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

those sound more like boogers to me

i was in andersonville yesterday, playing a backyard wedding reception. in and out, but it was a beautiful day and the couple made twelve pizzas.

― hardcore oatmeal (Jordan), Monday, June 27, 2011 3:14 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

oh hey, I was at that reception! I have to say you guys were totally fucking great. which instrument do you play?

wut

oh weird. you know that couple? i was playing snare drum.

a little bit: Tanya was a grad student in the dept my wife teaches in at SAIC. Their back yard is super enviable especially with that weather. I'm glad I looked at this thread today, I wanted to tell you guys how awesome you were!

i only met them that day; i think the connection is that one of the guys in my band is their barista. anyway thanks, glad you enjoyed it!

they have a very close relationship with their barista

he's a very good barista

the kind you don't take home to mother

http://www.happyplace.com/3907/unintentionally-inappropriate-test-responses-from-children

that's depressing

:(

I posted this elsewhere, but thought someone here might enjoy it.

Tonight v. February

http://i.imgur.com/A1J4w.jpghttp://i.imgur.com/ZMCW3.jpg

how can this project i am working on be simultaneously SO sensitive and SO BORING?!?!

it'll be over soon (eod iirc!!)

those are nice pictures jesse

A, not sure what you mean by "sensitive," but I can tell you that the combination of having a ridiculous workload while also being bored to death is possible and unpleasant.

and thanks - I only took the top one, by the way.

sensitive = dealing with confidential info, high stakes for me and others

Apropos of nothing: my dad mentioned the other day that John Barleycorn in the '70s used to be a vaguely upscale bar where they played WFMT (the classical station) on the stereo.

I already miss the 10% humidity in Colorado, makes heat so much easier to bear.

But yesterday was so incredibly dry! And today too, so far. It reminded me of Montana.

Well I didn't get back in here until 9 last night, but I was told it was gorgeous here yesterday.

SUPER beautiful

I don't suppose anyone in here is interested in Eddie Vedder playing songs on a ukelele at the Chicago Theatre tonight, I have an extra ticket.

Sorry, I need to perform some surgery on my own scrotum with a dull exacto knife. Otherwise I'd totally be up for Eddie Vedder playing ukulele.

BTW: You didn't miss all the gorgeous weather, jon. Today will be just as good.

I kind of figured that would be the reaction. I'm only going because I have a free ticket, even as big of a Pearl Jam stan as I am I wouldn't pay for this.

I can tell you that the combination of having a ridiculous workload while also being bored to death is possible and unpleasant.

Hi! That's my day job!

jvc, I might know somebody who would want it. What are you asking for it? (and are you on FB bc that would be the easiest way to connect you w/ the interested party if this works out.)

I'm actually not asking anything for it, these were given to me for free and I'd just want to see an interested party use the other one. Its a balcony seat.

Oh, yeah, I am on FB, I can ilxmail you a link.

jvc you are missing out on all of our exciting facebook posts by not being our friend! we've even met! i'm appalled!

Yeah I don't we're friended, either. I could be wrong, though. It's not hard to lose track of the real names of your facebook friends vs. ilx personalities.

so true
my brain is so cluttered with the names of people that i sometimes wonder if i should keep a chart

people i know, people i don't know, people i know but wish i had never met, imaginary made up people, yikes

so
many
people

I am on Facebook, but I don't think I'm friends with any of you guys. Not intentionally, just not much of a FB super user.

are there canines in your profile pic?

I thinks it's about time to give up on Facebook. The only reason I stick around is people keep doing event logistics on it.

are there canines in your profile pic?

Nope, a record player.

hm
then i can't find you

oh well

i don't really care about facebook either but sometimes it provides pretty hearty peoplewatching lols. it's also like a neutral turf for people i will and will not see again.

Weird. I did futz with my privacy settings when I was job hunting, but I didn't think I hid them that much. I tried searching for you, but you seem to have a very common name in FB land.

I can't get ilxmail on Zing - can you email me at rabbit rabbit (nospace) at geeeemail?

Or if you are friends with any Chicago ILXors, I am the Jennifer drinking wine in her profile pic.

Oh or you can search on FB w/ that email. Or you can do none of those things while I wait for a response for the possibly interested party.

Yeah I just sent you a friend request on FB.

We are Facebook friends!!!! YES.

I'm not hard to search for on FB.

I'm the guy with a record player profile picture. Basically because I pretty much hate the way I look in 100% of pictures.

I thinks it's about time to give up on Facebook

Anybody got a Google+ invite to spare?

It's weird to think back to when Gmail was new and mysterious, available invite-only.

I believe I managed to send all of one invite before it went public. I still have 99 left if anybody wants one!

Let's see, i currently have
jk jc4 jcke jchk jkstopspam amandagrape brownst

7 gmail addresses. the last one was my very first, and i'm phasing out Am@nd@Gr@p3nst3in3sq.

A couple of them are just placeholders b/c I don't want all the other J3ss3 Ch@@@@@@rl35 K333xxhr5 taking my addresses.

omg i'm not sure who will appreciate how funny this is, so i will put it here:

i just had a hilarious memory of using "do you want new wave or do you want the truth" in a project for this integrated humanities class in college
hahahahaha i was such a shithead