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

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.

I think the only person cool enough to know where to find that kind of stuff os deej (he still lives here, right?)

I was going to mention deej as well. He's still here, afaik. I think I saw him walking down Chicago Ave. a few weeks ago while I was taking the bus to my yoga class.

^ clearly not cool

Yoga??????!!!!!!???

That was an overreaction.

I miss yoga. Not enough to start doing it again, I guess.

Do you miss running?

I need a yoga teacher that understands the yogic challenges of the big-bosomed fatty. It's hard to breathe in a seated forward bend when I'm being smothered by my own boobs.

I do miss yoga, though.

boobasana is a tough one

^ clearly not cool

Exactly.

picturing you on the bus sitting patiently with your yoga mat, looking out the window is among the most heartwarming images i've imagined all day

i mean that sincerely

Aw man. I'm losing my private office and huge hardwood desk and being moved to the cubicle near the door. They hired a new person as Publications Manager, and you don't give a new boss-type person a cubicle. I never felt deserving of this desk, anyway, and it was an accident of space management that I ended up with it at all.

You know what hurts, though? Taking down my decorations. My framed B&W photos. My Vertigo poster. I made this office *mine*, I truly did. I got compliments all the time on what a nice office I had put together. (I'm a designer, of course I'm not going to have a spare, ugly office. That would drive me nuts.)

I need to take photos of my office in its full glory before it all goes away on Tuesday.

xp Ha, OK. I was probably clutching my yoga mat tightly against me while squeezed in the aisle, but I don't want to spoil your image.

Deej deej'd the Undrgrnd Library party at Beauty Bar last week, I believe.

What? I run sometimes, you dong. (xxxxxxxxp to Jeff)

The other night I ran from my house to Oak Street, though with many snapshot breaks.

I've biked about 50 miles in the last week, most of it with an obnoxiously huge camera backpack strapped to me, and a tripod strapped to that, adding about 30 pounds to my weight. I'm going to have some serious fucking legs and ass if I keep this up all summer.

Deej deej'd the Undrgrnd Library party at Beauty Bar last week, I believe.

I love being right.

I, uh, stopped packing/whatever and organized 1,500 images in my photo library.... Been meaning to do that for ages, and suddenly got the motivation.

I don't get Skilling saying "Potentially the hottest weather here in at least 5 years" tomorrow when the high is 98. I mean, it's gotten that hot a bunch of times, hasn't it?

You know how i feel about skilling... Similarly about erdman

I remember a Sunday in 2005 when it was 105. That's the hottest I remember, but I'm sure it's been 98 w/in the last 5 years.

holy shit it is hailing golf balls here

hoooooooooooly fuck

this is insanity, yes

I hope our windows hold

Wow. We got BB to pea sized hail. It was loud as fuck, but there's nothing on the ground now. (Got a report from our Humboldt Pk. field office that there there was ice on the streets.)

I tell you what though, I pity the guy who is unloading who has been unloading his moving truck.

At my building, right now and before the storm, that is.

omg it was INSANE on the west side
dents on our car and everything
i'm sure someone has a picture, it was totally bananas
everyone at the whistler was all AGGHHHH OMG takin photos and whatnot

Really sorry to miss DanK's book party tonight--obligations of work and such.

Some great tweets:

CandeeCakes: So it started hailing again!!! Wtf is going on?!?! Tom Skilling didn't see this shit coming?!

tashapyt_mack: Tom aint shit bout no rain man. RT @SocialiteBjanay: Don't you dare! RT @tashapyt_mack: Man Fuck Tom Skilling!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

CandeeCakes: It's raining?! I sat there and listened to Tom Skilling long winded ass and he ain't say nothin bout no rain! Round lil fucker!

...and then savvy social media:

GriffinLounge: Tom Skilling just forecasted "PERFECT CLUBBING WEATHER for GRIFFIN's Industry night tonight!"

It looked like half the trees on our block were going to snap in pieces, but fortunately the only damage up here was our patio umbrella which flew two houses down the block.

we had car damage (hood) and the sidewalk looked like a salad (acc to dk)

Sorry to hear that, we seemed to avoid the hail up here.

eh, nothing we could have done about it
i'm honestly more upset that my running shoes still smell like pee after i've cleaned them with bleach like 100x

That sucks about your car.

My sidewalk looked like salad too. And the street lamps went out, which made it surprisingly dark out there - I guess the high rises don't have light on ground floors and the trees block the light from above. Anyway, it was dark enough to not be able to see fallen branches.

I'll be so happy to be living in a place where I can see weather out of the windows tomorrow.

http://damnyouautocorrect.com/images/coming-out.jpg

you'd think people would stop using autocorrect

But then there would be less laughter in the world.

The cats and I were pretty freaked out by the hail. Jeff had gone to a beer event earlier and slept right through it.

Three kinds of bourbon county stout made me dead to the world.