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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

Apparently they're a post-punk band on Warp.

silk pajamas scandal.

Waht?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Hi clowns.

Well, today I say, Welcome back, iTunes. You say it will be different this time, and that we can make it work, but have you really changed since we've been apart? It's been long enough that I forgot exactly why I hated you so, but my iPod came between me and Winamp, so I am driven back into your arms. Don't hurt me this time, please?

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Hey, by the way, is this sort of my ILX thumbnail sketch?

also, when i think of jesse i hear his voice but i hear him making absurd comments like "i invented the exclamation point" or "do you like my vest? it's made from shoelaces."

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

silk pajamas scandal.

Waht?

up until last week i was blissfully unaware that the female equivilant of a chickenhawk is a cougar.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

Maxim0 P4rk is pretty good, the best of that whole bunch of recent British "post-punk" guitar bands anyway. Really tight, catchy tunes. I was just listening to their forthcoming disc, really good. Check out "Apply Some Pressure", "Going Missing", or "The Coast Is Always Changing" for a good taste.

― jon /via/ chi 2.0, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:10 (seventeen years ago) link

I kind of love "Apply Some Pressure" -- like I was kind of obsessed with it for a couple weeks about a year ago -- but the only other thing I've heard is the new single, which isn't as good but still cool.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Um, was there a TT plan? I can't spend much, and maybe it was metnioned upthread, but I missed it, but I would like to maybe have a beer or 12.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse, it is Wednesday.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

WEDNESDAY

― Jordan, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

it's never to early to plan jordan.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

I know what day it is, you dillhose. I was hoping there was a plan for tomorrow. I wish there was one for tonight. LIKE TRIVIA!

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:11 (seventeen years ago) link

my plan is to go home from work, make dinner, watch 30 rock then head to uptown and start drinking at about 10 pm tomorrow. if that fits with anyone else's schedule come on down.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesse is tripping.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:15 (seventeen years ago) link

HOLY FUCKING FUCK.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link

These collards be GOOOOD. I used 2 big smoked pork neck bones in a relatively small pot of greens, and sisters, that made it amazing. I seem to recall someone on this thread saying something once about how adding meat to veggies is unnecessary because they taste good on their own (maybe about lentils), and that's true, but this is beyond perfection.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:20 (seventeen years ago) link

I was reading about how collards online and the article said something about how delicious the "likker" (the water it's boiled in) and that's v. true. This is a beverage.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 7 March 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

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