreadsheet project to work on. I said, Ok, I'll get started on this right away, and I'll do as much as I can. And she was like, QUEEE?? Why? What do you mean? And I said, well, today is my last day for a while, but I'll do what I can and then hopefully I can just finish it when I got back. And she said, But you're still here the rest of today, right? Yes. Well, then you'll just have to do what it takes to get it done by the time you leave.

I don't want another huge project! I want to just hit little things off my desk and be excited!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

And post on ILX about projects without working on them!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

Sarah, I hate your job.

Can someone tell me if the songs here uploaded ok? I can't get them to play but it might just be my computer or a general myspc thing. http://www.myspace.com/kidjordansecondline

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:54 (nineteen years ago)

If she thinks you're staying late until her project is done when you're going to get married, she's a graceless shrew and could use some manners slapped into her. But on the other hand, this is the precedent that's been set in your office, so....

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 17:55 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know. She's been married and divorced. She's probably bitter.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

SCREW THIS... in 3 1/2 hours.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone at your work is really rich, and thus entitled. They think they should get what they want when they want it, no matter how unrealistic it is, because that's how people with money think.

― n/a, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:07 (nineteen years ago)

I so much want to get a job offer for Sarah and seal it up and give it to her on Saturday.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Everyone go post your wig photo from the other night in the WDYLL thread. Especially the merkin one.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

They think they should get what they want when they want it, no matter how unrealistic it is, because that's how people with money think.

That may actually be how they ended up with money, which is a though that keeps me up at night sometimes. I want money, too.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Aya ya yayayaya ayay.
Whatevs.
T minus 19 minutes until my self-prescribed popcorn/ COKE ZERO break.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Boss emailed back not to worry about it to have a great time.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

(about the delegating)

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hooray boss!

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

Sam and Dan, a photo mini-retrospective (because I'm bored and the pics are funny and some of you guys just met him)

spring 2007
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/205/515640887_bb2c56b75c.jpg

spring 2004
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/232/521904112_5c0365d2ca.jpg

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Those photos make me think I need to shave more often, but I hate it SO MUCH.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Cute!

xpost - I never shave mine! F THAT!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

(ie: my face)

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

no way that is a man. you are in love with that pretty girl, admit it.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

dan, did you see the pix of you and sitsu on my flickr? So cute!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't you meet him at hungrybrain, kenan?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

There used to be another great one of me and another friend holding Sam upside down by his ankles, but it has been taken offline by MTU sysadmin jerks. :(

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

Just got another project on top of this one! I reacted quite crabbily to it!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

But I'm going to try to do it! Because I am not aggressive!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

(and I feel bad for biting this guy's head off when he asked me to do it)

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

(I felt like that chica from 24)

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't you meet him at hungrybrain, kenan?

oh goodness... maybe? It was dark and people kept handing me shots.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

I think he showed up (randomly -- it still kind of freaks me out when I run into people I know while out doing stuff) after you took off, because we ended up sitting in the seats you and your friend vacated.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:33 (nineteen years ago)

He's the one that works at Alliance, verdad?

― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

xpost well there you go.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

xp si

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Name these friends of Dan M.:

1. Works at Alliance Bakery.
2. Shares a surname with a NBC newsman.
3. Is a participant in the burlesque arts.
4. Went to SAIC and now lives in Olympia.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:39 (nineteen years ago)

aw jebus

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

i feel like i would be weird if i knew all of those

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:45 (nineteen years ago)

...

― jaymc, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, Dan. Was the woman you've been seeing at the BBQ??

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

No, that fell apart :(

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

Let's turn that frown upside down!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:29 (nineteen years ago)

Don't you mean sideways?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:32 (nineteen years ago)

Yes.
:-(

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

But seriously... UNE HUERE.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

My mom and youngest sis should be in Chicago at this point (at Midway).

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

(not the same person)

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.ars.usda.gov/is/kids/nutrition/story9/smileyrope.gif

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

I like how the jumprope doesn't move.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:34 (nineteen years ago)

You think THAT jumprope doesn't move..
http://www.gifs.net/Animation11/Sports/Hula_and_Jumprope/Apple_sweats.gif

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

Just weird.
http://www.fns.usda.gov/eatsmartplayhard/Collection/Emoticons/Jumper.gif

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:40 (nineteen years ago)

Do you wanna know what I don't miss? That dancing baby.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I miss the ohsnap.gif kids.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

Mom just called to say they both got in ok.

Can you tell I'm not freaking about work any more?

http://www.edodo.org/2004/08/ohsnap-ducky.gif

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha x 100

http://i46.photobucket.com/albums/f139/sharonjumper/ohsnap.gif

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:45 (nineteen years ago)

Do not google image search "oh snap."
Thank you.
This PSA brought to you by the kind people at ME.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

I wish I could hear that, Dan.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

There's not any sound, I don't think. Which is probably for the best, all animated gifs considered.

Here's the one I referenced above. Pretty sure it's taken from an old Rolo commercial.

http://ifoughtthelaw.cementhorizon.com/ohsnap.gif

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, that one's really fast.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://rahoi.com/images/blog/mangleclaus/heavyDIScount.jpg

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://rahoi.com/images/blog/samanglitan/do-a-civilised-tourist.jpg

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:49 (nineteen years ago)

These are reminding me of emails I get at work occasionally.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry!

http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/lolmitten.jpg

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

No, they're funny, esp. the first one.

I am bored as hell too, and the next train doesn't leave for about an hour.

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney told me that he was dead.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/223/522104481_1f2c352fea.jpg?v=1180558779

Like I said, I melted a 2nd alarm clock. Just call me Dali.

My bedside lamp's arm sometimes gives way as it did last night and by the time I saw that it had done so, it had already done serious damage to the clock. I'm getting a new lamp.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I was gonna SAY, that lamp is GIANT fucking fire hazard! What if it fell on the wooden table? Or a paperback book?

― Laurel, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Now you're thinkin, Jesse.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Laurel, I know!!

I HATE LAMP.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

are those eyes on top of your clock, jesse?

― sweet tater, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.chicagoist.com/attachments/chicagoist_alicia/drivingdog.jpg

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

animals driving cars always make me think of toonces.

http://www.catass.com/toonces/toonces1.jpg

― sweet tater, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

That poor pug is handicapped. :-(

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, Kelsey!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee kelsey!

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.cracked.com/img/articles/spinoff/brick.jpg

Y U HATE LAMP???!!

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Those do look like eyes.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

Hey Sarah! Hey Amanda! I'm really really sorry that Leaf & I be too poor to do any traveling this weekend. There is a beer fest on Saturday we may attend - we'll drink in Sarah & Nick's honor!

― sweet tater, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

celery makes me so happy.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. You're a very lucky man then.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:22 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks in advance, Kelsey!

Kenan, do you at least put ants and pb on them?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

Celery makes me sad. :(

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Actually it's great when boiled up in a soup or something, but raw celery (like w/aforementioned ants) is grossss.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

ants? is there a joke i'm not getting? I do not put insects on anything if I can help it.

I'm just eating raw celery. It is happy. SHUT UP I SAID IT'S FUCKING HAPPY.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Ants-on-a-Log/Detail.aspx

It's the stringiness that gets me.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

have i told you about my thing for cream of celery soup?

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

The coworker behind me and I are having a music war suddenly. I was playing the Beach Boys at a nice low volume, and he decided he didn't like that very well, so he's playing Enya. Fine, you win. I can't compete with Enya, since it turns all the air in the room to liquid stink.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:38 (nineteen years ago)

OMG FUCK YOU, ENYA.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

and if he's not playing enya, it's this traditional japanese music that is innocent enough at first and then after about 2 hours of it and then you have no choice but to commit seppuku.

― kenan, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

Why not just use headphones?

― dan m, Wednesday, 30 May 2007 23:38 (nineteen years ago)

There is a new grocery store, Strack & Van Til's, open where Cub used to be on Elston. A lot of the staff is the same. The store is pretty much the same, too, except they don't have booze (yet, apparently). I know where I'll be going.

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:31 (nineteen years ago)

Raw celery is disgusting. The only way I can vaguely tolerate it is disguised by mayonnaise in chicken/tuna salad. I also go through love/hate periods with canned tuna.

― jocelyn, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

RONG

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why not just use headphones?

eventually i do, but what i'm uppity about is that i decided to quietly have some beach boys in the office, and it was vetoed by... enya.

I don't know these people at all.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 02:44 (nineteen years ago)

omg guys I passed my exams!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 May 2007 06:29 (nineteen years ago)

congrats, horseshoe! i did too!
and that's why i can have many stiff g&ts on a wednesday night!
winners all around, us.

― robotsinlove, Thursday, 31 May 2007 09:07 (nineteen years ago)

wtg exam passers!

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay robotsinlove! one of my friends brought gin + lime juice to my orals and made me a gimlet when it was all over. he is my favorite person ever.

and I love each and every one of you, too.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

SO HAPPY YOU GUYS!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

BONUS

― n/a, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

I am working from home today, it's nice and quiet before the impending arrival of my family later today.

― n/a, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:28 (nineteen years ago)

OMG YOU GUYS ARE GETTING MARRIED IN, LIKE, FIVE MINUTES!!! AWESOME!!!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

YAY NICK AND SARAH!!!

― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:30 (nineteen years ago)

Felicitaciones, everyone.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:32 (nineteen years ago)

Good job, horsie.

Kenan, loving celery is pretty odd. It's just one of those foods that you would normally associate with the sadness and desperation of dieting.

They're jackhammering a hole in the street and it's making me go crazy. Again the apartment is shaking. I guess I'll shower and leave?

― Jesse, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:34 (nineteen years ago)

aw, thanks, guys! I missed y'all.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

Hey wait a sec. I like celery a lot. I usually peel it before I eat it, but I like celery. I also eat a lot of plain old cucumbers. I am not "dieting." I do not want to argue about celery, merely to stand up for it.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:35 (nineteen years ago)

I even like the word "celery."

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:36 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not saying it's not an OK vegetable, but Kenan said it made him very happy, and that is a little strange sounding to me. Plus I really don't like celery all that much (it makes my tongue feel weird).

BUT I had the hummus at Konak the other day and I was telling Courtney that their celery was really pretty amazing. I think they peeled it and soaked it in water.

― Jesse, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Salary makes me happier.

― Jesse, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:39 (nineteen years ago)

Hey! Yay! The hammering stopped. It felt like it had been going on forever.

― Jesse, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:40 (nineteen years ago)

http://cbs2chicago.com/local/local_story_150090456.html

― Jeff, Thursday, 31 May 2007 13:57 (nineteen years ago)

You've all passed out, haven't you.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:03 (nineteen years ago)

I'm here.

$7 rides plus only leaving Red and Blue lines in operation?? And then saying, no we're not bluffing? I dunno....

― Jesse, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:05 (nineteen years ago)

SMELLS LIKE BS

― n/a, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

ok so i haven't finished moving but i have to be moved out today

i have a couch still sitting at my place that i wanted to get rid of, but didn't get a chance to put on the 'free' section of craigslist. i guess i could still do that today and hope someone bites

anybody want a couch? it needs to be totally reupholstered but the frame is in good shape and it folds out into a bed, which works fine. comes w a free couch cover! :D :D :D

if not, i just need advice on how to dispose of this thing. where can i take it?? just drop it in an alley somewhere?

― deej, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:09 (nineteen years ago)

$7 rides plus only leaving Red and Blue lines in operation?? And then saying, no we're not bluffing? I dunno....

did you read the article? that would be to solve the gap without cutting service.

if they cut all but the red and blue the rush hour fare would have risen to $5.50.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

just drop it in an alley somewhere?

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:12 (nineteen years ago)

i can't imagine that kind of service cut actually occurring
it would stop chicago business dead

― deej, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:31 (nineteen years ago)

they shut down the green line for two years.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

and then didn't open all the stations that had previously existed once it finally reopened.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

srsly, that's a gloom-and-doom scenario. The brown line by itself runs through some of the densest residential zones in the city.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

anybody want a couch?

hmmm. My current couch is broken, and was a cheap piece of poo to begin with. I have never reupholstered anything. Might be a fun project.

Pics?

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

reupholstering a piece of furniture is almost as expensive as buying a new piece, that's why no one does it any more.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

well, maybe the old couch with a nice slip cover will still be better than my current... thing... which is propped up on books.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rpconline.com/catalog/content/images/tape_duct.jpg

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

i have to tell people, "You can sit there, but don't bounce or move a lot or anything. You're sitting on a stack of books." It's really lame.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Super. I have no water. And I have to go to work.

― Jesse, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

its got a lot of stuffing coming out. i used a couch cover and it looked fine but the cushions are pretty worn down too. that said the frame seems pretty secure. I don't have a pic on me, but you'd have to pick it up today or i would have to leave it in an alley somewhere where you could pick it up. i thought today was the 30th but its the 31st : (

― deej, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

i need to get the cushion covers to my couch dry cleaned. when i was watching a little dog two weeks ago he spent a good deal of time gnawing on a bone on the couch and one cushion has a fair amount of dog slobber on it. i went to turn that cushion over and the other side is the side where i passed out with a slice of pepperoni pizza.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

nah fuck it. I ain't renting a truck to pick up a broken couch. I had to ask, though.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i guess i could just drop it off in YOUR alley

― deej, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

haha nah, my couch is broken but it does not have stuffing coming out of it, and it matches my rug. So i think it wins.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

let's dream together about the perfect sofa.

http://www.npowersoftware.com/images/EricRedCouch_Thumb.jpg

Wouldn't that totally rock?

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

more of a love seat, maybe, but still. It's a LUUUUUUUV seat.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

i have to tell people, "You can sit there, but don't bounce or move a lot or anything. You're sitting on a stack of books." It's really lame.

Aw. That's kind of ... our fault.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

I am unable to turn over the cushions on my couch. They are, like, attached. Someday this is going to be a problem.

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Have you lost your mind? xxp

― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

haha I likee the red velvet sofa! It's so tacky that it's sexy.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

Aw. That's kind of ... our fault.

no wai, it;s the fault of who ever built the thing never to actually be sat on.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

thumbs down to red velvet sofa

― deej, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

It is far too self-consciously "wacky" for me -- PeeWee's Playhouse style. But we've covered that ground already.

― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

alright fine, you people don't get to decorate my apartment.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

I think the red velvet sofa is awesome, fwiw.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

fine, there are other red sofas in the world. How about a more minimal feel?

http://www.northcoastevents.com/Rental/RedSofa.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

no, never mind, the first one is WAY better.

thank you, jaymc.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.mulholland-drive.net/pics/reference/redroom.jpg

(hmm, not actually sofas nor red)

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

The first one is "better" if only because the second one looks like it's from IKEA and the back cushion will be misshapen inside of 6 months. Pls to find a happy medium.

― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.designboom.com/snapshots/cologne05/p1/10.jpg

Congrats 'shoe, and I stand up for celery too, and if the the El lines close down and the fares go nuts I'm going to California or marrying a Canadian broad and moving up there.

― Eazy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:09 (nineteen years ago)

if the the El lines close down and the fares go nuts I'm going to California

you know, that's funny. I was doing some California dreamin' yesterday on the way home from work. I was thinking, "The weather here blows goats 94/7. How bad could LA really be?" Or maybe San Francisco, but then you run into whole different weather problems. Anyway, California. It's a good place.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

Do the guys in that red bench picture live in California? You don't say...hmm....

― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

in 33 days i will be in california. in 39 days i will be back in illinois ;_;

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Celery's just fine. It doesn't seem like something to have strong feelings about either way. The main problem with it is that it's just crunchy water, basically, so you don't get the satisfaction you ordinarily might get with raw vegetables of feeling like you're loading up on awesome nutrients.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.sandiegosurfers.com/Surf_Spot_Images/Carlsbad_images/Cliffs.jpg
http://www.timeoutofmind.com/images/carlsbad_dinner_091302/01_carlsbad_beach_091302.jpg

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Celery is an excellent addition to a stir-fry.

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

One of these days I am going to pack Julia in my suitcase and take her to California with me. Have you been to San Diego? It's pretty frickin chill. I will learn to surf and also become an FBI agent, and then I will chase Patrick Swayze around because motherfucker be robbin' banks.

xpost No sir, celery is tasty. It's water PLUS!

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Have you been to San Diego?

many times. towga lived on golden hill until recently. she just got a new job and is living across the street from the beach in carlsbad (the two pics above).

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I bet San Diego is the kind of place where you can live on a song, if you play it right. A big city that people ignore. Like Chicago. Perfect.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

K@tie will have a thing or two to say about San Diego.

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

the beach in carlsbad (the two pics above)

wow. classic.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:26 (nineteen years ago)

san diego is insanely expensive. on par with boston for absolutely off the charts insanity.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

you've got to googleproof katieburger's name?

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I visited San Diego for a week, about five years ago. It was pretty nice, but I think I would get bored with it after a while. My friend Aaron, who was living out there for a while, said that he thinks that the constantly pretty weather is an impediment to creativity, because people would rather just lay on the beach all day than do something interesting.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

xxpost oh my, never mind then.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

xpost I spose not

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:29 (nineteen years ago)

I think of the Bill Hicks bit about LA, and how only lizards like "hot and sunny every day."

"I'm a human, I like coats, scarves, cappuccino and rosy cheeked women, all of which are available for sale on the streets of New York City."

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

For years I've thought that, at worst, all I would need here to get by is a 30-day CTA pass to get anywhere in the city and a gym membership, as far as living without spending much beyond the essentials. In L.A., all I would need is a car to get me to the Venice/Santa Monica beaches and the hiking trails in the Hollywood Hills.

― Eazy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

There is that car thing.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

because people would rather just lay on the beach all day than do something interesting.

wow, if someone is that easily swayed then i'm willing to bet whatever "creative" output they're capable of isn't that interesting to begin with.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

So Eric, you're planning to sleep on the beach and shower at the gym?

― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

you're planning to sleep on the beach and shower at the gym?

makes sense to me.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

wow, if someone is that easily swayed then i'm willing to bet whatever "creative" output they're capable of isn't that interesting to begin with.

I don't know, being forcibly stuck inside for half the year def. helps w/creative projects, for me anyway.

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

That's what the car is for! No, I just meant beyond living essentials, which ideally include a nice little bungalow.

Someone told me once about a guy who was an artist of some kind in San Francisco, who lived in his not-meant-to-be-residential studio space and did all his showering at the gym. I hope he didn't have to do his peeing at the gym, too.

Walking is a big part of getting the first ideas for creative projects for me, so beaches and steep hill trails can only help.

― Eazy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

just the opposite for me. i can count the number of times i picked up my guitar on one hand over the winter. i played a ton in the fall none in the winter and have been dicking around again at least every other day since spring broke.

winter fucking kills me.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

For the record, I think Aaron himself wasn't swayed by the beach (I remember he wrote a lot of poetry while he was there), but he was bemoaning the fact that other people he met seemed to be.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

when i was in hilo a few years ago i was talking to a guy who said the big island was the ultimate place to be homeless. there is plenty of land to sleep on, it's always between 78 and 88 degrees, you can survive on the fruit that falls from the trees or you can go spear fishing in the shallows.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

but he was bemoaning the fact that other people he met seemed to be.

yeah, i don't think i could live there but it is nice to visit. maybe i could live there, i don't know.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, beach poetry.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

kevin otm, actually, the non-creative urge to lay on the beach would be nothing compared to the stultifying effects of it being freezing cold all the time and getting dark at four in the afternoon.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

i mean, shit is depressing.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

I thought you loved it.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

i love it compared to texas. Probably not compared to southern california.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=dPT7q825gwI

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

i can handle the winter as long as there's an ocean nearby. i need the ocean to keep my sane.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

Well, it all depends on how you react to cold and hibernation, doesn't it.

― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

it all depends on how you react to cold and hibernation, doesn't it.

I tend to drink.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Winter here only sucks because you can't really get out and do anything in it. I mean, the nearest ski area is how far away?

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

OK, OK, no one wanted to hear that, I'll stop defending winter.

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I will still defend winter over summer.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

No, Dan, I'll defend winter too -- but it's a lost cause with Kevin and Kenan, at least.

― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ah well there you go.

― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'd go nuts without seasons.

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

At this point I could do without winter, even if I do get a lot of movie-watching and beat-making done (along w/too much food-eating and beer-drinking).

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, seasons set the tone for my thinking, and help me remember to live by cycles, with different mindsets having their own scheduled time to operate. I guess if you're from Southern CA, though, you have to regular yr brane some other way. Or not. Which might explain some things, come to think of it.

― Laurel, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

I both can and can not believe the "Is there a God" thread is still going.

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:50 (nineteen years ago)

In California winter just means rain and 50 degrees and short days.

― Eazy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

There are seasons in SoCal, they are just different. The winter is shorter and it can rain. It's just that the weather patterns tend to be shorter and more unpredictable (sometimes in a bad way, eg the Santa Ana winds). The weather is probably different in OC than in SD, where i do get the sense that it is beautiful 99% of the time. A bit further up the coast and I'd peg it at being ideal about 75%.

This has been a fun experiment living in SoCal. I've learned that I love LA and could imagine living there for a really long time, although I haven't tried to develop a social life there, since I've been one step removed in the OC, so I haven't fully tested the stereotype "LA people suck." The car thing doesn't bother me too much; it makes everything feel like an escape.

I've also learned I don't give a fig about the beach/ocean. Despite being 10 minutes from it, I have little desire to go to it.

― robotsinlove, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

I mean to say that it's ideal here--in Irvine, in OC--about 75% of the time.

Oh, and I also meant to say that I really don't like San Diego. Not much to do combined with more bros per square mile than anywhere in the US plus whitebread/military culture...no thanks. Although parts are really beautiful (and I generally don't get off on natural beauty): La Jolla is amazing, Balboa Park is nice.

― robotsinlove, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

The weather is probably different in OC than in SD, where i do get the sense that it is beautiful 99% of the time.

june gloom.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

This may be part of "June Gloom", but there are the days when the marine layer stays low until about noon or 1 before it burns off, after which its clear and sunny. But, I don't really count those as bad days! It just makes it hard to know whether to bring my sunglasses with me or not.

― robotsinlove, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

in sd it's overcast for weeks at a time, the haze never burns off. that's their vesion of seasonal affective disorder apparently.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:24 (nineteen years ago)

It's time for me to have a brunch on Sunset with Mark C.

― Eazy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

Drive west on Sunset to the sea...

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Here come those santa ana winds again

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

California knows how to party.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

Crazy stupid work, keeping me from talking about San Diego. In a nutshell, this is how I felt about my time there...take it with a grain of salt as I spent most of my waking moments at the UCSD political science dept.

First, a few things to note:
1) I fully expected to hate San Diego
2) I ended up becoming quite fond of it.
3) I still moved back east because I missed seasons.

Pros:
-The weather is beautiful, and even when it rained, it seemed to do so only at night after I'd gone to bed.
-I never would've ended up on a surfboard if I hadn't gone out there
-There are tons and tons of canyons throughout the city, so always fun places to go hiking/biking/running and somehow feel like you're getting away from it all.
-Black's Beach. Nude beach right across the street from campus? Nude surfing? Always a good time.
-Hillcrest and Balboa Park.
-Tasty food.
-Easy weekend trips down to Mexico for wine tasting, hiking, beaching and whale watching.
-Surprisingly great music scene. The Casbah, Scolari's Office, yay.
-While you do have the SoCal military thing going on, there are a lot of pretty liberal, activist people in San Diego. It's definitely got it's own thing going on and, thank god, is not a clone of the OC or LA
-Seafood and delicious fish tacos

Cons:
-I would say about 75% of the college students I taught had had a boob job, nose job or both. Worse, everyone seemed to think this was normal.
-More conservative than I prefer
-No seasons. Although, it is true that after you've been there a couple of years there are subtle distinctions in temperature, precipitation and smell. Not enough to make me happy though. Truth is, I don't think you fully appreciate gorgeous San Diego weather as much as Chicago's summers. There's no juxtaposition.
-The UCSD political science department (save 2 or 3 professors and a half dozen grad students)
-My cheapest apartment was $1200 for a 2 bedroom (in 2001). At the time I was on a grad stipend, putting half of it to rent, and at least a quarter to books.

ok. this was long.

― sisut, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:44 (nineteen years ago)

Did someone say nude beach?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

$1200 for a 2 bedroom

ok, that could be a lot worse. how is the cost of living otherwise?

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

Town full of boob jobs, makes sense to have a nude beach.

― Eazy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:57 (nineteen years ago)

I has a haircut.

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:58 (nineteen years ago)

The west coast has the sunshine
And the girls all get so tanned

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

The west coast has the boob jobs
And the girls all get so naked

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

The fake boobied girls didn't go to the nude beach. I think because there was no way to show off the thong with jeans look if you were completely nekkid. Also, naked beach usually equalled middle aged gay men and families.

― sisut, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

this is true in my experience... Hippie Hollow in Austin was the same way. It only SOUNDS titillating.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno maybe it is when you're a middle aged gay man.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:02 (nineteen years ago)

POLL: Is there a god?

The longer this floats at the top of the new answers page, the funnier it gets. I bet they're really getting to the bottom of things over there.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

3) I still moved back east because I missed seasons.

I thought it was because you had reached your breaking point with Cull3n H3ndrix's lecherous ways.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

Also re: boob jobs -- I have heard this from others. A friend of mine went to law school at USC and estimated that approximately every single one of the women in his class had fake tits. Like, their daddies bought them tits for their undergrad graduation present, because it would help them in their law careers. SO PROUD OF MY LITTLE GIRL, ::SNIFF::

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

http://i189.photobucket.com/albums/z128/ericzieg/ezbeach.jpg

This is me and my new beachcomber lifestyle.

― Eazy, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

vast.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:16 (nineteen years ago)

I wonder if I know who's had a boob job...?

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit! do you know cullen?

― sisut, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost you mean, like, in the whole world?

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

Katie, we've been over this. :)

(I went to college in Kalamazoo, lived with him and Jason for a summer after graduation, the band has slept on my floor in Chicago, etc.)

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

xpost you mean, like, in the whole world?

I mean, someone I know personally. (Besides myself, which shouldn't really count, anyway.)

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

i'm pretty sure i don't know anyone personally with teh silicone. PRETTY sure.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

omg john, do you have a boob job?

also, hi chicago.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i was at black's beach the last time i was there.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

John's boobs are as real as mine.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:25 (nineteen years ago)

have you two compared cup size?

― JuliaA, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

i'm really sleepy. i woke up at 5 am for no good reason.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

Yes. I failed the pencil test. :(

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:26 (nineteen years ago)

i tried the pencil test once in high school, but misunderstood what was passing and what was failing.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

i'm unclear on that myself. if you can't hold a pencil underneath that means... you have small breasts?

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

I had a boob job in the sense that I had cosmetic surgery on my boobs, but there's nothing artificial in there. It was more of a reverse procedure. I was 13. Yay.

Anyway, I have to decide sometime this afternoon between going on a weeklong tour with the band or going to Pitchfork Fest. Doing both isn't possible. It sucks, because I really would rather go to Pitchfork, but this may be our only shot at touring this summer (a booking agent is offering us a support slot), and some people would be really disappointed if we didn't take advantage of that.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

well, either that or that you're quite perky. or possibly that you have fake boobs, but that's just a guess.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

OMG i take it back, i do know someone with fake ones. This crazy lady in my office. I have mentioned her before.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

that sort of procedure at 13 couldn't have been fun. ugh.

i have leftovers from las palmas (suburban ogden ave mexican place) for lunch.

― JuliaA, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

-There are tons and tons of canyons throughout the city, so always fun places to go hiking/biking/running and somehow feel like you're getting away from it all.
yeah! i remember when i first went out there and we took linus for his morning walk there was a fucking canyone right next to the apartment complex! at the bottom was a grove of eucalyptus and palm trees. i didn't notice the canyon the night before because a) it was dark and b) the trees were so old that despite them being in a canyone they were still taller than the trees at street level.

-Hillcrest and Balboa Park.
my ex and my dog lived in the southpark/golden hill area, i liked it a lot despite it allegedly being somewhat sketchy (i never would have thought that if i hadn't been told).

-Tasty food.
i'm looking forward to pokeez. hopefully we'll go back to the turf club and i will neither drink my body weight in gin nor burn myself while cooking a steak.

-Surprisingly great music scene. The Casbah, Scolari's Office, yay.
ugh, i thought it was lame. i mean, sure the casbah is a nice venue but every sizeable city has a good venue. i liked scolari's did not care for the alibi club. the zombie lounge seemed like the only place booking the music i wanted to see but their regular clientele kind of turned me off. even worse than the indie kids who are too cool to shake their asses at a show are the metal dudes who are too tough to have fun.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

OK, never mind, the problem worked itself out and if we're touring at all, it'll be later in the month. Yay.

xpost
Yeah, it wasn't fun, Julia, but it beat getting teased in gym class.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

why am i spelling canyon with an e?

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:36 (nineteen years ago)

i really wish the conversation about cullen was coming back to mind, alas. anyway, i'm pleased that i was able to be re-excited about the connection.

― sisut, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

btw, crazy over-tanned aging fake-boob lady is wearing pig tails today. IT'S FUCKING CREEPY. She looks one step away from having a teddy bear and posing for some 4th rate porno pics.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

*SHUDDER*

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

kenan being creped out shocka?

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

i'm looking forward to pokeez.

I love Pokeez.

Katie, it's cool. I have just always marveled at the fact that you knew Cullen and Erica knew Jason, separately.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

that was my sole request for the weekend, we go straight from the airport to pokeez.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

but we're also going to a padres/braves afternoon game july 5th! FIRST GAME OF THE SEASON FOR ME!!

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

kevin, have you been to nunu's? my favorite pizza place (bronx pizza), vietnamese (dao son) and georgian (pomegranate) restaurants are in s.d. also, i never thought golden hill was sketchy (incidentally, jaymc, where cullen and jason live(d?) i guess i expected the music scene to be completely non-existent and/or john mayer only venues. so i was pleasantly surprised.

p.s. i have pie crust in my hair.

― sisut, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

it was more the south balboa park area that was allegedly sketchy.

i expected the music scene to be more vibrant because sd was the home to drive like jehu and hot snakes! and rocket from the crypt. incidentally john reiss lived around the corner from jen and my dog took a piss on the swami records van one morning. it was the most punk thing i've ever seen. i love that fucking dog. can't wait to see him.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

I was at the Cubs-Marlins game last night. They got clobbered. It wasn't pretty.

Golden Hill didn't seem sketchy to me, either, but as a Midwesterner, it's hard for me to imagine anywhere with palm trees lining the streets as an unsavory neighborhood.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Top 100 San Diego Bands of all time (a list thread: in no order)

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

Ah, Clikitat Ikatowi. I haven't listened to them in forever.

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

ok, before i click on that i've got to say that these fucking cicaidas are driving me insane out here. still can't hear them in the ukie village but this tree filled campus it sounds like there are several pieces of industrial equipment operating at once.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

My dog just got his hair did. They gave him a fetching neckerchief as well. It's pastel rainbow.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't get a neckerchief with my hair do this afternoon :(

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

;_;

HEY guess what
D and I are going to the marathon 7-hour multi-day screening of War and Peace at the Sisk3l Ctr.

Most expensive movie ever made, apparently? Also I have never read the book.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

i am very interested in post-work cocktails. not beer, cocktails.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

Oh that was based on a book?

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

(j/k)

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:10 (nineteen years ago)

Even better: Oh, they made a book out of that?

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yah they made a book out of that and the book stars Julia Robetrs and Sam Elliott.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

With a cameo by Martha Rae.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

and your mom.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

My mom is Julia Roberts

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:17 (nineteen years ago)

I told you she was in that book.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

i'm watching season 2 of the office right now.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh man, the Chi-chi's episode...

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

Are you...not at work?

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:31 (nineteen years ago)

One of my coworkers just got canned. Again. Bad times. :(

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

So they had been canned previously?

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

another coworker, i should have said. They're hiring a new print guy.

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

Are you...not at work?

i am but i informed my boss of my two weeks notice last friday, the 8th is my last day so i'm not exactly eager to take on new tasks.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:43 (nineteen years ago)

thank god for lolcats

― kenan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, Kevin, wtg!

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

I mean... good, right?

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

What's next, world domination?

It's totally pouring in 60626, btw.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

i've got no fucking idea what comes next.

60141 is also being deluged. and me with no umbrella or even my fucking hoodie. THIS DOES NOT BODE WELL FOR POST WORK COCKTAILS.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:20 (nineteen years ago)

we've got window rattling thunder now too.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:25 (nineteen years ago)

hey, weather.com's new radar map is pretty fucking cool. it's in real time so i see the cell that's going over my workplace right now. moving from south to north.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

I think I brought this up IRL, but... now that OT's doesn't serve teh PBR anymore, might this be a good TT spot?

http://centerstage.net/bars/plymouth.html

― dan m, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:28 (nineteen years ago)

i'd be down with that.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:41 (nineteen years ago)

Rooftop beer garden sounds awes.

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

it sounded more awesome about 90 minutes ago.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

although it looks like the sun is trying to come out here?

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

not trying very hard though.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 20:58 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well, I can't today anyway. We're playing a fancy-pants YWCA fundraiser at the Funky Buddha Lounge. Open bar!

― jaymc, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

THIS DOES NOT BODE WELL FOR POST WORK COCKTAILS.

i'm supposed to be moving after working, using a flatbed uncovered pickup :(

― deej, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

buy a tarp, they're relatively cheap. cheaper than replacing your stuff anyway.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:29 (nineteen years ago)

Leave it all in an alley and get new stuff

― Jordan, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:31 (nineteen years ago)

3 women at my work have boob jobs. 2 others have had work done--1 an eye job and another a nose job. There is another woman we suspect of getting some work done, but she denies it.

I have still have no water. And the construction crew is gone, so I'm wondering WTF is up.

xp-buy a tarp.

xp-nevermind.

― Jesse, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:43 (nineteen years ago)

Golden Hill didn't seem sketchy to me, either, but as a Midwesterner, it's hard for me to imagine anywhere with palm trees lining the streets as an unsavory neighborhood.

Spend some time in New Orleans, then get back to me.

― Jesse, Thursday, 31 May 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

Dead thread. Did I do that?

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 01:37 (nineteen years ago)

http://i101.photobucket.com/albums/m46/grandekara/ec/n005.jpg

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 04:43 (nineteen years ago)

hi chi. Where is everybody today? It's Friday! Frittering Day!

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I believe we have a lovely weekend in store for us.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Just in case you forgot your daily dose of Hallmark card illustrations, Jesse delivers.

― Laurel, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

screw you guys, i'm going to have a smoke.

actually this makes sense: many of our core posters have a glorious day off from work today.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I am actually working today.

― n/a, Friday, 1 June 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I just added this to my ntflx queue, it sounds like the film equivalent of those Disintegration Loops:

Decasia: The State of Decay

Filmmaker Bill Morrison walks viewers through the process of deterioration -- literally and figuratively -- in this thought-provoking film that makes use of timeworn archival stock and sets the images against a score by musical genius Michael Gordon, co-founder of Bang on a Can. As performed by the Basel Sinfonietta Orchestra, the soundtrack transforms the entire enterprise into surreal visual poetry.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Tomas is trying to get me to come over and cook cicadas...

me: and what are you going to do with them?
Tomas: make wontons pizza maybe cookies dont know
me: I just think back to your last great novelty food experiment, which involved almost totally inedible grilled duck heads (no offense)
Tomas: but this we have researched
extensively
me: obviously. you're going to make pizza wonton cookies with your bugs
Tomas: no pizza, wontons, etc

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

No cicadas, no edibility.

― Laurel, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

http://biology.clc.uc.edu/steincarter/recipes.htm

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I would eat a pizza wonton cookie, sans cicada.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

I like how the only cooking instruction is "add cicadas and stir". Like, if I was going to cook cicadas, I would want a DETAILED PREP GUIDE.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hi, I'm here. It's still early, and I had to go see the director of HR since my building-access widget no longer works for some reason. (She gave me a new one.)

I think Kr and I may go to Bhabi's Kitchen tonight. I know the broccoli rabe is a must: what else?

― jaymc, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:30 (nineteen years ago)

Oh sorry, they're "blanched, teneral cicadas".

Cicada Granola Chews

First freeze cicadas and break off legs and wings etc.

Cicada something...
Shell Pasta
Mayonaise
Ranch seasoning packet
Peas
Carrots
Diced red bell peppers
Cicadas

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

Tomas: the problem is we didnt get teneral cicadas (newly emerged) but adult cicadas. Some reipes do call for adult though. Teneral would have been preferable
me: ah well you're obviously screwed
Tomas: WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU KNOW YOU FUCKING SHIT
me: that you're screwed 'cause you got the wrong cicadas?

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

He's screwed because the whole thing is fucking disgusting.

― Laurel, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

I love that dude.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

Pizza wonton cicada cookie. What a mellifluous collection of words. I wish that were my screenname.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

Cicada Cookie would be a good band name.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

The duck heads didn't work out, but the kielbasas wrapped in squid did.

― jaymc, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Dude is like the Vasco de Gama of cooking experiments. I would like to see a face-off between him and Jordan's friend who made the bloody mary with a hot dog in it.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

Haha. That dude is one of only two people I would trust to make me cicadas. The other is his friend who routinely picks up (fresh) roadkill to cook & eat.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

"Then he felt like a watcher of the skies, when some new foodstuff swims into his kitchen"
Also, some people on here (Jordan, Kenan?) were talking about the Mavis Staples album a while ago. I got it yesterday, it's very good and more non-traditional (?) then I thought it would be.

― jocelyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/96/252359753_36c91eca79_m.jpg

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

You can put anything in a Bloody Mary. In fact, next time I order one, I want a pork chop in it.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

And some Twizzlers.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Been done.

xpost, I don't think we had twizzlers

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:49 (nineteen years ago)

Well you needs to get on the Twizzler train, brah.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

I just stepped on a shard of something and was bleeding out of my foot all over the kitchen floor, awesome!

dan, eric, john: our song is TRACK THREE on the ILX comp.

― n/a, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

i saw that! WTG

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

i will totally eat the cicada concoction.

― sisut, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Did I ever hear the remix? I don't know if I ever heard the remix.

― jaymc, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

ysi plz

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:11 (nineteen years ago)

Pistachio naan
Butter chicken, oh wait.

― Jeff, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Kr can get the chicken.

From ROLLING STONE:

What is Dave Matthews listening to?
Matthews tells us about Xiu Xiu, the experimental indie project of Californian singer-songwriter Jamie Stewart, who, Matthews says, Tim Reynolds turned him on to. “There’s something about it where you can’t put it down,” he says. “It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ and it’s really beautiful. He’s a little bit precious maybe — and ‘a little bit’ may be understating it — but there’s something about it that I go back and I listen to it again, and I like it.”

― jaymc, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’ It’s like crazy person music, but it’s really slammin’

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:14 (nineteen years ago)

ok, dave. Time to go. In the truck, buddy.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

Xui Xui's next album is due out this year, and the advance word from Dave Matthews is that it's phat.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I believe there should be a version of the Life Cereal commericial with Mikey, only with cicadas.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

"Give it to Nick, he hates everything."

"HE LIKES IT! HEY NICK!"

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

I really enjoyed the Daal Palak that my mom got when we were at Bhabi's a couple weeks ago.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

Okay Chicago, I need your help. There is a job opening at the North & Halsted store and I am seriously considering applying for it. Living in Boystown wouldn't phase me at all, I think it would be fun, but I need to know-can one actually live on ~$10/hr without starving? It was more than feasible here, but I don't want to make a huge mistake. (Still have student loan payments) I know roommates are probably a necessity, that doesn't bother me either. I know you are not Dear Abby or anything, just wanted some advice. I also am figuring on picking up another job for ~10 hours a week, since the main one would only be 35.

― jocelyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:48 (nineteen years ago)

When I was temping I was earning $12/hr and paying $425 rent + utilities and making it, but just barely. Definitely something I wouldn't want to go back to. I imagine rent in that area would be significantly more than what I was paying? Those who live over there would probably know better than I.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

ten an hour sounds hard.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I know : ( I wouldn't necessarily have to live right by work though.
Dan what to you do for a job now?

― jocelyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, I don't understand. Why would you be living in Boystown? Unless you're saying the store is in Boystown, but it's not (that part of Halsted is a couple miles north of the store).

― jaymc, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

I would say $10/hr would mean that you definitely do not live nearby, even with roommates. I made that much when I temped and it was pretty hard to get by, lots of beans and rice, etc. I would like to echo Dan's sentiment; not something I would be eager to do again.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

Dan's job is mentioned in the Reader this week.

― jaymc, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

(The second story.)

― jaymc, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Dan I am sorry if your job is in peril.
I'm just very torn right now, I am eager to leave here, but I don't really want to go back to another well-paying but frustrating admin assistant/accounts type position. The jobs I have looked at that interest me only pay ~10/hr.

― jocelyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:06 (nineteen years ago)

(Jeez, I also hate to sound so whiny)

― jocelyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you should apply to be some sort of executive.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Don't underestimate the power of a boring-yet-lucrative job that allows you to dick around on the internet...

You can always get another job at night that's more "fun".

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

sounds dirty

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:10 (nineteen years ago)

The Reader take on the story is a little misinformed. Oh well.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

I meant like at a restaurant hostessing or something, you perv.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

It's Friday.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

I like the fun idea. I could transfer to another bookstore branch part-time, because I do really enjoy my work there. As for dirty, fortunately since I'm female I don't have to retrieve the sticky magazines from the men's restroom.

― jocelyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jocelyn, I would be surprised if you couldn't find a totally decent job paying $15+ an hour. I think it really does help to be in town when trying to find work, too, of course. There are tons of jobs open at the (jobs.uchicago.edu)... I hesitate to say definatively, but being a receptionist or whatever here probably wouldn't be bad at all. When my severance package runs out I'll probably be coming right back here looking for work.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

"tons of jobs open at the U"

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:21 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmm. Now I have a lot to chew on over the weekend, which is good. (also confirmation that $10/hr is not really liveable wages)Thanks so much.

― jocelyn, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

wait wait wait... there's a job somewhere?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 17:33 (nineteen years ago)

If you did want a job being a hostess, my work needs those, but the pay is only $12/hr.

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

I don't imagine the hostess gets tipped out?

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:29 (nineteen years ago)

I can't believe Dave Matthews is listening to Xiu Xiu. I'm imagining some of his dedicated fans reading this and going out and getting some Xiu Xiu.

Hostesses get tipped out a little. At dinner each server gives $2. There are usually 3 hostesses and 8 servers. So that works out to $16/3.

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

OK, so this guy that I met online has 28 different colognes and aftershaves. That seems strange.

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Oh. I kind of meant to put that in the gay thread.

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:33 (nineteen years ago)

Jocelyn, any idea what you want to do/would be comfortable doing?

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

Jocelyn, any idea what you want to do/would be comfortable doing?

jocelyn, be VERY VERY CAREFUL how you answer this...

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:38 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I knew I should have kenanproofed that sentence right after I hit "submit".

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:39 (nineteen years ago)

She's already said she won't remove sticky magazines from the restroom, so she's a TOTAL PRUDE, obv.

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

What I meant to say was: what kinds of LEGITIMATE CLEAN INNUENDO-FREE work do you want to do?

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

yeah where are good spots on the uofc job area to apply?? i never really get any feedback from them for jobs i've applied to and i think my resume is decent enough

― deej, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

by 'decent enough' i am being modest, i am a receptionist/dickaroundontheinternetallday occupation CATCH

― deej, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Detour

A serious, but possibly stupid question:

Can anyone recommend a (free, downloadable) program that will help me get songs OFF my ipod and ON to my computer? I lost a lot of files but they're still on my ipod...only I can't seem to figure out how to get them off.

Help?!

(ps i have pc do not hate me)

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I don't know. The hiring scheme here is kind of fucked. Central HR gets all the applications and then disseminates them. Honestly I don't know how mine got through.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

(that was an xpost to deej)

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

I used to use iPod Agent for that, if you can still find it.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

ok, fuck you guys

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

A lot of the admin assistant type jobs I'm seeing on the site have amazingly high previous experience requirements, like 8 years and shit.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:43 (nineteen years ago)

amanda, if you enable ipod for disk usage will you be able to grab them?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:44 (nineteen years ago)

actually, i think on Windows XP you don't need any software at all. You just have to go into the advanced folder options and check "show hidden files and folders," then dig around on the iPod.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

hmmm ok
will try. thankee!

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:47 (nineteen years ago)

All the files have weird names on the iPod and are dispersed randomly in different folders, to make it a pain in the ass. It's an all-or-nothing thing, getting music off an iPod. But all the files are still tagged correctly, and will organize themselves in iTunes or another similar music library.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Be careful not to leave your settings on Automatic Synch, b/c that will erase the stuff that's already on your iPod if I'm not mistaken.

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

yay! i'm going to milwaukee tonight!!

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:49 (nineteen years ago)

The Facilities department is looking for an "ornamental horticulturalist".

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

It's a union job!

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

What's in Milwaukee?

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

amanda, if you enable ipod for disk usage will you be able to grab them?
i'm embarrassed but i don't know what this means. how do i do this?

i definitely do not have auto synch on, because i didn't want that to begin with, but i will try these things and get back to you when i either succeed or lose everything in the fire.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Be careful not to leave your settings on Automatic Synch, b/c that will erase the stuff that's already on your iPod if I'm not mistaken.

It will ask first, though. Not to worry. You can't change the iPod settings until you plug the thing in, anyway.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

i'm embarrassed but i don't know what this means. how do i do this?

on iTunes, on the first screen that comes up when you plug it in, it's a checkbox labelled "manually enable disk use." It's the opposite of auto-synch. It doesn't have anything to do with getting songs off of it.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

Also: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=93651

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

i'm embarrassed but i don't know what this means.
it's a setting in itunes so i guess that point is moot. it's a setting where you can use your ipod as an external hard drive if you wish, you can store word docs, spreadsheets, ppt files, etc. on there if you want.

in milwaukee: tuff bananas 7" record release party with goodnight lovin (mil), cococoma (chi), and turpentine bros (bos). four great bands.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

xpost oh cool, i've never done that! thanks!

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

Where is it?

xpost, i mean the mil show

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

ooh, i did not realize it was possible to use an ipod like that. Maybe that's easier then, to enable disk use per those instructions jordan posted and then drag files on and off like it's an external drive. Maybe it won't notice the files are music files?

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

Another suggestion, courtesy of Matt: http://www.ephpod.com/

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

or this: http://www.sturm.net.nz/website.php?Section=iPod+Programs&Page=SharePod

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

stupid html non-parser

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

i seem to remember towga (before she was towga) trying that and she couldn't find the music files? she could find the calendar files and the contact files easily enough but not the music files themselves.

jordan- linneman's i think. i'm almost positive. i dunno, i'm not driving.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

yep, linneman's:

TUFF BANANAS (7" RELEASE) W/

THE GOOD NIGHT LOVING,

COCOCOMAS, & TURPINTINE BROTHERS

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

iPods store music files in a really, really fucked-up fashion. For kicks, try looking at your iPod through a terminal window. It'll blow your freaking MIIIIIND.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

erg, i don't want to see what the tree looks like...

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

like i know wtf a terminal window is

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Music files stored on an iPod aren't stored all nice and pretty. They use an encryption algorithm to split songs into parts so when you go to grab them off an iPod in disk mode they'll be named like a4f5.aac or something equally nonsensical. Programs, like the one Dan posted, make sense of them and dump them out into formats we all know and love.

xpost: nvm. Back to my general nerdery.

― mattttt, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

thanks everyone -- i will get this to work if it's the last thing my little dying ipod does. i have some precious things on there that i would be sad to lose, should my pod die before i get the chance to retrieve them.

i do NOT want to plan for class tomorrow. why do i work on saturday mornings, again?

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:06 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, how are you getting to Milwaukee?

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

xpost If you can't get it to work, I can dump everything onto my work computer no problem... you'll just have to pass off the iPod to me at some point.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

aw, thanks dood.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

DON'T LISTEN TO HIM, IT'S A TRAP

xpost!

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:08 (nineteen years ago)

For reference, the Mac program I use for the same purposes is called Senuti.

xp: MUAHAHAHA I WILL HAVE ALL THESE FREE JAZZ EM PEE THREEZ

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't realized it split individual files apart. Does it? I thought it just made, like, 50 folders, renames all your files to a random string of four letters (GTQQ, for instance), and then randomly distributed them through the folders. The only way I have taken files off the iPod was to have iTunes set to automatically manage music, then drag all 50 folders into the iTunes library and let iTunes copy and sort them, according to tag.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

jesse, i'm riding up with friends.

guess what i'll be drinking tonight:

DOMESTIC BOTTLE

LAKEFRONT'S FUEL CAFE / NEW GLARUS SPOTTED COW

BLUE MOON / SMIRNOFF ICE / SKYY BLUE / SIERRA NEVADA PALE ALE

LEINENKUGEL RED / LEINIE'S HONEY WEISS / LEINIE'S BERRY WEISS

MILLER / MILLER LITE / MILLER GENUINE DRAFT / BUDWEISER

BUD LIGHT / ROLLING ROCK / PABST / BLATZ / ODOUL'S (NA)

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

also, guess what sound my ass will be making tomorrow.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:11 (nineteen years ago)

xpost -> kenan: Depends which version of iPod software you have. Every increment seems to obfuscate the scheme further.

― mattttt, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Oh, I have no problem with that. You will also have loads of salsa and field recordings of like 100 bajillion folk songs. And Expose's "Come Go With Me" which is like my favorite cheesepop song ever.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, those are beers I drink in Wisconsin.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

i usually stick with the high life, or pabst if it's much cheaper, but it's hard to find blatz down here.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

(although I only like about 4 of those)

Next weekend, playing at the Lakefront stage at Locus Street Days = hell of free beer

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:14 (nineteen years ago)

leinies give me headaches

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:15 (nineteen years ago)

Jake's has Blatz, I think.

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

xpost -> kenan: Depends which version of iPod software you have. Every increment seems to obfuscate the scheme further.

huh. I have the latest, since I reformatted the whole thing and reinstalled the softwhere when I got my mac a couple weeks ago.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

Shit. I need a haircut before tomorrow!

That's not going to happen.

Shit.

― Jesse, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:20 (nineteen years ago)

Ha, I got one yesterday. My problem is I don't have any clean nice pants to wear...

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

Julia cut my sides and trimmed the back for me last night. She did good.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:21 (nineteen years ago)

I have clean pants, but I do despair for the state of my socks and underwear. I may actually be wearing my last pair of undies right now. Oh, this is going to be a fabulous night of laundry.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:22 (nineteen years ago)

I got a haircut yesterday too. :> Didn't get my suit cleaned though. :(

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:23 (nineteen years ago)

Well who the fuck knows then? I'm no iExpert/mac-super-fucking-genius-ninja or whatever it is they call themselves at the store.

― mattttt, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't know what I'm wearing tomorrow and I need a haircut too.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

well, it's been a long time since i yanked music off this ipod, so you're probably right. I wouldn't be surprised if it was coded in navajo by now.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

sorry amanda, you will need a windtalker to save your music.

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:28 (nineteen years ago)

crap.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Me and iTunes/iPod have been battling lately.

― Jeff, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:36 (nineteen years ago)

Still trying to make a playlist for every album? Or was it artist?

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:46 (nineteen years ago)

What is a terminal window, anyhow?

― jaymc, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, I want a playlist for every album in iTunes. I actually like the automatic sync, I like being able to go to the music tab of the ipod, and just go down and check the playlists I want copied over. However, that little box seems to only hold a certain number of playlists, in my case, it stops somewhere in the S's. The playlists still exist in iTunes, but don't show up in that box.

― Jeff, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't it just a DOS/text window?

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

WARNING: EXTREME NERD DEFINITION FOLLOWS:

http://www.bellevuelinux.org/terminal_window.html

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

oh. ok. i just learneded a new vocabulary word.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i used to use a vt-100 terminal daily. i have purchsed at least 50 of them. i also once bought an ancient vt-40 but i couldn't make it work with what i needed it to work with.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Jeff, have you tried click-dragging the remaining playlists onto the iPod? I can't remember if I asked you that before or if that kind of thing is even possible on a PC.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:53 (nineteen years ago)

Purchased a terminal window? Emulator? Wha wha whaaa? This must be some old-timey shit.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

Oh are you talking about an actual box that ran off a server? Crazy.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 19:57 (nineteen years ago)

I can do that Dan, if I switch it to manual but with a thousand playlists, it takes a while to drag Xiu Xiu all the way to the top.

― Jeff, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

not an terminal emulator, A TERMINAL!!! state of the art in 1975. bought a couple lots when DEC was selling off some assets in the late 90s. we used them for configuring raid arrays because we only needed to communicate with the disc controller.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

a terminal, not an obviously.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

Oh are you talking about an actual box that ran off a server?

stand alone. no storage on it at all.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:04 (nineteen years ago)

excuse me, state of the art in 1978.

http://vt100.net/docs/vt100-ug/vt100-photo.jpeg

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

In August 1995 the terminal business of Digital was sold to Boundless Technologies.

that makes sense, i think we started buying them from DEC in 96 or early 97.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

we used them for configuring raid arrays because we only needed to communicate with the disc controller.
waaaaht?

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

I couldn't modulate the capacitory flux on the mainframe, so I amped up the voluminizator, charged up my pre-configured battery-operated tenetron and phlegmatically prompted a reorg of the entire machine!

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

You speaking other language, space man!

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:11 (nineteen years ago)

http://myfonts.wordpress.com/files/2006/09/kraftwerk-computer-world.jpg

xpost haha Why would I know about raid arrays?

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:12 (nineteen years ago)

Keep talkin' space language, space man! I'll see you all tomorrow.

― La Lechera, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:13 (nineteen years ago)

1.21 jigawatts? Great Scott!

― kenan, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Man, that is some OG shit.

― dan m, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

amanda, we'd connect the vt100 terminal to the controler via an 8 pin RS-232 port!

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 20:22 (nineteen years ago)

my supervisor's boss just asked me if there was any way i'd stay late today to finish something that was just assigned. i said not a chance in hell. it felt great.

ONE MORE WORK WEEK MOTHERLOVERS!!!!

― chicago kevin, Friday, 1 June 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

Man, tornado watches here.

― Jordan, Friday, 1 June 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

I've got all this american cheeze slices left in the fridge from Monday's bbq, and I've rediscovered my love for them in grilled cheese form. Slice of tomato, onion, a little pepper... DAMN.

It's raining, thundering, and lightninging pretty hard right now.

― dan m, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:11 (nineteen years ago)

Should I try to play drums in this band y/n:

http://www.myspace.com/thesewonderfulevils

― dan m, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:22 (nineteen years ago)

Note: check top friends

― dan m, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might go participate in some cicada-cooking.

― dan m, Saturday, 2 June 2007 01:23 (nineteen years ago)

Cicadas are kind of like slightly bitter boiled potatoes.

― dan m, Saturday, 2 June 2007 05:28 (nineteen years ago)

I've got all this american cheeze slices left in the fridge from Monday's bbq, and I've rediscovered my love for them in grilled cheese form. Slice of tomato, onion, a little pepper... DAMN.

Guess who recently reviewed American cheese slices?

Cooks Illustrated. I erased the email that contained the results and you have to be a payed subscriber to access it on their website, so I guess we'll never know the brand they prefer. But apparently many of them at the Test Kitchen prefer American on their burgers.

― Jesse, Saturday, 2 June 2007 06:49 (nineteen years ago)

Also, they offer this tidbit:

KITCHEN HELP: Presoaking Wooden Skewers
Despite our preference for metal skewers, we occasionally need to use wooden ones, especially if we're going to use the microwave for precooking.
Although all wooden skewers will eventually burn on a hot grill, presoaking buys you time. To prepare skewers ahead of time, soak them well and store them in the freezer in a zipper-lock bag. When you take them out, use them right away.

― Jesse, Saturday, 2 June 2007 06:52 (nineteen years ago)

YOU COME TO BAKE SALE:

http://www.derekerdman.com/ilovemilkshakes/may2007/VERY_TOUGH_TOUGH/bake_sale_.jpg

― A Derek Erdman, Saturday, 2 June 2007 09:36 (nineteen years ago)

we has a wedding tomorrow, get with the program

― kenan, Saturday, 2 June 2007 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck Erdman, the only reason you post in here is to advertise your stupid events.

― Jeff, Saturday, 2 June 2007 12:51 (nineteen years ago)

his parties are pussyfests, tho. If you need that in your life.

― kenan, Saturday, 2 June 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

I personally do not.

― kenan, Saturday, 2 June 2007 12:54 (nineteen years ago)

Dan, we know one of the guitarists in that band, he's a nice guy. He's more Ben's friend than ours, but we played with his old band once. So I say maybe give them a shot?

― n/a, Saturday, 2 June 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

To be fair, the wedding's not until 6, so most of us could go to the bake sale. I don't mind Erdman. Sure he mostly just posts his events, but it's not all that frequently.

― jaymc, Saturday, 2 June 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

It's annoying. He should explode.

― Jeff, Saturday, 2 June 2007 15:45 (nineteen years ago)

I did soak some of the skewers thank you very much. Note, please, that the skewer-burning did not stop any of the kebabs from being consumed...

― dan m, Saturday, 2 June 2007 16:34 (nineteen years ago)

So we went to Bhabi's Kitchen last night. I had the broccoli rabe, which I personally thought was just OK (had a nice kick, but I wish it had been less homogenous: it was sort of just a bowl of green gloop), and Kr had the eggplant, which was pretty fantastic. We also ordered pistachio naan, which I just finished for breakfast.

― jaymc, Saturday, 2 June 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Also: I has glasses.

― jaymc, Saturday, 2 June 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

let's seem 'em

― robotsinlove, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:16 (nineteen years ago)

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/disciullo/twiggy/Reilly2-Twiggy.jpg

― Eazy, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:23 (nineteen years ago)

I wish.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1009/526438956_5f30215b6a_m.jpg http://farm1.static.flickr.com/210/526438962_334214d854_m.jpg

― jaymc, Saturday, 2 June 2007 17:46 (nineteen years ago)

Nice! Subtle!

― Eazy, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

Nice burns. Not subtle.

― Jeff, Saturday, 2 June 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck you, Erdman. HAHAHAHA

― Jesse, Saturday, 2 June 2007 20:39 (nineteen years ago)

is it possible to take public transpo to this wedding y/n

― La Lechera, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

ps i know it's late
i know you're weary
i know your plans don't include me

― La Lechera, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

Not really ... closest I think would be ashland green line?

― n/a, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

You could walk from there ... though it's pretty hot and sticky out right now. You'd probably feel gross by the time you got the venue.

― n/a, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

I am listening to the B-52s to get psyched up.

― n/a, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:15 (nineteen years ago)

ok thanks
we'll be there regardless!!

― La Lechera, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

cabs are good

― kenan, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:28 (nineteen years ago)

.6 from green
.5 from blue

walk slow

― Jeff, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

Red or Blue to Monroe, Madison bus west.

That said, Katie is driving.

― dan m, Saturday, 2 June 2007 21:54 (nineteen years ago)

Courtney and I are safe at home (home equals northside, though I wouldn't turn my nose up at a West Loop condo). Cabbie took us on a hell of a ride and he insisted we fasten our seat belts.

Congrats to Nick and Sarah. Thank you for letting us be a part of your big day. I am pretty sure we will see you tomorrow morning since C and I are both on the verge of sleep now and it's only 12:00. In any case, best wishes and Xs and Os.

Jesse

― Jesse, Sunday, 3 June 2007 05:06 (nineteen years ago)

Nick and Sarah, your wedding rocked! Thanks for letting us be a part of it!

― Jenny, Sunday, 3 June 2007 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Jenny, Sunday, 3 June 2007 05:47 (nineteen years ago)

I, too, thought the wedding was awesome, fun, rockin', intimate, and sweet. This is about as sappy as you'll see me get! Thanks for having me.

― dan m, Sunday, 3 June 2007 06:03 (nineteen years ago)

yay wedding!

― jaymc, Sunday, 3 June 2007 06:16 (nineteen years ago)

Congratulations, you two!! Many happy years etc etc of ILX and indie rock music and wub.

― Laurel, Sunday, 3 June 2007 06:51 (nineteen years ago)

i am home, safe, and a tad too warm after a breakfast at hollywood grill. it was vegan-burger-liscious.

― kenan, Sunday, 3 June 2007 07:10 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sleepy. We'll be over in 10 minutes.

― Jesse, Sunday, 3 June 2007 12:14 (nineteen years ago)

So sleepy.

― Jesse, Sunday, 3 June 2007 12:15 (nineteen years ago)

SO FUCKING SLEEEPY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

― Jesse, Sunday, 3 June 2007 12:43 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sleepy too, and we have tons of shit we have to get done today. Return extra booze, pay rent, pack, etc.

― n/a, Sunday, 3 June 2007 13:14 (nineteen years ago)

I would like to chime in with a sentiment of YES that wedding was fun and YES I danced my feet clean off and YES I needed that because frankly, who doesn't? What a lovely evening.

PS we took a cab home and the driver blasted us with U2's greatest hits the whole way home. He really got down to "Where the Streets Have No Name" on the LSD.

Enjoy your honeymoon!!

― La Lechera, Sunday, 3 June 2007 13:44 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not as sleepy as I once was.

― Jesse, Sunday, 3 June 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/dustyc/whereisyourgodnow.jpg

― Jesse, Sunday, 3 June 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Hey people that I only know from the internets, I officially moved in yesterday and am in the midst of major unpacking. Wanted to give a shout out, and if there's any kind of hanging out going on later today or this week, clue me in. Sounds like people had a blast at the wedding yesterday, so I guess most people are probably in recovery mode at this point. Ok, back to my boxes.

― stingy, Sunday, 3 June 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

The wedding was fantastic. Most weddings I've been to in the past few years have either been a) only a couple of people I know or b) many people I know but too structured to feel like it's hanging out with friends. This one had the right balance of friends and family, of laid back and dressed up. So fun.

― Eazy, Sunday, 3 June 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

I'm into the school of theology that assumes that all that we know is inside of a little cat toy.

― Eazy, Sunday, 3 June 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

it's nice that it's so cool out. I was coming from 90 degrees back home

― stingy, Sunday, 3 June 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, I played a riff on the keyboard and then my cat played the same thing (C Eb F). I just recorded five minutes of her synth playing.

Also, awesome wedding. Way to get married, guys.

― Jordan, Sunday, 3 June 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Yay for Nick and Sarah gettin' hitched!

― jocelyn, Monday, 4 June 2007 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

congratulations!

now, can i ask all you chicagoans a very boring question, namely who do you get your internet from? the only US city i've spent long enough in to have dsl was boston, where it seemed like comcast was the only option, but a quick google suggested that might not be the case in chicago - any suggestions?

― toby, Monday, 4 June 2007 03:40 (nineteen years ago)

congratulations Nick and Sarah!!!

toby, I get my internet from AT&T. but it's not the cheapest ever.

― horseshoe, Monday, 4 June 2007 03:44 (nineteen years ago)

Comcast for us. There is also RCN.

― Jeff, Monday, 4 June 2007 11:26 (nineteen years ago)

Congrats Nick and Sarah! Sounds like the wedding was fun. T-minus 369 days until mine.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, 4 June 2007 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

We have a new girl in the office. She seems very cool.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:13 (nineteen years ago)

I've said it before and I'll say it again -- avoid AT&T. At least if you feel like you're getting screwed by RCN or Comcast, there's no contract.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:19 (nineteen years ago)

I am irritated that Ira Glass has moved his "please give us some money" speech from the end of the TAL podcast to the beginning. He is like NPR's #1 hawker. No wonder peoploe find his voice irritating.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:24 (nineteen years ago)

Here is my friend's girlfriend's Chicago restaurant blog, the Mango Lassie.

― Jordan, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

I have AT&T for DSL, primarily because I am lazy.

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:46 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin, do you like the Only Ones?

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:47 (nineteen years ago)

I do not find Ira Glass' voice irritating.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

And complaining about NPR's panhandling is passe.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

I don't either, but it's something you hear. I am kind of addicted to TAL, actually. Every Monday is the TAL podcast and the Wait Wait podcast. Routine is good.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

I love the Only Ones!

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

passe

Like, it used to be cool? I think actually it's just grumpy.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

My throat hurts. I'm at Courtney's apartment trying to get the gumption to leave, but napping, having a continuing dream of living in Hawaii, being friends with Sawyer and Kate, having sex in junkyard cars and junkyard bathrooms, and being a movie star. It's enough to make me want to stay awake.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

xxp: Yay! I only just discovered them, and figured Kev'd be into them. Just seem like his thing, I guess.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

I have many things.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and I dreamed that Sayjal died in Hawaii. She went into a Red Lobster and then we heard an announcement about her funeral arrangements on the radio as Sawyer drove along the shore with the top down.

Sayjal is not dead.

End of dream.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

It's not good to talk about living people being dead.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

I dreamed about my iPod last night, which I left in a cab Saturday night, because my pockets were weird and things are always falling out of them, and also because I am a genius. Anyway, last night I dreamed that it wasn't really gone, it just needs to be repaired. I didn't realize how attached I was to it.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

It's not good to talk about living people being dead.
I wish we were all....deaf.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 14:59 (nineteen years ago)

Goddamn, that BBQ thread has me GAGGING for some Eastern NC BBQ. This is not a good state of affairs....

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

xp - The guy's voice gets on my nerves if I listen to them too much, but "Another Girl, Another Planet" was a mixtape staple for me, back when I did such things.

JESSE I sent you my crockpot recipe, didn't I? I know I did.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

There is nothing to do for this craving. Well, that doesn't involve buying a slow-cooker and making sauce. Even then, I would miss the smokiness and the burned bits that are key to the deliciousness.

xpost.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, you're right about that.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Crew has """""pulled pork"""""" on their menu, and the pork is pretty decent, but the sauce is that bullshit crap that ruins the porky goodness.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Smoque, dude. Or Honey 1, but I don't now how that'd compare to NC style.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

Honey 1! yummmm. Smoque's alright, but still not as good as Honey 1.

― sisut, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I'm just talking about pulled pork and/or NC-style here, where I believe Smoque has the edge. Nothing can touch Honey 1's ribs.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

mmmmmmmmmmm ribs

has anyone been to hecky's? that's where we usually go. never tried honey1.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:08 (nineteen years ago)

In Greensboro Jenny, Jeff, Courtney and I would regularly pine for pork snacks, and on good days we would pile in the car and head to Stamey's, the pork snack epicenter of my life.

http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~thc/bbqtour/stameys1.jpeg
http://www.foodhistory.com/foodnotes/road/nc/grensboro/stameys/01/05-image.jpg

Ooooh! That 2nd picture reminded me that they have BBQ slaw there too! Yum. Slaw with special BBQ spices.

I don't think Smoque does E. NC style....

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:10 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.foodhistory.com/foodnotes/road/nc/greensboro/stameys/01/05-image.jpg

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

That blank post contains the secret to eastern NC bbq, doesn't it?

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

That's how much sauce belongs on pulled pork.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. There was a picture of a sandwich there a minute ago--I guess someone ated it.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

WAIT YOU GUYS I FORGOT YOU GOT MARRIED

CONGRATULATIONS!

― river wolf, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

NC BBQ RULES! Did you Greensboro people ever go to Chapel Hill or Durham joints? My dad lives in Lexington now, home to a kickin' BBQ festival

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

i made you a bbq, but i ated it

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

I have only ever eaten at Stamey's and a place in N. Wilkesboro that advertised "fat-free" BBQ. Despite being in the western part of the state, N. Wilkesboro had E. NC style BBQ.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Smoque is sooooo far away.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

Bullock's in Durham is where they have all the country music stars' photos on the wall. Along with one of Todd Rundgren.

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

How would you characterize NC-style ribs?

― Jordan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:23 (nineteen years ago)

Btw I recently found out that my standard oven-based ribs recipe, which a coworker photocopied for me a long time ago, is an Alton Brown joint.

― Jordan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I have never had nor seen a rib on a NC BBQ menu. Except maybe in Charlotte, but Charlotte is fucked up.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

OK, I'm confused. I think I have to take this to the BBQ thread.....

From Stamey's website: "The entrepreneur of Lexington-style, Stamey is now synonymous with great barbecue."

But Stamey's sauce is vinegary and spicy with zero tomato or sweetness.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, okay. I like all BBQ but ribs are primary for me.

― Jordan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not a huge rib fan, but I feel like they must be on the menu of some of the places I went. agree that Charlotte sucks

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Dont' get me wrong, I love ribs. But when I think of BBQ I think of piggy.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:31 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.rogerandbrenda.com/images/content/miss%20piggy.jpg

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

piggy cooked and smoked veeerrrrry slowly until the connective tissue melts and turns into amazing juicy... amazingness

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

My throat hurts.

Welcome to my last month.

The only Only Ones one I've heard is "Another Girl, Another Planet," which didn't really do much for me, although apparently it was John Peel's favorite song of all time.

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:32 (nineteen years ago)

I think John Peel's favorite song is supposed to be Teenage Kicks by the Undertones

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

No exaggeration--my mouth has been watering for the last 45 minutes.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of food, can people recommend me good food that is cheaper in the Wicker Park area. I mean like $5-$7

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:34 (nineteen years ago)

I have a whole Only Ones album! On loan, natch. It makes me very happy.

― Laurel, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

Stingy, you're absolutely right about "Teenage Kicks." All those 70s UK punk bands sound the same to me.

having a continuing dream of living in Hawaii, being friends with Sawyer and Kate

I had several weird TV-related dreams the other night, including one in which I was friends with Summer on The O.C., and another in which I was in high school and my locker combination was the Numbers from LOST.

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

ribs r piggy!

― Jordan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

good food that is cheaper in the Wicker Park area

Sultan's Market for middle eastern, def.

And maybe... Flash Taco?

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

xpost yeah, cow ribs would be like those ribs they serve at the beginning of The Flintstones, that tip the car over.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:37 (nineteen years ago)

Dont' get me wrong, I love ribs. But when I think of BBQ I think of piggy.

What kind of ribs do you think we're talking about?

Wicker Park: Sultan's Market. Flash Taco sucks (sorry, but so true). Lil' Guys is pretty good but a buck or two more, I think.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:38 (nineteen years ago)

speaking of food, can people recommend me good food that is cheaper in the Wicker Park area. I mean like $5-$7

Sultan's Market (xpost)

Also, Earwax?

I do think Flash Taco is a cut above most taqueria shacks, but it's still a taqueria shack.

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:39 (nineteen years ago)

I went to a Pot Belly's a month ago that was more in the loop, do they have places like that around here? Just like a decent sandwich shop for lunch.

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:40 (nineteen years ago)

There's a Potbelly on Damen just north of North.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

But seriously go to Sultan's.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

I dunno much about ribs. I guess I never thought of what kind of ribs I was eating as I was eating them.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

There's food on the West Side?

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks to my putting that song on like 150 mixes, many people can say this:

The only Only Ones one I've heard is "Another Girl, Another Planet," which didn't really do much for me

I just updated my myspace profile to include actual information about myself. I don't know whether or not I should feel bad about this. Really I just want old friends to find me.

NOTHING BEATS THE SULTAN

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

No, Jesse, there isn't. Stay home.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

Stamey's reminded me of Brunswick stew, a hearty yummy porky slop.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

This is all going to culminate in me going home and eating a bowl of bran flakes.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:46 (nineteen years ago)

John, have you been to Erik's Tacos? It's on Lawrence across from my friend's house, he said it's his favorite joint (the location probably helps).

― Jordan, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:47 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. Salsa Taqueria on Montrose next to the Driftwood is pretty great. The guys who own it are all from La Palmera, the same town where most of the Mexican bussers and kitchen guys at my work are from. They have a gordita that is $2.50, and big as your head, and it contains *potatoes*, which makes it super.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

In NC (not Greensboro) I always liked Red Hot & Blue (in Chapel Hill and CLT) but they closed down. : (

― coco, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:51 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't, Jordan, even though I walk by it every day on my way home from work. (Actually, I ate at another taqueria that was in the same location, but Erik's has only been there for about a year.)

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:52 (nineteen years ago)

I've probably been to 100 bbq joints in NC in my life.

― Jeff, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:53 (nineteen years ago)

There's Courtney!

I was always curious about Red, Hot, and Blue. I think that's where Brian Z. ate his first BBQ, right cocoloco?

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:54 (nineteen years ago)

I think Jeff owes the BBQ thread a visit.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:55 (nineteen years ago)

I already went there, the poll was closed though. I'm too hungry to go back.

― Jeff, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, this is unrelated to bbq in every way, shape, and form, but dan tells me there are a couple xiu xiu fans here (Jesse, Jeff, I'm looking in your direction). I got my hands on the new xiu xiu larsen release. Any interest in it being posted on the blog?

― mattttt, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks to my putting that song on like 150 mixes, many people can say this:

Those people are not Britishers on ILM, apparently, since it finished #23 in the Best Tracks of the 1970s poll (which is why it's on my iPod in the first place):

The last time I listened to Another Girl, Another Planet (two weekends ago, at the end of that Optimo Kill The DJ mix thingy), I turned to my partner and said: it doesn't get more perfect than that. Ecstatically bleak.
-- mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Wednesday, May 25, 2005 5:00 PM (2 years ago) Bookmark Link

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

I think we both had our first BBQ there - it was delicious!

― coco, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

but dan tells me there are a couple xiu xiu fans here

http://www.mygirlyspace.com/images/newsimages/davmat.png

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 15:58 (nineteen years ago)

Actually, that blurb was what brought it up.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Mattttttttttt, the answer is YES. But in order for it to matter I need the address for the new blog please.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

chilxorz.blogspot

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I remember when I went over to Brian and Courtney's house and they both had guilty smiles on their faces and eventually one of them said, "Guess what we ate?" (Actually, it wasn't BBQ, but chicken, I think, but I think the story would work better if it were, so that's how it's gonna be.)

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

fascinating

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:04 (nineteen years ago)

WHAT DO YOU KNOW YOU SHIT

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

Those people are not Britishers on ILM, apparently, since it finished #23 in the Best Tracks of the 1970s poll (which is why it's on my iPod in the first place):
no internets when i was in high school ;_;

it's raining here. and i am STARVIN.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Done. Enjoy. Please.

― mattttt, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:09 (nineteen years ago)

Between the BBQ and and the goings on at the Gay thread, I'm getting mighty horngry.

Amanda, that is my problem--it's raining, 66 degrees, and I'm wearing shorts, t-shirt, and flip-flops.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

Thanks, Matt and Dan.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

isn't red hot and blue actually a memphis-style chain?

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

I don't even know. It's history, whatever it was.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.madonnacatalog.com/erotica/redhotlg.jpg

Hey you're just too funky for meeee
Gotta get inside...

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am trying to think of alternate lyrics that have to do with bbq, but I think I need more coffee.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:17 (nineteen years ago)

I can't find the box with my stereo and speaker cords

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:19 (nineteen years ago)

OK children of the corn, it's time for me to venture out and find a pork-alternative.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 16:22 (nineteen years ago)

How is the non-pork?

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:29 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I was in Jewel and I thought, maybe some pork is better than no pork. So I bought a tub of pulled pork, drowned in corn syrup and tomato. I rinsed some of the sauce off and let it drain, and while it still tasted like cloying sauce (and not PORK) it was indeed better than no pork at all.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:31 (nineteen years ago)

In NC you can buy tubs of E.NC BBQ.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

San Francisco weather

Partly Cloudy
58° F | 53° F

Partly Cloudy
57° F | 48° F

Clear
58° F | 47° F

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:39 (nineteen years ago)

This seems more or less correct to me:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,1977,FOOD_9936_23019,00.html

10-12 hours. Yeah, baby.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

This is why so much pulled pork is shite. Nobody wants it to take 10-12 hours. It always bugs me when you get pulled pork that has obviously been cooked fast and chopped the rest of the way, instead of totally falling apart.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

I love the pulled pork at Smokin' Woodys. Can still taste it hours later. Like eating a birch log.

― Eazy, Monday, 4 June 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

"I Can't Make You Love Me" is a very good song.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 18:42 (nineteen years ago)

My skin feels so much nicer since I've been tanning. Very smooth.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 18:53 (nineteen years ago)

you are supposed to be brown.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

"I Can't Make You Love Me" is a very good song.

Ahem.

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 18:56 (nineteen years ago)

I worked as an assitant director on a musical where Mr. I Can't Make You Love Me was the composer. Nice guy.

― Eazy, Monday, 4 June 2007 18:57 (nineteen years ago)

(Nice guy who stopped writing country/pop hits in pursuit of some larger Aaron Copeland dreams.)

― Eazy, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:01 (nineteen years ago)

I want to say thank you to iG@dget, but remind people that if they use this program for free, they will be transferring their songs to their hard drive ONE

time

Which is fine. Because it's free.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Really? Did you try ephpod?

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

haha John... yeah, I remember reading that, and afterwards was probably when I downloaded it!

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

no, i tried this one but i don't remember why.

it's going alright. i'm in the Bs.

in the meantime i'm listening to shuffle and omg this super scary soundtrack song just came on that's just a bunch of children chanting in czech. eeeeeek.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:07 (nineteen years ago)

I have yet to see or hear a single cicada. What a bust this whole thing was.

You know what's coming up soon, though? Watermelon season. That's pretty exciting, huh?

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:56 (nineteen years ago)

I have yet to see or hear a single cicada. What a bust this whole thing was.

knock wood

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:58 (nineteen years ago)

watermelon >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> billions of giant, noisy bugs

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not arguing with that. But the intertrons says there is still another month-long cicada window yet to pass.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

I'm on the H's! That's almost halfway done!

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:01 (nineteen years ago)

I'm only trying to recover stuff I've put on there in the last year or so since the rest was properly backed up.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

Watermelon (like most melons) is overrated: the texture can sometimes tend toward the mealy, there's all those tiny black seeds you have to eat around, and it's not particularly flavorful. The best part is right where the last bit of pink flesh dissolves into white at the rind.

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

xp - Sorry. That was of interest to no one but me. I wasn't even that interested.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:02 (nineteen years ago)

GO MANDA GO!

Good watermelon is divine, it's just not going to be divine unless it's in season.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

JUST LIKE YOUR MOTHER.

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

daaaaaaaaaaang

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

(kenan's mom's estrus is truly divine)

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

Ew I hate the part by the rind, I like it to be sweet and melon-y. Total mush in the middle is a downer, yes, but a good one isn't like that, no. Also it's kind of hard to find a seedy watermelon anymore...? I only find seedless ones lately.

― Laurel, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:07 (nineteen years ago)

And at any rate, seed spitting is fun.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

Watermelons lost their charm for me for a long time until last summer when I bought them off a pickup in N.O. Those were yum, and they inspired me to buy weird melons from the grocery store which were also interesting.

Also, before N&S's wedding I hadn't had a kiwi in a long time, and they are really good!

― Jesse, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:10 (nineteen years ago)

mmmmmmmmm cheeseplate

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:15 (nineteen years ago)

Katie said she went to the Cheese Stands Alone last night. That bitch. I wanted to go.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

(luv u kates!)

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

My mom is perfectly ripe right now. FYI.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:30 (nineteen years ago)

The rind is the best part of the watermelon because it's the densest.

Also, before N&S's wedding I hadn't had a kiwi in a long time, and they are really good!

Kr and I made mango/kiwi/cucumber salsa last night. Yum.

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:38 (nineteen years ago)

Good thing you're here to decide about watermelons for us.

― Laurel, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:50 (nineteen years ago)

No, I AM.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drg300/g333/g33320bysvf.jpg

FACE OFF

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

I found my speaker and stereo cords. Looking halfway decent over here now. If only we could get the couch through the door!

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

I was watching VH1's 40 Most Softsational Soft-Rock Songs yesterday, and someone made a comment about how everyone in the world has Hall and Oates on their iPod, and the things should just ship with Rock and Soul vol. 1 already on there. And I know that's not true, but some part of me went, "Ouch. Nailed."

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

Hall & Oates are crap. I wouldn't buy any iPod that had them on it.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

But you're the exception tha proves the rule!

No, ok, maybe you're just an exception. One of millions.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:56 (nineteen years ago)

That being true, I feel EVEN MORE like a hipster douche for actually conforming to hipsterisms-of-the-moment like that, even if I genuinely like Hall and Oates.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

The best thing about the VH1 show was that two of the talking heads on it were "Hollywood" Steve Huey and J.D. "Michael McDonald" Ryznar. And Ryznar was clearly baked half out of his mind.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

How does the exception prove the rule? That makes no goddamn sense. Also, since when are Hall & Oates hipster-popular? Did VH1 tell you that? If so, I call bullshit.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

The exception does not prove the rule, and the rest of that post went on to say that. I'm trying to be light-hearted and self-effacing! Work with me here!

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

I hope they showed "What a Fool Believes"

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:03 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, top ten, for sure.

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:04 (nineteen years ago)

I better get to see this countdown when they re-show it then. Supposed to get cable installed by 5:00 today

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost--omigod OMIGOD the Cheese Stands Alone is my new favoritest store EVAR. i just about passed out after the cheeseman gave me a sample of a decadent french soft cheese. seriously. it was like an exquisite butter melting in my mouth, but a butter that tasted of cheeese. i think only matt and dan understand my passion for and devotion to cheese. maybe amanda. she seemed a kindred spirit with cheese.

― sisut, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

Paul Young, "Everytime You Go Away" (written by H&O)?

― Eazy, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

i ate a grilled cheese sandwich for lunch today.

for breakfast yesterday i made the following for Dan:
grilled cheese sandwich with teh center cut out circle-wise and an egg grilled inside it, grilled in BACON FAT. yessssssssss. he liked it.

cheese and i are very close.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

xpost

the list (scroll down a bit

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:12 (nineteen years ago)

)

― kenan, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

oops i meant THE center but my exuberance for cheese caused me to typo

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:13 (nineteen years ago)

a love of cheese will do that.

― sisut, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

i would have eaten it myself, but i don't like eggs. so know what i did? i grilled the little center-cut bit and ate that, sans egg. yummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm bacon flavored grilled cheese round.

― La Lechera, Monday, 4 June 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

The Cheese Stands Alone is an excellent store, yes. I popped in there once but didn't actually buy any cheese.

Also Hall and Oates is better than the Only Ones or the Undertones or whoever, and not just because they're "hipster-popular" (although I think they are, if judging by Yacht Rock, or even the local band Baby Teeth).

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 22:35 (nineteen years ago)

where should I go for dinner tonight?

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I found this interesting bit of trivia at work just now. Governors with the highest annual salary in the US:

1. Eliot Spitzer (NY, $179K)
2. Jennifer Granholm (MI, $177K)
3. Arnold Schwarzenegger (CA, $175K)
--. Jon Corzine (NJ, $175K)
5. Edward G. Rendell (PA, $161K)
6. Rod Blagojevich (IL, $154K)
7. M. Jodi Rell (CT, $150K)
--. Martin O'Malley (MD, $150K)
9. Christine Gregoire (WA, $148K)
10. Jim Douglas (VT, $138K)

Mostly, I'm just surprised that Granholm makes more than Schwarzenegger.

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

Also Hall and Oates is better than the Only Ones or the Undertones or whoever

At what point were we talking about the Undertones? If you want to insult something, at least make it specific. I know your memory is good enough.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 23:08 (nineteen years ago)

We were talking about the Undertones because I said that "Another Girl, Another Planet" was John Peel's favorite song, and stingy corrected me and said, "No, it was 'Teenage Kicks'" and I was like "lol punk rock."

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Oh OK.

"lol safe dad-rock"

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 23:12 (nineteen years ago)

I went and saw Steely Dan and Michael McDonald last summer at an amphitheater in Charlotte. It was the perfect setting.

― stingy, Monday, 4 June 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

What an utterly boring time you must have had!

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 23:19 (nineteen years ago)

Wow, I'm listening to the first 25 seconds of "I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)" right now, and it's totally perfect. I love the way all the parts come in, one at a time: the circular bass line interlocking with the crisp drumbeat, then the hypnotic, dreamy synth-swirl, then the clean, stuttering guitar. There's much more to a mood in this song -- wistful, sensual -- than in the pedestrian jangle of the Only Ones.

― jaymc, Monday, 4 June 2007 23:21 (nineteen years ago)

Save it for your next self-promoted Stylus article that no one will read.

― dan m, Monday, 4 June 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

haha wtf

― Jordan, Monday, 4 June 2007 23:36 (nineteen years ago)

I really only got into Steely Dan recently, but their show was as smooth as you can get. Michael McDonald even came out to sing backup on a few numbers!

― stingy, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 00:25 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa, dude, Dan. Over the line.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 01:14 (nineteen years ago)

The only time I mention my Stylus articles on the Chicago thread is when I think you guys would actually be interested in them. Like, for instance, the one that you and Eric and others actually helped me brainstorm. Or the Scott Walker one, because I knew Jeff would want to see what I'd done with it, since he's a big fan and gave me the music. I mean, I guess I'm showing off a little, but no more so than when Jordan talks about cool gigs that his band has played. It's not like I point out every single time I write a blurb about a boring pop song, which is the only writing I actually still do for the site these days.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

That's really a great song, John. To be perfectly honest, at the risk of my own very limited cred, I love that whole album. Private Eyes. Check it out. Probably their best.

Also, when did Dan turn into me? Eat something, dude.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

Didn't "I Can't Go For That" make that old Nate's Challenge comp I gave to you, John? I can't remember. Anyway, yeah, a favorite song, for sure.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:01 (nineteen years ago)

John and I are LOCKED IN A PRISON OF SMOOTH GROOVES.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

sorry, I meant GENTLE GROOVES

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:07 (nineteen years ago)

I was not aware of the Michael McDonald song that Regulate samples until seeing the Yacht Rock episode on the subject.

― stingy, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:20 (nineteen years ago)

You are clearly much younger than I am.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:26 (nineteen years ago)

And that's ok.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

Also people like what they like. The end.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:27 (nineteen years ago)

the song is really good though. I also really like Sweet Freedom, which has a great video with Billy Crystal and Gregory Hines chillin' with McDonald down in the Caribbean or some place.

― stingy, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:30 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it's from the soundtrack to... something... wait a second...

RUNNING SCARED.

I was just about to IMDB it, but then it came to me.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:32 (nineteen years ago)

I was about to say, "yeah, it was from a movie"

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:33 (nineteen years ago)

yeah I haven't seen the movie. the video has the standard movie clips in it, but then there are other parts where the three of them are boozing it up and carousing in some tiki hut at the beach. it's great!

― stingy, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:37 (nineteen years ago)

I was not aware of the Michael McDonald song that Regulate samples until ~~seeing the Yacht Rock episode on the subject.~~someone on this thread mentioned it the day after Jenny's graduation party.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 02:43 (nineteen years ago)

The "Regulate" sample is from the song we heard at Konak, "I Keep Forgettin' (We're Not In Love Anymore)".

"Ya Mo B There" by James Ingram and Michael McDonald is excellent.

And pairs well with "Easy Lover" by Phillip Bailey and Phil Collins.

― Eazy, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 04:24 (nineteen years ago)

ok, so cute, julia and I just discovered the joy of the built-in iSight camera/iChat combo that comes with all new iMacs and MacBooks. She has a macbook pro, i have an imac, and we can video chat with impunity. We spent the whole conversation basically just grinning at each other, because we were both so charmed.

She said something that took me by surprise, but shouldn't have -- she's never seen me smoke a cigarette. I didn't think about it, but it's true. I always go outside.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 04:25 (nineteen years ago)

oh god. Man, when you live in this apartment, you wake up to trains, it's true. It's worse when the windows are open. And garbage trucks? Oh my God. I woke up this morning to what had to have been a 100 decibel racket in my room -- a garbage truck at full clatter and three trains going by at once. It actually hurt my ears a little. It was one of those very rare moments where I thought to myself, "Fuck this, I'm moving to the country."

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 11:44 (nineteen years ago)

We're right beside the loading dock and Jewel, so we get loud delivery trucks that leave the beep beep beep beep on while they are unloading. I'm pretty much used to it.

― Jeff, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 11:47 (nineteen years ago)

I can't think about 'Easy Lover' without remembering the twins (at my all-girls elementary school) who chose THIS SONG to lipsynch to for the talent show. They were in 5th grade. They were actually dressed up like the two Phils because one twin was substantially taller than the other. The shorter twin was Phil C.

Therefore I prefer not to think about "Easy Lover" at all. I dunno. Maybe there is too much unwanted nostalgia in all of these songs for me. No can do.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 12:03 (nineteen years ago)

Easy Lover video.

Nice clothes!

― Eazy, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 13:50 (nineteen years ago)

I installed Office 2007 this morning and it...really different.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

The big lip-synching song at my 4th-grade talent show was "I Wanna Dance with Somebody," performed by three girls with full choreography and everything.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

does anyone know if you can get cash back when you make debit card purchases at the wicker park jewel osco (or any other local business for that matter)?

― stingy, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

You should be able to get cash back at any grocery store (Jewel, Dominick's, Trader Joe's, Whole Foods) or drug store (CVS, Walgreen's), at least.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

sounds good, thanks! I'm trying to decide what bank to change to, and it seems like Bank of America is a good idea so that I can use it back in NC, but there aren't any super close by. But if I can just get cash from the grocery store then it's not so bad.

― stingy, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 14:52 (nineteen years ago)

There's a Mid-America Bank on Damen and Armitage(?). It's like a 15 minute walk or 5 minute bike ride from almost anywhere in Wicker Park.

― mattttt, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Wait a sec -- three girls lipsynching to a Whitney Houston song about wanting to dance with someone who loves her is perfectly normal.

I don't think you guys fully grasped what I said. Female 11 year old twins dressed up with shocking verisimilitude like much older men (one black, one white) lipsynching to a song about how "she" is an "easy lover" in the cafeteria/gymnasium of a Catholic girls' school. WTF.

That's like when I had to tapdance to "Maneater."

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 16:21 (nineteen years ago)

No drop-down menus in excel anymore, where is "save as"??? :(

― Jordan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

If you want a ubiquitous bank, go with Chase. Washington Mutual is pretty decent as well. TCF is nice because they have locations in grocery stores that are open 7 days a week.

Before long you'll get an advertisement in the mail offering you $100 to open a bank account at WaMu. I think it says that you need to have direct deposit, but that's not really true.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

Why would you want to go back to NC?

― Jeff, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

BBQ!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

lipsynching to a song about how "she" is an "easy lover" in the cafeteria/gymnasium of a Catholic girls' school.

We had a 3rd grade lipsynch contest, and one girl wore a tina turner wig and did -- I shit you not -- "Private Dancer."

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:03 (nineteen years ago)

That's what I'm talkin' about.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:04 (nineteen years ago)

One girl in my 5th grade class (M@ri3 D0n0v@n, from Florida) wore a teeny tiny skirt, wide belt, low-cut blouse, tons of make-up, and big hair. When I asked her what she was supposed to be, she said with her Southern drawl--and I too shit you not--"Anything you want me to be...."

― Jesse, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:07 (nineteen years ago)

I just remembered -- same lipsynch contest -- a little girl in tights did "Let's Get Physical." And in 4th grade, my teacher had us do exercises to "Abracadabra" by the Steve Miller Band. Silk and satin, leather and lace, black panties with an angel's face.

WTF was wrong with these people? Is this why I turned out to be such a horndog? I should sue.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse i think you just did a very very bad thing on the many gay friends thread

― river wolf, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

Very Bad Things

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:11 (nineteen years ago)

omg hahahaha what kind of fucked up shit were you trying to hotlink that you got goatse AND tubgirl as a don't hotlink image.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

How so? Do you think it was mean?

― Jesse, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

OH MY GOD.....

― Jesse, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

Wait. You're not serious?!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

lol

― Jordan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:15 (nineteen years ago)

That's not the image I'm getting.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:17 (nineteen years ago)

Because you clicked through to the correct image already, and it's in your browser cache. Believe me, what we're seeing is MUCH worse.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

srsly i'm in a public library you jerk

― river wolf, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Yikes. That'll learn me to hotlink.

Apologies all around.

― Jesse, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:20 (nineteen years ago)

I brought Nick & Sarah's wedding cupcakes into work this morning and they're disappearing slowly but surely. They did briefly melt in an outlet mall parking lot, though.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also I ran a few miles on Sunday after taking two weeks off and today my legs still feel like I'm walking on prosthetics. SO SORE.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

I am working on cover letters and I can't even get any tasty food because I am poor and furious with my bank for their ridiculous overdraft fees. SO BORING. The weather is nice though, so a walk may be in order.

― jocelyn, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

And I am going to teach myself how to knit.

― jocelyn, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 19:16 (nineteen years ago)

I am about ready to kill the nice man behind me if he doesn't turn off this shitty "world" music. He really thinks this stuff is the tops. The last track was this native-tribe-with-whining-flute bullshit, and this track is some lite-jazz-with-synth-and-some-kinda-almost-certainly-ancient-and-mystical-thing-that-you-pluck. It's just such awful music. They play better stuff than this in department stores, no joke. Pier One has better music.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 20:19 (nineteen years ago)

AWESOME, THIS ONE HAS A WOMAN SINGING WORDLESSLY! I AM SO SOOTHED I COULD GO BUY A GUN!

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 20:23 (nineteen years ago)

Ok, he just left, and I went and turned off the music. It was Yanni. I don't think I've actually ever heard Yanni before. That was... something else.

― kenan, Tuesday, 5 June 2007 20:57 (nineteen years ago)

I'm sorry for your horrific experience kenan. Glad you survived relateively unscathed.

Do not want traffic. I've left my apartment at 6:20 every morning this week so far. Monday I got to work at 7:00, Tuesday at 7:05, today... 8:10. WTF indeed.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 13:13 (nineteen years ago)

I am pissed at W tee tee W for not airing the documentary about La Lupe that should have premiered last night. WTF people. I do not want to see a Suze Orman infomercial. QUIERO LA LUPE!

BOO public television programming.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 13:48 (nineteen years ago)

Que o quien es La Lupe?

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:28 (nineteen years ago)

Aw man, they've cut the 100 most populous cities table in the Almanac to only 30 cities. This was hands down my favorite table in the World Almanac and Book of Facts when I was a kid. :(

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kRIV23LQyI&mode=related&search=

She was always second fiddle to Celia Cruz and then she disappeared and all the while, she ruled mightily.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:41 (nineteen years ago)

That sentence has many punctuation problems, but don't let that detract from the enduring spirit of LA LUPE.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 15:42 (nineteen years ago)

Do some people not post on this thread anymore? I know Nick and Sarah are on their honeymoon.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 16:38 (nineteen years ago)

I hope they don't have any ingrown hairs.

― kenan, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

it wasn't entirely clear before, but they must be the catalyst for all conversation....

― sisut, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Yes, N&S are obviously the heart o' chicago.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, and Jenny is studying for the bar.

I guess I just wanted to know if Dan was still mad at me or whatever, since he hasn't posted here since he made that comment the other day.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, is he okay? I figured it was either a fake Dan or he was totally faded.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:41 (nineteen years ago)

No idea. Dan is such an extraordinarily decent dude that it caught me off-guard.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:42 (nineteen years ago)

Same here, and I asked him about that on chat, but he was fairly stoic about it. I think I may have pissed him off all over again, because we all know what a great diplomat I am.

No srsly, he's not mad at anyone, never was, and will be back soon.

― kenan, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

"Dan," I said, "People just don't LIKE you!"

What could go wrong?

― kenan, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:52 (nineteen years ago)

LOL.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe at the wedding, being in the room with so many people tall enough to look him in the eye simply BLEW HIS MIND.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.americaninventorspot.com/files/images/shortcircuit.img_assist_custom.jpg

― kenan, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

a screenshot:

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i191/fluxion23/chat_cute.png

― kenan, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Usually I just have nothing to say. I certainly have nothing to complain about. My Month of Leisure is really agreeing with me! I just took Carl for a long walk, tried to get him to swim and then came home, ate lunch and took a bath. I suppose I could be working on something productive, but I don't have to be doing that every waking minute. Mostly I've been listening to tons of new toons, reading and making spinach pies.

― La Lechera, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 18:51 (nineteen years ago)

Our Internet was just down for the last hour.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

hey chicago.

― sweet tater, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 20:59 (nineteen years ago)

Hi Kelsey.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

"Dan," I said, "People just don't LIKE you!"

What could go wrong?

Muchos lols.

Last night I smoked a reefer. It was a surprisingly decent experience.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

I read something, I cannot recall where, about La Lupe the other day, and I thought: If anyone would have cool La Lupe knowledge it would be Amanda.

― jocelyn, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

There's a La Lupe thread on ILM.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 22:54 (nineteen years ago)

ramp

― Jeff, Wednesday, 6 June 2007 23:53 (nineteen years ago)

cramp?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

hi Chicago! do you guys have any interest in drinking on Sunday? I'm leaving town to go to India for about one million years on Tuesday, and it would be really nice to see y'all before I go.

― horseshoe, Thursday, 7 June 2007 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

Got Sopranos finale Sunday night, but Hot Doug's could be in the cards.

Working on non-internet stuff this week, so away from here more.

Hey, next Wednesday, I'm putting together a posse to go to this. $10 lawn tickets. Blankets, stars, drinks in plastic cups.

― Eazy, Thursday, 7 June 2007 02:11 (nineteen years ago)

Hmmmm. Sunday. I think I'm not working. The Sunday routine (for me and Courtney) has been going to Crew for beer and lunch.

Have you guys heard of Banco de Gaia? It is perfect reading music. I have one CD (Maya) that has an almost 'world beat' sound to it, but it is has enough interesting electronic noise and beats to keep it from being super annoying. It's really great train music.

OH that reminds me--can someone please YSI or Sendspace me Girl Talk?

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 02:29 (nineteen years ago)

Banco de Gaia

Judge me not, lest I fart in your general direction.

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 02:59 (nineteen years ago)

OMG no I would never judge you for that! That is incredibly classic!

Srsly, thank you for reminding me that Banco de Gaia once existed. I had forgotten.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

Hot Doug's is never open on Sunday, Eric. :(

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

The album version is better, tho.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:07 (nineteen years ago)

I just watched 'I Am Trying To Break Your Heart', it was awesome even though I don't listen to Wilco. I love watching bands record and argue about shit.

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

That Jay dude seemed like a douche.

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:14 (nineteen years ago)

He is. His album flopped. He got what was coming to him.

Although what I like about that movie, like the Metallica movie, is that they're ALL douches. You can't pick just one.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:19 (nineteen years ago)

The movie, though, is really fan boy-ish, and never gets at anything other than Jeff Tweedy is a musical genius, when in fact he's nearly intolerable. It's like if someone made a "documentary" about how Jim Morrison is a God.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:22 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, it seemed pretty clear that he's all ooh-sensitive-artist and not easy to work with.

Glenn Kotche on the other hand is a pro.

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:28 (nineteen years ago)

haha check this. Sorry, it's long. I wrote it, like, 3-4 years ago? I hardly remember. I just found it online.

At least we immediately know who to blame for this mess. It's right there on the poster: "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart: a movie about Wilco by Sam Jones." Ah. So it was Sam Jones who made one of the most dishonest and boring movies about rock I've ever seen.

Who is Sam Jones? Well, he's a friend of the band, or more likely a desperate, Tweedy-worshipping hanger-on, which is obvious from the movie's idolatrous tone. He's also a photographer, which is obvious from the beautiful cityscapes of Chicago and the long, slo-mo shots of the band walking along the water on a grey day, dressed all in black. Much of the wide-angle photography in the film looks fantastic, and if Sam Jones ever makes an all-Chicago version of Koyaanisqatsi, I'll be there. But that's beside the point. There's a lot - a hell of a lot, in fact - that he does badly.

He doesn't realize, for instance, that presenting a challenging viewpoint doesn't necessarily equal being anti-Wilco. We all know the story of how the album Yankee Hotel Foxtrot was dropped from its label, Reprise, and languished in limbo for long months before finally coming out on Nonesuch. We all know that the record execs wanted to change the album, and that they are therefore in the wrong, reneging at the last minute on the tacit "creative freedom" deal they had struck with the band before the recording started. And we all know that record execs are bozos. None of this needs to be explicitly pointed out. What we need is some discussion. We do get short interviews with Reprise executives who say vague and expected things about how the record just didn't hit them right, but what we get a metric ton of is Wilco-aggrandizing interviews with David Fricke (senior editor of the most corporate magazine in the universe, Rolling Stone, who has the nerve or the cluelessness to go off about evil executives with their "gold plated cell phones"), and with the band itself, and friends of the band, and even other, more complimentary record executives. This is all dry as hell, and goes on far too long. The movie doesn't seem edited for quality of content, just content. As long as someone is saying something nice about Wilco, it goes in.

Even the interviews with the intelligent and well-spoken Tweedy come off sounding like he's interviewing himself, as if it's all rehearsed. A friend is interviewing him, after all. There won't be any hard questions. He's free to talk about himself and his vision and his band as if it's the most important thing in the world, without an ounce of real introspection. This isn't Tweedy's fault, I don't think. Any rock star (egotistical creatures that they are) would jump at the chance at having a whole movie to talk about how great they are, and how put-upon they are. The fault is Jones's for letting him do it. In the act of trying to make Tweedy look good, he ends up making him look more self-involved and self-important than he is. I've heard Tweedy sound very self-effacing at times. Why isn't that in the movie? There's nothing even remotely revelatory about a rock star thinking he's great.

And why oh why is Jay Bennett treated like a dog worthy of nothing but kicking? What did this guy do that was so bad? The movie doesn't tell us. In one early scene, he and Tweedy have a misinformed argument about the soundboard, and it's funny because neither man has a clue what he's talking about. They sound like Heckyl and Jeckyl. Then when Jay is expelled from the band, we're supposed to look back on that scene as the reason — there's certainly no other plain reason, aside from the lingering tension found in most collaborative rock bands. Jones is so single-minded in his veneration of Tweedy, he doesn't even feel the need to explain why Tweedy is right and Jay Bennett is wrong. And then, in the movie's most disgusting scene, he interviews Bennett and gleefully lets him make a jumbled, self-contradicting fool of himself. Well, shit. The guy just got kicked out of the band, and he is still angry and hurt. What did you expect? Poetry? The scene got a cruel laugh from the audience I saw it with, which would be ok, but they didn't laugh when Tweedy talked straight-faced about having his soul ripped out by Reprise, which is arguably a more embarrassing moment. There's more to this Tweedy-Bennett story. My uncharitable guess is that telling it might have made Tweedy look like an asshole, which would be anathema to the point of this movie.

This all raises the question: who, exactly, would be bothered if we knew Jeff Tweedy was an asshole? I mean, rock stars are assholes sometimes. It's not a mystery. Power struggles happen, and egos are bruised, and feelings are hurt, and none of this will exactly shock anyone in the audience of this movie. Or will it? Do Wilco fans really see Jeff Tweedy as some kind of kinder, gentler rock star, some sensitive, sulking pretty boy who can't fend for himself? Because Jones certainly does. That's insulting to Tweedy and to the audience, and it makes for a movie so one-dimensional, it's almost unwatchable.

Even the main conflict of the movie - band vs. label - is sorely mishandled. We're told that Reprise wanted to make changes to the album. What changes? The band isn't interested to know that, so neither is the movie. I, for one, am. Maybe they wanted to take out some of the more self-indulgent moments of "experimental" noise. Maybe they wanted more of Tweedy's delicate brilliance and less by-rote rocking. Maybe they wanted to make the album better. I doubt it, but we'll never know. And since the movie doesn't tell us what the label wanted to change, it has little right to then assert that the label doesn't know what it's talking about. The working assumption that bands have the right to do whatever they want to do, whenever, and for any amount, is deeply flawed. Say I work for your magazine. Do you not get to edit me, because I am an artist and you have no right to censor art? I can see the bands side in this, I really can, but no strong case is made for their side in the film. Everything is assumed, and nothing is discussed. After seeing this arrogant movie, I was almost willing to side with the label, simply because there's no apparent and logical reason not to.

And there is also the grand contradiction - missed by many who have covered the Wilco story - of the money. Wilco slams the label for thinking only about money in their decisions about Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, and Fricke chimes in with another hard-to-believe-considering-who-it's-coming-from rant about how music isn't about money, but then the triumph at the end of the film is that they sell the record back to the same parent company whose label dropped them, Time Warner, for three times the amount that it took to record it. That's right - both Reprise, the label that dropped them, and Nonesuch, the label that understood them, are owned by the same massive multinational corporation. This makes the band happy? On the basis of what principle? I'm genuinely baffled. I can only make another uncharitable assumption - Wilco is confused about its own principles.

And finally, where is Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in this movie? It's ostensibly the subject, but we hear only very brief snippets of it. Near the beginning, there are a couple of wonderful alternate versions of songs that appear on the record (most notably, "I Am Trying to Break Your Heart"), but much of what we hear of this record is its inception, and not the finished product. The finished product is what is great. The scenes of them making the record are unimpressive, and, sadly, as self-congratulatory as the rest of the movie, pocked with constant reminders of how collaborative and open-minded the band is (the man who says this is later kicked out of the band). Even the extended live sequences miss the mark, focusing on old material that is largely standard four-bar rock and roll, and doesn't even suggest how daring the record in question is. The one old song that truly belongs in the movie, "Misunderstood," is presented for about one minute of its six or seven minute length. Meanwhile, a song off of their first lackluster album "A.M." gets the full treatment, and bores the audience to sleep with its repetitive bombast.

The one bright spot in all of this muck is Tweedy himself, and his voice, and his lyrics. One sequence documents a solo acoustic show he plays in Chicago, and it's a stunner. For the first and last time in I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, I was involved in what was going on onscreen. Here is a very talented man, I thought to myself. This man is going places.

But the band in general seems to believe its own press, which is a very precarious position to place yourself in, even in private. This movie makes their self-veneration very public, and does no one - not the band, and certainly not us - any service.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:34 (nineteen years ago)

The Reader ran a cover story about Tweedy for A Ghost Is Born, and the article (as well as the general talking points about that record) centered on addiction. From the article it was clear that the Tweedy/Bennett tensions directly or indirectly had to do with who was using and when. That the move was giving us the "inside story" of the band but skipped this (and instead kept to the band-vs-label talking points of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot) seems a bit disingenuous now.

Still, I liked the movie and really like the Metallica movie.

And I think my guy-staring-out-the-window movie monologue idea came from watching Wilco manager Tony M. on film.

― Eazy, Thursday, 7 June 2007 03:48 (nineteen years ago)

The album version is better, tho.

I don't have the title I linked to, only Maya. I wonder who else here (in this bitch) knows of Banco de Gaia? I was leary considering the recent talk about world music, and my own dislike of said genre.

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 05:31 (nineteen years ago)

Porn Sword Tobacco = good.

― Jeff, Thursday, 7 June 2007 11:28 (nineteen years ago)

did anyone see jessica valenti (full frontal feminism, feministing.com) on the colbert report the other night? she gave him a shirt that says "feminist chicks dig me". it was a solid interview, and i was really happy to see another feminist guest on his show.

http://feministing.com/archives/007130.html#c83761

― JuliaA, Thursday, 7 June 2007 11:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have heard of Banco de Gaia and remember being vaguely interested in them at some point in high school after reading a review in Rolling Stone. I may have even listened to a CD at a record store. But I barely remember it, since I've never actually heard them since.

― jaymc, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:21 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I could never write an article about a movie as long as the one you wrote, Kenan. Nice work.

― jaymc, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to say this new King Khan & The Shrines album is kicking my ass all over the place this morning. That is all.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:25 (nineteen years ago)

I've heard of Banco de Gaia but don't know much about them.

Glenn Kotche on the other hand is a pro.
He has baby animal face. That is among the highest compliments I can pay someone, aesthetically.

Jesse, have you ever heard Current 93? If you're feeling morose, I think you might like the most recent album, Black Ships Ate the Sky. I bought it because it's the one album that Shirley Collins would come out of a fierce retirement to sing on. It has several people all singing the same song ("Idumea"), including Marc Almond, Antony, W. Oldham and my Shirl. It's sort of a stately, quiet, gothic commentary on religion? Redemption? Or something I don't understand. Apparently it's about apocalypse? Anyway, I think you, Jesse, would like it. But it's not party music. Shirley sounds really old and it makes me want to take care of her.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:29 (nineteen years ago)

I also have Sleep Has His House but I don't like it quite as much.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:31 (nineteen years ago)

OMG, Prince with a big horn section + Sheila E. at the Alma Awards last night:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjErTJ4FlvM

She's ridic on those timables.

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

Rats. I meant to watch that.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 13:42 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to say this new King Khan & The Shrines album is kicking my ass all over the place this morning

which one, three hairs and your mine or mr. supernatural? the split w/the dirtbombs is cool too.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

Ok now I feel pressure to keep some music on all the time. Because as soon as my music goes off, my coworker will start playing Yanni.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

Kevin - I'm actually listening to What Is?!, the new one thats coming out shortly. It's great.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

awesome! do you have the other two? i'll try to burn 3 hairs this weekend and upload them. mr. supernatural is missing, a friend borrowed it when he was spinning at delilah's and it's gone now. the shrines side of the dirtbombs split is good too.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

Although what I like about that movie, like the Metallica movie, is that they're ALL douches. You can't pick just one.

Wait, we just watched this and Kirk Hammett was a total non douche! But Lars totally made up for it.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:44 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't heard any of the other ones, a friend sent me this one and What's For Dinner with BBQ and those are my first exposure to this guy. Great stuff and I'd love to hear more.

(x-post)

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:49 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Kirk and Rob the Bass Player are totally nice dudes.

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

holy shit jvc, get the kk/bbq release prior to that, "the king khan & bbq show". one of the best records of the last 10 years. before they moved to berlin khan and bbq were also in the montreal band les sexereenos which was a more drunken frat/garage type of thing.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

Also funny in the Wilco movie was the scene where Jeff and his wife went to McDonald's and didn't have any cash, and it implied that they were broke because omg their record wasn't coming out (instead of not having cash b/c JT is a flaky dude and forgot to hit the ATM).

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

funniest part of the Wilco movie=David Fricke's gigantic teeth, his dumbass rant about cell phones

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 7 June 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see instead a movie where David Fricke is beaten about the face and head for 90 minutes.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.soundvenue.com/upload/nyheder/2006-06/fricke_02062006_top.jpg

I HAS A SHAMPOO AND BLOW-DRY

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I wanted to shave his head.

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

he looks like dan the fan there.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

I do not know what that means.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

I think it means that he looks like Dan the Fan there.

― jaymc, Thursday, 7 June 2007 15:57 (nineteen years ago)

Isn't that caption wrong? I thought that was Emily in the picture hugging Dan, not Rebecca.

― jaymc, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

I would see a movie about David Fricke and the Label Guru (bearded) from Metallica on the lam.

― Eazy, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not sure who has more idiotic looking hair:

David Fricke or Ken Burns:
http://www.nndb.com/people/284/000025209/ken-burns-3.jpg

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I am now imagining a still shot of that haircut, being slowly panned across with period-appropriate music.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:58 (nineteen years ago)

What, like music for 3-year olds?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 16:59 (nineteen years ago)

Perhaps "Mongoloid" by Devo.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ok someone just sent me this as ad copy:

Do nothing. Do everything. Do it all where azure, indigo, sky, royal, sapphire and turquoise are just a few of the many shades that describe the ever changing mood of the Caribbean Sea that laps at the edge of Belize's coastline.

I started reading that sentence with puzzlement, and by the time I was done I was laughing out loud.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

The next paragraph reads:

This quaint nation invites you to experience adventure, feel the soothing peace of its endless shorelines, and take all that this Central American gem warmly offers. Get a taste of wonder as you visit picturesque rivers and cascading waterfalls winding from the Mayan ruins to the Caribbean Sea.

I mean, MY FUCKING GOD, DO WE JUST HAND OUT COLLEGE DEGREES LIKE CANDY AROUND HERE?

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:37 (nineteen years ago)

Oh come on. It could be so much worse. You're so easily appalled!

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 17:40 (nineteen years ago)

Soothing peace. Because the other kind of peace just gets on your nerves.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

"quaint nation"

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

"gem warmly offers"

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

"shades that describe the ever changing mood"

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

I just ate two soft-shell crabs.

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

"Quaint nation" bothers me the most.

Madonna's song "La Isla Bonita" has a line that says of the residents of the exotic beautiful Latin isla, "beautiful faces, no cares in the world" and it bugs me for the same reason that phrase does: it's not a simple place without problems and a fully-fledged culture all its own, you douchebags.

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

They have softshells at my work, and AGAIN I tried to learn to like them, but I just can't. They're weird and rubbery and --- just nononononononononNONONO.

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

How do they serve them?

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:19 (nineteen years ago)

Oh, Amandahugandtokiss, I am currently downloading Current 93.

If anyone else has some good recommendations for music that you think I might like, please suggest away. I particularly want background train noise music. Reading music.

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

How do they serve them?

Dusted in flour and sauteed. The sauce is either a meuniere butter or brown sugar szechaun glaze. I have tried them elsewhere deep fried and it was basically the same thing. I can eat a spider roll, but that's because it gets all mixed in with the rice and seaweed.

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse: Don't miss the Christian Fennesz/Ryuichi Sakamoto record.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:30 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe you'd like it better on a sandwich? With mayo & hot sauce?

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

I didn't say it wasn't BAD, but it's ad copy ffs. Not something to become outraged about.

Jesse, I hope you like it. If you don't I'll try to make up for it in some way.

As far as reading music goes, I like Discreet Music the best of all time and also Derek Bailey's Ballads.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:41 (nineteen years ago)

Jesse OTM about "quaint nation." Amanda OTM about it being ad copy.

Hi. I am eating mac and cheese. I spent the morning reading about and researching all-time records in the NBA. Then I g-chatted with an old college roommate whose wife is having a baby in two months.

― jaymc, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

Also, if no one is busy tomorrow night, C*n*st* is playing at Subterranean for Br*ght*n M*'s record release show. It should be a great show.

― jaymc, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Just because it's ad copy doesn't mean it shouldn't be bad. That like this guy I knew in college, who when we were watching a particularly awful movie, I'd bitch or groan and he'd say to me, "IT'S A MOVIE!" As if there's no such thing as a good movie.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:50 (nineteen years ago)

Tell me about some awesome ad copy you've read.

― jaymc, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:54 (nineteen years ago)

All I require is that it doesn't make the writer look like a complete fool, which the above ad copy does.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:55 (nineteen years ago)

ok but if the writer doesn't feel like a fool, why should you care?

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:58 (nineteen years ago)

people produce stupid, shitty things all the time. you can't possibly be outraged about all of them.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 18:59 (nineteen years ago)

I'm editing a translation of a conference call from an Italian utility and waste management company.

― Eazy, Thursday, 7 June 2007 19:00 (nineteen years ago)

Maybe I care because it's my job to? Jesus, you're making it sound like I'm some nut. That is some rank-ass copy, that's all I'm saying.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Oh come on. You're a nut.

― La Lechera, Thursday, 7 June 2007 19:26 (nineteen years ago)

hey, are people going out somewhere this evening? don't you guys normally have drinks on thursdays? i played some pick up soccer with mattttt yesterday, that was pretty fun, even though there were probably 40 people playing in this one game.

― stingy, Thursday, 7 June 2007 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

i am going out because tomorrow is my last day of work and it would seem wrong somehow if i didn't show up late and hungover.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 19:51 (nineteen years ago)

word!

― stingy, Thursday, 7 June 2007 19:54 (nineteen years ago)

i probably won't be going out until later, email me if you want. the address i have through ilx is correct.

― chicago kevin, Thursday, 7 June 2007 19:59 (nineteen years ago)

As far as that ad copy, it seems kind of like Smoove B's seductions: ridiculous to you and me, but it might be exactly what some other daydreamer wants to read (and read out loud to their spouse/sibling/friend) when thinking of a Tropical Isle Destination.

― Eazy, Thursday, 7 June 2007 20:09 (nineteen years ago)

There is good copy and bad. And I agree that that is pretty bad. It reads like a first draft. If it's not then I can understand pointing out that it stinks, though outrage is perhaps an overreaction.

After posting what I did, I soon regretted it. But I still think that "quaint nation" needs to go.

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:11 (nineteen years ago)

My favorite advertising work is the Heinz Ketchup bottles with the funny messages. And the TV ads with the deadpan voiceover talking about things like the last of the ketchup that stays inside the bottle, analyzing it, and finally coming to the conclusion, "Heinz Ketchup: it has issues."

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Ohhh, "labial veneer porcelain" refers to dentistry work. I was confused.

(I came across this phrase at work)

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 21:58 (nineteen years ago)

no comment

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 22:01 (nineteen years ago)

Sometimes I think people post things just to test me.

― kenan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

― Jordan, Thursday, 7 June 2007 22:08 (nineteen years ago)

I study to William Baskinski.

― Jeff, Thursday, 7 June 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

That Current 93 sounds very interesting. The only version of Idumea I have ever heard is the shape-note one they use in Cold Mountain and boy is it creepy. I'm pretty sure it's about the apocalypse.
I would like to try softshells, I've only had Maryland crabs (so tasty) and Cromer crab (so disappointing).

― jocelyn, Thursday, 7 June 2007 23:34 (nineteen years ago)

KING CRAB ALL THE WAY.

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 23:46 (nineteen years ago)

Wow. Looks like we're in for a some heavy weather.

― Jesse, Thursday, 7 June 2007 23:54 (nineteen years ago)

it's welcome. It's too hot today.

― kenan, Friday, 8 June 2007 00:10 (nineteen years ago)

Where the fuck are these bleedin storms?

― Jesse, Friday, 8 June 2007 05:15 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I saw Bug tonight. Being only one of two people in the theater made it creepier. Great actors, all five of 'em. Harry Connick is fantastic. I bet it'll be at the Brew 'n' View before the end of the month.

― Eazy, Friday, 8 June 2007 06:23 (nineteen years ago)

poor Friedkin. He deserves more audience than that.

― kenan, Friday, 8 June 2007 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Chicago: Fake Meat Is Almost As Good

― kenan, Friday, 8 June 2007 14:11 (nineteen years ago)

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