Chicago MMXII

it was easier to get a state ID than it was to get a replacement library card

I can't recall ever having DMV trouble.

In Chicago, I mean. Elsewhere for sure.

i thought the commute joke was targeted at all the loop workers since we're always talking about train delays and whatnot.

Anybody want a beer tonight? I'll be at Goose Island Clybourn. Lincoln Park Lager tapped at 6 PM.

As tempting as that sounds, I have a date w/Kr to watch P&R.

Ha, I just stumbled upon this thread:
Chicagoans! Meet me at the Hop Leaf!

huh i didn't realize Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo was posting that long ago

She was definitely around when I started posting and then took something like a 5-year hiatus.

The Secretary of State Express in the Pedway is wonderful. I have been in there 2 or 3 times for renewal, replacement, and an address change, and not once waited in line more than 10 minutes. Filling out paperwork and paying and printing the new license took maybe another 10 minutes.

xp (Or at least posted much more sporadically.)

I want jvc to come back and realize that no one was mocking him. Come back jvc!

Meh. He's probably stuck in traffic.

Lolcommute

Also tapping tonight, Wrangler American pale ale. I'm saving a bar stool for you. Or you could go watch dumbamanda galas.

xxp ahahahahaha

btw I am going to Small Bar Logan for a bday drink in a minute if anyone is lol in the neighborhood

Jenny you will be happy to know that Siam Rice was a hit with the special librarians.

if anyone is lol in the neighborhood
well placed lol

my bf lives right there but alas I am not

"special librarians"?

hey: diamanda ga-fucking-las!! she was AWESOME. like carl said, who knew she was so CUTE? she was just adorable and funny, too. she seems like she would be a lot of fun to hang out with. CUNTCUNT!!

^^^^ I would go see her again in a heartbeat. That was such a good show.

I'm glad Siam Rice was a good pick! Were you able to hang out and talk or did they hustle you out of there?

Yay! carlnny, I'm really happy you liked it!!

It was great in all the ways I expected, and in ways I never expected!

This has been a wonderful night!

Did you two see any of the exhibit or just Diamanda?

We're number h8!

http://motherjones.com/files/images/blog_states_favorable_0.jpg

goole posted about this poll in a politics thread.
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_US_022112.pdf

xp - just DG

Huh, some of those rankings aren't intuitive to me at all. Like, I get Hawaii at #1, but why is Tennessee #2??

To answer my own question: perhaps b/c people of all persuasions have positive associations with Nashville/Memphis b/c of things like music and BBQ, and the state, while comfortably red, doesn't automatically code as crazy-conservative.

I think it's the Arrested Development song.

Man, Rod Blagojevich has a lot to answer for.

Yup.

Here are some animals:

http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b016762acce85970b-800wi

http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b016762926a11970b-800wi

I think that grumpy deer is my spirit animal.

look at how round its little orange head is
also, chin

Apparently idiot baker lady has apologized publicly after her neighbors boycotted her bakery. Totes talking about this in class btw.

that place is literally a block away from me

right next to a flower shop, a computer store and a nice mexican restaurant, omg so ghetto

idiot baker lady is idiot, bigger idiots were the commenters on chicagoist rallying around her with the tired "she's just telling the truth because i once heard a gunshot in that neighborhood" argument

who what is this?

The video is upthread, but basically this lady opened a bakery in Humboldt Park then another one in Lincoln Park. During an interview she said the Lincoln Park one had more traffic because it wasn't in a crack and gunshot filled ghetto like her original store. Paraphrasing here, but she did use those exact terms.

Gross.

To the Chicago-based Yooper diaspora: is there a Yooper thread on here? My parents are talking about wanting to retire to North Dakota and I am on a mission to make them move to the UP instead. I need some solid arguments in favor of this.

Jenny:
Waaah christ dere eh, pard? A 906 thread.

Why don't they retire to somewhere that is easy to get to via a major airport. And warm in the winter.

God, no kidding.

Home prices in NoDak are going way high now, on account of all the oil and natural gas up there. (Lowest unemployment rate in the country, I think.)

so hip they're calling it NoDak

My dad has been talking lately about wintering in Florida, and my mom is currently in Arizona for the next month.

90% sure my parents will never move house, much less move to another state.

My family will never move North of the Mason-Dixon line.

my mom is currently in Arizona for the next month.

Correction: She just got back from Arizona, and now she and her fiance are going to SC/FL/AL for a month.

Not that any of you actually care or anything, I mostly issued that correction in case Mark is lurking.

Malurking

My folks retired to the redwoods. I think it's been good for their health, being able to be outdoors year-round, having the stimulus of living in a new area instead of seeing an old one become unfamiliar. Then again, they met in the Peace Corps and lived for four years in Samoa, so factor that in.

Jeff, how was G.I. last night? And may I call you G.I. Jeff?