My in-laws live a couple of miles from Lincolnshire -- don't know much about it otherwise.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
downstairs neighbor diedRIP
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:28 (twelve years ago) link
(btw she was v old and v sick, i am sure she is in a happier place now)
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― bomb.gif (dan m), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:40 (twelve years ago) link
stop sweating it and just get a ton of beer
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:43 (twelve years ago) link
or wineor cheese to freeze
Hummus and triple ginger snaps
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link
This is the kind of stuff I get at Trader Joe's:
breadsoy milkcerealorange juicefrozen pizzawinedry pastaapplesaucepeanut butterLara Barstortilla chipssalsahummuscheesepaper towels/T.P.laundry detergentfrozen fishveggie 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.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:52 (twelve years ago) link
Also...
olive oilcanned beans
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:55 (twelve years ago) link
yeah they have good oo for decent price
in sum:
olive oilwinebeercheese
― La Lechera, Tuesday, 3 January 2012 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:06 (twelve years ago) link
lol
we got a huge basket of stuff from there in addition to the card, R's aunt is a convert as well
― bomb.gif (dan m), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 20:10 (twelve years ago) link
Things I buy most often at TJ
tube o' polenta frozen fruits and vegetablesOOfrozen chicken breastsfrozen tri-color bell pepper stripshummuspackets of heat and serve Indian food, and tuna w/ curry (usually unavailable)
CHILI SPICED MANGO STRIPSCHILI SPICED PINEAPPLEFUCK YEH
― the Smurf who'll snatch your money (Je55e), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 22:38 (twelve years ago) link
I get those flaxseed vegetable chips.
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 January 2012 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:56 (twelve years ago) link
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."
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 14:58 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:00 (twelve years ago) link
btw jenny i read that and thought it was interesting precisely because you included ott detail
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:05 (twelve years ago) link
also i am reading DROOD right now
Rupert Holmes did the musical adaptation:
http://assets.sheetmusicplus.com/product/Look-Inside/covers/5406105.jpg
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
yeah i never went downtown when i was working in evanston/at home/in elgin. i like working downtown though.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
not dickens drood, simmons drood
http://lavieenroutedotcom.files.wordpress.com/2011/03/drood_cover.jpg
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
you should read it and then we can dish about it over a meal and 2-3 servings of the beverage of our choice!
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:42 (twelve years ago) link
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).
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― bomb.gif (dan m), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 16:10 (twelve years ago) link
good book!
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 16:11 (twelve years ago) link
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
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 16:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
Oh lord, Charlaine Harris blurbed it. Do the werewolves take an inordinate number of showers?
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 18:54 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 18:58 (twelve years ago) link
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 :-/
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 18:59 (twelve years ago) link
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
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 19:07 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 19:27 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 19:28 (twelve years ago) link
don't be ridiculoushttp://images2.fanpop.com/images/photos/2600000/Balki-Larry-perfect-strangers-2659324-459-586.jpg
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 20:15 (twelve years ago) link
"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.
― the Smurf who'll snatch your money (Je55e), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:28 (twelve years ago) link
i like how cousin larry is holding an invisible (something) in that photo
pineapple?baby?5 lb handweight?plate of chips and dip?
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:37 (twelve years ago) link
his balls
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:39 (twelve years ago) link
he is holding ACTING
― bomb.gif (dan m), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
His holy balls
― Cheap desert locations (Eazy), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
seriously, just look at that picture and imagine that he's holding his own huge, distended ball sac
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
he is holding his dream of opening a junk shop with balki in chicago
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:41 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Bon Ivoj (jaymc), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
now he is simply cozzen larry
― La Lechera, Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:25 (twelve years ago) link
We all make choices.
― They're coming to get you, (Jenny), Wednesday, 4 January 2012 22:32 (twelve years ago) link
Note: I only said I would do it if n/a did it because I knew he wouldn't do it.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Nancy_Reagan.jpg/230px-Nancy_Reagan.jpg
― carl agatha, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/31/hangover-clinic-chicagos-_n_2388820.html
I can think of multiple hangover instances where I would happily spend my last $99 at this clinic.
― carl agatha, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:25 (eleven years ago) link
man her forehead is so weird
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 20:41 (eleven years ago) link
Whose?
― carl agatha, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:51 (eleven years ago) link
Oh - Nancy's?
― carl agatha, Monday, 31 December 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
yeahit leads directly into her nose
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 31 December 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
hope u have a safe & happy new year, ppl
― dansplaining (dan m), Monday, 31 December 2012 23:56 (eleven years ago) link
(w/ or w/o shrooms)
― dansplaining (dan m), Monday, 31 December 2012 23:57 (eleven years ago) link
Same to you! Happy new year, everybody!
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 01:07 (eleven years ago) link
Happy new year! It is almost 2 am here which is quite impressive for me. I also cannot fuckng wait to get back to Chicago.
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
Chicago MMXIII: Walk Don't Run
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 18:55 (eleven years ago) link