Throw on Your Best Cardigan and Celebrate Fall 2011 with the Gays of ILX

I just have a black WFMU hoodie (gangsta) but generally wear it at night

Hooray! I can wait for the intercampus shuttle at 6:25 a.m. and not feel sweat dribbling down my sides.

do you Americans actually call them puffy vests?

unless Damon Albarn wears one /1995

Sorry, he meant puffy chesterbockershire

sorry i meant to say "swollen waistcoat"

Chicago is killing it with this Indian summer. This week has been perfect, and it looks like it's just going to continue.

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But we'll pay for it later: Chicago area expected to endure worst winter weather in nation

i need it to be 60's in october.

i wish i had ur winter

Our great September has notably not extended into October at all.

I hate these high 70s. I don't know what to wear.

as little as possible

http://thisdistractedglobe.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/Chinatown-1974-Perry-Lopez-Bruce-Glover-Jack-Nicholson-pic-11.jpg

"As little as possible."

afuckingmen

Soto, did you design the Marlins stadium's new I-don't-know-what-to-call-it on behalf of Red Grooms?

saw the most magnificent gay creature at lunch just now wearing a tiny green t-shirt, the tiniest jean shorts one could possibly wear before entering groin country, and turquoise alligator boots, carrying a gemstone-studded heart-shaped purse. AND he was deaf.

umm that OUTFIT

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l84ngsRA8U1qdr4qso1_400.jpg

AND he was deaf.

http://blogtown.portlandmercury.com/images/blogimages/2009/08/18/1250636422-shut_up664.jpg

altho the boots with shorts like that might be a problem tbf

he had gams to spare

thinking of going to some services at one of the buddhist temples around here

i might be going to a lecture at the gnostic society here this month (uh, hence this DN, kinda)

theosophy's choice

Andrei Bely's Petersburg is a really great novel and has tons of Theosophist symbolism, you should read it

Guys I am in the middle of the worst date I've been on in ages. Which one of wants to call me with an urgent emergency?

In addition I am stoned and *unbelievably* hungry ("let's get dinner" turned into "come over my house and watch TV with my friend and I")

I would call you if I had your phone number! Sorry. :(

Hope you found a way to get out of it. I am having a date with my textbooks in a futile attempt to catch up on readings.

Happy birthday to Corey!

yay, corey

Mad eout with a really hot but superdunk boy at the gay sports bar a couple hours ago. Gave him my number cuz I have to be back at the Film Fest at noon.

superdRunk, u probly figgered

What's the gay sports bar called? Nice work, Dr. M.

There's more than one.

ah! Happy belated, corey!

yeah happy birthday dude

hb corey!

happy birthday, corey, and congrats, Morbs.

Oh man, guys, awful date story:

Was talking to this dude on Scruff, he is redheaded and bearish and way cute, and we both seem to be into each other and we're texting back and forth all day, and we make plans to get dinner around 4 and "see where it goes". I text him at 2 just to verify the time/location, and he calls me and asks if I can just meet him at his place at 6 and we can walk to the restaurant (vegetarian soul food!) from there. Okay, no problem, just text me the address. Which he doesn't. So I text him again at like 5 asking where I'm meeting him, and then I call him at like ten of 6, and he doesn't pick up. So I just sort of wander around and then find a park to sit and read in, and finally at 6:45 I call him again. He picks up, he's so sorry, he just got in and he left his phone at home, here's his address, give him a few minutes to straighten up and swing by, also something about his friend coming over to hang out. I go over, it is now 7, he lets me in and it's him and his friend sitting on the couch watching TV (where there's a show that, according, to the DVR, has been paused at the 20 minute mark). Him and I talk for a bit, he seems nice but maybe sort of dumb and juvenile and into his own affectations and bad at being funny (Dylan McDermott's ass was on screen at some point and he felt the need to point and yell "man-butt!", or he would drop an obvious one-liner and then say "but ANYWAY" and then laugh at his own joke). So instead of, like, getting dinner, we sit around with his really boring friend and talk about whatever and then head to a bar to meet some other friends of his. Boring friend at apartment leaves, dude and I chat for a few blocks and meet his friends at the bar (I think it was 3 of them plus one's sister), and all get a table outside. Apparently he keeps the kind of company that thinks it clever and amusing to refer to the black female bartender as Shenaynay. I mean, I knew pretty soon in that this guy sorta sucked, but yeah. Ugh. So we're all sitting around talking, and by "we" I mean him talking to one of his friends and the other people talking to each other and me sort of just sitting there. This went on for about 2-3 hours. I jumped in a few times but I mean this dude was totally and completely ignoring me. Like, I think he looked at me maybe 4 times the whole night, and we had one conversation that maybe lasted 30 seconds and he kept sort of going "uh huh" and glancing away. I even left at one point to go get a slice of pizza because I was so hungry after the dinner that we never fucking had. I was pretty pissed but stubborn enough to endure it on the off-chance anything was going to happen (even though it pretty clearly wasn't). Finally we're all heading out and he somehow has the audacity to give me the big hug and the whole "have fun on your trip! Stay in touch! I'm in Philly a lot, I'll give you a call!".

Like, it's not that I'm pissed that I didn't get any D, because duh sometimes people just don't click. It's something that we were, you know, supposed to have established early on, one-on-one, at a 4pm dinner that would let me go about the rest of my evening. It's not that he was mean spirited, per se; he just seemed incredibly dumb and lacking respect and maybe bad at giving a shit about other people. I sort of really want to send him an angry text.

OMG LOLHUEG BODY OF TEXT sry

I can't believe you stayed as long as you did.

You didn't type that whole post on your phone, did you?

Yes. I did. I can't believe I stayed either.

I can't believe your thumbs held up long enough to post all of that!

I've been having thumb problems off and on for the past couple months - slight numbness, aches - and I'm pretty sure it's due to a repetitive motion injury from thumb-typing so much plus mostly using the track pad on laptops for mousing.

I'd have slipped out and just left

He was really, really cute though.

stevie, def tell him off

i mean, tbh, you're using the internet to date. get used to it.

(not that i don't empathize. just being realistic over here).

Stevie you should have gone to that DJ Dogdick show I texted you about- or joined me at Occupy Baltimore- but where cuteness is concerned all bets are off- "the beautiful ones they hurt you everytime" like Prince sez

also i want to apologize to you on behalf of Baltimore, I swear this town can be ridiculously fun but this weekend is just some kind of harmonic convergence of great weather but nothing truly rad going down

I am feeling the burn from a lol huge new tattoo on my other flank, holed up with papers to grade and lectures to write

yeah stevie, DJ Dog Dick would have been a better option.

the tat looks amazing, drew.

hbbdc!

I got done at like 11 and I was gonna go but I was cold (t shirt/no hoodie/low 60's and windy) and my phone was about to die and I just wanted to go home

Also I was totally considering stopping by Occupy last night! Damnit.