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I have been to Jak's Tap.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 18:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Those little sneaks at BPAL! I got an email almost two weeks ago that my order was received and shipping, but it never arrived so I got worried. Now it seems it only went into the post YESTERDAY, which was right after I asked them why it was taking so long. So my package was just sitting around somewhere until I nagged about it. I AM EXCITED AND IMP-ATIENT, I WANT GOOD SMELLS!! Plus it's just incompetent.

― Laurel, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

i made my roommate watch amadeus a while ago, and she was commenting on the costumes--apparently it's common with period films for the costumes to reflect not only the period portrayed, but also the fashion of the time that it was filmed. this happens especially with the main character (it makes the main character more relatable to audiences). and it was true--tom hulce's hair was very 1980's.

― JuliaA, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 18:52 (seventeen years ago) link

i ordered more records this weekend and got confirmation from both places only to get an email sunday night saying one of the 7"s i wanted "is no longer available and will be taken out of our database". i just checked and they're still offering it for sale.

pricks.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Sounds just like the situation I went through with the Apple website and that iPod radio I ordered. UPDATE YOUR SITES PEOPLE, FOR THE LOVE OF CHRIST IT"S THE NEW MILLENIUM

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 18:56 (seventeen years ago) link

The River's Edge is worth watching solely for Crispin Glover's FUCKING INSANE performance. Totally nuts. Makes Dennis Hopper's performance as a crazy one-legged man seem restrained in comparison.

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeah, I think I had that movie on VHS somewhere because my brother loved it and had taped it off TV. But it's probably lost to the sands of time by now.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.quizilla.com/R/rockabillykitty/1056343549_crispinlayne.jpg

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:02 (seventeen years ago) link

From [a href="http://www.quizilla.com/users/rockabillykitty/quizzes/Which%20Crispin%20Glover%20character%20are%20you?/"]Which Crispin Glover character are you?[/a]

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

ooh... i wanna take that quiz!

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:03 (seventeen years ago) link

ah ha

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Here.

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.quizilla.com/R/rockabillykitty/1056343435_crispingeorge.jpg

sigh.

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

Take her, dude.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:06 (seventeen years ago) link

HEY YOU. GET YOUR DAMN HANDS OFF HER.

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:08 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.quizilla.com/R/rockabillykitty/1056343679_crispinthinman.jpg

Yet another movie I have not seen

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:10 (seventeen years ago) link

i got the thin man too (haven't seen it either)

― JuliaA, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:14 (seventeen years ago) link

I got Rubin from Rubin & Ed, which I haven't seen.

You guys haven't seen Charlie's Angels?

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

"smokes like a chimey"

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Nope!

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

*cough*

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link

You probably got that cough from smoking like a chimey.

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:29 (seventeen years ago) link

River's Edge is pretty incredible.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 19:31 (seventeen years ago) link

When I shockingly found myself face-to-face with Crispin a couple years ago, I wanted to stike a Layne pose and hiss "CLARISSSSSSSSA...!"

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:13 (seventeen years ago) link

How has Nabisco listened to the FFs' "(I Cannot Get Any) Satisfaction"? Is that even available as a recording?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:51 (seventeen years ago) link

From Ev4n's wedding (there was a dessert table rather than a proper cake, but he's known for his love of sheetcake):

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/179/404936649_e9a6a0c109.jpg?v=0

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

whatever you think of that article, the guy made a good case for doing your part in a democracy. the battered woman syndrome thing was a little harsh, but whatever. people need pots and pans clanging to get their attention these days.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I agree wholeheartedly. If I had gotten my registration done in time to vote, I would have voted for Brown. If she sucked, we could vote her ass out in another 4 years. That's how it works. Sticking with one entrenched candidate (who doesn't even think enough of the citizenry to campaign for their votes) is the only thing more crazy than voting for a choad, outside of not voting at all.

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:14 (seventeen years ago) link

i couldn't decide if that reader article was lazy journalism or partisan agenda setting, either way it came off so horribly on me that it had exactly the opposite effect than it's intent. and i'm predisposed to voting out entrenched politicos.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

also, the use of session cookies here is driving me absolutely nuts.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:18 (seventeen years ago) link

I hadn't read the article until I saw it referenced here, but I can pretty safely say it didn't have an effect on me. I had heard enough about how Daley wasn't campaigning, or allowing debates, or allowing interviews, to make up my mind ahead of time.

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:22 (seventeen years ago) link

At Tokyo Lunchbox in Merchandise Mart, there are a bunch of photos of a huge party that the eatery catered -- lots of balloons and sushi in a big ballroom. Underneath one of them, a photo with the owner shaking hands with this big doughy-looking Chicago dude in a polo shirt, it says "Party for Mr. Pritzker." I wondered if he was rich/famous (esp. because he shares a surname with the pavilion), and lo and behold. (Impressive mostly because the photo makes him look like he'd be most comfortable in Zubaz watching the Bears game.)

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:25 (seventeen years ago) link

a friend of my ex works for the pritzker foundation and she was making sick sick SICK cash for relatively easy work.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:27 (seventeen years ago) link

or maybe it wasn't for the foundation but for the family? i can't remember now.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and there's also the Pritzker Architecture Prize, I should've remembered that.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:29 (seventeen years ago) link

and that actress (i think she was in devil wears prada? i don't know) is one too, she had to sue her family for her share of the pie but she got it.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Billionaires in the Chicago area:

94 H Ty Warner
122 William Wrigley Jr
144 Lester Crown & family
292 John Calamos
292 Samuel Zell
321 Matthew Bucksbaum & family
387 Thomas Pritzker
413 Michael Krasny
413 Penny Pritzker
437 James Pritzker
437 Jay Robert (JB) Pritzker
437 Jean (Gigi) Pritzker
507 Oprah Winfrey
584 Marvin Herb
584 Nicholas Pritzker II
620 Neil Bluhm
620 Gary Comer

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:35 (seventeen years ago) link

94 H Ty Warner

This probably also makes him the richest Kalamazoo College alumnus.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

and i have to go to coinstar on saturday for beer money that night. ;_;

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link

i saw that name and thought of chevy chase in caddyshack.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Kevin I know a Coinstar hack so you don't have to pay them their cut!

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:52 (seventeen years ago) link

here

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

::raised eyebrow:: Que?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:54 (seventeen years ago) link

six and a half percent, YOU ARE MINE!!!!

or is it 8%? i don't remember.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:55 (seventeen years ago) link

why don't you just take it to your bank? those bitches count change for free.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

hmmmmmmmm....

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Not mine... They figured out this racket pretty quick, I'd bet.

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Although I think their cut is like 5%.

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

because my bank is conveniently open when i'm at work and during my normal sleeping hours. i would gladly pay 8% if it means i don't have to wake up and battle bank lines on a saturday morning.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

oh. my old bank (north comm.) did. i haven't had coins counted since then.

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 21:58 (seventeen years ago) link

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