Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

Hey, do any of you have a cooler I can borrow on Sunday?

No but you have a porch and a large apartment so you should own your own. Let me know if you want me to go pick one up for you I you don't have time.

I'll get back to you on that, Daddypants.

Heh. http://www.theawl.com/2011/05/andy-rooney-for-president

Awesome. I'm totally stealing that link for Facebook.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Sn8TOFd_eLg/TdJoZCWvNLI/AAAAAAAANcw/inUbMjUQdOs/s1600/patridiot.jpg

kind of amazing it's all on a japanese car... maybe that's progress being made?

I think they're trying to convince themselves of something.

btw you guys, inflicting malort on jjj's bachelor party was a smashing success

next up: inflicting it on Boston ppl

You are like Johnny Appleseed except with Malort and your name is Dan. Danny Malortinflicter.

Jesse: Where did you get that cool little sweater shaver that gets rid of pilling? I have some pilling going on on a couple of critical items.

You can use a cheapo disposable razor (without the lube strip) to depill, too.

I've tried that, and it does do something, but it doesn't work nearly as well as that thing that Jesse has. It's like how some devices for removing cat hair are great, and some aren't so great.

LOL! I thought, if Jenny sees that post before me, she's going to try to talk him out of it.

Kenan, I think I bought that one on Amazon. The ones at Bed, Bath, and Bajingo were tiny and really flimsy. Maybe call Michael's, or try Target.

I love my sweater shaver and I will never let anyone come between us again.

I'm thinking Target might be good. That giant fuck-off box of a store at Clark and Roosevelt might be the way to go.

You have one much closer. Is it smaller?

I want to go to Target.

Jesse, steal a car from one of your bosses and let's go to Target after work.

You should borrow the town bicycle.

http://i.imgur.com/iW0dP.png

Screenshot in case this changes.

Cooler problem solved. In case anybody was about to spring into action on that request.

ohhhhhh myyyyyyyyyy goooooooood
what will i do with my cooler

i am so ready for summer y'all

Did you know that Target is going to open a store in the Carson Pirie Scott building? And WalMart is going to open a small format grocery store in Presidential Towers? I feel like I should have been aware of this. I must not be on the correct mailing lists.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-0518-loop-retailing-20110517,0,3336615.story

Also, a surprisingly sympathetic article about CPL, with only two comments, both of which are pro-library and neither of which blame Obama for the problems with the library's hold system: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/ct-x-c-chicago-public-library-backlog20110518,0,982985.story

They refer to Block 37 as struggling, but name a bunch of Block 37 stores in their list of new stores that are revitalizing shopping in the Loop. Of course, large parts of Block 37 are still boarded up. I wish they would open the promised movie theater in there, dammit.

I did know about the Target. I hope it doesn't get in the way of the four story Billabong store that I've been looking forward to!

I did not know about the Walmart.

A movie theater in Block 37 would be convenient.

That summarizes my knowledge and opinions on Loop commerce.

I sincerely appreciate your contribution to this conversation.

I knew about everything.

I'm beyond special.

i referred to "everyone's the best at everything" the other day in class

Art disrupts wedding plans at Chicago's Art Institute

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2011-05/61683742.jpg

"They sold us a wedding site that was being used as a sculpture terrace," said Sainati. "(But) this installation is like a clown's nightmare. … (So) it would seem to violate the spirit of the contract." "A riot of color and play" is the museum's description.... An "acid-trip funhouse" is Berger's take.

Shut up.

Shut up.

x1,000,000

I kind of think this story belongs in the quiddities and agonies of the ruling classes thread.

Please replace it with a billboard sized print of Piss Christ with a related sound installation.

That thing is subtle as fuck but you know these people have special wedding colors and they're throwing a shitfit now

Its entirelty that sense of entitlement about "our wedding day" that drives me batshit bonkers.

you know, if I had booked a space in a modern art museum I would have basically already come to terms with the fact that my wedding guests would likely be spending part of the evening walking past the analogue of a painted toilet masquerading as art, so I have no idea wtf these idiots are thinking

I feel like I never go out during the week anymore, but tonight I'm doubling up on shows at the Beat Kitchen (a series of readings featuring, among others, M. Priest) and Schubas (our very own n/a). Rock and roll all night long, wooooooooo.

I think I was just in a bar sitting beside christina hendricks.

Or at least someone who looks very much like her. Should have instagramed.

OMG YOU SHOULD HAVE TOLD HER THAT I LOVED HER

If you find yourself sitting next to Christina Hendricks and she offers to make out with you, I wouldn't even be upset if you did.

Because I would.

Holy shit.

Summarize ilx in 1 post ^^

Xp or 3 hahaha

Maybe she says she's Christina Hendricks when she feels like making out with strangers.

Always works for me.

Pretty sure we've talked about it before but the new UofC library is sweeeeet. I love the idea of robots retrieving books from storage below ground.

http://featuresblogs.chicagotribune.com/theskyline/2011/05/beneath-this-bubble-a-book-storing-marvel-jahns-ambitious-design-for-new-mansueto-library-will-prove.html

that is absurdly awesome!

(i did not know who he was at the time, but i liked the covers)

http://littlewolfblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/gorey_treasure.jpg

i have this one at home, and the cover is laminated with contact paper because that is the phase i was in at the time i read it
the "cover everything with contact paper" phase

tbh I remember almost nothing about the bellair books other than the gorey illustrations and the fact that I imbibed them like they were ambrosia

this one was SO good iirc

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/__HE5SocNmDg/S23Gx0yLrbI/AAAAAAAAAwQ/guhTgivfaYA/s320/weatherend.jpg

Actually, the only other thing I remember is the location where they were shelved in my elementary school library, which is very strange but I guess it makes sense considering my current profession

another 6th grade favorite was John Christopher

don't know him, i don't think, but the gis for his name brings up a startling number of creepy mug shots :-/

I think I still own this somewhere:

http://s11.lucyphotos.com/images/orig/q/2/q2781ih8rri42q8r.jpg

or rather
http://s11.lucyphotos.com/images/orig/q/2/q2781ih8rri42q8r.jpg

actually come to think of it I read the chronicles of narnia in 6th grade too. this leads me to believe that my reading life has been all downhill since I was 12.

Are any of you guys working today? Its gross out there, apparently the City decided that shovelling, plowing, and/or salting was out of the question on a holiday.

I'm actually flying into Lincolnshire today. kinda scared of driving, but I don't have to be at work until tomorrow so I'm content driving as slow and methodically as possible (see cos we don't get snow/ice in FL so I have never driven in it, megalols)

Well, according to the forecast this stuff is supposed to taper off soon and it'll hopefully be cleared off before you'd have to worry about it. The only two roads that were salted and/or plowed, Michigan Ave & LSD, were actually pretty smooth, the trouble was just that they hadn't even touched any of the other streets.

No work for me today. I don't think I'll leave the house.

^^^ man with a good plan

If I didn't have a huge project deadline tomorrow, I'd have called off. Problem is, now that I'm here, I realize that I have all of my work done but the people I need to coordinate with are all off today.

I'm off today, too.

today is errand day and i'm wondering how i can make this fun for myself

New year, new thread: Chicago MMXII