Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

why should i go to flosstradamus?

other than:

(a) you have been at home with yr family for 4 days get out already, christ
(b) hey girl! ;D
(c) it is the holiday season

(NB i haven't heard them. and i have to work tommorrow :-/ )

I feel like such a slacker being here only 2 days this week and not doing much work while I am here (for there is none to do!)

And then following 2 days of slacking on the clock with a 4-day weekend.

I wish I didn't have to work on Monday. :(

Me too, and really mostly b/c I know I would just be sitting here watching Youtube and reloading ILX for 8 hours.

So yesterday we learned that Dominick's has pretty decent pizza. Today's discovery is that Sbarro (at least in Jenny's building) serves a mighty fine breakfast. I got an egg white fritata sandwich on focaccia and possibly the most delicious sausage I have ever sunk my teeth into.

weird

i used to eat at sbarro all the time when i worked on taylor & damen. the options over there were pretty limited and i never had to worry about anyone wanting to tag along or bring them back something when i'd say "i'm going to sbarro for lunch".

also, i used to get coffee in jenny's building every morning.

hi guys
i'm back
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2026/2143160359_860b4f61e1_m.jpg

i did not miss the internet at all while we were away.
if you're super bored at work you can look at our photos.

Yeh "Sbarro for lunch" is not a phrase that makes many mouths water. But believe me when I tell you that the breakfast was *quite* nice. I want to know what that sausage's secret is. It was a link, but it was more the size of a brat. So fucking good. It begged for maple syrup here at the office, which I did not have, so I dipped it in honey and the thought of it just made me drool.

Hi Amanda, I am going to look at photos now.

They're not that great because our camera is a piece of crap and kept running out of batteries, but whatever.

We had no intestinal issues at all, but D caught a terrible chest cold and I've had a sore throat for 7+ days. Yay.

Dan likes to point at things.

looks like you guys had a good time! sorry about your diseases.

i'm venturing into new podcasts. does anyone listen to the sound of young america?

kevin can see flickr at work! finally!
2007 has been redeemed.

new job, new rules.

also, i desperately want to be in mexico right now.

Fuuuuuuuuuuck. I wanted to go see that Star Wars exhibit at the Museum of Science and Industry, but it looks like the rest of the run is pretty much sold out.

This Sports Night is pretty entertaining, isn't it? Someone lent me the series on DVD. At this pace I'll finally see The West Wing in 2011.

I like it, but it might be hard to watch again b/c the Sorkin style has been done to death by now. Six Feet Under dude and Felicity Huffman are good.

(that said I've, like, never watched the West Wing)

i hated sports night.

how bored am i at work? this bored:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srm-BDfy9G0&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wvz0BFnWlAQ&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPHyvWGuf9g&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVjzd320gew&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg1oszADX04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=peLD2vlxRM0

I'm working at that same pace, E. (Speaking of which, I don't think I realized that your man Cr@1g Wr1ght had such a big title on SFU.)

Also, I think Horseshoe is a fan of Sports Night.

speaking of, what happened to that girl? i emailed her a couple of times and she never wrote back.

lololololololol

xpost

I watched the cats. And I read comments.

horseshoe is 'around,' she pops up on the noize board and ilovenfl but maybe is avoiding ILE or the chi thread?

horseshoe is in florida where the sports bars are open air.

Grrrr Sports Night. That's the show the ex used to watch to torture me.

great photos, amanda!

those of you that saw "i am legend": would you say it's more or less or the same level of scary as "28 days/weeks later"?

Somewhat less. But not as good a movie.

After killing the teenager, the tiger followed a trail of blood left by Kulbir Dhaliwal about 300 yards to the cafe, where it mauled both men, police said.

Four officers who had already discovered Sousa's body then arrived and found the cat sitting next to one of the bloodied brothers, police Chief Heather Fong said. The victim yelled, "Help me! Help me!" and the animal resumed its attack, Fong said.

300 yards? imagine being stalked almost a quarter mile by a fucking bengal tiger? most interesting part of this to me "The victim yelled, "Help me! Help me!" and the animal resumed its attack, Fong said."

badass.

much less, there's only one scene that's actually scary.

stories like that keep going to the zoo exciting!

The Last Guy on Earth (2006)

A long line of women -- including Joan Cusack, Elizabeth Hurley, Whoopi Goldberg, Carol Burnett, Shelley Long and Yasmine Bleeth -- can't keep their hands off goldbricking landscaper JJ (Rob Schneider) when he's the last man left on Earth. Joan Rivers, Delta Burke, Talia Shire, Phyllis Diller and Brooke Shields also star in director Jim Fitzpatrick's comic update of the 1964 classic Vincent Price film based on Richard Matheson's novel.

whaaa?

Talia Shire!

I think I found I Am Legend scarier than 28 Days Later because I saw the former in a high-tech theater and saw the latter at the Village North, so the middling sound and picture quality gave me a little more detachment. Did you like Legend, J.?

John, yes, C.W. was a big part of the last two seasons of Six Feet Under. He created the new show on ABC with Krause and Sutherland too.

I could see getting worn out by Sorkin after a while since it's all got the same voice and the same rhythm, but I'm into it for now.

Yeah, this was better than I expected. The infected people were corny as hell, they were like bad Lord of the Rings monsters (esp. the lead dude). The ending (and how the meaning of the title was flipped) was Hollywood-ized, but I pretty much expected that. Everything else was surprisingly well-done.

I really want to see Last Man on Earth again.

-- Jordan, Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

Loved the scene where he's looking for the dog in that dark building, pretty tense stuff.

That scene is off the hook. The dog is the best character in the movie.

-- Jordan, Thursday, December 27, 2007 2:51 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

I forget if we talked about this last week, but Will Smith and the dog make it almost a two-people-in-a-room movie.

True!

I didn't like the woman, nor her unnecessary kid. Esp. since they didn't turn out to be zombie spies.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MXYhn2Wwxhs

cat and dog

Not a common cat vs dog video!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pUWd4j2T-RQ&feature=related

poor dog

lol @ tortilleria amanda

Amanda! Could you get any cuter? I do not think you could!

LOL Mormons

What the hell is it with them and shaving?

me: i'm listening to kevin drumm

Jesse: why are you doing that?

me: to see if i can
it came on right after kenan's mix
and it's called "the horror of birth"
and i think that's kind of hilarious
it's really dreadful

Jesse: sing along

me: brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeekkkkkrrrrrrrkkkkkkkk
vvvvvlllllllllllllllleeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

sounds like burning star core to me

I changed to Kraftwerk about 30 seconds after I replied to Jesse.

I am drunk in Chicago. Chicago has also fed me well with foods from a variety of lands. Chicago will also be getting me tattooed tomorrow if all goes well.

Thank you Chicago, even if you are super goddamn cold.

lol conventioneer