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Does that make more sense than my anti-average American tirade above?

Your tirade above made plenty sense; no one is saying that you don't make sense. I think this movie makes clear something more fundamental than politics, though, and let's not misunderestimate the audience before we've even seen the movie.

Man Man (kenan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)

I think you're right. I HATE ERYBUDDY.

Yeh, me too.

Also, I'm going to bed.

Me three.

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:01 (twenty years ago)

"misunderestimate" eh?

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:02 (twenty years ago)

It's a joke, see.

Man Man (kenan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:03 (twenty years ago)

http://www.strangecelebrities.com/images/content/14506.JPG

Eazy (Eazy), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 04:32 (twenty years ago)

the toe-headed daughter

n/a (Nick A.), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 09:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't want to see United 93 because I'm starting to come around on the idea of flying planes into buildings. I don't want to encourage this behavior in myself.

I'm up at Nick o'clock.

Jeff. (Jeff), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 09:52 (twenty years ago)

let's not misunderestimate the audience before we've even seen the movie.

Let's not condescend to me, either, shall we?

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys, I'm back. I'd like a summary of the last five days on my desk by 9:00, thx.

Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

Let's not condescend to me, either, shall we?

You're right. It's probably a good idea not to.

Man Man (kenan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:37 (twenty years ago)

I mean, I sit down and look around and think, "These might be the people you die with"

ha! i do that too. but usually it's more looking at the assembled mass and thinking "there's no way these are the people i'm dying with". except one time on a flight from miami to boston all the people were so fabulous looking that i thought, "holy crap these COULD be the people i die with."

my ex roommate used to get nervous if there were no babies on the plane, she thought there was no way a plane full of babies would crash. she once freaked the fuck out on a flight from o'hare to phoenix, to the point where the girl sitting next to her gave me her aisle seat while she took my middle seat in the next row. i felt really bad for the dude in the window seat. xanax is now her flying companion.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:40 (twenty years ago)

except one time on a flight from miami to boston all the people were so fabulous looking that i thought, "holy crap these COULD be the people i die with."

hahaha I like how you have standards.

my ex roommate used to get nervous if there were no babies on the plane, she thought there was no way a plane full of babies would crash.

Let's not ever tell your ex roommate how easily babies die.

Man Man (kenan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:44 (twenty years ago)

Holy shit that movie. It hasn't really worn off. I literally watched the first hour of it with my mouth agape and my hand over it (a little fey, but whatever), and watched the second hour of it with my teeth clenched.

Man Man (kenan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:46 (twenty years ago)

Let's not ever tell your ex roommate how easily babies die.


rationality was never her strong suit.

incidentally, that flight from miami was probably the best flight i've ever been on. it was on a 757 and there were maybe 25 people on board. everyone had their own row. i put up middle two arm rests up and had three seats in which to stretch my gangly legs. it was great.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:48 (twenty years ago)

Lookit, Circle Line news in the Trib: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0605030260may03,1,3821504.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:52 (twenty years ago)

Oh dear. I only ever fly to/from MI so I'm fairly sure I've NEVER been on a plane full of people I didn't want to vaporize with my laser gaze of doom.

Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 12:55 (twenty years ago)

Officials also narrowed the transportation technology options to three and will study whether to use bus rapid transit, heavy rail or light rail to speed up travel times and make it easier for passengers to transfer among lines.

oh come on. rapid bus transit? i know it's probably 100 times cheaper than constructing a new rail line but it's 1000 times less effective. because guess what, after 5 pm there no rapid anything on western avenue. build a light rail line and be done with it.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:00 (twenty years ago)

I can't figure out what the three proposed routes are from that article. I'm kind of direction-dumb, no doubt, but I wish they'd used some different colors and a more clearly labeled map.

Yeah, rapid transit bus does not compute. Even an express bus can't go fast if all the traffic is stopped.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:01 (twenty years ago)

i didn't see the graphic but i think the basic set up would be starting on the southside, on the orange line, the ashland route would start the circle line at the ashland orange line station. it would head due north on ashland which would hook it up with the pink line (the current douglas branch of the blue line), the green line, the blue line at division, and then turn to hook up with the red line at north and clybourn.

the ashland/ogden would be the same except i think they intersect just south of the green line so i'm really not sure how that would get tied in. it would hit the blue line at chicago instead of division.

the western route would be from the orange line western stop (which is down around 48th st i think) hit the pink, blue, (not the green because there is no western stop on the green line, though there is a california stop a half mile to the west), blue again in bucktown, then turn east after the o'hare blue line stop.

at least that's how i'd imagine it running.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:13 (twenty years ago)

oh, and i imagine the reason for turning east between north and fullerton is to hook up with the brown, purple, and red lines at fullerton. that would kind of make sense.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Dudes, I have suddenly been required to take a Rembrandt psych evaluation at work. I'm doing it now. SAMPLE QUESTION:

LOCK:KEY

KNOT:

1)Cutting

2)Loosening

3) Untying

4) Tightening

And this after reading a book of paranoid Philip K. Dick short stories on the flight home.

Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:29 (twenty years ago)

I think you should write in: SHOOTING WITH A MACHING GUN. That will give them something to think about.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:34 (twenty years ago)

Jordan, I like those stories!! Does it have the one with the bugs vs birds/spiders/humans?

Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

(paraphrase) John and Mary get back from their trip. They enter their high-rise apartment and unpack the items they brought back. An illustrated book for themselves, an expensive business suit for their daughter, and the Scotch whiskey that John's boss asked for. They read:

1) More books than most people

2) About the same amount of books as most people

3) Less books than most people

4) Can't tell

Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:36 (twenty years ago)

No, Laurel, which one is that? Unless you mean the one about the post-WWIII world where the U.S.-made robot killing machines start replicating themselves and imitating humans.

Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:38 (twenty years ago)

4.

wtf

Man Man (kenan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Has anyone checked the Recipes and Songs page lately? I put up a Stone Fox song this morning, which some of you already have. It says "garage band" and by that I meant the program Garage Band, not actual garage band music.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:42 (twenty years ago)

I said 3. They probably read mainly newspapers and periodicals, the snobby fuckers.

Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:43 (twenty years ago)

And by Stone Fox I mean me.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

I'm a busy man and I have to go to work. But I say: the circle line must go to Western or I will be unsatisfied. Also, I often think about how I'm stuck with a certain group of people,come what may, even when it's just on the Michigan Ave/Outer Drive Express bus for a 10 minute drive.

I'm groggy as fuck.

Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Haha, exactly the same setup, and then:

1) John and Mary probably forbid the drinking of alcohol

2) John and Mary probably encourage the drinking of alcohol

3) Can't Tell

(there was some other choice but I can't remember now)

Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:45 (twenty years ago)

I want a copy of that psych test. And the answer key.

Also, you can get to Ikea by going on the Blue Line to Rosemont, then Pace to Woodfield Mall. I think I'm going to do that someday very soon.

Anyone wanna go with me????????????????????????????????????

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Whispy Fandango Triphop (unclejessjess), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:48 (twenty years ago)

That is a bizarre question... Are they trying to see if you equate wealth with reading a lot? Or just if you are objective in your judgments of people?

I hate those kinds of tests. I spend all my time trying to figure out what they are trying to figure out and then pick the answer that I think best matches what they want to hear.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:50 (twenty years ago)

I would guess they read more than most people because they have a lot of money and are thus probably well educated. Also, they are alcoholics due to the pressures of being so smart & stuff.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Jordan, I can't find a list of his short stories w/ synopses right now, and I don't remember title, but I also don't want to give it all away. So I will just say that it's about a guy who starts feeling "watched" and creepy and notices, like, roaches in the corner of his house and a big centipede on his garden walk and etc and the bugginess starts to get kind of menacing....AND THEN.

Laurel (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Also, you can get to Ikea by going on the Blue Line to Rosemont, then Pace to Woodfield Mall. I think I'm going to do that someday very soon.

jesse, i've made that trip and it is a HUGE PAIN IN THE BALLS. rent a car, trust me.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

It's obvious from those questions that John and Mary enjoy best-selling fiction and self-help books, foreign cinema, the color green, FOX News, designer shoes, summer thunderstorms, and secretly, cold Spaghetti-os straight out of the can.

Their daughter lives in an anarchist collective in Eugene, Oregon and intends to pawn the suit for kind buds and staple grains.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:08 (twenty years ago)

If I didn't know better, I would answer that they read less books than other people because they got a picture book.

Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:12 (twenty years ago)

Hey guys, I'm back. I'd like a summary of the last five days on my desk by 9:00, thx.

Haha me too, except I was popping in periodically on Robyn's computer while in Le Canada. But even reading a whole day's worth of posts at once is taxing.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:13 (twenty years ago)

Hey, I forgot to tell you -- Kenan: guess what song I heard the last time I went to my local sushi restaurant.

Hint: oh-weh oh-weh

Welcome back to Jaymc, Jordan and Otto's balls!

The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:14 (twenty years ago)

Btw, I'm glad you guys decided to save the death-by-airplane talk until after I got back.

I really want to see United 93 -- I've only skimmed what Kenan and Jesse have said, but based on other reviews I've read, I wouldn't be worried about it stirring up any jingoism (unlike, perhaps, the forthcoming Oliver Stone movie about 9/11).

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:17 (twenty years ago)

the forthcoming Oliver Stone movie about 9/11

Oh gross.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:18 (twenty years ago)

2x

Holy makkara, Toivo! (OutDatWay), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:19 (twenty years ago)

I didn't know that the Circle Line route was still up for debate. I seem to remember that when it was first proposed, it was to go only as far north as Division, and then be bounded on the west by Damen (so that it go past the United Center).

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Oliver Stone's World Trade Center

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:23 (twenty years ago)

OH WOW, NICHOLAS CAGE IS IN IT? YOU KNOW IT'S GONNA BE GOOD.

I really really really can't stand that guy.

The Milkmaid (82375538-A) (The Milkmaid), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:26 (twenty years ago)

it was to go only as far north as Division, and then be bounded on the west by Damen (so that it go past the United Center).

that's the pink line, formerly the douglas branch of the blue line. instead of hooking up with the blue line just east of the medical center stop it will continue on the paulina connector and hook up with the green line at ashland. that starts in june. that was being looked at as phase I of the circle line, a larger project that will link all cta lines and many metra lines.

otto midnight (otto midnight), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:30 (twenty years ago)

HA the IMDB page has a discussion entitled "So are they going to include the bombs that were planted in the building" that I cannot read without registering, but that's probably for the best because whoa.

Safety First (pullapartgirl), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:32 (twenty years ago)

that was being looked at as phase I of the circle line, a larger project that will link all cta lines and many metra lines.

But now they've changed their mind, and are planning on extending the circle further west? Here's the original proposed map.

jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:40 (twenty years ago)

Did my song work?

I don't want to see any fictionalized accounts of 9/11 or Jesus being crucified.

Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 14:42 (twenty years ago)


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