Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

for the record, I am mostly anti-child-molestation, but man... sometimes those anti-molesters just carry it too far.

-- kenan, Wednesday, January 2, 2008 1:06 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

Precisely.

That mostly lame Bill Hader guy from SNL has a bigger laugh on the Knocked Up commentary than anything in the film -- in character as Vincent Price, he's asked his views on abortion. "I'm against it, but I like to watch if it's going on."

Gem from lunch:

coworker - So, (husband) and I took the kids to Starving Rock over the holidays.
me - Oh really?? Did you get lots of hiking in?
coworker - I don't give a FUCK about nature!!! I'm all about luxury. My mom raised a 5 star girl.

(So apparently there are resorts at this park so you don't have to go outside at all. Also, I must not be a 5 star girl)

(Make that Starved Rock)

Carrying it too far in either case would mean harming people only indirectly involved in an act (abortion, child molestation). Burning down a child molester's family's house would be going far, as would burning down a church that endorsed a anti-abortion candidate. These are fake examples, but still.

Jesse, you do understand that it's possible to be in favor of legal abortion rights and yet think a fetus is something more than a goldfish, right?

S's coworkers once again proving why they won't survive the eventual downfall of society.

I have an idea! Let's argue about abortion!

Morbs, you weren't really making that point. You were suggesting that "fervent lesbians" (wtf??) are an example of the absurdity of the pro-choicers.

Plus, what one thinks of a fetus should have no bearing on a woman's right to choose what she does with her own body. If you believe in the right to choose, then what does it matter what what you think about what a fetus is?

whatever you do, do not GIS "abortion." Safe search be damned. Just don't do it.

citizen ruth is good

If you guys would like a pallette-cleanser after this abortion talk, consider this: the best promotional photo ever.

http://www.avclub.com/content/files/images/Nick-Lowe.article.jpg

Wait wait... Morbs actually watched an Apatow movie? Man, I've been away too long. I miss everything good.

how else could he effectively hate on it?

that did not bother him for quite a while.

haha fervent lesbians. i think i know a couple of those. i kinda miss living in the House Of Fuck Me.

right, because dr. morbius would never talk shit about a movie he hasn't actually seen

xpost to eric: How is it that most people get old and gross, yet Nick Lowe just gets cooler-looking? It's not fair, damnit.

so now we have an abortion debate and doc morbius on movies ... maybe i'll actually get some work done this afternoon

oh, here's a fervent lesbian story: friend of my friend was on the rebound, picked up a girl, had enthusiastic sex that was SO intense that her hookup ended up in the ER after throwing out her back.

http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/3175/hatersball03300019xc.jpg

A fervent lesbian believes in eating pussy deeply.

xpost--whoa.

sorry, that has nothing to do with Thrivent lesbians

http://www.lushtshirts.co.uk/images/products/throw_lesbians.jpg

hookup was a perfectly healthy 20something. (she was fine in the end)

by which she means that she has a really nice ass

was she fine in the front too?
DAMMIT

hahahaha I thought to myself "I will duck before refreshing, because I can see Kenan's response coming a mile away"

HEY - what is the area around 61st and Woodlawn like? I am asking as a directionally challenged middle class-looking white woman who would be on foot around there after dark.

of course!

dammit xpost haha

That's right near the Press! Not somewhere I'd want to be, necessarily...

nick gets the point. His was zingier.

I mean, he scores the point. If you see what I mean.

Some people have a way with words, and other people... not have way.

streetview suggests that it's not exactly picturesque.

what are you doing down there?

shut up, k, you're both funny.

Weird. The streetview pics look like they were taken at dusk. Or dawn. Uncharacteristically dark.

Racist!

I prefer my neighborhood -- it stays white out later.

LOLz.

On further exploration, it looks like there was a storm brewing. Also uncharacteristic--it's usually only sunny on Streetview.

I was looking up somewhere else on the South Side, and it also looked like dusk. It is sort of racist, on Streetview's part at least, to do that part of town at the end of day.

Thanks, Dan. Worker Justice Inc. wants me to attend a discrimination clinic on the 10th and give a workshop at the aforementioned location on the 9th and I'm trying to come up with a better reason for not doing the workshop than "I will not spend four hours on each of two consecutive week days doing things that are unrelated to my own precious free time." Which isn't to say that I'm not longer on board with worker justice, just that the new director has some boundary issues when it comes to the level of what he thinks my involvement should be. (Me: a couple of workshops/clinics/trainings a month; Him: once a week for four hours plus whatever additional workshops/clinics/or trainings he might need me for.)

It's mostly residential down at my end of 61st, but on Woodlawn there are some gas stations and stuff. It's not flat-out dangerous, but I don't think I'd be too into strolling around a lot after dark. The Green Line at 63rd looks like some kind of elevated prison from the future.

Here is what I sayeth: "Hi Ad@m, I can't make both the workshop on the 9th and the clinic on the 10th. I think that the timing, location, and my lack of car make the workshop a little too logistically challenging for me, so I will just see you on the 10th!"

It's one thing to jump on Metra and get there after work, but then another to get home on the northside from there at about 8:30, 9 pm. He doesn't seem to grasp the whole "I'm a lawyer now and work a regular schedule" thing.

"North of the Plaisance and you've got a deal."

The Press (60th/Blackstone) pictures on street view look dark, too, but the sky is very overcast and streetlights aren't on, so it isn't necessarily night-time.

xpost: not a bad deal, honestly

HEY - what is the area around 61st and Woodlawn like? I am asking as a directionally challenged middle class-looking white woman who would be on foot around there after dark.

that's about two blocks from here? i would not want to be on foot alone after dark around here. even though i am every night. what time will you be here?

my yearly attempt at mustache/beard growing has coincided with a head cold so blowing my nose is an adventure. never sure if the kleenex is getting it all!

I won't be, thanks to my assertive nature and protectionist tendencies w/r/t my leisure time.

xp Kevin that is kind of disgusting.