Anybody want a beer tonight? I'll be at Goose Island Clybourn. Lincoln Park Lager tapped at 6 PM.
― Jeff, Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:45 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link
huh i didn't realize Christine 'Green Leafy Dragon' Indigo was posting that long ago
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:51 (twelve years ago) link
She was definitely around when I started posting and then took something like a 5-year hiatus.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:56 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 23 February 2012 22:59 (twelve years ago) link
xp (Or at least posted much more sporadically.)
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:00 (twelve years ago) link
I want jvc to come back and realize that no one was mocking him. Come back jvc!
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:02 (twelve years ago) link
Meh. He's probably stuck in traffic.
Lolcommute
― Jeff, Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:23 (twelve years ago) link
Also tapping tonight, Wrangler American pale ale. I'm saving a bar stool for you. Or you could go watch dumbamanda galas.
― Jeff, Thursday, 23 February 2012 23:44 (twelve years ago) link
xxp ahahahahaha
btw I am going to Small Bar Logan for a bday drink in a minute if anyone is lol in the neighborhood
― Wild Flag Post (dan m), Friday, 24 February 2012 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
Jenny you will be happy to know that Siam Rice was a hit with the special librarians.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 24 February 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link
if anyone is lol in the neighborhoodwell placed lol
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Friday, 24 February 2012 02:15 (twelve years ago) link
my bf lives right there but alas I am not
― tanuki, Friday, 24 February 2012 02:16 (twelve years ago) link
"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!!
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Friday, 24 February 2012 03:43 (twelve years ago) link
^^^^ 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?
― carl agatha, Friday, 24 February 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
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!
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Friday, 24 February 2012 04:16 (twelve years ago) link
Did you two see any of the exhibit or just Diamanda?
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 05:12 (twelve years ago) link
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
― garbage corn fan (Je55e), Friday, 24 February 2012 05:17 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, some of those rankings aren't intuitive to me at all. Like, I get Hawaii at #1, but why is Tennessee #2??
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 05:24 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 06:06 (twelve years ago) link
I think it's the Arrested Development song.
Man, Rod Blagojevich has a lot to answer for.
― carl agatha, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:26 (twelve years ago) link
Yup.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 13:37 (twelve years ago) link
Here are some animals:
http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b016762acce85970b-800wi
http://www.zooborns.com/.a/6a010535647bf3970b016762926a11970b-800wi
― carl agatha, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:41 (twelve years ago) link
I think that grumpy deer is my spirit animal.
― carl agatha, Friday, 24 February 2012 13:43 (twelve years ago) link
look at how round its little orange head isalso, chin
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Friday, 24 February 2012 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
Apparently idiot baker lady has apologized publicly after her neighbors boycotted her bakery. Totes talking about this in class btw.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:01 (twelve years ago) link
that place is literally a block away from me
― tanuki, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
right next to a flower shop, a computer store and a nice mexican restaurant, omg so ghetto
― tanuki, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
who what is this?
― Jeff, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Gonjasufjanstephen O'Malley (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:15 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― carl agatha, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:32 (twelve years ago) link
Jenny:Waaah christ dere eh, pard? A 906 thread.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:38 (twelve years ago) link
Why don't they retire to somewhere that is easy to get to via a major airport. And warm in the winter.
― Jeff, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:39 (twelve years ago) link
God, no kidding.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:42 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― Fonz Hour (Eazy), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
so hip they're calling it NoDak
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:44 (twelve years ago) link
My dad has been talking lately about wintering in Florida, and my mom is currently in Arizona for the next month.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
90% sure my parents will never move house, much less move to another state.
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:48 (twelve years ago) link
My family will never move North of the Mason-Dixon line.
― tanuki, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
Not that any of you actually care or anything, I mostly issued that correction in case Mark is lurking.
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
Malurking
― Jeff, Friday, 24 February 2012 16:51 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Fonz Hour (Eazy), Friday, 24 February 2012 16:57 (twelve years ago) link
Jeff, how was G.I. last night? And may I call you G.I. Jeff?
― Ascot Fitzgerald (jaymc), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:03 (twelve years ago) link
ppl seem to retire to the UP because 1. it's so, so, so cheap 2. it's so cheap you can afford to live somewhere else during the winter 3. because summer is drop dead gorgeous while it lasts
also with global climate change and all pretty soon we'll all be in a war for fresh water and hey! Lake Superior
― Wild Flag Post (dan m), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:07 (twelve years ago) link
also the UP thread isn't much but like the 4 people who currently/used to post to ILX making inside jokes
― Wild Flag Post (dan m), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:08 (twelve years ago) link
I'd never heard of Da Yoopers Tourist Trap. (Weirdly, in mid-Ohio, the diner near my and Lechera's college had Da Yoopers on the mini-jukeboxes in each booth.) That photo cracks me up, and now I want to visit.
― Fonz Hour (Eazy), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:10 (twelve years ago) link
not braggin' but I'm pretty good friends with the sons of two of the guys who started the band, and one of them (and his son) run the Trap now.
said son also plays drums in several bands, incl Sah and Redettes who have played Chicago shows blah blah blah
― Wild Flag Post (dan m), Friday, 24 February 2012 17:12 (twelve years ago) link