Chicago: Become Familiar with its Distinctive Neighborhoods

No, sorry. Kenan is my cat-sitter.

Hey Colette? I don't have your email address (is your ILX email the useable?) but I have terrible news: I was on call at Catch and now I'm working. (Which is bad news, but it's also good b/c my checking acct. is going to go in the red in a few days b/c I'm so damn dumb as hell.)

reasons why it pays to get to know your neighbors:

-she is cat-sitting for me over xmas

-he is recording guitar tracks for a digd0wn remix

we just need to work out the laundry thing and then we'll be straight.

I feel like as soon as I meet a neighbor, they move away. I hope that says nothing bad about me. ha ha But seriously, there is so much turn over in our building.

btw, it turns out high school girls aren't very good at basketball

Fuck you, my alma mater made it to the state finals last year.

dudez this is awesome:

http://www.youtube.com/swf/l.swf?video_id=sA-451XMsuY&eurl=http%3A//www.ilxor.com/ILX/ThreadSelectedControllerServlet%3Fboardid%3D40%26threadid%3D40378&iurl=http%3A//img.youtube.com/vi/sA-451XMsuY/default.jpg&t=OEgsToPDskIVhgrM9Xxxcg7VaYEe-c7_&&rel=1&border=0

you guys need to show this onstage somehow during the obama benefit

I'll get on that.

Fuck you, my alma mater made it to the state finals last year.

-- jaymc, Friday, 7 December 2007 15:50 (2 minutes ago) Link

but that doesn't disprove jordan's theory. they could be the best of a bad lot, it wouldn't make them very good.

that said, jordan is full of shit on this one.

that video makes me so happy

ha, that is pretty awesome

xpost

100% of the girls' high school basketball teams i've seen in the last five years are bad

OK, a little help here. My boss just emailed me

"What is on each of your Christmas wish lists?"

How do I answer that??

Is this your friend, Jordan?

http://www.filmfestivaltoday.com/uploadedimages/halfnelson_2_ryangosling_shareekaepps.jpg

she's a little prettier, and more masculine

This is causing roffles

Jenny says

Is there something that you could use at work that you might ask for? Like, is your office always cold? You could ask for a blanket. Do you get thirsty while typing? You could ask for a beer hat so you could drink diet coke without taking your hands off the keyboard. Is your butt dirty? You could ask her to install a bidet in the bathroom.

Christians be getting riled up about this stupid looking Goldan Compass movie.

The Christians who make the news are frequently completely cuckoo for cocoa puffs.

GoldEn, obviously. My typing is for shit today. The Yahoo user reviews are hilarious.

Yeah, when someone mentioned it at lunch one day - where by mention I mean just got through saying half the title - one lady yelled out, "That movie is anti-Christ!"

Gooooooooooooldan

ah, for the days of changeable screen names...

Apparently the movie totally mellowed down the atheistic leanings but the Christians are worried that kids who see the movie will want to read the books, which are apparently much more obvious in being anti-church and anti-religion in general, especially the second and third books in the trilogy.

Damn right. I don't want my kids doing any of that "reading" or "thinking".

i'm having a backlash against "really good!" YA books lately, but that makes me want to read it

What YA books caused the backlash, Jordan?

i'm having a backlash against "really good!" YA books

OTM

Did any of you ever watch the Peanut Butter Solution?

i guess harry potter, plus just a general sense that adults are reading too many kids books in lieu of adult books, plus movies being made of hp/golden compass/dark is rising/wizard of earthsea/any decent middle-school level fiction (resulting in more adults reading YA books).

but you know, people like what they like, whatever

At least those people are reading something.
Hey, guess what? I'm reading Sister Carrie, which Jenny lent me, which takes place here in the 1890s. It is very enjoyable. I want to be home reading it in bed.

that's true. i got depressed last night, listening to a teacher talk about how so many kids seem to actively dislike reading these days.

Ahh I see. Well, I suppose it helps to have some perspective on what "really good" means, or who's telling you so. But I've never stopped reading YA so whaddo I know? :)

Also if you think YA literature is just for kids and too simple/silly/immature/unsophisticated for adults who should really be reading Dickens or Amis or White Teeth or something, you could stand to broaden your understanding of YA. Sorry to be cranky, but it's true.

this is what I'm in the middle of:

http://www.amazon.com/Driver-Dangerous-Pursuit-Outlaw-Racing/dp/0061227935

Entertaining, and quite interesting at times, but wow the guy is an asshole.

Won't someone answer my plea?

Tell him what you want for xmas.

Let's start a SVHigh revivalist movement.
Bruce removed Jessica's bikini top in the pool!
Elizabeth keeps finding her clothes crumpled in a pile on her sister's floor!

Her. You racist.

xpost

kids books are for kids
young adults books are for young adults
adults books are for adults
large print books are for large prince
thesauruses are for dinosarauruses
picture books are for illiterates
internets books is for cum-muters
picture pages is for bill cosbies
nonfictions is for the truthees
fictions is for the liars

Besides, all the books you listed that have been movie-fied, Jordan, aren't just middle school-level, they're also all sci-fi/fantasy specifically, and the bubble of interest in that genre should prob be considered separately from the rise of YA lately -- seeing as how historically everything but the coldest, most technical sci-fi has generally been downgraded in age by publishers and booksellers and the public opinion because of a lingering prejudice that adults "don't" read about things that "aren't real".

The upswelling of YA in the last few years should really be taken as part of the aging of a generation of readers -- there was a partic large bunch of children born about 12-15 years ago, and they've been carrying the industry with them as they aged. Five or eight years ago the surge was in picture books, and movies were made of Jumanji and that silly Christmas thing about the jingle bell (a great book but ew, TOM HANKS??), and others. Harry Potter just helped to open the way for those kids to read SF/F, but the age group was already poised to latch onto SOMEthing.

I don't read fiction that is real.

Yeah, me neither except for middlegrade and YA. I think I lose interest in people older than about 14 unless they're very good at remembering how to be 14 (or younger).

That all may be true, but still, I don't remember adults being aware of/into the books I was reading in middle school.

xpost, you mean only fake f1ction?

I like reading about old people!

hey laurel, something you wrote about BF being offputting made me think that you would really like plexi 3. see if ian can burn you some of their singles.

xpost- I think I lose interest in people older than about 14 unless they're very good at remembering how to be 14

laurel kay letourneau.

I think I've seen plexi 3, oddly enough, with LiveFastDie at gl@sslands. I'm not sure they made a giant impression but maybe I was distracted and/or it was an off night? Certainly didn't DISlike!

how long ago was it? they haven't even been together a year yet!

Over the summer, with Theresa and sleep...it was warm weather. The rest of the line up was LFD and Aa and a very Joy Div-y post-punk band from Paris called Frustration.

i know the frustration, on s-s records?
i still think you'd dig the plexi 3 singles.

Yeah! And yes, you're probably right -- I like what they have on mice pace.

apropos of nothing, just saw it elsewhere and it made me laugh:

http://funkyimg.com/u/50442AngryGirl.jpg