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yeah, jaymc totally pwned me on the spelling of nora. I must sequester myself in shame.

― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:43 (nineteen years ago)

I was pwning Laurel first. Unless the Norah she's talking about is actually spelled that way, in which case fine.

― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:46 (nineteen years ago)

which she does so you just pwned yrslf.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

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― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

Oh well, I tried.

― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

XP to Jay: I still haven't decided whether it's more charitable to pretend that you were kidding about the Norah Jones thing.

― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 20:55 (nineteen years ago)

My brother can barely use any electronics techonology, especially a home computer(he never did master programming a VCR). I asked him to send me a link to his eBay sales (selling motorcycles and parts), but he said, "I don't have the expertise necessary to provide a link." But then in a phone call a few days later says, "Have you heard of this 'Aych Tee Emm Ell?' I'm using it to spiff up my listings on eBay."

Cart before the horse, dear brother.

― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:05 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes where should I take a date in the Lincoln Square area? Someplace that is not loud would be ideal.

― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:06 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Jesse

Sorry we're so awesome.

Love

DC Thread

― Mr. Que, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

Dear Chicago

FUCK YOU IT'S OVER

-Jesse

― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

It's true that we've been unfaithful. But DC means nothing to me! It was just sex!

or, uh...

― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:14 (nineteen years ago)

Dudes where should I take a date in the Lincoln Square area? Someplace that is not loud would be ideal.

lincoln square library?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

we don't have these kinda problems with hastings

― ghost rider, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:16 (nineteen years ago)

hastings doesn't put out

― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

Jenny, Jeff and I went to Resi's Bierstube. It was quiet. Though not the kind of place you'd typically think to take a date, I guess.

― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

xpost to Kev: If she's the bookish type it might work

― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:18 (nineteen years ago)

does this mean i have to try to keep up with both threads now?

― JuliaA, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

I hate italics.

It's fun to say "bierstube." bierstube.

It's also fun to say "beers tube." Put that in my beers tube

― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:20 (nineteen years ago)

does this mean i have to try to keep up with both threads now?

NO. It does not.

― Mr. Que, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck keeping up with both threads. Already it's a wonder I accomplish anything trying to keep up with this shiestube thread.

― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:21 (nineteen years ago)

Fuck keeping up with both threads because I can find my own cat pictures thank you very much.

― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:23 (nineteen years ago)

the great Chicago Civil War of '07 should be a riot and a half.

― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

I think Resi's Bierstube tied for worst restaurant of Restaurant Club Year Six.

Cafe Selmarie might be good for a date. Also, Tank Sushi. There's also those Thai restaurants on Western, like Spoon or Opart Thai House, but maybe they're not interesting enough.

― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:24 (nineteen years ago)

My Germanfriend found it amusing that there was a restaurant here called "Resi's Bierstube" for some reason. He seemed to think it was odd for a restaurant here to be named in Germanese.

― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

XP to Jay: I still haven't decided whether it's more charitable to pretend that you were kidding about the Norah Jones thing.

What do you mean, kidding? I didn't actually think that Kevin was going to see Norah Jones, if that's what you mean.

― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:25 (nineteen years ago)

The post with the open italic tag has been sucked into the center-of-thread void, fucking finally.

― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:26 (nineteen years ago)

Resi's Bierstube was awesome. I want to go back.

― Jeff, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:30 (nineteen years ago)

MEATY. STARCHY.

― Jesse, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:33 (nineteen years ago)

SSSSSSSSSSSSSPPPPPPPPPPPRRRRRRRRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGG

― dan m, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

Dan:
-Opart
-Old Town School Show (shshhhhh!)
-Back room of the Bad Dog
-Bistro Campagne (will seal the deal)
-that unmarked cinderblock bar that people say is where Nazis gather

― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:51 (nineteen years ago)

Also: If you like the idea of a coffee date but want to kick it up a notch, the Book Cellar has a wine and cheese plate.

― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

More like the Book Playa.

― Eazy, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:02 (nineteen years ago)

hate the game, not the cellah

― kenan, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:03 (nineteen years ago)

They also have a spelling bee tonight, which I dearly hope they do again, on a night when I don't already have plans.

― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 22:29 (nineteen years ago)

Weird, someone else at Stylus wrote an <a href="http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/on_first_listen/scott-walker1.htm">article </a> about listening to Scott Walker for the first time. It's like I never existed.

― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

(Yeah, whatever, I meant to hit the button, but I forgot.)

― jaymc, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

LOL. 848 just talked about how the Jarvis red line stop smells like pee in a story about the aldermanic runoff in that district. It smells like pee so bad!

-- Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:23 (8 hours ago)
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The incumbent alderman is running on a platform of putting a Trader Joe's in Rogers Park. I'd like to hear Amanda's view on this.

-- Jenny, Friday, 13 April 2007 14:26 (8 hours ago)

WELL, funny you should ask. I've been back and forth and up in the air about who to vote for ever since the first election. Initially, I was put off by Moore's fat-cat demeanor and hands-off attitude to our immediate neighborhood (we live right by the Peevis Stop). He only comes out at election time and then he does a bunch of shit to make himself look good. So the opposition was looking like a way to tell him "Hey dude, get off your ass." I basically figured that a vote against Moore would be wasted, but that it would send a message to him. (A la a vote against Daley.) THEN, I started really looking at the guy who ended up running against him in this runoff election.

And things do not look good for that guy.
1) He's hella old. He looks like he could be pushed around by the people on city council and made to do all sorts of undignified patsy-type city hall things.

2) it's spooky how everyone who supports him and comes to my house and rings my bell and calls me is white. not everyone in my neighborhood is white, but the people who support Gordon are overwhelmingly white. I don't like that. They also act like they're scared of Rogers Park, which is ridiculous. It's not that scary.

3) I do not support bringing a TJ's to this neighborhood for the sole reason that people in this neighborhood do not shop at TJs, for the most part. I don't think they would suddenly start listening to NPR and eating hummus just because there's a TJs here. It would sort of ruin the pleasant balance we've struck here between chain (Dom's) and taqueria. If people want to go to TJs they can drive a little further, myself included.

Ultimately, I think Gordon is a weakling. Moore has said, effectively, "Message received, y'all -- you want me to DO something" and that's really all I wanted from him at this point. I don't consider Gordon a viable alternative. Until we have a decent alternative, I think -- for this minute at least -- that I'll vote for Moore.

Like ANYONE is actually going to read this. Ha! But I had to respond.

― La Lechera, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:16 (nineteen years ago)

I read it! Unfortunately for your electoral goals, I don't vote in Chicago.

― Laurel, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:20 (nineteen years ago)

It's funny, because at first I was adamantly opposed to voting for Moore, but then when it looked like he could actually lose, I looked at the other guy a little more closely and he looked worse and worse.

― La Lechera, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:25 (nineteen years ago)

PS I caught the cold too. I feel AWFUL like my throat is going to close. Yay. I spent most of the afternoon on the couch after coming home early and skipping a meeting.

― La Lechera, Friday, 13 April 2007 23:27 (nineteen years ago)

At KT's party there was a girl who said, "I used to live in Roger's Park, but it that scary. So I moved."

I don't think that really adds anything substantial to this discussion, does it. :(

― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 01:58 (nineteen years ago)

Friday the 13th? I didn't even know. It's been good luck today.

First we discovered today that my mom's bank made a $200 error in her favor. Then I bought her 1 $1 scratch-off Lotto ticket (her first ever) because it was called "Mucho Dinero." It looked like it was worth $10, but it turned out that it was a Tripler, so she won $30. ***BLING BLING BLING BLING***

― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:04 (nineteen years ago)

Plus online I discovered that the Michigan Dept. of Revenue has some kid of Left Wing Socialist fuel credit for the elderly, so score a few more bucks for the Widow K*hr.

She bought me some good bread and made enchiladas for dinner.

― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 02:08 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think they would suddenly start listening to NPR and eating hummus just because there's a TJs here.

lord i hope not, much as i like those two things sometimes. Point is, bringing a TJ into the hood would mean it has gained LEGITAMACY, you know, like when you see in real estate ads that there's a Starbuck's nearby. Which horrifies many people, including myself for the most part, because it means rents will rise massively and very soon, but also means in a real way that it's pretty reliable that gang activity hav moved out of the neighborhood, the it's been colonized by mainstream whatever, and you can go ahead and have babies there if you want to.

My feelings are very mixed, if you can't tell.

― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

I actually like my neighborhood right like it is... in transition. This is the second place I've lived in chicago that's changing rapidly as I watch out the window. It's getting safer, there are more amenities and stores and such all the time, and in a year or two I will be priced out of it. Just like all my neighbors, even the ones with families and kids.

― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:15 (nineteen years ago)

xp to to Jesse - enchiladas out of the bread?

Thanks, Amanda! I totally read that with much interest. Moore is also the lead sponsor of the Big Box Ordinance and I've actually met him once at this panel on the living wage and he seemed really nice. I'm glad that he is hearing the people about the pee smell.

― Jenny, Saturday, 14 April 2007 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

I must've missed this: why are you in Michigan, Jesse?

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 April 2007 04:50 (nineteen years ago)

To visit mom. He's been there for weeks! Or so it seems.

― Casuistry, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:18 (nineteen years ago)

Went to the Handlebar tonight. There was a dude dancing and air guitaring to G'nR on tables and chairs.

Sometimes I think some hipsters try waaay too hard to dress strange and look weird until it gets to the point where it becomes obvious and they end up not looking weird, they just look like they're wearing a costume. There were a bunch of people like that there tonight.

― dan m, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:37 (nineteen years ago)

I can say that because I surely embody the pinnacle of what's cool.

― dan m, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:38 (nineteen years ago)

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