Chicago MMXII

I approve of the change. Gap is somewhat less shit than Old Navy. Quite a bit, actually.

I feel sure they won't close the MI Ave. location, after all they have kept their 2 Banana Republics (flagship and Water Tower Place) open within a block of each other for a long time, even though that seems like excess.

As long as there's an Old Navy somewhere for me to buy cheap jeans when these wear out. Everything else there fits like it was made for people with extra nodules and contours and appendages than I was unaware humans possessed.

I will miss the preacher if he goes away, though. I greatly enjoyed standing next to him with a grave expression and loudly going "BA! BA BA BA BA BABA BA! BA! BA!" to passersby. You probably had to be there, but trust me, we had a really great time together. Or maybe he just didn't register his disapproval distinctly enough for me to notice. Either way.

http://chicagoist.com/2012/12/05/four_shot_during_show_at_ultra_loun.php

This is not entirely surprising, I always thought this joint was a bit skeezy.

eek

UPDATE: (9:40 a.m.) According to DNAinfo.com, this was the third time in a week that gunfire broke out at one of DJ Jay Thompson's, 24, aka DJ JT Da Don, shows. The other incidents were "at a house party and barber shop parties on the West Side." He told DNAinfo.com, "After last night, I need to change my career path"

today on my walk to work i saw a guy standing under a tree holding his head while a giant blue recliner/armchair was sitting in the middle of the sidewalk. it looked like he was turning the corner into his living room, and i was like "nice place to sit, eh?" and he said yeah i'm just taking a rest. apparently he was carrying this giant blue chair that he found in an alley back to his apt and was just taking a break because it was really heavy and hard to carry. i feel bad for not offering to help but i was already carrying work bag and purse and headed in the opposite direction. should i have helped him?

nah

ok one nah is all i needed

I just walked past Rev. Old Navy and though it would be nice to stand next to him and hand out cigarettes. "Heaven doesn't exist. Smoke up!"

I guess this should go in the show thread but I feel like it is not quite the same audience... I really want to go see the Holiday Brass and Chorale Concert next Friday but I'm already going to the opera on Wednesday (Hansel and Gretel! It's getting really good reviews. But then again, nobody ever really pans the Lyric...) and that's a lot of late night performing arts in one week. But dang, I bet that's going to be really good.

Having read the play and knowing the actors and director, the new show at Steppenwolf, The Motherfucker with the Hat, should be great.

wow, that Holiday Brass and Chorale Concert looks very cool. xp

does anyone else have new year's eve off? i do but sarah doesn't. anyone want to have a film festival or hang out?

I prob do.

I just walked past Rev. Old Navy and though it would be nice to stand next to him and hand out cigarettes. "Heaven doesn't exist. Smoke up!"

Rev. Gap.

He should get Gap to sponsor him. "You're not gonna get into heaven wearin' that ratty coat from 5 years ago, so head into the Gap for 40% off select outerwear for heterosexuals."

Urban Outfitters on Rush could get an ironic reverend out front.

i (having had 5 hours of sleep and probably showing it) passed him just a minute ago and he said "god don't want no weed smokers in heaven!!!"

lol

I've wondered sometimes if he has good gaydar.

Having read the play and knowing the actors and director, the new show at Steppenwolf, The Motherfucker with the Hat, should be great.

Oh yeah, I think we'll be seeing that. We have four tickets to use by mid-June (as part of the RED subscription for under-30s), so that'll be one of the two shows. Not sure about the other. Honestly, Belleville interests me more than either The Birthday Party or Head of Passes, but it opens after our subscription expires.

I just saw:
- a man who was no less than 7' tall
- a beautiful cat in a McDonalds

And

- a deadhead sticker on a Cadillac

there's a country music lyric waiting to happen there

A cat who was no less than 7' tall, now that would be something.

7' man was incredible. I was walking behind him, waiting for 6' tall people to walk by b/c he made them look teeny.

there's a country music lyric waiting to happen there

Somebody call Don Henley.

Holy damn, this thread was started on January 2, 2012!

At this point we might as well finish out the year on it. I was just thinking the other day, though, that we hadn't had a new one in awhile.

Yeh, I will not use a new Chicago thread started before Jan 2, 2013.

my work building is testing the fire alarm notification system on our floor by playing a string quartet version of "stairway to heaven" over the alarm speakers

That's kind of awesome.

Haha. Hopefully that's the real alarm.

evie and i are going to brownstone right now for a very early dinner if anyone wants to come over for a drink

anyone ever frequent the food court on wabash between madison and monroe next to iwan ries? it used to have my favorite mural probably in the world, but i guess it got painted over recently. RIP

http://i.imgur.com/sGEON.jpg

wow

crazy day. a water pipe burst in the library over the weekend, shooting water across half the library. somehow none of our books or computers were damaged but the floor is saturated. spent most of the day so far clearing the books off our bookcases so that they can dry the carpet underneath.

Yikes. Reminds me of my dad telling me about an incident that happened at the library of the school where he and my mom work (I think you shared a link once upon a time about a job opening there, n). Some kind of small electrical fire triggered the sprinkler system in the archives section and drenched the shit out of a good chunk of their collection. Sad to hear about, but the way they're trying to save stuff sounds pretty cool... LITERALLY. They're doing some kind of freeze-drying treatment to a lot of the documents.

yeah i took a preservation class in grad school and it was pretty much my favorite class, all about fixing books and dealing with disaster scenarios. in this case it's more a matter of waiting for the building to dry and clean everything but until then i don't have a dedicated place to work. on the plus side, we were going to move the bookcases anyways so this is just pushing that project up a little bit.

that totally sucks about the mural
i like it too

two questions for librarians:

1) do any of you know where i should look for help locating copies of old educational filmstrips (that are not already online obvs or i might have been able to find them)?

2) n/a -- when you were doing stuff with that chicago underground library thing, did you have contact with the guy who is responsible for public collectors?

i don't know who that would be, but i'm pretty out of touch with them, i only know 2-3 of the people there

just wondering
totes identify with this person, that's why
http://publiccollectors.tumblr.com/

what about #1

i don't know, sorry - the stuff i do is so specialized/niche that i'm not much help in anything outside of my little corner. EW probably has a better idea than me.

ok! i'll pester him. thank u

thinking maybe CPS teachers could help w/ filmstrips? or do they not even have those?

the ones i'm looking for are from the 60s and 70s and are almost certainly waaaaay out of circulation

LL, do you have the names of particular filmstrips in mind? If so, there might be some libraries somewhere in the state that has them still, which you could find out via worldcat? If they would ILL them, I don't know.

yes i do -- the only ones i've found are black widow and secret life of 118 green street

Battle of the Bugs
Black Widow Spider
A Night out with Mr. Toad
Life Cycle of the Monarch

National Geographic

Animals and Amphibians
The Hidden World of Insects
Secret Life of 118 Green Street

there are library of congress listings but that's all i can find
i don't know how to librarian

should i just post this on the librarian thread?

this is what AJ was talking about: http://www.worldcat.org/ you just put in the name of the movie and it tells you what are the libraries closest to you that have it in their catalogs. however, i don't know if it includes filmstrips. i tried "secret life of 118 green street" as a test and it showed libraries that carry it on vhs.

yeah that one is a little easier to find -- it's on youtube too
the black widow one is particularly good and i found it on archive.org

if you feel like watching it http://archive.org/details/0769_Black_Widow_Spider_Her_Life_Cycle_and_Her_Enemies_18_04_42_00

Yes, sorry. It does include filmstrips, such as this: http://www.worldcat.org/title/life-cycle-of-the-monarch/oclc/18785367&referer

As you can see with that one, there's only one library in IL that has it, and it's far away. But you very well might be able to ILL it through CPL.

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