that chicago past tumblr is terrifice, i like that the layout is really simple, but they often do provide links to more information without cluttering up the tumblr itself.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
Chicago History website: ...the Link Bridge...officially opened on October 5, 1937...While the bridge eased congestion on Michigan Avenue, the roadway's sharp angles immediately proved to be a problem. A little before 3 a.m. on October 8, two different northbound drivers were the first of many who failed to negotiate the turns and suffered an accident. This hazard was not finally corrected until the completion of the current S-curve in 1986.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
in other news, big day for juicy gossip! http://www.wbez.org/news/criminal-justice/city-lawyers-daley-give-deposition-torture-case-98084
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 15:57 (twelve years ago) link
i like the runnies album so far
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
yaaaayi thought sarah might like it too
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:09 (twelve years ago) link
i love it when i find out about cool local bands. remember a couple of months ago when there was that blog post going around by the doorman at danny's, about how people should not be dicks when trying to get into danny's? turns out he's the singer of fake limbs, the local band i was praising on facebook last week - he also manages electrical audio.
― congratulations (n/a), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
another day, another drunk driver going the wrong way on the expressway
― Silky Slim (dan m), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
new thread title?
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
not that we're really burning through the posts here these days but
for future reference
I am not proud to admit that in the past I have gotten behind the wheel in no condition to drive but I have never misjudged which side of the road I am supposed to be on, it just blows my mind how people do this
xp hahaha
― Silky Slim (dan m), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
I've turned the wrong way down one way streets stone cold sober.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 10 April 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
iiinteresting
http://www.beerpulse.com/2012/04/lagunitas-brewing-to-open-new-brewery-in-chicago/
― Silky Slim (dan m), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 19:25 (twelve years ago) link
I've turned onto up the wrong side of a divided 4-lane highway due to inadequate signage + fog. That was scary but funny. No alcohol involved since that was before I drank. It was late and there was no traffic, so I kept driving the wrong way until I came to a break in the median.
― People aren't for comparing, they are for loving. (Je55e), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 20:45 (twelve years ago) link
Me, too, although I tend to take a "there but for the grace of Gob go I" view of my survival. In retrospect, I could have once or twice been this person. I just got lucky. :(
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Should say I haven't driven under the influence since the 90s.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Tuesday, 10 April 2012 21:40 (twelve years ago) link
So I was starting to get a little disappointed in the first issue of The Chicagoan, but the super huge oral history of Siskel & Ebert is making up for all the shortcomings.* Its a real joy to read and I'm learning quite a bit about them, more than I'd ever really cared about before.
* - The shortcomings are pretty big, imho, although I have high hopes for the future. It looks great and there are some great photos (partic the ones from those insane building climbers), but a lot of the interviews and pieces in the first half are super fluffy and lightweight (the Jeanne Gang one being a decent exception). I guess I hoped for a few more in-depth pieces. The biggest disappointment of all, though, was the Martin Prieb piece. I really enjoyed his book and had high hopes for something new from him, but it was really weird. First it started off with a weirdly racist tone that I never detected in his book, then it got weirder. He mentioned being so drawn to this case from forty years ago and how it paralled his own life, but he never really explained how or why. Instead he just spent a couple pages theorizing on what happened based on the reports and articles he read. Which is a fair approach, but the paragraphs he spent agonizing over what order the perp raped his victims was really uncomfortable and pretty wtf.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 11 April 2012 21:14 (twelve years ago) link
i just did something i have never done -- i commented on wbez's facebook posting. i couldn't help myself! they posted a list of "space jams" that is...pretty feeble in terms of space jams, so i suggested some more appropriately spaced out space jams. i figure if i can't keep my mouth shut, the least i can do is recommend something better instead of being pissy and negative (which i sort of was when i saw rhcp on their list of SPACE JAMS)
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
i mean, i realize that they're on the radio and all, and that real spaced out space jams are super long, but honestly. this is the internet, you can post a link to a 17 min song just as easily as you can one that is 3 minutes.
here is the list, decide for yourselveshttp://www.wbez.org/blogs/bez/2012-04/music-thursdays-tony-sarabia-and-richard-steele-space-jams-98152
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
Is this your pseudonym?
Alicia 28 minutes agoGalileo by Indigo Girls
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:16 (twelve years ago) link
How did you know!?
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
I've seen your vinyl copy of Swamp Ophelia hidden in the sleeve of a Brontzmann LP.
― the hairy office thing (Eazy), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
Brötzmann, king of night vision/king of insight
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:24 (twelve years ago) link
I still can't believe this list.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
haha, that is pretty awesome LL,though reallycan we expect tony sarabianto have excellent taste in music?
― deploying a sewer otter unit (askance johnson), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
i do! he hosts the world music show, doesn't he?
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:27 (twelve years ago) link
i thought he would have better taste in space jams, i guess
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
BY THE WAY -- dr aj -- have you heard alexander tucker? if not, i can almost guarantee you would like him. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxvDPBrABjs
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
No, the name is not even familiar! But as per I trust your aesthetic judgments I will listen to that as soon as I am able i.e. when I am not sitting at the reference desk
― deploying a sewer otter unit (askance johnson), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:34 (twelve years ago) link
He's Wyatty in combining melody and weird out-there shit, has a new album out, which I haven't heard because I impulse ordered it after listening to the album that starts with that song ^^. Not to overhype, but you'll like it.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:40 (twelve years ago) link
hey, do you dig colin stetson? He is coming to chicago and I am excited.
― deploying a sewer otter unit (askance johnson), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
I completely hate the new direction of 848. S@r@bi@ is a shitty host and it seems like all the more in depth news stuff they used to do has been replaced with shitty music.
― Silky Slim (dan m), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:47 (twelve years ago) link
ooh when!? would go!
also yes, dan m i TOTALLY agree with you -- it's suddenly like the red eye. they had an in-depth story the other day about standing in line to get into a restaurant. they used to talk about juveniles trapped in the criminal justice system and actual local issues. blech.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:49 (twelve years ago) link
i guess actual reporting costs money. that's sad if that's the reason why it got all floofy without much warning.
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:50 (twelve years ago) link
nm - i googled italso, had no idea he was a total bohunk?!
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:52 (twelve years ago) link
stetson is playing june 23rd at schubas, tix on sale tomorrow
and it's on a Saturday so I feel like I have no old-man reasons not to go
― deploying a sewer otter unit (askance johnson), Thursday, 12 April 2012 15:55 (twelve years ago) link
well i will go tooi like frank rosaly too
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:14 (twelve years ago) link
too
also i will say that as far as local media goes, love this cover!
http://sphotos.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/525573_10151517142745473_75994265472_23789853_57313419_n.jpg
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:46 (twelve years ago) link
Jenny, I have your marmite in my bag but I'm not checking any luggage so I really hope it doesn't count as a liquid and get confiscated!!
― just1n3, Thursday, 12 April 2012 16:58 (twelve years ago) link
also, had no idea he was a total bohunk?!
S@r@bi@? He's attractive, but his teeth are pretty fucked up.
As to the space jams, maybe this is super-duper obvious (and if so, I apologize), but I think the songs they posted were pop songs that were about outer space, rather than like trancey spaced-out mood music.
I thought about going to see that Colin Stetson show, too -- if you guys are going, then I definitely will.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:36 (twelve years ago) link
i think she was talking about colin stetson being a bohunk
― congratulations (n/a), Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
Ha. Well, nm then.
Looks kinda like a jarhead here (no judgment):
http://www.campuscircle.com/Music/images/125954.jpg
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:49 (twelve years ago) link
June 23, btw, will be the 23rd anniversary of the release of the first Tim Burton Batman movie. My family went to see the Cubs play the Expos that day and sat in the bleachers behind Andre Dawson.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 12 April 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry jenny, they made me throw it away :(
― just1n3, Thursday, 12 April 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
That picture doesn't illustrate his full hunkitude (arms) but yeah. I have no idea what Tony looks like. On the grizzlier side, Alexander Tucker is also rather easy on the eyes...(attn CARL)
http://cdn.stereogum.com/files/2011/02/alexander-tucker-promo-2011.jpg
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:30 (twelve years ago) link
RIP marmite and whatever animal died for that pelt
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
Thought that was scott seward.
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Thursday, 12 April 2012 21:35 (twelve years ago) link
Also even if they were posting pop songs, where's "Silver Machine"!? Surely that is quintessential space jam. Also they called them "space jams" which means, to me, JAMZ.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfniG-AdSC4
― two overweight dachshunds with three eyes (La Lechera), Thursday, 12 April 2012 23:22 (twelve years ago) link
lol @ how i came in this thread earlier today and was basically like p.s. you guys i've met t0ny s@r@b!a
― Cuba Pudding, Jr. (jaymc), Friday, 13 April 2012 06:02 (twelve years ago) link