Chicago MMXII

I believe the show starts at 8 and we're playing first. We're playing in Logan Square again in March with some cool people if you don't make it tonight.

oh starts at 9 tonight not 8

the music space at the burlington is surprisingly nice. they have a little room in the back that's maybe about the size of the music room at the hideout or maybe a little smaller, with a good PA. lead singer from the ponys was doing sound last night. don't know why they don't have more/better shows there.

How did it go?

I really liked the Burlington the one time I was there, but I had no idea there was a back room.

show was good. best on-stage sound we've had, which helps a lot.

Yay! I'm glad!

I should have come out, as much sleep as I got last night.

Ugh, if this #lightscape installation on State street means getting U2 blasted at me while I walk down the street all March then count me out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=IbPbeCcHs2c#!

Fuck that lady IMO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IbPbeCcHs2c

She is just so hung up on fucking "We started in Humboldt Park lol guns gangs guns lol crack HUMBOLDT PARK HAS GUNS!!!!"

City soles sells overpriced cheap shoes.

seriously my friend Ed bought a pair and they fell apart within a couple of days

Why is City Soles interviewing this douchecake anyway?

i always wonder about this building when my train passes it on the way home:
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=10+e.+lake+chicago&hl=en&ll=41.885753,-87.62735&spn=0.004489,0.005836&sll=41.886073,-87.627375&layer=c&cbp=13,3.08,,0,4.95&cbll=41.885754,-87.627175&gl=us&hnear=10+E+Lake+St,+Chicago,+Illinois+60601&t=m&z=17&iwloc=A&panoid=JMg1ElK0wyCpG1fM2FE9BA
it's so little and dumpy and looks to be closed up but it's right in the middle of the loop, right by clark/lake. so weird.

Per my fake research, it may be a comed substation?

http://iconeon.blogspot.com/2005/05/unknown-loop-streets-6-east-haddock.html

i’ve always been fascinated by that building too! still prefer to think it’s the headquarters of a secret society

well, i'm sure the substation is only a cover for the masonic temple buried underneath it

thank god

It's the entrance to Rahm E's secret underground lair.

It's HQ for all of his shadow organizations.

Rahm's Diabolical Basement sounded weird so they just left it as is

i heard filene’s was also originally going to be called filene’s diabolical basement

Filene's Shit Dungeon was "too much"

"Brand names at basement prices, you pigs."

"You're all worthless and weak; here are some bargains" didn't focus group well so

that building is where the pigeons huddle together in the winter

No, that's the shelter at the Clark and Lake El stop.

I just got into an argument with a coworker who claimed that The Dark Half was a much better movie than The Shining because it is more believable. I normally don't argue about these kinds of things but COME ON.

He then went on to say that he believes there will be a zombie outbreak in our lifetimes because of scientists messing around with viruses. He's very religious and subscribes to an extremely literal Christian eschatology (if you can wring some literal sense out of Revelation, then more power to you, I guess) so he was not just fucking with me. He's told me all about how the world will be naught but concrete with no grass anywhere, and how he's sorry that I won't be in heaven when it happens.

omg did you type that with your thumbs?

(aside from the obvious thing, which is wtf at your cow orker)

Nope. I used the big internet for that one.

FTR I'm more appalled at his opinions on The Dark Half than I am about his Armageddonophilia.

i am appalled at his people skills, not his beliefs necessarily

He's not the first coworker to lament my hellbound status right to my face. I don't even go around squawking about being an atheist or anything. The most I'll say out loud is that I'm not religious (and only then in response to people asking me where I go to church or whether I'll go to bible study with them or something), and I make a real effort to be neutral and respectful if people want to talk about religion at work, but I guess something about me just screams "I AM QUIETLY MOCKING YOUR FAITH."

That's awful!
I have been mocked openly for having a dog instead of kids on more than one occasion though.

As far as wtf are you actually saying this to me stuff goes, that's pretty tame, but still

FTR I'm more appalled at his opinions on The Dark Half than I am about his Armageddonophilia.

― carl agatha, Thursday, February 23, 2012 9:35 AM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm. it's (unfortunately) totally believable that a dude would go crazy and try to kill his family.

huh that came out creepier than i intended. note: i am not planning to kill my family.

What did one of my coworkers say to me the other day... Oh! Out of the clear blue sky, at the water cooler even, she asked me 1) how old I was; 2) whether I had kids (and then went on to say that I look so young because I don't have kids); 3) if I was an attorney; and, most puzzlingly, 4) if I had a business on the side other than my full-time job, not necessarily being an attorney, but doing anything, how much money would I expect to make in a year?

Mocking anyone for their choice to have or not have children is a shitty and judgmental thing to do, IMO.

xp LOL

Well, he clarified that he found The Shining unrealistic because Wendy didn't leave the Overlook as soon as Jack started acting weird, which was not even worth debating, frankly.

Was that a mole? An undercover agent? A turncoat?

A SPY!?

Who, the person asking me? No, it was our SUPERWEIRD security guard. SUPER. WEIRD. Small vignette:

She spends a lot of time in the bathroom (singing hymns) and she was standing in the bathroom talking on the phone, and I was washing my hands and she walked out ahead of me, and then stopped short, turned around and went back into the bathroom saying, "Oh! I forgot to wash my keys!"

Weird.
BTW guys, The Interrupters is up on the Frontline website, and I really recommend watching it -- sad, but real and not too much of a downer if you watch the whole thing.

Oooo should I show my class? We do a violent crimes chapter that might work with this.

Definitely

Clips might be better if you can find them though, it's 2 hrs long.

Or at least stop periodically for comprehension/digestion breaks

I'll watch it and see if I can show half of it.

I'm showing them a 15 min clip of The Staircase on Saturday.

the thing is that the threads wrap up a bit at the end, and you see development with the people whose lives they follow -- if you just show part of it, it won't have the same impact as if you show the whole thing. if they only see part, it will look unfathomably bleak, which is not the message. it's bleak, but not unfathomably.

there are obvious discussion points throughout, and it could lead into a conversation about solutions instead of a conversation about problems