Chicago: home of the President of the United fucking States

The Chicago Fire is a professional soccer club based in the Chicago suburb of Bridgeview, Illinois, USA. It participates in Major League Soccer. The team was founded October 8, 1997 on the 126th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. In 1998, their first season in the league, the Fire won the MLS Cup as well as the U.S. Open Cup (the "double"). They have also won the 2000, 2003, and 2006 U.S. Open Cup.

~90 yrs to go

Hey. So tonight we did a run-through of these short plays I'm involved with, and they have turned out really well. I never, never bring people to see something I couldn't actually get behind or think is worth seeing, so I'm saying that these are good. Free preview tomorrow night (Sat.) if you want a risk-free night on the town. $10 tix for Sunday if ordered through here. And that's that.

Jeff and I are going next Saturday! I'm excited.

so is there a hang-out sesh tonight?

Tuna is not mandatory.

hey we saw ez's play (and the 11 others last night) -- recommended! i'm not going to say that there weren't a few stinkers,
but they were outnumbered by the ones we liked.
so glad we went.

ally is at the fifty-50 bar watching football now if anyone wants to go meet her

I want to meet her, but not enough to go struttin' in without a backup friend to talk to. I don't think I even know all the basic rules of football.

Who's up for a low-impact coupla beers at Simon's? North-siders, lookin' at you.

(But of course I'll go anywhere, just throwing that out there.)

hey folkssss im djing @ the usual spot this wed. if anyone's looking or something to do

/self promo over

we're playing at the EB on weds. COMPETITION

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i cannot stop looking at these

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I have a feeling my hair is going to look like that second pic someday.

consider yourself fortunate
consider yourself more fortunate if you also develop his chin

so not going to happen

well at least you'll have the hair
did anyone look at the other photos? if i had been given a book of these when i was a kid i would have never let it leave my side.

strange antebellum hairdo
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My folks have a few pictures like that around the house (lol historians, rite?)

this lady is relieved that she doesn't have to keep her hair-ears elevated anymore
there is some joy in giving up
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She looks kind of familiar...

Thandie Newton, maybe?

http://www.modelvolume.com/thandie_newton/thandie_newton.jpg

Very strange.

if you squint she looks sort of like drew barrymore

Someone who graduated from K@l@m@z00 C0ll3ge in 2007 (i.e., I don't know her at all) just e-mailed me to see if I knew about any job openings in Chicago. She says:

"My main focus for this recent job search has been on administrative assistant/receptionist positions, but I am more than willing to work in any industry/sector (nonprofit, retail, customer service, editing/writing, childcare... name it)."

If anyone knows about anything, let me know. I like to be helpful.

yeah but pass it to me first lol

hey dudes, b3n f0ng is back in town this coming weekend so the pra1r1e sp1es (sans gbx) and the sp3ctacles are playing a show at ronny's on saturday. i have received special permission to skip out on the first night my inlaws will be in town to go to the show.

I spent Saturday night with T0m@s and company, drinking shot after shot of Malolrt. BLEECHCCCH.

haha malort is awesome

I made crab dip last night and I'm going to eat it for LUNCH!!!!

wash it down with a crab juice

I'm washing it down with Lake Michigan.

It's got what it takes, so tell me why can't this be lunch?

Haha.

Oh, hey, Happy Jonestown anniversary everyone.

Kenan why does your link change my stylesheet?

This documentary on Jonestown is pretty riveting.

thanks for that... there are docs on jonestown by cnn, msnbc, and possibly qvc out now, but I haven't found one that I could watch more than five minutes of. The tone was always "NEXT ON 48 HOURS" or some such. God I hate cable news.

HI CHACAGINS

HI DERE ABBIE GIRL

LET ME BE THE ONE TO ILLIN-WAH

Guys is your history full of ze safety French fur trappers?

Oh don't get me started. Actually, to be a tad grandiose, the history of Chicago is the history of capitalism.

Migrant workers, assembly lines, labor unions, violent protests, then skyscrapers, unchecked growth, pornographic political corruption, organized crime, more violent protests... I'm skimming a bit. But there's a whole lot there.

Oh! And race. Race is huge here.

Okay I do not care about anything but the fur trappers, I am thinking bcz Illinois is French-ish looking but it is not named after Trees like every French fur trapper outpost in Idaho, 'Dubois,' Les Boise' aka Boise as it is now known.

Dubois being pronounced Do-Boys, NB, leading to many hiLARIOUS pedophilia jokes.

RACE for the cure.

Hey guys does anyone else find breast cancer awareness month kind of annoying? Esp. if you might have breasts?

I for one never ever for ever a second stop being aware of breasts. If that counts.

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