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

Are you fucking me?

Ha tell me that was an honest typo. I'll make an honest typo of you.

Yes she fixed my fucking. She said they were really bad. She said:
"do you want to see them? I saved them for you to see if you want"
And
"oh there are only three - I lost one" (!!)

This is me, now, getting my sleep studied

http://i.imgur.com/1NtCu.jpg

I moves the screen bc I wanted to see!

I told her OMG I have chopsticks in my toe!!

Cuz I did. I had gd chopsticks in my piggy.

what the fuck

Forget it, Hoos. It's Chi-town.

I may be weird but oh nevermind I'm watching Xanadu and I can't be bitchy while watching Gene Kelly and ONJ tap-battle.

xp That was an honest typo. I'm glad she fixed your fucking. Are you on drugs for this sleep study? You're posting like you are fucked up on pills.

Xanadu has great hairstyles.

. I had gd chopsticks in my piggy.

― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Friday, August 19, 2011 2:40 AM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

easily one of my favorite posts ever

A place... where nobody dared to go

Best/worst personals photo there, Jesse.

Dan, that photo is like the Jimmy Buffet of Bon Iver stories: guy goes alone into the woods to record an album, ends up sitting in a comfortable chair with a beer and a dog.

There were several couples-worth of people (older, not quite my parentals age but maybe late 40s or 50s) down the row from us in the campground who were wailing on mandolins, guitars, and driftwood percussion and singing stuff from the O Brother soundtrack. Hippies.

the punk space where the show was last night was above this restaurant: http://honkytonkbbqchicago.com/ and we went down there to get food/drink before the show, and i have to say it was delightful, especially after being in a hot and smelly punk space. i didn't eat but i had a very delicious old-fashioned made with house-made cherry syrup and muddled cherries and oranges. the food looked good and the space was nice too, lots of dark wood, and they have live music pretty much every night. recommended if you're down in pilsen.

hi, all. i'm probably going to be offline a lot b/c of justified paranoia at work (but if it's justified, is it really paranoia?)

my toes are wonderful.

look at this linkified picture of a chopstick in a piggy http://img1.photographersdirect.com/img/9601/pd2407365_s.jpg
that's not me.

i want to have beers w/ jenny and n/a

Take a long lunch and come meet us.

No.

Je55sse your toe commentary gave me a nightmare fyi

I am sorry. But at the same time I feel that your nightmare is a testament to the power of my live-blogging.

Take a long lunch and come meet us.

Where are you guys going?

We're at bad apple

Probably not much longer though.

Oh I was just curious. I am at work.

We're gone now.

I know you guys don't like Groupon's glib copy, but I think this is pretty darn hilarious: Keeping teeth clean and white is the first and only step in coping with the fact that your skeleton is slowly escaping from your body through your mouth.

I like the sentiment but something about that wording is not sitting well with me.

"the first and only step in coping with the fact that"

Too many words, too awkward.

"9 out of 10 dentists say keeping your teeth clean and white is the best way to deal with your skeleton's slow escape through your mouth."

There.

I get that the wording is clunky, but I like the idea that teeth whitening is the first and only step in coping.

(If my character-assessment abilities are any good at all, I think this conversation is exactly the sort of thing La Lechera would hate.)

Here's a thing you food truck lovers might like: http://timeoutchicago.com/sites/default/files/marketing/FoodTruck.html

YOU ARE CORRECT SIR
But I still like you and I do appreciate streamlined, junk-free ad copy.

Lecheramanda, I like YOU too.

Y0u

I was going to try to make a joke about "if you were single and I was straight" but it was dumb, so I decided against it. I bring it up b/c in trying to make the joke, I did a thing I sometimes do when trying to say "If I were straight [I'd find ____ female attractive]": I said "If I were a guy."

I hate that. It's weird and it suggests some kind of subconscious feeling of not being truly male b/c I'm gay.

Maybe it's just because guy/gay are phonetically similar and you're in the realm of gender identity/sexual preference. SOMETIMES A CIGAR IS JUST A CIGAR.

that's silly. you're not truly male because you don't have toenails.

jenny, "popular crime" came in at the library for me today so nyah nyah nyah. i'm already reading about lizzie borden.

But what about when I say "If I were a man, I would find Christina Hendricks hot, but I'm not a man b/c I have unnatural desires to be made female by other men"?

Nick, I still have all my toenails. Dr. P@mela Ander0n just excised the ingrown parts.

HEY NICK

Popular crime : reflections on the celebration of violence / Ready for pickup Harold Washington Library Center 08/29/2011

IN YOUR FACE.

I'm not finna go get it until Monday, though. Then I have to decide whether I want to keep reading the ridiculous book I'm reading now (The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart - it's like a Medieval horror comedy book, which actually sounds better than it is so far) and give up and move on.

OR give up, I meant.

HEY I know some people who might be Chicagoans one day read this thread and I wanted to say that after living here seven years, I still get overwhelmed with waves of "omfg I love Chicago" feelings. I had one yesterday as I was in a cab taking the cat home from the vet. We went down Clark to Southport, so drove through a couple of neighborhoods that I like and just seeing people out on the streets doing their thing, and eating food, and hanging out, and there was a food truck for DOGS and train stations and buildings and businesses and I don't know. I feel like a sap, but I really, really like living here.

Wait is this the Bill James book? I thought it was weird that he wrote a book about crime.

Yes, that's the one.

I kinda felt that way when I was waiting out the rain in the fern room. And under the tent with the carousel. And in the warm exhaust fumes of a cta bus underneath a bridge with dozens of other cold wet Chicagoans. A fellow cyclist even offered me his dry tshirt, but I declined. Nice place to live for the most part.

I feel that way a lot more when I moved to this neighborhood, and even more in my new apartment. Argyle was OK, but living near the lake amongst big buildings and lots of activity is more exciting for me.

Huh - a 12th floor on the 2700 block would have to be either my old building or the one next door. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cops-man-jumps-from-12thfloor-window-at-north-side-building-20110818,0,5986393.story

I just wandered into the North Side Summerfest and there is a Gap taco truck there.

Also Transistor (a cool music/book/gadget store that used to be in Andersonville) just opened in my hood.

That's really sad. xp

Transistor also had live music and BYOB movie nights and such--hope they do so in their new location as well.

they had a surprise screening of Musician once

i was asking about a book they stock about the fall and they said they sold two copies (on separate occasions) to ken vandermark