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

I recalled that he threw the cup in the trash and it was stinking up the kitchen.

And then you made him throw it in the Dumptser.

And then you made him throw the Dumpster in the river.

Its kind of nice to work right in the middle of all of the Columbia buildings down here, every walk to lunch is like a living lookatthisfuckinghipster tumblr!

Also, while eating lunch, the two otherwise normal appearing grad student types sitting at the table next to me had a lengthy conversation in which they kept referring to their "human friends".

People are weird.

what? who are their human friends?

For some reason that reminds me of one of the last times I ate lunch out while at work. I was at Salonica cafe and across from me there were two guys, one of whom was complaining about his food. He had a gyro and said it was too greasy... like OK YOU ARE EATING A GYRO THIS IS THE WAY THEY ARE. DUDE.

what? who are their human friends?

I was more concerned with figuring out what THEY were then. The way they were saying that made it sound to me as if they believed (or were pretending) that they themselves were not human and needed to differentiate between their "human" friends and their "whatever the hell they were" friends. Vampires? Aliens? LARPing nerds?

wow, that's truly fantastic i guess

It was like, "oh yeah, that guy I was telling you about, Peter. Yeah, he's one of my human friends", so casual.

The first thing I thought was that they might be very into animal (non-human) rights and they were avoiding specist language.

I prefer to think that they were actively living in a fantasy world

Definitely!

maybe they mean as opposed to internet friends

Demoted from human status is pretty raw ;_;

maybe they mean as opposed to internet friends

The only acceptable description in that case would be to call them "my irl friend".

guys the answer is obvious if you wear the glasses

http://www.impawards.com/1988/posters/they_live.jpg

yessssssss

i am getting reading glasses later this week (i haven't worn glasses regularly ever)
p excited, especially if they allow me to enter a fantasy world

not fantasy world ... reality

Rowdy Roddy's glasses allow him to see reality, man.

XP!

I sort of felt disappointed in myself for not immediately thinking of They Live after reading jon's story.

That's in our Netflix instant watch queue. Jeff has never seen it!

it has one of the best fight scenes of all time. i need to watch it again, didn't realize it was in netflix instant. maybe i'll make sarah watch it.

Would be a great one if we can ever party at the Ebert screening room again.

i've never seen that either! recommended and also on netflix instant -- "cult of the damned" on netflix (and not actually as smutty as this trailer promises)

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

Oh, I only knew that as a Morrissey song.

I've never seen They Live either!

omfg I forgot to transfer off the Purple Line. Evanston here I come!

I have never done this before. I mean, I've ridden the Purple Line express but never by accident.

And extra LOLs at it happening when I'm supposed to meet someone who does not have a cell phone.

The woman across from me has been praying the Rosary the whole ride. Maybe she forgot to transfer, too.

This trip will take on a nightmarish quality if I forget to get off at Howard, too. Or if I get on the Skokie Swift by mistake.

I'm near the end of the Skokie Swift line right now. Ditch your phone-less friend and come join me.

I'll go tell the person you're meeting that your going to evanston instead. Then we will eat pie together.

I called the bar to have them pass along a message. I guessed ten minutes late but it's more like 20. I kind of wish you would go, Jeff. I feel like an asshole.

20 minutes? Call the bar and have them pass along a massage.

And I flagged the least aggressive cab driver in Cook County.

What time were you supposed to be there?

Seriously my Mom Mom drives more aggressively than this. Shit, I drive more aggressively than this.

I'm definitely going to be picking up the pie bill.

6:00!!!!!

I'm still in Evanston!

omg wut

You might deserve some spiced gumdrops after all this.

Hahahahahahaha! Jenny I'm so sorry!

I mean no way, right? You weren't still in Evanston?? Awesome tale either way.

Looollllll no! Here is the message I tried to post immediately after had I not been thwarted by bad cell reception:

Just kidding. I'm three beers deep at the Northdown Cafe.

This trip will take on a nightmarish quality if I forget to get off at Howard, too. Or if I get on the Skokie Swift by mistake.

Imagining you on the Purple line, pulling into Howard muttering "C'mon, c'mon," then cutting to your face as it dawns on you that you boarded a Union Pacific NW Metra train.

xp - ha

I thought that first message posted so I put my phone down and imagine my surprise when I picked it up and it was like "NO INTERNET YOUR MESSAGE DID NOT POST YOUR FRIENDS THINK YOU'RE IN EVANSTON, GENIUS."

I'm home now. I've had beer and dinner and pie. All is well.

I did totally get shafted by the cab driver who drove me to the bar from Howard. Don't have enough change my ass.

Glad you were not stuck in Evanston too long. It seems like a lot of the cabbies that venture up that far north pull that "no change" bullshit, its happened to me on a couple of occassions.

Finally started watching Breaking Bad last night, three episodes in so far and OMG WHY DID WE WAIT!?!?

Pay those asshole cabbies with plastic.

Yeah, except in Austin, where apparently the cabbies are allowed to refuse plastic. I was incensed dealing with the cabbie that took me back to the airport. At one point during our exchange he threatened to hold my luggage in his trunk until I went to get cash.

This asshole cabbie told me cash only.

I'm never leaving city limits again.

Yeah I mean, I know its technically illegal for them to not take your credit card, but, uh, good fucking luck when you're stuck in the back of a cab with a driver berating you and threatening you.