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Yes, Jesse, I have. And I've seen it on enough, and varied enough kinds of people, that I'm convinced it's an oversight in at least a fair number of cases. Dunno abt Chicago, tho.

― Laurel, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, forgetting to untack your straight skirt vent? That's jsut dumb. How are you even walking??

― Laurel, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:32 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm most surprised at the ones who wear the suit jackets with the label still on the wrist, though it makes logical sense to keep it on if you want to show off the brand.

Bent caps: nostalgia + distress makes a lot of sense.

― Eazy, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:35 (seventeen years ago) link

One of the bussers at work (a gangero type--sort of a Latino Eminem) had his Timberlands tag still attached to his boots. I asked him about it, and he said (in a friendly way) "Fuck you, check it out--fucking Tims, motherfucker!" Which I think is pretty much sums up what a lot of people are trying to convey when they leave their tags on. Fuck you, check it out--Joseph Abboud, motherfucker!

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, it's embarrassing for them. But now my tea is gone and I am for bed. Lates, Chicago.

― Laurel, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link

It wasn't the amazon blonde, she played double bass. She was ~~cute~~intimidatingly gorgeous, but I'm the sort that almost always goes for the shorter brunette who's playing the dano.

― en i see kay, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Good night folks. We'll speculate on clothing and culture in the morning.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:39 (seventeen years ago) link

G'night, Jesse. I'm actually wearing a Joseph Abbout bathrobe right now (bought at steep Filene's discount, of course).

― Eazy, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

I must be so used to typing 'about' that I spelled the guy's name wrong.

― Eazy, Saturday, 3 March 2007 09:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Goddamnit. I missed something, didn't I? Oh well, I got pictures. Funny how it was too nasty to go outside until I got bored around 11. I wish I was on NYC time -- I wouldn't leave the house until 11 anyway.

No, the light in the tunnel is not manipulated by me. Just the fluorescents in the tunnel vs. the mercury vapors in the park. Also, I have a very pretty black skyscraper at the end of my street!

I hate waking up in time for work on a Saturday. Forecast calls for cloudy skies and heavy napping.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 13:36 (seventeen years ago) link

And now I am posting at 7:30 a.m. Taking over the morning shift. There was some loud thump noise that woke me up and then I couldn't go back to sleep.

I didn't really feel much attitude from the Soundbar staff, like Jesse said they just seemed really efficient at moving people around but not in a rude way. The only dicks were the other patrons. I thought it was interesting after we talked about dress codes being racist that there were a fair number of black dudes there in total violation of the dress code, wearing caps, baggy clothes and sneakers. I had fun but I had the thing where instead of drinking making me drunk, it just made me sleepy. So then when it started to get really packed and loud, I got irritable and claustrophobic instead of all YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHHH WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I hope I didn't seem like too much of a wet blanket. We went to a fancy McDonald's with Jesse.

― n/a, Saturday, 3 March 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi kenan.

― n/a, Saturday, 3 March 2007 13:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone else see what I see in that picture of the tunnel? Icicles in the middle of the tunnel = Lask Shore Drive will collapse at any minute!

Still not as bad as the Argyle Street el stop. Some of you know what I mean. That thing is a damn shame. It's literally falling apart. Chunks of wall falling out every day, water dripping everywhere -- it's not an el stop, it's a cave from Goonies.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 13:45 (seventeen years ago) link

hi nick!

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 13:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Feel better jaymc. Don't puke. Puking is like drugs: FOR LOSERS.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

There was some loud thump noise that woke me up and then I couldn't go back to sleep.

That was your neighbor. He decided that instead of jerking off this morning, he would hurl himself out the window to his death. "I can't take it anymore! This meaningless existence of no girlfriend and scheduled masturbation!"

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 14:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Ha ha. Sarah just drunkenly tried to make me come back to bed and go to sleep.

― n/a, Saturday, 3 March 2007 14:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Aw. You should go snuggle at least.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 14:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I did for a little while but I know I'm not going to fall back asleep. I'm going to watch a movie now I think.

― n/a, Saturday, 3 March 2007 14:04 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a fine idea, actually. I have movies that I've purchased and seen before, but never actually watched my own copy of. Have you seen Millions? Cuet!

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 14:07 (seventeen years ago) link

It's the Blockbuster used movie deals that get me. Like 3 for $20. So I go, ooh, I LOOOOVE this movie, and... uh... I remember liking this one a lot... and this one will do.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 14:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Dobbs is all up ons this morning. Can't get enough of my love. Can't get me outta her head. The first thing I do when she gets like this is check that she's not hungry or thirsty. But no. All she wants is me.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 14:43 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, now i'm just music listenin. Hard drugs are for bartenders.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:28 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched the special features on the Playtime DVD.

― n/a, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:31 (seventeen years ago) link

We went to a fancy McDonald's with Jesse.

I'm cringing a little, because this is a sore point right now with Jenny, Jeff, and to a lesser extent, Courtney. I seem to have a terrible knack for hauling people out to fancy/expensive places when all we wanted was a quick drink and/or snack. This even seems to be the case with McDonalds. Fortunately, the prices were not in line with its fanciness.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:35 (seventeen years ago) link

OOOH!! You know what my very favorite thing about Soundbar is? Guess. Just guess.

Also, the McD's was the one at the Chicago Red Line stop. It was so elegant that it had a little section with wingback chairs in front of a marble topped table.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I watched the special features on the Playtime DVD.

Niiice. Another thing I could have loaned out.

Jesse, you are a SCOURGE.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:39 (seventeen years ago) link

OOOH!! You know what my very favorite thing about Soundbar is? Guess. Just guess.

My guess is that you want to fuck the servers.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:44 (seventeen years ago) link

My Favorite Thing About Soundbar

by Jesse

OK, so my favorite thing about that place was that at there were windows into both the men's and women's bathrooms. The bathrooms are on each side of one of the downstairs bars, and the wall that the bar and bathroom share has a smallish window in it, through which you can see the urinals on one side (right next to the window, from about chest level, up) and the doors to the stalls on the other side. It's bizarre, and I wonder if it's in some part a security measure.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:46 (seventeen years ago) link

Does anyone else see what I see in that picture of the tunnel? Icicles in the middle of the tunnel = Lask Shore Drive will collapse at any minute!

OMG!

Or maybe the engineers had the forethought to build expansion joints.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:48 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't being serious.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:50 (seventeen years ago) link

But you KNOW what I'm talking about with Argyle station.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:51 (seventeen years ago) link

No, the Argyle station was designed with the aesthetic concept of katachi in mind, an aesthetic that joins polar opposite like inside/outside, shelter/gross dripping in your Diet Coke, and high voltage radiant heaters/constant stream of liquid.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:58 (seventeen years ago) link

If I have my mom in from out of town, that kind of decrepitness is embarrassing enough, because she's like, "Oh wow, so THIS is what public transit is like." Because she doesn't know public transit from a hole in the ground. But it's even worse when I'm with someone who lives in NY or SF, and knows what public transit SHOULD be like. And I have to be all, like, "But it's still a cool town! Really!"

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 15:59 (seventeen years ago) link

xpost HA!

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:00 (seventeen years ago) link

I didn't think the Sound Bar staff was being rude or nasty, I just hate when people boss me around, and I hate feeling herded like cattle. When the one dude was like "Ahem, bathroom's over there!" I was like, "Hey, buddy, calm down. I'm just looking around." This is the kind of thing I get into arguments with security guards about. A couple years ago I was at the DMV with my mom, and I was waiting for her near the door while she went to the bathroom. Security guard said, "You can't stand there. Get in line or leave." I said, "Oh, I'm just waiting for my mom. It'll just be a minute." He said, "Then wait outside." I said, "It'll only be a minute." He said, "I don't care, rules are you have to wait outside." I said, "But why? Is there a particular reason why I can't stand here? Am I in the way of something?" This usually ends with me doing what I'm told but shaking my head and laughing like Jack on L O S T and loudly muttering as I walk away, "Okay, but there's really no point to this."

― jaymc, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Also I have the worst hangover I've had in a couple years, but I can't get back to sleep. :(

― jaymc, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:15 (seventeen years ago) link

This is the kind of thing I get into arguments with security guards about.

You get into arguments with security guards? Come on, you can't be that dumb.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Srsly, John, these people are being told what to tell you to do, and sometimes you have to do what you're told. "There's no point in this" is not the point. You're not exactly going to shake up society by being an obstinate ass about everything.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:21 (seventeen years ago) link

HOw late did you stay out? I didn't really even get a buzz, and I left around 11:30.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, there's a kind of class-based horribleness implied in being rude to people who are, to quote Jesse, just doing their job. It's their job, dude. It's not about you.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:24 (seventeen years ago) link

shit. xpost. What Kenan said. You needed to be told what to do! You didn't know where to go, or what to do. Plus when people get in groups they get all weird dumb and need direction.

And consider things from the security guy's POV--how many dozens a people a night try to wander into that place where you were, and he has to move them out. It's sad that he can't consider the specialness each individual's desires and motivations, but really, you're a face in a crowd. (That said, they really should put up a door if they don't want people walking in there. Still, it's not that guy's fault.)

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, there's a kind of class-based horribleness implied in being rude to people who are, to quote Jesse, just doing their job.

I second that emotion.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

If I had gone home after we left the club, I would've been fine. But Dan and Horseshoe and I went to Clark St. Ale House, and I had two beers. 5 gin-and-tonics plus 2 beers = not good news. I don't think I'm a lightweight, but I rarely mix beer and liquor.

Kenan, I realize all that, but I still resist. Even if they're just doing their jobs, I feel like I'm being put in my place, and I hate that.

― jaymc, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:29 (seventeen years ago) link

(This should all be cross-posted to the "Are you afraid of cops?" thread.)

― jaymc, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Especially when they are doing their job in an efficient and polite manner!

Sorry John, but that's entirely your problem. You can't be a special snowflake all the time.

― Jesse, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Lots of times efficiency is synonymous with brusqueness, though. That's usually what bothers me.

Sorry John, but that's entirely your problem.

I totally realize this! I never said it wasn't irrational!

― jaymc, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Ok, this can be your special irrational thing, but keep it to yourself.

You know how you know you're on a date with an asshole? He's rude to the waiter. This never fails.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:34 (seventeen years ago) link

I wasn't aware you had been on so many dates with men.

Btw, the argument with the security guard would've ended a lot sooner if dude had simply said, "Hey I know it doesn't make sense, but this is what I've been told to enforce."

― jaymc, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe they don't pay him enough to be nice to people he doesn't like.

I feel like I'm being put in my place, and I hate that.

That's just whiny. STFU. Your place is where you are, and if you're uncomfortable with it, do something about that. Don't take it out on the staff.

― kenan, Saturday, 3 March 2007 16:42 (seventeen years ago) link

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