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

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

I appreciate the humor in that. It reminds me a little of when we had a pool of like $50 for the first person to smoothly* work "flux capcacitor" into their final architectural presentation.

* - "smoothness" was to be judged by the rest of those of us in the pool

that reminds me of this http://phdchallenge.org/

Empanada truck is pretty good.

hahahaha

Jaymc: An old folkie told me that about John Barleycorn as well. They screened arty movies and had classical music.

yaaaaall -- this is a reminder but nothing coercive --

tomorrow is book release event @ bucketoblood with d and performance from our nick, 7:30, i'm going to bring some homemade snax

Okay so the Eddie Vedder show was really good, only six of the 32 songs he played were on the ukelele, the rest of the show was covers and Pearl Jam rarities and greatest hits stuff acoustically. As much as you can hate him for birthing the whole awful post-grunge thing, Vedder is a showman. He told lots of funny stories tonight, including a great one about partying with Ron Wood and Charlie Watts.

All right: http://www.suntimes.com/news/6242441-417/illinois-beach-water-ranks-among-worst-in-nation-study-finds.html

Wow, check out the language choice in this paragraph, from the article with this awesome headline "In Pilsen, activists succeed in stopping construction of library they fought for":

Parents at the time accepted that plan, so long as the library was not constructed in newly rehabbed areas of the school. But as the district tried to begin construction of the $400,000 library last week, some parents, community agitators and leftist activists from across the city converged on the neighborhood, blocking construction crews from entering the school.

(emphasis mine)

Oh wait there is no emphasis.

But this first comment is certainly the kind of reaction the Trib was hoping to engender with that kind of inflammatory nonsense:

"Do gang bangers read? Is there a playground in the library?
This is just another LA RAZA power play to show Americans that they are taking control of Chicagoland."

Ugh, yeah, the Trib is particularly awful about that kind of reporting.

Comments like that make me embrace my Latino side and want to "take over."

Perfect moving weather today and tomorrow roflpuke.

schwa takes on malort

http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/key-ingredient-michael-carlson-schwa-malort/Content?oid=4154501

hahaha

"I don't know. I don't think anything goes with it. Urinal cakes, I think, maybe, microplaned over the top, sounds great."

Ha yeah, I meant to link to that article.

that is awesome

Good stunt for next week's challenge too (giving vegetarian Green Zebra chef the ingredient of fresh blood).

I kind of always thought that the city dwellers hatred for suburbanites and tourists, particularly during the Taste, was a wee bit overblown but, after the past couple of days I 100% understand and endorse it. Its stunning to see how many people have no idea at all how to follow the 'Walk'/'Don't Walk' signals or just congregate in the worst possible places. It took me about double the time to get to lunch that it normally does.

Tbh, city dwellers have the same issues. Particularly the ones directly in front of me at all times. I just move faster and more decisive than everyone else.

seen that giant blinking face on the brick wall waterfalls when i was going through from nyc last month in millennium park. also dancing hard to some d&b dj. prbbly shld've stayed

are there house shows/$5 type venues there?

if you're cool enough to know where they are, yes

I'm not :(

Me either.

And Jeff, there's a difference between slow or indecisive and walking out in front of traffic or being completely unaware of your surroundings.

Minuscule difference, equally annoying.

I think the only person cool enough to know where to find that kind of stuff os deej (he still lives here, right?) although I would not be surprised if Eazy knew, too.

I'm extremely cool, that's just not my scene

http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/052/812/original/Deal_with_it_dog_gif.gif?1275684729

oh man that one never gets old

Things that never get old.xls

jon/via/chicago - dealwithit.gif
jenny - "Are you fucking me?"

I think I missed that one.

wait are we talking house show/basement dance parties or house show/basement punk shows? I might be able to help with the latter somehow still but the former was never my scene either.

I can tell you where the cool lawyers go for their continuing legal education credits.

Wait. No I can't.

Let's have a tweetup.

Can't, I'm on staycation.

Is that where you go out to dinner with a bunch of ppl you know from twitter and ignore each other while you use your phone to tweet about going out to dinner with people? xp

I thought maybe it was a chance for me to walk really absentmindedly in front of Jeff and have him tweet about how annoying I am.

I guess tbf every day is an opportunity for people to tweet about how annoying I am.

I recently released a quality tweet.

Silent but deadly?

Good stunt for next week's challenge too (giving vegetarian Green Zebra chef the ingredient of fresh blood).

Well, the chef is Shawn McClain, who was the head chef/owner of Spring and also once had a stake in Custom House -- so it probably isn't as much out of his comfort zone as "Green Zebra chef" might imply. Not to say that cooking with blood isn't still a challenge.