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How does that killfile work again?

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:37 (seventeen years ago) link

snow on sidewalks makes it really easy for those in wheelchairs to get around or people who use walkers/canes/etc. that's one good thing about living across from a hospital, they are so afraid of someone falling on their sidewalks that they are clear almost before the snow can accumulate.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:38 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry. That was kind of nasty. I'm a little hung over and crabby today.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:39 (seventeen years ago) link

That's a good point about the elderly/disabled.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:40 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess the thing is, I just don't expect government to do anything for me. There are definitely people it should do stuff for, but I don't consider myself one of them.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

kevin makes points. jenny gets exasperated and argues. jaymc doesn't get things. kenan opines. sarah tells work stories. jeff comes along occasionally and naysays. nick swings by and says something incisive/insightful and puts things in perspective.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:43 (seventeen years ago) link

What? I do?

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:44 (seventeen years ago) link

I think you do.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Huh.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm having some blackberries right now and I think I love them more than the baby Jesus.

Hey! I don't only tell work stories! I also talk about what I'm eating.

― KitCat, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link

Blackberries are the shit!

― dan m, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

blackberries are indeed the shit. lingonberries too.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I love blackberries, boysenberries, currants, gooseberries, strawberries, and raspberries.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:49 (seventeen years ago) link

AND LINGONBERRIES. I'M SORRY LINGONBERRIES, I DIDN'T MEAN TO FORGET YOU.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

I hate blackberries

http://www.telusmobility.com/images/pcs/blackberry_7250_handset_lg.gif

― Jeff, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I can take or leave berries.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

jeff has no soul. or perhaps the soul of a serial killer or despotic genocidal madman or a children's birthday party clown.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

and jordan is his spawn.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:52 (seventeen years ago) link

I know two people that dislike berries. One of them is my coworker Laura. The other is Kr.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:53 (seventeen years ago) link

I forgot about Jesse: he tells stories about his day (i.e., blogs) and bitches. I did not mean to make ILX caricatures of you all.

Some of you like Dan and Amanda are hard to pin down.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

I think Jeff was referring to the device, not the food. Or so I hope. Or he was just fulfilling my previous summary of him.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:54 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurel and Kevin talk about smoking. Laurel talks about fashion. Amanda talks about boots, skirts and teaching.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:55 (seventeen years ago) link

I talk to myself.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess blue and straw are pretty great.

What do I do, Jesse? From my POV I talk about food and irrelevant topics that are more related to myself than to Chicago.

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:56 (seventeen years ago) link

i would totally love to be able to light up at my desk. i don't really want to put on my jacket and shit just to stand in the cold to smoke. is there a TT going on tomorrow?

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

This is a good article about what aldermen do. (PS I know that "alderperson" is more PC, but I cling to "alderman" because of the awesome adjective "aldermanic.") (PPS This article might only be useful for people like me that blithely ignore city politics.)

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait. I forgot: Jenny takes on pop culture from a feminist perspective.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:57 (seventeen years ago) link

She's a one-woman Bitch magazine, she is.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

What's your Chilx superpower?

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

i would totally love to be able to light up at my desk. i don't really want to put on my jacket and shit just to stand in the cold to smoke.

Nah, the best thing about smoke breaks is the change of pace.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeh, I guess you talk about fried foods and doods. Cuz you're hungry and gay. That's my role, actually.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 16:59 (seventeen years ago) link

i would totally love to be able to light up at my desk. i don't really want to put on my jacket and shit just to stand in the cold to smoke.

Nah, the best thing about smoke breaks is the change of pace.

I don't know. I loved the job I had where I could smoke at my desk. That never stopped me from taking a smoke break.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't make TT tomorrow, as I have band practice. Our schedule has been pretty irregular lately, since there's basically eight people in the band now (former pianist/guitarist plus new pianist/guitarist), but I think we're doing Thursdays for the next two weeks and then going back to Wednesdays.

What's on the docket for the weekend, though? Kr will be in Mississippi from Thursday night through Saturday night.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

mmm. Hungry and gay.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:01 (seventeen years ago) link

i just realized i can't go to TT either anyway, i think i'm going to milwaukee friday night then to sub-t saturday, then the bottle sunday. whatever $$$ i have i need to save.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:02 (seventeen years ago) link

I've been keeping up with him. He's kind of my favorite celeb killer.

xpost.

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

We are having band practice tomorrow as well.

We have no plans this weekend.

― n/a, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:03 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I love the killer that convinced a dude to eat his own fried penis. That's persuasive. Props, bro.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:04 (seventeen years ago) link

Like when Lecter got the dude in the next cell to kill himself just by talking to him all night.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

What's going on in Mke, Kevin?

― Jordan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:08 (seventeen years ago) link

Thanks, Kenan. I immediately hit "back" when I saw the word "cannibal" in the article title, so I'm glad you've synopsized it for me.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:09 (seventeen years ago) link

band one of my best friends drums for and my upstairs neighbor fronts is playing their first show with the pared down line-up. i want to see how it sounds. it's at linneman's which i've never been to.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:10 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, I love the killer that convinced a dude to eat his own fried penis. That's persuasive. Props, bro.

The guy volunteered! He wanted to be eaten!

― Jesse, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

Alderman is absolutely correct. For example, if you call Schiller's office, the person answers "Alderman Helen Schiller's office." I just use "alderperson" to be contrary. And yes, aldermanic is a pretty awesome word. Alderpersonic would take some getting used to.

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:11 (seventeen years ago) link

i would like it if my alderman adopted an over the top alter ego, like a super hero or something. it could be alderpersona.

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

Note: Jeff is a pacifist, and is both nonviolent and conflict averse so he is definitely no serial killer or despot. He'll be the first to admit to his own soulessness, however.

The birthday clown thing would sure explain all the big shoes and red foam rubber noses I find around the house...

― Jenny, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:13 (seventeen years ago) link

The guy volunteered! He wanted to be eaten!

I imagine it worked like clever advertising. Through the power of suggestion, he began to THINK he wanted to be eaten.

― kenan, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, there was an image of a Blackberry device posted beneath my claim of hate. If you have images turned off, there is no indication that an image has even been posted.

― Jeff, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:18 (seventeen years ago) link

The birthday clown thing would sure explain all the big shoes and red foam rubber noses I find around the house...

"oh, those honey.... ? uhm, yeah, uh.... those are mine! yes, those are definitely mine, i'm a birthday party clown in my spare time."
[cut to shot of half-naked clown trying to sneak out of jenny & jeff's house, tiptoeing with his right foot but forgetting he has a clown horn strapped to his left]

― chicago kevin, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

― JuliaA, Wednesday, 28 February 2007 17:20 (seventeen years ago) link

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