Chicago MMXII

Are there any other musicians from the UP? Seems like a good place for launching a few Gordon Lightfoot types.

Why don't they retire to somewhere that is easy to get to via a major airport. And warm in the winter.

Pops hates cities. I don't know about the weather thing. They also often discuss moving to Montana (we came pretty close to moving to MT when I was in high school).

They are probably never going to move anywhere, but if I can get then closer to me as they enter their waning years, that will significantly reduce the stress and anxiety of caring for aging parents as an only child. Plus, getting them to move anywhere is more likely to result I them agreeing to move to Chicago when they need significant assistance.

Result in them moving to Chicago. Meaning it will break the current inertia.

FYI, Amanda, I typed that one with my thumbs.

Also iPhone wants to autocorrect "Yoopers" to "toilets."

xp to Eazy you'd think, but it kind of goes against the ethos of most who live up there (hard work, woods life, no artsy-fartsy non-practical pretentious stuff)

still, I can think of a few

the Walker brothers, of Gravitar fame
Bernie Larsen
Msrc "Sycamore" Smith
PJ Olsson

I'm sure there are other non-pop (if you can call Gravitar pop) musicians that I'm not aware of

(Jenny if you have any specific questions I'm all ears.)

I have two!
Is there an airport up there?
Is there a specific town that might offer a nice balance of hunting fishing blah blah for my pop and good places to eat for my mom?

There are multiple airports. The one in my (and Katie and T0mas and etc etc) hometown, Houghton, has 2 flights a day to Chicago and the one in Marquette has flights to the Twin Cities, Milwaukee, and Detroit iirc. I'm not sure about the Sault Ste. Marie airport, whether most people use the Canadian side or what. Cancellations due to weather are a problem everywhere, mostly in winter time.

Pretty much every town has plenty of hunting fishing blah blah blah so that's easily covered. As for nice places to eat one of the university towns (Houghton, Marquette, Sault) are probably your best bets. Out of those Marquette wins easily.

The video is upthread, but basically this lady opened a bakery in Humboldt Park then another one in Lincoln Park.

I thought the other one was in Bucktown, not LP. Regardless, she is gross.

carl, why North Dakota?? I've seen quite a lot of that state and it's not especially alluring.

I like the badlands parts of North Dakota.

http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/north-dakota/images/s/badlands.jpg

Jaymc, it was good. Thursday nights are usually low-key there and they have a brand new beer (or 2 or 3) every week.

whoa whoa whoa whoa
BAAAADLAAAANDS

FYI, Amanda, I typed that one with my thumbs.

Also iPhone wants to autocorrect "Yoopers" to "toilets."
1) impressive!
2) lol!

I like the badlands parts of North Dakota.

I didn't realize NORTH Dakota had badlands. Assuming they're in the SW side?

I thought the other one was in Bucktown, not LP. Regardless, she is gross.

Yeah I don't know, I p much tuned out everything else she had to say.

I showed the interview to my students and they gasped when she started to talk about crack.

would be p hilar if that video ends up running the place out of business

We can only dream, but like I said a fair amount of people have been defending her for "being honest" so I'm afraid it won't amount to anything.

Gravitar:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIgyPRRqb3s

Amanders and Nick would prolly like this the best, maybe jvc too?

xp I just went and looked at the youtube video of the interview, the racist trib-esque commenters have found it

her apology is really telling too

At the time I made my comments, I truly failed to take into consideration any historical, social, economic or political implications of my words. As an Australian immigrant that settled in Humboldt Park in 2006, I now realize that I spent all my time focusing solely on growing my business and my family, and, like many in society, I never took any time to develop a real understanding of the very community and the history of the people that I have had the fortune of living among for the past 6 years. In other words, I in fact lived "in a vacuum."

even when she was saying that she was a clueless privileged bougie, she couldn't resist adding "like many in society"

I spent all my time focusing solely on growing my business and my family, and, like many in society, I never took any time to develop a real understanding of the very community and the history of the people that I have had the fortune of living among for the past 6 years. In other words, I in fact lived "in a vacuum."
What does she think the people who lived in her neighborhood were doing? Not focusing on their families and businesses? Recreationally shooting each other and taste-testing crack?!

a friend told me today that he had an extra ticket to diamanda galas last night and wanted to invite me but didn’t have my phone number :(

Recreationally shooting each other and taste-testing crack?!

Honestly she probably did really think this.

I've heard maybe two gunshots in two years.

Hey, if anyone's interested, I'm opening for the Whiskeytown person who was not Ryan Adams tomorrow night.

Amanda:

http://26.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxql7kka8e1qbrs65o1_500.jpg

holy shit
loooooooooove the combinations of red, pink, green, and burgundy in that picture

Her outfit is perfect and she looks super pretty.

http://i.imgur.com/jKo1A.jpg

This graphic appears in the upper right corner of our on-line check stub page at work.

It appears nowhere else on the website. Just on the page where you look at your actual stub.

What a diverse trio of people presenting you your stub.

They are very young and good looking for public employees, that's for sure.

Those are the "Before" pictures.

The guy in the middle is leading a double life (left, right).

hahahaha

Afters:

http://www.funpeak.com/funnypics/old-lady-tshirt.jpghttp://aznbadger.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/crackhead1.gifhttp://infinitestatemachine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/crazy_old_man_1.jpg

ha. what is that middle picture from?
http://aznbadger.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/crackhead1.gif

It's Dave Chappelle's crackhead character, whose name I cannot remember. I just searched for "Dave Chappelle crackhead."

n/a stayed at my house on saturday and left pizza behind, which is the mark of an a+ houseguest.

awwww

LEFT BEHIND...PIZZA

The LaRouche wackos are out encouraging us to impeach Obamahitler to avoid WWIII.

Tyrone Biggums

(xpost)

omg you guys so I got an "action alert" from Planned Parenthood about sending an email to your elected rep about this completely bananas birth control thing, right? So I sent this ANGRY email all about how I'm tired of fighting for basic control over my own body and health and I'm tired of the Dems selling out women and using us as political bargaining chips and I'm suuuper tired of assholes in Illinois introducing bills that are hostile to women into the agricultural committee and I will NEVER EVER vote for another Dem who compromises on women's bodily autonomy, etc. Then I hit send and realized that we were recently redistricted into very pro-choice @nn3 W1ll1@ms's congressional district! And I felt so bad! So I sent her a second email apologizing for my angry email and explaining that I had forgotten she was my rep now and that I loved being in her district and that I would vote for her forever and thanking her for being pro-choice and supporting women.

And she called me!!!! In person! To thank me for the email and let me know that she thinks it's all bullshit, too (she didn't say bullshit, but came close) and that she's not supposed to take things personally in politics but it's hard not to when her colleagues are arguing that women are too stupid to make their own reproductive health choices and I am officially in love. <3<3<3

Thats awesome!

Between this and the really fantastic panel with J@n S. and M1k3 Q. that I attended on Friday, I am 3/4 satisfied with my state and federal representatives.

I should clarify, it was a rally in support of birth control on Friday (;_; that such a thing even needs to exist) and Jan and Mike spoke and they were both fantastic. I was always a Jan Fan, but MQ really, fundamentally gets it in a way that is rare among politicians IME.

J@n S. is the bomb.

God I know.

The one thing that was strangely heartening is that with all this trans-vaginal ultrasound nonsense, I got to see congresspeople saying the word "vagina" during a panel discussion that was being recorded by the press. That feels like a sort of progress amongst all the nonsense.

prepare to sing this in your head the rest of the day

http://breadfish.de