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

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

I get that. Not every place needs to be The Fountainhead or whatever, but they play it quite a bit safer than they need to. Regardless, it's a nice addition to that corner.

This reminds me that I'm really sad that Courtney isn't going to be living on Wolcott anymore come Thursday. I'm really going to miss having her there. :(

! where's she moving to?

Wasilla :(

Wait wut

J/k. She's moving to Belmont and Kimball. The commute to work was killing her. It will go from 60 min.+ to about 20-30 min. Still sad, though.

Courtney has kind of given up on ILX so I will speak for her:

She will live <1 block from the Belmont Blue Line station and across the street from a Walgreens and Aldi.

She's not thrilled, but not as bummed as I am, since she will be gaining a really enviable commute.

hmm well obviously that's worth it for the commute improvement

I thought you were serious abt wasilla; living in the boonies is what I do, so that's no big whoop

Yeh, and the new apartment is pretty sweet - freshly rehabbed, granite countertops, central air, dishwasher. so freshly rehabbed that google street view shows it completely gutted, and they are still working on some units.

Xp lol no. I feel like RP is less boonie tho.

Oh hey - when we took the plane tour on Saturday we saw a big smoky fire on Belmont around Damen or Lincoln. There was a massive plume of smoke. Anyone know anything about that?

I want a ludricious selection every single time.

^^^

I think I might have mentioned this before, but my mom and stepdad were visiting and they wanted to go to dinner somewhere they could "get a good beer". So we went to Prairie Moon in Evanston, which has a pretty solid selection of beers, lots of local stuff and items that get rotated in and out. Anyway, we get there, and they both order Miller Lite. Shrug. People.

Kuma's tonight. I'm going to have a hard time choosing which burger I want.

I bet you are so excited!

I am excited.

hb jvc!

ty!

Happy birthday!

I am very excited about Courtney moving to my neighborhood! We are going to hang out at Staropolska and get to know the elderly Polish men.

Should have made lunch plans for today.

Meanwhile, I'm living up in Edgewater for the fall.

(and happy birthday, j/v/c! Glad you're getting your Kuma-uppance.)

Thanks!

Happy birthday jvc! Your office should throw a popcorn party for you.

lol thankfully no

Chrome things "amongst" is not a word. But it is a word!

Pardon the personal announcement here:

The last Preacher screening tonight at Siskel. Contains large amts of gospel music and life affirming jolts of spiritual unity. 6pm.

I don't know, my junior year writing teacher mocked me in front of the entire class for using the word "amongst" xp

Q/A to follow (the one on Sunday was really lively, I expect a lot of questions this time too)

http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/amongst

Aw man... I can't make it tonight. I truly am interested though, so if there are further screenings of that film or any of his others, please remember me, and I think it's safe to say, announce it here, too!

They're going to be playing all month on the Documentary Channel, one a week through Sept! (Dunno if any of you have cable, prob not)

I have cable!

a·mongst   [uh-muhngst, uh-muhngkst] Show IPA
preposition Chiefly British .
among.

Chiefly British?? I don't think so, you bitch dictionary. Bitchtionary.

hey, nitsuh's article about the VMAs actually has an interesting address of my complaint yesterday about people being snarky about them:

Here's the thing, though, about reality and celebrity culture: They're pretty much devoid of wit. This is by design; it's a feature, not a bug. It's all built to allow us to be witty. All the humor and sublime ridiculousness of watching, say, Real Housewives comes in the commentary we pile on it and the jokes we're set up to make from it, whether on the couch or online. This is a huge part of culture that has basically outsourced the work of being clever or meaningful onto the audience. Something similar goes on with reality competitions (Idol), and even with Glee, which seems entirely built around the idea of dressing up in pop music, reveling in stagey imitation and bedroom-mirror theatrics. (I can't think of anything better suited to the earnest, overachieving contingent of Gen Y.) And at some point while watching this year's VMAs, in between laughing at other people's Twitter jokes, it began to look like this was what we have now instead of a pop mainstream — just people walking through an entryway that looked like a Georgia O'Keefe painting and smiling their way through fun theatrics for the audience to pick apart later. Apparently everyone's smart and savvy enough to have abandoned the idea that anyone could perform a piece of music, on television, that brought its own content with it, and surprised anyone, or motivated them, or freaked them out.

i don't mean a direct response obviously. it just works as a response.

in more exciting news ... sarah is reporting from home that it appears that at least one, if not both, of our upstairs neighbors are moving out. these are the banging-on-the-ceiling neighbors.

That article just made me want to listen to Lady Gaga and watch Glee.

YES fuck those neighbors! I hope wherever they are moving has lots of fire ants.

Man I remember the great feeling of relief when our psycho neighbors from our place on Augusta moved out, congrats.

Where did you live on Augusta? My place is on Augusta.

I used to live about two blocks east of Ashland, pretty much halfway between Ashland and the expressway.

Kuma's was fucking phenomenal. Well deserving of all the hype. I had the Mastodon, which was great. My wife had the Lair of the Minotaur, which might have been even better. I also splurged and got one of those 22 ounce Arctic Panzer Wolf IPAs. Amazing. As to the wait, we walked in and immediately got two seats at the bar, this was around 7 PM. There was about a 75 minute wait for a table though.