Chicago: home of the President of the United fucking States

Oh okay, good. I really want to see it, but I can't go tomorrow. Don't tell me if it sucks!

John - I did the same, for the same reason. And I think we were right. Sigh.

John, I would love to go with you if no one else has taken the ticket off your hands.

As long as we can hold each other during the scary parts.

Jesse will cut a hole in the bottom of the popcorn bag.

Haha. That gets me every time. I need to find the email where you first said "You can cut a hole in the popcorn bucket and put your pecker through it."

I am not reading ANY bad news if I can help it today. Tomorrow I can deal with bad stuff. For today I'm going to enjoy the good parts.

wtf you sent me that stupid editorial saying we should be sorry for Bush, what was that?

that was for LOLs

Bush is on his way out.
+
WSJ says we've been mean to him.
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LOL

I suppose dumber than shit does not equal bad, necessarily

Haha. That gets me every time. I need to find the email where you first said "You can cut a hole in the popcorn bucket and put your pecker through it."

this is from the movie "diner" and also from history

I suppose dumber than shit does not equal bad, necessarily

But in this case it totally does.

Note: I never claimed originally re: pecker through the popcorn bucket.

IT IS?

JENNNNNNIFERRRRR!!!!

(to be read in the voice of Colonel Klink)

authenticity re: food - no
authenticity re: popcorn glory hole gags - yes

not authenticity, just plain HISTORY

i'm wiser and sadder

i'm not sure there's an inauthentic way to stick your penis through the bottom of a popcorn box

i guess if you used a dildo

xp I know, I just couldn't resist making that leap

xps lol

Anyway, yes, John, I would love to go with you. And you can hold the popcorn box through the scary parts.

or, the scary parts through the popcorn box

Excellent. Shall we meet there at like 6:20-6:30? Whoever gets there first can just hold a place in line.

OK. I will leave work at 5:15 or so, which would put me there about 6:00-6:15.

ah so disappointed in dupage, it's always so red.
i will move to cook one day.

just went to check on NC...Guilford County went RED? I'm very surprised.

I was looking at the UP county by county results earlier. My home county went red (not a big surprise) but several more-rural-than-rural (i.e. "real america" Sarah Palin style) counties went blue, which was a nice thing to see. Go Ontonagon!

I'm looking forward to NC being called.
http://www.news-record.com/content/2008/11/05/article/with_all_votes_in_nc_president_race_too_close_to_call

Kevin said that a friend of his flew home to NC this week just to vote! Looks like the right choice.

Jesse where did you see Guilford county going red? They were like the lone spot of blue in NC in 2004!

OH WAIT I'M DUMB and I was looking at Wilkes Co. LOL

OH GOOD. That would have made me sad to see the librulest county in NC go red in this election of all elections.

Man, the cover of this week's Reader is awful. I had to rant to them about it in their comments section.

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/homepage/pix/barackcover.jpg

is that an 3rdman? he is the last person I want painting Obama right now

It is. He has one of McCain as well. There's also a Studs painting, not sure if it's his, that mimics the Obama posters and says HOPE DIES LAST. Jesus.

I mean, I love the Reader, but my first reaction to the cover was: I wish Obama had said "Don't screw this up" to the Reader three years ago, when it was the best source for local news and arts coverage in Chicago.

I guess I don't have very many conservafriends. I scrolled through like two dozen "OMG YOU GUYS!!!!" before I got to one tepid "Evelyn accepts the coming changes, but is not sure how it will affect her." And I haven't even spoken to her since 8th grade.

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haha this is like a pitch-perfect parody of my conservafriends

"R_____ is processing her thoughts and feelings, this could possible take all night!!! 10:06pm"

also yeah major thumbs down on that reader cover, wtf

and john - how on earth did u meet obama??

Someone with whom I was actually good friends back in the day changed his status to "JC hopes the restaurant isn't empty because his clientele thinks the savior's wealth redistribution plan started to-day."

I rolled my eyes so hard I think they are still somewhere toward the back of my skull.

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I got a Wii fit. I'm pretty sure I'm almost indestructible now. 20 minutes in.

Wow. The Reader cover.

It seems to me that the problem is one of timing. Today the story is that history was made- a major historical figure was born, America woke up and spoke out after years of complacency, African-American and all American history has changed forever. Yes, it's important to hold him to his promises, and no one is asking for "cheerleading," but to play the watchdog today is at best to be posing as jaded and world-weary no-nonsense, hard news, and at worst, a slap in the face to all the peoplefor whom BHO's election was one of the most significant things of their lives.

Disappointing.

I said this in an email to Jenny, but for me it boils down to the likely fact that a lot of people into local art and the Reader and whatever gave a lot of time and money to help the campaign, and that portrayal of Obama kind of shits on that effort. Then again, what do I know about art.

xpost!

So I opened this thread to see if there was any good Obamarally stuff (k@tie has been in hiding all day) and now find myself thinking that a popcorn bag handjob would be really unpleasant what with the grains of salt and all.

I don't know if this is widely known yet. As I was on (partial) bad news hiatus, I only learned of it through a friend's IM.

Not sure quite Fox is up to here - they seem to be dumping blame on Palin at times, but then later it seems more evened out. Interesting nonetheless. I smell a tell-all book coming out.

and john - how on earth did u meet obama??

At this thing.

I'm not sure why Sarah was asking about it today. Maybe just how does it feel to have met the guy who is now the president-elect?

that is wild

In '02, my boss at the time sent me an e-mail for a $10/ticket happy hour with Obama at HotHouse, promoting his run for the senate. Missed that! Alas!

I know the two pubs in Wokingham/Bracknell where he went to that stag do...

i've been meaning to write a complainy email to the Reader since they had a two-week stretch where they covered exactly zero local bands in all of their music coverage, but was worried it might sound like sour grapes coming from me.

yeah but they had that great cover story about an obese internet fraud! that was almost as good as the drano-drinking party girl they covered a few years ago.

"great"