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

I know this doesn't look quite right, but a few sources are saying that Bono was at the giant furniture/decor show at the Merchandise Mart today.

But maybe that photo doesn't look right because his mouth isn't open.

Ha!

Jenny is Sloane the person who made that video?

no sloane is the "icon" kid
that's a cute video
whatever age those older kids are is my favorite kid age -- 10, 11? blonde girl ("next next next level") looked about 12 maybe.

Oh, duh. Are kids way smarter these days than when we were kids??

No, it's a kid with very precocious opinions about Lady Gaga. xp

(I just spent like 10 minutes trying to remember the word "precocious." All I could think of was promiscuous. I am so tired.)

Jesse, Chicago tonight reported last night that Chicago Animal Care and Control is keeping an eye on the deer family, so I think they will be safe.

i just found a video of my dad on youtube and it's kinda freaking me out

That ain't Bono. (The real one's been in New York for the last few days.)

I kinda wanna see Pete and Lutz from 30 Rock do improv, but it's $20 and late on weeknights.

I'm no expert on deer habitat, but I just can't help but wonder why they don't move them to the woods! I don't want the doe to get hit by a car, leaving the fawns to be raised by an air conditioner.

Have you ever heard the expression "What up doe"? Google and UrbanDictionary.com suggest that it's Detroit-area slang, but I could've sworn I'd heard it in high school.

yeah, that sounds as familiar as welp

(which i have been seeing a strange resurgence in lately, i will note)

what about ferreally doe?

No, never heard that.

The redesign of the Tribune website is disappointing. Why are so many newspaper websites so bad?

Because newspapers are bad?

It is pretty bad, its like they were going for some sort of "classic newspaper" design but failed miserably.

It's almost the same as the previous design, except with the elements moved around.

This is bad, I'm having flashbacks of caring about web design. I need to get over that and go back to twitter and RSS feeds.

I was never in the habit of reading the Trib's website, so I don't know what it looked like before. But this design looks really cheap and generic.

I don't really read the NY Times website, but I do like their skimmer site: http://www.nytimes.com/skimmer/#/Top+News

The Trib's site looks old-fashioned.

I ripped my Comcast cable out of the wall while moving boxes, so I requested a tech come out and fix it this Saturday. This morning I get a robo-call saying that the problem that I reported in my region has been fixed and my service call has been canceled. My broken cable is not "a problem in my region!" Now I have to place another call and I'm probably behind in the queue.

Well, tbh, its a very specific "region". Good luck, I hate Comcast customer service so much.

I think I'm just going to buy a co-ax crimping tool and fix it myself. There have been other times when I've wanted that tool, so it's worth it, I guess. Maybe a crimping iron will work.

Onion fake morning show bumper: "Up next: How to spice up your love life with only an enormous dildo"

Not fake morning show website "exclusive content" ad: "Join today and you can get green room hidden camera footage of Bono pulling out a wedgie". I literally heard this on Q101 this morning.

this onion article made me loooooooool b/c I have met several of these guys in the yoop

Man Just Going To Grab Guitar And Old Four-Track, Go Out To Cabin In Woods, Make Shittiest Album Anyone's Ever Heard

haha i loled at that too

seriously it's uncannily like this dude who showed up at one of the better local bars one summer and had some bullshit line about how he had spent 'half my life swinging a hammer and half swinging a guitar' or something like that

omg like that guy from into the wild
such a type!

personally I blame the rainbow gathering

The audio clip really puts that story over the top.

it also seems like such a specific bon iver dig, or at least a dig at media stories about bon iver + copycats.

hi guys.

Where you been.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/151/329726966_5592b1a534_o.jpg

oh, you know, around. i'd like to say i've been cutting back my internet usage due to being busy at work, but it's probably not true.

I'm awesome because: I fixed my own broken coax and it cost me $2.99.

I celebrated by eating a 16 oz. tub of cottage cheese.

And you think octopus is disgusting?!??! Congrats on yr cable though.

It's cottage cheese made of octopus milk.

I don't think octopus is DISGUSTING, I just am put off by the texture.

Did you know that Radio Shack has made a not very successful attempt at re-branding themselves? They're calling themselves "The Shack" now. But they are also still calling themselves Radio Shack. I think Copyranter mentioned this one time - it's a really crappy re-branding, not only b/c...."The Shack"?? Come on. But because most of their signage and ads still say "Radio Shack," with "The Shack" tossed in occasionally to try to sound edgy. Does not work.

They should just go away.

The Shack was very handy today when I needed a coax connector. I don't know where else I would have gotten one.

Radio Shack, probably.

I guess there isn't much of a market for folks buying radios anymore.

Wrote my boss this morning to say I'd be a little late. I was 15 minutes late. He's still not here. Shoulda kept my email to myself.

Little-known fact of the morning: Fleetwood Mac Tusk is an unstoppable pop record.

my meeting this morning was cancelled so i am trying to figure out how to motivate myself to do work at home.

I think I just deeply offended a co-worker by telling them that not only will I not be attending Taste this year, I haven't attended it over 16 years and think its pretty much one of the worst things about summer in Chicago. I'm probably on some ant-American watchlist now, judging by her reaction.