Chicago MMXII

LEFT BEHIND...PIZZA

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

Tyrone Biggums

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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

did u eat the pizza jordan?

i had a fun little trip. the college kids in minnesota were just ADORABLE. there was a lindy hop going on in the same student center where we played and everyone was dressed up in their fake flapper clothes and swing-dancing (and also some half-hearted line dancing).

we ate the pizza for dinner last night with a pesto yogurt dipping sauce, and it was delicious.

how was lazy janes?

lazy jane's was great, best food of the trip (though there wasn't much competition - we ate at "the best pizza place in northfield MN" and it was pretty awful, in addition to a perkins). it was disconcerting whenever the cook would bellow out names of people to pick up their orders but everything else about it was delightful.

yeah that's kind of their thing. it's an east side treasure though. i love that they opened that bakery annex next door so that you don't have to wait in line to get scones.

nuthin happening in chicago

Eating a pickled egg.

Found a whole slew of eps of Archer Season 2 that I somehow never saw! Like finding $5 in a pocket the first time you wear your winter jacket.

Just watched the last of season 2 over the weekend. "Krieger-san, my cherry blossoms are wilting!"

aw, jenny, that story warmed my heart

Eating creamed corn.

Creamed corn is DELISH. I rediscover it like once a year or something.

xp - SPOILER!!

And now I'm eating a baked potato!

I seem to have finished eating. Little 3 oz. Cherry Garcia for dessert.

Pumpkin seeds.

I have almost no food in the apartment :(

:(

i don't have any plans for saturday...

dance!

hey
it's hot out!

I'm actually looking forward to my bike ride to class

reminds me of "It's nice out! I think I'll leave it out."

Yeah I wore too much jacket today, esp since the CTA has neglected to turn their heaters off yet.

Still medium coat weather for me. Just in case.

gonna go outside at lunch. take off my socks and shoes. take off my shirt. roll up my pantlets. put on my blu-blockers. drink a v-8.

think it might be milkshake weather

goddammit i don't want to be in the office today

You probably want to drink outside.

duh

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/423027_10151366682905473_75994265472_23193723_668103629_n.jpg

Is that about M.I.A.?

Jesus. 60 degrees. I'm bored.

i like miles' hard work in profiling a ton of lesser-known, underappreciated bands in chicago (mine own included) but he's not great on the "big topics." haven't read that article yet though.

No? I think he's as good as anyone on "future of music" topics (the Internet, legal issues, etc.), at least as far as just laying out what the deal is.

i went outside at lunch and a (drunk/crazy/homeless/all of the above?) guy veered towards me and poked me in the shoulder while mumbling something incoherent. so i yelled at him.

what did you yell at him?

"hey - don't touch me. don't touch me!"
first time was startled, second time louder and more emphatic
i feel a little bad about it now since there was something obviously wrong with the guy, be it mental or chemical or whatever. but not too bad. i was also talking on the phone with sarah while it all went down. pretty exciting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyUnSuYYs18

sorry, first thing I thought of

me too

Its gorgeous out, glad I had to walk around the UIC campus this afternoon.

Onion headline from a couple weeks ago:
"The Cartoon Network Celebrates Brak History Month"

this is awesome, especially the last owl pic

http://chicagoist.com/2012/03/01/the_snowy_owl_is_a_badass_against_a.php#photo-1

<3 snowy owls

Cool. The last one is great ;)

I'm partial to the first one, where he seems disturbed and indignant.