Chicago: Totally hands-free!!!

Yep, it's always that fourth sexual harassment case that'll get you.

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i'd imagine if four people file sexual harassment charges against you you begin to examine your life.

Jenny, what is that?

Is it an actual ad for Am. Ap?

WTF that ad.

xp, yeah, is that real?

More on the "ad":

http://www.theaestheticpoetic.com/2007/08/28/american-apparel-is-sosoretail/

Unless you're that dude. He did notoriously jerk off in front of a Jane interviewer. That seems to suggest that he lives a wholly unexamined life, vis a vis his interactions with women.

xp - it's a fashion spread in i-D magazine. (warning - will resize yr browser.) Here's some commentary on it.

i'd imagine if four people file sexual harassment charges against you you begin to examine your life.

i'd say by the time you get to four, you are already suffering from an acute lack of self-examination.

HA xpost!

I owned that Jane issue!! I bought it for a plane trip & literally had to read the incident THREE times because I kept thinking, "Wait. What?! No..." but yes.

That ad is so demeaning. Not only does she look reminiscent of Aunt Jemima but the bold, exaggerated lips conjure "pickaninny" which is also awful.

http://www.americanapparel.net/presscenter/articles/images/20040410drapers1.jpg

ah ha. now i read what jenny posted. so i agree with that article!

Jane is racist

xp to Kelsey - Aye, me too. And I am very disappointed (although unsurprised) by the first couple comments on the post that John linked.

the comments on that post remind me of the ronaldinho thread. I think a lot of people are just not aware of the history of racist iconography. which is a problem.

wow. Even that dude's Lemmy beard looks lame. :(

the AA dude, obv.

Yikes! Just read those . . . isn't it amazing how ignorant seemingly educated people are? That second person who commented writes like a perfectly intelligent person they just aren't thinking the ad through in its entirety.

The jerking-off-in-public is why I mentioned him in the first place. "Urban nudism."

See also: Joe Francis rapes, assaults women while being followed by an LA Times reporter profiling him for the paper.

These guys are neck and neck for the gold in the Douchebag Olympics.

oh god that Joe Francis article made me sick for, like, a week. that dude is disgusting.

DO I KNOW HOW TO JAZZ UP THE PARTY OR WHAT????

Who wants to talk about GENOCIDE?

WAIT DON'T FORGET FGM

ugh. Guys, this thread is about the consensual, joyful, and curiously hands-free.

haha ilu Jenny

Gotta run! BYEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Kenan, you're assuming a lot about our cellular phone calls.

heh.

Speaking of FGM, Doc Films is doing an Ousmane Sembene retrospective this fall and I thought about seeing Moolaade, since it's still unavailable on DVD.

What I wouldn't give to have a chance to punch Joe Francis in the face.

HEY. Recommend me an amazing Chicago brunch joint that I may not have tried yet.

-- KitCat, Thursday, September 13, 2007 11:46 AM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Being an avid brunch hater myself, I guess people wouldn't like my choices if they are looking for a traditional brunch (whatever that is). However, I really like going to Kanok right down the street from us. I ge the Kanok Lunch Box

Comes w/ miso soup, house salad, 2pcs. Of gyoza, california roll & rice and your choice of:

(chicken or beef or vegetables)

Spicy kung pao
Cashew
Thai spicy basil
Mild curry
Fresh vegetables with tofu
Red curry
Ginger chicken
Teriyaki

All for 8.50, and it's all really tasty. AND IT'S NEVER CROWDED, all the douches are down the street at Adesso/Angelina Ristorante/Ann Sather/Stella's/The Bagel.

Also, I'm not going to get into the cage free/organic food thing. However, I'll gladly host a pepsi challenge with cage free vs normal eggs.

Brunch:
-Orange, across the street from Hard Boiled
-M. Henry
-Flo

i went to Orange in Roscoe Village. It was scrumptious.

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Monkey love pigeon.

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bears repeating!

So, the meeting went OK.

I like this job b/c they take me seriously, and I have the opportunity to be taken seriously. And the opportunity to drink outdoors on a gorgeous late-summer day in dappled sunlight while getting paid for explaining what exactly it is I do in my job.

I'm concerned b/c there's going to be a merger and I don't want things to change....

Sorry, we're acquiring you next week.

An earnest goal of mine is that I intend to touch a monkey.

xp--haha it would be all right with me I guess since it would likely result in a pay raise and resume padding. Actually, more likely it would result in a lay-off....

But we are merging with a small downstate firm.

I'D VOUCH FOR YOU.

Which would result in 2 layoffs.

HAHAHHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHADSFJKOH;

yr n asshole

Hey, you know what would be another great Sunday brunch? You get up early, you to over to Fox & Obel, and then you go over to the lake, or vice versa.

R. Kelly a cappella

I went and tried that guitar last night. I decided I didn't like the way it sounded, it was really midrangey, like a duck quack sound.

I get intimidated by the Chicago threads. Even when they're brand new, they're huge.

Y'know, I hate to waste a great word like "douche" on people like Dov Charney and Joe Francis. I prefer to think of them as scumfucks. Or, y'know, Scumfucs, in honor of the purest distillation of that lifestyle. That whole subset of society really, really skeeves me hardcore. I wish we could have them all shipped off to an island somewhere. And then set the island on fire.