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

wiseman challenges you to find him boring as he visits the “best nude dancing show in the world,” as they rehearse and perform a new titillating show called Désirs, staged by famous French choreographer Philippe Decouflé.
http://www.chicagofilmfestival.com/films_and_schedule/movie.php?show=crazy_horse

$20/$16, though, kinda steep!!

I always regret missing Wiseman films when they're on the big screen.

i've seen a bunch of them that way and i am convinced it is the only way

do all of the iphone users on this thread use at&t or are some of you on verizon? we're going to upgrade eventually and trying to make sure it makes sense to stick with at&t (i think it does because we have a cheap family plan that doesn't exist anymore but they indicated we could keep this plan if we stay with at&t).

I'm on AT&T, but I've heard from someone who switched to Verizon that the coverage isn't quite as horrible as AT&T's. Fucking AT&T.

Test have shown that verizon has better coverage, but AT&T's network is speedier. At least when it is connected. Who knows how the new antenna design on the 4s will function though.

i don't think that's true? there was a youtube video of the guy who made it putting it together piece by piece. it was one guy and i didn't recognize him from MM. unless there's a new theme?

on one episode maron announced that that guy released an album based around the wtf theme, i.e. all the versions and remixes of it. i thought of you.

oh hey jaymc, i did your penguin puzzle last night! the first one anyway (flipped through the rest and haven't found the other one yet).

I too am going to the optometrist tomorrow. but not to any of the ones mentioned by you guys.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/06/how-much-will-the-iphone-4s-plans-set-you-back-on-sprint-verizo/

If you're comparing plans.

thanks - we're probably just going to get the new cheaper iphone 4, not the 4s. looks like at&t is still the most cost-effective

L|66y bought an iPad this spring (why???) and she hates it ("It is impossible to use and it constantly crashes," "crash" = her credit card expired, an app forgot her password) so I'm hoping we can work out some deal in which I end up with an iPad.

that's like how sarah's mom bought a new powerbook because her old dell was so full of random photos that it basically wouldn't run anymore, but she'd never had a mac before and she was intimidated by it or didn't want to learn how to use it so she let sarah's sister borrow it for like a year and kept trying to use her ancient dell.

Argh, yes. L-word has never, ever used a Mac before, but she keeps making noises about how her friend said they are just so intuitive and stable and blah blah blah, and I just pray to Maude that she won't make the switch. Unless it means I get a free-cheap Mac.... But man, it's a terrible idea.

I tried to dissuade her by saying that the law-related software she uses a lot wouldn't work on a Mac, but it turned out the friend who recommended Mac is a lawyer. Dammit. Normally I can just say things and she'll believe me.

Tell her the govt keeps files on Mac users or Mac users are 147% more susceptible to car jackings.

A certain person in my office complained of his iPad, "It has too many buttons."

My dad won an iPad from his work a few months ago and still hasn't taken it out of the box, I'm not sure how many more hints I can drop.

He also asked me yesterday if I could put a five-page printed document on his iPad and make the font bigger. I was like iPad? I have no idea how those work. Too many buttons.

(Not really but almost. I told him I had no idea. He asked if there was a way to scan it and I said I really didn't know anything about "scanning.")

Hahahaha.

You said "he" so I guess it's not your co-worker who thought her iPad was missing a button? What was it? Backspace?

I'm imagining you all scanning the screen of the iPad.

This holiday season at work is going to be balls-to-the-wall. I've worked here over 4 years and we've never had a case go to trial, but this year we have three that are almost certain to make it to trial, the first one starts Oct. 31, the next one the Monday after Thanksgiving, and the last one on December 19. COME ON!!

makes me so mad that those people have ipads i don't. i believed in a righteous god until i read this thread. now i believe in nothing.

In 2007 we had a case that settled a week before trial, which was also scheduled to begin the Monday after Thanksgiving.

STFU Nick, I'm talking now.

OK, what were you saying?

Said coworker's former client, in an attempt to work off some of his legal fees, jailbroke his iPad in some entirely incomprehensible way so homie can't connect it to a computer or risk losing all of his The Band mp3s and his iBooks that he doesn't know how to turn the pages for. It does give me an excuse to shrug and play dumb when he asks for help with it.

oh hey jaymc, i did your penguin puzzle last night! the first one anyway (flipped through the rest and haven't found the other one yet).

Nice! The other one is #41.

"crash" = her credit card expired, an app forgot her password)

love this

2x

The construction that has been going on outside my office for several weeks just got intense. The building has been vibrating virtually non-stop since mid-morning, with occasional thunderous crashes shaking the light fixtures and my computer monitors. The vibrating makes me feel dizzy, like I have been hyperventilating or inhaling light paint fumes.

NB: I'm not shit-talking her too much. She is terrible at technology and she's an odd bird, but she's been really good about advocating for me, paying me a fair wage, and being flexible and understanding.

I know jaymc doesn't understand, but that Steve Jobs thread was bumming me out with the people being glad he was dead. Like I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means (don't even own an iPhone), but it bums me out when someone dies young of cancer and people can't even give it two hours withing being dicks.

i think there's just a divide on the purpose of RIP threads, some people want them to be respecting tributes and positive rememberances and others want them to be more of a discussion of a person and their life, good and bad. there's always a conflict on this, i remember it in particular on the RIP michael jackson thread.

or some people are just sad sacks of dicks and nothing will ever change it

Yeah, I know it always comes up, and honestly I know its kind of ridiculous to expect people not to be dicks on the internet, but it doesn't seem to be the time or place for it.

i think there's just a divide on the purpose of RIP threads the Internet

On ILX, there is inevitably going to be the posts of "I, who do not mourn this way, do not respect your mourning."

Or "Your mourning is stupid because the person was just (a public figure you never even knew, an evil monster, self-destructive, a jerk sometimes)."

I wish I could read my RIP thread before I die. I'd like to see both sides of the argument.

Maybe just quit being such a jerky, self-destructive evil monster.

OH GOD I THOUGHT THAT WAS JESSE'S POST!

You are none of those things and I would never call you those things, even in jest! Holy smokes, I'm really sorry!

Jesse OTOH is a complete dick.

Jeff, I have an apology whoopie pie* for you that I am making a major effort not to smush.

*not a euphemism**
**unless you want it to be

i'm sorry to say this but
lol

RIP Jenny: it's sad, she was a how ironic that her need to control everything controlled her

Jon, sorry if my comments last night were frustrating to you. I actually have no personal interest in being snarky or dickish on RIP threads, but it doesn't bother me when other people are. I guess because it makes the thread a more interesting read for me. Nick OTM about the divide re RIP threads.

I was very bad at the internet until I achieve a bit of emotional detachment.

John, I wrote a long-ish post to you and I'm scared to/about you post it b/c it sounds like I'm criticizing you, but I'm not.

And emailing it to you would be weird.

Uh, so, I'm going to post it.

Preface: I want to tell you that everyone likes you and I don't think you're being a frustrating ding-dong anymore.

John, what has been frustrating about your challops is that I've always read your "idgi" statements as you asserting that you genuinely are unable to fathom a concept that most people take for granted - not just that you think the concept is curious, or that you think differently, but that it is utterly foreign to you. Last night you conceded that you were "being ridiculous," which I took to mean that you were strange-ifying something pretty normal in order to learn more about it. Strange-ifying is great and when framed as such can be an invitation to conversation (especially when stoned), but when put forth as "Yeh, but WHY? Why do people do _______?" it's alienating and it puts the listener on the defensive.

Chris P. used to give me the rage with that kind of statement. He insisted that he just didn't get why gym bodies were considered hot, or why people liked orgasms (actual examples that made me really dislike him for a while, but we're pals now). I tried saying stuff like, "What I'm hearing is that you are questioning why people put so much emphasis on getting of when there is so much more to sex blah blah blah...." but he was unyielding.