Chicago: Knitted socks weather

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http://www.extremehalloween.com/catcostumebutton.jpg

I think I'm having a hormonal shift of some kind. I got all misty listening to a frickin' podcast on the train. I am less than a man today.

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That last kitty is v dapper and devil-may-care. A real dandy.

Yay. :-D
That kitty should be ANTM.

These poor animals.

For Jesse:

http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1452717/2/istockphoto_1452717_redhead_cat_with_pipe.jpg

http://img01.picoodle.com/img/img01/6/10/26/f_CatLaughm_6c2449f.jpg

That kitty should be ANTM.

otm, very editorial

My favorite kostume kat:

http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Pengwine.jpg

Hi guys, what's up?

Morning jess jess. Your paraphernalia killed your thread before it started, sorry to say.

I have been hitting the office coffee every day for a couple weeks, but this morning I splurged for a large house blend from Starbucks, and it's like awakening to a new world, one in which cars can fly and there's no more garbage problem.

that last pic of the white cat is like m. white as a cat. i want a cat i can dress up-- in all our cats over the years, only one genuinely seemed to enjoy being dressed up. it was greybaby, the cat which turned from a male to a female in a very long story.

all those thread changes were probably the most excitement i'll see all day, so thanks for that, guys! (that sounds sarcastic but sadly isn't)

You guys, my amazing costume idea yesterday afternoon was shot to hell because it ended up making me feel claustrophobic. NOOO!!! I have a new plan now, but it's not fully formed.

oh no, sarah!

toby came home with a good idea for us both, and i modified it using jenny's "just put blood on it" idea to make it slightly weird and scary.

My office coffee is pretty decent, since I choose what we brew. But the associate is all gung-ho for Eight-O'Clock Coffee, which makes me sad.

when they poked their head in the sun room, I did some classic sitcom scrambling as I clumsily pushed the pipe behind a flower pot.

On a contemporary sitcom, though, he would see the pipe and you guys would end up high-fiving.

I don't know what you guys are so hung up about; Jesse's pipe is clearly for tobacco use only.

Guthrie's, the board-game bar: highly recommended. Busy but not noisy. Great selection of games (a couple playing Othello at one table, the Men Are From Mars Women Are From Venus board game at another), great selection of beer (I had three porters: Guiness, Chambly Noire, Anchor Porter); nice lamps and stuff.

I was at a table directly under the World Series TV set, so everyone was looking right over our table. One guy, maybe 30, looked like he came from business-casual work, looked so content sitting there looking up and watching the game, and then he just closed his eyes and fell asleep at his table, sitting straight up -- not drunk or anything, just fell asleep.

i modified it using jenny's "just put blood on it" idea to make it slightly weird and scary.

I'm going to write a best selling self-help book based on that premise.

all gung-ho for Eight-O'Clock Coffee, which makes me sad

being gung ho for it is sad, but it's better than Folger's, you gotta admit.

I miss Community Coffee. Or any coffee with chicory in it. I haven't had chicory coffee in too long.

Random association: starting off the day with chicory coffee whole attending a firefighting school outside of New Orleans, burning off the night before's Hurricane Hangover (TM).

You went to firefighting school?

OOOh! Maybe I'll introduce some Cafe Du Monde or CC into this bitch! The bonus to their deliciousness being that they're fairly cheap.

You went to firefighting school?

Yeah, it was a weeklong-long shipboard firefighting school, from when I was doing those boat tours. Can't you just see me with a hose and a yellow slicker?

My tea-for-coffee-lovers-who-sadly-can't-drink-caffeine-anymore has chicory in it.

You were doing boat tours?

Kenan, that sounds pretty awesome.

Can you get Community Coffee up here? I guess I haven't looked for it. For years it was a strictly regional thing. Mawmaw Winnie swore by it. (Maman, maybe it should be spelled.)

I think I will make some EIGHT O CLOCKKKKKK COFEE now

I thought everyone already knew I worked on a boat for a while.

Hmmm. I thiiiink you can get CC in Viettown. I know for sure you can get Cafe du Monde.

Ceci n'est pas cafe.

My tea-for-coffee-lovers-who-sadly-can't-drink-caffeine-anymore has chicory in it.

Yeah, that's an awesome idea... I've been cutting my caffeine by mixing in shitty decaf, but mixing in chicory would be sooooo much better.

eazy, that bar sounds pretty awesome. we stupidly and lazily decided to just wander up clark to find somewhere that was quiet and showing the games and would make me a cocktail (so less sportsbar-y). we went into tryst and it was fine for the first hour or so, pretty empty except the people from the salon next door. then an empty schoolbus pulled up, and the door guy carried on 3 cases of crappy beer. then a half hour later the music changed from quiet 90's 'alternative' to loud top 40 reximes, then the bus reappears full of sororowhores. we got the check and sacrificed the last 2 innings because it was just too horrible to bear.

I thought everyone already knew I worked on a boat for a while.

The first time I ever heard of it was when you mentioned it on that "Name three things about yourself: two true, one false" thread.

pretty empty except the people from the salon next door

That's my salon. And Sarah's, I think? (I don't know if you still go there.)

Kenan, what I don't know could fill a truck.

People with Comcast Digital Cable, do we get AMC and if so, what channel? For it is Monsterfest and I wish to participate.

xp - Oh Colette! I know this phenomenon. It has happened recently at Blue Bayou and it happened during Sarah's bachelorette party, when everything was lovely and awesome and then suddenly the music changed and got loud and the douchebag quotient octupled in the space of about ten minutes.

One Wrigleyville bar that I don't mind is the Nisei Lounge, which I think is around that Sheffield/Clark/Newport intersection. But come to think of it, it's been probably five years since I've been there.

xpost I just assume I've told people that a thousand times already, so I don't tell anyone. Yeah, it was a seismic research boat, tooling around in the middle of the Gulf. I was the lowest of the low of the sea crew. Sweep, mop, chip rust, repaint, constant required maintenance, unskilled labor. But it's cool to say I did it, I guess. Makes me sound like I have more wherewithal than I actually do.

Guthrie's had a cocktail menu (while still being homey).

Yeah, all those older bars near the Nesei aren't so bad -- the Underground Lounge, the shamrock one that hasn't changed in a decade.

Kenan, a few nips and tucks and you can turn that into "Yeah, I was on a rig in the Gulf when Katrina hit..."

That's pretty neat, Kenan.

"Yeah, I was on a rig in the Gulf when Katrina hit..."

No. But thunderstorms were a trip. And water spouts are v cool. And having morning coffee on the bow and watching the dolphins cruise alongside the boat, which they did quite a lot. Dolphins are a friendly sort.

but jenny it was literally a schoolbus full of drunken trolls, i do not want to go to that school.

the people from the salon looked cool and friendly and weren't squealing even though they were drinking a lot. unlike some other people.

it was still fun while it lasted, plus $3 stoli drinks, which wasn't bad. for future reference, what are some good stoli drinks? i had something the bartended made up which was citrus stoli, soda and grand marnier which was ok. then cranberry and vanilla stoli which was good for the first half and a bit much for the second. any suggestions?

xps- kenan, how long did you do that? sounds like the kind of thing some crazy stories come out of.

is the underground the place that's on newport just east of clark/sheffield? they had a sign up that said they had jamison's on tap, which confused me.

I went through a vanilla Stoli and Diet Coke phase in the early 00s, but I don't know if that was actually good, or just the result of being a drunk who was always on diets.

I don't know about the Jamison's on tap, and some nights they have noisy bands playing there, but Sunday nights at least are quiet and chill.

Wow, so I just read that, this morning, one U.S. dollar will get you 96 Canadian cents.

Really? I thought we had fallen behind the Canadian dollar recently. So maybe $1USD = $.96 Canadian is an improvement.

That beats my the pants off boat-working story, which still people react very favorably to.

sounds like the kind of thing some crazy stories come out of.

Man, I missed crazy stories by a few years, apparently. Most of the other guys could remember the good old days, before the company cracked down on fun and decided to look respectable. Draining bottles of whiskey in the wheelhouse with the captain, with giant lines of coke set up on the map table. Unsafe boating practices. The most fun I had was reading. A LOT. Oh, and when I couldn't sleep, I'd go hang out in the wheelhouse with this one really cool captain, and he'd tell me long stories about what HE was reading -- he was a really good storyteller, and the stories were by Vitor Hugo and Dostoyevsky. I almost wanted to sit at his feet.

I have never worked on a boat, but my mom and I did live with her charter boat captain boyfriend for about a year in the early 80s. He was an a-hole supreme.

jenny, that sounds tasty but i think if i drink coke in the evenings and am not going out dancing or staying out really late then it keeps me awake...

Costume Idea Zone

That's my salon. And Sarah's, I think? (I don't know if you still go there.)
Yup. I am happy with my stylist.

http://images.buycostumes.com/mgen/merchandiser/17941.jpg?is=350,350,0xffffff

Marked down from $52.99 to $29.99.

Lindsay goes to that salon too.

For most couples, the man will leave it up to the woman to brainstorm Halloween costumes for both of you. And ladies, isn’t it fun to go as a pair? Hansel and Gretel, Mickey and Minnie, Tinkerbell and Peter Pan! So fun… so cute! But getting your man to actually wear one of those costumes? Good luck!

Bah.

Oh gross. That's what I get for posting links that I don't actually read.

I've been trying to get Jeff to go as Henry from Eraserhead since 1999.

All you need is a suit, tall hair, and an expression of puzzled horror.

and a premature fetus that spits up goo

Your best bet is to compromise with something more “guy-friendly.” Suggest something that will keep your man feeling manly.

http://www.costumes247.com/images/prod/27630.jpg

Haha, I would like to wear that to a bar on a regular night.

Actually, some of the submitted costume suggestions on that site are kind of clever. The editorializing has to go, though.

And, of course, he’ll love to see you in something beautiful and sexy. You’ll probably have a better chance of getting him into that lion costume if you dress up as a sexy lion tamer. Or you can be a French Maid to his Butler, a Cheerleader to his Football Player, or a Playboy Bunny to his Hugh Hefner.

Or he can be a hotdog and you can be SEXY MUSTARD.

I wanted to be the plug and socket. COVERED IN BLOOD.

(from where the socket was on her (power) cycle)

If you go to the costume party as a Bird and he’s a Bird Catcher, that’s cute and funny when you’re standing together, but he might feel like a dork when you’re not standing by.

Heaven forbid someone catch me by myself dressed as a BIRD CATCHER.

But then later? It suggests a butterfly and a butterfly catcher as an appropriate costume!!!!

we are kind of going in couple costume-- we're both essentially the same thing, which is part of a group of them. will you all laugh at how lame we are?

hi chicago.

this thread title made me really happy, and then i realized it wasn't actually about knitted socks.

these are some socks i knit for dickerson pike:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1421/1423641741_0d9f0c20b3.jpg?v=0

sock knitting is really great.

peace out.

Oh the inherent masculinity of butterfly catchers....

HEY MOLLY. IS THAT GREEN WOOL FROM DYEING DAY?

and then i realized it wasn't actually about knitted socks.

oh, but it could be! Toasty, warm, soft, thick socks. Mmmm.

I thought Jeff wasn't going to be around for the party?

I feel too bad to buy/ask for expensive socks, esp hand-knitted ones, since the toe and heel always wear, pill, and get holes almost immediately, when the foot and ankle are perfectly fine. Guilty.

iPod Commercial

Dress in ALL black, and use black make-up to cover exposed skin. Carry around an iPod and dance wildly.

Dear Americans,

No.

Your friend,
Jenny

HI LAUREL!

No, it's from some yarn I spun on my spindle before DYE DAY.

The stuff I dyed there was ORANGE and MARIGOLD YELLOW (like, we used marigolds 'n shit)

I am knitting socks for myself now! I'm also learning how to SPIN sock yarn on my wheel so I will have an endless supply of HANDSPUN KNITTED SOCKS!

http://www.pacificwoolandfiber.com/images/Books/Sensational%20Knitted%20Socks.jpg

i own that book!

I would like some suits in the patterns of those knitted socks.

that "Name three things about yourself: two true, one false" thread

yeah, that was totally fun thread, and I just searched high and low for it, and can't find it.

http://www.junkyardclubhouse.com/images/mastermind.jpg

One of the folks I was at Guthrie's with last night told me this great story behind the cover of this game (one of my faves, and anyone who wants drinks and Mastermind sometime just say the word).

The Mastermind box cover photo shoot took place in Leicester in 1972. Bill Woodward owned a chain of local hair salons, and was only chosen to sit for this photo when the original model they had booked didn’t show up. Cecilia Fung was a computer science student (rock on!) at the nearby University of Leicester, and was spotted on the street and approached for the Mastermind cover shoot.

Another concept for this photo included a cat to sit on Woodward’s lap, but the cat peed on him. Yes, when you look at this distinguished man sitting at the table, you can now know that his lap is secretly spoiled with cat pee.

The dress they had for Fung was way too big for her — they actually had to have another woman behind her, reaching up to cinch her dress for the photo (been there!) so that it wouldn’t just look like an ill-fitting sack.

I love Mastermind!

Computer science in 1972? That really is rockin'.

That woman is from the future.

nice new thread! and, i am wearing hand knit socks today!

http://www.junkyardclubhouse.com/images/mastermind-30-years-later.jpg

Reunited 30 years later.

You mean she wasn't his moll all along? Why you shatter illusion?

We're trying to serve a subpoena on a witness and she's evading us, so we're tracking her through her Myspace page. (Law & Order gong goes here)

Courtney told us that her dad hates L&O b/c of all the gongs.

I always assumed that he was in whatever her country of origin was, and that he was some kind of diabolical imperialist bad guy.

it's scary how he looks exactly the same but she looks like an entirely different person!

Unintentionally homoerotic quotations from Illinois state court cases:

"Polishing the brass pole was one of his assigned duties as a firefighter." 317 Ill.App.3d 1010, 1012 (2000).

Unintentionally homoerotic quotations
^hilarious

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I was trying to indicate my intent to insert "hilarious" between "unintentionally" and "homoerotic" in that sentence. Humor me, ILX.

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Unintentionally homoerotic implies hilarious, so better with the cut.

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Post three facts about you : two true and one a pork-pie. We have to guess the pork-pie.

(I searched by "pork pie.")

Unintentionally homoerotic implies hilarious

unless you're homosexual, then it's accidentally hott

thanks, jaymc, i knew you'd be there for me. :)

Is that Robert Smith?

Answer me. Is it?

Robert Smith. Is it.

jesse: it's T Rex.

Start an ILM thread where you ask if that is Robert Smith.

xpost

that is bad advice, they're all gonna laugh at you

Looks like T REX.

Get it on.
Bang a gong.
Get it on.

DO YOU SEE WHAT I DID THERE?

I was making fun of you calling the L&O sounds "gongs" because they don't sound like gongs at all. But I don't really know what else you would call them. I think technically they are "keyboard stabs" but that sounds weird.

Unclaimed costume idea:
The L&O keyboard that stabs.

sudden realization: give T Rex and eye patch, and it's the guy from Dead or Alive.

Another song I first heard as an 80s cover not knowing there was an original

Isn't the guy from Dead or Alive now a lady?

Courtney's dad calls them gongs. I call them L&O noises. I should record them and have them play when I do something gong-worthy. Like discover that I can save the office $200 on fax service agreement by adding fax capability to our current copy machine.

***GONG-GONG***

THAT'S totally Robert Smith.

***GONG GONG****

Ha ha ... so I went in Guitar Center (boo hiss) yesterday to look at short mic stands (which ended up being unreasonably expensive) and over the speakers they were playing some band that sounded like Fall Out Boy covering "Time After Time" really badly and the one girl that works at Guitar Center was talking about what a great cover it is. I don't even know why they play music over a PA there, there's already like 20 terrible dudes playing guitar and making squelchy sounds on keyboards and whatnot.

I just realized there are actually two women who work at Guitar Center.

I would onomotopeaize the L&O noise as "CONK CONK" but that is just me.

No. Wait. More like "GONK GONK."

The 'santana shreds' sounds like Guitar Center to me.

It is obviously DUNG DUNG

xp to ME: It's a subtle but important difference.

That "Time After Time" cover makes me angry.

that is bad advice, they're all gonna laugh at you

Ah, but it's kind of funny, too.

One of the Guitar Center women (v. small, dark hair, pale) talked me into buying a gigantic pack of drum sticks about two years ago that I have only recently destroyed the last of. I got my 25 dollars or so worth.

DUNK DUNK

I think there is a definite "ONG" sound to it.

I'm going with

KONG KONG

or

QONG QONG if you prefer.

QONG is more points in scrabble

I smell a poll...

haha DO IT

or I will

"Law and Order show
the Law and order show
Law and Order show
the Law and order show

first comes the law part, then comes the order part
it's the law and order show
a special law and order show"

then lay out and allow the band to groove, maybe adlib "order show" at some point

-- J0hn D., Thursday, August 30, 2007 3:16 PM (1 month ago) Bookmark Link

Man, I've been singing it as "Law and Order time" all these years.

ME TOO! We are brothers in rong.

Didn't someone post that song a long time ago? Much longer than a month ago?

this is an amusing conversation since i have no idea what these 'gongs' sound like.

http://www.moviewavs.com/php/sounds/?id=bst&media=MP3S&type=TV_Shows&movie=Law_And_Order"e=logavel.txt&file=logavel.mp3

xp to Nick and Kenan - Me, too, but that's because you clowns led me astray.

And xp to Sarah - I am sure of it.

What's weird is that he only posted the lyrics to the verse four years after he said he wrote them, but I've been singing "Law and Order show" the whole time.

Yeah, he posted those lyrics several years ago, and I think it was "Law and Order time" back then.

He must have revealed the lyrics a long time ago because we all knew them!

Oh wait, no he gives a hint:

I love this show so much and only I know the true lyrics to the theme song, because I wrote them but it is a big secret

-- J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, July 10, 2003 9:50 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

well the opening line which runs along with the up-the-scale "da-da-da-dum-dummmm" is "Law and Order show," you can probably figure out the rest from there

-- J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:19 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

i knew svu sucked a big dick when i noticed they were filming things from outside the perspective of the "law" or "order" peeps...formalism rules u r all gay

-- jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:53 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link
Jess OTM. As the theme song says in the bridge:

First comes the law part,
then comes the order part

I mean you can't be changing the show to make it deviate from its theme-song's statement of purpose

-- J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, July 10, 2003 10:55 AM (4 years ago) Bookmark Link

I swear he posted the full lyrics at some point, because I knew the lyrics to the bridge/verse part too.

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Let the record state that I have never seen more than 5 minutes of Law and Order in my life, but I have the theme song on my iPod.

I've never seen the show, even though I like law and order shows.

I went through a L&O obsession period back in Richmond, when we had TBS and I watched a ton of reruns. It's always been cheezy but the older episodes were still engrossing. The last few years have been pretty awful, way too much "ripped from the headlines" nonsense and no Jerry Orbach.

What is the correct onomotopaeic spelling of the Law & Order sound?

Yay Dan!

props to Kenan too

I think I changed my mind after listening to the .wav. I now say

QUNG QUNG

or KUNG KUNG

on another board i read, someone is spreading the word about their botox party. this seems weird to me.

botox... party? Didn't I see that on an episode of Nip/Tuck?

Let's all put needles in our foreheads together!

Very Halloweeny FWIW.

Streamers and a big banner reading "Congrats On Never Moving Your Eyebrows Again!"

We should have a human papillomavirus party. Papilloma papilloma papilloma!

Due to high expectations... Sarah is providing needles for your forehead.

http://www.artistdirect.com/Images/Sources/AMGCOVERS/music/cover200/drd100/d138/d13818fwq18.jpg

No, it's a BYON party.

TV Party >>>>>>> HPV Party

Papilloma papilloma papilloma!
Great, Nick, now everyone's going to steal our baby girl name.

If you guys have not checked out Nick S's kitten Bob, you should do so ASAP.

HA!

I have been busting hump for two days, and I don't want to do any work today. Is that ok with you guys?

the ha was an xpost

I'm trying to make a Gardasil/Tell Someone/HPV part invitation joke, but I've got poster's block.

I am planning on leaving work in T-minus 30 minutes, provided slow dude gets his work to me by then. I will then spend this afternoon:
1) eating leftover veggie chili
2) working on Boyfights songs
3) playing MLB 2K6 on PS2 and trying not to suck so bad
4) reading
5) getting last minute supplies for recording tonight (duct tape, cassette tapes, beer)

whoa slow dude was not so slow today, way to go not so slow dude

*sigh*

Jeff is on an aeroplane on the way to NC as we speak. I talked to him on the phone when he was at his gate, but it wasn't a quality conversation due to my being at work and having bad cell phone reception and sitting right next to someone who could clearly hear the conversation and now I miss him and wish I had talked to him more when I had the chance.

aw, jenny that's sweet.

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should I purchase OS X Leopard y/n?

Looks like there's a lot of cosmetic stuff that's new, which is fine and dandy, but the feature that gets me a-twitter is the new System Restore (which they call Time Machine). That shit is mad useful. I could have used that instead of hauling my machine into the Apple Store and having them re-install the OS a few weeks ago.

aw, jenny that is sweet! but i'm excited to meet you and so while in no way making up for your lost love may entertain you with my dorkiness.

xp-- kenan, how much is it?

I'm not, because my current OS runs fine for my purposes and now that I'm done with school, I'm not sure I use my laptop enough to justify an upgrade. And when I do use it, it's to check my email, play solitaire, or read comics. I don't think any of the zippy new stuff is that germane to my current needs.

xpost $129

Colette, I am excited to meet you, too!

And if Toby is affiliated w/ a university, you can get the education discount.

yeah, i think i'll sit on it a while, I'm not in some mad rush to spend bucks on something that isn't immediately necessary. Hey, check it out, it's the new me!

I've put off buying a new Mac because of Leopard. I'll be damned if I buy a new machine only to have to be an OS-level behind after a couple of months.

sarah, urgent update and retraction on something i said on the last chicago thread:

there are at least 15 girls wearing boots over jeans today and NONE of them look like pirates or vikings. most of them look pretty stupid, actually. i think the key is to wear dark jeans so the line is less obvious.

i think today is when toby will miss oink most-- he even went out and got dual-layer DVDs last weekend in anticipation of leopard...

Oh hey, my friend j0hn r0berts, who I've directed in a dozen plays, got a rave review in today's Wall Street Journal for a show up at Strawdog.

that's awesome, eric!! i'd chalk that up to a fruit of your labor for sure.

Nice.

The Reader review of B. N3v3u's new one made me v. curious.

Why do people tell me their life story when they call here?

I guess it's not that big a mystery...a person has a problem at work and feels helpless and I'm maybe the first person they get to talk to who is associated with anyone who might be be in a position to help them. But really, when you call here and lose your breath telling me "I endured 7 years of harassment and I hired another attorney and he told me it would take years and I was not happy with him and now that attorney won't take my calls," well, I gotta wonder if I'm having the lawyers contact yet another crazy person who will later stalk and threaten them.

The window is open and it smells like chocolate out there. yay.

Hey John, I would go see that B.N. play sometime. He definitely fits your rule of McDonalds-nearby.

Julia just sent me a really sweet email about how awesome the vegan cookies are. Take that, haters!

haters? Where see haters?

My only hate for vegan cookies is when they're the only kind of cookie in a coffeehouse and they go for $3 each. Economics aside, no problemo.

1 - i like boots over jeans if they are the right jeans/boots

2 - good stoli drink: stoli anything + soda water (not sweet, no sugar, goes down easy like an unsweetened flavored sparkling water. i like.)

3 - i am not discussing goddamned pronunciation on the internet until people start using the goddamned IPA. Without it = fruitless/frustrating/reinvention of wheel.

holy shit, kelsey makes the best vegan cookies ever. believe it. they were amazing.

also, jenny, comcast does get AMC and i believe it's channel 43.

yeah, i think i'll sit on it a while, I'm not in some mad rush to spend bucks on something that isn't immediately necessary. Hey, check it out, it's the new me!

:)

until people start using the goddamned IPA

Get someone to start putting IPA characters on U.S. keyboards, then.

The Heimlichee brought me an Entenmann's lemon crunch cake as a toke of appreciation.

Oooh. Can she make it chocolate fudge next time? That's my faaavorite.

I could go for an IPA.

I had a White Hawk (which I'd never heard of before) at Subterranean the other night.

I haven't worked as hard as I have today physically since the office move. I helped one coworker clean and organize our storage space. Then I moved a ton of files upstairs. What a day to wear a sweater set. blah.

xp - It's a he, and I really hope there is never ever a next time.

Also - "toke of appreciation" probably fits better in the thread Jesse started, har har.

Haha "toke" of appreciation. That pipe got you thinkin'.

xpost

yeah, i think i'll sit on it a while, I'm not in some mad rush to spend bucks on something that isn't immediately necessary. Hey, check it out, it's the new me!

:)

-- JuliaA

Yeah, you've seen it happen enough, I know. To be fair, I rarely get all Brewster's Millions and have nothing to show for it. I love my watch. :)

Also? All but... maybe four? of the attorneys are out today and it's Friday and I'm done working here a week from today so I wore jeans and a blazer to work and frankly I look as nice if not nicer than I normally do and one of the admins (she has some sort of office management role) gave me some beef about it despite the fact that one of the legal secretaries is wearing faded green stretch pants and an huge old t-shirt that is pretty much on par with what I wear to bed in the winter.

(I told her that if they didn't like it, they were welcome to fire me.)

(Which is kind of a long-running joke because the only person this firm has ever fired was a secretary who got drrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrunk at lunch and on her return, proceeded to attempt to wash her hair in the breakroom sink.)

You know how I printed out my old diaryland entries yesterday? Well, I also skimmed through some of them. At my old job, I wore jeans to work one day because there was a crazy amount of snow on the ground outside. I figured they were lucky I made it in to work on time considering. Then I got in trouble. That job can kiss my grits.

I worked with a woman like that, butch Filipino who looked like Ferdinand Marcos, came back to her desk drunk and put her head right on it and that was that, off to rehab for a month.

(like jenny's sec, not like sarah)

I never had the pleasure of working with this particular drunk. Unfortunately, that no tolerance post-work inebriation policy was thrown by the wayside when that awful Frat Boy worked here summer before last. Asshole.

I worked with an alcoholic at that job too. When they finally let him go (offered him the option of rehab and coming back or being fired and he would not go to rehab, no no no), they decided to terminate his position so they wouldn't have to promote the two women who worked under him.

That was the same job where I was considered the VP's pet because I got a 25cent/hr raise.

I'm going to go wash my hair in the shared pantry right now.

He was really gross, and I did not want to be his pet.

When I lived with my Grandmother, I washed my hair in a huge utility sink in one of the extra bedrooms. It was that or the bathtub or icky shower in the haunted basement.

!!! My grandmother had an icky shower in her haunted basement, too!

People are always drunk at the restaurant. One guy came in at 4 PM after drinking all day. Not really that shocking.

I think I'll make the L&O "CHING CHONG" the sound associated with misspellings in our billing program.

when that awful Frat Boy worked here summer before last.
wow -- it was that long ago? seems like a couple of months ago...until i start really thinking about it.

john, i just mean that (for me) writing about pronunciation without using the IPA is like writing about math without using numbers or music without using notes. you wouldn't say "that one that's more than xxxxx but less than xxxxxxx" when you mean "6". it's just an inefficient way to talk about sounds, that's all. ilx seems to loooooooooooove talking about it, so whatever.

ps my moms washes her hair in the kitchen sink every day

But at work???

no, in the kitchen of her home

haha

then she takes a separate bath

EVERY DAY
this routine would kill me within a week

It does seem somewhat inefficient.

I love baths and am looking forward to moving into a place next week with my own tub and even a little window/shelf next to the tub on which I can place salts and magazines.

I will be living above 3arly to Bed, and so I expect and hope to have semi-awkward run-ins with friends.

Sooner than you may think, since I'm low.

Um.

Low on french ticklers.

Wait. What?

BRAGGART

E2B is now in the porn production business, did you know that?

That reminds me of one of my favorite John in real life moments, in which John, holding a bottle of lube in one hand and a copy of Aguirre, Wrath of God in the other announces to the group that he is set for the weekend, activity-wise. I still rofl to myself thinking about it.

I still haven't set foot in the place, having heard about it for years. Still, beats having a nail salon in the building.

hahaha xp

DRUNK

AT

WORK

can we listen to goblin at this halloween party
please
tis the season

OH that reminds me that I have a groovy Herschel Gordon Lewis soundtrack CD to bring.

come on,
tons of goblin

can we come to your partee
http://www.wretchedandviolent.com/goblin.gif

Oh, and did I mention something a little strange about my new building?

They're having their 17th annual Halloween party this Saturday night, and first prize is $300 off of a month's rent, second is $200 off, third $100 off. I'm half-picturing a room full of retirees. But that's kind of serious Halloween, don't you think?

that is fucking awesome, Eric

Costume contest? Are you in, E?

you could go downstairs and get a "flesh colored microphone" and use it as part of your costume

I'm so not much of a costume guy, I would need someone else to dress me. But I think I'll stop by to see what folks are like.

xpost - that's true, I didn't consider the costume possibilities downstairs. Hmm, progressive toy shop, grandiose lobby, costume party...I think I'm moving into the final third of Eyes Wide Shut next week.

Or you could go as the New Tenant.

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.

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COVERED IN BLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

ez, the way things are looking, I may be your compadre in halloween lameness. I'll just have to be extra funny or something to make up for it.

Whatever happened to Leelee Sobieski?

she sucked.

Kenan, we should be Crockett & Tubbs. I'll wet my hair.

According to IMDB, she'll be in a movie with Steve Zahn & Danny Glover called Night Train in 2009.

Go as a butterfly and a butterfly catcher.

Also, she's in some movie about being a dominatrix this year.

leelee sobieski is tangentially related to my halloween costume

I'm having doubts about my costume as well.

we should be Crockett & Tubbs

sure, you get to be the one in blackface

She was in Joy Ride, which I now own on DVD but haven't seen since I first saw it a few years back.

I get the Hugo Boss suits, you get the Versace and a tanktop.

i am less than 30 minutes away from having my weekend bender!

exciting that you're living above e2b, eric. you couldn't live above a nicer sex shop.

and i did know that they were moving in the direction of adult films. i'm on their email list & anyone could offer to participate in it. i don't know if one would need to audition or not . . .

i saw their first movie at the sm1tten k1tten, the minneapolis e2b.

LOVE that story about john.

Dear Chicago ILX,

No blackface.

Love,
Jenny

I would like to suggest Tubbs in my appearance without applying any cosmetics (or coal).

Cover your face in all-natural bruises.

Develop gangrene of the face.

Undergo genetic therapy.

use body paint & paint a new disease on your skin & go as that disease. like, you could wear shorts, paint blobs on your right shin & go as "Right-Shinned Grarnk" or whatever. I'm tired and ready to leave.

Here is a terrible story about my childhood in rural southern Delaware:

My third grade class put on a play and I, for whatever reason, was cast in the role of Harriet Tubman. The teacher wanted to put me in blackface. My mother, bless her, intervened.

http://www.moviepie.com/staff/soulman.jpg

Jenny otm.

jenny's mom otm.

Why is blackface considered so taboo? Is it strictly b/c of older racism?

I don't know what "older racism" means.... Perhaps I should retract the question until I'm prepared to be more well-spoken.

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/tv/miami-vice-dj-pmta.jpg

I think the outfit would be enough.

Why is blackface considered so taboo? Is it strictly b/c of older racism?

Yes.

NO xp - the outfit is not enough

scrap this idea

Oh Soul Man. What a piece of shit movie that was.

White trick-or-treaters in blackface: C/D?

If anyone is interested in seeing a posterboard-based video some friends and I made for a Fugazi song in college, it is at:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1tBF-L8Vto

Oh man, it's bad.

What if I look at Ricardo Tubbs as a post-racial character, defined more by his electric blue suit than the color of his skin?

sorry
still does not work

An eclectic mix of Native-American, German, Irish, and African-American ancestry, Philip Michael Thomas was born in Columbus, OH on May 26, 1949.

http://www.great-tv-shows.com/miamivice/crockett_cooper.jpg

Zing! You racists!

yay, but no

i'm not saying it's reprehensible, just ill-advised unless you want to get into fites.

I think Kenan and I would have an easier time pulling off the suits look than:

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/medias/nmedia/18/35/79/36/18656723.jpg

I love baths and am looking forward to moving into a place next week with my own tub and even a little window/shelf next to the tub on which I can place salts and magazines.

at first i thought you were going to use your shelf for salts and margarines. and i actually thought 'hmm, i guess that could solve the dry skin problem' but then re-read.

tubbs looks more like a costeño in that tank top.

dry skin problem

I knew winter was fast upon us when I woke up last night scratching my shins.

I know! I have to make sure to have hand lotion available at every location where I regularly spend more than two hours at a time. Otherwise, my hands will have flaked down to nubbins by spring.

I've been eating so many choco chip cookies this afternoon. Some investors brought them in, but none of my coworkers are here to eat them with me.

GUYS! they gave me something to do! i actually had to ask, but i'm...making copies for my boss. she seemed surprised that i was willing to do this, and offered to take over halfway through if it was too hard. it's 5 sets of like 10 packs. i said i thought i could manage it.

xxpost Yeah, I already have my first small winter hangnail. Soon, months of pruning. My hands have in the last couple years become very sensitive to dry air.

HAAAAAAAAY

who wants FREE men's cowboy boots?

size 8
grey
good condish
not hideous, but not outrageously cool either
free

too small for me :-(

full disclosure: i saw them in the alley (i think they were just put out there) when i was out walking mutts

more full disclosure: i have/occasionally wear more than one pair of shoes i found in this same fashion

are they size 8 mens? that's a 10 womens...

yes
they are grey cowboy boots

if you want 'em tell me and i will go snag them for you. you could have them as soon as tomorrow nite!

i'm not sure i could get away with cowboy boots...but they'd fit sarah

Oh. I thought the difference was 1.5, making them 9 1/2s. You should just bring them to the party and maybe they'll find a home?

Wait, size 8 men's? I could probably do that.

Wait a minute, I don't want cowboy boots.

ha ha

yeah i guess i don't want to carry them around (in addition to my costume) unless i know for sure that someone wants them.

they ain't that great

but if someone were dying for some free cowboy boots, they would be great.

i am hoping that someone who really wants them will stumble on them later today. when i take the doggies out later i'll check to see if they're still there.

Wow, how bad-ass is this official logo of Liechtenstein? They're like, Yeah, that's right, we're rich:

http://www.mondaq.com/images/profile/company/22376.jpg

needs more bling

it makes me want to go there.

I hear ya, A.

OK.

http://image.blingee.com/images14/content/output/2007/10/26/258869204_80a9dffe.gif

excellent

now i want to go there more.

plus i think they usually do a silly-good eurovision entry, unless i'm mistaken.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/102/294475572_9dc5174f6c.jpg?v=0

That is where the prince of Liechtenstein lives.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/415774401_627560ac22.jpg?v=0

I just recited the lyrics to "Don't Sleep on the Subway" to my boss who was calling from a conference in DC. It was one of the more odd moments in my time here at this firm.

I am so attracted to buildings like that!!!

xpost

Yeah, it has a futuristic mid-century look with an eco-friendly vibe.

Chicago: Knitted socks together

which building? the top one or the bottom one?

jenny, did he ask you to do that? if so, why?

He claimed to be unfamiliar with Petula Clark (how we got on the subject of Petula Clark is another story) and after I named some songs, he asked me to recite the lyrics to that one.

OMG. The other office just gave me a sweetmandyb's cupcake!

Also, the Univ. of Liechtenstein has a webcam view from the library, but it's down right now. One of the other cameras it up, but it is night. alas.

The second building. I like horizontal lines. And...French sashes? I forget what they're called. Windows that open out, horizontally. Not that that building has them, I'm just telling you. In case you want to, you know, buy me a building.

Bye. See some of yous guys tomorry.

i would be fine with this kittie as my cpa or perhaps county controller or some other elected office. he just looks really noble and trustworthy. he'd never be caught with his paws in the cookie jar and you could count on him to do the right thing.

http://www.petoffice.co.jp/catprin/images/pop_aloha_l.jpg

ALERT!!!!

Carrie is on my50 chicago right now. john travolta is behind the wheel of that bad-assed '66 chevelle.

awwww, they edited out (poorly i might ad) the "billy i want you to do something" scene. cut away waaaay too early.

Would you even begin to believe that I am still at work, and I am still taking hours and hours of shit home with me when I leave?

Carrie is on my50 chicago right now.

Meanwhile, Bravo is showing a Leprechaun marathon.

I'm watching Slaughter High. It's kind of like Carrie, except without the acting, writing, directing, special effects, or cinematography. It does have something that Carrie lacks: dong.

whoa, you can't say that about many movies.

I watched A Bucket of Blood on TCM.

I watched three eps of ANTM! Which I had never seen in this season! Ow ow ow ow Keenyah is srsly painful.

Good shows going on tonight at Martyrs and Bottle, but it's so cold and rainy out too, hmm hmm...

Meanwhile, Bravo is showing a Leprechaun marathon.

-- Jenny, Friday, October 26, 2007 9:17 PM (Friday, October 26, 2007 9:17 PM) Bookmark Link

i miss cable.

dong?

i'm going back to my chocolate lucky charms

You know what kills me? What really fucking kills me? I'll tell you what kills me. Patsy Cline. That's what kills me.

</Mamet>

Pasty Cline? Patsy Cline? That's abso...Look: the thing is...[Pause.] The essen...[Pause.] She's sad. Understand? She's sad, friend.

Hi all.

First thing I did when I got to NC was sit in stop and go traffic for an hour or so.

Then I smelled some hog shit.

Now I'm on the internet at blazing dial up speeds.

Thanks.

Hi Jeff! Where exactly in NC are you, then?

Pink Hill, NC

BBQ?

Today I'm making a crockpot NC style pulled pork (from an ILC thread); my mind is on BBQ.

Is that Amanda's recipe? I've made that! It's good.

Hi Jeff! I love you!

why is jeff in NC?

guys, i'm seriously excited about this party. it's not the kind of thing where everyone is going to leave at 10, is it? we're going to this benefit thing from 8:30-10 at schubas and then heading up. we went to a little party last night and it was at 'clearly end of party' (people being sick, hostess starting to clear up from snacks, etc) by a little after 11. but i guess that did start at 7.

Visiting family.

I'll go back once ever 2 to 3 years.

One plus is that I don't have to worry about a stupid Halloween costume. Picking one is always too stressful.

Hi Jenny!

But you're going to miss me making 5.25 L of fake blood!

Costume idea: Wrigley Field beer vendor

Covered in blood.

One plus is that I don't have to worry about a stupid Halloween costume. Picking one is always too stressful.

OTM, I'm on the verge of saying "fuckit".

Also, I'm at work. Hellllp

What party? Is Colette coming to Courtney's??

I have to go find a pinata.

I think I am waking up just long enough to make pancakes & hash & coffee, and then going back to bed. If I'm feeling very, very energetic, I may wake up and sew.

yes, i'm coming to courtney's, didn't you read the RSVP list on the evite thing? i'm excited to meet you as well, but still most excited to meet jenny.

dan, why don't you borrow some blood from jenny and wear some crappy clothes you don't like (so you can get blood on them) and your bike helmet and be bike accident victim?

Oooo that's good because it really is quite scary.

I'm making a flour-based blood recipe so all my mac and cheese making is coming in handy.

a blood roux?

i keep dreaming of baked goods. and last night i dreamt of wonderful-looking, varied baked goods that i couldn't have. so i woke up and had cheesecake and root beer for breakfast.

!! Wow!!!

Jenny, did you get my emails?

OH Jesse, for a pinata, go to that Mexican candy store on Clark St. in Rogers Park.

Cheesecake and root beer! That sounds really good, actually.

Yes! Sorry, I was stirring my blood roux. I will reply right now.

I thought ILX was down all yesterday. No? Just me?

collette, you better get excited to meet me. Forget about Jenny, she's just another boring bisexual.

Just you, Jordanian.

(i met andy warhol at a really chic party!

blow it out your hair-do cuz you work at hardees!)

Also? Rogers Park?? Too far. Surely with all these fucking spics around here there's a pinata in this neighborhood?

Try La Tienda da las Pinatas at Clark and Berwyn.

Pinata Supermercada

That's really weird. Maybe they blocked ILX at my work.

I've had this really annoying sore throat since Wednesday and it's cramping my style. Should I go to doctor y/n

In the pinata district?

Let the record show that I did not mention about how Jordan's throat being the result of swallowing too many girthy spam javelines.

Pinatas Я Nosotros

OH NOES my fake blood may not be working out the way I'd hoped. Well, there is a Halloween store a few blocks away so damn it, we will all be covered in blood, one way or the other.

MWAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaack ack cough cough

Today I'm making a crockpot NC style pulled pork (from an ILC thread); my mind is on BBQ.

-- quincie, Saturday, 27 October 2007 15:20 (3 hours ago) Link

i spent much of today flipping between the rutgers/west virginia game on abc and wttw that had back to back bbq cooking shows on this afternoon. i made a menu for when i get my paycheck, pulled pork, baked beans, mac 'n' cheese, green bean casserole, and a lot of pickles.

all my dreams lately are about money and food.

jenny, there's a store on broadway just north of addison if you didn't know about that one-- i'm almost certain that they've got blood. we have a small container and won't use it all, but it's probably not enough for your needs.

When you walk down a busy sidewalk carrying a pinata you are pretty much guaranteed to be the center of attention. Also, it is a good excuse for pretty much anything-- "Sign your petition? Oh...sorry, it's just that I've got this pinata...."

THERE IS A MOUSE IN MY HOUSE AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT BUT I WANT IT OUT OF MY HOUSE AN DI THINK I MIGHT HAVE HJUYST HAD A PANIC ATTACK

help i think i might throw up or die

note the mouse is dead

i found it that way

i am freaking out

mock me if you must

It's only a mouse.

amanda, at the risk of freaking you out more, mice don't live solitary existences.

get a kitty.

pastry that looks like a little fruit cookie - JA?TA??

jamtart

Amanda. Stop. Get a broom and dust pan. Sweep up mouse. Take a valium. Not necessarily in that order.

OR: get a HUGE wad of paper towels and pick it up. You'll want enough that you can't feel the mouse.

Amanda. Follow up with a martini. Repeat as necessary.

thanks dog

failing that i'll come over and dispose of the mouse in exchange for the valium and martini.

I'm drinking Lychee Yogu Time!

Kenny? The Bird? He did NOT like the wig I was just wearing. He puffed up and started making a low, rattling, growling noise with his beak wide open in a threating way. Poor little fella.

PS I KNOW THIS IS IRRATIONAL

UPDATE: I would/will make so many margaritas/martinis/younameits for anyone who would get rid of this mouse for me. Jenny offered.
I am going to see if I can do this myself. Then, if I can't, offer is open.

NOW: I am drinking a beer.
Next I will put some trash in a bag, put on no fewer than three pairs of gloves and scoot the mouse into the bag with a dustpan broom

Then, I will go this party and try to chill out. Valiums welcomed. There are none in my house I already looked.

pps i am big time allergic to cats

amanda, at the risk of freaking you out more, mice don't live solitary existences.

mine seems solitary! even though i've borrowed kenan's cat, mine is still at large somewhere. i screamed like a little girl at his last appearance (being carried around by the cat but NOT KILLED), though he was tiny.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v616/j_bdules/IMG_5652.jpg

Jenny: brave and valiant
Me: wimpy of mice

i share your wimpiness, amanda. i become ridiculously undignified when my mouse appears.

i spent much of today flipping between the rutgers/west virginia game on abc and wttw that had back to back bbq cooking shows on this afternoon. i made a menu for when i get my paycheck, pulled pork, baked beans, mac 'n' cheese, green bean casserole, and a lot of pickles.

OMG I wish I could eat your yay-I'm-employed menu! I would supply sweet tea and bourbon.

i've got a headache on top of my head. it's what i imagine internal bleeding would feel like. it hurts to keep my left eye open.

It's easy to be brave and valiant when I did not come face to face with said mouse after peeking under a cabinet to see what my animals were going on about, and am safely one mile away in my own (presumptively) mouse-free apartment.

Also, Julia, that picture is awesome!

you're only one mile away?!?!

You've all seen it before, but...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/50/144879405_a2c25b2585.jpg

That was the little fella we found in our old apartment.

xp - I have no idea, actually. I was justing taking a wild guess. Maybe more like three?

Things I say that are almost guaranteed to be (wildly wrong) guesses:

Distance
Directions
Estimates on numbers of people or things
Math
Square footage
The numbers of beers I've consumed

that mouse looks like he has a chip on his shoulder about something jenny.

thanks, jenny. i may have been screaming while taking that picture, despite the mouse being a teeny tiny little thing. the cat was feigning disinterest.

i have a touch lamp and sometimes the cat turns it off or on by brushing against it. but sometimes it turns off or on BY ITSELF when the cat is on her chair or sitting by me. which means either i have some sort of weird electrical thing going on, the mouse is turning on the lamp when he scurries by, or my apartment is haunted.

My parents put a touch lamp in the guest room (err... my room?) and it just goes on and off of its own volition. I think there is a fundamental flaw in touch lamp technology. And that fundamental flaw is that it is AN EVIL FORCE BROUGHT TO EARTH BY THE DEVIL HIMSELF.

OK guys. Where would you be if you were on Western avenue east of Clark?

uhhhhhhhh i dunno but i GOT DAT MOUSE

RIP devilmouse, you gonna spend eternity in a landfill.

my touch lamp never did that in my old place though! it's only since i've moved.

My guess is it got banged or jarred somehow and something is shorting out. I inherited one from my parents, and after I moved all my crap to Chicago it never worked right again.

inherited one from my parents

they are not dead, they just gave me the lamp

could well be. it's just more interesting to think it's a mouse or a ghost.

ps i just bought a bottle of scotch whisky to celebrate my valor (at the party)

pps you can have some too

ppps it is also part of me costume

OK guys. Where would you be if you were on Western avenue east of Clark?

you wouldn't be in chicago, that much i'm sure.

i've been watching the equals on german tv and eating peanut butter for a lot of this afternoon. remember eddie grant of electric avenue fame? well he's in the equals.

Amanda, you so brave. I would not be petrified freakout, but I wouldn't be happy or want to touch it, either. I think a dustpan and a broom (with a paper towel taped over it so your nice broom does not touch dirty dead thing) would be my answer. Drink your whiskey, there's a good girl.

you wouldn't be in chicago, that much i'm sure.

You would! You might not be having much fun, though.

ugh, we have a mouse, too, and it's befouling the kitchen, probably as we speak

can we borrow a cat? this is kind of a serious question

also, for like the tenth year running, it's Time, and I don't have a costume.

You would! You might not be having much fun, though.

Ha. I just looked this up, and you're right.

must be waaaay on the south side?

RAPING

Thanks for the party Courtney! Loved it. And I really enjoyed meeting Toby and Colette, even though (as I said to Colette) next time I see them, it will still be the first time, since they were both dressed as mimes. Still no reference for what they look like. But hey, it's that kinda holiday.

A historical moment for me personally tonight: Just before I left my house, I made the most misleadingly labeled mix of my entire CD burning career. The label says something like "Halloween mix '07." For one thing, it has nothing whatsoever to do with Halloween. For another, it's not really a mix -- it's Michael Jackson from beginning to end, for 117 minutes. It's a mix of some of my favorite MJ songs. That's what the label should say, if there were any integrity in the world. But who am I? I'm no friggin' monument to justice!

http://www.quirkcollective.com/images/clip_image004.jpg

I really should sleep. :/

raping

earnest note to the rest of ilx: I was not part of the raping jokes, and I honestly do not know what they're talking about.

As you were.

the rape sword is a secret of the piñata

also i want to tell all of you these things;
1) surprize! my dress was on backwards ALL NIGHT LONG
2) ALL NIGHT LONG is a Lionel Richie song
3) my cabbie refused the apple I offered him

thank you and goodnight

http://www.indielondon.co.uk/images/2775.gif

Things we covered in blood:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2176/1785457363_5abb95ca49.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2338/1785459091_c8ab63561e.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2394/1786307134_c5546ab42b.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2154/1785472605_046b65c308.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2379/1785481987_98986f329d.jpg

Special bonus material:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2167/1786336068_d5cb4b8970.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2115/1785501221_04ae7e7558.jpg

It all washed off:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2390/1786356158_d0c793ec74.jpg

OMG that may be my fave picture of me ever...

we made it home on bikes, i am still quite tipsy.

is that nic cage or adrian whatshisname?

PS: I love you.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2075/1786564118_01f8a9608b.jpg

Both of those pics are Nicholas Cage, but only one of them shames the entire human race.

i think the shame is that i think he's cute.

was he cute in 'valley girl'? i should netflix that.

ps-- there were a lot of typos in the last few posts, but that is what the delete key is for.

YES he was TOTALLY cute in Valley Girl!

http://www.lazydork.com/movies/valleygirl.jpg

Or not. But it worked for me when I was 12.

i will add it to netfilx right now.

toby has given me water. but really, i am ok. i think every time i know kenan will be somewhere i will, i'll wear a costume, just for fun,

xp-- i can totally see it, actually.

Goodnight! It was nice to meet you, Colette (and also Toby). I will probably not be covered in blood the next time I see you.

Courtney thank you for the party! I hope that tonight in your deepest and sweetest sleep, you flush the mess we left behind in your apartment down the toilet.

Kenan, didn't you already meet C&T at pitchfork?

I don't know if Nic Cage is cute in Valley Girl but you should rent Valley Girl because it's actually pretty good and was directed by the same woman who directed Real Genius, which is even better.

I feel great this morning! Up bright and early. I should always drink Scotch. I could be that guy, that guy who always drinks Scotch.

oh yeah, i did meet them at pfork. I remember now.

You had some whiskey that day.

FFs "rehearsing" at the MCA yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ySMKfHEpRh4

I feel great this morning! Up bright and early. I should always drink Scotch. I could be that guy, that guy who always drinks Scotch. I could be that guy too because even though I should have NOT taken that last slug (thanks, Jesse!) I feel pretty good this morning.

Also: WINIS

Also: WINIS

one of the funniest things ever

w/r/t "raping"-- you press your lips to the Broken Raping Sword and speak of rape, or just say the word and all tendencies toward violation you might be host to are exorcised.

looks like i missed a good time. ;_;

i kinda forgot about asking a friend if she wanted to go then also forgot to tell her that i wasn't going, i kind of felt bad when she showed up at my house dressed as patty hearst.

also, if this isn't your christmas card this year jesse then i'll be thoroughly disappointed:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2379/1785481987_98986f329d.jpg

I felt great this morning too...good job everyone!

I'm bored. At least I can watch football.

there's something great about the facial expressions (or perhaps lack thereof) in this shot:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2154/1785472605_046b65c308.jpg

i took that! we had a strict no-smiling rule for the portraits.

also, the sword was broken because i went to TOWN* on that piñata.

*crazytown

taking out some mouse based aggression on the pinata?

If she had gone after the mouse like she did on the pinata there would have been nothing but mouse paste left!

that piñata got what it deserved.

i am going to look at my photos now -- will post any esp. good ones. i didn't take that many, though.

Hi. I'm extremely aggressive.
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There are others on flickr. I don't want to post them just in case people don't want their photos up here, but the one of John/Krista with the hot cucumber lollipop is particularly great. Also Jammerman family portrait.

link plz

also, amanda, i love your costume.

whoops i forgot that part

xp - thanks!

i will post pictures soon, though i don't have many.

that was so much fun! and i was pretty hung over this morning.

lots of good photos, i think.

here's a couple of especially good ones:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2242/1793644427_b9f173cf08.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2048/1793976019_da1ba62aea.jpg?v=0

more here

damnit, i meant this one
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haha oh geez

first i attempted to destroy him...then i became his ally

This is nightmarish:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2052/1794819118_688424245a.jpg

This is the end of sit com when the bloody, murderous horror turned out to all be just one big hilarious misunderstanding:

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John, in case you haven't seen this NYT article about baby names and gender, here it is.

Thanks, J-dawg. My dad mentioned that to me earlier today, but I hadn't gone looking for it yet.

Wow. That picture of me pointing is bothering me.

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/4060/stupididru7.jpg

Save Chicagoland Transit

With links for writing letters to reps and stuff and junk. also there's supposed to be a "pay for the fucking CTA already, DAMN" rally next Monday, Nov. 5, time and location TBD.

UH link - http://www.savechicagolandtransit.com/

Two costumes I saw this weekend that straddled the line of good taste:

A Catholic priest with a Cabbage Patch doll attached to his crotch.
A dead LaSalle Bank marathon runner.

Hey Kevin, remind me of the name of B1ll & L1sa's printing co.?

Does anyone know how long it should take for a wire transfer to go through? My dad was sending me some money on Friday, it still hasn't shown up in my account. Starting to get a little nervous.

honest truth: did not feel so great yesterday

woke up feeling fine, then deteriorated slowly throughout the day. by 8 i was eating oven-baked french fries and watching a lifetime movie.

a movie, i will add, that starred leelee sobieski! i have to say, for some reason i do not hate her. something about her strange face and emotionless demeanor is impressive to me. she also has lovely skin and strange, hairless eyebrows. she seems like an alien, i guess. did not appreciate her turn as nu-willow, but i wish her no ill will on account of it.

xp do not know anything about wire xfers

I had such a fun night Saturday at a very gay Halloween party! I spent about half an hour talking to this sixty-two year old who was celebrating his 30th anniversary with his partner.

Good Mornin'. Yesterday I spent the day curled up reading Cold Mountain, sleeping, eating homemade potato leek soup a la Nick, and watching Cujo.

Those pics are great, dudes. Looks like a fun party.

I was basically sick all weekend and stayed home being lame and watching movies.

jon, i feel like they take longer than they should (which should be within hours if not minutes), but can't remember exactly how long.

i just remembered the costume i saw which i think was over the line of bad taste-- neither toby or i had a clear look at the guy, but i'm pretty sure this guy was dressed up in brownface as some sort of corona guy? it was hard to say because it was dark and it looked almost greenish, but i think it was supposed to be brown. which surprised me especially because you'd think that people going to a NOW domestic violence fundraiser would be extra PC.

Possible appropriate use of blackface: dressing up as the characters from the recent "Bacardi and Coke" ads (in which Bacardi and Coke are a crimefighting duo (I think) like Starksky and Hutch, and Bacardi is played by the white guy, and Coke by the black guy).

Or not.

oh dear

Was anyone else surprised that those ads actually got made? Was there ever any negative reaction to them?

yes, yes, a thousand times yes:

I’ve been hooked ever since, which has become a curse. It’s hard to be a Tex-Mex aficionado when you don’t live in Texas.

bad thing about today: week three in temp assignement. first thing boss says to me today is 'i'm not really sure how i'm going to fill today, to be honest.' especially painful as it involves staying late to be trained on a computer program by someone in australia.

good thing about today: one of those mysteriously completely empty brown line trains picked me up at belmont today, so i got a seat and got to read.

I’ve been hooked ever since, which has become a curse. It’s hard to be a Tex-Mex aficionado when you don’t live in Texas.

I have come across the authentic article in such likely places as Phoenix, as well as such unlikely ones as Wilmington, Del.

Woo! Although I question the editorial decision to abbreviate Delaware at all, much less to "Del."

xp - I love the mysterious empty brown line trains! I first encountered those two summers ago. It was like a benevolent ghost train. Now sometimes I'll let a particularly crowded brown line go past me when I have a hunch that a ghostly unoccupied brown line is coming next.

Empty Brown line trains??

Another Halloween idea: put on brownface, dress fairly neatly and cleanly, carry around a white yuppie, and be the CTA Brown Line.

Yes. I think to ease the outrageous morning rush hour congestion, the CTA occasionally starts some brown line runs at Belmont so you're minding your bidness, all crammed on the platform like a sardine, and in rolls an empty brown line car. It is usually crammed full to the gills by Fullerton.

I just got suckered into watching a co-workers dog for a week, starting tomorrow. :/

That Tex-Mex article confuses me. The premise seems to be that Tex-Mex is a cuisine that deserves to be taken at face value and judged according to its fusion/derivative standard, rather than as compared to regional Mexican, and yet the first restaurant that he describes in detail is owned by people who disdain the Tex Mex label and serves food that, from what I can tell, is just straight up Mexican (mole, soups that "hew closely to the traditional soups across the border").

See but the secret is they put chili on everything.

that article made me hungry

and i don't even really like chili very much

I like chili that much.

From what he describes, "Tex-Mex" is just your garden variety Americanized Mexican food. He says that there is a surfeit of chili on everything, but none of the specific dishes he describes actually involve chili.

yeah, jenny otm, he doesn't do the best job of describing what makes tex-mex different from mexican food. But I do agree with the point that it's more american regional cuisine then mexican. I thought ALL mexican food was like that until I left texas.

I mean, do not get me wrong. DO NOT! I love Americanized Mexican food and chili and nothing this person describes as "Tex Mex" is unappealing to me. I'm just sort of puzzled that none of the food he specifically describes seems to fall properly within the category that he defined.

But on second thought, I am putting way too much thought into this article. Who cares? Enchiladas for everybody!

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm i like enchiladas

Enchiladas enrobed in melted cheese! With approx two cups of red sauce on top!

Where does the food served at a place like the one on the corner of Clark and Lawrence fit in? Is that Tex-Mex/Americanized Mexican food? Are there any restaurants in Chicago that youse can think of that don't self-identify as being regional that are actually "authentic" and not Tex-Mex?

xp - make my mole!

Jenny, remember that Uncle Julio's Tex-Mex place we went and how fucking delicious it was? Remember that? That was cool. Let's do that again.

Also, get on Chat because I have an very important question for you re. Lexis.

I could really eat the soup described in that article.

Uncle Julio's off the North/Clybourne red line stop? I thought it was okay, but not fucking delicious. But I think I've eaten there since you and I had lunch and been disappointed, which probably colors my memories.

It is too loud in there. Nick and I walked in one time and walked right back out. But also, I don't think there were many veggie options?

I just made the associate grumpy b/c I told him he had to work on a divorce and he finds divorce law "repulsive." I feel a certain naughty, petty pleasure in wielding the ability to foist onerous tasks on fellow underlings. MWAHAHAHAHAHA (hack hack hack).

I loved the place because the ribs came with a side of chicken!!!! MEAT AS A SIDE DISH!

XPOST

I want to go to Xni-pec.

Are there any restaurants in Chicago that youse can think of that don't self-identify as being regional that are actually "authentic" and not Tex-Mex?

I do not understand. There is no Tex Mex in Chicago, certainly not taqueria food like that.

Again, don't get me wrong, taqueria food is just fine.

The reminds me of high school, when we were arguing over what late-night diner to loiter in. Usually between Denny's, George Webb's, Perkins, and a couple of Greek places, and the only point in Perkins favor was pancakes AS A SIDE DISH.

This reminds me that I made black beans and rice for lunch and I am SO EXCITED about eating them.

Food definitions are dumb.

i mean, i dunno, but the mexican places in my neighborhood are -- in my unofficial estimation at least -- cooked by and for mexicans. i don't know if they are authentic because i am not mexican but i don't know why they would be tex-mex. almost everyone who works and eats there appears to be mexican. the cafeteria at my school serves mexican food as well. (we have a culinary program that specializes in regional latin cuisine, though i think they are trained to cook other things as well)

i don't know anywhere that slops chili all over everything?

xp - nick that is your ilx-itaph. ps did you get that getatchew/the ex cd from courtney's?

i want pancakes. mmmm, pancakes.

By that I mean that food "genres" parallel music genres in that they can both be useful for categorization or shorthand reference purposes, but you shouldn't be fooled into thinking that they actually mean something or that to be authentic within a genre is valuable.

no, I forgot to grab the cd

I do not understand. There is no Tex Mex in Chicago, certainly not taqueria food like that.

I guess I was using the NYT guy's definition of Tex Mex, which seems to be what I've always thought of as "strip mall Mexican restaurant food. (I mean, he specifically expands the geographic range of Tex-Mex outside of Texas, to include Delaware even.) " Is taqueria another sub-category of Mexican food? And does it reflect a culinary tradition from Mexico or is it another Mexican American fusion type creation?

xp to Amanda - but see according to that NYT article, Tex Mex is also by and four Mexican Americans.

I made waffles this weekend but they were buckwheat and too healthy-tasting. :(

SORRY NICK why don't you tell us what it is okay to discuss so we can just stick to that?

Everyone is surprised to find that my mom never heard of chili con carne before moving to the US (LA). She visited her family in Mexico and made it and they squealed with delight.

I disagree with Nick.

You mean like you're doing to me now?

xpost to Jenny

I'm just making a conversational gambit, I don't actually expect people to do what I suggest

Sushi = Tex Mex

Although I agree that there is a certain futility to discussing picky sub-classifications of things, but it can be fun.

I watched that movie The Devil's Own yesterday and wondered about the scene where Irish Brad Pitt comes to stay with Harrison Ford, and HF's wife makes him corned beef and cabbage and he's like "WTF is this?" and she's like "uh, I thought you people ate this all the time" and he's like "I've never had it before."

dan m is the chuck eddy of food

nick = http://www.gearcritech.com/images/update031705_gambit.jpg

ha ha, I'm kind of embarassed I get that joke

at least I didn't make it, I guess

The Chuck Eddy one or the Gambit one?

Note: I don't get either joke.

Gumbo = Ice Cream

i knew i was not doing well last night when i was watching iron chef and the secret ingredient was milk and i almost threw up

The whole Mexican food thing is something I've actually pondered in my own head before. I would like to read a book about regional variations of Mexican food in Mexico and how those variations compare to Mexican food in the US. I think it would be an interesting gastro-anthropological look at Mexican culture in the US.

Also, I love enchiladas.

Jenny, I would also read this book. Surely it must exist in some form.

Rick Bayless is kind of annoying but this book is pretty intense:

http://www.amazon.com/Authentic-Mexican-Regional-Cooking-Mexico/dp/0688043941

MILK!! Weird.

MILK!! Gross. What did they make? (or did you stick around to find out?)

Is taqueria another sub-category of Mexican food?

Eh, not really. I think Amanda is otm that it's made by and for Mexicans -- kind of cheap fast food for a specific group of immigrants. I mean, beats Taco Bell, but essentially it's just quick and easy with some familiar Mexican ingredients.

xp - Canned condensed cream of mushroom soup

There was an episode of the Japanese series that had Coke as the secret ingredient.

Also, before there was Rick Bayless, there was Diana Kennedy:

http://ec1.images-amazon.com/images/I/51T031K7X5L._SL210_.jpg

But all either of them has done is introduce Americans to "authentic" regional Mexican fare, and their attitude toward Tex-Mex or other "inauthentic" Mexican-inspired food is basically, "You don't want to eat that."

Oh but I do!

amanda, i hear you on the milk. when i got up at like 11 i thought 'i feel fine except this headache' so took a couple of advil and had instant breakfast...and was sick like 20 minutes later. went back to bed until 2, and was sleeping by like 10:30 last night as well. i feel old!

their attitude toward Tex-Mex or other "inauthentic" Mexican-inspired food is basically, "You don't want to eat that."

The stupidity of this attitude was basically what I was trying to point at with my comments above.

'Tex-Mex' makes me think of some big chain like On the Border.

You know what I love? Chili's.

Tex-Mex makes me think of foods with melted cheese all over them, and sour cream and shredded iceberg lettuce on the sides. All of which I'm totally fine with.

MILK!! Gross. What did they make? (or did you stick around to find out?)
As soon as they started boiling pork in milk, I stopped watching.
It's still making me a little barfy.

nom nom nom

ha ha

I don't know what I'm talking about though. I've never been to Mexico.

Taco Juan

GODDMN do I ever want mexican food right now.

General question for the Chilx hive mind:

What are the odds of my getting a cab if I have two cats in cat carriers with me?

How well do the cats tip?

(I wouldn't think you would have a problem but I don't take cabs that often)

Do what Paxxxson does when she wants a cab ride for her and her dog-- hide the offending creature until you have secured a cab.

Cats don't tip for shit; they don't have any pockets.

That's what I was thinking I'd do - put them on the sidewalk, hail the cab, then put them in. I guess I am not relishing the thought of getting lectured by a cab driver. They'll be coming out of anesthesia so they should be quiet little kitty lumps at least.

Kitty at my foot and I wanna touch it
It's Lump, it's Lump, it's Lump
It's immobile,
It might be dead.

I fucked that up.

guys i am sad over a grrl

how shd i make self feel better

be gay

(see what i did there?)

real answer: eat some fritos

with chilli on top

watch dawson's creek or other teen-angst tv show.

p.s. what happened?

Find another girl, pref. one that does not make sad. There are lots.

Listen to bummerz indie rock. The only way out of hell, Dante will tell you, is down.

Comfort food. Avoid booze if possible. Pills work much better!

Lots of blankets.

hugz $2

Find a puppy. Pet it.

That's your answer to everything.

Watch Annie Hall.

OMG NO

That's your answer to everything.

As your lawyer, I advise you to find and then pet a puppy.

Watch Planet of the Apes

i think finding and petting a puppy is a good idea. you could lurk near one of the dog parks and pet lots of dogs that way...

So romantic
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As your attorney, I advise you to rent a very fast car with no top. And you'll need cocaine. And Acapulco shirts. And arm yourself to the teeth.

deej i am sad too

find a girl* with a puppy and pet them both with equal vigor

*of age

did that really need to be said?

I have been sad for YEARS! (Though I haven't cried in an alley for *quite* some time!!)

Urinating, however, is quite another matter.

Indeed. Maybe I now cry another way.

You're not sad, only your dick is. Hey, who doesn't know that feeling?

Forgot to mention earlier: Jordan, I made the pan-fried shrimp and grits last night, sans the bacon. Kr refused to admit it was "off the chain" but said it was her favorite thing that I've made for her. (Not that there was much competition, but still: it was v. good. I have leftovers for lunch.)

If you got girl problems, I feel bad for you, Deej. I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one. Hit me!

But seriously, I agree to the comfort food and cult classic movie combo. Then get lots of sleep. Then wake up happy and put on a cute scarf and go meet some women.

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Jaymc, that's awesome, I'm glad it worked out. When I washed the dishes after having my neighbors over I there was a little pile of all the bacon on the lady's plate, oops. :>

So you ate it, right? Better not to waste.

The Good Emily sent me home from her pumpkin carving party with a zip loc bag of cocktail shrimp and I made a stirfry but I should have made the shrimp and grits!

Were there shrimp inside the pumpkins??

Gross! No, she served shrimp cocktail and also chili and this pumpkin thing that she called "pumpkin junk" that was basically an pumpkin upside down pie and was SO GOOD that it was really good.

And I forgot to bring a pumpkin.

So for me it was more of a pumpkin carving watching party.

I don't understand shrimp cocktail.

So you ate it, right? Better not to waste.

Of course I ate it!

Like you don't understand what it is or you don't understand why people would eat it or you don't understand why it's called shrimp cocktail or what? Help us help you.

I don't understand why people would eat it when the shrimp could be hot instead of cold (although I guess it's meant to sit around parties for hours?), and cocktail sauce doesn't do much for me. Is it a white people thing?

I guess I also don't understand why it's called shrimp cocktail, except that it's served in a glass for some reason.

I didn't really think there were shrimp in the pumpkins. I just thought it was a funny thing to bring home from a pumpkin carving party. :-)

In other news, I ordered that other pair of boots I was thinking about.
http://www.zappos.com/images/735/7358775/6220-501489-d.jpg

I thought it was funny, too. I felt like Carl Weathers when I made the stir fry out of it, though.

Those boots are AWESOME.

Jeff loves cocktail shrimp and has been known to RSVP positively to events just because there will be shrimp cocktail involved. I am sort of ambivalent about it. I will eat it, but I rarely go looking for it.

I think cold and hot shrimp are totally incomparable. I miss friend shrimp. We had such a good time together back in the day. Maybe it could be my myspace friend.

Thanks, Jenny.

i like those boots, how much did they cost (if you don't mind saying)?

jordan, i'm guessing it's the cocktail sauce that names the dish, although i don't know if that was invented first and if so why it's called that.

xp: Jeff loves cocktail shrimp and has been known to RSVP positively to events just because there will be shrimp cocktail involved.

ok, *this* i don't understand.

He's a complex man.

I miss friend shrimp

If this is a typo, I don't want to know about it.

ha ha ha

Yeah, cocktail shrimp are just disappointing compared to other shrimp that I have befriended. Also, they are usually the same cocktail shrimp that come from the grocery store in those round containers with the sauce in the center.

I like shrimp cocktail but "is it a white people thing" reminds me of an episode of Sports Night where some people are on a double date and one of the women orders shrimp cocktail and then starts babbling about how shrimp cocktail is "comfort food." so maybe not a white people thing, but a fairly well-off people thing? who thinks of shrimp cocktail as comfort food?

Well, see, at least with cocktail shrimp you can see whether they've been cleaned/de-veined. I am v suspicious about that, not for any real reason other than the fact that eating black veins icks me out.

Fried shrimp, I have to assume they're keeping costs down any way possible and serving them dirty.

Hey Kevin, remind me of the name of B1ll & L1sa's printing co.?

black hole press

I've often been tempted by the various versions of seafood cocktail at Mexican restaurants but have never ordered one.

I felt like Carl Weathers when I made the stir fry out of it, though.

This made me LOL.

ps shrimp are nasssssssssssty

(says the man whose no. 1 missed meat foodstuff is hot dogs)

would my heart stop if I ate a hot dog for lunch every day this week? how 'bout if I ate two?

there are hot dogs in my house!