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Sorry, it runs until 7:30. Whatevs. You know you can put away more than $12 worth of mozarella cheese and shrimp cocktail in 2.5 hours.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:17 (twenty years ago)

OMG we just got a submission by one Dr. Jeff MANGUM.

http://www.cv.nrao.edu/~jmangum/astrolinks.shtml

Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:28 (twenty years ago)

So THAT'S what he's been up to these days! Invite him to T. 10!

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 May 2006 20:38 (twenty years ago)

OMG yes! We totally should plan on T10 for Friday. I am off work. Can we make SOLID PLANS?

Wow. There was a double header of marching today. The immigrants at Grant Park and then I walked by the Daley Ctr. where Jan Schokowsky was speaking about how proud she is to be a Jew. She's just a Jew, a lonely Jew, in Chicago.

Anyway, it was an Israeli thing. Something about genocide Jaruf. Jarfur? JarJar?

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:31 (twenty years ago)

Darfur?

Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh and Sarah?

The dishwasher works great. It's small though.

If you can spare the floorspace, the same money buys you a portable apartment sized rolly dishwasher. I would recommend that. And those are easy to find on Craiglist for pretty cheap.

GET A DISHWASHER! (when you're done being broke as a joke)

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

I am NOT talking about Darfur on the internets.

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)

4:17 p.m.: Charles Williams of Chicago Police Department now estimates the crowd at 400,000.

He says no arrests were reported as of about 3:45 p.m. One person needed emergency medical service and transport by the Chicago Fire Department after fainting. A few kids ended up at the lost child tent.

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

The people, united, from their children will be divided!

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:36 (twenty years ago)

2:58 p.m. On the way to Grant Park, the dominant chant was "si se puede" (yes, it can be done)....Brian Smith and Zack Wicks, both 15-year-old students from Francis Parker School, turned "si se puede" into a modified rap.

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:37 (twenty years ago)

Nearby, a letter on the revolving door of a seafood restaurant, Catch 35 at 35 W. Wacker Drive, said the popular venue for business lunches would be closed due to a national boycott in support of legal immigration.

"This boycott of work renders Catch 35 without the staff levels necessary to serve you," the message read.

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 1 May 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

ihttp://www.bigskinny.net/specs.html

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Monday, 1 May 2006 22:04 (twenty years ago)

You can't i-link an html page, duder.

Go Catch 35. I will eat there as soon as I can afford it again.

As for SOLID PLANS for T10, let me hold off on total solidity until Thursday evening when I see how much work I've gotten done. However, know in the depths of your coal-black, spider-filled heart that I will be doing everything I can to complete enough work to GORGE MYSELF ON COCKTAIL SHRIMP. And Peroni.

PS Jesse called me pretty much just to orally recount the tale of Kenan falling off his bar stool and it made me want to hang out with Kenan in the hopes of seeing him fall off a bar stool.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:03 (twenty years ago)

Oh hi! I am the new proud owner of a lovely 30 gig iPod. I knew 30 gigs was a good bit, but I don't think I realized how much it is. I have 72 albums on it at the present moment, plus the ILM 70's poll, plus a few random playlists of random crap, and I have used just under six gigs. I guess... you know, fuck all restraint. I should just put all my favorite albums on this thing. Where's Funhouse?

PS Jesse called me pretty much just to orally recount the tale of Kenan falling off his bar stool and it made me want to hang out with Kenan in the hopes of seeing him fall off a bar stool.

I am constant entertainment.

Man Man (kenan), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:05 (twenty years ago)

Feature that's charming the hell out of me at the moment -- you can set it to display the artwork for all the albums. Beautiful! I've been very meticulous about including album artwork for all my mp3s, and now it feels like it's paying off, albeit on a 1.5x2-inch screen.

Man Man (kenan), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:08 (twenty years ago)

Also purchased: another $20 set of headphones, the kind that wrap around the back of your neck. I refuse on principle to use the iPod headphones. I could have had a giant fuck-off set for a few dollars more, and I love those big headphones with the cushions that wrap totally around your ears, but I thought it might look obnoxious wearing those at work.

Man Man (kenan), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

And despite the wonderfulness of this product, there's still something vaguely sinister about the Apple store. They sell leather iPod cases for $100. $100.

Man Man (kenan), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:15 (twenty years ago)

I hate iPod headphones. Earbuds. Shitphones. Whatever they are. They hurt my earholes. Also they just fall out of my ears all the time. ALSO if you use them, EVERYBODY on the train can hear what you're listening to (something I suspect is by design). That makes me rageful.

I agree with the sinister undercurrent at the apple store. Do they still sell SOCKS designed to match your iPod?

While I'm a fan of Apple computer hardware, I have a Zen Micro mp3 player that I love as if I gave birth to it myself.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:17 (twenty years ago)

Shitphones. Whatever they are.

otmfm

Man Man (kenan), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

ALSO if you use them, EVERYBODY on the train can hear what you're listening to (something I suspect is by design). That makes me rageful.

Also madly otm. Because it's not like you can hear what they're listening to in any way where you can identify or enjoy it, it's just tinny beats echoing all over the train from ten different people. Bullshit.

Do they still sell SOCKS designed to match your iPod?

Sadly, they do.

Man Man (kenan), Monday, 1 May 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

I refuse on principle to use the iPod headphones.

Same here. I consider these to be in the same boat as trucker hats were a couple of years ago.

regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 00:17 (twenty years ago)

Chicago, my thesis is DONE. And I think it's turned out really well. It's a little late, but who cares?

regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Congratulations, Dave! That's a truly wonderful feeling! I will be right there feeling it with you in 15 days. Whoop!

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 00:32 (twenty years ago)

Yeh, that's awesome, Dave. Good on ya.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:14 (twenty years ago)

This is an amazing album cover:

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000EOTUY4.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_V57034656_.jpg

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:20 (twenty years ago)

Thanks, dudes. I am currently singing "Congratulations to me!" to the tune of "Happy Birthday." Okay, that's not true. I'm listening to Gnarls Barkley, "Transformer." Close enough. Now all I have to do is write 4 papers, do a bunch of science class stuff, get a job, and get an apartment. Bring it on!

That is a cool album cover.

regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:25 (twenty years ago)

"Four oh seven seven/Four oh seven see-eeven"

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

Jen is busy. You may be interrupting.
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Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:53 (twenty years ago)

So Fresh, So Clean! Ah, jeah...!

How did getting home go, Dan? (read: tell me how right I was, haha!)

regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Dave, what is your thesis on again?

So it turned out all the Mexicans (and friends) were at my campus, where the rally was and where the march began, and I spent my lunch hour watching them. A few thousand people! So nice to see so many non-white people all in one place in Portland!

Also,

unless i read the flyer wrong, they were at the bottle on the 29th.

Google google google. That was Low Skies.

Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

It is a poetic exploration of the struggle of a young black poet (me) to transcend a life of hustling through his art and includes the title piece, "It's Hard Out Here for a Poet."

Not really. But it is a bunch of poems, and if poems about

1) shoplifting,
2) Oklahomans who confuse the vagina with the belly button,
3) spiritual journeys led by popular MCs,
4) fathers dissecting cadavers in medical school,
5) the greater benefits of death by stabbing over those of shooting, or
6) the obstacle diabetes presents to painful relationship conversations

pique your interest, then I can send it along. I even have a YSI I posted for some friends. Basically, I show you mine if you show me the poems you told me you'd send me. But you must comment.

Oh yeah, and all those really are things I have poems about, as opposed to the first one.

regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 02:37 (twenty years ago)

Oh! Which poems did I say I would send you, the ones that got in the paper? I sent those out to people already, and I can totally send them along to you... I knew there was someone else who wanted them.

Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 02:40 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I'd love to see as many from that series as you're willing to share. Did I do a good job of selling mine?

Also, I'm not black, just in case that part of the joke wasn't clear.

regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 02:43 (twenty years ago)

No, you don't understand. You are black.

Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 03:12 (twenty years ago)

Hey congrats, Dave! Nice! Have you ever seen Jim McManus's diabetes poems? Full of science.

Eazy (Eazy), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 03:31 (twenty years ago)

http://www.thesecretcinema.com/jolson.jpg

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 03:34 (twenty years ago)

xpost

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 03:37 (twenty years ago)

No, you don't understand. Al Jolson had diabetes.

Casuistry (Chris P), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 03:47 (twenty years ago)

DUDE YOU'RE KIDDING. THAT IS SO AWESOME! AL JOLSON IS MY NEW FAVORITE PERSON.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 03:55 (twenty years ago)

Everyone please send me the black and diabetes poems! I am celebrate! OOh, I forgot to drink some water and take some 'profin. Okay.

I am burning up.

I gave Gnarls Barkley to my little brother and he fuckin' loves it! This never happens. The last time we agreed on music so much was when he got me to really, really dig Prince, and even then it was still sort of on an individual basis. This is tight!

Thanks for the congrats everyone!!!!!!!!!

I used to wonder why he looked familiar. Then I realized it was a mirror.
The only thing that can bring me back alive, woman, is some good good head.

Ha ha ha!

regular roundups (Dave M), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 06:27 (twenty years ago)

Sarah and I can't do Trat. 10 on Friday, because we are looking at a POTENTIAL WEDDING VENUE and then having a LAST-MINUTE BAND PRACTICE for the show on SATURDAY at the HIDEOUT. Which is too bad because I love GORGING MYSELF ON ITALIAN FOOD.

n/a (Nick A.), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 09:28 (twenty years ago)

Nick, why were you posting at 5.28 am?

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

That's when he gets up.

Good morning, my little sparrows.

The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Chirper chirper. Oh who am I kidding, am I a) hungover or b) sleep-deprived? FEEL FREE TO PICK MORE THAN ONE.

Italian food? What time, I'm there.

Laurel (Laurel), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:21 (twenty years ago)

i'll guess equal parts a & b.

i'm only b. i have a squishy spot on my head where i think i can touch my brain. it hurts.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 13:41 (twenty years ago)

I am sick. Actually, truly sick. I feel like I'm on the verge of this often, but I woke up and had to puke last night. Ugh.

Man Man (kenan), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:10 (twenty years ago)

Today, I got in the elevator at school with five FIVE people wearing iPod shitphones, all of which were leaking their music out into the crowded, small elevator space and I wanted to murder.

Earlier, on the Clark St. bus, I sat next to a man who was reading from a musical score (in a book form, like whem you buy the BIG BOOK OF SUPER 70S HITS FOR THE SAXAPHONE) and was HUMMING and TAPPING HIS FOOT to the music only he could hear.

Today is a day that I dislike music.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:20 (twenty years ago)

Note: I am pretty sure I once owned the Big Book of Super 70s Hits for the Saxaphone.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

i don't have a problem with ipod headphones at all, although i've lost mine. but in contrast to the new ones i bought that go around the back of your head, the sound quality is about the same and the ipod ones were a lot more comfortable, since nothing was pressing down behind my ears.

jaymc @ rrrobyn's (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:24 (twenty years ago)

I really like and recommend my Sony noise-canceling big old over-the-top-of-the-head headphones. No hanging on ears, very little leakage, better sound, less deafness.

The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 2 May 2006 14:25 (twenty years ago)


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