400 homicides and it's only Oct 9, same diff.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
Was having coffee at a fast-food establishment and one young guy at the table next to me was playing a recording of himself rapping (not too well) and one of the other guys days "That's drill-hop!" And he says, "What?" And the other guy says, "That's drill-hop--you're doing it and you don't even know what it's called!" And indeed it was.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Tuesday, 9 October 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
There's a young Republican phone banking center in a storefront next to where I get my hair cut and I have this overwhelming urge to do something super crass like hike up my skirt and mash my bush against the window and yell MY BOX MY CHOICE and then run away. The guy who cuts my hair said they are always outside smoking ("probably because they hate themselves so much") so I don't think they'd be able to catch me.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
Red Eye says bush mash is the new flash mob. Reports of a bush mash at Chick-Fil-A at Chicago and Wabash.
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 03:58 (eleven years ago) link
I just realized I don't like the word "bush."
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 04:37 (eleven years ago) link
a.m. radio in Logan Square:https://www.facebook.com/events/117753685042828/
Also, I noticed with the Thorndale remodel that the convenience store in the station is gone. True at Argyle and elsewhere?
― pretty even gender split (Eazy), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 15:48 (eleven years ago) link
I am trying out a standing desk right now. Really, it's a $150 contraption that I could probably build out of scrap lumber. However, it is also awesome and I am enjoying the absence of neck pain, as well as the freedom to bop around and dance a little bit while I work.
― sisut, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:25 (eleven years ago) link
I would really like a convertible desk since sometimes sitting is nice but then sometimes my butt hurts.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
yesterday i was giving my regular every-other-week talk at work about nonprofit funding and where it comes from, and i was at the part where i was talking about how religious organizations (churches, synagogues, etc.) receive the most charitable donations by sector, and right then a nun in a habit walked in and sat down at the table in front of me. it was distracting.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:53 (eleven years ago) link
Would have been more distracting had she flashed her ... oh, I can't even say it.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
...rosary beads?
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 10 October 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
if anyone knows anyone who'd be interested in editing work, there are two positions (1 copy editor, 1 managing editor) open right now at my place of employment
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Wednesday, 10 October 2012 23:42 (eleven years ago) link
The doctor we go to is doing Saturday appointments.
Also, a movie is being filmed right in front of my place.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:06 (eleven years ago) link
Oh and the Saturday appointments are very conveniently take. at 3000 N. Halsted.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 11 October 2012 19:07 (eleven years ago) link
Omg I just learned that a janitor at a daycare in my hood was accused of making children eat "boiled babies" during the satanic panic of the early/mid 80s.
The end of this week cannot come soon enough.
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:36 (eleven years ago) link
this is a slow-ass week
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:38 (eleven years ago) link
Lol.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
yes, this week is terribly long. and it isn't ending any time soon. we have a big meeting first thing on monday morning in champaign, so a bunch of us from our office have to go down there for prep and a meeting all day in sunday plus prep in our office here on saturday. plus i'm working about 10 hours days every other day. so i'm really, really looking forward to the weekend, of the 20th-21st anyway.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 11 October 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
i'm going to be in springfield on mon/tues for work
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 11 October 2012 21:28 (eleven years ago) link
Yeh, it's been a(nother) balls-to-the-wall week for me too. Boss is out tomorrow though, so I can have some calm and straighten up my office area, which I find soothing and fun.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Thursday, 11 October 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
Dan, this URL makes me think of you http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215653/Kitty-Cat-Buttons-Jack-Russell-think-SISTERS-rescue-centre.html.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Saturday, 13 October 2012 03:18 (eleven years ago) link
Damn, this URL makes me love you more than I thought was even possible.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Saturday, 13 October 2012 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
omgsisterz
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Saturday, 13 October 2012 15:09 (eleven years ago) link
Librarians: what's up with some ebooks from the library not being transferrable to devices wirelessly? I mean, I know it's because of publishers but what is their reasoning? Does it strike you as kind of dumb?
Ebook users/nerds: $12.53 will get you eight DRM-free sci-fi/spec fic ebooks, including a Neil Gaiman comic, here: http://www.humblebundle.com/.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 13 October 2012 18:48 (eleven years ago) link
But only for ten more days.
Three of those eight were already on my "to read" list and they all look really interesting so I'm pretty excited. Now I'm finishing this amazing 1808 Gothic horror novel called The Witch of Ravensworth, which is delightfully gory and lurid.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 13 October 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
I downloaded a free "e-book" that turned out to be a PDF and damn girl, it's annoying as fuck to read.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Saturday, 13 October 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
PDFs are a pain in the butt to read, I agree.
― carl agatha, Saturday, 13 October 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
The Reader's series on the murder of Dantrell Davis reminds me that I wrote a terrible mawkish poem about the incident for a creative writing class. I was 13. I think I used the phrase "urban decay."
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:52 (eleven years ago) link
I assume you still have this poem and are going to post it in this thread any second.
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
Might be at home!
― Sandy Denny Real Estate (jaymc), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
violet hour to sell its own version of malort: http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/another-taste-of-malort-is-arriving-to-chicago/
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
further indication that malort has jumped the shark
― D'anesh (dan m), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
yeah we need to find a new disgusting alcohol drink to rep
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
like natty light
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:02 (eleven years ago) link
ever had this?
http://thumbnail.image.rakuten.co.jp/@0_mall/sakemitsui/cabinet/sprit/spirytus-vodka.jpg
― D'anesh (dan m), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
"rectified"
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
shit is no joke
― D'anesh (dan m), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:05 (eleven years ago) link
fairly certain that I would immediately die if I even smelled that stuff
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:06 (eleven years ago) link
I've had it a couple of different ways, mostly flavored with either honey or chocolate. It can be alright but it will take your head off if you go too fast. There was a version that called for soaking 750ml of it with a couple pounds of plums and cutting it with water, but the recipe was all in Polish so it wasn't really obvious what else had to happen.
― D'anesh (dan m), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
R and I were buying a six pack at a store just outside the city limits (can't buy spirytus in the city) and there was a little old Polish lady buying like 4 handles of the stuff in front of us in line. Made our High Life seem kind of wimpy.
― D'anesh (dan m), Wednesday, 17 October 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
What was the shot that k8 served at her wedding? That would make a reasonable Malort substitute.
― carl agatha, Wednesday, 17 October 2012 22:20 (eleven years ago) link
iirc that was http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becherovka
― D'anesh (dan m), Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
That's it. Boozy, full of strange botanicals, somewhat alarming to drink.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 18 October 2012 00:37 (eleven years ago) link
http://elections.chicagotribune.com/ballot/
sample ballot generator for local elections (nat'l too) -- just enter your address
Carl A., will you be providing us with the judge recommendations list again this year? Spose I could Google it too but I but my trust in you.
Does anyone have any good explanations of the referendum items?
― D'anesh (dan m), Thursday, 18 October 2012 15:53 (eleven years ago) link
Thanks for the link. There are an incredible number of people running unopposed on my ballot, which seems strange.
Thinking maybe I should vote for the Green Party candidate for President? I mean, if we lived in a swing state I would vote for Barry, but, as we live in the safest of all safe states for him, maybe it would be good to throw a vote to somebody progressive?
― doctor, doctor, give me the news (askance johnson), Thursday, 18 October 2012 16:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'm voting for roseanne
― bryan "radical" ferry (clouds), Thursday, 18 October 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
This whole thing makes me feel so gross about being here at all.― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:49 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinkotm― D'anesh (dan m), Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:49 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:49 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
otm
― D'anesh (dan m), Thursday, October 18, 2012 1:49 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lotsa meta beefing today makes me appreciate chilxors quite a bit
<3<3<3<3<3
― D'anesh (dan m), Thursday, 18 October 2012 18:53 (eleven years ago) link
likewise
― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Thursday, 18 October 2012 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah man, I'll find some judge info.
I'm doing the election protection hotline again. This year I get paid by my employer and I get pro bono credits. Also presumably a t-shirt.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:16 (eleven years ago) link
Wait what is grossing you out and making you happy for ChILX? Other than it being a day ending in Y of course.
― carl agatha, Thursday, 18 October 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link