Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

Stephen Colbert's Americone Dream: Grade A. Would eat again.

Everyone should be eating ice cream today.

It doesn't have drawers--it lifts up.

I like this website a lot. http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/

You should be looking at http://chicago.apartmenttherapy.com/, sell out.

88 degrees according to the bank here in Deerfield, and it felt every single one of those.

their default location is NYC. It's kind of odd that they have different cities, since most of the stuff they link to is available online.

their default location is NYC.

Just like the Noise Board, then.

http://www.flickr.com/groups/apartmenttherapycurechicago/

I think the er founder/creator of the site lives in NYC, Jesse? And did most of his consulting/therapy work there, if I'm not mistaken (not that I've looked it up or anything). I have to say, though, that the book is really easy and unintimidating and makes it seem like not such a big deal to do the regular-length "cure" on yr apartment, rather than making you feel like design and decor are for professionals ONLY.

I recommended it to an ex once who was v concerned with his lovely apt being empty and "cold"-seeming and wasn't sure where to start -- he bought a copy for each of us and then broke up with me. :)

Oh, I didn't even know there was a book! Or maybe I did. Anyway, this is my first real exposure to AT. It's more apartment porn, on top of Big Style, Small Spaces.

cold apartment: 1
Laurel: 0

Ach well, it was unrelated except that overall I think he's a less warm person who needed his space and rawther controlled surroundings. That's okay, it turns out I don't need to worry about his empty apartment anyway!

i have a wiener dog on my lap and another smaller wiener dog running back and forth on the back of my couch. and two boxes of jay reatard merch on my living room floor, i could solve my financial woes right quick, who wants a great t-shirt at a low price?

(Psst plus he hated midcentury furniture, so obv that was doomed.)

How did you get the merch, K?

DEAR MYSPACE FRIENDS OF MINE: I KNOW MY ACCOUNT WAS HACKED, OK? THANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN!

lol MySpace

Everyone enjoy reading my comment on my FREE MACY'S SHOPPING SPREE!!!!

http://x.myspace.com/images/onlinenow.gif

I need to just delete my MySpace account already. And Friendster, too.

I am transferring all of my stock over to Facebook, since it's the only social-networking site where one of the founders lists my band in the Favorite Music section of his profile.

I think of that as online suicide. Robin Ru22o did that a while back when she was in a depression. It's funny.

You mean Robin Ru55o?

Is that really why?

I mostly use myspace to listen to music at work, and also when I want to crash my web browser.

All myspace does for me anymore is causes me to dread checking my email and sifting through all the porn spam I got.

^^^

I still have fun changing up my myspace layout and song. Also, I update my blog. I AM NOT ASHAMED!

laurel, i found an awesome eames-era end table on eBay over the weekend that was BEEEEEEEAUTIFUL and CHEAP!! I made lists of all the things I want to buy when I start getting a pay check again. it was mostly food and kitchen items but i'm sick of my utilitarian bookshelves and ugly-assed couch.

sarah, billisa just left for their tour and they've been printing the shirts for him. he'll be at the note with the busy signal on the 2nd.

hey dc/nyc folk who may be on this thread, go see cococcoma when they hit your town next week. or at least2 2/3rds of them. mike doesn't join them until providence i think or maybe nyc. i know he said he'll be there when they record at wfmu but i don't know if that's before or after the show at don pedro's.

No, J, that's not really why. Facebook is basically the synthesis to Friendster and MySpace's thesis and antithesis: it's the streamlined aesthetic and regulated accessibility of Friendster combined with the technological innovation of MySpace.

YES YES wait Don Pedro's doesn't have a schedule anywhere...?

it's on a tuesday or a wednesday i think.

My favorite thing about Facebook is the way it has plugins for other web pages that I use all the time -- flickr, del.icio.us, iLike, even Skype -- and it tells me when, for instance, Jeff adds a del.icio.us bookmark to his account. All it needs is a gmail and gchat interface, and it would be pretty one-stop.

Coming soon, I'm sure.

I really like the JayR album.

I don't wanna have to deal with setting up another profile somewhere else.

You will someday soon, though. It's the inevitable tide.

wait what

i really wish i had some melon soup right now. that would SO FUCKING HIT THE SPOT.

one dog curled into a little wiener dog bun on my lap the other asleep with his paws over his eyes right up next to me... i'm in little dog heaven right now.

Oh stuff it, Kenan. No matter what you and jw say I am not opening a facebook account.

KEVIN, YAY YAYAY AYAYAY for little dogs. I like your happiness.

Speaking of ice cream (ok, well, way upthread), Nick introduced me to this loveliness last night:
http://www.dcsnacks.com/images/large/products/ben-and-jerrys--creme-brule_LRG.jpg

Any pix of the wee ones, Kevin?

I know that Facebook as a nice, clean interface and all of that, but it hasn't clicked with me. It feels like there's too many places to try and communicate (communites, messages, walls, I don't know what) and I've never contacted or been contacted by someone on Facebook that couldn't have just e-mailed me.

Everyone knows the REAL online ass-shopping hottnezz is iilwy.com.

batteries are dead in the camera but peep this guy... http://www.myspace.com/littleboybanjo

But inilwy.

i'm not trying to be prescriptive about facebook, really i'm not! Do what you like. It's just that it's the next generation - there are so many features and games and useful apps that sooner or later you'll probably be told about something on there that you would really like to be a part of. See the still-growing ILX scrabble community, for one example.

I hate Scrabble.

i'm sure there are many useful aspects to it but i'm at the point where i have neither the time nor desire to be part of another social network. once this one circles the drain i'm done too.

xpost- laurel you have just made a mortal enemy.

But inilwy.

well you have one of those girlfriend things