Chicago MMXII

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_kp05llo3bS1qz9wf9o1_500.jpg

Welcome to the future.

Quality start itt imho.

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Wow, yeh. Cool poster.

Something I've been meaning to suggest for a long time is that initial posts in new threads Chicago should contain a link to the previous one. Chicago: They paved a fetid swamp/and put up a parking lot

The artist seemed to think that people in the 1990s would be obsessed with flying buttresses and apparently non-functional viaduct looking things. And that we would spray paint everything gold.

the fashions were a little bit off too.

The woman's clothing looks like sportswear c. 1900 or 1910 or so (jacket, small hat) and while this is kind of facile, if you look at these silhouettes:

http://i.imgur.com/GRmDZ.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/beRTS.jpg

you can see that outside the brief dalliance into empire waists not a lot changed in women's fashion other than skirt width, sleeve shape, and hat size for over 100 years so I suppose I could see someone assuming that trend would continue for the next 100. The dude has some futuristic looking epaulettes on his jacket, though. Slick.

i did spray paint everything gold (and silver) in the 90s

Actually I did too, for a while.

i haven't left the apartment yet. but it's kind of chilly in here. even with the thermostat set at 70.

I'm coming to find that my place is kind of drafty. The big "balcony" door lets in a lot of air. That's really NBD in the winter, but I'm going to want to fix that in the summer to curb the cost of A/C.

It's weird that today is a bank holiday. Courts and state govt. are one thing, but I thought the banks and markets would be too busy and important to close today.

We have officially taken down all Christmas trappings. I even repotted our tiny, live Christmas tree into a regular pot. If it lives until next year, which I think we can all agree is highly unlikely although hope springs eternal, we can just decorate it again.

In other news, our upstairs neighbor is playing guitar which wouldn't bother me except that he's still in that phase of slow, 4/4 chord-chord-chord-chord guitar playing in which everybody I knew in college seemed eternally trapped. If he starts playing "I Know You Rider" or "Jane Says" I'm going upstairs and http://i.imgur.com/dGGQj.jpg.

It's more like chord-chord-chord-chord-chord-chord- stop, reposition fingers -chord-chord- stop, start over -chord-chord-chord-chord

I don't think I knew that you had a tree. You can totally keep it alive, probably.

That reminds me: You know which product works exactly like it's supposed to and is super useful, and actually better than expected? Bitter Apple.

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

I bought a pony tail palm

http://imgur.com/WshHT

which I'm sure you can see is made to look appetizing to cats. After I sprayed it w/ Bitter Apple the would lick and start to nibble a blade, move on to another, and finally lose interest. 3 weeks have passed and the plant is not chewed up and puked out on my carpet.

I say it's better than expected b/c it effective deters the cats without seeming to be horribly disgusting. It's not scorched earth level disgusting, which I didn't want. I tasted it and it's bitter, but it doesn't linger.

http://imgur.com/WshHT

ponytail palm

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

ooh i like that plant! it looks like a muppet!

i had a long day of EXTREMELY DULL errands and now i'm in for the evening, relieved and thinking about houseplants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2o42ilT_SxE

The groan at around 1:20 is hilarious. Love this dog.

Stumbled onto this when searching for something else:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b62TERsnhP0

Interesting how that glass-domed building in the poster does resemble Ogilvie.

Oh, wait, isn't that a glass-domed El station at Chicago and Franklin?

i'm in Lincolnshire waiting for my room service. not gonna do much on this business trip other than work and lounge in hotel room. too damn cold!

What are you doing in Lincolnshire?

That's a general question for anybody in Lincolnshire, really.

business...here to work in the Lincolnshire office of work for two days, then back home. easy in, easy out for the most part.

I don't really know where that is tbh but I'm glad life is easy for you there.

I had to look it up but it's way far northwest.

well I live in FL, this is a two day excursion. not even gonna visit Chicago cuz there's no time.

Those trips can be frustrating, particularly if its an exciting city that you've never been to before. Flying out to Austin again tomorrow night, but absolutely no time to sight see. Site surveys all day before flying home Wednesday afternoon. Same thing with a two-day trip to D.C. a couple months ago - got to see the Capitol building from afar as we drove to the job site, and that was it for my sight-seeing.

Interesting how that glass-domed building in the poster does resemble Ogilvie.

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Oh, wait, isn't that a glass-domed El station at Chicago and Franklin?

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You're right, it does look a lot like the Ogilvie Trans Ctr/Citicorp Building. I don't understand the second post. I don't recall a glass-domed El station at Chicago and Franklin, but I could be wrong.

Oh, I was mixing up Lincolnshire with Lincolnwood, which is the 1st suburb you hit when taking Lincoln Ave. out of Chicago.

Is the "shire" Lincolnshire pronounced "sheer"?

J5, I was trying to figure out the vantage point where that picure is from, and realized that it could be a block north of Franklin & Wells, with the Ogilvie-type structure actually being a domed thing on the Chicago brown line El platform.

I'd like to share the most infectious song about construction equipment that has ever been written. I watched this video approximately 30 times with my 22-month-old nephew last week. Its effect on him is amazing to see, and the tune quickly becomes buried within one's brane.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXhhXXsxSfE

Will definitely have to share that with our little guy. Right now he's absolutely loving the Good Night Good Night Construction Site book he got for Christmas.

Good Night Good Night Construction Site

Love that title.

http://images.indiebound.com/824/877/9780811877824.jpg

Oops, its actually Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site. Hopefully that doesn't dampen your love.

^^Neil Michael Haggerty side project

My in-laws live a couple of miles from Lincolnshire -- don't know much about it otherwise.

downstairs neighbor died
RIP

(btw she was v old and v sick, i am sure she is in a happier place now)

RFI: Trader Joe's

So R and I got a TJ's gift card for Xmas but we're not sure what to spend it on. Being that I've only set foot inside one of their stores like twice, what have they got? We were kind of thinking of using it to stock up on staples. I know they have a lot of prepared/semi-prepared stuff but we cook pretty much all our own food. Can you go there and just buy a shitload of pasta or other similar things?

BTW I still kind of hate the public ethos of the place but who cares? Free food!

stop sweating it and just get a ton of beer

or wine
or cheese to freeze

Hummus and triple ginger snaps

This is the kind of stuff I get at Trader Joe's:

bread
soy milk
cereal
orange juice
frozen pizza
wine
dry pasta
applesauce
peanut butter
Lara Bars
tortilla chips
salsa
hummus
cheese
paper towels/T.P.
laundry detergent
frozen fish
veggie burgers

TJ's is admittedly not great for produce, but I will buy stuff like bananas or mushrooms or tomatoes there if I'm running low and I don't feel like stopping at HarvesTime.

Also...

olive oil
canned beans

yeah they have good oo for decent price

in sum:

olive oil
wine
beer
cheese

I am the poster child for Trader Joe's ethos. I'll buy the gift card from you for 75 cents on the dollar and you can use the cash to join a CSA.

lol

we got a huge basket of stuff from there in addition to the card, R's aunt is a convert as well

Things I buy most often at TJ

tube o' polenta
frozen fruits and vegetables
OO
frozen chicken breasts
frozen tri-color bell pepper strips
hummus
packets of heat and serve Indian food, and tuna w/ curry (usually unavailable)

CHILI SPICED MANGO STRIPS
CHILI SPICED PINEAPPLE
FUCK YEH

I get those flaxseed vegetable chips.

So, right before Christmas they installed this giant, touch-screen, interactive advertisement in the Clark and Lake station. If you go through the turnstiles on the JRTC side and look to your right, it’s there at the bottom of the escalators that go up to the Purple/Green/Orange/Pink platform.

Anyway, the first ad was one for Ford and you could paw at this giant (taller than most people) screen to customize a Mustang. I never saw anybody touching this. Now it’s some kind of a “game” with a “time to beat” of 27 seconds. I’ve never seen anybody using this iteration of it, and the “time to beat” has remained 27 seconds since I first noticed the change.

The thing is, did it occur to anybody that they are sticking this ad in the middle of a major, moving pedestrian traffic area? The vast majority of people passing by that touch screen are either going to or from work, or to or from the airport, and nobody in that situation is going to stop and fart around with an advertisement. It’s like, nobody realized that touch screens are not particularly enticing now that so many people roll with little touch screens in their pockets. At least not enticing enough to get people to pause on their daily commute or in the middle of the stress of traveling to or from the airport and subject themselves to a commercial.

I think this would work in the actual airport, or maybe even in Block 37, somewhere that you have a lot of foot traffic but you also have people who are not passing by on the way somewhere else.

tl:dr - the giant touch-screen billboard in the Clark & Lake CTA station may have edged out the Miracle Whip Addison stop for first place in my personal list of "tone deaf CTA advertising."

sometimes i marvel at how downtown focused some of your working days are -- i never go down there, and when i do i feel like a total tourist. i didn't used to when i worked there, but now i totally do. we went to the planetarium the other day and it felt like i might as well have been in barcelona.

btw jenny i read that and thought it was interesting precisely because you included ott detail

also i am reading DROOD right now

Rupert Holmes did the musical adaptation:

http://assets.sheetmusicplus.com/product/Look-Inside/covers/5406105.jpg

yeah i never went downtown when i was working in evanston/at home/in elgin. i like working downtown though.

not dickens drood, simmons drood

http://lavieenroutedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/drood_cover.jpg

I never got around to reading that. I checked it out a while ago but aimed too high with my other book selections and it came unrenewably due before I could read it.

Funny you should mention it bc I was thinking of The Terror whilst lying in bed after my alarm went off this morning.

i read a ton of it right before bed and it gave me the craaaaziest dreams! i'm only about 100 pgs in but so far it's entertaining and surprisingly funny. Hasn't gotten v lurid yet, but i expect it will.

you should read it and then we can dish about it over a meal and 2-3 servings of the beverage of our choice!

i ran out of stuff to read after reading three fun/trashy books after vacation (a book about the 1908 baseball season, a werewolf book, and a true crime book about "clark rockefeller"), and i feel like i need to read something more high-brow so i downloaded three beckett novels this morning but don't know how far i'll actually get with them (read the first one a few years ago but never the other two).

I got Our Band Could be Your Life as a gift and have been reading a band-chapter a night the past few days. Consequently I've fallen into a hole with music listening too, been on a strict diet of basically Black Flag/Husker Du/Replacements/Minutemen/Butthole Surfers/Mission of Burma, although not in that order.

good book!

deliberate noise by the real tough boys, what else have we got?
(ECU on facial sweat, that's what)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ra6S69yGlKQ

Nick what is the werewolf book?

I just checked out my first ebook from the library. The future is now. (btw you can now select 7, 14, or 21 days as the duration of your check out.)

Amanda, once I figured out ebooks via the CPL I put approx 1,000 things on hold but once I get that under control, I will read Drood!

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IkZ30WaOsdg/Tt0fu4MkTkI/AAAAAAAAA-U/82cDOa3kjoM/s640/TATR.JPG

the best thing about it is that you don't really realize it's a werewolf book until about halfway through, but i just ruined that for you so ha ha.

Oh lord, Charlaine Harris blurbed it. Do the werewolves take an inordinate number of showers?

ha i didn't know about the harris blurb when i read it. the tone is kind of hard-boiled, i guess? it was not an amazing book but was fun for vacay, some effectively creepy parts but fell apart in the end.

omg i just cut the everloving crap out of my tender thumb on a metal file folder and yelled obscenities and people in the library heard me :-/

i spent literally the first two hours of the day yesterday trying to make copies with two different copiers continually jamming up on me and i was doing some office swearing

Office swearing totally appropriate in both situations IMO.

When our current Big Boss first started, I ran into him twice before we officially met. Once I was struggling w/ unlocking the door to our office and dropping f-bombs like a champ. The second I was wrangling the copy machine and letting fly with a string of curses not unlike the fabled "mother fucking titty sucking two ball bitch." Meanwhile he was on the other side of a cube partition getting water and listening.

It's not as good as the time I got stuck in my coat in front of our old Big Boss but still. I surely know how to make an impression.

Maybe I should just settle in for the long haul at this job. I may not deserve any better.

don't be ridiculous
http://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/2600000/Balki-Larry-perfect-strangers-2659324-459-586.jpg

"mother fucking titty sucking two ball bitch." reminds me that I've been wanting to vex an annoyingly Christmas-obsessed* FB friend by posting "God fuck us, one and all" as my status, but that's just a little too much, probably. So I share it with you all.

* It was carols and religious Xmas music all season, and he continues posting multiple updates on each of the 12 days of Xmas until Epiphany.

i like how cousin larry is holding an invisible (something) in that photo

pineapple?
baby?
5 lb handweight?
plate of chips and dip?

his balls

he is holding ACTING

His holy balls

seriously, just look at that picture and imagine that he's holding his own huge, distended ball sac

he is holding his dream of opening a junk shop with balki in chicago

and also one of his balls

the big one

I've probably mentioned this before, but Mark Linn-Baker was considered one of the preeminent interpreters of Chekhov to come out of Yale Drama School.

now he is simply cozzen larry

We all make choices.

he chose to cradle his invisible ball sac like a baby, his legacy is his reward

i remember some movie he was in with peter o'toole, where peter o'toole was a drunk movie star and linn-baker had to shepherd him around?

a guy i went to high school with called me "balki" b/c he said i looked like him.

i hope you said THAT'S RIDICULOUS and then engaged him in a folk dance

you and i should be balki and data for halloween next year

Per a previous conversation, the movie starting Michael Caine in which Sigourney Weaver rides an exercise bike while topless is called Half Moon Street.

I learned this by googling "Sigourney Weaver rides a bike topless." It's the first result.

I was talking about Michael Caine w/ you, but I don't remember Sigourney Weaver being a part of the conversation.

sarah says the art institute is free on weekdays this month fyi

We just finished Damages S1 last night. So good.

And so annoying that there seem to be no analyses on the Internet for me to read. (I guess no one got into it until the second season?)

when you guys read the reader's "people issue" do you get the impression that they're (mostly) just profiles of reader staffers' friends?

I don't think I paid much attention to that feature.

we're watching homeland (slowly), it's kind of ridiculous but gets by on strong acting by claire danes, mandy patinkin, and especially the oddly creepy damian lewis

xpost yeah

Does the reader have an app? They should.

you guys discovery center is offering a 50% off classes deal
finally, i can take one of their super sweet personal growth classes, like

"talk to anyone anytime, how to"

http://www.discoverycenter.cc/index/prsnlgr.htm

ott heart squeezingly painful to imagine a class that offers the following:

Want to learn how to talk to anyone at anytime and make a good impression. Are your fears of rejection in your way? Come learn how to:
o Overcome your fears
o Feel good about yourself and what you have to say
o Project self-confidence
o Start and continue conversations
We will practice self-image building and power communication skills. Alan Salami LCSW is an NLP Master Practitioner and Psychotherapist. He specializes in assisting people to learn new mental skills to transform their lives. Mat. Fee: $10

The Discovery Center kind of blows. Or at least you need to be v cautious and selective about what you teach there.

Sincerely,
The Asshole Who Paid for a Chicago Neighborhood Tour and Ended Up Trapped on a School Bus Listening to a House Flipping Ponzi Scheme Sales Pitch

"Alan Salami LCSW"

"To demonstrate what I'm talking about, we're going to act out a little exercise in social phobias -- I like to call this 'Hide the Salami'."

i took a class on proofreading there, it sucked

i am not actually suggesting that you guys take classes at the discovery center, i'm just kind of obsessed with it due to stuff like this "Alan Salami LCSW"

I want to take foreign accent reduction.

i could teach that class

re: talk to anyone anywhere

1) who signs up for that class? how many students? ages? gender distribution?
2) what does alan salami do to break the ice in the most socially tense room in chicago?
3) what do the students think of the class after they take it? do they feel more able to talk to strangers?

i bet changing your name to "alan salami" is a good way to start conversations.

q: 2) what does alan salami do to break the ice in the most socially tense room in chicago?
a: introduces himself "hello, my name is alan salami. alan salami is my name. and if i can go through life with this name, you can learn to talk to people too"

though most of those conversations will primarily consist of "wait, your name is alan salami?"
xpost

there are only seven results for a google image search for "alan salami," and none of them are pictures of a guy

Alan Salami -- the rumors are true

i've wondered about that place. i thought about taking classes there - how to do photoshop, for example.

Would that be worthwhile, do you think?

no

unless you're going to spy on the other classes and report back to me in exhaustive excruciating detail about what you saw

for real?

i also thought about taking an excel class

xp

I want to be "Danny Cappicola"

fwiw I think the U of C Graham school would be a better option for this stuff, probably more $ though

I took a yoga class there. It was OK.

(Disc. Ctr., not U of C.)

introducing: AMANDA MORTADELLA

nick textured vegetable protein-based chorizo substitute

Nick Quorn doesn't sound too bad but it's not as cool as Amanda Mortadella.

Jenny Baloney

Jesse Bloodsnausages

Do you like Paul Verlaine?
Is it gonna rain today?
Do you want to call your mommy?
We can call her Alan Salami...

I'm sorry, I'll stop now. It's really hot and boring in my office.

YOU'RE hot and boring.

I'm super bored and super lazy today. I have to do some work but I just can't.

nick quorn and the bad veegs

Jesse take a class at a CCC location. They have cheep continuing ed courses in shit like that.

But really, get your bachelor's degree first.

OK.

still hot
still bored

Drop It Like It's Bored
Bored Child in the City
Bored for Teacher

i can't even take a picture of the little white plastic baby jesus sticking out of our office rosca de reyes because i forgot my phone at home

amanda how do you find out about new music?
i need to find new mp3 blogs that are well-curated. most of my new music sources are dried up.

I'm gonna put my best-of-2011 playlist up on Spotify this weekend. Although it looks like Spotify is missing 11 of the 88 tracks. 12 if you count the "Edge of Glory" radio edit (they have the album version).

hmmm good question
i'm not sure i find out about a lot actively so much as stumble on it? i still have an emusic account so that's my "try something new" allotment for the month, also keeps insane downloading under control.
really i am not an obsessive keeper-upper with stuff. i should probably read a magazine or something.

i was thinking of going to see YOB/Anatomy of Habit at the EB on Wednesday 1/25. should be a good show, but is on a weeknight :-/

also like i went to that metal ensemble thing at the MCA and saw the awesome harmonium player dude there and then looked him up
totes recommend if you like that sort of thing! (organic/synthy soundscapes that sound inspired by nature)
http://mindovermirrors.tumblr.com/listen

i also listen to the radio a lot

mostly to terry gross and then she tells me what music to like

just kidding

"...and later we'll talk with _____ about his/her new cee dee"
http://blogs.e-rockford.com/bricksandclicks/files/2007/10/terry_book.jpg

Fuhreshhh Aer

just fyi by "new stuff" i mean new-to-you stuff, not necessarily new releases

I've liked this guy lately, he's mostly into Michigan stuff but also branches out. A lot of hardcore, screamy sludgy crusty to whiny and emo. I've found some good tracks there.

http://mindintrusion.blogspot.com/

oh well new to me, i just go with my <3
what am i in the mood for

for instance, i said that i would enjoy more poppy music this winter to keep me in a good mood and it has been working!

I ate at Freshii yesterday and they were playing an entire Pitbull album. Excuse meeeee

but i mean you can say "i would enjoy more poppy music" but then how do you know specifically what albums to get?

i dunno, i think of something i like, and then find more like it
you know how to do this, why are you asking me?

(not being hostile btw -- just that i know you know how to find stuff you like. you just have to want to look around for it)

like i read that flying nun book and then have gone down a rabbit hole of flying nun, which has been v enjoyable!
i listen to "crush" by tall dwarfs every single time i get into the car and it's like a ritual now.

boom boom boom boom boom
tap tap tap tap tap
la la la la la la
how does it feel when you find out that everyone LOATHES you?

and then the song is over and i am on my way to my destination

also lastfm radio stations are good for finding new things, better than pandora because there's more international music ime

I would like to get back into the habit of exploring music that is not primarily new and buzzed-about stuff, but there is so much of that stuff that I am rarely left wanting. Sometimes I just think, like, what if I am a huge fan of (say) Rickie Lee Jones, and I just don't know it yet?

Yeah, there's a century of music that just happens not to have paid publicity at the momen, ando gets drowned out by the rest.

I can'ttypewell on this thing

I'm just listening to Robin Thicke for 2012.

i was asking you specifically because you always know about bands/music i haven't heard about

I think I was better about digging into old stuff during the couple of years when I was pretending to be a Music Critic.

I basically get everything from sharemyplaylists.com

You're Jeff Goldblum in The Fly.

i'm pretty good at digging, not so great about keeping up with new things

somebody buy me a hamburger

cheeseburger

I'd like to try out a joke here.

Q: When Morrissey dies where will his body be kept?

A: In a Moz-oleum.

Q: When Morrissey dies where will his body be kept?

A: Inside the cemetery gates

Q: When Morrissey dies where will his body be kept?

A: Under a grave made by pretty girls

Q: When Morrissey dies where will his body be kept?

A: What difference does it make?

^^winner winner winner^^

Spotify link for my best-of-2011 mix:

http://open.spotify.com/user/seaworthyset/playlist/7ecSYOYVqInhzYpYd8H6Hz

Anybody want to go to this? http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/217548

Kr was literally *just* talking about that. We are probably interested.

I'm most likely in.

I'm probably interested.

Amanda: http://thehairpin.com/2012/01/a-femmes-guide-to-improvement-solid-perfume

oooh that's neat
i use a little piece of cotton w/perfume oil on it in MY scent lockets, but this is a novel idea!

jenny are you a veronica falls fan? i think you might be.

may i recommend
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVS_cm2HOxo

would anyone want to do pub quiz tomorrow?

Oh man that sounds like fun, but given that our little guy decided this week that any sort of consistent sleep pattern is out of the question, I'm not sure I can really ditch my wife with a screaming baby until we get things a little more back on track. This weekend was awful, I think we each got a grand total of 7 hours all weekend.

sucks. evie just got back on her normal schedule after vacation/teething threw her off. we had some bad nights last week but things seem good again now.

I might be interested in pub quiz.

jaymc would be the best pub quiz partner of all time.

btw if i were in chicago i'd totally be down for a pub quiz, anytime.

also btw, i find out if i'm moving to chicago today. *refreshes email every 2 minutes*

good luck brah

no matter what happens, i foresee a lot of drinking going on tonight

Nick, Jenny, Jeff go dig around the City's offices and see what you can find out!

Good luck Z.

this week is really busy for me or else I'd be totally in for pub quiz, R and I stopped at the Globe for a beer on Saturday and I was reminiscing a bit about past quizzes

I do not know about Veronica Falls but I will check them out. Thanks!

Also, good luck ZS! My fingers are crossed, just for you.

No pub quiz for me. I'm sick. Blech.

Random: someone mispronounced my last name like Bear-goes today (fluent English speaker, no discernible accent). That is a new one.

Jenny, you will like them. I bet Nick and Sarah would too. Anyone who likes super catchy UK pop with girl singer and post-punk moments.

niiiiiiiiiiiick where did you put those tracks you recorded most recently with (i think?) sarah and ben that i liked a lot?
are they downloadable somewhere?

dan, strangely enough, S and I also went to the Globe for a drink on Saturday, and I was also reminiscing about pub quiz. Might also be pub for tomorrow night, though I have a 12.5 hour day on Wednesday, so perhaps I should just make it an early night.

scarequotes.bandcamp.com
i think i set it so you have to pay to download but i can email them to you once i'm at home if you remind me

yaaay
ok
i just remember liking them a lot and i want to put more fun stuff on my running ipod
trying to make myself want to do that again requires some planning...

i still need to rerecord the other song we tried to do that didn't come out due to 4-track problems.

Hey, we'll be able to sneak spiced gumdrops into the Century movies:

http://chicago.racked.com/archives/2012/01/04/cvs-at-broadway-diversey-bigger-than-expected.php

Good news! I like CVS.

Wait. Did we already talk about the fact that there will be a gigantor Walgreens competing with it? We talked about these matters separately, but it seems like there will be a face/off at some point.

Oh, guess what? The place where Dominick's burned down and will never rise again (3050 N. Broadway)? It's going to be home to a Mariano's!

Pub quiz rounds:

1) Holy Spy Cog 11 pts
2) Choice Key 11 pts
3) Match- Swap Rightly 14 pts
4) Chemical States Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 22 pts

1 = Psychology
2 = Ice Hockey
3 = Playwrights

yeeesh

i'm playing with advance base at the empty bottle next tuesday btw. free show if you rsvp in advance on their site. all our shows are on tuesdays for some reason.

I'll do it and cover the playwrights, if folks want to.

i'm thinking about it! i'll decide by the end of the day.

I'm not in for trivia.

so the people possibly in for quiz are me, john, eazy, and maybe amanda? i'm feeling kind of headachey right now so i'd be ok with waiting for a week with better topics but i'll go if everyone else does. i do want to go soon though, i miss pub quiz.

I would go next week. I'm broke today.

i could go next week too

those topics aren't really my cup of curly fries

I'll go either week. But Nick can't go next week b/c he's playing that show at the Bottle.

oh :(

not in for pub quiz this week as I have made the thoroughly adult decision that I must be in bed by 9:30 tonight. I will then use pharmaceuticals to get myself to sleep.

well let's just go some other time then. i think the ice hockey category would kill us this week, unless dan could come.

it is attractive but there is a mountain of laundry in my house that ain't getting any smaller and tonight it goes DOWN

i am thinking of going back to ddpp tomorrow anyway

after my LONG PAINFUL ABSENCE

man, sarah misses DDPP so much :(

:( i do too

go for all of us, amanda!!

i believe i will! i'm just gonna hold my nose and keep going if the music is terrible.

I should sell my playwright knowledge to the random trivia table that buys me dinner.

I'm disappointed about no pub quiz tonight. :(

But laundry is a pretty good idea.

crispin glover at the music box this weekend: http://www.musicboxtheatre.com/collections/crispin-hellion-glover-returns/

i saw that
when does the cave dude have his thing there? is that happening? i keep checking the website and it keeps saying the same thing.

I can't stop sneezing and one time my ex boyfriend had a friend who sneezed so much he sneezed a hole in his lung and is this going to happen to me???? I sneezed while writing this, btw.

Jenny I think of your username several times a day whilst calling denizens of the Raleigh-Durham area.

All credit due to Amanda, who encourages us all to replace "Cleveland Steamer" with "The Old Fuquay-Varina."

ATTN DAN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4hVu6180ruI&sns=em

hahahahaaa

Oh no....the little crab! I was so scared that the doofus Dane was going to get his nose pinched!

hahahaa

I had no idea Great Danes were such doofuses. The one w/ the tub at the beginning is a fave. And the one freaked out by the DVD screensaver.

they are doofuses like you wouldn't believe, also droolers

after watching the video I have to say I hate seeing them with pinned ears, their normal big floppy ears are so great

Yeah. Pinned ears seem really awful all around.

I stopped sneezing! Now I can't stop coughing! I hate everything!

You need to bee dictated - ha auto correct - MEDICATED.

You should be medicated, and often, and by someone who knows how.

I just watched that video again and now I kinda want to start a great dane thread, but I'm afraid it'd just turn into me posting pictures of Vonn and I can do that on fb already

it's more fun to post pictures of one's dog here
trust me

dogs are great dogs dogs dogs moar threads about DOGS

that is a great thread of dogs in general doing hilarious things but I was thinking more dane-specific

although this dude is way awesome and much much bigger than Vonn

dogs are great dogs dogs dogs moar threads about DOGS

Sorry, I didn't mean to just toss that link in without saying anything.

I was just FYI'ing you.

This is more appropriate for the Skokie MMXII thread, but: in another thread, I recommended

http://pics3.city-data.com/businesses/p/5/7/5/4/5295754.JPG

to Jesse. Good food and the best people-watching anywhere.

john, i am listening to your best of 2011 spotify list. i like that you included fucked up. do you like the album?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1mAGQAw3Oc

To quote that video, "Meep!"

Nick, the album as a whole is a little wearying, but I like a handful of tracks from it. Even though I'm no great fan of hardcore-style vocals, I have a lot of time for darting, interlocking guitar lines.

I love those babies <3.

last night on the train home, a seat opened up directly in front of where i was sitting, and this woman who was standing maybe about 20 feet away saw that it was open and she started making her way over to the seat, saying multiple times in a mousy/anxious voice "...i-i-i wouldn't mind sitting down .... i wouldn't mind sitting down..." and it made me think of one of the kind of crazy/neurotic characters kristin wiig would play on SNL so then i was imagining her as this funny sketch character and i was cracking myself up so i had a big grin on my face, and the woman (who was now seated) turned and saw me grinning so she smiled at me.

that reminds me of an important post i need to make to the IA thread.

that's a good story nick

i saw a garbage truck driver totally jamming in his truck today and it kinda made my day

I miss ddpp, too! Also, Matt and I got engaged over the holidays, and it's now slowly dawning on us that we have to plan a wedding.

Congrats! Just don't view it as a chore! We had lots of fun planning for our wedding! Sure complications are inevitable, but acknowledging that going in and erasing all expectations of any sort of "perfect" wedding make it much more enjoyable. Think of the fun things - tasting free, delicious food! Picking out decorations! Music! Lots of exclamation points!

i meant to say congrats!
congratulations!!
you only have to plan the wedding you want, remember that...

also please join me at ddpp. i am going tonight if anyone wants to come. mostly i want to establish myself as a regular again so i can dj ;)

or, what jon said in fewer words
ha

I could frequently use someone to edit my baloney.

YAY KATIE! Congratulations!!! Third the "only plan the wedding you want to have" advice. You seem to have pretty laid back family so I think you'll be able to do this as simply or elaborately as you want without too much hassle, no?

Also, I see you two getting married in a forest in the UP and you wearing some kind of forest maiden medieval wedding dress.

they're getting married naked in the sauna

I came here to tell you all that the Erotic Fiction Contest is happening again. If you missed Jesse reading an amazing story about the sexiness of Cheese Whiz, you might want to come this year to see what miracles happen. Feb. 12, 7:30, at the Whistler.

xp LOL

instead of rice or bird seed, the guests will fling the traditional homemade yogurt at them

then later matt will fling some yogurt of his own

xp - I want to read an awesome story!

Or like an Edwardian-style dress:

http://janastarr.com/pic/DR02.jpg

See, don't worry about planning your wedding because apparently I am going to plan it for you.

Okay, Jesse! I'll tell P that you want to read.

but i really want to read an AMAZING story!

why aren't you answering your work phone?

I'm not at work!

Thanks, everyone, we're actually pretty excited.

Jenny--this is perfect! Just tell me when and where to show up. I'll be your bridal marionette. Also, it will be in the woods, and we do plan to break a ceremonial plate. There shall be no yogurt flinging. Or, maybe there will!

we could get married at the erotic fiction contest!

no way, forest forest forest!!

Erotic fiction contest in the forest!

oh, b/c you're at home

many xps

We should cash in on the reality tv craze by having people vote on various components of the wedding. i envision the end result as a forest wedding/erotic fiction contest, with yogurt flinging, while wearing ewok outfits.

i don't trust the people of america to have enough taste for this forest wedding/erotic fiction contest
with or without yogurt flinging

you would wind up naked in the mall of america backed by a high school show choir

ie, the worst stress dream imaginable

...ending with me emerging from a blackout, wandering your parents' cabin asking for someone, anyone to let me in their sleeping bag...while flinging yogurt.

I can't wait for more edible slurry!

^ really tempted to post this on "ILX out of context"

UGH REALLY DON'T FEEL LIKE BEING AT WORK RIGHT NOW

it's pretty nice out and i feel like being creative and energetic and instead i'm stuck behind a desk in a dry, overheated room

me 2, want to play drums and then take a nap

n/a otm all around, its like 88 degrees in here right now

at least today i didn't wear smartwool socks like i did yesterday, i was sweltering the entire day

it's pretty nice out and i feel like being creative and energetic and instead i'm stuck behind a desk in a dry, overheated room

― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 3:46 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

this is OMG EVERYDAY IN MY OFFICE
it is hot and totally airless in there

Erotic literature aside, it's a bummer Paul McGee is leaving the Whistler. He has a great beard, and it will take a more than a few handlebar mustaches to make up for its loss.

Fiction, not literature. Definitely just fiction.

Thanks Obama, what a bad day to have to drive for a meeting. I must have picked the exact wrong time to leave work tonight, took 55 minutes to get from 8th & Wabash to Balbo & LSD.

Courtney always knows when Obama's coming, and she often tells Jenny and me.

Can't believe it's been 47 minutes since a mention of BHO and Dr Mudbutt hasn't swooped in w/ some non-sequitir criticism of Bam.

Numero Group dance party at the Hideout this Saturday night
WHO'S WITH ME?!

lol, when I was sitting in traffic I kept thinking about what Morbz would be saying

Without even really trying to bring politics into this, I do get annoyed when like any one person decides they can inconvenience so many people so they can, you know, go to dinner.

Numero Group dance party sounds pretty awesome indeed.

As I quoted him on FB, Stephen Fry OTM: "I loathe dancing. The people are all very sweet, but it's what they're gathered together to do that I find so ineffably, HORRIFICALLY repellent."

I waited for prez on wrightwood with like a hundred ppl. I got tired of waiting and left.

Oh you wouldn't find me dancing, I can't dance. But the thought of hearing Numero Group music while watching people having a blast? Yes, please.

What's he doing in town? Why would he be on Wrightwood?

Dunno. I did see Daly though.

Prob had dinner at weiner circle.

Oh, Clark and Wrightwood?

Glad it didn't f up the Halsted bus route. It's a few blocks away, but it's conceivable.

I had to wait over 30 minutes for a fucking bus home tonight, and I could see 5 of them on Bus Tracker, between 10 minutes and 20 minutes from my stop. I thought that might be due to BHO mucking up traffic.

And at one point all the buses got between 10 and 15 minutes from the stop and then stayed there.

Dancing is a sublime activity. If anyone out there in ilxville wants to go with me Sat. lemme know!!

It was some building just east of orchard.

Oh, this is what's happening.

obama is having a 30k plate fundraiser 100 ft down the street from my boyfriend's building tonight, which dr. morbius nickname for bam should i use when i derisively heckle the attendees?

― tyga mother (J0rdan S.), Wednesday, January 11, 2012 6:03 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Glad I didn't have to resort to Google or something.

xp I feel like I'll never have the lung capacity to dance again. As I mentioned on twitter, however, I do have leftover hydrocondone so I'm going to sleep soundly and (relatively) coughlessly tonight.

peace be with you tonight

And also with you.

Ddpp was all hip hop tonight. Variable results but I had fun. Jenny you will dance again. You shall DANCE AGAIN.

Oh, Obama DID fuck up my commute!

At a UIC event, up to 500 donors who paid from $44 to $100 were treated to music from recording artist Janelle Monae and a guest appearance by actor Hill Harper from CSI: NY before Obama hit the stage to loud applause.

FUCK YOU BARACK HUSEIN OBAMA

FUCK YOU IN TEH FUCKAGN EXECUHOLE

Cheap tickets, though!

I was not inconvenienced by President Obama's visit to Chicago.

The South Loop was all kinds of fucked up, I've really never seen anything like it. The entire area around my office was gridlocked in literally every direction because no one knew for sure where to go and there was no direction. Even the alley by our parking garage was bumper-to-bumper with people trying to escape. Jealous of people getting to see Janelle Monae though.

Yeah, BHO's visit bothered me 0.

I wouldn't have been bothered at all if I hadn't needed to drive to the office today.

hmm apparently it was a good thing I worked really late tonight or else bho's visit (which I didn't find out about until like half an hour ago) would have destroyed my life

I figure my ease tonight was karmic payback for the week-long bus reroute shitshow I and many others endured due to his election night victory party set-up.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-drunk-driver-leaves-car-teetering-on-edge-of-montrose-harbor-20120110,0,4146713.story

Headline and story changed "drunk" to "confused."

Holy cats I slept better last night than I have in weeks. I am seriously looking forward to taking it again tonight. More sleeeeeep!!!!

Professional development day -- the day you thank yourself for having the sense to get a smartphone.

Snow is coming!

This is looking like a red letter day for everyone itt so far.

If I shake this cold, I'm up for Numero Group dance party - I love giving those guys money (listening to the Syl Johnson box now - so dang good). I'll bring my girlfriend. She's a Loyola english prof., so some of you ivory tower types may have some sort of notes to compare when not dancin'...

Ooh, that sounds great. I may be up for going.

We might be up for that, too -- Kr has been talking lately about wanting to go to Danny's.

-snoooooow

-hey guys

-hey n/a, thanks for the heads up on 'terriers' being available for streaming now. although sarah and i watched the pilot last night and it was just ok - does it get a lot better? i think i liked it more than she did, but i'm predisposed toward detective shit and have lower standards.

hey, where u been?
terriers stays pretty consistent so if you didn't like the first ep the rest probably won't suddenly change your mind but there is an overarching plot that develops and gets more complex. it's not like a blow you away amazing kinda show, it's more like a fun, comfortable, charming show.

we're only about 5 episodes in btw

xp that reminds me of this blog post someone forwarded to me re: Danny's, wondered if any of you had seen it (after googling I discovered it made it onto Chicagoist etc)

http://bronxcheer.tumblr.com/post/14084752042/swans-you-fucking-people-make-me-sick-by

do you guys realize that dance night doesn't even START until MIDNIGHT!?!
are you all INSANE!?!?

If I shake this cold, I'm up for Numero Group dance party - I love giving those guys money (listening to the Syl Johnson box now - so dang good).

Might I recommend hydrocodone.

I realized that and I still wanna go if anyone else does!!

arouuund. i got pretty good at not checking ilx when there was no ilx to check.

i'll be in chicago on feb 10 & 11, digd0wn is doing another green mill weekend.

hydrocodone makes it hard for some people to sleep, e.g., me

WB, Jordan!

I have had that hyper reaction to codeine in the past, but something seems to have changed and now I'm a well on my way to being a pill junky.

do you guys realize that dance night doesn't even START until MIDNIGHT!?!
are you all INSANE!?!?

When I was your age, young man, I was seeing Fake Fiction shows at midnight.

Lol talk guy on bus stood up and said loudly "Hey, get up jackass, we gotta be in court." a lot of heads turned bc it wasn't apparent that he was talking into his hands free phone mic.

dang it's snowing so hard but doesn't seem to be sticking at all. all this wasted effort by god.

i think the problem is all the snow seems to be going sideways, instead of towards the ground.

rookie mistake

Ha!

Hey so Kr and I got Settlers of Catan for x-mas. Anyone wanna play it with us sometime?

YES OMG YES

I love that game.

OK so i have a TEN MINUTE lunch break
if anyone wants to go to the thing on saturday, email me -- I know it's late, I know you're weary, I know your plans don't include me...still, dance party!! think about it.

Settlers of catan looks awesome, though tbf I'm not exactly sure what it is.

In related news, due to wedding registry hilarity, we now have two brand new "classic" Clue board games, if anybody wants one.

I'll play if it is the iPhone version.

I got electronic catchphrase for Xmas that I want to break out for a game night.

i wish someone here would play catan with us

jeff and jenny have we played settlers of cataan? i get it mixed up with that other board game we play sometimes.

Who wants to play the battle star galactica game again??

We have, I think you may have won.

n/a we played Settlers once and IIRC you liked it.

I was thinking about the BSG game the other day and coming to terms with the likelihood that I'll never play it again.

:(

We should really just sell it then.

I got electronic catchphrase for Xmas that I want to break out for a game night.

I thought you have always had Catchphrase?

It's *electronic*.

I would like to give Settlers of Cataan a go. I'm worried I'm not smart enough for it, tbh.

I was not aware there was an analog Catchphrase.

xp Aw, I made you frown. I just feel like its complexity makes playing it a chore for ppl who aren't super enthusiastic about that kind of game. Since its hard to find players, we don't play it much and we have to relearn it every time, which makes it more complex…

I feel like we need to go play at the f'n Dice Dojo or something to really take full advantage.

Jesse, Settlers is really easy to learn. It probably takes a few games to really develop a strategy but that's part of the fun IMO.

I had to drive to and back from a meeting out in Aurora this moring, they are actually doing an admirable job of keeping up on the roads and sidewalks. Its nasty way out west.

Dice Dojo is awesome!

I feel like the captain of the football team when I walk I'm there.

No, I just got electronic catchphrase. I think there might have been a card game version?

So who brought electronic Catchphrase to our apartment in like 2008?

i think i liked the BSG game more once i became a cylon and was basically a spoiler for everyone else

Jesse, Settlers is really easy to learn. It probably takes a few games to really develop a strategy but that's part of the fun IMO.

i feel the need to insert the "a few minutes to learn...a lifetime to master!" thing here

carcassonne 4 lyfe
(i have only played catan once and it was confusing...because i only played it once)

carcasson is the game i get confused with settlers of cataan

Carcassone is infinitely better.

I think the bsg game would be more fun with 4 or 5 ppl. It would also take 4 hours to play.

call of Cthulhu owns all these games

Actually I own all these games.

Except Call of Cthulhu.

What kind of game is it?

hyper-nerdy board game where you collaborate with co-players to try to figure out deep dark mysteries and avoid going insane or dying in various ways

also it's very hard to actually "win"

and, as the name suggests, it is set within the Lovecraftian world

That sounds really good.

it's fun but it can be really goddamn frustrating to play for 2-3 hours and then BOOM Cthulhu rises and everyone loses their mind with fear and it's over

sounds like my prom night

http://www.cityofchicago.org/content/city/en/depts/mayor/iframe/plow_tracker.html

hey they're letting us out at 4:30 due to weather

biking to/from work was... challenging

oh no
poor tanuki!

people are such roadhog bastards on the roads you take too

xp So I saw.

Where do you work now?

Did anyone else get that plowtracker to load?

Since I had my meeting out in the middle of nowhere this morning I have to drive home tonight. Trying to decide if I should leave soon or wait until the rush of everyone leaving early passes.

I got it to load on my desktop but it took awhile.

Same for me

lech: they weren't too bad, though i did get yelled at by some dude crossing the street. i couldn't understand him and wasn't overly interested to hear exactly what he said tbh.

jenny: halsted/division-ish

i would be up for borad games if it ever comes to pass

I meant where as in what do you do/who is your employer.

ah, sorry — it's a sort-of fundraising call center for orchestras/ballets/theaters

ATTN dan m

yeah, I've seen some pictures on fb from friends in Homer and the surrounding areas, lots of snow

The CTA bus system is absolutely worthless. Standing at the stop for the 97 near my house and nearly empty bus drives right past me. Apparently standing directly under a bus stop sign and waving both arms as the bus passes is code for, "no thanks, I'm good, just standing out here for the hell of it, please go on".

The sample size you're relying on is too small to reach the conclusion that the CTA bus system is worthless. But I totally feel b/c that happened to me once and it gave me the steaming, eye-bleeding rage.

Ha, yeah. I turn into Yosemite Sam and start cursing incoherently and jumping up and down and launching myself into the air by shooting my guns at the ground.

hahahaha
oh jenny that would be hilarious

Oh yeah, I'm not at all serious that the entire system is worthless, but I was trying to let off steam without relying on the many four-letter words I wanted to shout. Just super annoying.

phillip ordered a cab this morning to get to work and it took the company 45 minutes to finally call him... to tell him that there would be a delay

whatcha guys doin this weekend?

i get out at 3 today and have monday off for mlk day
practicing for the advance base show at empty bottle
going to the shower for ben and amy's baby (who is like 2 months old)

book release party for a friend tonight & maybe a stop at quenchers for another friend of a friend's band if we can stay awake
friends from the UP playing a show in the neighborhood saturday night (u guys should all come -- http://redettes.bandcamp.com/album/ed)
lazy lazy sunday
day off monday

Would love a day off on Monday tbh.

Dinner at GTFO tonight and them video games/couch/tv until Tuesday.

-Tonight: Having a drink after work w/a friend of Kr's
-Tomorrow: ?
-Sunday: Hosting Kr's parents for brunch, then going to Blackhawks game at night (our first! -- my mom won tix)

Hopefully finishing up S2 of Damages somewhere in there, too.

Dinner at GTFO tonight

Get the fuck out, you're eating at GT Fish & Oyster?

Affirmative.

Am I a foodie now?

'fraid so

Dammit.

Oh wow, I never noticed the initials of GT Fish & Oyster before.

Gosh they must be so embarrassed.

i will probably also watch some football playoffs

Oh

- Tonight I'm going to see the Girl with the Dragon Roll Tutu w/ Courtney (if anyone wants to join, let me know)
- Tomorrow: Dunno
- Sunday: ?
- Monday: Day off

Dinner at GTFO tonight and them video games/couch/tv until Tuesday.

Mostly this, unless I feel better. If so I will leave the house and hang out with S/a and WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE?

Hey guess what? I went to the fancy Walgreen's on State St. It's kind of too much ~dazzle~ for a drug store but they don't lock up their deodorant so I will shop there.

Oh wow, I never noticed the initials of GT Fish & Oyster before.

I only noticed it when we went a couple weeks ago.

Hey, so my boss - the one you never hear about b/c he's sane, capable of using MS Office, and not a freak - is running for judge in Cook County. He is a very competent, smart, efficient, and ethical lawyer, and I think his politics are agreeable. I will be voting for him. Check him out http://cleary for judge.com/ (remove spaces, obv.).

Shit. It's going to get monster cold tonight.

tonight: relaxing/recovering
tomorrow: work/NUMERO GRP DANCE PARTYEE -- who's in? clearly you guys have nothing else to do...
sunday: recovering/relaxing

I love you and I love your energy and enthusiasm but unless I can get that 3-11 flex time shift I keep asking for or start doing coke again, the odds of me ever going to a midnight dance party are slim.

That party train left the station c 2003.

once in a while i can handle it
not all the time!

i have learned that i can survive on much less sleep than i thought i needed
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAH deal with it world

Yeah, I don't need the full eight hours every night, I find. Just about five or six. When I get into real trouble is when I get two or three.

Yeah, A, after discussing with the missus, I think we are probably out for Sat. night as well.

I got 7 solid hours last night. It was glorious.

yeah, 7 is my ideal
8+ if i'm sick
5-6 in a pinch
less than that and i am likely to start crying at some point during the day

I think I seriously need like 10 hours of sleep a night, which I obviously never get, thus me being tired all the time.

I need to find out what's up with that sleep study. I really want to get surgery on my stupid head so I can sleep like I used to.

Amanda, I am not in. I'm actually not as dead set against dancing as I said. I hate it out of envy.

I'm out of the dance party too.

just saw today that some djs i know in new york have slots until 4:00 tonight, and i had a similar reaction to n/a (A.M.?! ARE YOU INSANE?). can't imagine having to play a 3 am set. i'm amazed that i can still play a gig and stay up until 1:30 or 2:00 now, given that i regularly go to bed around 11:00 and would sleep for well over 8 hours if i could.

Do these figures seem kind of weird:
http://chicago.curbed.com/archives/2012/01/12/chicagos-q4-rents-according-to-rentjuice.php

It seems to me that the gays start nights out later and stay out later. This is based on experience in NC and the last few times I went out w/ some gay guys.

I like that in New Orleans there are dance clubs where the party keeps going strong until mid-morning some nights. I found myself in a foam party at 8 a.m. one time.

That's the stuff of nightmares.

Re: rent, is that for a 1 bdrm, 2?

I think I seriously need like 10 hours of sleep a night, which I obviously never get, thus me being tired all the time.

^^^

I blame this on the fact that I have to get up so early. If I could sleep in until 9, I think I'd be more well rested.

Just in case anybody thinks Jeff is a foodie, you should all know that at least once a week, we eat a frozen pepperoni pizza with canned mushrooms and olives on it for dinner.

GTFO was really good and we're drunk, btw.

Ha- posted at 8:56 PM

OK so here's the thing.

http://i1.fc-img.com/fc03img/Comcast_CIM_Prod_Fancast_Image/4/885/1316707462569_house-of-games_2X1_640_320.jpg

The thing is. What is the thing? The...thing? Are you, are you, are you listening? Do you see? Do you...look: do you: will you: see?

Oops, nevermind.

WTF. Why is nevermind not one word? It certainly should be.

Short for "never you mind."

Here's the thing Eric

Is the "here's the thing" story common knowledge? If not, I'll tell you:

Years ago, Bagourtney, Jenny, and I were in the Ohio House diner eating breakfast after yoga. A few booths away there was a cop on a cell phone talking to a man named Terry. Terry was a tenant in the cop's rental hoe, and the cop was clearly not happy w/ Terry b/c Terry had numerous complaints. At first Terry seemed like the good guy because come on, angry cop landlord is not the most sympathetic type, but then it became apparent that Terry hadn't paid rent in many months and he probably sort of sucked at life.

The cop kept saying "Terry listen -- Terry you need to pay -- Terry -- Terry --" until he got fed up and said "Okay Terry, here's the thing: fuck you."

It was like found drama.

That's beautiful.

Hey, speaking of which, here's the thing: there's a Mamet play about lawyers opening at the Goodman this week. I've read the script, can't promise it will be great, but will at least have some good word nuggets.

(That said, there are cheap(er) previews this coming week--I would be up for going.)

Also, my friend Leigh, who saw Virginia Woolf and had dinner at Italian Village with us a few years ago, has her first novel out and will likely get famous.

(Us being me, Jesse, Jenny, Jeff maybe, and I don't remember who else.)

Terry was a tenant in the cop's rental hoe

Haha. My fucking M key has problems. I have sprayed it w/ air, but it's still sticking.

Re that play, I might want to see it? I mean, while I have come to think that Mamet might be a hack, I like his "word nuggets" as you say and I would like to see him put lawyers on stage. But what is deterring me is Mamet's unbearably stupid opinion pieces.

Come buy my coffee table. I'll give you the ILX discount.

http://chicago.craigslist.org/chc/fuo/2800131381.html

I went looking for a picture of Brenda on Flickr and I got sucked into a nostalgia hole.

Party at a friend's house in some dumb small town in NC, circa 2003.

http://farm1.staticflickr.com/1/32628_f2b0ed79ff.jpg

I wonder who drove home? We were very good about not drunk driving.

As I said on an an email and IM: I am not dissing my current looks, but man, I used to be a cutie, but I thought I was weird looking and ugly. If I saw me then in a bar now I'd buy all the drinks me then could put in his sweet pink mouth.

And I'd shave his soul patch.

Courtney looking very pretty there, too. And Jeff looking "last known photo before campus massacre."

what's with the pillows on your laps?!

I think we spent the night? I think that was Sean & Beth's house. God, we were so young!
Xp

Oh you're right, I think we did spend the night!

I noticed the pillows, too. That's just how I sit.

Though at that particular moment Jeff and I were hiding our erections.

I need a beard in that picture. A face one.

I won't bombard the thread, but this is a very important picture.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/photos-ak-snc1/v1810/139/121/1309983927/n1309983927_30218917_1202.jpg

July 4, 2003 or 2004. Hour 5 or 6 of a 14.5 hour drinking marathon. The day Jenny sang to a farm team baseball player that he was a pussy, threw my shoes on the field, apologized to the player, asked that player to pick up my shoes, then called him a pussy again.

lol @ "a face one"

I made that my Match.com profile pic once.

I think I look better now than I did 8-9 years ago.

Jenny can we get that coffee table????

Jenny says yes. We also just lowered the price to zero.

Thank you! Though I will insist on paying or whatever

When do you want to come get it? I took down the CL listing just for you. And you are paying us in two ways: 1) carrying it out of the house and 2) making it so I don't have to answer emails like this "Let me ask you something does it have storage at the other side too?" or let the person who wrote that email in my house.

We will also be selling/giving to ILXors the following furniture items:

Green desk/armoire set (together or separate)
Vintage Lane cedar chest

The desk/armoire are not that great but would be awesome fix up pieces. The cedar chest is old, but really cool. It's just too big for anywhere we might want to put it.

Could you post a pic of the desk/armoire set?

Man, stupid Firefox's dictionary sucks a lot. It doesn't like "armoire" and offers no substitutes.

Eventually, but you have seen it! It's been in our apartment since we lived in Glenwood.

Thanks again! I can come get it anytime. tomorrow?

Also, my friend Leigh, who saw Virginia Woolf and had dinner at Italian Village with us a few years ago, has her first novel out and will likely get famous.

I've never met her, but I vaguely recalled your being friends with her when I saw the novel on the front table at Book Cellar last weekend.

Tomorrow is great! One of us should be here throughout the day. Just text when you are coming over.

Do I have to shower?

Okay I'll text at some point. Jeff, you do not have to shower, I can take it. Also, I am planning on carrying the table back to our apartment on my back.

Seriously, though, I hope it fits in my car! I should buy rope or something.

What kind of car do you have? I had that same kind of coffee table (EVERYBODY in the free world has that coffee table!) and I fit it in a hatchback. A Prius, I think. I don't think they're too hard to take apart, if you have to. The tables, not Priuses.

You have a hatchback, don't you? If you have fold the back seats down, you should be fine.

Yeah but I have a tiny hatchback, a yaris. It should fit, but it could stick out the back a bit.

Sara had that exact coffee table when I met her, so this will be exciting.

Oh right, I've been in that car.

It will fit, even if you have to leave the hatchback open.

I don't know why I'm involving myself in this.

nice work, team

you guys missed an awesome dance party

Yessssss you did!!!!!

Amanda and I IMed earlier and I was going to go (not to dance, just to judge people) but then I got a Garfield grade nap attack at 8:00 and it was over.

I was in the depths of codeine-induced sleep. (Still coughing at night (and during the day, come or think of it), not actually addicted to codeine. Yet.)

The only thing to judge was that a Daily Show guy was doing stand-up beforehand and decided to try out an extra half-hour of new material. This meant that the club was at capacity, so there was a long wait to get in, until the comedy show let out. Other than that, some club-sapphic pairs of gals, just a few dudes being bros, a few pairs of dancers who took over big swaths of the dance floor, and other than that everyone was who there were and the music was all great.

phillip and i watched episodes of archer and venture bros until we went to bed

Also guess what -- not tired, only had 1 beer, feeling good. Staying up til 4 isn't as taxing as it may appear! I've done it several times recently, in fact!

I was kidding about judging. And I was thinking about Jeff's advice to someone on ILX, "Dance like everybody's judging you." (who was that?)

Corey, there will be new Archer episodes soon!

So guess what? I started a thread on ILM last night and it was not a disaster. Worst Pixies song

xp it was my first time watching it. i think i like it more than sealab, but i'd need to see more eps to tell

Archer v. Sealab is very much apples an oranges IMO.

they share some writers don't they?

Marduk commands you to reconsider your opinion.

Oh I don't know.

I just meant that the styles are very different, though thinking about it now I can see some intersections. The characters are all kind of jerky and the jokes are often somewhat blue. But Sealab is more about absurdism and non-sequitirs. Archer eps stick w/ their story and characters rather than veer off into stuff like the 5:00 long "UH OH!" bit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjkdMQzNbt4

ha! i'd always wondered where "we have uh-oh" came from

The only thing to judge was that a Daily Show guy was doing stand-up beforehand and decided to try out an extra half-hour of new material.

Wyatt Cenac? I know he was in town this week.

Yeah, we even saw him walk around the building when they wouldn't let us in. He stayed for the dance party too, but was not dancing.

Btw he was cute, smaller than I expected, and had a beard. Lotsa dull jokes though, including lol buying condoms is embarrassing.

Wow. That's really bad.

tres leches, i used some of that dried mango powder. my stir-fry is now deliciously tangy.

awesome!!! i hope you sang "lemme tang it" while you were cooking :)

Hey sorry I didn't check in. Hope the coffee table transportation went OK <3

Yeah, I think Wyatt Cenac was on a live episode of WTF not too long ago and I was kinda ~shrug~ about him. Not that that's the best venue to judge someone as a performer, but it seemed like he was mostly coasting on charm.

Be careful, karaokers!

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-cops-man-hits-bar-owner-with-bmw-then-tosses-150-cash-at-him-20120116,0,3630305.story

Weekly check-in to see who might be up for pub quiz tonight.

1) Odd Mint Saucepans 14 pts
2) A Witch Liver 10 pts
3) Finish the Lyrics 12 pts
4) Chemical States Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 22 pts

1 = Stand-Up Comedians
2 = The Civil War (or possibly "Welch Trivia": questions about Jack and/or Raquel Welch)

can't do tonight as per empty bottle show as previously discussed. seems like it's going to be pretty poorly attended (tuesday night plus snow in the forecast). i'm now playing bass on three songs and keyboards on two songs, instead of just autoharp all the time, plus singing backups on a couple of songs, which is fun.
too bad, "stand-up comedians" is a good category.

Oh riiiight. Sorry.