Chicago MMXII

If they privatize the El I will bike instead and that's no bull.

The private institutions that should be funding things like public transit are the companies who profit immensely by having workers that can travel to their offices downtown or elsewhere (relatively) quickly and safely on a publicly available system. They should fund that system by paying their fucking taxes instead of getting into bed with Rahm et al and putting more ads up with no other foreseeable improvements.

Or drive.

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okay that's old news now because look

http://chicago.eater.com/archives/2012/04/23/lakeview-starbucks-to-serve-wine-and-beer.php

Privatized infrastructure
Starbucks serving wine and beer
Cats and dogs living together

http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y273/earthman606/MISC/Zuul.jpg

I am actually very excited about starbucks serving booze and I will frequent once they open. Chicago lacks cafes where I can get drunk and this always bother me, but I guess it takes someone with the $$$ of starbucks to get all the licenses and stuff.

It is pretty nice to have a place to stay a while and work or just hang out with a glass of wine that isn't a bar.

I doubt I will partake in starbucks beer. That starbucks is always stupid crowded anyway and the seats smell funny.

Why are you sniffing the seats?

It envelopes. It overwhelms.

ok i can laugh about this now but blackwater is terrible
also this made me lol Chicago lacks cafes where I can get drunk and this always bother me

actual lol @ carl's pic

so i guess a bunch of nobel laureates are in town for some big summit, and some of them are staying in the hotel that makes up the lower floors of our building. my boss got turned away from one of the building's exits because there was security stuff going on, and she turned around, and the dalai lama ran by with a procession of monks behind him.

Haha wow.

Gorbachev is here too, I heard. They're at UIC.

whoa that's bananas!

I doubt I would recognize a Dali lama.

yeah CPR has been covering the summit a bit, Jimmy Carter is here too

I love Jimmy Carter.

I also love the name Jimmy. And the verb jimmy. Jimmy.

I had to explain to my students what it meant to "jimmy a lock." I also used the term "DIY" and they didn't know what that meant either. This is not to suggest that my students are dumb. Just that it's good to be reminded that not everybody knows what I know.

I also love Jimmy Carter.

This one goes out to La Lechera

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zqlCP_Qu2M

Also Polly Vaughn
http://www.contemplator.com/scotland/pollyv.html

I'm starting to think the prophesied 4 story Billabong store in the old Carsons building is not gonna come to be.

Isn't that where the Target goes? Where will we buy surf wear?

Yes, that's where Target is going. Unless that was a lie, too.

The Walgreens near DePaul (SW corner of State and Jackson) is gone and it has been replaced by the law school's student center hang-out thing.

I only buy Ocean Pacific surf gear thankyouverymuch

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I'm very hungry.

Eat your ear.

I am eating red lentil soup (which is actually yellow) and hummus from my favorite Hyde Park lunch spot. It makes me very happy.

I went to Pierogi Heaven for lunch.

While there, I spent way too much time eavesdropping on a lawyer talking to his client about a real estate sale because his voice sounded exactly like the voice of an actor who often plays professors in film and television and who I can see and hear but not name or place, and because he looked like the lawyer version of the Big Lebowski (schlubby but affable and cute in his own way).

And his client was this little old lady who was so convinced she was going to get ripped off that she ignored everything he said unless it supported her suspicion that she was going to get ripped off.

IT IS LIKE YOU WERE THERE WITH ME, RIGHT GUYS???

totes

I feel like I'm there with you for all eternity.

I wish one of you mofos were there with me to tell me who this guy sounded like. The actor is maybe in his late 40s, brown hair, has a mole on his face, and I feel like he tends to play characters that end up being bad or morally ambiguous.

Jesse, is Pita Malort your new drag name? What happened to Okra Latte?

I almost forgot about Okra Latte. How did that name come to be?

You get the reference in "Pita Malort" right?

The guy from the Hunger Games?

I think it had something to do with that Kanye West song about mocha lattes and you either misheard or just sang it as "okra lattes."

Yes, Peeta Malarkybutt.

I don't know that song.... Was Kanye performing ~ 2004? (which is when that name happened)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Workout_Plan

Oh, I didn't realize that was Kanye West. Despite the chorus saying "Thanks to Kanye's workout plan/I'm the envy of all my frans".

lol frans

Thanks to Tanya's workout plan/ I'm the envy of all my friends.

xp frans

Tanya??

Why is music so hard.

It's Kanye. I was making a joke.

Like maybe you didn't realize it WS Kanye West because you thought it said Tanya. Also Tanya's Workout Plan is funny to me. Who's Tanya?

She said and smiled in her special way.

#replacenamesinsongswithtanya