Chicago MMXII

ooh! neat.

why does stuff like this bother me so much?

"Being Flynn" is based on author-poet Nick Flynn's searing memoir, with a largely unprintable title. (http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/movies/sc-mov-0306-being-flynn-20120309-24,0,6827022.story)

there is literally one unprintable word in the book's title ("another bullshit night in suck city"

unprintable!
unfathomable!

If you want to be really pedantic about it, the entire title is printable; the Tribune just chooses not to.

Daylight savings time starts this Sunday. Glad I don't live in one of those states that doesn't observe it. I wish it was DST all year long.

I can't remember what the text below is called, can someone tell me?

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thx for posting

Dear Dan,

NP

Sincerely,

Jesse Je55e J3ss3 Martha

Michigan Ave. is a MADHOUSE. Besides the pedestrian-choked sidewalks, there were a bunch of ambulances and a minivan w/ loudspeakers on the outside that kept making the rounds blaring what was presumably apocalyptic messages in what was presumably Korean, based on the writing on the outside in English and Korean.

It sounded like Blade Runner out there.

The people in the coach house behind our next door neighbor's house have a giant confederate flag hanging n the window. :(

Ugh. You don't see too many of those around here!

Courtney and I saw Silent House and it was tense and scary and quite a bit better than expected. And it was interesting but I don't want to say more b/c spoilers. Jenny, I think you will like it.

And it stars Elizabeth Olsen, which is nice. I like looking at her.

I want to see it!

somebody invite me over for movies, i'm bored and alone

middle aged single man at home w/ cats on a Saturday night - life is as sweet as it's ever been

saw hot shit at the green mill and am tipsy now. also where did all the money I don't have go this weeked crap

That's the Chicago way.

So in the light of day, the confederate flag revealed itself to have a wolf on it. Jeff thought it might be a Chicago Wolves banner but I just completed some surveillance/research and it is, in fact, a flag version of this:

http://i198.photobucket.com/albums/aa236/tonyahickey/ConfederateWolf2.gif

PS for more confederate flag images, enjoy this website: http://crackervilleusa.piczo.com/dixieflags?cr=2&linkvar=000044

http://api.ning.com/files/Z5JjmHdZNXQ7fxVbqSNljnyGiD7TFwBHzW2XezofpH56XuU0YId*ooEdZB0eTVBjiIc-x3KyEECXGCEpNXqXQbSR-2ilZ*8G/rebel_flag_wolf_tapestry_540.jpg

You can buy one of your own for $4.99!

Sorry! I'm a little obsessed with this hideous item and the fact that it is publicly displayed in the window of one of my neighbors!

That's the wolf of Northern aggression shredding states' rights.

We're watching Homicide and over the last two episodes, they have peripheral suspects named Lane Staley and Chris Novaselic.

Which is maybe on purpose? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106028/trivia

The dream of the 90s is alive.

crackervilleusa

experimental musician keith fullerton whitman is doing a free-with-rsvp show on saturday night FYI
http://www.lampo.org/current/

― congratulations (n/a), Friday, March 9, 2012 12:44 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ooh! neat.

― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Friday, March 9, 2012 1:02 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark

Know what's not neat? Finding out that these RSVPs often disappear so quickly that no one who reads the article/blog post/whatever could possibly have a chance of actually going to the event. I was looking forward to it and I had no chance ;_;

t0dd sw1ss tweeted that he was at the show and it was totally totally packed, i guess it was higher-demand than i would have thought

I figured that getting in would require advance notice, so I added lampo on fb so I can join the elite squad that actually gets into events like this.

Today so far at work: some of the lights went out, all of the lights went out, the Internet went out, all of the lights came back on, the Internet came back, some of the lights went out again.

Also there is a rally in support of Rod Blagojevich on Wednesday if anybohahahahahahaha I can even finish that sentence.

today so far at work: our marketing person sent out a word document of all of the tweets about an event we had last week, instead of just providing the hashtag and a link to twitter.com (i would guess at the request of some less tech-savvy management staff)

Anyone seen The Chicagoan? Sounds promising:

http://convozine.com/hiawathareview/29781

Yeah, I actually went to Unabridged Books to buy a copy but then I realized it was $20 and so I bought a book instead

It looks pretty cool, but I don't know if I'm ready to shell out $20 for it.

$20 an issue?!

is there still potentially interest for pub quiz tomorrow?

Ja wohl.

yes it is $20 an issue
and
yes, I'm still interested in pub quiz. Sara might come too.

I flipped through The Chicagoan at the Art Institute a couple weeks ago, and yeah, it looks v. cool, but I can't justify the price tag. I have to say: I admire their journalistic purity or whatever is responsible for their unwillingness to accept ads, but if that's the difference between a $20 magazine and a $10 magazine, I'll take the ads, thanks. Maybe something less glossy, too? The Believer is ad-free and ~$10, iirc.

Apparently there will be a lengthy story on my company in the second issue of the magazine.

Hey assholes, guess what?

I just accidentally signed an email to the DOJ like this:

Bery Truly Yours,
Carl Agatha

But with my real name. But I wrote "Bery" instead of "Very," and sent it before I noticed.

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

On my way to work today I saw a blue 80s Chrystler LeBaron crammed with teenagers getting down to this song (it was playing on Power 92). The car had a sticker on the rear bumper that read "FIRE NANCY PELOSI". Springtime in the city!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tayjKvVh3YU

I was really hoping you'd signed it "carl agatha."

You sent it from your work email, right? I assume you - like all sane people - have enabled "undo" on your Gmail.

Wha, there's an undo?

!

Yesterday, M@tt and Je55e and I ate pupusas in the neighborhood. Then my downstairs neighbor texted to say that everyone in the building smelled gas, and they were going to call Peoples and possibly our gas supply would be cut off. I sprinted home (belly full of pupusas), because I feared that we'd left beans boiling on the stove. Thankfully, that was not the case. As I walked back toward the pupusa restaurant I ran into a very bold skunk. J & M insisted it was a cat, and thankfully were proven wrong before being sprayed. The evening ended when, while driving J to the Belmont bus, I spotted a gentleman sprawled out, not moving, on the grass. Not being roused by J's boisterous yells, we called 911. When I got back from the bus stop, there were 2 cop cars, a firetruck and an ambulance. The. End.

favorite part
As I walked back toward the pupusa restaurant I ran into a very bold skunk.

xp From my school work email, yes. I enabled undo on Gmail after I sent a resume to an attorney attached to an email in which I misspelled the position title in the subject line.

I need a pupusas.

Wha, there's an undo?

Go to Settings and the 6th one down is:

Undo Send:
Enable Undo Send
Send cancellation period: ___ seconds

xp - the skunk was cute.

I said it was a cat but then I saw the small sprig of white hairs on its tail. As I said on 77, I chased it for a little bit and it was adorable. I threw a stick at it to see if it would spray (I was not within its range) but then I realized it would be spraying someone's house, which would suck. But then I remembered that God took my sense of smell, so I used it like an atomizer to spray all the Catholics.

I broke down at lunch and picked up the first issue of The Chicagoan, since I saw it in the window of a bookstore I walked by on Printer's Row. Haven't had much of a chance to dig in yet, but it does look pretty nice. It was the history of Siskel & Ebert and the talk with Jeanne Gang that sold me. I'll see if looks like it'll be worth spending $20 on every issue.