Oh awesome. Do you know what she took? I'm leaning toward jewelry making or painting. I have so much interesting but half broken costume jewelry and sometimes I just look at it all and think, "If only I could solder..."
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:06 (eleven years ago) link
pottery
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:07 (eleven years ago) link
I took ceramics in college and was so shockingly horrible at all wheel things that I don't think I can go through it again. I'm leaning towards jewelry making. I want to use tools.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:13 (eleven years ago) link
i got a C in pottery in college because there was this guy in my class who was like a total pottery savant AND nice AND unbearably hot. his name was pat. none of us stood a chance with him around, but we did get to bask in his presence :-/
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:26 (eleven years ago) link
related to earlier discussion from one of my favorite twitter accounts:
JADEDPUNKHULK @JADEDPUNKHULKHULK WOULD REVIEW THIS NEW GASLIGHT ANTHEM ALBUM BUT HONESTLY THERE ONLY SO MANY ZZZ'S HULK CAN FIT IN TWEET.
HULK WOULD REVIEW THIS NEW GASLIGHT ANTHEM ALBUM BUT HONESTLY THERE ONLY SO MANY ZZZ'S HULK CAN FIT IN TWEET.
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 18:13 (eleven years ago) link
you guys i was just looking at the stuff chirp posted to facebook and i am going to sink this ship
You mean the station's general Facebook page, with plugs for local shows? I wouldn't necessarily expect that a music quiz hosted/sponsored by CHIRP would primarily focus on the current music they play/promote. I mean, I wouldn't be surprised if, as Nick suggested, there was a very broad indie-rock orientation. But to me that would just mean that Johnny Cash, the Velvet Underground, the Talking Heads, and Public Enemy would be more likely subjects than Genesis, Earth Wind & Fire, Ruben Blades, or Alabama.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
I think Kr took a ceramics class from Lillstreet right around when we started dating.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
thank you jaymc for understanding what i'm talking about. like fela kuti or lee scratch perry would be the type of "world music" i would expect to be covered, not like andean panpipe music. but again, just stereotypes and guesses.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 18:58 (eleven years ago) link
Totes.
Also, it looks like J + D will be joining us tonight.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 19:00 (eleven years ago) link
got iti trust chirp programmersawesome
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 19:03 (eleven years ago) link
Brush up on yr Big Star.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
Huh, speaking of Gong, Ned just posted this on the Sherman Hemsley RIP thread:http://dangerousminds.net/comments/weezy_get_me_some_lsd_george_jefferson_is_a_big_prog_rock_fan
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:46 (eleven years ago) link
i remember reading that when it came out in magnet because i was like wow, magnet! still alive!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
i found an old issue when i went home recently with YLT on the cover and a blurb about pitchblende
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
with YLT on the cover
Ha, this could've been any time in the past 25 years.
I subscribed ca. 1997-03. Not consecutively, though, I don't think.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
it was from 95kind of sweet in a pre-internet way
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
one of my college professors wrote reviews for magnet. he also wrote reviews for BMG music club and was in an indie rock band. a "cool professor." i took a modern music class with him and i dissected a public enemy song in front of the class.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:11 (eleven years ago) link
Okay, class, everybody take a Public Enemy song from the bin I'm passing around and pin it to your dissection board. This is going to be your Public Enemy song all semester so make sure you take care of it.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
Thought for a second his band was called Cool Professor.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
ha that's a really great band name. now all i need is a new band.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:33 (eleven years ago) link
i would seriously have a band called cool professor
I like that name a lot, too.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
Makes me think of "Who's Your New Professor" but I don't think that's a bad thing.
I totally signed up for a jewelry class, you guys. I'm going to learn how to solder and rivet and texture and some other thing that I think more or less means cutting shapes out of metal.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
awesome!
also, i saw a former stood at a show last friday~~~ cool professor ~~~
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:49 (eleven years ago) link
well i saw a guy from a band we used to play shows with at the playground on sunday ~~~ cool dad ~~~
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:50 (eleven years ago) link
I had the same thought.
― Trewster Dare (jaymc), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:52 (eleven years ago) link
i might have some extra tools for u carl.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 21:55 (eleven years ago) link
There's a materials fee for some metal, saw blades, solder, and sandpaper so I think they provide the tools for the class? But I might make you an offer on them if they are something I can then use to turn my pile of costume cast-offs into Etsy gold.
(j/k I don't have it in me to sell stuff on Etsy. I really just want to turn a bunch of clipon earrings into pierced earrings.)
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
IMPORTANT PREFACE: I am NOT asking this question with the purpose of mocking anybody's reading habits. My interest is professional and it pertains to something I'm working on right now.
I remember somebody once saying that a lot of mass market paperback mystery/romance bestsellers are written at a fourth-grade (or some elementary school grade) reading level, adult content aside. Can anybody confirm/refute this? A citation would be great (I did try searching for this myself).
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 23:03 (eleven years ago) link
i have no idea, but i can offer this -- most of the sentences and phrases in the romance writer's phrasebook are either simple sentences with s/v and a few prep phrases. if 4th gr reading level = simple sentence structure, then maybe?
i really like simple sentence structure if it comes with very precise vocabulary. lean and mean!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
N/a, guess who just got chopped in half by a train.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:41 (eleven years ago) link
Hint, not me.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:46 (eleven years ago) link
This is going to haunt me forever.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:59 (eleven years ago) link
What? What happened?
― Je55e, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 01:13 (eleven years ago) link
A Very Special and Traumatizing Episode of Homicide: Life in the Streets.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 01:15 (eleven years ago) link
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 01:43 (eleven years ago) link
squashed D'Onofrio
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 02:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street)
Spoiler alert.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 02:27 (eleven years ago) link
oh, haha, i still need to watch that whole series but that is, in fact, 1 of the 2 episodes i did see during its original run
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 03:26 (eleven years ago) link
2nd place y'all Wuuuuuut
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 03:32 (eleven years ago) link
Nice work!
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
1st losers. Try harder next time
― Jeff, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 10:42 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-chicago-chick-fil-a-20120725,0,6784667.story
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:37 (eleven years ago) link
Been surprised that Chick-Fil-A's evangelical values are new news.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:38 (eleven years ago) link
In opposing Chick-fil-A, Moreno stakes out a position likely to resonate in his hipster ward
agree with keeping them out, but lol
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:42 (eleven years ago) link
Cool Professor (feat. Hipster Ward)
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
http://blog.franchisesolutions.com/images/Fathers-Day-Ward-Cleaver.jpg
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:49 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think Chicken Filet's values are new news, but since they've only recently started opening stores in Chicago they are only recently local new news.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
Like, Joe Moreno wouldn't be in the Trib talking about how Chick-fil-A is a homophobic organization four years ago because they didn't have a restaurants in Chicago so an alderman's views on their politics really wasn't news. Also Joe Moreno wasn't alderman four years ago, but you know what I mean.
― ms. cookie (carl agatha), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
I was thinking more about how they're all over my Facebook page this week, related to the priceless quote from their CEO last week. The Alderman story is new news, for sure.
― Earth, Wind & Fire & Alabama (Eazy), Wednesday, 25 July 2012 12:57 (eleven years ago) link