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

n/a yeah, we have a house, although I do get kind of nervous because our neighbor's houses are like 4 feet from ours and we can always hear their arguments, so I'm hoping our crying baby isn't too audible. We're a ways away from sleep training though, he's a little young yet but I've been reading a book about it.

(Sorry for the baby sleep derail)

I really wanna go see CAVE since that was my soundtrack for my flights to and from Austin this week, but its not gonna happen. Maybe Black Iron Prison will go and tape it.

lol at Evie's angry gibberish

I get song bits stuck in my sleep deprived head or more often, visual movies of visual media or even books. Just frantic, repetitive visuals. Drives me nuts.

weird, mine aren't visual at all, almost always auditory
brainz!

I get both. I had the Pitbull Excuse Me song going so bad I didn't sleep well for a couple of days.

One time I couldn't sleep all night because my brain was featuring it's own six hour movie of Pride and Prejudice.

It is a horrible feeling. Helpless and desperate. Thank god it doesn't happen much. I feel like there must be a good drug that would short circuit the feeling?

I had the Pitbull Excuse Me song going so bad I didn't sleep well for a couple of days.
See, that is what makes me think that they are mind control devices.

hahaha

http://www.freakingnews.com/pictures/66500/Britney-Spears-in-a-Tin-Foil-Hat-66733.jpg

i think i only get songs. i also recently had the same thing with "illegal smile" by john prine.

i heard "uncertain smile" the other day in TJs and it was really weird

yeah, when i got song loop insomnia i know my brain just is not going to settle down, and it's time to go in the living room and read on the couch.

so i just went and talked to our new upstairs neighbor, to be apologetic about evie's crying as we've been trying to start out the sleep training and warn him it might get worse over the weekend. his response? "oh i hadn't noticed ... we're pretty deep sleepers." feel sooooo relieved!

Great news

Yay! That's great. Your new neighbors rock.

I look forward to more transcripts of Evie's hilarious rage-babble.

I wonder if this means they're opium addicts.

I look forward to more transcripts of Evie's hilarious rage-babble.

This

I wonder if this means they're opium addicts.

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Whatever it takes.

I think I'm going to pass on Cave, Amanda.

*avoiding easy joke*

Easy joke.

I guess the new iPhone came out today. This was at 7:30 this morning at the store by my house.

http://i.imgur.com/bh3dO.jpg

Oops. Meant "Eazy joke."

There is pretty nothing I'd ever want enough to line up like that in order to get.

(I did, however, camp out overnight for The Phantom Menace tickets when I was in college. This may play more than a small part in why I don't want to wait in line for ultimately disappointing things.)

i skipped school ONE TIME in high school and it was to sit in line to buy tickets for a cure show. was not as fun as i expected it to be.

Occupy Lakeview ^^

This can probably go without saying, but skipping school for Cure tickets is infinitely cooler than camping out for a shitty Star Wars prequel. But it was actually fun, particularly when this dude pulled up in a souped up car with a crazy sound system and started blasting this:

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/Star_wars_and_galactic_funk.jpg

that would be awesome in any circumstance, really

True.

I did, however, camp out overnight for The Phantom Menace tickets when I was in college.

I did, too, but only b/c I was writing a creative nonfiction piece for a class.

(I did, however, camp out overnight for /The Phantom Menace/ tickets when I was in college. This may play more than a small part in why I don't want to wait in line for ultimately disappointing things.)

I'm sorry. I LOLed, but with you not at you.

I stood in line for 6 hours for a Fugazi show once. Other than that, fuck a bunch of standing in a line for hours.

I waited in line for last years iPhone. Only about an hour and a half though.

Courtney and I stood in line for about 3-4 hours to get Amy Sedaris to sign a book. We really didn't know it would take that long otherwise we never, ever would have done it. But by the time we realized it was going to take forever, we had already been put in so much time that we (I) didn't want to give up.

in case you guys don't read chicagoist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElzPZNSdd5w

(poor guy)

I think we were there for 5 hours. I remember it started at 7pm, and I remember being at the bookstore at Midnight, thinking about how I had to be at work at 7am.

Oh man, the blind kitty! That right there is a bullseye for nut job commenters! It's a little pitiful b/c anything about a blind kitty is going to be that way, but it doesn't seem mean in the least.

Yeah on one hand I felt bad for laughing, but on the other it's acting on instinct and is damn cute.

I feel like whether they're blind or sighted, 99% of cats are confused and curious about stuff like wind and permanent parts of their surroundings, which they suddenly notice exist.

Hey y'all!

The spiritual group my wife and I sing with are going to be in a concert at the DuSable Museum on Nov 5.

http://www.dusablemuseum.org/events/details/john-work-chorale-50th-anniversary-concert-and-symposium

(obv that is the John Work Chorale, not us)

Please swing by if you can? I don't know yet if we will be free for meeting up afterward or not; I just wanted to get the info out there.

Cool, Dan! I'll try to make it. I'd love to see you perform.

I'll be out of town, sorry!

i'll be here, will put it on calendar!

wait so you're at 7 pm or 12-4?

wait nevermind
singing from 12-4 sounds exhausting

Heads up to those interested: the DuSable Museum is in Hyde Park.

OH GOD THEN I AM NOT GOING

(j/k i know where that museum is, doi -- not 100% sure i can go but i will put it on my calendar to consider)

Ugh, I know that was dumb of me to mention, I just wanted to say it b/c I know some people don't have cars, etc.

Doesn't everyone know where the DuSable Museum is?

It's the Willis Museum.

That's the edgy Je55e we love!

Whoa, wait what?

I'm afraid now that I said something offensive when all I was doing was making fun of Jeff for standing up for the Willis Corporation's name rights.