Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

I can't stop thinking about cookies & I believe this is only because I've decided to try & be healthier.

Jordan, did you hit up the RH service last night? I'm actually attending a RH dinner tonight.

I know 0 about guitars, but I always thought that that kind would be good to play. It seems like it would have a nice resonance or something.

http://www.kshs.org/cool3/graphics/faulknershirtlg.jpg

there's your shirt, brah.

Yeah Kelsey, I went for 20 minutes and then they stopped to have a dinner, and I left.

what is the 'a' vs. 'an' rule when using a vowel-sounding initial for a word that does not sound like a vowel?

did you eat apples & honey? does that happen?

there was an ad on tv last night for some sort of oreo pizza and it had this guy with a fake mustache made up of bits of oreo and frosting and it made me want to never eat oreos again.

i am eating mangoes and watermelon.

WAIT NO NO THIS SHIRT

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a341/deadkitty13/cowboyshirt1front.jpg

I have seen that ad & I completely agree!!! The cookies I am thinking of are of the homemade variety.

I did not, but I remember apples & honey when I was a kid.

IT HAS TIGER STRIPES AND BONES AND A BOTTLE OF POISON AND IF YOU DO NOT GET THIS SHIRT I WILL

You go by the sound, not the letter. Like "a university." If that's what you're asking?

FRINGE! ALSO FRINGE!

I have been killfiled for the day, haven't I? I deserve that.

That looks like a Kenan shirt. :>

Yeah what the fuck is up with that oreo pizza WTF

OMG, the Western shirts just made me remember Chris and Heather's Record Roundup, which, uh, closed like 6 years ago, AOL City Guide.

I am not wearing that shirt.

that isn't what I'm asking.

what i mean is if i say "I'm attending a/an RH dinner tonight" vs. "I'm attending a Rosh Hashanah dinner tonight"

xpost: john! i was remembering that recently!

that shirt is a postmodern melange.

So this was only the second time I've had potato pancakes. The first time they were kind of thick and greasy. This time they were small and thin, basically the size and shape of silver dollar pancakes. The first time was better, and I'm presuming they were more "authentic" since they came from a Chicago deli instead of an Evanston pancake shop.

It would be "an RH dinner."

Can I get away with "a RH" or do I have to use 'an'?

nick, that is what i thought despite my typing otherwise out of rebellion.

Potato pancakes/latkes should be unctuous

My instinct would be "an RH," but it's tricky, because I know you're just using that abbreviation as shorthand and would actually say "Rosh Hashanah" if you were saying it aloud, like you would never actually pronounce it as "arr-aitch."

What John said applies, it's just weird because you go based on pronunciation, and R is pronounced "arrr" like it has a vowel sound at the beginning so you would use "an." I'm not sure why it's that way, because it doesn't usually seem like the written word to anything based on verbal rules if it doesn't want to.

IT'S A PERFECTLY CROMULENT WORD

xpost

So this was only the second time I've had potato pancakes

waht

I LIVED IN INDIA etc.

I've only had them once in my life (in Jefferson Park), and I don't have the India excuse. I thought they were incredibly greasy and it grossed me out.

I don't think Indian food is all that different from Eastern European food.

HAHHAHA

High-five to jaymc!

I just have this urge to give high-fives!

There are potatoes in some Indian food, and naan is kind of like pancakes.

(Note: I basically ate no Indian food the whole time I was in India.)

yeah, aloo paratha is not dissimilar from potato pancakes, in seriousness.

wait, Nick, waht?

I'm not true to my Scandinavian heritage. All of the food looked mushy and colorless to me (and meaty).

I would probably prefer the ones Nick had today.

Ha ha. It was a combo of:

1. Me being an obnoxious teenager
2. Me insisting that I didn't like spicy food
3. Me desperately trying to hold onto any sense of an American identity that I could

We did eat out at Indian restaurants sometimes, I would usually just eat meat and bread.

I get that, actually. I missed American food something fierce after the second week of my most recent visit.

Do yourselves a favor, please read this http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/bro_youre_a_god_among_bros

it just saved Jenny's life.

Haha I love that one

ahahaha potassium bromide

That went above and beyond.

it brovercame!

eh

I like how it ramps up the silliness throughout the article, so that by the end he's just saying random stuff like "Brover Norquist."

"This is the face of rabies."

Yeah, it was pretty great.

And Pam and Jim were always cute, but holding hands? Dangerous levels of cute.

I think my favorite was Michael's long drawn-out description of the various animal gods they might have to make sacrifices to. Such a weird scene.

"The head of a monkey ... but with ... the antlers of a reindeer ... and the body of ... the body of ... a porcupine."

Also: nipple-chafing jokes.

Free coffee at Alliance, Letizia's and other coffee shops today: http://chicagoist.com/2007/09/28/new_tv_season_f.php

Also, the MCA is doing a ton of free shit over the next 40 days for their 40th anniversary. Sarah and I might go tomorrow to actually check out the art, but also Oct. 7 is a free concert with Flosstradamus, Cool Kids, Califone, Poster Children, the 1900s, the Eternals, and Headache City.

Event listings here: http://www.mcachicago.org/40/index.php?page=home.

Bitchin': http://www.mcachicago.org/exhibitions/exh_detail.php?id=56

I had no idea the Poster Children were still performing.

aw, I missed The Office. I went to see a play at the Goodman written by a woman who was at my college at the same time I was. she's written like eleventy well-received plays. WHAT AM I DOING WITH MY LIFE??

new thread:

Chicago: More Bars in More Places

fuck you

I post a ton of actually useful information and this is the thanks I get.

I'm going to sit in here in the dark by myself.

dude... it's time. I know some people don't care how long it is, but thanks to the standard 50/50 post split, not everyone can keep up, and loading 3500 ro so messages gets to be a pain.

Besides, the thread title is cute!

Go away, I'm sulking in here.