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

there are a lot of things that you could be talking about but yeah

And rest assured that the last two seasons of The Shield will not let you down. Better ending than The Sopranos or The Wire.

I know! This is probably the fifth time I've been in this pickle and we're only on the third season.

Hearing about how awesome the ending is supposed to be is why I wanted to start watching it, actually. A series with a satisfying ending is so appealing. And it's a great show. Just tough emotionally sometimes.

For years I thought the relatively good cop was also the lead guy in Office Space.

Dutch? The detective?

Yeah yeah

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vs

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Oh I see that, yeah.

The wind is ferocious tonight. It sounds beautiful though.

just took the littledog on a walk to the beach to check out the waves and they are angry
she got scared and started crying when the water splashed up onto the boardwalk, so i left
it's pretty beastly out there!

amanda how was CAVE?

oh! the first opening band was really good -- three piece pretty straight ahead fuzz rock/pop with a countryish twist (http://www.myspace.com/jerusalemandthestarbasket)
the second opening band was not as good as i had hoped (chandeliers) and had a huge synth setup but no real songs, was kinda hipstery but not terribly boring
at this point i left my perch b/c i had to pee and someone took my spot, so i just went to the front for cave, which was a good idea
i stood with a good view of the drummer (this always keeps me entertained vs standing and looking at someone's back) and he was like a machine, that guy has some kind of superhuman endurance
i think whatshisname from drag city was standing in front of me, didn't really matter that i was alone because it was super packed and i couldn't have talked to anyone anyway
they played for about an hour and then there was some DJ thing but i left

overall, a pretty good experience except i must have been standing next to someone who was coated in cat hair because i sneezed the whole time, and the whole way home but wasn't sick (with a cold) when i woke up

the end

ugh, I've been sick (with a cold) since tuesday and I wish it would go away

me, sarah, and evie all have colds right now. mine hasn't been awful but of course it was worst yesterday, the one day this week that i couldn't stay home (most of the people from my work were at a conference yesterday so there would have been no one to cover the library).

i rarely get sick, but when i do, it's inevitably during a time when i can't stay home from work.

kind of tempted to take a make-up sick day tomorrow

do you guys have any recommendations for books about chicago politics? the only one i've read is "boss" by mike royko

There Are No Children Here is more sociological than political but Kotlowitz discusses the political decisions that created the social issues he writes about,

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aka Why Block 37 stood vacant for so long.

i guess i'm thinking more old-school politics but those look good too

TANCH is just so good, although it will make you furious at Daley Sr.

there is a book about daleys, i bought it for my dad but i wonder if he ever read it

ha jenny i thought you were talking about a different book called Tanch. i tried to find it on amazon.

"huh that's a dumb name for a book."

(dutifully enters "Tanch" into amazon search field)

If you like old-school mid-century American big-city politics, you won't do better than Robert A. Caro's The Power Broker.

So n/a I'm guessing you ordered this:

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lol

There's this really good book about Chicago politics called BURBLEFARTPFFFFBT. Look it up.

A look at backroom politics in the waning days of the Daley Sr. administration:
https://www.printersrowbooks.com/images/t/33-6382-PrimaryImage.image.ashx

This weather makes bus commutes take so long ;__;

But why? Lesbie once told us it was bc more people were driving and busing instead of walking and biking. I guess?

I was at the hair salon today and while having my hair washed (and so not wearing my glasses) a total jaymc-shaped man wearing jaymc-esque colors who also had total jaymc hair sat at the sink next to me and the woman complimented him on his fantastic curls and he said, "Why thank you!" in a spot-freaking-on jaymc voice. It was so weird. He might not have looked that much like you, John, but god damn he is your height and weight and has your hair and your voice. It was weird.

(I knew it wasn't you because he immediately started talking about his 15-month old son (who has his hair as well) getting his first haircut earlier that week.)

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Jenny

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jaymc

:(

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JAYMC

Haha I grabbed that brownish area by its points!

^OMG, I totally just watched that episode last night.

i didn't call in sick today but i should have because it's really boring around here. listening to fela kuti until the library opens.

Nick, hey: Bob Newhart is performing at the Horseshoe Casino tomorrow night. xpost - we were posting at the same time - it's a sign!

would love to see him but probably shouldn't spend the money.

bob newhart's teeth are hard to look at these days

Uh....?

Does anyone have any opinions on microfiber sheets? I don't understand what that means.

i like his craggy face but his teeth look like they are made of plastic
it's unseemly
sorry bob newhart

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.aoltv.com/media/2010/11/bob-newhart-getty-250.jpg

They look like dentures.

i don't begrudge him anything, i just find it hard to look at, like obvious plastic surgery

when i try to think about celebrity deaths i might actually feel sad about, he's one of them (mitigated by the fact that he's pretty old).

Yeah, will be sad when they go, but Newhart and Rickles, those guys have had full lives.

And freaking Dick van Dyke -- still around!

I wrote biographical entries for Newhart and Rickles for work this year. Fun stuff.

newhart's success was relatively late-coming, right? he was in the military and then had some boring job for a while before going into comedy, iirc.

dick van dyke has done some pretty bad stuff but the dick van dyke show is classic and he's always seemed like a good dude.