Chicago: Jesus just left.

Message Bookmarked

Bookmark Removed

Not all messages are displayed: show all messages (2889 of them)

I vow never to share my last name with people again.

― sisut, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I did hear one person arguing that people in all countries have these same violent, psychopathic tendencies...but that in many of them it's much harder to get guns. Don't know if it holds any weight, though. The Swiss all have a gun in the home and I haven't heard of too many mountain rampages. Of course, they're probably too content...what with all the wine, cheese and chocolate.

― sisut, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

See also: Canada. Guns everywhere, rednecks abound, no shootings.

― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

i heard something interesting yesterday from a professor at northeastern, he said that these types of events usually happen in the sunbelt states, california and texas because those are the states that have seen the greatest influx of migrants and immigrants in recent years. he hypothesized that people moving across the country or across the world are usually doing so as a last effort and if they fail at that then they have nothing. and they have nothing in a new place without the support systems of home. it kind of made sense but there were some holes in it or if not holes at least some questions i had.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:48 (nineteen years ago)

I see, there is a much larger Franco-Armenian population than I had realized. The recent news in the country surrounding their population relates more to the recognition of genocide in Turkey, while the Algerian-related news is about bombings and unrest inside France.

― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

man, i shoulda got some mini burgers last night. by the time i got off the train i decided i needed to stop at the green-eye grill for cheese burgers. i had four cheeseburgers yesterday, i'm eating like shit these days.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

I think I might go get pad thai for lunch today.

― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:07 (nineteen years ago)

Get pad in full.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

I want to see this play. I have decided that Kenan does, too.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/gallery/2004/03/25/paidinfull.jpg

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, Jenny, I can do that. Let's make a date.

― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

Probably after my last exam in law school ever, which is on May 9, I think.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

In this party-time look at the heyday of Stax Records, the music is a foot-stompin' mix of soul classics and lesser-known numbers. The slender narrative, by David Barr III, is structured around fictional 1980 events: a 20-year Stax reunion concert and the imminent sale of a bar, Pop's Place. Jimmy Tillman's brass-heavy eight-piece band keeps the energy high, and under Jackie Taylor's direction the performers are funny and accomplished. Five dancers perform Rueben Echoles's savvy choreography

Sounds good

― Eazy, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:24 (nineteen years ago)

I'm supposed to review a bunch of Kate Bush songs for Stylus's Kate Bush Week, except it's sort of hard because all but a couple of them are pretty much straight-up awesome.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:33 (nineteen years ago)

You should write an entire review about how they suck and about how people only liked them because the singer was hot and because he's going out with Gwen Stefani and they just ripped off Pearl Jam.

― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:36 (nineteen years ago)

A friend of mine in high school had a t-shirt that read BUSH SUCKS and I was like, "That shirt's awesome, man. I hate that band, too." And he was like, "Uh, it's about the former president?"

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:43 (nineteen years ago)

HA!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

why bitch about a former president? and why go for bush, i mean, christ, andrew jackson was a WAY bigger prick and murderer.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:48 (nineteen years ago)

REGAN SUCKS, YOU GUYS

― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

reagan, even.

― kenan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

William Henry Harrison butchered native americans and was a long-winded fucker, too. He sucks!

― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Both my dental hygienist and my dentist asked me what my favorite food was yesterday, presumably because it was lunchtime. The dentist was all "Ya like burgers? How can people be vegetarians? I mean, burgers, right?"

And the hygienist was going on about how I could've gotten free fries at Arby's yesterday because they sponsor some NASCAR driver from around here.

xpost galore

― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

I want to learn more about Millard Fillmore.

― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:07 (nineteen years ago)

http://lambiek.net/artists/t/tinsley_bruce/tinsley_mallardfillmore2.jpg

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:12 (nineteen years ago)

^^^Former resident of E. Aurora, NY, my mom's quasi-hometown. His residence is a historic site.

xpost

― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/2d/Fillmore_campaign.jpg/300px-Fillmore_campaign.jpg

― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:16 (nineteen years ago)

Those Whigs were some fun-looking dudes!

― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:18 (nineteen years ago)

I did a report on Calvin Coolidge once.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/90/CoolidgeAmherst.png

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:35 (nineteen years ago)

Dapper!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:37 (nineteen years ago)

I like how women dressed in the early 20s. Just pile on whatever you've got and top it with a funny hat.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/18/HardingCoolidge.jpg

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:40 (nineteen years ago)

Mmm, needs more dead animal carcasses.

― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:42 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hooverassociation.org/PHOTOS/OLD%20BW%20PHOTOS/Lou%20Henry%20Picts/pict3.jpg

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

Harding's wife looks like she could be an extra from Dances with Wolves with all that fur she's got on.

― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

(xxpost)

― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:43 (nineteen years ago)

She probably got cold on the way to the event and grabbed the dead animal for warmth. It was the way they did it back then.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:44 (nineteen years ago)

Ragtime player piano music was going in the background the whole time.

― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:45 (nineteen years ago)

Man, I mean seriously. Fuck a pair of jeans. I want a big floppy drop waisted dress and a hat with an ostrich feather in it. I can gain and lose 40 pounds and the only part of my wardrobe I'd have to adjust is my belt.

http://www.picturehistory.com/images/products/0/0/7/prod_794.jpg

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:46 (nineteen years ago)

Also, I'd get a pet racoon.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/holiday/historicalpets2/images/1923-gcoolidgerebecca-398h.jpg

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:47 (nineteen years ago)

Or as that lady calls it, "my new sweater."

― n/a, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:49 (nineteen years ago)

Let's see if we can exhaust the GIS for Grace Coolidge posing with animals:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/holiday/historicalpets2/images/1923-mrscoolidgedogs-398v.jpg

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

I also think all male children under 14 should wear newsboy caps and short pants and break into spontaneous four-part harmony on street corners.

xp - with that, I think you just exhausted it.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:51 (nineteen years ago)

Look at that dress! You could shoplift a watermelon with that thing! It's less structured than most of my loungewear.

Damn it, I'm bringing slouchy back.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

Another one of the 'coon:

http://clinton2.nara.gov/WH/kids/inside/images/calsgirl-s99.jpg

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:52 (nineteen years ago)

I want to know why Cal is wearing a black armband above.

― dan m, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:53 (nineteen years ago)

Presumably somebody died.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

"Ahoy-hoy!"

http://www.forbeslibrary.org/coolidge/img/Coolidge2.JPG

― jaymc, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:54 (nineteen years ago)

See-through!

― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

Have any of you eaten at the Riverside Deli?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:01 (nineteen years ago)

http://imagecache2.allposters.com/images/pic/RSPOD/RS259%7ERita-Coolidge-and-Kris-Kristopherson-Rolling-Stone-no-259-February-1978-Posters.jpg

― Jordan, Wednesday, 18 April 2007 17:02 (nineteen years ago)

Skipping 2789 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

You must be logged in to post. Please either login here, or if you are not registered, you may register here.