Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

colette, how long have you been looking? and what are you looking for, again?

Colette it took me three (3) months to find a full-time job, and that was a pretty shitty full-time job.

Colette, email me at naamme @ yahoo dot com. I don't think I have your email.

Hey just in case people are still looking for bikes, I saw this place written up in Chicago Weekly, sounds like a great shop:

http://www.yelp.com/biz/A3nlppi48KNNYe4AuNtWQw

Actually that whole issue was pretty great. They cataloged the "best of the south side". That record store in Beverly made it, along with Salonica and a bunch of other places that have been mentioned on Chi threads gone by.

Never mind colette, I found your email, Sarah had sent it to me a while back.

i guess i first started seriously looking the beginning of august. i'm not even getting calls back from temp agencies (i'm registered with new 0ffice but in that time have had 6 days of work). i know it's a slow process, but man it's depressing!

sisut, i have a masters degree in nonprofit management. i've been applying for communications posts and events planning and some grantwriting. plus general admin assistant roles, working in shops, etc. bleh.

2x what n/a said...it took me about 3 months of looking. I'm in non-profit fundraising/development so let me know where you've been looking and I'll keep an eye out, too. I know Teen Living Programs was looking for a grantwriter a while back, but I think they've filled it. Go ahead and email me at katie @ lacasanorte dot org

From the AV Club interview with Uwe Boll: "...Dave foley really went for it. He event went for a full-frontal nudity scene, which was surprising for me also. I was sitting behind my video desk and couldn't believe it! He did it without telling me. He was supposed to get up from his bed and close his bathrobe, but he didn't close it. We were all sitting there laughing our ass off. He played it super-cool. It's those kinds of offensive scenes that make Postal special, because it's harsher than what we're used to from even the Farrelly brothers' comedies. It's like one step more than even Borat. Postal is like Borat without the black bars."

Dilbert is unusually emo today:

http://www.unitedmedia.com/comics/dilbert/archive/images/dilbert2007203690920.gif

Remember when I was talking about how the word "breaststroke" had give straight consonants? Well, so does "postscript." I wonder if there are any others.

I seem to remember that "bookkeeper" is the only word with three straight sets of double letters. Is that right?

Wow, the rest of that Uwe Boll interview is gold.

I think so, Nick.

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sorry, i am being a smartass.

This city assessor is visiting our building and just gave me his card. He has J0hn's name!

Don't you know that English is the only language that counts, Katie?

The Internet has ruined everything:

Consonant Strings

Some common words with an uninterrupted string of five consonants are BACKSPLASH, BACKSTRETCH, BACKSTROKE, BIRTHPLACE, BREASTSTROKE, DOWNSTREAM, DOWNTHRUST, DUMBSTRUCK, EIGHTHS, ERSTWHILE, HEARTTHROB, LENGTHS, LIGHTPROOF, MATCHSTICK, NIGHTCLOTHES, NIGHTCLUB, NIGHTDRESS, POSTSCRIPT, STRENGTHS, THOUSANDTHS, THUMBSCREW, TWELFTHS, WARMTHS, and WITCHCRAFT. ANGSTS is the shortest word with five consonants in a row.

These words have six consecutive consonants: ARCHCHRONICLER, CATCHPHRASE, ESCHSCHOLTZIA, HANTZSCHIA, KNIGHTSBRIDGE, LATCHSTRING, POSTPHTHISIC, and WELTSCHMERZ. A popular staple food in Ukraine is a beetroot soup called borsch, which occurs in English dictionaries with a variety of spellings including borshch and borscht, giving rise to plurals containing a string of six consonants: BORSHCHS and BORSCHTS.

HIRSCHSPRUNG'S (DISEASE) has seven consecutive consonants, as does SCHTSCHUROWSKIA. The shortest such word is TSKTSKS. All of these words can be found in major English dictionaries.

"Archchronicler" sounds like a really lame comic book villan.

Sorry, I know I already posted too much stuff from damninteresting, but this is Chicago/WGN-related. Make sure to watch the linked YouTube clips: http://www.damninteresting.com/?p=776#more-776

Also, Office has a video: http://chicagoist.com/2007/09/20/omg_an_office_m.php

I vaaaaaaguely remember that Max Headroom guy. Or maybe I just remember hearing about it. But I didn't know the whole story. That is damn interesting.

Yup yup.

I seem to remember that "bookkeeper" is the only word with three straight sets of double letters. Is that right?

I remember learning this from an Encyclopedia Brown book

BEEKKEEPER would be a cool word.

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mmmmmmmmmm fallaaffel
i just ate some

now i feel sick.

I had a terrifying dream last night that featured the word "pherabim", haunted forests, possessed children and ancient African curses. It was really disturbing.

It just so happens I'm researching horror movies to rent tonight.

Like?

My dream made me want to watch Val Lewton movies.

BEEKKEEPER SEEKKS Ruth

See the Best of Horror thread, J. I just posted a big list!

BEEEEERR IN JUST OVER 2 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!

I like movies about witches.
http://www.stim.com/Stim-x/0696June/Automedia/Pix/clipblacksun.gif
aka BLACK SABBATH. I hope this is on your list. (Unless you've already seen it.)

omg Race with the Devil is RIDIC! I loved it! Best part takes place in a "mobile home park." Lots of gratuitious motorbiking too.

BEEEEERR IN JUST OVER 2 HOURS!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you drinking with us?

I prob. can't get there until 6:30, as usual.

Also, argh, I am trying to transliterate Persian. I don't know why I bother, except I want to know why the spelling "Hossein" (instead of "Hussein") is more common in Iran than elsewhere.

Probably along the same reasons as you see "hummus" "hommos" "hommous" etc.

Amanda, I can't find that on IMDB!

It would not be a bad idea to have a Barbara Steele film fest.
http://www.oldies.com/i/boxart/large/41/089218415097.jpg

It's sometimes called Mask of Satan or Black Sunday or any number of things -- look up Mario Bava and you'll find it.

Oh, this is probably it.

I would like to see THE SHE BEAST.

I also like Season of the Witch, which is out on DVD now.

Oh, ok. Found it FOR REALS this time.

Hey, I would totally be agreeable to hosting such a film fest unless someone else is up for it.

"Who, me?"
http://www.coffeecoffeeandmorecoffee.com/archives/filmstills/barbara%20steele.jpg

I just noticed that Shivers, which is on my list, is a Barbara Steele film too.