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I think this was my first ILE post:

Soul Vegetarian! Yes!

Oddly enough, some of my favorite restaurants in Chicago tend to be veggie places with a religious aspect to them. Especially the Buddhist joints, like Victory's Banner (for breakfast), Amitabul, and the new, delicious Alice & Friends.

I'll also third Andie's -- it is a shade better than Reza's, methinks.

jaymc (jaymc) on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 1:57 PM (3 years ago)

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:34 (seventeen years ago) link

That was on my (ex) ex-girlfriend's birthday, coincidentally.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:35 (seventeen years ago) link

i have no idea what my first post was. No recollection at all. I'm sure it was on ILM, though.

― kenan, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

And I think this is my first ILM post:

Hey nabisco, et al. -- how come no Pitchfork writers voted in the Pazz & Jop? Seems like writing for the site should be make you far more reputable than some of the freelancers they get lists from. Then again, I don't know what's involved in submitting a list.

Partially, I bring it up cuz I feel like PFM writers could have some sway. At least Enon, who put out such a fun record (#15 on Pitchfork's year-end), wouldn't have to languish at #733 (!!) on P&J02.

jaymc on Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:09 PM (4 years ago)

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:39 (seventeen years ago) link

First thread I ever started

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't find my first post. It was after I found my name encoded by John in a conversation about the Ditty Bops.

― Eazy, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a very jaymc post.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

This was the first thread I started on ILE!

jaymc (jaymc) on Monday, September 27, 2004 10:42 AM (2 years ago)

― Eazy, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

HEY I remember that, Eric!

I don't remember my first post, either. It might have been after the BYOM bday party, or right before.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Did somebody say The Ditty Bops?

Jesus, I know ALL of you!

I won't even say what I was googling to end up at this page at 1 a.m. on a Sunday night.

Flaneur on Sunday, September 4, 2005 11:45 PM (1 year ago)

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I assumed it was this, Jenny:

It was really nice to meet everyone! You're pretty okay for a bunch of internet people.

jennyb on Sunday, October 3, 2004 9:23 AM (2 years ago)

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I think this was the first ILM thread I started

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:56 (seventeen years ago) link

lol @ "a bunch of internet people"

― dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:58 (seventeen years ago) link

The first thread I ever started was the one about piercing babies' ears. That might be the only one I've started, except the one on the sandbox about ominous literary gifts from dates.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the first one I started was about when K@t|3 and M@tt (my roomie, for those who haven't met him) were breaking up, and I was afraid I was going to have to choose sides. Thankfully, I just ignored both of them for about a month while they hated each other.

― dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I never start threads anymore.

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't someone like Adamrl once start a thread for excelsioring yourself?

The best song I heard by this German-rapper-sounding guy (and believe me, this is going to be embarrassing once I figure out who it is) was this great song about "she's just my friend" -- an ode to friends-with-benefits.

Flaneur on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 9:50 AM (1 year ago)

Otto von Biz Markie?

jaymc (jaymc) on Tuesday, September 6, 2005 9:52 AM (1 year ago)

Also LOL at "German-rapper-sounding guy" ... it was Rhymefest, right?

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:07 (seventeen years ago) link

The only ILE thread I remember starting is the retarded potato cat one. There a bunch of ILM threads, most of which sunk like stones.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh lordy, my first post was, as far as I can tell, on the thread "ILX: Pantheon Champion (Who is yr favorite god/dess?).

Isn't it obvious? Pythia, of course, speaking of "remnants of ancient cults." I'm still waiting for them to reclaim Delphi in my honor. Wouldn't set a move-in date just yet.

Pyth on Tuesday, August 21, 2001 8:00 PM (5 years ago)

― Laurel, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, yeah, it was Rhymefest. I was stumped for days trying to remember.

― Eazy, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:19 (seventeen years ago) link

i stopped looking after 6 pages of search results with another 19 (at least) still to go but this is the earliest i could find:

my favorite place in western mass is that 170 degree turn on the mohawk trail (in adams maybe?). always fun when you forget it's there and have to go from 60 to 20 or careen off the side of the mountain.
my sister and her husband moved to bennington last fall, they live next to the war monument so pop in and see them the next time you're in the neighborhood.

-- otto midnight (otto_midnigh...), April 28th, 2003 6:14 PM. (link)

i don't remember what username i used to use here years ago. it wasn't the one i thought it would be, someone else had it!

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

classic if only for the fact that it lead to bodily harm of billy crystal.
-- otto midnight (otto_midnigh...), March 24th, 2003 5:29 PM. (link)

i like this out of context.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

In as much as I wish bodily harm on anybody, I wish it on Billy Crystal.

When Jeff and I got home last night all drunk we watched the Cosby Show and it was surprisingly enjoyable. Also, my supervising attorney was at the live TAL show last night, too, which is kind of weird but hopefully will make him love me enough to hire me to work here.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:42 (seventeen years ago) link

i got to the bar at 8:07 last night, the bar opens at 8. i stayed there until past 2 a.m. talking aaaalllllllll night and i never have anything to say. my entire body is one giant knotted cramp right now.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Talking to a lovely lady?

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:46 (seventeen years ago) link

lots and lots of black sabbath.
-- otto midnight (otto_midnigh...), February 27th, 2003.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Have any of you heard of Undergr0und L0ung3? (@ corner of Clark, Sh3ffield + N3wport)

― KitCat, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I hope that was your first post, Kevin!

― KitCat, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

talking to a friend and then to some dude about the relative expectations of the bulls and celtics. then i almost hit a dude because he would rather listen to the clash than the johnnie taylor record the dj had on. i fucking hate that prick, i've seen him around before and he's always a douche.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:48 (seventeen years ago) link

sarah, my ex wicker park ex works across the street from the UGLounge. i've been there plenty of times.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I've heard of it but never been.

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Ever seen a band play there??

― KitCat, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:52 (seventeen years ago) link

no, i only went for post work drinks.

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:54 (seventeen years ago) link

also, kiss lyrics rule:

She's Good Looking and She's looking like she should be Good

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Their upcoming shows look... unpromising.

(They emailed us asking about our availability - we never contacted them)

― KitCat, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

The fact that I didn't even realize it was a music venue doesn't bode well.

― jaymc, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link

It just seems really random to me. It would maybe seem less random if they myspaced us or something.

― KitCat, Friday, 2 March 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

My first 2 Usenet posts

I was 17. I was annoying as hell.

― Jeff, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link

OMG!!!

Someone read teh Redeye this morning!!! I'm at the library where there is an older man in a suit logged into Sugardaddies.com!! (A place for cute young women to meet their sugar daddies, doncha know?)

― Jesse, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:03 (seventeen years ago) link

There was an article about it in the Redeye this morning.

― Jesse, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

As annoying as Chris Everett?

Little internet Jeff = f'in adorable!

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:05 (seventeen years ago) link

I rated Jeff's first USENET post 5 STARS

― dan m, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

why were you thinking about christ everett at 1 a.m.?

― chicago kevin, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

That article quotes Catharine MacKinnon.

― Jenny, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

oof sorry about this jaymc but i forgot i promised a friend i'd go to the bulls game tonight..missing the free beer & entry at sound bar. oh well. Feel free to give me a call after, my friend's gf just broke up w him and we're looking for some drinking to go down.

― deej, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

After a quick check, everything I posted on a metal board during high school seems to be have been lost to time. Thank god.

― Jordan, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

computer keeps dying
and coming back to life
and dying
and coming back one more time to tease me
and then dying again
then knocking on the door to be let in again because it's gonna be different this time it promises

i am going to smash it

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link

my first post was about slant 6, i think. i had been lurking for about a week.

― La Lechera, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I probably responded to that post because I was all into Slant 6 back in the day.

― KitCat, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

OK, so my work nemesis, let me tell you about him. He was extra aggressive this morning, scowling and speaking to no one. At one point he saw me talking with a coworker (I was talking about this morning's CTA problems) and he came up to me, lunged a little (clenched his fists at his side and puffed up his chest) and said, "What the fuck are you talking about? Are you bitching? You got something to say?"

For the rest of the day if we walked anywhere near each other he made sure to brush me with his elbow, and at one point as I was walking away from him he said, "fucking cocksucker" under his breath! He's NUTS. This is going to stop.

― Jesse, Friday, 2 March 2007 21:12 (seventeen years ago) link

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