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

also: umbrella music fest, chicago
http://www.chicagoreader.com/gyrobase/umbrella-music-festival-avant-garde-jazz-berne-halvorson/Content?oid=4922308&showFullText=true

considering saturday at the hideout or sunday at brain

oh snap, i'm going to be out of town this weekend or i'd be seriously thinking about going to see the Mary Halvorson Quintet on sunday. don't know anything about her but she was part of the group playing sun ra pieces at jazz fest and she totally shredded.

i'm playing at the hungry brain with advance base in a few weeks btw. probably said that already.

Man, we moved so much during those crucial years that I was always the new kid. Being nerdy and into suitably nerdy things never helped very much.

She and Joe McPhee did an improv duo on WFMU a few months ago and it was really great. I hate to be missing this festival. xp

You're right Nick about bear. How quickly we forget!

I had some great moments in middle school, but also most of my most embarrassing moments. Let's forget about those.

I rocked the Debbie Gibson look in 7th grade. I began my love affair with school dances. I had a birthday sleepover at a cabin in the woods and didn't invite my bully or her best friend, even though they tried to scare me into inviting them. And it was an AWESOME TIME. My buddy rapped all of the Humpty Dance as we gathered around her feet.

sorry wmc :( the good news is that without exaggeration, there is almost always some weirdo jazz/improv thing happening in chicago on any given week.

Dan M look at these Great Danes: best animal friends

squee

just went and gave our guy a good ear scratch/face rub because of that

That is pretty fucking adorable, Dan.

I'm going to give you a good ear scratch the next time I see you.

Junior high wasn't terrible for me. I had a lot of friends who were similarly into band& choir, theater and being smart. And then my parents took me out of the country for 8th grade. So, that helped a lot.

I'm trying to think of truly mortifying moments. Oh, Summer Mathews told the entire shop class that I wasn't wearing a bra, yet. That was upsetting.

I should have google proofed that. Oops. She's actually quite nice.

All those people looking for DMB tour dates will stumble on it in six months.

i don't think i really noticed jr high while it was happening. i was really into anime and only had a few friends but i was happy in my bubble. my freshman year of college i ran into someone who recognized me from junior high and she told me that i was "famous" then. i still have no idea why, maybe it was just because i was weird and withdrawn?

I wrote an espionage thriller in the 8th grade called The I.E.D.S. of March, got in trouble for bringing The Hotel New Hampshire to an open-reading English class, played the captain in an almost all-girl production of The Sound of Music; parents had just gotten divorced; I took the Mpls equivalent of the CTA bus to school; long winters, as I remember; inner-city public junior high, but can't complain.

I'm back. The past 7 days have been a terrifying whirlwind of PDFs, paper, and crushing deadlines. But I got 10 hours overtime and I haven't had time to spend any money, so that's nice.

Yesterday I put 2 and 2 together and realized that Liggy's co-counsel in her trial is the former boss of the current Pr3s1d3nt3 of our nation. I talked to him about He described BHO as "blindingly talented," and more ambitious than anyone he's ever met and a super nice guy.

What an odd sentence that turned out to be.

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

Just to remind folks! Please come if you can!

Hey speaking of, is anybody going to DJP's awesome looking concert in a car and if so would you be able to give me a ride home?

Your group goes on at 7?

Yup! Should be a good show!

well alright then, will see what i can do

have to miss it because we're going to ... nashville indiana!

nashville! indiana!!!

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet dooooooood

Okay which would you do if you were me:

1. Take a personal day tomorrow.
2. Go to work and get a head start on some future deadlines.

1? Or 1 and do a little work at home.

I don't work at home anymore. Not for this total clown town of an operation, anyway.

I'll have an early-afternoon lunch or beer with you if you take the day off.

They want me to take a day off tomorrow to avoid overtime, but I have a ton of backed up work to do before the tempest of trial Thanksgiving weekend. I'm choosing work.

go to get a head start and then goof off for at least 1/3 of the day while you're there

I've pretty much decided to go especially since I ended up staying late and chatting/bonding with my boss so it's going to look fishy if I take a last minute personal day.

Mid-afternoon matinee of Harold & Kumar 3D, just sayin'.

Ha!

Jenny, you asked me onceif I own a Dremmel tool, and as of today, I do.

I was just testing it out, using a cutting disk on a piece of glass, and IT CAUSED THE GLASS TO MELT! Why I lived the last 11 years without a Dremmel (my ex-bf burned out the motor on my last one), I just don't know, but I will never live that way again.

Dremmel's are fantastic tools, but I haven't had one since my motor burned out in grad school.

I would like a Dremmel.

Jeff! That's what I want for my birthday. A Dremmel. Thank you.

(my ex-bf burned out the motor on my last one)

Oh. Oh my. You know, you are only supposed to used the normal, custom-fitted attachments, right?

I could really stand to borrow that, though, jokes aside. I have a computer that is essentially a giant (very, VERY heavy) brick, because in transit some card or other became unseated, and now it won't boot. And there's a circular keyhole on the side, and no one one has a key. I would pay you real green money to drill that stupid lock out of my computer, so I can get inside of it and jiggle a couple of cards around and make it work again. Totally serious.

After watching the season 1 finale of Breaking Bad last night, I recommend thermite. I know I'm late and jumping on an already full bandwagaon, but this show is phenomenal.

Thermite would burn the shit out of everything. I just need a broken lock.

After watching the season 1 finale of /Breaking Bad/ last night, I recommend thermite. I know I'm late and jumping on an already full bandwagaon, but this show is phenomenal.

Welcome aboard!

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/cutehedgehog.jpg

tee hee!!

i guess i don't care much about breaking bad because we've been meaning to watch season 3 for months now but haven't gotten around to it yet. we've been watching a ton of "peep show" on hulu.

_(my ex-bf burned out the motor on my last one)_

Oh. Oh my. You know, you are only supposed to used the normal, custom-fitted attachments, right?

But remember the fuck saw?

You may use my Dremmel, but a drill would work just as well.

You'll all be glad to know that I did go to work today, got ahead of some deadlines, took a slightly long lunch (extra 15 minutes), and am leaving early.

Congrats. I took a long lunch, with wine, which Liggy bought as consolation for losing at trial :(

I'm leaving early, too.