my life: where is it going, where has it been
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:43 (twelve years ago) link
i literally lived in the loop, at the center of the coordinate system, when i lived in the dorms my first year of college
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Those art institute kids that are in the dorm beside my work smoke a lot of cigarettes.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
Columbia students smoke a lot of cigarettes. Actually, people in the South Loop in general smoke a lot of cigarettes.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
I kind of wish I smoked a lot of cigarettes.
― the glass of beer (askance johnson), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
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?
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:56 (twelve years ago) link
also did you know cigarettes cost like $8 a pack? i don't understand how anyone affords a serious smoking habit.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
I feel like all cooks/chefs smoke? Maybe I just get that from anthony bourdain.
xp
― the glass of beer (askance johnson), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:57 (twelve years ago) link
i smoked a lot of cigarettes outside of my saic dorm. i was in the one by carson pirie-scott, though, not the fancy newer one across from the chicago theater. (xp i have no idea which one you work by)
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
when I started smoking circa 1992, cigarettes where $2.50 a pack. A GOLDEN AGE>
― the glass of beer (askance johnson), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
i used to work on jackson but that was nearly 6 years ago
I worked on Jackson 6+ yrs ago! Technically I've only ever worked in THE LOOP for about a year, cumulatively.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
who r u 1staethyr?
the only time i smoked was when i lived in india and you could buy half-packs or even single cigarettes from the tobacco dudes
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
I smoked a lot when I was a line cook
well, not while working
― long duk dan (dan m), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:02 (twelve years ago) link
Pretty OTM.
And I smoked a cigarette w/ the wine director at B!n 36. My former co-worker who used to work at B!n said that despite being a heavy smoker, but she had an incredible nose on her.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:03 (twelve years ago) link
when i started smoking cigarettes were $3 a pack, but that was also in texas (where cigarettes are still pretty cheap)
xp i'm just a semi-lurker who live in chicago. i mostly read politics threads i guess, posted some on OWS thread
― 1staethyr, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
oh ok welcome!
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:09 (twelve years ago) link
Hi 1staethyr and welcome!
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:33 (twelve years ago) link
Hey, related to culinary students, I had dinner last week at the dining room at Kendall College. They have a weeknight prix-fixe 3-course dinner--it's like a restaurant, except the servers and everyone else is in class and being observed. Very good food, nice view of downtown.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:38 (twelve years ago) link
Hi there! Xp
DUDES I worked on Jackson six years ago! Catty corner from Amanda, even.
Also: when I started smoking, I could afford a pack of cigarettes and a tank of gas w/ my $10/week school year allowance.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
I just had a fancy lawyer lunch at Epic ending with maybe the best bread pudding I have ever eaten.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:41 (twelve years ago) link
Not Epic Burger.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:42 (twelve years ago) link
No. Epic, on Hubbard next to the terribly named Slurping Turtle.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
that is a DISGUSTING name for an establishment
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I really hate it and don't understand how anybody thought it was a good idea.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:47 (twelve years ago) link
clearly the people making decisions at that establishment cannot be trusted
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:50 (twelve years ago) link
He's a famous chef - Takashi Yagihashi.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Sapphic euphamism?
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 20:22 (twelve years ago) link
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 1:38 PM (57 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
they have this at CHIC too, when i started working at the n@tional h3adache f0undation they took me there for lunch
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
late check on interest for pub(e) quiz:
1) Own Paradise Stereos 11 pts2) Envied Alcohol 11 pts3) Finish the Lyrics 14 pts4) Chemical States Round 16 pts5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts6) Pictures 15 pts7) General Knowledge 22 pts
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:45 (twelve years ago) link
i'm not making any promises but sarah's mom is supposed to be here tonight so i MIGHT be able to convince sarah to come, even though she hates trivia
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:46 (twelve years ago) link
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmeow.........
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:51 (twelve years ago) link
I can't tonight, sorry.
― jaymc, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:53 (twelve years ago) link
But I can go pretty much any other Tuesday for the rest of my life.
oh no, Brenda's on Je55e's computer again.
― tanuki, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
I can't go.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:06 (twelve years ago) link
Me neither and I am making a grump face b/c Sarah might go and I cannot.
>:|
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:23 (twelve years ago) link
well she probably won't if no one else does. she really doesn't like trivia so i think i could only convince her if it would be more of a social thing.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:24 (twelve years ago) link
I would like to preliminarily commit to go on the week of my birthday, that would be 2/21.
― long duk dan (dan m), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 9:51 PM (33 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
This was amusing here, but when I saw it out of context on the Excelsior thread I actually snortOLed and now I can't stop giggling about it.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
― long duk dan (dan m), Tuesday, February 7, 2012 4:25 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that week is going to be nuts for me and i'll have played a show the night before (at the burlington in logan square, if anyone's interested), so it would be tough for me
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 7 February 2012 22:33 (twelve years ago) link
That got excelsiored?? Wow. I'm famous.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 02:41 (twelve years ago) link
I can't remember if we've talked about it here before or not, but the blog that broke the "gang sign city sticker" story, Second City Cop, is horrifying. I didn't feel protected by the police in any way before reading it, now I feel actively disdained by them.
― long duk dan (dan m), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:56 (twelve years ago) link
Oh god yes that blog is horrifying, iirc I was introduced to it via one of these threads.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 21:57 (twelve years ago) link
I used to read it bc at some point, he expressed a surprisingly nuanced understanding of race/poverty/crime. And then one day he's blogging about all the ghetto animals or whatever and THEN got all huffy when ppl were like "Dude, that's racist." So I stopped reading.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:04 (twelve years ago) link
Really its the comments from his readers that make it even more troubling, these are from a post about an illegal, overcrowded club:
Fuck it! 19P every call you get there...let them kill each other!
I suggest bulldozing or catching it afire the next time it's filled at four times the allowed capacity. Is hoping for an E2 repeat a bad thing?
Let an E2 type disaster happen. Show up and calmly tell everyone that fire is on the way. In the meantime let them crush, stab, shoot and whatever else they want to do to each other.
And, apparently, most of these regular commenters are cops.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:12 (twelve years ago) link
OMG yeah, now I remember why I quit reading too. Stay far far away from the comments section on the Anthony Abbate case post.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:20 (twelve years ago) link
hadn't heard about the city sticker thing at all. oops.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
I just read about the gang sign thing and it is suuuuuuper dumb. Like, super dumb. You know what those hands look like? Hands drawn by somebody who can't draw hands very well. That's it. Good christ, what a bunch of fucking dummies.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 22:58 (twelve years ago) link
Yo, I'm in Houston.
― Jeff, Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:12 (twelve years ago) link
We're losing Jeff to Big Oil.
― ‘Neuroscience’ and ‘near death’ pepper (Eazy), Thursday, 9 February 2012 00:57 (twelve years ago) link