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

Those were the days… when we hung out with a bunch or dorks from Metafilter.

for so long i thought it was gateburst block but then i saw the website and i learned
i learnt

jesse i don't know if you know him or not, will take off board

hey what's the supernumerary thing, Jenny? email me!

also nice pic kenan, I figured all that smoke was going to lead to some nice sunset images

Emailed!

i would like to see swans someday

How about THURS-day?

Go to the children's zoo.

I don't care who he is, LL, I just want to know if I can stand close to you guys.

Anyone interested in this movie?

http://www.siskelfilmcenter.org/wheresoldierscomefrom

Made by someone from my hometown, amazingly I don't know the director or any of the cast. It's getting great reviews, I might try to go next week.

(k8ie's hometown too obv)

Yes.

Jesse and I already discussed attending aforementioned movie.

Speaking of movies, we watched The Two Escobars (http://www.the2escobars.com/) last night and it was really good. K8s you should tell M@tt about that one. It's also about soccer and Colombian drug cartels.

Friends, lawyers, librarians, lend me your ears and some money. Can any of you help me find the rock bottom cheapest source for a Bureau of Nat'l Affairs publication? ISBN is 9 7 8 1 5 7 0 1 8 8 5 8 9. I've tried Amazon and such, but I was hoping some of you reference book sluts might have some tips. Thx.

i pretty much just use amazon to buy everything, sorry.

something was filming in sola this morning. lots of blacked-out windows, big professional lights, guys drinking coffee on the sidewalk, etc.

why are you guys being so boring?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Elr5K2Vuo

haw

I am listening to Blood Sugar Sex Magik for like the first time since about 1994.

POWER OF EH-KWAL-UH-TEEE

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/292894_638009443777_197600439_33338857_1299166706_n.jpg

what a weird sink!

something was filming in sola this morning. lots of blacked-out windows, big professional lights, guys drinking coffee on the sidewalk, etc.

At Fountainhead, too, actually. Maybe part of the same shoot?

I am super unmotivated today. Like, way more than usual.

What are they filming?

I still need to see transformers.

i didn't ask what they were filming

i wanted to listen to BSSM a couple of weeks ago to see if i still liked it like i did when i was 14 but it wasn't on spotify and i didn't have enough motivation to look anywhere else. mostly i wanted to listen to the embarrassing sex jam sounds of "sir psycho sexxy"

maybe it's nostalgia but it seems incredible that the same band that made that album (some of which I found I still really like) also made the no good, terrible, awful albums that followed

now listening to freaky styley btw

ha yeah it's one of those "did they change or did i change?" things, especially because their sound hasn't really gotten much different, they just seem a lot shittier these days. kiedis has always been a questionable lyricist but his lyrics on the newer songs i've heard are abominable, just like lists of random rhyming words.

Jeff, I want to see Transformers, too. Will you be my date?

Before you answer, let me tell you something: I just spent 90 minutes creating customized dynamic stamps in Acrobat, which involved figuring out and writing a little bit of my own Java code!

(I did this to get around the fact that Acrobat is missing a really obviously useful tool - INTERACTIVE stamps. I mean, come the fuck on.)

I originally came here just to brag about my Acrobilities.

It's funny how no one cares about that.

Superman is what they're filming!

Wow. Some of that is filmed in the building where Lesbian works, too. Superman is going to be full of locations that mean something to me.

I am considering sleeping on a couch at my office after the Swan's show tonight instead of coming home.... No one will be in before 11:00.

My office is only about 1/2 mile from the Bottom Lounge and I wouldn't have to get up early. Good idea y/n?

i think the Swans show is actually next Thursday? ergo it is a bad idea

I am extremely dumber than hell!

what would you do without me

WTF!

I was just getting ready to shower, and then I was going to go buy my ticket at the venue b/c Ticketweb pissed me off. I'm really glad it's next Thursday and not today! I am slightly broke and also sleepy tonight.

Re Ticketweb: They're payment system is really fucking flawed.

Say you're buying $30 tickets. If you incorrectly enter your billing address or CV code, they decline the purchase, but still put a hold on your account for $30. When you correct the info, they charge you $30, but not in connection with the held funds, but in addition to them.

I have worked jobs involving account holds and that is not how it is supposed to fucking work.

When I started explaining the problem to a CSR on the phone, he cut me off b/c he knew exactly what I was talking about. He said he hated the system because "half my calls are about this problem."

In my case, you make another typo, and so you have TWO $30 holds and ZERO tickets before you see the transaction alerts from Chase. And the holds last for 72 hours.

we use ticketleap for fire tickets, it works really well

or at least it seems to, I have no idea how the money side of things happens

I guess I should be grateful b/c if the transaction had been successful, I would have spent a couple hours dicking around getting to and from the venue for nothing.

jesse i am so glad you didn't do that.

Thanks. Sorry if my text confused or alarmed you! (my text to her was "all is discovered; flee at once")

it was fine -- i was at the end of my class, and about to bike home. i was worried that i had screwed up the date in my calendar.

Speaking of purchasing tickets for things...

If you wish you had a special event to attend this November
and you think affordable, accessible healthcare for women and transpeople in Chicago is important
and you have $65 to spare
please attend the Chicago W0men's H3alth C3nter's first ever big party funtime fundraiser!

When: November 10, 2011
Time: 7:00pm – 10:00pm
Where: Greenhouse Loft, 2545 W. Diversey Ave., Chicago, IL 60647

You can buy tickets online here - http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/186189 - or contact me if you want to purchase them through mail or from my hot little hand.

If you wanted to do something philanthropic that involves booze, food, and silent auctions, this is the best bang for your non-profit, annual fundraiser dollar you're going to find. Do it! DO IT!

I will be there. Will you invite me from your calendar?

Ticketweb added another hold, this one for no discernible reason. They don't know why. I am going to contact the FTC (and Consumerist?) about this.

Will you invite me from your calendar?

No, I don't use Google calendar. But I'm excited you are going to the event! Courtney already bought her ticket and the rest of you want to be as cool as Courtney and Jesse, right???

I'm not cool yet bc I do t have a ticket yet. Incite (ha leaving that typo) me through whatever calendar you use an then we can start negotiations.