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

The audio on this version is better, the lyrics a little clearer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLlOh-qj1LY

Good lyrics. I hadn't heard it before.

I tried to post the Snoop Dog smdh gif but that's too hard on a phone so just know that I am smdh at you.

SMDH

Jewel might not be "cool" or "hep" like Snoopy Dog or other rap musicians that you listen to, but you can understand her words and the songs are pretty and not dirty.

Jesus Christ! Jenny otm -- I can't leave you guys for 5 min before you start waxing poetic about Jewel. JEWEL! Smdh indeed.

Jesse I got your back, I like a few select Jewel songs. As far as 90s neo-folkie girls go, she's not as bad as her reputation might suggest. When she decided to turn into a genre-hopping whore though (electropop this album! now country!), that's where I got off the train.

I also used to LOVE Torrid Anus. I still think that Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink are incredible, both lyrically and musically.

Torn Anus

Tori Amos is light years better than Jewel just by virtue of actually being interesting, and I am pretty ambivalent about TA (I quite like Under the Pink, have never really listened to anything else).

It's not Jewel's reputation that I find objectionable. It's her insipid songwriting.

I always liked the Jawbox version of "Cornflake Girl".

No better way to welcome folks in town for Pitchfork weekend than to embed a few Jewel songs here.

(I've re-named myself after the slide-guitar solo at the end of "Torn.")

(and and and of course no better way than to keep everyone from coming to my show tonight at Uncommon Ground than to give big ups to Jewel/Imbruglia).

boycotting u

(just kidding! xoxo)

Hey who is going to Pitchfork on Sunday? I am volunteering (thought I would be tabling for the health center but somehow I am instead signed up as a general volunteer. Which is pretty meh but whatever) so you all should say hello to me.

I will C U there!

We never got around to buying tickets so we won't see you there.

I will not see you there either.

I won't be there I will be in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong 2036?

Are you going to have time for fun in HK or just work?

"are you fucking me????": to the 18-20 year old girl sitting, texting on the narrow steps at UIC-Halsted Blue Line station.

I did say "are you fucking kidding me?" to her. She was blocking the steps and there are plenty of benches at that stop!

Her response was a wounded, "Sorryyyy!" and then she sat right back down.

Work and hopefully some fun.

I won't be there but I did just eat little crunchy pockets of morcilla and apple. Blooooood sausage. It was good!

I need a fun place to eat dinner.

Thanks for your help guys.

I'm going with Korean tacos.

Omg did you get me any?

From where?

Ate it all already.

Jesse, right down the street from you http://delseoul.com/

Their website needs work.

Regardless, I will be visiting soon. I'm glad Chicago has Korean tacos at last, and so close to me.

It must be pretty new. Is it in the red building on the SW corner of Clark/Wrightwood? (I can no longer find a way to link to a view on Google Street View.)

Kr and I like that place. It's been there for just under a year, IIRC.

OK, I guess it opened in October 2010.

Oh, it's not THAT new, and it's right next door to Lito's empanadas. Where that "Couture Cafe" was.

Anyway, their website could use some fixin'.

xps

xoxo

Good maps on the tribune today about wards/population/demographics.

Going to get Korean tacos tonight!! Exciting!

The prices at Del Seoul are surprisingly cheap. On the level of a taqueria or Ba Le. Also exciting.

This continues to amaze me

http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2011-07/358935360-14091523.jpg

Hey, juggling and fortune-telling are now legal in Cook County forest preserves.

7 food trucks at Dearborn/Monroe today. Got pulled pork.

Huh.
It is now legal to juggle, do a somersault and hang out — even if you’re a “known” thief, burglar, pickpocket or robber — in Cook County’s forest preserves.

But keep your pants on — and zipped — if you’re golfing or practicing on forest preserve courses and driving ranges, or you’ll face a
disorderly conduct ticket and fine of up to $500.

This comment starts off funny "Now if only they would allow Hucksters, Shysters, assclowns, and scam artists...." The rest is what you would expect.

7 food trucks at Dearborn/Monroe today.

Was one of them Gaztro-Wagon? Their truck was in front of me on Elston this morning.

Gastro-wagon is not one that comes there. Which is too bad, I'd like to try it. We get meatyballs, taco fusion, tamale spaceship, Mac and cheese truck, a torta truck, another one that does deli style sandwiches, a BBQ truck, haute sausage, the empanadas truck, flirty cupcakes, and sweet ride Chicago. all at various days during the week.

It's interesting, many of the truck owners park other vehicles out there all morning, paying for parking so they can hold the space until lunch time comes and they can bring in the food trucks.

I want to work for Big Law so I have easy access to Big Food.

Really though, it would be nice to work for a bigger firm that has real systems in place. I see myself at home in litigation support. Document management and rules of procedure are my passions.

At a few Big Bank jobs, there would always be Corner Bakery sandwiches and cookies left behind in conference rooms in the afternoon.

The Korean tacos were good. The prices were nice and despite what the cashier told us, the tacos were on the generous side. I had a krazy Korean carbonated milk-based soda, and it was delicious and not weird.

I wonder if Del Seoul really is the first Korean taco place in Chicago? The food press seems to think so, but Avondale is Mexi-Korea, so it would surprise me if there weren't Mexican tacos there already.

Haha - KOREAN tacos, I meant.

so what is it like bulgogi with kimchi or something?