Chicago MMXII

aight

Amanda, ask Jesse about The Swans.

carl you might appreciate the cover of the new swans album if you have not yet admired it
http://factmag-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/fayv_SwansTheSeercvr.jpg

That is pretty creepy!

And unsettling!

Took me way longer than it should have for me to realize just why it was so creepy.

carl -- did you see the student i posted for you?

jvc -- teeth!!

exactly! i don't know why i didn't notice them the first time i saw the cover.

LL, I did! I looked at him on the train this morning. It's funny because I posted (yet another) Robert Plant wang pic on the thread about seeing the outline of a dong through pants, which has led to a string of Led Zeppelin dick jokes on the excelsior thread, and then you sent me the Robert Plant student so really, I'm having a pretty good day so far.

good! i seriously had been saving that for a day when you might possibly need/enjoy it. i've had him in the queue forever!

<3

I think I'm going to name my prog band Robert Plant Wang Outline.

That's a good name for a band.

Too bad "Plant Outline Wang" doesn't make sense because then the abbreviation for your band could be "PlOW".

That is an L not an I.

Plow.

lol

is this the bottomless pit you're talking about?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz47Y7d3QhY

that's them

I'd like to go to that show but we have such a full weekend already. If it happens it'll probably be kind of last minute.

a lot more singing than i expected! it's really...normal! dunno why i expected it to be weirder.

sorry. they aren't weird. just gradually building subtle guitar music.

no harm done, not sure why i expected it to be weird
maybe i assume all bottomless pits are full of noisy wordless despair or sthg

Maybe you just think n/a is weird.

We ended up stopping in Lena, WI for lunch on the way back to Chicago and I can enthusiastically encourage people making the trip to eat lunch at Verna's whenever possible.

Seriously. I had the bluegill + fries which was somehow way awesomer than the sum of its parts, and the butterscotch milkshake which was aja THE best milkshake I've ever had. Their tartar sauce was somehow different in a good way.

Jesse will have to confirm or deny, but somewhere around that area (I think) we ran into traffic that was related to an accident. From what I could tell from my back seat rubber necking, somebody had put at least one car in the ditch. I saw two firefighters casually strolling down the slope with a crowbar and the jaws of life.

Yes, just north of Green Bay.

LL: I will go to Swans w/ you!! Or I'll go without you. But I'd prefer to go with you.

Plow.

― carl agatha, Wednesday, September 5, 2012 10:18 AM (12 hours ago) Bookmark

You used this verb all weekend! I can't remember in what sense or context, but you are def. hung up on plowing of some kind.

je55e, you will be pleased to know ph1l and i now have a furminator in our possession. that is all.

I just remembered it was something about getting plowed (drunk) at a cornhole tournament.

xp - oh, very nice. Is it doing its job?

i think so – i'm noticing fewer hairs flying around with the morning dust motes and not as much on clothes. amazingly she seems to love it (until you try to do her belly)

LL: I will go to Swans w/ you!! Or I'll go without you. But I'd prefer to go with you.
good! let's talk about this (not right now) because i have some complications. in the meantime you should totes listen to the new album. i think it's on spotify if you're not in the market to buy it.

I believe I used plow in the context of being drunk, having sex, and possibly also farming.

http://static.tvfanatic.com/images/gallery/mr-plow-picture.jpg

"I'm gonna finish plowing this field, then go get plowed and hopefully plow the wife."

In a confluence of terrible things, Chipotle has hosting some kind of a food and music festival at which G Love & Special Sauce is playing.

If you can't finish your burrito, you can take it home and stick it in the fridge stick it in the fridge stick it in the fridge stick it in the fridge.

i saw g. love and the special sauce and run dmc for free on the university of maryland campus in 1997

I paid to see that asshole sometime in the early or mid-90s at a bar in Newark, DE. I liked that one album with the stick it in the fridge song on it but thought his live performance was one of the most boring shows I had seen to date. It actually killed my affection for the album.

he had a bass player who looked like a gnarly trucker, he was a big older dude with a beard, that's all i really remember

Great lyrics (think Skynard good-time ramblin' rock) ^^

or the hold steady

Drew Peterson is guilty.

never in doubt

also LOL how did I not know until now that Rob Lowe was in a Lifetime movie about the dude

I was pretty sure he killed Savio (I have read enough true crime books to know that when three of a person's spouses all die in the same way, it's murder) but I wasn't totally sure that they would find him guilty.

I was unaware of this Lifetime movie. Rob Lowe played Drew Peterson? That's... a stretch.

I had a feeling they would just try him over and over again under different conditions until they found him guilty. At the least, he was a massive dick. It just gets worse after that. I wonder if his fourth wife will ever turn up?

http://www.mylifetime.com/movies/drew-peterson-untouchable

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/578426_4590183720566_1982632070_n.jpg

Nnnnnnope

http://www.hlntv.com/sites/default/files/2012/07/16/drew-peterson-trial.jpg

Tom Skerritt busy that week?

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcR-bWUVS9BQKb19UHAkRQzaRHdiAl0GhOJQRoYQmlOazYNdcEVIvg

That would work. Something about Tom Skerritt always gave me the willies anyway.