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

My walk was marvelous! I just wish it was colder.

― Jeff-Beetle (Jeff), Friday, December 16, 2005 8:31 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Something you don't hear Jeff say anymore.

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Ha! Moderncat.net

No pics of the new place yet, since it's not put together, but here is a pic of the view. Sunsets is pretty sweet - I haven't seen one from home since I moved to Chicago.

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This turned out surprisingly crappy.

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There's a topless old lady about a foot from her window, moving stuff around on a table. People really do feel invisible above the ground floor.

She's in the building on the left in the pic above.

If I can't walk around in my skivvies in my OWN HOME then the terrorists have won. Celebrate July 4 with wanton nudity at home.

I did earlier today.

At the old place, my blinds fell down and I climbed up on the window sill naked to put the screws back in. It didn't occur to me until later that someone in the alley might get a view of my parts smooshed against the glass.

Jesse, you should invite old men up and charge them a quarter for a look at the old lady. There's a line, buddy, move it along.

You are a true patriot.
That plan only works if she gets the cash. Otherwise, ew!

Well of course, Amanda. Besides, I don't want to depend on chance nakedness for this opportunity. If I can gain access to the building, I am sure I can figure out which apartment is hers.

http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1721564430/New-life-in-prison-to-be-grim-for-Blagojevich

A FB friend commented that she kept running into Blago, describing him as "just wandering around with all his hair on his head." Ha.

Also, this is potentially interesting if you're into this kind of thing - http://www.sj-r.com/top-stories/x1721566550/Congressional-map-puts-farmland-Chicago-in-same-district

ah yes, i have a special cold dark place in my heart for strategic redistricting (is that still called gerrymandering?)

last night i had the first incident of insomnia that i've had in months -- it was like old times, i slept from 2:43 until 6:12 :(

Also, this is potentially interesting if you're into this kind of thing

Girl, you know I am. Thanks!

T/S: Folks in our neighborhood still lighting off fireworks at 4:30 this morning? True patriots or disgusting savages? In other words, I had a severe case of not being able to sleep at all last night, but I can tell you exactly where the blame falls.

ds

Yes, don't mess with a pregnant woman's sleep.

Or any women/man/child!

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A FB friend commented that she kept running into Blago, describing him as "just wandering around with all his hair on his head." Ha.

L166y always says "with his teeth in his mouth." (not re Blago, but generally to describe someone sitting around doin nothin)

I too am sleeepy and blah. All weekend, the nest building urges kicked in at around 10 pm. I was up until sunrise Sunday morning unpacking and what not. I'm all messed up.

read this http://www.nytimes.com/1982/06/14/us/study-says-technology-could-transform-society.html

Ya, gerrymandering after Gov. Gerry whose redistricting map looked like a salamander. (Fact-checked before posting and whoa, I knew it was Gov. Gerry/salamander but I had no idea the term was coined in 1812!!!)

Setting off fire works that late is pretty crass.

There's a line in an REM song "and you're drifting off to sleep with your teeth in your mouth." Just to combine the threads of conversation.

you are the everything!

that song makes my mom cry like clockwork

It gets to me, too.

REM songs that make me misty:
Time After Time
You Are the Everything
Untitled
Half a World Away

i could happy cry and sad cry at like a bazillion REM songs. it's almost too much, i can't really listen to them because they remind me so much of being extremely mushy and vulnerable :-/

yeah, that's an incomplete list.

Emo teen confession: I used to drive to the beach at night by myself and sit in my car and listen to REM and watch the water.

Oh who am I kidding if I had a car I would still do that.

Total dork teen confession: also used to go party on a jetty w/ my dork friends and play INXS "Dancing on the Jetty" because it was thematically appropriate.

!!!!! luv u !!!!!!

i used to write the lyrics to "you are the everything" on my world geography notebook over and over and over and over in 9th gr
teenagers are just like walking bundles of exposed nerves

Oh my god. I had the nerve to entitle one teen journal "Life and How to Live It" and its successor "Maps and Legends." Amanda, I wish we had known each other as teens. We would have been ultrafriends.

I know, we totally would have. Maybe some day I will let you read my diary! Someone should read it.

I was so tired last night the late night fireworks didn't stand a chance of keeping me up. Then again I can't get too mad because I used to be one of those guys out blowing shit up all night, albeit in a place with a few less people around.

had earplugs in and white noise cranked, so I didn't hear anything.

i listened to aguirre sdtk in its entirety, watched "no reservations", and read my book about perfume until my eyes hurt, then i finally fell asleep. i feel like i didn't sleep at all though.

I was in Door County over the weekend and the late night fireworks were far more tolerable when they were on a wide open lake, far less so when echoing around the alley behind our house.

i like how you guys switched the topic back to fireworks

also f gerrymandering for real blech

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/96/The_Gerry-Mander_Edit.png/573px-The_Gerry-Mander_Edit.png

I covered one notebook with Edgar Allen Poe and Beatles quotes.

And I used to blow up aerosol cans in the trash burning barrel.

Holding a flaming plastic bottle on a stick was fun b/c as the plastic melts, pieces fall off, making a cool zzzzzzip! sound. One time a molten ball plastic from a Downy bottle landed on the back of my hand.

In middle school I got suspended for gerrymandering.

the sport of kings

In middle school I was too busy drawing metal band logo on my folders to quote lyrics and such.

Gerrymandering sucks.

i had a teenage obsession with REM too. i knew exactly how many seconds to rewind the tape to get to teh beginning of "you are the everythign" to listen to it again and again.

i had nightswimming in my head the other day and was quite pleased.

True story, I absolutely hated R.E.M. with a passion until my senior year of high school and there was a copy of Automatic for the People permanently stuck in the cassette deck of the pizza delivery car I drove. After that I began to like them. The main reason that I hated them was that my obsession with pop radio and burgeoning interest in music in general coincided with "Stand" being played on the local top 40 station every other hour, with occassional airings of "Superman", and I dismissed them as a "joke" band.

Sorry R.E.M. lovers.

Eh, long low time ago.