Chicago MMXII

yeah i never went downtown when i was working in evanston/at home/in elgin. i like working downtown though.

not dickens drood, simmons drood

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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.

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.

you should read it and then we can dish about it over a meal and 2-3 servings of the beverage of our choice!

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).

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.

good book!

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

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!

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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.

Oh lord, Charlaine Harris blurbed it. Do the werewolves take an inordinate number of showers?

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.

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 :-/

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

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.

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.

don't be ridiculous
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"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.

i like how cousin larry is holding an invisible (something) in that photo

pineapple?
baby?
5 lb handweight?
plate of chips and dip?

his balls

he is holding ACTING

His holy balls

seriously, just look at that picture and imagine that he's holding his own huge, distended ball sac

he is holding his dream of opening a junk shop with balki in chicago

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.

now he is simply cozzen larry

We all make choices.

he chose to cradle his invisible ball sac like a baby, his legacy is his reward

i remember some movie he was in with peter o'toole, where peter o'toole was a drunk movie star and linn-baker had to shepherd him around?

a guy i went to high school with called me "balki" b/c he said i looked like him.

i hope you said THAT'S RIDICULOUS and then engaged him in a folk dance

you and i should be balki and data for halloween next year

Per a previous conversation, the movie starting Michael Caine in which Sigourney Weaver rides an exercise bike while topless is called Half Moon Street.

I learned this by googling "Sigourney Weaver rides a bike topless." It's the first result.

I was talking about Michael Caine w/ you, but I don't remember Sigourney Weaver being a part of the conversation.

sarah says the art institute is free on weekdays this month fyi

We just finished Damages S1 last night. So good.

And so annoying that there seem to be no analyses on the Internet for me to read. (I guess no one got into it until the second season?)

when you guys read the reader's "people issue" do you get the impression that they're (mostly) just profiles of reader staffers' friends?

I don't think I paid much attention to that feature.

we're watching homeland (slowly), it's kind of ridiculous but gets by on strong acting by claire danes, mandy patinkin, and especially the oddly creepy damian lewis

xpost yeah

Does the reader have an app? They should.

you guys discovery center is offering a 50% off classes deal
finally, i can take one of their super sweet personal growth classes, like

"talk to anyone anytime, how to"

http://www.discoverycenter.cc/index/prsnlgr.htm

ott heart squeezingly painful to imagine a class that offers the following:

Want to learn how to talk to anyone at anytime and make a good impression. Are your fears of rejection in your way? Come learn how to:
o Overcome your fears
o Feel good about yourself and what you have to say
o Project self-confidence
o Start and continue conversations
We will practice self-image building and power communication skills. Alan Salami LCSW is an NLP Master Practitioner and Psychotherapist. He specializes in assisting people to learn new mental skills to transform their lives. Mat. Fee: $10

The Discovery Center kind of blows. Or at least you need to be v cautious and selective about what you teach there.

Sincerely,
The Asshole Who Paid for a Chicago Neighborhood Tour and Ended Up Trapped on a School Bus Listening to a House Flipping Ponzi Scheme Sales Pitch

"Alan Salami LCSW"

"To demonstrate what I'm talking about, we're going to act out a little exercise in social phobias -- I like to call this 'Hide the Salami'."

i took a class on proofreading there, it sucked