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ugh the 'bar etiquette' rules on that vortex site are the worst

http://i.imgur.com/LpsFp.png

So its run by libertarians then?

I should have posted the whole thing

http://i.imgur.com/MsTdn.png

i am not reading that because i am never ever going there

When I first googled it, the pictures popped up on the menu and it didn't exactly strike me as the type of place that someone in this thread would recommend.

Kumas rules seem reasonable, even appreciated. I didn't even read the rules at Vortex. But it's weird they're 18 and up all the time. It seemed a little douchey in a "cool" way. The thrift clothes/head shop next door had a handwritten pro-Ron Paul sign outside.

I'm at the airport now and there's a lawyer getting very mad about law stuff on his cell. Someone's lawyer recused the judge.

I've had Sprint with my dumbphone and it's been fine.

lol @ the retronym "dumbphone"

I'm down with the 'victimized' explanation -- seems as if some real assholes have been in there before

coupled, of course, with owner assholism

nope, on further perusal, just owner assholism

place reminds me of THE ALLEY too for some reason

Wow, I googled vortex to check out their rules, and I'm fairly certain that it's where I spent New Year's Eve 1999 with my sister. WTF.

same brand of asshole

actually it was New Year's Eve 1998.
xp

(not your sister aj)

Ha ha I was going to compare it to The Alley but I feel bad for Jenny, everyone piling on her restaurant recommendation. It was fine, it really was.

I don't recall ever going into the Vortex. Seems like I would have at some point.

Fyi that La Cocina on Jackson is gone. The John Marshall is taking over all that space. In line at Chipotle now. :/

La Cochina Mexicana.

Ha ha I was going to compare it to The Alley but I feel bad for Jenny, everyone piling on her restaurant recommendation. It was fine, it really was.

It's okay! It was one of three places and it sounds like you tried EAYC first, which is significantly less douchey. I mean, the Vortex has a skull door and that's cool but yeah, either it wasn't that shitty when I lived there or I didn't remember it well enough. Like I said, it wasn't my regular bar.

EAYC looked nice for a drink but they didn't have much on their food menu.

Who's going to Winter Brew this weekend again?

Jordan, my boss just forwarded me an email from a friend who likes M@m@ DD and is going to see them on F@br@y@ 1@ @ the G@@@@ @ill.

xp - I want to but I didn't get a ticket :(

Today's conversation inspired a new display name.

Thank you. That makes my abject restaurant recommendation failure a little easier to handle.

Who's going to Winter Brew this weekend again?

Yo.

sw@g

I also would love to go to winter brew -- didn't realize tickets would sell out so quick!

People are begging for tickets on Craig's List.

why's the man always tryin to keep me down?

:(

Maybe all of you jerks who didn't get tickets can hang out and drink

http://www.alienjesus.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/.chelada-1259.jpg

Whoa weird. I was JUST thinking about clams, Clamato, and "No clam???!!!"

No clam.

It's a clambake in here.

la combinacion perfecta

Do any of you dykes want to meet me for a burger or pancake and a beer? I want company out amongst people.

I think I'll never get used to the fact that "amongst" is not a real word! Or at least not the accepted American spelling. I really hope it doesn't sound like a Brit affectation b/c it completely is not.

staying in tonight 'cause I gotta get up early tomorrow

buona terra is on check please! tonight!

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?erube_fh=cp&cp.submit.restaurantDetail=1&cp.id=400

Yeah, class starts tomorrow at 9 and I have to be there early because I have to get keys and get somebody to show me how to use the fancy computer projector set up. So I'm in tonight.

I was thinking about going out to find food and/or watching a movie, but wound up getting verrrry sleepy and having a K8-E Balticburger style episode of narcolepsy on my couch at about 7:45.

Pretty bummed about missing Winter Brew :(

Finally figured out how to check e-books out of the library and all of my hold books say something like:

You are patron 13 out of 18 on the waiting list.
Library copies owned: 2

http://hornsletloebeklub.dk/wp-admin/js/gob-bluth-i11.jpg

I really don't understand this manufactured scarcity with lending e-books. If something is apparently that popular, surely its fairly easy to license another copy to satisfy demand? Maybe I just don't understand enough about how this works from the library's end. I tried to check out some e-books from the Evanston library, but I quickly gave up. I think I'm still on the waiting list for one book three months later.

I don't get how it could be harder to get e-books than physical books. When I checked out the complete poems of Anne Sexton a couple of weeks ago, there was a whole shelf of the same exact book. Probably 15 copies. (Which reminds me, I should renew that check-out online. I love that you can do that.)

hey do any of you know the name of a contact person at the whistler? if so, would you email it to me? thankeeeeee.

L.L., per our Outloud conversation the other evening, let me know if you're still interested in getting some Frank's APA sample mailings!

Wait you didn't get my facebook message? I remembered yesterday and wrote to you.

"I remembered" <-- this is one of those lame phrases they put on those little ribbons for losers, like "I did my best!" and "A+ attitude!"

I didn't get it! I just checked again to see if I overlooked it, but I didn't get it at all.

i hope i sent my address to the right WC. let's check and survey the damage...

no i sent it to the right person. check the "other" messages? or i can webmail it to you. i can't remember your actual email address, if i ever had it.