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

R gets them because the holiday time is busy busy busy so no one gets time off for like 3 weeks or something.

we were too lazy/cheap to get it developed so we just move it everywhere with us without knowing
same for this roll of film, and then when d found it again, he got the roll of film surprise developed
i was braced for the worst, but it turned out to be even weirder than i thought. canine glamour shots + me at a late 90s adult slumber party i don't remember AT ALL.

next friday is my last day of summer hours so everyone should call in sick that day so we can have an afternoon hang-out sesh

Furlough day for me!

That'll be my last summer hours day also last Friday before I have another human being to take care of.

Hooray! Do you have a name for the little one yet?

We've got it narrowed down to two, at this point we are waiting to meet him before deciding which. According a site I just looked at we are thinking either the 86th or 396th most popular boy's name of 2010.

According "to"

Ooh.

Fwiw, the first name is slightly (though not much) less popular in Illinois. Not sure about the second, since state rankings only go to 100.

We really didn't take popularity into account with these names, just ones we've really liked for a long time. It does help that they aren't super popular though.

I'm curious what you mean by "It does help," though. My sense is that the desire on the part of parents to shy away from popular names for their children is a fairly recent development -- helped along, of course, by the fact that the rankings are now widely accessible online. But I sometimes wonder what the reasoning is, and to what extent it's pragmatic vs. aesthetic.

For us it was probably a blending of both, it wasn't really a "concern" but we did tend to shy away from names that were popular within our circles, more so than shying away names just because they were nationally popular or whatever.

This is kind of interesting (to me, at least): in 1950, the top 10 boys' names represented one-third of all boys born that year. In 2010, it was one-twelfth.

Probably mostly due to changes in the country's ethnic/cultural/racial makeup though, right?

Hmmm, that's probably part of it, but I'd guess that it has more to do with a changing philosophy in naming. Sixty years ago, it was a lot more common than it is today to simply name your kid after either a relative or a figure from the Bible. There was less of an impulse to be unique or original. Nowadays, though, you have parents inventing spellings to mark their child as distinctive. Basically, I think it's all part of a broad shift in American culture, starting in the '60s and '70s, toward individualism.

^^ this very theory is in that section of the freakonomics movie i showed in class

All kids should be named Goggins and be done with it.

Only if they are born with full sets of teeth.

I haven't actually read that Freakonomics chapter on names -- I think Kr might have a copy.

Also, does anyone wanna hang out tonight? I know some of y'all are busy...

I'd love to, but I'm playing D&D tonight. As the only cleric, I am depended upon for my healing powers.

I kind of wish I had played D&D as a kid, but I wasn't friends with the right kind of nerds

I only played a couple of times in 7th grade (D&D) -- it bored me because I always wanted to do things outside of the parameters of the game. For instance: I had a character named Omar, and I decided to bestow him with Five Terrific Singing Donkeys, and I was far more interested in the lives and times of these donkeys than with battles and hit points.

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I did invent a roll-the-dice baseball simulation game, though.

A certain coworker overheared a Bjork track on one of DJP's delightful Spotify playlists and asked me who it was. I told her and she said:

You know who Bjork always reminded me of? Jewel.

Me, as neutrally as possible: Oh?

CW: Yeah, do you ever listen to her?

Me: No, but Jesse loves her.

Funny. Björk always reminds me of Natalie Imbruglia.

i heard "torn" at the produce market the other day, meant to tell you guys that

grocery store. more specifically.

Bjork reminds me of a never ending Xmas party.

I do not love Jewel, you coont.

SOME of us are going to a show at the Empty Buttle tonight. I'm DRIVING there b/c I'm going to RENT a car tonight for my and Courtney's big adventure tomorrow. We are going to fly high above you in an airplane.

can't go out tonight, watching the baby so sarah can go out tonight

I just remembered, last night I got stoned and put iTunes on shuffle and wrote song reviews.

Here is my review of Bjork's "Undo":

Vespertine is kind of incredible, to be honest.
It’s like her pre-9/11 dalliance with IDM and the
rapidly digitizing world. Like: rock and roll is
the sound of the Industrial Age, visceral stomps
and thick-armed labor and pounding upon
heavy goods, willing a human force onto them.
Whereas: this is a deliberate rejection of that
aesthetic in favor of the whirs and clicks that
animate a millennial-era international economy.
The nervous zeroes and ones quickly sucked
into office machines and zipped through wires.

That's a great album

I did invent a roll-the-dice baseball simulation game, though.

You aren't the only one pal. And prior to that I had created a roll-the-dice wrestling match simulation game.

Heeeyyyyy me and Jeff are on the way to the Bad Apple for a beer. Join us!

We watched the pilot episode of Louis last night and I LOLed and LOLed. Parts that I found particularly funny where his interactions with the field trip bus driver and the scene on the subway when he kept grinning at his date. That smiling bit was some well-timed classic comedy right there. The actor who played his date was a great straight woman.

Despite living in the area for like four years, I never managed to make it to Ola's on Damen until this weekend. What a crazy place, thats a Chicago institution. Saturday was such a crazy night. Started out just planning to meet a friend in from out of town for dinner at Cleo's, ended up wrapping up the night at some weird dance party in an empty loft near Roscoe and Sheffield.

i'm going to say this here so that i can resist saying something on twitter or elsewhere on ilx: i don't understand adults who feel the need to watch the MTV VMAs and then liveblog/tweet snarky comments about how dumb/annoying it is.

I don't really understand why people feel the need to do that with any sort of media, tbh.

I get it w/r/t really terrible movies, though I guess usu. you wouldn't be live-blogging them, just commenting in your own living room.

there was some request for photos of our wedding at some point iirc, so here's the url for our wedding flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ericandsarawedding. We got some amazing shots from friends and relatives.

Yeah, sitting in your living room with friends is one thing, but broadcasting it via Twitter or whatever reads to me like, "look how great I am, suffering through this awful pop culture event so I can be witty about how above it all I really am, while still appearing to keep my finger on the pulse".

I want to make a joke about keeping your finger on the pulse of the nation by putting that finger up the nation's asshole, which is MTV, but it all comes out as what I'm writing now.

omg! what a beautiful magical wedding!

I am reminded of a commercial on I don't know Comedy Central or something in which Janine Garaffolo says to a small child that if Eddie Vedder hated the Grammys so much He should maybe stay home instead of going and then telling everyone what a terrible time he is having. Or something.

The VMA convo reminds me of that, I mean. I canna see the Flickr pics of the wedding until I go home, but I'm looking forward to it.

Accidental divine capitalization retained bc it's amusing to me.

Lol "He"

Lol he lol he lol he

My head hurts. Except for when I am hung over, I never get head aches. They suck.

LOLOLOL: I forgot about some of the treats that Wolcott's early days provided http://www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet?boardid=77&threadid=65343&action=showall&bookmarkedmessageid=2878455

To be fair though, they are A-OK now, despite having a limited and boring beer selection.

for some reason I like their limited and boring beer selection, which is not a very me sentiment. but sometimes I just want a sierra nevada or a sam adams instead of having to choose from a ludicrous selection