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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

My coin-counting days have waned somewhat now that I have to pay all my quarters to the laundry machine.

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

plus, my bank charges a fee for unrolled change so the worth the 8% things comes back to me.

the last time i went to coinstar i took the contents of one of my piggy banks and it paid for my cab from laguardia to the bowery, my first two slices of pizza of that day, a pack of cigarettes, and two beers. i think i lugged $76 worth of nickles and dimes down to the jewel on ashland/division/milwaukee.

― chicago kevin, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:00 (seventeen years ago) link

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

There are some secret demo recordings. Did he reference this somewhere? I can put them on the blog or email them maybe.

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link

Usually when I take my big ziploc bag of change to the bank it's about $90 worth, I've got one at home that's just about ripe.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:03 (seventeen years ago) link

There are some secret demo recordings. Did he reference this somewhere?

No, I looked up FFs on Last.fm and saw the song, then I clicked on it to see who had listened to it, and it was pretty obvious (Promqueen, Sundays, Final Fantasy, Schneider TM) that it was Nabs.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link

you're scary

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, I have been informed that the demos are TOP SECRET.

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link

...by me. Hi, John.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Hmmm.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Not to be a bitch about it, but how did N get a hold of them?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00006JCZS.03._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

peanut gallery style guess: he reviews recordz for Pfork

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

jaymc, that's rude. nun ya bizness.

― kenan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:16 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, if I wanna take a guy home with me tonight...
If she wanna be a freak n' sell it on the weekend...

j/k

― KitCat, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

peanut gallery style guess: he reviews recordz for Pfork

Of course he does, but the song's not on an album, and it seems unlikely that they'd put up a demo on the Forkcast. BUT WHAT DO I KNOW.

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

whatjohnknows.xls

― dan m, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:23 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm actually fine with not being able to hear the recording -- it's not like I don't know the song -- I'm just curious, that's all.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Don't be offended, John. We loves ya.

― KitCat, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:24 (seventeen years ago) link

John, why aren't you on gmail, I have an xls question.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:25 (seventeen years ago) link

Speaking of secret songs, the 0ptimistic is playing on Friday and our secret cover = A Spoonfull of Sugar. Don't tell anyone.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

...helps the medicine go down?

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:36 (seventeen years ago) link

That's the one.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:37 (seventeen years ago) link

Sweet.

hehehe

― La Lechera, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Nothing can top the Harry Connick Jr. version of that tune though.

― Jordan, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 22:40 (seventeen years ago) link

The demos are secret because they were intended to shop around and possibly get someone to put out a new album eventually. We sent a copy to Nabs for feedback because he has given us helpful comments before.

― n/a, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Word.

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:03 (seventeen years ago) link

I am the pleased-as-punch owner of a lovely new Calvin Klein suit!! CHEAP!!!!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:07 (seventeen years ago) link

Where did you get it?

― jaymc, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link

oOOPS. Just remembered I had some eggs a-boilin'!

― Jesse, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link

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