Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

kind of like these but tan colored
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Amanda, I can imagine you cuffed pixie boots and I like it!

Bunions aren't a problem I have, but those boots would be no picnic to stand in for a long time, either. I have plenty of heels I love but that are too high to go to shows in, so if that's your goal, well...scale it down, I think.

http://mccoy.lib.siu.edu/illinois/images/doblackleather.gif

That's all I know about patent leather.

i have some patent leather beatle-type boots. i love em.

I was just browsing piperl1me. I decided it blows. Every shoe I'd pull up was only available in 3 or so sizes. "YESs... Let's see.. Ok, would you like a size 4, 6, or 6.5??"

Are they out of stock ALREADY?? Bummer. 6.5 is way too small for me, even, so that's not even realistic.

Oh, that wasn't in reference to a particular shoe.

who the hell wears size 4

aside from kylie minogue

and dakota fanning

Your choices for the cutie bootie are 7 or 8.5.

i have two dogs fighting over lap space. it's very hot property. the gold coast of laps.

The Gaza Strip, even.

there's a dogpile of napping dogs on my lap. i'm stuck on my couch for a while.

i have been lumpy today

hooray!

I'll be joining you soon.

i think i'm teetering on the brink of making some romantic mistakes

my mom probably wears a size 4. she is tiny.

please tell me those two posts are not related.

...

I kid! I kid!

Besides, sometimes it's just time to make a romantic mistake.

Ian Riverwolf-Moraine.

cut it out you two

enh, this girl is nice enough, but i think she's the sort of person who would never really be able to get along with my friends. she's like, a vegan and a bike activist, and all my friends are layabout smokers and carnivores who own cars.

i like them a lot better.

also: interested in THEATER.

ABORT!!!!!!!!!

she's like, a vegan and a bike activist

that sounds easy enough to get past. The real question is, does she rock?

I suddenly have a crush.

Actually, haha, vegan bike activists who are interested in theatre seem more likely to be smokers than most people.

haha! she likes the rock and roll, yes, but she's a bit hand-wavey about it. "big," hammy personality. we went to the Smiths night last night (UH), and she's an excellent dancer.

(it's funny, normally the vegan/bike thing would be bonus! but she's very IN YR FACE about it)

xp you'd think so, right???

actually john i think you two would get along well! she's really very nice!

also, from St. Croix USVI originally, wtf who is from there.

lol I have met people

http://www.knowmoremedia.com/uploads/Easton%20Blogging%20Poster.jpg

xp (through my dad and his work.... they are VERY LAID BACK folks)

hahahahaha mattttt is locked out of the house

(it's funny, normally the vegan/bike thing would be bonus! but she's very IN YR FACE about it)

Oh, well... yeah. To each his own, but for me that would not only make dating her impossible, it would make me avoid her altogether. And vice versa, I'm sure.

I just put in my vacation request for 2 weeks (18 days incl. weekends) off in June/July, and it felt gooood.

smiths night at danny's?

yes. pretty sure that place is awful.

(2nd time i've been)

i don't mind it. it gets kind of brotastic later in the evening but from 8-10 (or 9:30) it's not bad.

i've only been on "theme" nights

Yeah, you def. have to go early, before it gets cray-cray.

i've been on soul nights a few times but i tend to get there early before the festivities start then cut out once the steakheads show up. last time i was there i don't think it was a theme night but they were playing a lot of mid/late 60s pop (kinks, dave clark 5, paul revere, etc) and the place went from being desolate to over-run with backwards baseball caps in about 15 minutes. then i walked to delilah's.

"steakheads"!!!

soulnight is way too busy but i generally like dannys on weekends when the djs are on point. bros come and go some nights but its usually not that bad

definitely a dece number of cuet girls as well

what's danny's like? i want to go dancing somewhere. reviews on yelp aren't helpful: "it's hipster hell." "no, it's not" "yes it is" "no, it's yuppie hell" and so on.

it's so dark in there, how can anybody tell a hipster from a yuppie?

well, my experience has been that it's pretty low-key until about 10 or so then it get's kinda fratty/jocky. i prefer to grab one of the tables in the back and keep my interactions with the ambercrombie and felch set to a minimum. it's not always over-run but it's always a possibility. as a rule i'm usually let down by people in general so that doesn't bother too much. if you have a high tolerance for douchebaggery you can do a lot worse.