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How is it different from a large mixing bowl, Jordan?

Just kidding, I googled it. But I am v v v unconvinced.

So that shooting at a certain department store? One of our clients was on the phone w/ someone at the store and heard the shots and the shit hitting the fan.

Uh, I don't know, I haven't opened the box yet. :> There may be no difference, will let you know.

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I'm a little skeptical too, but I had some of the coffee at my dad's place on Thxgiving and it was great.

oh fuck, somehow my car payments have not been going through for the last three months, so now i have to pay them all at once. everything looks correct on the website, but i upped the amount three months ago and then it stopped working, i guess. :(

I make cold-brewed iced tea in the summer and it works great! But all it requires is a lot of cheap tea bags and a large bowl of tepid water. Combine, leave for 45 minutes, et viola, you have tea.

When you want hot coffee, do you then microwave each mug?

I think so. One of my friends in high school had a cold brew coffee maker. Her family kept coffee in the fridge at all times. Whenever you wanted a mug, you just zapped it. It was good and strong.

I guess!

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Speaking totally hypothetically: If I tried to get a DJ gig at Schubas' upstairs room (like Nick and I did that one time), would people come? I'd probably have to persuade M@tt Ruc1ns that I could draw a crowd.

1) Yes. Definitely.
2) What is a good kind of tea to give someone for Christmas? I suppose it should come in a nice tin or something to look presentable, as opposed to a flimsy box of tea by Celestia1 Seas0nings or something.

What should I get my male co-workers for Xmas? The lady is easy--nice plant, candles, or tea--but the guys are harder. Maybe wine for the partner. What about the assoc--he's into sports. What can I get a sports fan??????

TELL ME

a classy sports-related gift is one of those baseball caps with the beer can holders and straws built in

or a telephone shaped like a football

NICK

you're welcome

Sarah, go here.

i would maybe come to a dj gig

Speaking totally hypothetically: If I tried to get a DJ gig at Schubas' upstairs room (like Nick and I did that one time), would people come? I'd probably have to persuade M@tt Ruc1ns that I could draw a crowd.

YES! this is what i've been banging on about since i moved here, especially if you play lots of music that's fun to dance to...

that's funny that you went to high school with liz, she seems really cool. you should feel free to drop by after the gig if you're not still "partying" with barak-- i think a few people are going to be coming from other things like other parties or work. it's all mellow at my house.

p.s. i am so so glad i have a down coat, i'd forgotten how darn cold it gets here. i think i've settled into my winter uniform. it is:

running tights (thick fleecy ones)
jeans or cords or other pants
optional: nylons or tights under running tights if it's extra cold
tall boots
long sleeved t-shirt
cashmere sweater
cashmere hoody
down coat

i was almost toasty waiting for my train and i still have optional tights and optional tank top/short sleeved t-shirt under these layers.

I thought of a place for Jesse to go, although it's probably like Moody's in that it's really a pub with decent bar food rather than a fine-dining establishment:

Monk's Pub.

Also would be a good Thirsty Thursday.

(Speaking of which, are we still doing that tonight? There's a work happy hour tonight as well, but I don't know who's going, and although I'd like to get to know some of my co-workers better, I'd also just as soon hang out with you folks.)

Colette, *what* exactly have you been banging on about? Wanting to dance?

How much of that do you take off at work, Colette?

Day job only, natch.

1. I would probsibly come to a DJ thing.

2. I have been to Monks and it is fine.

3. I love eggs.

And yeah, Liz is pretty cool. We were never close in high school (she was a year above me), but we had a few mutual friends and so I hung out with her a bit. (I remember going to see Ed Wood with her and some other people and dining at Fuddrucker's beforehand. Also her defending Counting Crows in the car on the way there and when I said I liked the song "Anna Begins," she thought I was making fun of her.) Anyway, we fell out of touch, as people do, and then somehow we discovered in early 2005 that we were living a block away from each other, so I went to a Memorial Day party she had, she came to see my band a couple times, I cat-sat for her once, and that's about it. I like her husband, too.

I also remember being in awe of her smarts in high school, too. She wrote an article for the newspaper that used the word "espouse" and a short story for the literary magazine with a title in Latin (NB: our school district didn't offer Latin) (and yes, I'm aware that I used a Latin abbreviation to point that out).

i take off very little at work-- only the hoody at the moment, and coat obviously. it's not a very warm office, and i'm someone that's almost always cold.

i've been telling everyone how much fun it is that london ILX does poptimism once a month, which is hiring out the upstairs of a bar, playing great fun music that doesn't get played elsewhere typically, and dancing in a relaxed environment.

xpost-- i haven't met her husband yet, but look forward to it. it's funny because i've only met her IRL once i think, but have talked online quite a bit.

Oh, then that's almost exactly what this would be. If you can get people to dance, that is. When Nick and I did it a year and a half ago, it was after a C4n4sta show, so the only people that were there were people that had already come to the show and were just looking to extend their night a little while, so they hadn't come with the express purpose of dancing. But there were a few people that shook their tailfeathers, so to speak.

Oh yikes, I'd die in that many layers all day. For one thing I'd be a stuffed sausage, and none of my jeans are even CLOSE to roomy enough to get another layer underneath. For another, I'd overheat as soon as I entered a building. I'm amazed you can do it!

xp Like when P@t L0b0yk0 requested "Erotic City."

i think it would be fun to do some djing again. though i didn't do a great job last time, my choices were too obscure and i worried too much about the segues.

Laurel in that many layers:

http://data2.collectionscanada.ca/ap/a/a181095.jpg

I want to play something from the new Kylie Minogue album.

"Wow" or "Heart Beats Rock."

i haven't heard anything from her new album, but i think i might like it from what i read. and kylie is always good for getting people to dance!

laurel, i look a bit like that as well, but i don't like tight jeans so i can fit the layers under a couple pair i have (not all, which does limit choices in winter)

Would you be DJ Se@worthy?

re: Jesse's quest, expanding on what I wrote yesterday: The Third Coast Cafe dates back to the 1930s. At the time it opened, it was on the same block as Poetry magazine when they were publishing "The Waste Land" and such, and Hemingway lived in an attic room a few doors down as well. It still has some of that feel of a sophisticated city place, more in an intellectual sense than a money one. (That's one of the things I like about Toronto -- the heart of the city is still the heart of the new culture as well.) When I lived above it for a few years, across the street was the Three Arts Club, which housed young poetesses and musicians and sculptors, and they would come into the cafe and hang out and smoke, as well as old couples and law students from Loyola and Northwestern. So I'd again recommend it.

The topic ofthis article (about the guy who did the photographs that Richard Prince wholly appropriated and sold for gajillions) really gets my goat. Best quote (from the photographer whose photographs were photographed by Prince and are now, unattributed, on posters and in museums): "If I italicized ‘Moby-Dick,’ then would it be my book? I don’t know. But I don’t think so.”

i have always wanted to go to monk's, ever since i first moved here and used to ride the green line into the loop everyday. also, is there a thirsty thursday afoot? i'd be down for a couple but i need to get back relatively early so i can get carrots and celery for a beef stew i'm making tonight. i'm going to put it in the crockpot and let it cook overnight. when i get home from work tomorrow i'm going to hit the polish bakery across from tuman's and get some crusty chewey bread and gorge myself on stew.

i've been telling everyone how much fun it is that london ILX does poptimism once a month, which is hiring out the upstairs of a bar, playing great fun music that doesn't get played elsewhere typically, and dancing in a relaxed environment.

substitute "drinking" for "dancing" and you have wednesday's upstairs at delilah's.

I would go to a bar tonight after work if peeps be wanting to go. I went to that Old Timers place earlier in the summer, it was definitely way cheap. I'd also go to a DJ night. I know someone who used to DJ at Rod@n, but he told me the boss yelled at him one night when he played Circle (my friend said it was a krauty number that he thought had enough groove to be ok), and so my friend got pissed and quit doing it.

kevin, dancing is the key part-- it's what keeps you young!

I don't like dancing.

Eric- how did you wind up living in Gold Coast?

What about that topic gets your goat, Eazy? I kind of like Prince, but I know what Peter Schjeldahl means when he describes him as the "quintessential artist in his generation" and not in a good way (as though his impulses toward postmodernism are superficial).

Richard Prince, that is. Not the Purple One.

Today I hate:
* cars that need repairs
* and cost me money I don't have

Thank you that is all.

*Whiskers on kittens
*Stank purple mittens

^^^i read this like you were talking about Prince the musician, and it still sort of makes sense (except for the "not in a good way" part)

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*Acerbic young women
*Wearing false eyelashes

Richard Prince's work is what bugs me about the article. The images he uses are visually arresting because a photographer, albeit on a commercial assignment, made it visually arresting. Somehow a photograph of a photograph seems more of a sham than what Warhol and Koons have done, and the idea that this other uncredited and unpaid photographer's arresting image is on banners all around the Guggenheim is just infuriating -- exactly like having someone same 'nasta or the FFs and have that unpaid "hook" be a top-10 hit earning millions for the "musician" who "made" it.

I rented a studio in the Gold Coast from 2002-2005, when I was working in the Loop and working a second job (the one I still do) as well as arty projects -- made sense to have a short commute, and it was at a time when rents were more reasonable (first two years they offered me a free months' rent to take the place).

I checked back with that building, and the rent is crazy now, $950 for a studio.