Chicago MMXII

I'm looking at my Flickr account today on my extended lunch break.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/56/130487620_289c266091.jpg

clearly

I have seen some shameful toilets in my day, but that one might be up with the best. And by best, I mean, "I'm leaving this restroom to go piss next to the dumpster"

that's a cute pic of n + s

Strange, these two pics were not meant to relate to one another at all, but they are on the same page of my feed.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/54/130487462_2f29d65a95_n.jpghttp://farm1.staticflickr.com/49/128217175_24c95cad6d_n.jpg

I think I remember that. It's at Quenchers, right? You'd accompanied me to Pep Boys, and we waited at the bar while my car was getting fixed.

Yes, Quenchers. I forgot what we were doing there.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/51/130487505_01d26cfe65_n.jpg

is the pic of me & sarah from ronnies? if so, i think it was the fake fics show that kenan took some pretty awesome pics of, where we were using desk lamps on the floor for lighting

i'm guessing that because it looks like i'm wearing my red cococoma t-shirt

oh that's got to be ronnys because it's got that weird ugly mural that used to be on the wall in the background

http://www.flickr.com/photos/fluxion/1425126863/

that night. lol at our huge set list.

read this if you want to be depressed about chicago cops
http://www.vice.com/read/ricky-bradley-murder-k-town-chicago

one more reason on the pile

Can you even reach the top of the pile to toss it on top though? So disgusted.

HEY planning announcement:

ilx user mh will be in chicago -- please consider a happy hour timed fap on tuesday june 5. where shall we meet? i'll make sure that the weather is grey, misty, windy, and uncomfortably cold, don't worry.

We will be out of town.

i'm going to the hollows/coffin pricks/radar eyes/summer girlfriends show at subterranean tonight if anyone else wants to go

the last thursday night i have class, no can do :(

that's me! I'm going to be there! woo.

Who's you?

I will gladly join a fappy hour on June 5. I don't care too much re location.

I am mh.

Aw fudge, figures we'd be out of town when mh was here.

I was confused and thought you were in a band that n/a is going to see tonight.

yeah, there was a crossposting

I'll be around. Where's convenient for you, mh?

I mean like neighborhood-wise.

what of note occurs on July 4 in your burg?

I try to stay away from things of note, but we can arrange something if you like?

jaymc -- i was thinking that we could meet for a happy hour type thing nearish where ppl work and then if anyone is interested, i would like to see this at the whistler, but i know it's out of the way for most people and i am willing to abandon ship on that plan as this ensemble plays every tuesday through the end of june.
http://whistlerchicago.tumblr.com/search/bootstrap

Pretty much everywhere should be convenient. I'm going to be staying downtown in a loop-ish direction, but that is my wandering around day so I should be able to get most places.

Yo tomorrow is bourbon county stout night at Paddy Longs. Someone needs to come split a bottle of bramble rye with me.

i don't know what most of those words are but i might be down

We have to get more than one other person in on that, because two people, one bottle? That's a lot of whiskey, dude.

it's beer, not whiskey

sun times doing some awesome fear-trolling lately: http://www.suntimes.com/12550813-417/your-laptop-could-come-under-attack-at-nato-experts-warn.html

it's a stout, not a whiskey

courtney's family is in town this weekend and they really want to go back to paddy long's, so maybe that can be an Event

xp - if the NATO summit doesn't kill my co-worker, I will... He can't get it through his head that the street closures and heightened security are not all specifically put in place only to counter protesters.

What a fucking useless piece. I especially like this warning "Security experts say your laptop and smartphone may be targeted by attackers or borrowed by free-loaders."

Those non-contributing bastards.

Where is Jesus when we need him, to throw the religious scholars out of the temple, because it really belongs to the money-changers?

Can we all agree to meet somewhere in the middle wrt expecations for the NATO summit? My office, located pretty close to a lot of the shit, has ignored announcements that the entire rest of our building will be closed Friday-Monday and insisting that "eh, it's going to be nothing, a lot of hoo-hah over just another day". But I'm also not down with the "ZOMG YOU WILL BE ATTACKED, MURDERED, KILLED, AND HAVE YOUR WI-FI STOLEN IF YOU BREATHE" crowd either.

I just want pictures.

Yes, it is a beer. Anyway, I'll be there around 5 pm tomorrow, assuming I'm not hung over from tonight. Event starts at 7 pm.

It sounds like Dan and Rachel bought so much beer for tonight that maybe we should be each other's "stop drinking" buddies. We don't need a designated driver, but I have to actually do work tomorrow.

i saw multiple helicopters, 20-30 homeland security SUVs, a bank boarding up its marble lion murals, and absolutely zero sign of any protests. i thought i'd be able to get a pic of one of the helicopters from my office window but it turns out the angle is wrong so there's a building in between.

anyways we're "working from home" tomorrow and on monday. my boss has the day off tomorrow and basically said she doesn't expect us to be productive at all.

I'm off work Monday, but I'll be in the melee, if only as an impartial observer.

Wish me luck not getting arrested for taking pictures of cops. Which btw is technically still illegal, for reasons that are so unconstitutional it makes me grit my teeth.

There has been a pretty impressive fleet of identical black sedans and SUVs parked in the lot south of McCormick place since earlier this week. Probably at least 300 of them. I couldn't tell what kind of plates they had, if any.

Can we all agree to meet somewhere in the middle wrt expecations for the NATO summit? My office, located pretty close to a lot of the shit, has ignored announcements that the entire rest of our building will be closed Friday-Monday and insisting that "eh, it's going to be nothing, a lot of hoo-hah over just another day". But I'm also not down with the "ZOMG YOU WILL BE ATTACKED, MURDERED, KILLED, AND HAVE YOUR WI-FI STOLEN IF YOU BREATHE" crowd either.

― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, May 17, 2012 7:00 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My employer is taking the "We will not be cowed by terrorist protesters! We will carry on!" attitude. I will also bet big money most bigwigs stay home. Also a certain person who signs drivers' licenses closed his agency in Friday and Monday, but considering he rolls w/ body guards when he runs down to Taco Bell for lunch, I think he's paranoid.

Is *photographing* cops illegal? I was pretty sure that videotaping them was illegal due to the antiquated eavesdropping law that says you can't record audio w/out permission, which is what you're doing w/ a video camera.

I drove through the Loop and Financial District and it was thick w/ city, state, and federal police SUVs.

The photo/video thing is that favorite of law enforcement -- a grey area big enough that they can kick your ass and intimidate others from participating, but don't have to do the paperwork needed to actually arrest you. You just get held for hours and then "charges" are dropped. Because there aren't any. But you can bet you won't be taking pictures again.

I think I'm getting more cynical by the second over here. Been listening to Billy Bragg and assorted other union/protest songs all day.