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omg! but what does "carl agatha" MEAN? should i not call you "J____" anymore?

It's what I named a character in Rock Band once, kind of after a character in Battlestar Galactica who is super dumb and handsome (Carl Agathon). So it is like a two layer cake of dorkiness. Three layers if you consider it is now an Internet message board handle.

You can still call me Jenny!

oh duh! carl agathon is helo!

I've never seen you as a Carl.

Carl Smithers is a little upset that he won't be the most famous Carl around these parts anymore.

ALSO CAN I BE A SHILL FOR A SECOND and encourage you all to attend the (erotic) FICTION CONTEST held by Jenny-Carl's health organization at which:

* There will be no reiki
* I will make my triumphant return to the stage
* I will loan a book to Dr Advance Johnson
* I might tell you my Mom Samsamuel story but only if there are not too many ppl listening

It is THIS SUNDAY and I vow to BRING IT.

I like the cognitive dissonance of a buxom lady with a butch name.

Wait, wait, wait, there's going to be a La Lechera's Parlor of Sinful Tales?

Yes.

OMG

oh duh! carl agathon is helo!

Yeah! But he was such a dimbulb that I often felt compelled to scold him using his full name.

http://joepahl.is/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/sagan-galaxy.jpg

http://www.geni.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/agatha-christie.jpg

It's my Beaver Trilogy. I'm the first installment, then someone (probably not Sean Penn, maybe someone classy like Sarah Polley) will come along and fictionalize this talent show, and that will then be made into another 3rd installment by a known Hollywood weirdo (I am hoping for the woman fka JT Leroy) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beaver_Trilogy

Then all three installments will not be released on DVD ever.

god, I think I have the beaver trilogy sitting on my hardrive somewhere, I should actually watch it one day

though the trilogy can't really be as good as the this american life piece about it

I dunno, I think it might be. No Ira Glass, for one.

oh hey it's on youtube

I have seen it in a thee-ate-er

beaver trilogy, sounds like my prom night!

I just had a great idea.

Is it about Nick's prom night?

No but it relates to the Beaver Trilogy. I'm actually the THIRD part.

I have seen it in a thee-ate-er

Me too!

Anyway, not to be a PEDANT, but doesn't Agathon from BSG spell his first name with a K?

yes but i like carl agatha more than karl agatha, so i think Jenny should keep it

ALSO CAN I BE A SHILL FOR A SECOND and encourage you all to attend the (erotic) FICTION CONTEST held by Jenny-Carl's health organization at which:

Hey, am I actually reading in this thing? I said I would but I don't remember if I got confirmation. Sadly I'm pretty sure that whatever I read will definitely not touch last year's selection.

Jesse--this will be a great warm-up for your one-man show!

Are you guys writing this stuff, or is it like smut karaoke?

xpost he does, but carl agatha spells it with a c.

Jesse, it will prob be like last year and you'll just have to show up and volunteer.

I am not writing anything. I only WISH I had written what I read last year. It's really a shame the video didn't turn out b/c that was one of my top 10 shining moments in life. SEMI-EDIBLE SLURRY (paraphrased?)

I wrote mine, but it is high concept and involves images and a projector.

Oh! Wow.

Is accidentally-racist-jokes karaoke in that Top 10?

Definitely.

have any of you guys been to native foods? it's a vegan restaurant chain and there's one in the loop on south clark. i'm intrigued, might check it out next time i have $$$ to eat out: http://nativefoods.com/

I haven't been, but a non-veg friend was talking up the one in Wicker Park. Sounded promising.

if i were in WP i'd probably eat somewhere else but for the loop it's exciting.

i just mean there are lots of interesting places with veggie options in WP, not so much downtown

i go to the loop 2-3x a year

maybe a few times more

i remember when i only went to the loop 2-3 times a year. i was so young then. so naive.

Let's line up by how many times you've been to the loop.

Thanks to school I pretty much live there.

Thanks to work I pretty much work there.

I've probably only ever been to the loop like a couple dozen times.

However, I have a workshop at the Harold Washington Library next Friday and I'm really excited! I will be able to ride the el to work and everything.

i used to work on jackson but that was nearly 6 years ago

SIX YEARS AGO ffs

my life: where is it going, where has it been

i literally lived in the loop, at the center of the coordinate system, when i lived in the dorms my first year of college

Those art institute kids that are in the dorm beside my work smoke a lot of cigarettes.

Columbia students smoke a lot of cigarettes. Actually, people in the South Loop in general smoke a lot of cigarettes.

I kind of wish I smoked a lot of cigarettes.

i was always bugged out that culinary students at CHIC (when i worked next door to CHIC) smoked so much - like don't you need those taste buds, dudes?

also did you know cigarettes cost like $8 a pack? i don't understand how anyone affords a serious smoking habit.

I feel like all cooks/chefs smoke? Maybe I just get that from anthony bourdain.

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