Chicago MMXII

you guys i was just looking at the stuff chirp posted to facebook and i am going to sink this ship

You mean the station's general Facebook page, with plugs for local shows? I wouldn't necessarily expect that a music quiz hosted/sponsored by CHIRP would primarily focus on the current music they play/promote. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if, as Nick suggested, there was a very broad indie-rock orientation. But to me that would just mean that Johnny Cash, the Velvet Underground, the Talking Heads, and Public Enemy would be more likely subjects than Genesis, Earth Wind & Fire, Ruben Blades, or Alabama.

I think Kr took a ceramics class from Lillstreet right around when we started dating.

thank you jaymc for understanding what i'm talking about. like fela kuti or lee scratch perry would be the type of "world music" i would expect to be covered, not like andean panpipe music. but again, just stereotypes and guesses.

Totes.

Also, it looks like J + D will be joining us tonight.

got it
i trust chirp programmers
awesome

Brush up on yr Big Star.

Huh, speaking of Gong, Ned just posted this on the Sherman Hemsley RIP thread:
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/weezy_get_me_some_lsd_george_jefferson_is_a_big_prog_rock_fan

i remember reading that when it came out in magnet because i was like wow, magnet! still alive!

i found an old issue when i went home recently with YLT on the cover and a blurb about pitchblende

with YLT on the cover

Ha, this could've been any time in the past 25 years.

I subscribed ca. 1997-03. Not consecutively, though, I don't think.

it was from 95
kind of sweet in a pre-internet way

one of my college professors wrote reviews for magnet. he also wrote reviews for BMG music club and was in an indie rock band. a "cool professor." i took a modern music class with him and i dissected a public enemy song in front of the class.

Okay, class, everybody take a Public Enemy song from the bin I'm passing around and pin it to your dissection board. This is going to be your Public Enemy song all semester so make sure you take care of it.

Thought for a second his band was called Cool Professor.

ha that's a really great band name. now all i need is a new band.

i would seriously have a band called cool professor

I like that name a lot, too.

Makes me think of "Who's Your New Professor" but I don't think that's a bad thing.

I totally signed up for a jewelry class, you guys. I'm going to learn how to solder and rivet and texture and some other thing that I think more or less means cutting shapes out of metal.

awesome!

also, i saw a former stood at a show last friday
~~~ cool professor ~~~

well i saw a guy from a band we used to play shows with at the playground on sunday ~~~ cool dad ~~~

Makes me think of "Who's Your New Professor" but I don't think that's a bad thing.

I had the same thought.

i might have some extra tools for u carl.

There's a materials fee for some metal, saw blades, solder, and sandpaper so I think they provide the tools for the class? But I might make you an offer on them if they are something I can then use to turn my pile of costume cast-offs into Etsy gold.

(j/k I don't have it in me to sell stuff on Etsy. I really just want to turn a bunch of clipon earrings into pierced earrings.)

IMPORTANT PREFACE: I am NOT asking this question with the purpose of mocking anybody's reading habits. My interest is professional and it pertains to something I'm working on right now.

I remember somebody once saying that a lot of mass market paperback mystery/romance bestsellers are written at a fourth-grade (or some elementary school grade) reading level, adult content aside. Can anybody confirm/refute this? A citation would be great (I did try searching for this myself).

i have no idea, but i can offer this -- most of the sentences and phrases in the romance writer's phrasebook are either simple sentences with s/v and a few prep phrases. if 4th gr reading level = simple sentence structure, then maybe?

i really like simple sentence structure if it comes with very precise vocabulary. lean and mean!

N/a, guess who just got chopped in half by a train.

Hint, not me.

This is going to haunt me forever.

What? What happened?

A Very Special and Traumatizing Episode of Homicide: Life in the Streets.

What? What happened?

squashed D'Onofrio

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street)

Spoiler alert.

oh, haha, i still need to watch that whole series but that is, in fact, 1 of the 2 episodes i did see during its original run

2nd place y'all
Wuuuuuut

Nice work!

1st losers. Try harder next time

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-chicago-chick-fil-a-20120725,0,6784667.story

Been surprised that Chick-Fil-A's evangelical values are new news.

In opposing Chick-fil-A, Moreno stakes out a position likely to resonate in his hipster ward

agree with keeping them out, but lol

Cool Professor (feat. Hipster Ward)

http://blog.franchisesolutions.com/images/Fathers-Day-Ward-Cleaver.jpg

I don't think Chicken Filet's values are new news, but since they've only recently started opening stores in Chicago they are only recently local new news.

Like, Joe Moreno wouldn't be in the Trib talking about how Chick-fil-A is a homophobic organization four years ago because they didn't have a restaurants in Chicago so an alderman's views on their politics really wasn't news. Also Joe Moreno wasn't alderman four years ago, but you know what I mean.

I was thinking more about how they're all over my Facebook page this week, related to the priceless quote from their CEO last week. The Alderman story is new news, for sure.

Fuck a Mike Huckabee, deciding only after all the negative press over Chick-Fil-A that we suddenly need a 'Chick-Fil-A Appreciate Day". I mean, he was always kinda 'lol, how cute, he wants to be president' but then I remember that he is just as deserving or ire and hatred as the more obvious Repubs.

"Appreciation", I'm tired.

They've been talked about on gay news blogs size they catered for some anti-gay-marriage group for free. Can't remember the details. But then this stuff with The Muppets happened, so they're getting more attention.

I ate at Chick-Fil-A in NC bc it was a morals vacation and bc my mom needed some chicken and I'm not trying to get into real life too much with her.

*since, not "size"

Anyway GTFO of Chicago bc I'd rather they be an tasty memory.