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

I have cable!

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preposition Chiefly British .
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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.

Yay! I'm so glad you were able to get a bar seat so quickly.

Diversey Pkwy retail report: the place next door to Chipotle and Bank of America that used to sell hair and skin care stuff is going to be a Sally Beauty Supply. Meh. Could be better, could be worse.

How could it be worse?

I go to Sally sometimes. I was there last week for a clipper guard.

I'm glad it's at your end of diversey.

Yeh you're the lucky ones - you get all the sweet shit like a Mini dealership and luxe condos.

Was the red line all jacked up for anyone else this morning?

Hey can somebody resize a picture for me? I have no tools for the job.

send it to me.

I'm more likely to buy a mini than I am to got to Sally's Beauty Supply.

In better news, we're getting a fancy cocktail place a little ways south on lincoln. Assuming it isn't annoying.

Done! Thanks, boo!

I like Sally Beauty Supply.

Maybe you should move in with Jesse then!!!

Maybe I will!

If you do, I can give you all the tuna you can eat.

yo, free oatmeal shake from Irazu: https://admin.scoutmob.com/chicago/deal/1302

today is a day where i would like to leave work and go see a movie

I would like that too.

i suppose i could theoretically go to a movie after work

WHICH ONE? I WANT TO GO SEE LOS TRANSFORMERS.

naw. i still want to see revenge of the rise of the bride of planet of the apes even though jenny said it was dumb but it's not playing at the davis and i don't feel like going anywhere else. kind of vaguely tempted by fright night but i'll probably end up watching baseball or eastbound and down at home.

it was pretty lame

you are pretty lame

no homo

you guys

why haven't you been working scaring up a boyfriend for me?

i would go see transformers but since i didn't see the first two i'd probably be lost re: character development, overarching plot, recurring themes, etc

BOOM
POW
BLANK EXPRESSION FROM YOUNG WOMAN
YAY

that's all you need to know about transformers, i think

You know what's weird? I randomly saw the Latino ex-Sandwich Artist who gave me his phone number working at the gyros place where I picked up my lunch today. I happened to still have his phone number, so I texted him: :D

He responded "Who is this? TRANSFORMERS"

That was weird and I don't know what it meant.

Did you identify yourself?

If only I had been allowed to watch Transformers as a child, I could make some kind of Transformers penis-related joke here.

for some reason that is making me laugh a lot

Little did my parents know in the 1980s the ways that their religion would hold me back on a message board 30 years later :(

i'd autobot his decepticon

roadrunner? i hardly know 'er!

Are you in love with modern moonlight or aren't you?

underwater moonlight sets the body free

i have no idea what you guys are talking about at this point

I was talking about this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgRYncR1Nog

Can't speak for anyone else.

i thought you guys were talking about transformers

They were. I was not.

played roadrunner at my wedding, it was the best

Is Roadrunner a Transformer?