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

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we're back from indiana. fyi.

Microwave chicken wing man is a sweetheart and we could not bring ourselves to tell him that he had created an abomination.

Nick, you should be Jim Jones for Halloween next year.

i am not ready for the rawdog style, it is true

Nick, you should be Jim Jones for Halloween next year.

I support this costume idea.

i'll only be jim jones if someone else will dress up as the kool-aid man

Oh yeah.

maybe a little nsfw I guess

ugh having one of those "back to work after a day off" days where everything's piled up and hectic

ha I was just reading a bit from the Onion about "giant anthropomorphic glass container found at Jonestown suicide site" or something like that

i missed the halloween party this year guys
i didn't get my annual chance to brutally kill the piñata, nor did i get to wear a costume ;_;

I just fact-checked an article on Jonestown for work a couple weeks ago. It's super-fascinating. That documentary from a couple years ago was pretty good, too.

We just watched it last night! Nick's slight resemblance to Jim Jones is what made me suggest the costume.

I had no idea about the political connections that JJ made in San Fran or the scandal that prompted him to take the show down to Guyana. And I think I knew about the shootings on the tarmac but not the extent/o_O of it.

i watched it but i don't really remember anything about it aside from a few key images
honestly i thought the cult in marcy marlena mable molsen was going to be more bonkers but it was just kinda indie/confusing

Does that mean you didn't like the film?

(I haven't seen it yet -- was prob. going to go this week.)

i feel medium about it
it was attractive, but not really as substantial as i had hoped

How 'bout the creepy Almodovar movie?

haven't seen that one but would like to

My anticipation was tempered by the mixed reviews. There were lots of ads for it in Buenos Aires.

check out this cool chicago beer bar poster/map

http://www.upchicago.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/FullMapsmall.jpg

Nice. Only ones I haven't been to are Laschet's Inn and Resi's Bierstube -- but I'm not much of a connoisseur of German beerz.

i have been to the bierstube, it was fine
what's the one on the lower left? is that edgewater?

Oops, I also haven't been to Local Option.

xp Yeah, Edgewater Lounge. (Which I wouldn't necessarily have thought of as a "beer bar" -- even though they have a decent tap selection. Haven't been there in a couple years, though.)

Local Option and the two German bars are the only ones I've never been to.

I'm intrigued by Laschet's b/c the IWW headquarters is right next door. And yeah, "beer bars" is stretched a bit with Delilah's and the Globe imo.

Also apparently no one drinks beer on the south side?

I think the Globe arguably counts. Their bottle list is pretty impressive.

And yeah, I've never been, but Maria's in Bridgeport certainly deserves to be on the map.

I thought the MMMM cult was super creepy because it was hippie/indie enough to make members question whether it was really a cult, and whether their feelings about it were justified, or if they were overreacting. It was a good foundation for the main conflict in the movie (which I read as MMMM against her own brain).

Oh re Jonestown - 908 people died! That's a fucking lot. And a few ppl survived by escaping into the jungle but lost their entire families. Just fucking brutal.

I really like Local Option.

Let's go there sometime.

I'm in.

Which I wouldn't necessarily have thought of as a "beer bar"

i think it would be a good beer bar in the late 90s/early 00s but these days it's not really so impressive
i was wondering why it was on there tbh

I've been to all those except Latchet's Inn?? Never heard of it. So I will remove it and add Owen & Engine.

I'd also put the Fountainhead. There are some days they have the best beer list in the city.

Jennifer, what was the Jonestown documentary called?

Jonestown: The Life and Death of People's Temple.

(That's the one I saw; I'm assuming J + J saw the same.)

Ayup. That's it all right.

So J1m B3lush1 saw my rehearsal run today and gave an hour of great notes.

That's great, congrats!

Surreal having him and a former interrogator be the two people to see a run of the show so far.

he was in my hood?!

That's super cool, Eric!

Wow, that is cool.

Dan, I love the IMing cat so much.

Jenny, read the fucking IMing cat.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lu72opUiPE1qz9xg8.png

(That's the only illustration.)

http://louisvsrick.com/archive

when belush1 was giving you notes, did he preface every suggestion with "well, according to jim..."?

i kind of want to go to mcdonald's and get french fries

get yourself some fries then