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

Best street solicitation interaction ever:

Dude: Excuse me, miss. Do you like hip hop?

Me: I do, but I don't want to buy a CD.

Dude: Okay! Have a sticker! Have a good day!

Me: Thanks! You, too!

That's how it's done, hair question men.

Unfortch, the sticker is two red squiggles on a piece of repurposed USPS mailing label so I have no idea what band it is. Or if the dude is not just straight up crazy.

Maybe the sticker is a curse!

i bet the cd is just him groaning wordlessly while "reasonable doubt" plays in the background

They did look very homemade, even for a street salesperson.

N/a, I think I will hang out at virgin records all day. I hope the have coffee.

Ah, good old Virgin Records.

I was GISing "This Town Needs A Fire" Poster Children T-shirt and this image was on page 2 of the results:

http://gickr.com/results2/anim_6a22f2a9-dc69-6274-a967-5346cec55f3d.gif

It's from a 2009 Chicago thread.

Also, this post from that thread was funny:

There was a redneck in Carhartt coveralls who rubbed money on Jenny and Leslie for luck. ;__;

If ;__;ing about the locals rubbing money on your womenfolk is FIPery, then a FIP I am.

From page 3 of the GIS results

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3479/3466887282_d035454dda.jpg

So a guy named M1gu3l C@still0 just added me on Google+. I know who he is b/c he work(ed?) at Schubas and is(was?) in the band Catf1sh H@ven. But I'm pretty sure he doesn't know who I am. ESPECIALLY BECAUSE he walked up to chat with someone at Pitchfork yesterday who was sitting right next to me and didn't acknowledge me at all. (I mean, not that I expect him to. If we've ever had a conversation, it was very brief.)

However, it looks like he's added 1,000+ people, including about a dozen ILXors. Does he post here?

He added me, too.

I left Pfork, btw. TOO HOT. Also I had hipster poisoning.

Wait, EZ said we're not supposed to say hipster anymore. I had "kids under 23 elevating style over function in 90+ weather" poisoning.

Huh. M1gu3l C@still0 is either a major jagoff or he's putting on a major jagoff persona for the purposes of the internet. Either way, it's unappealing.

He did not add me.

He divided me.

Jenny, it was nice to see you today, if briefly. It was wicked hot.

You guys can use hipster, just not everyone else.

I saw multiple instances of tights under shorts yesterday.

And skinny jeans in combo with boots. And knit hats aplenty. It's like these kids have never experienced summer before and don't know how to dress themselves for it.

The ILX thread in which some people argue against shorts ever being appropriate street wear really binds my cheese.

Those people are idiots.

Also it's more than one thread.

I've never sweated more than walking around in hong kong. It's a sauna.

I'm wishing shorts were slightly more appropriate this week. Our office usually takes until about 10:45 to get down to a reasonable temperature when its this hot. I'm dying.

Literally.

Or not.

I've been wondering if the way I've been feeling about the weather for the past few days (and foreseeable future) is the way that others feel about the cold parts of winter.

I think it is.

Some people say they never feel warm, all winter long.

Hm I don't feel that way.

I've been wondering if the way I've been feeling about the weather for the past few days (and foreseeable future) is the way that others feel about the cold parts of winter.

I operate under this assumption.

I can deal with the coldest of winter a lot easier than I can deal with the hottest of summer.

I can deal with the coldest of winter a lot easier than I can deal with the hottest of summer.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Monday, July 18, 2011 8:54 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

Me too, but different [heat] strokes for different folks.

Hm I don't feel that way.

― dan m, Monday, July 18, 2011 8:47 AM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark

Me neither, but see above.

I mean, it's pretty obvious that, yes, people who hate winter and never, ever feel warm are as genuinely miserable as you and I are in the heat. It's not like our feelings are more legitimate.

And in a way, I think my liking it cold is the oddball feeling.

Hey y'all!

I have programmed and am introducing an evening of early queer avant-garde shorts at Chicago Filmmakers. Info below. Please attend and/or spread the word. Thanx!

http://www.chicagofilmmakers.org/cf/genre/8

I mean, it's pretty obvious that, yes, people who hate winter and never, ever feel warm are as genuinely miserable as you and I are in the heat. It's not like our feelings are more legitimate.

I was just saying that despite the heat, I do not "never, ever" feel cool/comfortable/non-sweatsoaked (nor do I engage in such hyperbole). Check back in a few days, though.

Yeh, hyperbole can get out of hand. In more realistic terms, on very hot and humid days, it doesn't matter how cold the A/C is, or how much I shower, I simply can't cool down. (I remember sitting on kegs in the walk-in at G@n@che, unable to stop burning up. (I would also go to dry storage and dump corn starch down my shirt and pants).) It makes sense that in a similar way, cold-blooded can't get warm in the winter.

The corn starch thing used to infuriate me.

I have to go to a sauna to feel warm in the winter. It's why I haven't quit ballys yet. In other news, I've been under-sweatered this whole trip ;_;

In other news I am having a wonderful time and have eaten and eaten and eaten and my pants don't fit.

Corn starch is awesome. Shower to Shower powder is just talcum, corn starch, and scent.

It wasn't the corn starch. It was that you used restaurant corn starch in the restaurant while you were working. People were eating she crab soup thickened with corn starch that you had taken a dust bath in like a giant, bartending chinchilla.

Amanda, where are you??? I'm glad you are having a good time. I wish I needed a sweater.

Haha. The people were not eating corn starch with which that I had dusted myself.

The A/C in that hellhole was inadequate, so on top of my not giving a shit, I felt pretty well justified in wearing their corn starch on my balls.

Yesterday Courtney and I went to a movie. There were a couple people eating on patios and it gave me irrational anger flashbacks of working the rooftop at G'nache. Bleh.

This corn-starch business is hilarious.

I've got a bit of bronchitis, of all things to have in hot weather.

Ugh, Eric, that is awful. The last time I had bronchitis it was summer and it sucked. I hope you feel better soon! Do you need anything?

Jesse try this next time

http://online.wsj.com/media/goldbond_BV_20091221095002.jpg

frosty!

That's TOO frosty!

Sorry, EZ, that especially sucks in this weather. Summer colds, etc. are the worst.