Chicago MMXII

Yes, that's where Target is going. Unless that was a lie, too.

The Walgreens near DePaul (SW corner of State and Jackson) is gone and it has been replaced by the law school's student center hang-out thing.

I only buy Ocean Pacific surf gear thankyouverymuch

xp

I'm very hungry.

Eat your ear.

I am eating red lentil soup (which is actually yellow) and hummus from my favorite Hyde Park lunch spot. It makes me very happy.

I went to Pierogi Heaven for lunch.

While there, I spent way too much time eavesdropping on a lawyer talking to his client about a real estate sale because his voice sounded exactly like the voice of an actor who often plays professors in film and television and who I can see and hear but not name or place, and because he looked like the lawyer version of the Big Lebowski (schlubby but affable and cute in his own way).

And his client was this little old lady who was so convinced she was going to get ripped off that she ignored everything he said unless it supported her suspicion that she was going to get ripped off.

IT IS LIKE YOU WERE THERE WITH ME, RIGHT GUYS???

totes

I feel like I'm there with you for all eternity.

I wish one of you mofos were there with me to tell me who this guy sounded like. The actor is maybe in his late 40s, brown hair, has a mole on his face, and I feel like he tends to play characters that end up being bad or morally ambiguous.

Jesse, is Pita Malort your new drag name? What happened to Okra Latte?

I almost forgot about Okra Latte. How did that name come to be?

You get the reference in "Pita Malort" right?

The guy from the Hunger Games?

I think it had something to do with that Kanye West song about mocha lattes and you either misheard or just sang it as "okra lattes."

Yes, Peeta Malarkybutt.

I don't know that song.... Was Kanye performing ~ 2004? (which is when that name happened)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Workout_Plan

Oh, I didn't realize that was Kanye West. Despite the chorus saying "Thanks to Kanye's workout plan/I'm the envy of all my frans".

lol frans

Thanks to Tanya's workout plan/ I'm the envy of all my friends.

xp frans

Tanya??

Why is music so hard.

It's Kanye. I was making a joke.

Like maybe you didn't realize it WS Kanye West because you thought it said Tanya. Also Tanya's Workout Plan is funny to me. Who's Tanya?

She said and smiled in her special way.

#replacenamesinsongswithtanya

My name is Tanya
I live on the second floor
If you hear something late at night
It's just me doing my new P90 workout plan

HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS

http://www.avclub.com/chicago/articles/chicago-has-a-new-tourism-anthem-and-its-beyond-aw,73085/

omg those harmonies are making me physically ill!

see the buildings as they climb into the sky!

ABYSMAL

See you in Chicago-o-o-WHOA-OHHHHH!

not going to listen, or I may never go to Chicago again

it was seriously making me so sick i had to turn it off! it's like being stuck in the worst commercial.

It is a really terrible song!

That.... it was just so terrible!!

I'm honestly fascinated by how terrible it is.

I immediately blamed Rahm.

You expect these things to be not-great, but that was JUST AWFUL!

I was really hoping that the cut off word in the URL was "awesome" (chicago-has-a-new-tourism-anthem-and-its-beyond-aw,73085/) but I think the person actually wrote "it's just aw,723[095u12!!"

that was barf

I mean "Go Cubs Go" is about as terrible but it came from a terrible time and it should be a fucking warning to never be so terrible again.

;__;

fucking hippie jam bands

talk about misnomers too -- there is nothing hippie or jammy about that song whatsoever

That is terrible. Maybe they want to cut down on tourism this year?

I started reading Electric Eden on the plane yesterday and I can already tell this is going to make me want to buy a lot of records.

check spotify before you spend too much -- lotsa stuff there, esp classical composers

Oh yeah, that'll be my first stop. I was wishing I could've accessed it while I was on my flight to listen as I read. Really great stuff so far, but I've only just now gotten to the introduction of Lomax to the story.

Hey dudes, what's up?

I had a dream about Mayor Rahm last night. We were at a party and he got too drunk and I was trying to help him call his goons to pick him up, and he wanted to go in the kitchen and eat so I took him there then went to collect his Blackberry and his jacket and tie that he'd taken off when he was dancing. I was trying to think of a way to ask him to help me get a job when my alarm went off.

hi guys. i feel pretty good today after a week of feeling crabby and irritable (primarily due to shitty sleep)

Hi n/a. Congratulations.

Slow day at work. Anyone want to lunch with me? I am pretty sure that I can be in the Loop at almost any time.

i could lunch but not til 1:30 which usually seems too late for everyone else. can't switch my schedule around today, unfortunately.

having to take care of drunk rahm in a dream seems tiring

I think I preferred Daley to Rahm. Both are pushy dicks, but Rahm is more actively so.