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There was this fancy pizza place in Richmond near my work where I used to go get lunch sometimes and they had this pizza with sundried tomato pesto, artichoke hearts, shredded spinach and cheese and it's like the No. 1 thing I miss about Richmond.

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

No. 2: cheap rent

That's about it

― n/a, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The vet just called and told me not to feed my kitten after midnight.

http://blog.txapulin.net/img/gremlins.jpg

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Also jealous of office pizza party. I had three TJ's hot dogs for lunch.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:13 (seventeen years ago) link

I want me a friggin' artichoke pizza.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:28 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.laroccaspizzeria.com/images/pizza_sm2.jpg
http://www.apsupermarket.com/recipes/images/artpizza.jpg

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:33 (seventeen years ago) link

too
much
pizza

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:36 (seventeen years ago) link

(burp)

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

I need a couch in my cube.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:37 (seventeen years ago) link

BEER. I need beer in my cube.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah I was thinking that Moretti was looking pretty good up there...

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:42 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm totally ordering artichoke pizza right now.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:43 (seventeen years ago) link

guys it's not going to come for an HOUR!!!

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Did you order from Marcello's? They always say longer than it really takes.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

yes, and I was just thinking that, Dan! it'll probably be here in 20 minutes. bless you, Marcello's!

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha, way to be spontaneous.

I was googling for artichoke pizza and the pic with the beer happens to be from a place 15 min away from me. Soooo tempting.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm extremely influence-able when it comes to ILX, apparently. and, let's be honest, when it comes to food.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:50 (seventeen years ago) link

So if we start talking about alcohol will you get drunk in the middle of the afternoon?

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

hi I'm a grad student, it's a struggle for me not to do that every single day!!!

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Grad school would kill me.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:57 (seventeen years ago) link

it is not for the undisciplined, meaning I should drop the fuck out already.

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 19:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i think a beer sounds like a delightful idea.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:09 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.wondermark.com/comics/263.gif

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:12 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm totally swamped at work today. It's kind of exciting. I just spent the last hour trying to prove that two Australian tennis players from the 1930s were not in fact the same person.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:14 (seventeen years ago) link

ahhhh sweet pizza

― horseshoe, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:16 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the best bet is to try and buy used as much as possible - clothes, shoes, whatever. That way you can get quality goods, save money, and subvert the cycle of capitalism-mandated overmanufacturing and its subsequent landfill-choking waste.

OTMFM. so very much.

Plus part of the time I buy free-range meat, and it is a goal to do so more often.

i would like to do this as well, but i don't buy meat much, what with living with a vegetarian.

i hope i didn't come across as a total ranting overdefensive meat eater (i probably did)--i've been exposed to some aspects of self-righteous veganism that reeeeally get my heckles up.

meh. anyway. i just ate the hell out of some really fucking good gnocchi.

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I have a making-fried-chicken date with my ex tonight.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

(no euphemism)

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:29 (seventeen years ago) link

I predict grease spatters.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

I only buy free range lettuce.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Pfffft, not ORGANIC free range lettuce?!? Don't you care about ANYTHING?

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I DEMAND CRUELTY-FREE LETTUCE. NO INSECT LIFE-FORMS WERE HARMED IN THE TILLING OF THIS FIELD.

― Laurel, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link

SQUEEEEEEE

My friend 3rica is coming to town this weekend for her art show opening! ME HAPPY

Anyone want to go? It's on Friday.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Is she the one you did the make-out porn with?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:43 (seventeen years ago) link

i'm going to two shows friday dan, sorry.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Hahahaha no, that was one of her classmates.

Gallery page

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Btw I'm going to try an America's Test Kitchen trick my dad told me about, using crushed melba toast for chicken breading. Apparently it comes out a lot closer to KFC-style breading than crushed cornflakes or whatever.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:49 (seventeen years ago) link

The oven fried chicken recipe I make uses melba toast.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:50 (seventeen years ago) link

This is also oven-friend

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Probably the same recipe, since mine came from the Cooks Illustrated Best Recipe cookbook. Does it involve a buttermilk brine?

― Jeff, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 20:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Maybe? All I got from my dad was the melba toast, to be combined with M's traditional recipe. Buttermilk brine sounds rad, though.

I should get that book, I love the hell out of Cook's Illustrated.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:15 (seventeen years ago) link

i just added every movie that looked even vaguely interesting about chicago to my netflix queue, anyone have any recommendations?

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:23 (seventeen years ago) link

No movies, but this book has been awesome:

from my employer

In case that link is blocked for ya...

Arguably the most influential document in the history of urban planning, Daniel Burnham’s 1909 Plan of Chicago, coauthored by Edward Bennett and produced in collaboration with the Commercial Club of Chicago, proposed many of the city’s most distinctive features, including its lakefront parks and roadways, the Magnificent Mile, and Navy Pier. Carl Smith’s fascinating history reveals the Plan’s central role in shaping the ways people envision the cityscape and urban life itself.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:26 (seventeen years ago) link

There was supposed to be a second Navy Pier! I think down by where the Museum Campus is now, maybe a little farther. The elevations and other drawings in the book are crazy.

― dan m, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link

i've read some of burnham's plan. there used to be that mural on the wall next to that building that ran along the north side of 290 that had some of it painted out. it was next to the true value building. both buildings are now condos, they destroyed the mural this past fall.

that looks interesting dan, i'll check that out when i'm done the books i'm reading now.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

I've not read that whole book, but yeah, there is some really great things in there.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link

i miss you guys. Where you go?

― kenan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Has anyone heard Maxim0 Park? Apparently C0ugar is opening for them in Europe next month.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

never heard of them, sorry.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:05 (seventeen years ago) link

also, i really love the name "cougar" for a band since the recent silk pajamas scandal.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:06 (seventeen years ago) link

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