Chicago: More Bars in More Places

Nice!

sarah, in addition to the show at the mutiny (which probably wouldn't be your thing anyway) there's this:

Friday Oct 5th
at Hideout

Tribute to The Fall!

* Plastic Crimewave Sound
* Tight Phantomz
* Fast Product
* Sybris
* The Thin Man
* Grimble Grumble

i fucking love new hampshire, fwiw. politics schmolitics: it's still gorgeous.

green mountains > white mountains

except mt. washington, that's badass.

Oh yeah. Nick told me about that HO show.

I used to date a guy who went to Keene College.

We're playing a show at ITT tonight. Btw, the band is staying together.

reen mountains > white mountains

-- chicago kevin, Friday, October 5, 2007 6:34 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

^^^^^^^^ RONG

white mountains have way more tourists than the green mountains.

i went to grade school/middle school with a kid who spent a year at the top of mount washington while he was in intern for the noaa. local paper did a 3 part story about him and the conditions on the mountain in january. the pictures were otherworldly.

they have to try to clear the ice off this stuff each day because there are days where they just can't go outside and the ice will be feet thick.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c5/Observatory_tower_in_rime_with_blue_sky.JPG

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/Mount_Washington_chained_building.jpg/800px-Mount_Washington_chained_building.jpg

there's noooooowhere to camp in the green mtns

Mount Washington holds the world record for directly measured surface wind speed, at 231 mph (372 km/h), recorded on the afternoon of April 12, 1934.

...

Mount Washington's record low of -47 °F (-44 °C) was recorded on January 29, 1934. On January 16, 2004, the summit weather observation registered a temperature of -43.6 °F and sustained winds of 87.5 mph, resulting in a wind chill value of -103 °F (-75 °C) at the mountain. [3] During a 71 hour stretch from around 3 p.m. on January 13 to around 2 p.m. on January 16, 2004, the wind chill on the summit never went above -50°F. [3] Snowstorms at the summit are routine in every month of the year, with snowfall averaging 645 cm (21 ft) per year.

badass.

there's noooooowhere to camp in the green mtns

EXACTLY!!!! you gotta find your own place.

i mean, i like 'em both just fine.

never made it to the adirondacks, but i gather they're like the whites but w/o the crowds.

i just prefer not to be around people when i'm trying to get back to nature.

The tech school, John?

i'm amazed at these photos

http://www.stormchaser.ca/Snow_Blizzards/Mount_Washington_Climb/Mount_Washington_Climb_04.JPG
http://www.stormchaser.ca/Snow_Blizzards/Mount_Washington_Climb/Mount_Washington_Climb_08.JPG

how do people ski this?
http://users.ece.gatech.edu/~romorris/backpack/Tuckerman4.JPG

Sorry, I meant IIT. Illinois Institute of Technology.

Still a tech school, but not one advertised on TV.

TUCKERMAN'S RAVINE :D

fwiw tuckerman's is steep, but not THAT steep.

http://www.tetonat.com/Gallery/gallery2/main.php?g2_view=core.DownloadItem&g2_itemId=2173&g2_serialNumber=2

^^^ STEEP

that picture makes me think i have to move away from chicago again

45 degrees is steep enough for me.

since there aren't any lifts it's gotta be a bitch hiking up there after each run.

Yesssss, finally the terrible European brass bands are doing terrible covers of Digd0wn songs! We have officially made it. http://www.myspace.com/carlosaxbrassband

Jenny is doing her job interview right now. With the governor? I think that's what she said.

Oh. Not the gov. himself, just one of his people.

i decided to make french toast for lunch and it was the best decision i've made in weeks.

old people singing sonic youth

old people singing ramones

I read Pitchfork/Fluxblog/WMFU, too.

WFMU.

Ouch.

(Still pretty great, though.)

xpost Jon! What is your e-mail?

I have a Sendspace linky-link for you.

Oh yeah, thanks.

jon 8 3 0 (at) yah00.com

QUESTION:
If the Cubs 'clinched it' last week, then why do they need to win the next three games to get in the playoffs??

the cubs are in the playoffs sarah. they need to win the next three to STAY in the playoffs.

best of 5 series and they're down 0-2.

I R DUMB. Thnx.

Haha, I don't read those, I got it off the Bad Plus blog. :>

there is a very snippy contestant on jeopardy right now. alex was trying to ignore her but he just broke out one of his patented "ooooooooh..... i'm so sorry sarah, try to remember your phrasing ok? gooooood."

I miss coming home from school and watching Jeopardy!. It's been on Ch. 7 at 3:30 for at least 15 years.

it was on at four or four thirty in boston when i was in high school, me and my dad would watch it when he got home from work. then it was on again at 7 or 7:30.

my brother in law lost to that dude who won like 700 times in a row and made 16 billion dollars in the process.

Live from Lake Winnipesaukee, NH

That's a good lineup for the Hideout.

Yeah, my dad would frequently be getting home from his afternoon bike ride in time for the show. The vision I have is him on the floor of the TV room, doing leg lifts in nothing but spandex, barking out the answers.

Memories I have of my dad when I was little do not include:
bike ride
leg lifts
spandex
jeopardy

I watched the news with him.

I think I need to take some personal days to go to Spider Solitaire Anonymous.