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I would throw all the Popchips in the world into the river for one bag of Munchos.

I don't even really like scotch or cigars honestly so that's cool.

Do you resent your wife because she wants you to live in a big house with her and care about your children and have sex with her sometimes when you really want to spend the mortgage payment on a fancy sportscar and have sex with a high school cheerleader?

The sidewalk clearing snowblower guys are barely keeping up.

This is going to be an interesting rush hour.

Wow... Numerous xposts w/out a warning.

Yeah its a mess out there. Glad I took the train.

Angsty rich white-people books are not always about male protags! See, e.g., Joan Didion's Play It As It Lays.

Or, IIRC, Paula Fox's Desperate Characters.

I don't think anyone claimed they were?

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No, but Jenny's post seemed to reduce the genre to the plot of Americna Beauty.

i think i don't like most of those books but just usually because not much happens in them story-wise. it's just people moping and talking and being boring. i need me a story of some kind.

Revolutionary Road is full of stuff happening.

No, but Jenny's post seemed to reduce the genre to the plot of /Americna Beauty/.

Yes. I went for an exemplar instead of trying to be all inclusive. I am typing with my thumbs, you know.

it's just people moping and talking and being boring.
this is my point
even if stuff happens, it's boring stuff for the most part. i used to like paula fox but after a while even she bored me.

but it doesn't really have to do with the characters being white or rich or male or angsty, it has to do with them being boring. or rather, the stories (or lack thereof) being boring.

exactly!

In Revolutionary Road lots of non-boring stuff happens. Abortion, suicide, drunkenness are but a few of the exciting things you will find in Revolutionary Road.

I like gripping plots, but I also admire mimesis.

Courtney just reminded me a few days ago that I don't like John Irving b/c "too much stuff happens" in his books.

it just keeps snowing and i don't think they're plowing here until it stops. i'm just going to plan on spending two hours in the car going home.

ok i guess they are trying to plow & salt, but it looks grim out there.

got a bunch of digdown guys trying to come in from mpls & chi for a show tonight too. :/

as long as it clears up by weds. for my flight to atlanta i am ok with the snow

Its supposed to be 40 on Sunday, so you should be okay. Actually the snow is supposed to be done around midnight tonight.

Funny, but this seems to be living up exactly to the forecasts, in terms of intensity and timing.

My concession to the snow is as follows:

1. Not wearing a cute skirt and heels out tonight.
2. Nixing the plans to go to Del Seoul, Fountainhead, Matchbox and Small Bar for the anniversary funtimes tonight.
3. Instead, bundling up and walking to Welcome Bar*, Ciao, Longman& Eagle and Small Bar.

*Welcome Bar does not appear to have a name. However, it is across the street from our apartment, has a welcome sign, and the promise of cheap beer.

Apparently the CTA has rerouted all buses off of LSD already. They are really, really scared of repeating last year's clusterfuck, huh?

I take it back. Matt has conducted copious research and discovered, at least as of 2010, that the name is Sofia's.

This shit is probably going to make me miss my trail race in Rockford tomorrow.

Well it now looks like the heaviest snow is supposed to be out of the area shortly after 6, so maybe it won't be too bad.

LOL @ rerouting off LSD.

Oh my goddess, this commute is gonna be something. Should I just have a few beers and wait out rush hour? It is bad bad bad on Halsted. And on Jackson. A cop was just sitting in traffic with sirens wailing, going nowhere.

You should just bury yourself in the snow.

Preferably yellow.

Unplowed Revolutionary Road.

This girl doesn't seem to get cabs... She keeps hailing cabs with light off and then getting petulant when they don't stop. Also just hailing everything on four wheels?

Reporting live from Greektown, I'm Je55e K3hropolo5.

Fr rl tho I think I'm gonna go sit in a Greek bar and get pants shittingly durnk. Its been 15 min and the buses just aren't coming and I'm cold and horngry.

Just don't end up going home with sme Captain Lou Albano type.

Or some otter.

I wish some otter would come give me a fucking ride. After 20 min I think this might actually be accurate....

http://i.imgur.com/LedTv.jpg

He'd feed me mussels and take me Sledding.

Update

I'm on a bus.

In 26 minutes we've moved 1.2 mile

http://cache0.bigcartel.com/product_images/3379561/EIT_SHIRT_NEW.jpg

Sorry. I'm just mingling.

My train commute was a piece of cake. Wasn't even crowded. Then I fell twice on the way home because nobody on Diversey from the train station wast to Lincoln shovels their fucking walks, and I got into it with a douchebee in a white SUV turning onto Racine who drove DIRECTLY TOWARDS ME while I was carefully shuffling through the unplowed slush, with the light. I actually dawdled on the corner waiting for him to get out of the car after he pulled into the gas station because I was going to share some things about how his actions made me feel, but he just pumped his gas without paying attention to me. I GUESS HE WAS SCARED.

Jesse, you're going to be on that bus for hours. Do you have a seat or are you standing?

I should say - the douchebee actually made eye contact with me while he drove toward me, and appeared to be saying things loudly in his car, so it's not like this was an accident. He really felt my presence as a pedestrian crossing the street was cramping his driving style.

I'm seated.

1.9 miles. I really should have taken a train or gone to a bar.

phillip (my bf) is having his birthday dinner tonight and there hasn't been a single bus for over an hour

it took me an hour and a half to get home (it normally takes about 20 min). i hate to be a major asshole but i really don't want to fucking go anywhere.

I think you have a pretty good reason to bow out.

OMG. I think rush hour just magically ended. Just like THAT! Wow.