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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)

yeah, she's a good friend but she also said "logan square is still logan square" ...just because someone down the block got stabbed on easter sunday. it was domestic violence, not that i endorse it by any means, but it happens in every neighborhood, regardless of demographics. the hipsters have moved into humboldt park, where i work. i resent not being the only white girl anymore. silly, i know.

― sisut, Saturday, 14 April 2007 07:56 (nineteen years ago)

i'm through with white girls.

― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

not really.

gah. waking up in the middle of the night is rotten.

― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:46 (nineteen years ago)

especially since no one in their right mind is still awake to talk to. maybe some aussies are still awake, but why bother?

― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:51 (nineteen years ago)

that was a joke, btw, australia.

― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 10:59 (nineteen years ago)

I opened for the Sh-rx last night at Ho' Bisco'. They really should just be the house band there on Saturday nights. Rock-show experience of the bar being so hot and crowded and ugly-seeming, and they played and those things went away. Fun stuff.

― Eazy, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:48 (nineteen years ago)

awes

― kenan, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:51 (nineteen years ago)

I just want to always live close to where I need to go.

― Jeff, Saturday, 14 April 2007 11:58 (nineteen years ago)

FWIW, I didn't like the second Scott Walker, on first listen article.. Jaymc = 1, Stylus = 0.

― Jeff, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:02 (nineteen years ago)

Im in Michigan visiting the Widow K*hr. The enchiladas were made out of corn tortillas, onions, cheese, and beef. The bread was simply my reward for putting money in mommy's purse.

― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

White Girls was on TV last night.

I don't mind "scary" neighborhoods if they have something else going for them. I guess I mean that in a pretty selfish way--if there are good restaurants, nightlife, stores, then scary is not the worst thing ever. The area around the Wilson stop on the Red line is kind of unnerving after around 11 or 12 at night (mostly if you are carrying $$$ in cash and wearing waiter clothes) but it has other things going for it that make it preferrable to the tamer Argyle area.

One of those "other things" will soon be a Target.

― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

OK, time to shower and drive 6 hours. See you soon, Chi-town.

― Jesse, Saturday, 14 April 2007 13:09 (nineteen years ago)

Is brunch with Jordan happening or no? I have a hair appointment at 1, so I suspect this will interfere.

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 April 2007 16:15 (nineteen years ago)

I just got out of class. I'm hungry.

― Jeff, Saturday, 14 April 2007 17:00 (nineteen years ago)

Does anyone have a favorite salmon recipe? I have 12 oz. of salmon in the freezer and am looking for something to do with it.

Speaking of which, I had the Hawaiian sunfish "tilapia" at Glenn's Diner last night, which was delicious. I wondered why tilapia was in quotes: is it possible it wasn't actually tilapia? I should've asked.

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:00 (nineteen years ago)

So this Charlotte Gainsbourg record is good, but it sounds just like an Air album featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg on every track.

― jaymc, Saturday, 14 April 2007 21:01 (nineteen years ago)

I don't really listen to Air so that doesn't bother me.

― n/a, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:19 (nineteen years ago)

Grand Rapids was a good time. There were some seriously weird people at the bar.

― n/a, Saturday, 14 April 2007 22:20 (nineteen years ago)

Wish I could have brunched with Jordan, but I work Sat. mornings. :(
Plus I am under le weather.

― La Lechera, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:07 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think it happened, A.

― jaymc, Sunday, 15 April 2007 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

Yo,

You can now find

BEST OF SONIC YOUTH
BEST OF STEREOLAB
JAYMC'S POST-ROCK MIX

at the old blog (the CH1LX one, not the CH1LX0RZ one)

(because I don't know how to post on the new one, I think someone needs to give me permission or something?)

Love ya.

― jaymc, Sunday, 15 April 2007 02:15 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. We walked by a little grocery store yesterday that had "tilapia." But they also had "ham" and "cheese," so I don't think that means much in that case.

― Jesse, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

I am downloading the post rock mix and finally downloading Kenan's mix and finally putting those and Nick's mix on my mp3 player. ALRIGHT YEAH ALRIGHT.

― Jenny, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:28 (nineteen years ago)

OK.

Every time I try to open a .pdf file from the internet (Firefox and IE) it freezes up. This has been going on since I last successfully opened one last week. When I tried to print it to a file, it froze and nothing's been right in .pdf land ever since. This will make taxes a little harder.

― Jesse, Sunday, 15 April 2007 18:48 (nineteen years ago)

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