Chicago: home of the President of the United fucking States

The first time I sniffed socialism creeping into our beautiful, free country was when Hilary started talking about socializing health care.

Huh, Tim Meadows is on a team performing Sunday nights at iO for the next six weeks.

how was the FFs show?

fine. there have been better, there have been worse. glad a bunch of people showed up for the l@ureates, they are a fun band and nice guys. second band was annoying overthought emo-pop, which i'm worried is becoming a trend.

i think i would have made a good puritan

annoying overthought emo-pop

"Overthought" in what way?

songs have way too many different sections that do complicated things for no real reason

to be fair, they describe themselves as "prog-pop"

I am listening to their MySpace.

one of the dudes was in tr0ubled hubbl3, which is interesting because the other band we've played with recently that also has this sound is k1d, y0u'll m0ve m0untains, which ALSO has a former member of ... tr0ubled hubbl3. so maybe it's all the fault of this one band.

My (lady) boss went to the doctor today. As the door was closing, she peeked her head back in and said to me "My colon is cleaner than yooo-oourss."

Hmmm, KYMM is the name of a Manitoba (now Caribou) song.

I remember tr0ubled hubbl3 from college radio. They sounded like M0d3st M0us3.

huh. maybe they had some shared traumatic experience that turned them into emo dudes. like they ran over a hobo in their tour van and made a pact to never tell anyone, but the pressure broke up the band and made them all emo.

Does anyone know if the DMV office in the Thompson Center is open on Mondays? The cyberdriveillinois.com website keeps timing out on me and giving me page load errors.

I am pretty sure it is, but I will not swear to it.

I Went to my Gmail and everything looked different and I DID NOT LIKE IT. I hate theme changes! It affects usability for me. Internet should never vary.

Thanks Jesse, the site finally started working again. It is open Mondays.

I love you too.

Wow, I got very drunk with co-workers last night.

But did you make out with them?

Or tell them off? Or both?

I'm scared of my work Xmas party. We're going to Moline and getting hotel rooms. This does not bode well.

you know you can change it back, right jesse?

I'm scared of my work Xmas party. We're going to Moline and getting hotel rooms.

i thought that only happened on like Seinfeld

The famous trip to Moline episode.

1. I do know that I can change it back. And I did. But it upset me to see it changed w/out my permission. Leslie was similarly rattled. There was much emailing about it.

2. LOL (not literally) LOLNL. Did this happen on Seinfeld?

One of the lawyers there is keeeeyooot and maybe gay. I fear my impulses.

What happens in Moline stays in Moline.

You know how you start an argument on the internet?

Discuss the pros and cons of circumcision.

i guess i missed that thread

It was elsewhere on the internets. The Netherlands is proposing a ban on circumcision. (heh heh, nether)

Hey - look at this:

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/dan/food_lies/margarine2.jpg

This article is causing me to chuckle at my desk http://www.cracked.com/article_16785_p2.html

These pretzels are making me thirsty.

^^^haha just watched that episode drunk @ 3am last nite

Hey. Does anybody know why some of the streets around the Rock and Roll McDonald's were closed tonight?

I was driving around there and traffic was phenomenally bad. There were cops all around and traffic directors at every intersection for blocks and blocks.

Oh. Festival of Lights. I was hoping it was sarin gas.

the office is a ghost town this morning, holy wah

does anyone need any office supplies while I can still steal them?

Does anybody know why some of the streets around the Rock and Roll McDonald's were closed tonight?

Iowans on leave from the Navy, probably.

haha - a theater reference i actually get!
did you like that one? i thought the guy was really good in it.

Yeah, me too.

Does anyone want to go see Wilderness tomorrow night at Schubas? 9PM

i want to but can't

Did you know...

If you need a replacement Chicago Card Plus, you can either pay $5 and have it mailed to you, which will take 5-7 business days, or you can go to the CTA HQ at Lake and Clinton, get one immediately, and pay nothing.

I was just at CTA this morning, putting more $$$ on my plus card.

Hi.

I have questions for librarians and librarians to be:

I paid my library fines (NO THANKS TO NICK) and got a pile of books out from HWLC last night and noticed that in the general fiction section, books are alphabetized by: 1) author's last name, then 2) title of the book. So if you are there after, say, Lush Life by Richard Price, you will have to find all books by people named Price, and then once you're in the Prices, look under "L" for Lush Life, rather than under "R" for Richard and then under L.

So my questions are: Has it always been this way and I just tended my entire life to read authors with unique last names or is this new? And if this is new, when did it happen? And most importantly, why? Because I don't like it. Change it back.

As far as I know, that is something unique the CPL. I'm not sure how long it's been going on. It is obviously unacceptable, I'm assuming it is just to make shelving easier or something???

^^this could be nick's campaign platform when running for Library President

(btw nick i emailed you, still using yahoo address?)

oh nevermind