Going back to the map, the whole "South Side of Chicago" part is what really puts me off, because it's a total cop out and makes me think the jackass has never been south of like Roosevelt.
― dansplaining (dan m), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:36 (eleven years ago) link
dan m otm, like he's saying, "I don't even know how to deal with or process this huge area I'm too scared to even think about so we'll just leave it at that"
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
There's an article in the New Yorker this week about Trent Reznor, so today I've been listening to the excellent The Social Network soundtrack, which I seem to recall Kenan sent me.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
Someone on NPR was talking about Bruno Mars last night and they played a bit of that song. I immediately thought "that sounds like Stewart Copeland's drumming" and like 30 seconds later the reviewer referenced the Police.
― dansplaining (dan m), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:38 (eleven years ago) link
Its a pretty fantastic Police homage, at least that's how I think of it.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
i'm listening to "i'm different" by 2 chainz over and over, it's the dumbest song but it has an amazing chorus that i just want to walk around yelling at people
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:16 (eleven years ago) link
I actually took it as a joke about the singularity of the South Side, but I'm probably being too charitable.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
this is how it goes:
i'm different yeah i'm differenti'm different yeah i'm differenti'm different yeah i'm differentPULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSINGPULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSINGPULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSINGPULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSINGMIDDLE FINGER UP TO MY COMPETITION
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:17 (eleven years ago) link
yeah my interpretation was similar to jaymc's
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:18 (eleven years ago) link
I thought it was a scathing commentary on common non-South Siders' perception of the South Side. Or what j and n said I guess.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
On his facebook page he just says the whole thing is a joke.
― dansplaining (dan m), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 21:12 (eleven years ago) link
I went through a period of obsession with that 2 Chainz song too, it's ridiculously stupid and ridiculously difficult to not want to shout the hook at people.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:08 (eleven years ago) link
Ha, my wife thought the Bruno was the Police, too. I thought it was so shameless it had to have something to do with Maroon 5.
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:36 (eleven years ago) link
Yo, I'll be at the half acre tap room tonight for a tweet up of beer nerds, if any of you in the area want to drop by. It's bring your own Instagram.
― Jeff, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:39 (eleven years ago) link
that sounds fun but i'm pretty beat. had to move all of the library's books for the second time in three days today.
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 12 December 2012 22:40 (eleven years ago) link
"shameless" = otm
― dansplaining (dan m), Thursday, 13 December 2012 03:02 (eleven years ago) link
this is what my library looks like right now
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A-AdTxoCUAEkMrs.jpg
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
Wednesday night drinking probably wasn't the best idea for me.
― Jeff, Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:27 (eleven years ago) link
What does "bring your own instagram" mean? I've thought about it and I still dgi.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Thursday, 13 December 2012 16:50 (eleven years ago) link
It was a joke. Because twitter beer nerds post pictures of their beer on Instagram.
― Jeff, Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:00 (eleven years ago) link
What are those n/a? They look like pumps or generators.
― HAPPY BDAY TOOTS (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:01 (eleven years ago) link
i'm not 100 percent sure but i think they're superpowered dehumidifiers
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 13 December 2012 18:22 (eleven years ago) link
I'm on one of the fancy new trains. It's possibly the gentlest train I've ever ridden.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:24 (eleven years ago) link
I hate the CTA. I'm buying a car.
― Jeff, Friday, 14 December 2012 00:30 (eleven years ago) link
Jarvis stop is almost ready to open again! Hooray!
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 14 December 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
Oh wait I guess I have heard this Bruno Mars song. The Police hadn't originally occurred to me, but that's a good call.
― Sax Blatterday (jaymc), Friday, 14 December 2012 03:35 (eleven years ago) link
That was such a smooth, quiet train. I didn't care for the seating layout, though. I'm looking forward to riding one of the new cars when it's super packed at rush hour.
Man, I barely remember what it's like to ride a train during rush hour.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Friday, 14 December 2012 05:06 (eleven years ago) link
Miserable. I don't see how anyone south of Fullerton on the Red/Brown/Purple line do it. All trains are packed. Sometimes I left 3 or 4 go by before I can even squeeze on one.
― Jeff, Friday, 14 December 2012 12:28 (eleven years ago) link
New bike lane opens on dearborn today. I wonder if the messengers will pay attention to the bike signals.
― Jeff, Friday, 14 December 2012 12:32 (eleven years ago) link
I like the new trains, seating layout and all. They can hold more standing passengers, don't have that natural bottleneck that occurs around the doors in the current trains, and there are straps/rails along the length of the car. In the Brown and Purple line configurations, there are dead spots where there's nothing to hold on to if your standing, which is an inefficient waste of space.
Of course I'm saying this as someone who rides a morning train that is almost always standing room only (if there's room at all) and who rides an evening train from a stop exactly halfway around the Loop so there's always a seat. Either way, the seating config is kind of beside the point.
― carl agatha, Friday, 14 December 2012 13:26 (eleven years ago) link
you're not your blah blah blah fart
― carl agatha, Friday, 14 December 2012 13:27 (eleven years ago) link
I'm sure fearless crime fighter and force for good John Kass will treat us with another column either way.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-1214-20121214,0,3628535.column
― dansplaining (dan m), Friday, 14 December 2012 13:38 (eleven years ago) link
I dislike the new trains.
― Jeff, Friday, 14 December 2012 13:53 (eleven years ago) link
Have no fear, those new trains will be degraded down to old trains in a matter of days.
I took my daughter to England a couple of years back, and I left wondering, huh, why can't we have trains with toilets, upholstery and food service? And I immediately answered myself that they would be rendered disgusting or destroyed almost immediately.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 December 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
The BART in San Francisco is weirdly spotless and comfortable and very fast, with nice soft fabric on the streets. Not sure how they manage that.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Friday, 14 December 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe because the weather is nice enough that the homeless don't just ride the trains all day?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 December 2012 15:21 (eleven years ago) link
also the BART is a much smaller system so fewer people use it i think.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 14 December 2012 15:37 (eleven years ago) link
Also it has an ejection mechanism for smelly disgusting people built in.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Friday, 14 December 2012 15:39 (eleven years ago) link
I want to say CTA remains the farthest you can travel on public transportation on one fare.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 14 December 2012 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
I took the BART from the San Fran airport to Oakland, took about 45 minutes, went under a huge body of water.
Like Lechera says, it's so pristine in a city with a lot of dinginess that makes me wonder about ejection seats and secret police.
It also doesn't run 24/7, so that's part of it.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Friday, 14 December 2012 16:17 (eleven years ago) link
don't have that natural bottleneck that occurs around the doors in the current trains,
I love the bottleneck! I really enjoy being jammed in and unable to move. It's just my thing.
This one already had tags scratched into a window. One of them was weird...what was it?? I want to say it said "Grouch Marx," but I just can't remember.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Friday, 14 December 2012 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
Our office holiday food just went from 0 to 60 in about 2 seconds -- Garrett's popcorn, peppermint bark, and a giant box of chocolates from one of our vendors.
― dansplaining (dan m), Friday, 14 December 2012 17:56 (eleven years ago) link
been eating tons of cookies over here. could def. go for some caramel/cheese popcorn combo.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 14 December 2012 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
I had this funky dream last night that I was a homicide detective and my partner was Martha Plimpton and my commander was Jessica Valenti. I was called to invetigate the apartment of a murder suspect, and it was totally filthy, not hoarder filthy, but disgusting college dorm room filthy. We found a quilt with blood stains on it and the DNA came back as belonging to Jessica Hernandez (that is not an IRL person I know), who was the murder victim in my first case, in which I ended up being a suspect, but was eventually cleared even though Martha Plimpton was still suspicious of me. I was really worried because I knew since the bloody quilt had turned up at another scene I was investigating, the heat would be on me again because Jessica Hernandez's murder was still unsolved. I was pretty convinced somebody was setting me up.
Anyway, other than being upsetting because I was afraid of being unjusting imprisoned for a crim e I didn't committ, that dream was a pretty good story.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 16 December 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
This bar just played G Love & Special Sauce and I thought of you.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 16 December 2012 20:47 (eleven years ago) link
Who? Me? I could see you thinking of me w/r/t G Love.
I am talking to a lady on the bus who is learning a new route and I'm learning about bus bunching, models of buses, and other behind the scenes CTA stuff.
This morning we are part of a 4-bus bunch that was caused by a driver being late for his shift and 2 of the buses being slow models. Also, she says, the other drivers are being dicks and not letting is pass them. I wouldn't have noticed, but it's true.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 17 December 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
I would like a certain filmmaker to make a movie about the daily work life of a Bus Driver. Or maybe, more generally, CTA Worker.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Monday, 17 December 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
You as in Chicago ILX collectively.
― carl agatha, Monday, 17 December 2012 15:00 (eleven years ago) link
If only it were that simple. I'd like to see that movie too, but so not gonna happen.
I have ANOTHER dentist's appt today. Can you believe what a big girl I've been? Not complaining about the other four appts I've had? This is the 5th.
― passion it person (La Lechera), Monday, 17 December 2012 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
In the meantime, Jesse can make a guerilla documentary in which he sits in the front of busses and engages in conversation with the driver (and others) while the bus is moving. Serious Q&As alternate with disguises and Borat-type pranks.
― your damn bass clarinet (Eazy), Monday, 17 December 2012 15:25 (eleven years ago) link