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

I did not actually venture into the life-threateningly frigid waters of Lake Michigan, no. Just a pier. The pictures were all shit. I'm doing something wrong, but googling advice on taking photographs of stars always ends in "get a telescope, go to a mountain in Hawaii." Unhelpful.

Commutes are super awful right now because of that Lake Shore Drive construction, supposed to be over on the 18th though.

Speaking of which, have any of you been following this project? Supposedly they are creating some "movable barriers" at the median that can be pushed aside by big trucks to create escape routes during situations like last winter's blizzard. The thing I don't get is, how are they going to get trucks to these locations when both directions are clogged with blizzard traffic? It doesn't make sense to me. Its not like LSD has shoulders running often enough for vehicles to drive down.

Sarah Jendra with Navteq traffic has been reporting 1 hour from Hollywood to Balbo all week.

Jon, in Snowmageddon, only the northbound lanes were blocked.

Regardless, my first reaction was, the city will find a way to muff up a rescue.

I enjoy the stories behind the photos as much as the photos, K. Both are aces.

this is interesting:

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/sarah-jindra/5/941/145

I think I love her.

for you logan square-area people: advance base is playing at saki on sunday at 4 pm.

sorry

what happened?

reading about saki just makes me realize that I'm old, uncool, and out of the loop on music

Oops, what I meant to say was

Sarah Jendra with Navteq traffic has been reporting "Mmmnnnmmmone hour from Hollywood to Balbo all week." She always starts making noises before her mouth opens. Her voice box is ahead of her jaw.

i ended the discussion with my self-promotion.

Though the couple who own it are a bit older than us (albeit they also run one of the main indie music-distribution companies).

you can be in whatever loop you want
maybe you're in your own loop
"music" is a big place

i feel out of the loop because i now can't listen to music on my phone or on the old shuffle and my headphones are breaking too so i don't have any way to listen to music on my commute and our computer has been in the shop so i haven't bothered downloading anything new recently or really listening to much music at all. read about stuff on pitchfork the past couple of days that sounds interesting though. and someday soon we'll be getting a new record player needle in the mail and sarah moved our stereo setup on to our bedroom dresser where evie can't get to it so we'll be able to listen to records again.

i don't really care about the loop so long as i am entertained
honestly, what loop are you guys talkin about?!

i feel (a small amount) of (self-imposed) pressure to "keep up" with new music, mainly because i don't want to miss out on stuff that i might love. that is "the loop" to me.

i feel out of the loop because i now can't listen to music on my phone or on the old shuffle and my headphones are breaking too so i don't have any way to listen to music on my commute and our computer has been in the shop so i haven't bothered downloading anything new recently or really listening to much music at all. read about stuff on pitchfork the past couple of days that sounds interesting though. and someday soon we'll be getting a new record player needle in the mail and sarah moved our stereo setup on to our bedroom dresser where evie can't get to it so we'll be able to listen to records again.

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going back to this tl;dr post, do you ever feel like everything you own breaks down at the same time?

eh it's still going to be there even if you miss it initially
so much fragmentation within "new music" even makes me just kind of like what i like (at that particular time) and ignore the rest because who cares

but i don't have this pressure you're talking about and also i am not musician, so i guess that makes a difference. i give myself free reign to be ignorant.

it often seems like everything goes wrong at once, yes

in fact, i am on the tail end of that atm!
you guys should be so glad i don't share too many personal deets here. it has been grim.

i don't think it has anything to do with being a musician, it probably has more to do with my self-perception as a music fan and my attitudes as a consumer in general, since i'm kind of the same way with books and movies too - it's easier to monitor a stream of new entertainments, filter out the ones i'm interested in and stay on top of those. ha i just realized this is how i deal with work too. hmmmmm.

I know exactly what Nick is talking about, since I feel the same way.

yeah i could have guessed you guys were alike in that way!!

I get most of my new music from curated spotify playlists.

Did anyone else see the snow earlier this afternoon? There was one big, short, and really pretty flurry.

i didn't see any flurries but i did run this morning and saw some flakes
perfect weather for outdoors running btw

Jon, in Snowmageddon, only the northbound lanes were blocked.

Yeah, I knew the northbound ones were the problem ones, but I thought there was some issue about getting rescue vehicles down the southbound ones too. Anyway, seems like they should have started this project before now.

It was actually just flurrying here in the south burbs a few minutes ago! Now it's almost sunny out.

I was driving back from a job site in Aurora and, for a good chunk of the drive, it was sunshine and flurries.

do people have today off? or is everyone just being quiet?

I'm just super busy at work today.

trying to finish the bulk of my work by 2PM so I can surreptitiously watch the usa-france friendly :D

I have today off. As do Jenny and Malortney

i was in class teaching people

I'm super busy playing Scrabble. I shouldn't even be on ILX, really. No time.

i am ready for the weekend. i have both fun social activities and quality relaxing-at-home time scheduled.

I'm busy at work with last night's Latin Grammy Awards.

well this is completely fucked

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-video-shows-man-being-punched-at-red-line-stop-amid-laughs-and-taunts-20111111,0,5079572.story

not gonna watch that but thanks for the heads up
yikes

huh that same site "worldstarhiphop.com" had a similar video of kids taunting and then punching a woman but it was in cali i think.

Hey ILS, I'm about 15 mins late, sorry. If you are ordering food go ahead, I ate at some weird hour earlier

Lesbian-owned Marbles thrives in down economy

Oh, I've met her -- she's v. nice. But I have often wondered how that company stays afloat.

Oh good. Somebody revived the thread so now I can tell you that our work Xmas party (put on by an org of WC lawyers that we get to attend for free) is at Excalibur. Oh my LOL.

I'm having flashbacks to '90s-era commercials on Q101.

My one time playing experimental noise on an electric guitar was, oddly enough, at Excalibur.

did you know Excalibur has "a large hotel-calibur kitchen"?

I'm not even sure what that means.

Hey, buses are going to start taking debit/credit cards:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/8857969-418/cta-oks-plan-to-pay-fares-with-credit-debit-cards.html

Also, they are going to film a season of Mob Wives in Chicago... (side note: I absolutely abhor the style of feature writing in this article.)

http://www.suntimes.com/news/8853688-452/mob-wives-coming-to-chicago.html

(And not just because of the "I don't watch these shows but my WIFE sure does! HIgh heels, right ladies?" nonsense.)

"a large hotel-calibur kitchen"?
looool

women
be
gossipin