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― Jesse, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)

I guess I've never looked at the Chicago manhole covers closely, most other places I've lived they've been made in lovely Neenah-Menasha, near my old stomping grounds of Appleton, WI.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oh yeah, I remember now. Sorry, I was a little drunk by that point on Sunday.

Charlevoix is major tourista town, and has lots of snowbird summer homes too. It's what I'm afraid the UP will turn into (even more than it already is). But, definitely way better than West Branch.

OK, end of MI-discussion for the day.

― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:20 (nineteen years ago)

xp to the asparagoos vibrator: Huh. I thought that was a new twist on the potato clock at first. But now I see it's just dumb.

Nothing is worth a 3 hour commute.

x2. Although I did drag myself into my externship this morning so I wouldn't have to make up the time next week even though I seem to be sick now and had to take a break and lay down in the middle of taking a shower this morning.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:21 (nineteen years ago)

I'm a big fan of Bay City, MI. Tons of great architecture in that town.

(xpost - Ok, no more MI discussion then)

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

The Charlevoix/Petoskey combo could even be thought of as downright nice, in a quant, witness protection program kind of way.

― mattttt, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:22 (nineteen years ago)

I am going to Michigan for the first time on Friday.

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

this weather is some fucked up repugnant shit.

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:35 (nineteen years ago)

good morning!

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

on the lighter side, i am enjoying a sausage egg and cheese sandwich on a sour cream and onion bagel. It's very good.

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:36 (nineteen years ago)

Sawyer's character always reminds me of Kenan.

haha

That does is. From now on, I will call you freckles.

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:39 (nineteen years ago)

i had to wait THIRTY EIGHT MINUTES for a bus on western avenue this morning. that is insane. it's not like western is some barely travelled side street. and when the bus did come it was SRO. i am really REALLY fed up with the cta.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:40 (nineteen years ago)

I ate oatmeal from Corner Bakery which was good but made me feel like a heel because I spent $2.50 and generated an awful lot of waste to eat something that I make at home three times a week. This led to me contemplating the abusdity of putting a cute little crochet coffee cup sleeve on my coffee cup to ostensibly avoid the waste of the paper sleve, since I was also carrying a paper bag holding a paper bowl with a plastic lid, three napkins, and a plastic spoon.

I hate modern life sometimes.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:41 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, waiting on inner-LSD for a bus was some rough shit this morning. We commuters were all huddled inside the bus shelter like emperor penguins.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:42 (nineteen years ago)

Mmmm food. I have nothing to eat in my desk today and the fucked up commute allowed no time to stop for anything. Hurry up lunchtime!

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:43 (nineteen years ago)

there was no room in the bus shelter at division and western, it was claimed by high schoolers. i am soaked from head to toe despite wearing a "water resistant" jacket and "waterproof" boots. i think i might head over to the px and buy a pair of pants and some socks. i am miserable sitting here all wet and cold.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:45 (nineteen years ago)

I think you should get some dry clothes, Kevin! And a cup of good (not bus station) coffee.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:50 (nineteen years ago)

That's my answer to everything that ails anybody: dry clothes and a cup of coffee.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:51 (nineteen years ago)

I want more hot drinks but our office coffee machine is broken and I can't go out for coffee until 11. I guess I will have to wait.

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:53 (nineteen years ago)

i don't want to go back out into the weather. but i do want dry socks before i go home. plus, wearing a wet wool sweater really sucks.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:54 (nineteen years ago)

The smell of wet wool sweaters reminds me of college when all us hippies would wear those big bulky Guatemalan sweaters in the rain and then sit in class with spent cigarette butts in our pockets (didn't want to litter, see?) and reek like a fucking trash heap.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:56 (nineteen years ago)

Why are you all in Michigan?

Next weekend the band is going to 1. Minneapolis, 2. Iowa City, and 3. Omaha!

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:57 (nineteen years ago)

Speaking of crushes...

http://www.portlandmercury.com/binary/1320cefb/music-2041.jpeg

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 14:58 (nineteen years ago)

http://media.collegepublisher.com/media/paper332/stills/24i99cfm.jpg

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

You have a crush on that 13 year old boy?

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:00 (nineteen years ago)

You have a crush on a little kid?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

ha ha

Is that the Bright Eyeeez dude?

― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

who is that?

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Take pix of Omaha for me! Or little videos! The first song off our new album (due to hit stores August 21, 2007) is called "Omaha".

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

Ewwwwwww john.

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:01 (nineteen years ago)

We are playing in Grand Rapids on Friday.

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Fine, whatever. I posted the second picture because I was afraid he looked too young in the first.

I don't think I've heard more than one Bright Eyes song, btw, and the one I heard was horrible.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:02 (nineteen years ago)

Also: What do guys like that who "look 13" at that age look like in their 40s?

― Casuistry, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

yes, that is conor oberst, and i have no idea what that is supposed to have to do with crushes.

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

beartraps

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:03 (nineteen years ago)

What's good in Lawrence, Kansas? Going there for a wedding next weekend and will probably have a little time to kill at record shops and stuff. We'll be staying very near campus.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:04 (nineteen years ago)

Nick, where in GR???

― Laurel, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:05 (nineteen years ago)

xpost William S. Burroughs's exhumed corpse.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:06 (nineteen years ago)

I love how sullen Conor looks in that first photo.

Chris, they either stay boyish and hot or start to look kind of icky.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

Juk3's Bar?

― n/a, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:11 (nineteen years ago)

THAT's Conor Oberst?!?!?! I just read a review of the new Bright Eyes record in the Red Eye yesterday and he's like in his late 20s! That's kind of freaky. He reminds me of Kelly from the Bad News Bears, except not as, um, tough:

http://i.a.cnn.net/si/2006/writers/richard_deitsch/12/14/media.circus/p1_haley.jpg

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

Huh. Conor is 27 apparently. There is a pic of him in 7th grade on wiki

― KitCat, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:14 (nineteen years ago)

xpost Like, I said, sometimes they start to look icky:

http://entimg.msn.com/i/150/Movies/Actors4/Jackie3_150.jpg http://www.thefilmexperience.net/images/2006/littlehaley.jpg

(Not that I ever actually fancied Jackie Earle Haley.)

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:15 (nineteen years ago)

People aren't over Bright Eyes yet? Hello, year 2000 nostalgia.

― dan m, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:16 (nineteen years ago)

What do guys like that who "look 13" at that age look like in their 40s?

Pretty horrifying (see Davy Jones and other wizened teen idols).

Also, Oberst has long hair now, so jaymc will have something to hang onto.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Nation Planning Surprise Party To Cheer Up Conor Oberst

OMAHA, NE—American citizens are coordinating efforts to lift the spirits of wünderkind singer-songwriter Conor Oberst, sources reported Monday. "I saw Conor's picture in a Spin article about Bright Eyes, and he just looked so down," said Lindsey Keisner of Youngstown, OH, one of the party's 4,000 planners. "The country feels really bad that he's going through such a rough spell, so next Friday, everyone who can should meet in Omaha with balloons, funny cards, and silly little gag gifts." Britt Daniel from Spoon will lure Oberst to Omaha by asking him to overdub some vocals.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Oberst's mother claims that he was banging since he was two years old.

LOL

Also, I didn't know his older brother was in Sorry About Dresden, whom I saw open for the Strokes in NC. I liked them a lot.

I had an age appropriate crush on Jackie Earle Haley when I was eight. Kind of like how 12 year old girls have age appropriate crushes on Connor Orbersteretttsst.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:18 (nineteen years ago)

Also, Jackie Earl Haley is a bad comparison for what CO will look like when he's older b/c JEH looked 13 when he WAS 13, whereas CO looks 13 at 27. Or at least is styled that way in photos.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think Conor Oberst will look like Emmanual Lewis when he's in his 40s.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

CO will look like when he's older b/c JEH looked 13 when he WAS 13,

are you sure? wasn't jeh one of the cutters in breaking away?

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:22 (nineteen years ago)

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