Chicago MMXII

In case you missed this bad news last week:
http://chicagoist.com/2012/03/22/illinois_house_kills_eavesdropping.php

that's bad
i'm still going to sing at the top of my lungs in the shower, though

you guys know how my neighbors must feel about that, but i do respect quiet hours

saw a guy on a motorcycle get hit by a car yesterday. fortunately a low-speed impact, guy seemed fine (rolled off and stood up pretty much right away, was walking around assessing damage etc), but still startling. of course there was some d-bag yelling from down the block at the woman who was driving the car "DIDN'T YOU SEE THAT MOTORCYCLE? YOU SAW THAT MOTORCYCLE! DON'T LET HER GET AWAY WITH THAT!" which is helping nobody at all

In that d-bag's defense, every time I've seen someone get hit by a car, my overwhelming urges is to engage in hostile yelling at the driver (out of fear and upsetness as much as legit anger).

Glad motorcycle guy was okay!!!

I'm glad the motorcyclist was OK and lol at chaos-promoting bystander. She should carry confetti, firecrackers,
and an air horn to make the most of confusion.

I had a dream last night that many of us (also D33p@k, more on that later) lived in a GIANT three-flat with open sewer pipes that extended into the living areas and were clogged with the scourge of Chicago sewers, aka sewer otters. So I had to go around and plunge all of the pipes, which pulled all of the sewers otters out. They didn't want to live in the sewers so they stayed in the apartment and became my sewer otter army, which was super handy because all y'all were snorting mushrooms (they came in bricks of peanut butter colored damp powder) and acting super foolish, especially D33p@k who kept lighting the wrong ends of cigarettes and then throwing them behind the furniture. When I tried to make him clean up after himself, he curled up in a ball and said he was tripping too hard for basic household cleanliness. I was in the process of deploying a sewer otter unit to take care of the problem when Jeff woke me up.

Also, askance johnson, if you haven't downloaded it yet, there's a really excellent ep of The Horror from last week - a radio adaptation of The Rats in the Walls by The Black Mass. Good story, very well acted, and there's a little bit of audio artifacts on the transfer that actually add nicely to the sense of creeping horror and madness.

hahahahahaha
oh my

oops xp

that's bad
i'm still going to sing at the top of my lungs in the shower, though

― Paul Smon (La Lechera), Monday, March 26, 2012 10:07 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark

idgi - what does this have to do w/ the eavesdropping law?

you've never overheard someone singing in the shower and laughed (even silently) at them? what if the whole world had the opportunity to share that laugh?
i dunno maybe it's not related

there's a thing on wbez right now about "guilty pleasures" and i wonder when did 848 turn into the red eye?

omg carl's dream

carl's name is confusing me because to me, carl is a dog.

look at this adorable picture d drew of him (carl)

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7037/6816806450_f083eeea9e_c.jpg

eek that's big, sorry

carl, dan: why have we never tripped balls w/ D33p@k??!

I <3 Carl the Dog tweeting so much.

The odds of me tripping balls ever again are slim as it is, and the odds of me doing it around Big D are nonexistent. He's a fine man, but no.

Big D = d33p@k, not Big D of Carl, Tweeting authorship.

hahaha that is equally improbable

Right? I imagine that would not go well either.

I think I'll just stay sober.

carl, thank you for my new screen name and, while I have subscribed to the horror, I haven't actually listened to it yet bcz I spent most of last week listening to a 4 hr podcast on germanic tribes and the fall of the roman empire.

but I am super excited to listen to the rats in the walls! I love that story and am glad you thought it a good production.

I spent most of last week listening to a 4 hr podcast on germanic tribes and the fall of the roman empire.

ooh, what was it?! i need podcasts for my trip! i saw a long documentary about stone circles in the UK and it was excellent! recommended even if the music could have been better throughout
trailer is pretty well made, imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oy7MQjWJpw0

it was the latest episode of "dan carlin's hardcore history", which I'd never listened to before. He can be kind of annoying bcz he's too "radio host-y" but I thought it was still enjoyable and informative.

would watch the stone circle doc even if, yeah, the music seems bad and it is mixed way way too high!

no kidding

it's like the chung-chung in law & order

carl, dan: why have we never tripped balls w/ D33p@k??!

This is not something I ever want to do. You guys, fine, but pak, no. <3 the dude but no.

http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/547604_1761116388175_1247010981_31665807_2036959731_n.jpg

I used to listen to Hardcore History but he was too aggro or something. Maybe that's not quite right. Too focused on wars and dates and not enough color commentary, maybe? But this was years ago, and the fact that his podcast is still going makes me think it's worth trying again. I am definitely interested in Germanic tribes and the fall of the Roman Empire (although four hours is a little long for commute entertainment).

Yeah, I could see his style getting grating. Like the whole conceit of the episode I listened to was that the Germanic tribes were just like big biker gangs. Which I suppose is fine as far as it goes, but he just kept repeating it.
I also subscribed to this podcast "The History of Rome" which so far has 173 episodes! Though it's getting towards the fall. It's supposed to be very good.

Interesting... I might check that one out, too.

I don't know if my attention span could handle that.

last-minute pub quiz?

1) Gaucho Chariots 11 pts
2) Tittles Baccarat Gala 10 pts
3) Match- Crime Ace 15 pts
4) Chemical States Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Pictures 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 22 pts

i don't even know if i can/want to but i just realized its tuesday

I'm out. Tonight is the only night this week I'm not doing something (although Friday what I'm doing is "sitting on the couch staring exhaustedly into space then going to bed early so I can get up at 6 am for class on Saturday").

I can't go either, but I wish our team the best of luck.

I'm on the fence.

1. Chicago Authors
2. Battlestar Galactica

I would attend and do whatever I could to help.

feeling noncommittal. Chicago authors sounds fun but I think I forgot most of BG, we'd need Carl agatha for that one

I want to see you people

Let's pet pupae.

I dunno. Knowing these bozos it would be the original BSG series, about which I know very little that would make its way into trivia. Also I tend to know all there is to know about plot/characters and little to nothing about actors' names and other trivia appropriate... trivia.

Like I could sit you down and tell you the entire store of the BSG reboot from beginning to end with minimal errors but can't remember the name of the guy who plays Chief or the Canadian city in which it was filmed or even the year it first aired.

more than the rest of us know

Is chemical states always a category? I could be bothered to memorize the elements' abbreviations, for sure.

This is probably misplaced but I am flattered and pleased by that statement.

Wait, not Jesse's statement. Nick's.

when we were talking about music interview podcasts, i forgot about this relatively new one. it's not super in-depth but they do have some interesting interviewees - not the same people you always see (0wen from my current band was interviewed in the first episode): http://www.lowtimespodcast.com/category/podcast/

When I stood up to get off the train a few minutes ago, some people quickly alerted me to a cell phone that was on the seat. I glanced at it, said "Not mine," and left. I'm kicking myself now because I actually know whose it was. The guy who had been sitting next to me (and had gotten off before me) I had recognized as Tom Geoghegan. Had I picked it up, I probably could've gotten it back to him somehow.

I thought about contacting him, anyway, but I'm not sure it would do any good. Presumably he's realized by now that he left his phone on the train.

I've met that guy. I wish you'd given his phone back to him, too, and then mentioned you have a friend who needs a (better) job (me).

I'm about to eat grapes with a fork. LOOK OUT.

forks clove grapes