Chicago MMXII

...video gaaaames?

Happy birthday, n/a.

I had to go on FB to confirm that it was really your birthday bc I couldn't remember and I feared Carl was laying a trap.

Happy birthday n/a! Hope you get to do something fun.

Ear infections are awful carl, hang in there.

happy birthday n/a
you should teach evie to sing 50s doo wop songs and then record them

like yakety yak

Oh hey Nick, I had a dream about you last night. You had somehow experienced The Afterlife (without dying) but were annoyed that it was basically just like Life On Earth. Happy birthday.

Did you know the Map Room opens at 6:30 AM every weekday?

I knew that they were a coffee bar in the A.M., but do they serve beer, too? I don't know if y'all have been to K's Dugout (at Foster and ... Winchester, maybe?), but they used to open around that time as well since they catered to a lot of third-shift workers who wanted a drink when they got off work.

Why does K's Dugout sound so familiar?? Did we go there for your b-day drinks one time, John?

Rossi's on State St. opens at 7:00, or did years ago when I went there at 8:00 a.m. to pick up a jacket I left there the night before. There were 2 or 3 crusty looking men in there drinking beer at that time.

Quite possibly, Jesse. I haven't been there in years, but I drank there occasionally when I lived in the area. Kr still gives me shit b/c one time when we were there, I cavalierly told a middle-aged working-class dude that he should take a job he'd been offered on an oil rig in the Persian Gulf. I was all "You'll regret it if you don't!" -- which is the kind of thing 20-something college grads use as justifications for their decisions, but I obv. didn't know shit about his life.

We had someone's birthday afterparty there years ago, maybe that's it? K_lsey was there.

If the circumstances were right I think I could drink beer @ 6:30 am.

RIP Red Rooster

if you don't start in the morning you can't drink all day

K's Dugout was a New Years Eve site in '05, if you were there then with me and Jaymc, Je55e.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/542139_390623524313714_105975882778481_1162585_47734082_n.jpg

^^Mayor

Are you stalking me?

Dr. K says hi. Seriously, as I was leaving he said "Tell everybody I said hi!" LOL

fucking showoff, that guy (mayor, not dr k)

Kay's Nappy Dugout

^^^was considering posting something like this but decided it was in poor taste

Now I'm trying to keep from posting another joke about Kay's Nappy Dugout being a poor taste, but that would also be in poor taste.

bravo jvc, bravo

thanks for the bday wishes, guys. i have the day off. sarah made me peach brown sugar muffins, but then she had an interview so i've mainly just been watching evie so far. but we're going to get gelato this afternoon and somewhere else for dinner.

If you see Kay['s nappy dugout], tell her I said hi.

I can appreciate a solid Poster Children reference.

I was talking to Nick.

Enough comedy jokes.

In the immortal words of Charlie Rich:

Hey
Did you happen to see
The most nappiest dugout in the world
And if you did...

Man, that song gets me every time.

And happy birthday Nick.

Seriously, though, E: Is that photo of the lot behind my building?

JVC, I was trying to make a joke. It was a dumb joke. I hope you didn't think I was being rude to you.

I like the idea of the mayor riding his bike around behind John's apartment, pausing to stare up at his kitchen windows.

Happy n/a-Day

I like the idea of the mayor riding his bike around behind John's apartment, pausing to stare up at his kitchen windows.

Stealing pies off window sills like a hobo.

WORST Jimmy John's experience ever (still better than most Subway visits):

- They no longer serve alfalfa sprouts - HALF THE POINT OF JIMMY JOHN'S IMO is ALFALFA SPROUTS!!
- The cashier was uncharacteristically sullen. When I changed my mind and decided to add a cookie, she jabbed the register and muttered the new total
- The roast beef on my sandwich was simply horrible :( It was riddled with unchewable fat and connective tissue and dripping w/ mayo

Also, it took an unusually long time to get my order. Can't complain b/c it was still only like 3 or 4 minutes, but normally it's done before I've even put my wallet back in my pocket.

Yelpcago MMXII

i was gonna say take it to yelp, yelpor

I wonder if this "Mayor" is the dude who owns the lot and with whom I once had a minor skirmish after he blocked the alley with his car.

It was my one sure place to get sprouts in this cruel city.

In that empty lot.

http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2012/02/jimmy-johns-gourmet-sandwich-franchise/

Jimmy Johns actually came by the library today and dropped off like 15 free mini-sandwiches for some strange reason. As a thank you for being awesome I guess. Anyway, so yay Jimmy Johns.

Sucks. Can't they irridiate them?

What we need more of is irradiation.

xp

Congrats, aj. That act of kindness must have sapped my local JJ's goodness today.

I actually told them "if any of your jimmy johns comrades serve a man named Jesse K*** today, make sure to give him horrible service and food"

See, that's the kind of personalized service I expect from them.

I really liked Jimmy John's for a long time. Okay, "really liked" is an overstatement, but I would sometimes buy sandwiches from there on purpose when I had other options, because I specifically wanted a sandwich from Jimmy John's. But it's like there's a Jimmy John's punchcard in my heart, and they used up all their punches, because about three months ago I was just like... nope. I no longer like Jimmy John's.

potbelly>>>jimmy johns