Chicago MMXII

I dressed perfectly this morning... for this afternoon's temperatures. Then I nearly froze while waiting 15 minutes in the shade for a bus at 8 am. ;_;

I basically need a rucksack of wardrobe options with me at all times. It is the only way.

It would need socks, tights, snow boots, galoshes, flats, light scarf, medium scarf, light gloves, medium gloves, hat, umbrella, rain coat, puffy coat, medium coat, and a second pair of socks in case the first ones get wet.

I dressed right. Definitely still a jacket day. I'll continue to wear a jacket outside until may at least.

I basically need a rucksack of wardrobe options

Naturally I read that as "nutsack".

I wore a long sleeve shirt today b/c I wear don't change what I wear based on weather for the most part (except outerwear, of course). Wore my thin hoodie and an invisible nutsack of male privilege.

I grew irrationally envious of Jeff this morning when he dressed the way he always dresses, selected an appropriate weight jacket, and left without much fanfare. While I'm like "skirt? pants? tights? leggings? socks? long sleeves? short sleeves? cardigan? short-sleeved cardigan? light jacket? light scarf? put a hat in my purse? wear my purse as a hat?"

http://img.gawkerassets.com/img/17gc7rox1q8afjpg/original.jpg

http://gawker.com/5892961/chicago-billboard-provides-helpful-reminder-that-hot-dogs-cause-butt-cancer

I'm in the mood to fight. Not to pick a fight, but to fight for justice. Physically. To stick my head up my ass and fight for justice.

Check for butt cancer while you're up there.

I am on the mend, but it's slow. I think it was food poisoning, since Kr and I were both struck within hours of each other on Monday night. No fun.

How did the pub quizzers do?

weird, my roommate had food poisoning on the same night. maybe you ate at the same place.

very tough pub quiz last night for our team "barry pepper's lonely farts club band" - we were in first place for almost the entire game, then fell to third in the very last round, but the first place team won by only one point and there were three teams (including us) tied for second place, so we ended up in third based only on the impossible tie-breaker question. if we had gotten even one more correct answer in the final round we would have come in first. but i was very impressed with our performance overall - a perfect round on "finish the lyrics" for "sunday bloody sunday," we got almost every question right in the pretty tough Scientology round (thanks to courtnoodle's expertise), got 6 bonus points in Chemical States for guessing the theme with only three answers, etc. it was really just General Knowledge that fucked us, including a stupid 8-point Simpsons question.

weird, my roommate had food poisoning on the same night. maybe you ate at the same place.

I am guessing it was the whitefish we bought from Whole Foods.

a stupid 8-point Simpsons question.

This would've enraged me.

we even tried to answer it strategically. it was from the australia episode, what does bart have written on his butt when he moons the australians. since he was giving 2 points for each correct word, we guessed something like "america the down flag" or something like that, trying to even get one word correct by hedging our bets. but it was "don't tread on me." there was another simpsons question in the video games round (which i got) and the tiebreaker was also partially simpsons-based.

all of my impassioned overzealous middle school U2 listening really paid off, finally!

NO WAR
NO NUKES
NO ANIMAL TESTING
NO ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY

in other news, look at this super messed up picture of feet i found while searching for foot bells
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_kH0E3X_VITU/Rq1HTJs1vxI/AAAAAAAAACE/AHinbNDqTr8/s320/Foot+Bells+Ad+copy.jpg

a stupid 8-point Simpsons question.

This would've enraged me.

otm

...although I would have gotten it right all joking aside

Next team name: C-UNIT

spring fever violence has started btw :(
all kinds of shitty stuff going down in the gritty city

I don't know if any of you ever follow Second City Cop anymore, but theres an interesting post today about a new CPD General Order that sounds like its taking aim squarely at said blog.

I lol in their general direction

Interesting, but I seem to draw any conclusions b/c I find him distasteful....

While I was on the blog, I saw this

Eavesdropping Law Struck Down

We had a feeling this was headed this direction:

A Cook County judge today ruled the state’s controversial eavesdropping law unconstitutional.
The law makes it a felony offense to make audio recordings of police officers without their consent even when they’re performing their public duties.
Judge Stanley Sacks, who is assigned to the Criminal Courts Building, found the eavesdropping law unconstitutional because it potentially criminalizes “wholly innocent conduct.”

So as citizens, we can record just about anything now? Turnabout is fair play we've heard.

Jesus H.

HEY COPS if you didn't do anything wrong, what do you have to worry about??!?!?!?!?

http://gapersblock.com/transmission/2012/03/15/looking_minnesota_greg_norton_meets_the_husker_dudes/

this is awesome, wish I'd gone

GAH ME TOO!!! I might (would) have peed my pants.

Also FYI Tommy Wiseau is going to be at the Music Box on 3/23 and 3/24. (will probably not go)

looks good for 53 too!

I thought I spotted a Jeff on in the loop yesterday?

Argh, Tommy Wiseau. I am in awe of The Room, but I wish it didn't come with Wiseau attached.

tanuki, did we watch The Room together?

any of you guys use Sprint? My service has been atrocious over the past month or so.

No, fuck Sprint IMO. Sorry.

No, we use stupid AT&T.

I need some new podcasts to listen to, preferably ones that tell stories. I like TAL, natch, and Radiolab and I listen to an old time radio spooky story podcast, but is there anything else out there that's narrative focused? I used to listen to a couple of episodic story podcasts, the names of which are escaping me. One was kind of bad and then got so horrible I couldn't even cope with it anymore, and the others just... stopped updating mid-story.

(I'm good on informational podcasts, and I hate podcasts that are people just riffing for 30 minutes, or people interviewing famous people (unless it happens to be a really, really good interview of someone I really, really like).)

n/a: (redacted)
i just puked in my coffee mug

FUCKL

No, fuck Sprint IMO. Sorry.

Don't apologize, I completely agree. I just wondered if its just in certain areas or what. Just counting down until our contract expires at this point.

I thought I spotted a Jeff on in the loop yesterday?

Possible. I'm in the loop a lot.

Jenny, I can't help you, but I wonder how you find time to consume as much media as you do. That's not any kind of criticism, I just don't understand how you find the time.

I am in love with the Frontline podcast because it's the same as their tv docs, only without images. The one about death investigations ("Post-Mortem") is super O_O and the one about the Fukushima nuclear disaster gave me crazy dreams. Maybe that's a bit overwhelming, idk.

Train rides, bro.

Xsomething

All the Frontline podcasts are great, but those are the two most recent ones I listened to. Oh, also their series on God and America is AMAZING.

WmC redacted my indiscreet use of n/a's irl name above.

Oh, Frontline. That's a good idea. I showed Post-Mortem to my students! It was a big hit.

Jesse, this is for the train.

I honestly have no idea what you are talking about....

OH! Hahaha.

idgi

You asked me how I have the time to consume so much media. I honestly don't know what you're talking about, but I'm telling you that I listen to podcasts on the train. Also while I get ready for work and sometimes while completing household chores.

god, that would be WAY too overstimulating for me

i can't concentrate on heavy shit like nuclear disasters and death while i'm trying to do something else/dealing with people + train noise

It's like listening to the radio, except with people talking.

Oh, do you mean the Frontline podcast specifically? I probably wouldn't listen to all of them.