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

Ty Segall at Bottle tomorrow!

Jesse, Abortney, K8-e, and I are going to a play about vibrators. But not tonight. But it is playing tonight.

Have you told horseshoe?

sounds positively stimulating

xp Before anyone gets the wrong idea, she recently said this about the playwright of that play:

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh what is she like i am mildly obsessed with her

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oh i thought you were making an xposted joke about george clinton and cameo at the horseshoe casino!

I haven't told horseshoe but maybe she'll read this and find out!

I tweeted about this play and am now having a slightly uncomfortable twitter exchange about it.

i have given up on twitter

nick do you want to see cave with me on the 15th?

maybe, i'll have to look at our calendar at home.

sarah tried to go see them that day when they were supposedly playing on the back of a flatbed truck driving from logan square to wicker park down milwaukee, but they never showed.

ok think about it
at the hideout -- i haven't bought tix yet or anything
anyone else who wants to come is welcome too, i just know that nick likes them

the video of that flatbed truck thing is great

did i tell you guys that that tiny protest outside the federal reserve bank i mentioned a couple of weeks ago is apparently the chicago branch of the occupy wall street thing? they've been out there every day, though usually no more than 10 people at a time. sometimes they're playing drums.

at first I read that as nick cave was playing the hideout, had to backtrack and figure things out

I know a dude who was getting involved in that protest, kind of surprised me because usually he just posts slacktivist shit on facebook and stays home

lol john. jenny please review the sara ruhl vibrator play after you guys see it! jealous.

Drum circles give me bad flashbacks.

Nick, when does Sarah get back? I miss her.

xp ha I read "Nick Cave" too.

oh i thought you were making an xposted joke about george clinton and cameo at the horseshoe casino!

I did too and was confused.

sarah and the bug get back on tuesday afternoon. i miss them too.

Nick is good. Cave is good. Therefore, Nick Cave is good. Logic.

George Clinton is doing a play about vibrators on the back of a flatbed truck?

That playwright is pretty divisive among theater folks. I've really liked the plays of hers that I've seen, and have plans to see that one with two sapphic pals.

lol john. jenny please review the sara ruhl vibrator play after you guys see it! jealous.

Okay! I'm excited. Star Trek convention this Sunday, vibrator play next Sunday, and roller derby the Saturday after that. :D

i like nick, i like cave, i like nick cave

cave in, however... not so good

(imo)

n/ick c/ave

Eric, why is she divisive?

I think a lot of it that she received big productions and a Macarthur genius grant fairly early in her career, so there's some player-hating. Some folks find her whimsy annoying--the same kind of stuff that gets leveled at Miranda July, as far as (in my opinion) misunderstanding a playful approach as somehow being cute.

To add to the confusion, there are also two Nick Caves: the Australian musician and the American "sound artist."

Nick cave has the same bday as me. Even the year.

Was going to mention that other sculptor and designer Nick Cave. Weird, or maybe pragmatic, of the guy not to change his name.

ha i thought they were the same guy - doesn't help that the sculptor makes "sound suits," which sounds like something a musician moonlighting as an artist would make

http://www.giantrobot.com/blogs/eric/uploaded_images/R0035360-756780.jpg

Vagina.

All joking aside.

Pardon me for doubting you, but I have trouble believing that you are as serious about vagina as some of the rest of us.

...

it kinda seemed like no one was up for hanging out tonight but i'm just putting the idea out there one more time before i decide to:
1) go to the show at the empty bottle
2) go to a bar and watch baseball
3) sit on the couch and eat macaroni & cheese until i essplode

I want to not go out. I want to HANG out tho.

I'm gonna hang w/my bro 2nite.

We're in for the night. It's all video games and ham and bean soup 'round here.

Aw, Nick, I would've brought you to the avant-garde music performance I went to, across the street from the Hideout.

We hung out at Courtney's place and hung out and watched Real Geniuses.

I've been on the go since 7 a.m.:

- Helping with Courtney's nesting
- Brunching (Golden Nugget - is that still brunch?)
- Picking up mirrors from Ashland Mirror and Glass in K8e's car, dropping of at home, then returning car
- Buying clothes, fabric, sundry Home-Depot-ery
- Diversey bus to my building
- Alighting bus, crossing street, boarding bus back to Logan Square
- Watching stuff on TV
- Belmont bus home

Just finished 2 hours drilling 4 holes in mirrors while watching Archer re-runs.

Full day!

Nicky, do you like Archer?

I had a full day yesterday, too. Taught class, ate a goat taco, went to Target, did laundry, leveled up all my Final Fantasy characters, made ham and bean soup.

Today is Star Trek Convention Day.

Have you all been reading Rick Tealander's series about Englewood in the Sun-Times? It's pretty good. Eight parts so far, starts here: http://www.suntimes.com/sports/telander/7817531-452/can-basketball-help-derrick-roses-englewood-neighborhood.html.

I enjoy going through the comments and marking all of the racism as hate speech. Well, I don't enjoy it, but it feels like I'm doing my civic duty.

Oh wow, comments are being moderated. How long has that been going on?

Drilling these screw holes in the mirrors is a pain in the ass. Each hole takes about 15 minutes. You can't drill faster than 350 RPM and you have to stop every few minutes because the glass and the drill bit get really hot. It produces a very fine glass dust that looks like drugs on the surface of the mirror.

I hope that the stuff they use to make mirrors reflective isn't toxic because when it releases its own dust and when it heats up it creates whisps of smoke.

I learned a good deal about handling glass today, but the knowledge cost me a fair amount of money and I'm at square one on the mirror project. But I successfully Ikea-hacked some shelves and I'm a couple minutes from sawing my TV stand in half and reassembling it. It's another long and busy day.

But I'm lonely. DOES ANYONE WANT TO MEET ME AT 7:00 FOR FOOD AND BEER?

Maybe, let me know where you're going. I already ate one banh mi and I've got another in my pocket.