Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

Dan -- when you are planning on getting to the bar?

Um, leaving here within the half hour, so probably by about 6.

OK, like I said, I'll prob. be there closer to 6:30.

i've never been so glad not to have http://dlisted.com/node/153485.

Dan - the Reader has the National show listed as sold out.

listening to this.

My wife's brother got certified via the Universal Life Church online and performed our wedding in Michigan six years ago and nobody's called us on it yet. Since then my wife also got her certificate and has performed the ceremony for her dad in 2006 as well as my cousin this past July.

It's totally legal and super easy. It almost seems too easy, like there should have been more hoops to jump through or forms to fill out. This makes all the anti gay marriage arguements that invoke the sacredness of holy matrimony seem even dumber to me.

I have a black toiletry bag that has a metal tag on it with my initals. My lawyer sent it to me for my 18th birthday.

Collette, it took me a year to find a job after I moved it. So it can't possibly get that bad for you.

i just invented a cocktail after a bad day (i found out i didn't get a job i realllly wanted and thought the interview went really really well). gin, lemon juice, bitters, sugar syrup and pomegranate liquor. looks like a cosmopolitan but yum.

the main problem with not finding a job quickly is that we're moving to boston next june. so i feel a bit crap about not starting a job until like october now and then only working a few months and then moving away.

http://blog.lib.umn.edu/raim0007/wost3307/melon.jpg

We have National tickets already! Hooray for Kat|e's foresight.

Hey, thanks for the NSFW warning on that pic, Jesse.

Yeah, WAY TO GO JESSE. I'm guessing that's the barbie person again?

I am going to BONDEDOROLE tonight. Do you think I could get tix if I just show up kind of early?

I liked those Bsignals songs linked above. They reminded me of Manda&theMarbles.

Hey! Persepolis is a movie!

Where are you jokers today?

When should this Baraba Steele-athon be? North Coast has Black Sunday, so we can at least get that one. I haven't checked for any of her other movies, but they have a decent selection of horror classics.

I just discovered the "Documents" function in gmail the other day. It's pretty crazy, it's basically a word processor inside gmail, with save functions and everything. So I'm using it to work on lyrics, because I can "save" them and then come back to them from any computer. It's not a big deal, but it's nice.

I love the documents thing. I've been using it to keep track of the movies, books, and music that I fuck with this year (/jaymc).

(music and books lists are sad and small, movies is huge beyond all reckoning)

Oh shit. Sorry. I was durnk as a skurnk when I posted that.

^^ NSFW

One of the partners left a message with a task for me. It's bizarre.

She wants me to find the number of casualties for the North and the South in the Civil War, and also the number of deaths at the Battle of Gettysburg.

Is she representing Gaybraham Lincoln?

I wish Amanda Lepore were here to talk to me. She would help me work through the, uh, problem I'm having.

I was a boozy floozy last night. Courtney and I smoked cigarettes.

She wants me to find the number of casualties for the North and the South in the Civil War, and also the number of deaths at the Battle of Gettysburg.

I can get you that first figure in a second...

I put an ad on craigslist trying to trade my Fender for a semihollowbody guitar.

Just in case any of you have a semihollowbody guitar you're looking to trade.

I have a trombone?

Union
Wounded: 281,881
Battle deaths: 140,415
Other deaths: 224,097
Total deaths: 364,512

Confederate
Wounded: 137,000
Battle deaths: 74,524
Other deaths: 124,000
Total deaths: 198,524

I copied that from the almanac I've been working on. Original sources were US Department of Defense and Coast Guard.

Awesome.

i emailed you, john.

xpost - oh. thanks.

How about Gettysburg?

Those numbers are more distancing than the fact that kevin killed Brett Somers.

Hmmmm. These are the numbers I found.

Federal

Killed in action 67,088

Confederate

Killed in action or mortally wounded 94,000

I'll see if I can find Gettysburg and e-mail it to you.

I wonder if there's an official wounded number for the current war. Must be, right?

Or just post it here, I don't care:

Losses were among the war's heaviest: of 88,000 Northern troops, casualties numbered about 23,000; out of 75,000 Southerners, more than 20,000.

This has some more specific numbers for Gettysburg.

EZ, as of March 2007, the number wounded in Iraq is 24,314, and the number of deaths is 3,228.

I'm sure there are more up-to-date figures; that was from the same table that the Civil War casualties were listed in.

Why the difference in figures?

Well, what are the sources?

Why the difference in figures?

Where, between the numbers I gave you and the numbers you found?

I mean why, besides the fact that it happened before counting was invented.

Yes.

I am sure I don't have to be too accurate. This is probably for an opening statement.

What are your sources, so I can cite them.

Are you using this site? Because you'll notice that the difference between Union wounded is not that great: 281,000 vs. 275,000. And total Union deaths is close, too: 364,000 vs. 389,000. Confederate figures are a little further off. For wounded: 137,000 vs. 194,000. Total deaths: 198,000 vs. 289,000.

But to answer your question, a lot of these figures are based on estimates, I think (like that "94,000" number you quoted above).

My source is the Encycl0pa3d1a Br1t@nn1ca Alm@n@c 2008, although since that's unpublished, you could say the 2006 edition, since the figures haven't changed. (We didn't publish an edition for 2007.)

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