Chicago: More Bars in More Places

OOPS.

I meant to cut out just that little photo of the 7-11 and the pawn shop. Good morning.

I would drink this cocktail.

Would it be gross to use juice from a regular jar of Goya green olives to make a dirty martini?

Nick, the first three songs of your mix make me think of the Doors. Esp. the Witchcraft one.

Yeah, this quarter's mix is a little darker and mellower overall. Witchcraft is kinda Doors-y, though I mainly hear early Black Sabbath. They make a big deal about using '70s-era equipment, so I'm sure the resemblance is intentional.

My newest coworker won the LZ lottery, so she and her sister are going to London to see Led Zep in concert at Thanksgiving. John Bonham's son will be on drums.

JEALOUS!

Thats a great looking tracklisting Nick, I'll have to download it when I get home tonight. I've been hoping to check out that Dirty Projectors disc.

xpost Jesse I am sorry I cut off our chat, but you knew that I was past the first bottle of wine and working on taking care of our beer supply. Suddenly home improvement became very important to me and I went into my room to hang lamps. The chat was sacrificed. There's a rather large hole in my bedroom ceiling now, and no lamp. Lots of drywall dust, too.

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Would it be gross to use juice from a regular jar of Goya green olives to make a dirty martini?

Nope. That's how you make a dirty martini!

Pretty much the only martinis I can stomach are dirty ones.

I wish there was a killfile where you could block out certain threads instead of certain users. I keep opening The Office thread and getting pissed off at all the whiners on there.

That was the first Stars song I've heard, I know nothing about them except that you people seem to like them. I like how it goes into 5 at the end.

That's what I thought, Jenny. Just checkin' with my fact checkers.

I don't like a lot of Stars songs, they can get really adult contemporary at times. But that one song is good.

I'm here for all your booze-related fact checking needs.

I just got a craving for Chef Boyardee ravioli. That's... kind of gross.

Chef Boyardee-tini

OK, I just read everything since I unplugged my computer on Sunday, and all I have to say is SARAH MET CECE PENISTON?!?!?!?!?

otm tell story

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Also, Kenan, I know you have bitched about Comcast in the past, but I need to get Internet at home, so can you quickly summarize your complaints?

They don't let you seed torrents any more.

I think Julia just underwent a Comcast nightmare, so she might have some input.

My beefs with them are that they are CRAZY expensive and their customer service sucks. It's also cheaper to have cable TV with your internet than it is to just have internet, which bothers me because even though I am very content with the DVR technology and would probably miss LA Ink and Dirty Jobs, I was also very content to not have cable TV.

But what are the alternatives? RCN? DSL? They are all problematic in their own ways.

Yeah, I use RCN, and they've been cool so far. Crazy high-speed internet and lots of channels. What more can you want?

If it matters, I prefer RCN's channel selection, too. You get the Travel Channel (yay Anthony Bourdain!) and TCM standard.

Ha ha. My ultra-rural high school won a radio contest sponsored by Toys for Tots so she came to our school dance. It was a huge deal for us. There was alot of screaming involved when they announced it. I stood in line to get an autographed promo shot. I remember thinking it must have been weird for her, being such a huge star in this teeny tiny, countrified h.s. cafeteria.

I don't remember standing around for a long time watching a concert, but I do remember hearing the big hit, Finally. And I feel like Shanice came too - a.k.a. "I like your smile..." - as a supporting act, but my memory is fuzzy.

1991, ya'll

Yeah, Kr is adamant about not having cable TV.

RCN has a good deal, I think. $19.99 for a year and then "retail price" after that. I'm trying to figure out what "retail price" is, though. (This was on a coupon that the US Postal Service sent me along with my change-of-address confirmation.)

Also, I know absolutely jack about cable Internet or cable anything, so tell me this: How does installation work? I have a cable coming out of my wall -- what exactly gets hooked up? And if the previous tenants used Comcast (as my landlady explained), does that make it harder for me to switch to RCN?

xpost WAHT, CECE AND SHANICE? I WOULD'VE DIED.

I don't think you can have cable internet w/out cable tv? Or at least without paying for it. Or at least that's how it works with Charter.

GOOD TIMES.

I don't have cable. I mostly want it when I'm home sick.

I want cable Internet because a) I never use my landline, so it seems pointless to pay for it, and b) it seems like it is faster than DSL? i.e. maybe I could finally watch YouTube videos without the video getting all choppy?

you don't have to pay for landlines any more

w/ AT&T

WHUT?

I guess our AT&T bill includes internet and long distance though...

We have DSL, and I have no problem watching videos at home. Maybe your computer is just getting ooooooold.

^^^yeah this is true for me also

Hmmm, really, do you think that's it? It's 5 years old.

its $24/month with no added taxes, you have to call and haggle for the change; there's a hotline to switch to straight DSL and they won't tell you it exists on the regular customer service line

888-800-4095

That's pretty old. Mine is ~4 years old and it cannot handle youtube etc.

I don't know, our laptop is about 4.5 years old, but I think is more powerful than your iMac.

Oooh, thanks, deej.

I just called RCN, btw, and they said they don't provide service to my building. So it's either go with Comcast or stick with DSL and save up for a new computer.

xpost Eff you, Nick.

Dirty Projectors sound pretty interesting.

That Dirty Projectors album is ... interesting. It's a cover of almost all of the Black Flag album of the same name, but the main dude supposedly wrote all the arrangements without relistening to the original album, which I guess he hadn't heard since he was a teenager. Some of the weirdness seems a little forced but it is intriguing listening, at least in small doses.

but the main dude supposedly wrote all the arrangements without relistening to the original album

This reminds me of Nicholson Baker's U&I, in which he writes a whole book about John Updike (and his relationship with Updike's books) without going back and rereading Updike, so the book is full of misattributed and error-ridden quotes.

I thought John was being sarcastic--as in "Old? YA *THINK*? It's 5 years old!"

To me that's pretty damn old for a computer.

Unless when you got it you pulled out all the stops and made it Future Machine.

Yeah, I guess it is. I still think of it as a sleek shiny iMac, though, in contrast to the clunky, enormous, multi-component 1995 PC that I just dumped off at Staples the other day.

Yeah, the iMac itself will last a lot longer than that, but the requirements of the OS might start to strain it soon. There's Mac Classics from 1990 still running out there, but they're running OS 7 or some such.