Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

Are you saying that's the *only* photo of the apartment?

I will not mention it except vaguely, but I am still curious about the man on the end of that other thread that can do that thing. It seems very special to me, but for all I would know, 50% of everyone can do it. How would I know? Where do I find this research?

xpost Shower curtains are very hard to buy yourself, and so increase the value of an apartment hugely.

Is that the only photo in the post?
I like seeing each room, including the bathrooom.

xp

Do you guys think I should go back to playing a semihollowbody guitar? They have this guitar at Music-Go-Round for pretty cheap, and it got good ratings on Harmony Central:

http://www.geocities.com/tresmanera/eco.jpg

I kind of miss playing a semihollowbody, and the strings keep breaking on my new guitar.

i know nothign about guitars, but i think you should get that.

it's RED.

http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/Exhibitions/Festiva1/images/photos/gm12-500.jpg

I like it. Go try it out after work!

Usually, the toilet photo isn't the only one, but I think if a view doesn't "sell" it has no place in an ad. If anything, that kind of photo would deter me from checking a place out.

julia otm, it's not just red, it's beautifully round. That is an attractive guitar, srsly.

http://www.ecardica.com/ecards/postcards%5Ccandy/candie_apple.jpghttp://www.geocities.com/tresmanera/eco.jpg

Oh, I think it's fine if it shows several photos of the apartment and that's one of them. That photo at least shows me that the bathroom is kind of small.

Laurel is that a FASHION suggestion for me?

Yes, to be worn while guitar is played.

no no orange and red?!

That guitar is screaming for a black shirt.

I had potato pancakes with applesauce.

Wrong Jewish holiday.

yes, you will have to buy outfits to accessorize with your awesome guitar. i don't think sarah would mind helping you shop.

Yo, Hammer, Don't hurt 'em.

I think the red value is off :( Tried to find a better photo quickly but no luck.

(by which I meant Hamer)

xpost NOpe Don't mind.

I can't stop thinking about cookies & I believe this is only because I've decided to try & be healthier.

Jordan, did you hit up the RH service last night? I'm actually attending a RH dinner tonight.

I know 0 about guitars, but I always thought that that kind would be good to play. It seems like it would have a nice resonance or something.

http://www.kshs.org/cool3/graphics/faulknershirtlg.jpg

there's your shirt, brah.

Yeah Kelsey, I went for 20 minutes and then they stopped to have a dinner, and I left.

what is the 'a' vs. 'an' rule when using a vowel-sounding initial for a word that does not sound like a vowel?

did you eat apples & honey? does that happen?

there was an ad on tv last night for some sort of oreo pizza and it had this guy with a fake mustache made up of bits of oreo and frosting and it made me want to never eat oreos again.

i am eating mangoes and watermelon.

WAIT NO NO THIS SHIRT

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/deadkitty13/cowboyshirt1front.jpg

I have seen that ad & I completely agree!!! The cookies I am thinking of are of the homemade variety.

I did not, but I remember apples & honey when I was a kid.

IT HAS TIGER STRIPES AND BONES AND A BOTTLE OF POISON AND IF YOU DO NOT GET THIS SHIRT I WILL

You go by the sound, not the letter. Like "a university." If that's what you're asking?

FRINGE! ALSO FRINGE!

I have been killfiled for the day, haven't I? I deserve that.

That looks like a Kenan shirt. :>

Yeah what the fuck is up with that oreo pizza WTF

OMG, the Western shirts just made me remember Chris and Heather's Record Roundup, which, uh, closed like 6 years ago, AOL City Guide.

I am not wearing that shirt.

that isn't what I'm asking.

what i mean is if i say "I'm attending a/an RH dinner tonight" vs. "I'm attending a Rosh Hashanah dinner tonight"

xpost: john! i was remembering that recently!

that shirt is a postmodern melange.

So this was only the second time I've had potato pancakes. The first time they were kind of thick and greasy. This time they were small and thin, basically the size and shape of silver dollar pancakes. The first time was better, and I'm presuming they were more "authentic" since they came from a Chicago deli instead of an Evanston pancake shop.

It would be "an RH dinner."

Can I get away with "a RH" or do I have to use 'an'?

nick, that is what i thought despite my typing otherwise out of rebellion.

Potato pancakes/latkes should be unctuous

My instinct would be "an RH," but it's tricky, because I know you're just using that abbreviation as shorthand and would actually say "Rosh Hashanah" if you were saying it aloud, like you would never actually pronounce it as "arr-aitch."

What John said applies, it's just weird because you go based on pronunciation, and R is pronounced "arrr" like it has a vowel sound at the beginning so you would use "an." I'm not sure why it's that way, because it doesn't usually seem like the written word to anything based on verbal rules if it doesn't want to.

IT'S A PERFECTLY CROMULENT WORD

xpost

So this was only the second time I've had potato pancakes

waht

I LIVED IN INDIA etc.

FUNEMPLOYMENT AMIRITE

hey, rw, i'm heading up to the holiday club in a bit if you're up for drinks. corner of irving park and sheridan, across the street from the sheridan red line stop if you're up for it. i'll be in the back bar from 10 til... i'll buy you a beam and i've got two packs of cigarettes.

Eastern Promises is good, if you like Russian accents and Viggo Mortensen's balls.

oh shit spoiler!

I am 28. DEAL WITH IT.

Slightly less bummed today.

old people are gross.

kev: probably won't make it, but thanks for the heads-up

i was on the clark street bus, but now i'm home.

Oh man. The Office. Great. They managed to cram all the funny in 1 hour without all the stupid serious relationship stuff.

it was teh funn, lots and lots of free shots because not many people showed up. hurting.

my friends were just at $1 beer night at the two way!! I had no idea there was a $1 beer night there. he's drunkenly IMing me about these 'awesome girls' he met

:-/

goddamn it, didn't i post that helen's two way had $1.00 mondays and thursdays??

anyway, i'm gonna pass out now.

anyway if any of u chicago ppl are going to dannys tomorrow i might be there

now i must crash as well

We are having band practice tonight but would anyone want to do anything after? Maybe go to Danny's?

The Office was so great last night. I think my favorite parts were the visual gags - Angela body checking Dwight into the copier and Andy walking out of the bathroom after preparing for the nipple chafing.

I want to go to Danny's! I've only been once and that was a while ago.

I enjoyed the Office but thought it seemed a little off from the last couple of seasons. All the characters seemed ... dumber? But I still laughed.

"This is the face of rabies."

Yeah, it was pretty great.

And Pam and Jim were always cute, but holding hands? Dangerous levels of cute.

I think my favorite was Michael's long drawn-out description of the various animal gods they might have to make sacrifices to. Such a weird scene.

"The head of a monkey ... but with ... the antlers of a reindeer ... and the body of ... the body of ... a porcupine."

Also: nipple-chafing jokes.

Free coffee at Alliance, Letizia's and other coffee shops today: http://chicagoist.com/2007/09/28/new_tv_season_f.php

Also, the MCA is doing a ton of free shit over the next 40 days for their 40th anniversary. Sarah and I might go tomorrow to actually check out the art, but also Oct. 7 is a free concert with Flosstradamus, Cool Kids, Califone, Poster Children, the 1900s, the Eternals, and Headache City.

Event listings here: http://www.mcachicago.org/40/index.php?page=home.

Bitchin': http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=56

I had no idea the Poster Children were still performing.

aw, I missed The Office. I went to see a play at the Goodman written by a woman who was at my college at the same time I was. she's written like eleventy well-received plays. WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE??

new thread:

Chicago: More Bars in More Places

fuck you

I post a ton of actually useful information and this is the thanks I get.

I'm going to sit in here in the dark by myself.

dude... it's time. I know some people don't care how long it is, but thanks to the standard 50/50 post split, not everyone can keep up, and loading 3500 ro so messages gets to be a pain.

Besides, the thread title is cute!

Go away, I'm sulking in here.