I'm actually leaving work early today (like around 5), but I might want to go home before I go out. Bad Apple could be appealing, too.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:53 (eleven years ago) link
I am warning Courtney's family, mostly because I can't imagine going there to get a beer unless I specifically and really, really desperately wanted one of the beers they are tapping.
Or, what jvc said.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:54 (eleven years ago) link
Like, the event starts at 7 and he was planning to get there at 5. That's him by himself.
I'm still sick!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so I'm not going anywhere but meeting n/a at the Bad Apple sounds very appealing. A-PEEL-ING.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:55 (eleven years ago) link
APPLE-ING
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:56 (eleven years ago) link
I'm kind of afraid I have an antibiotic-resistant ear infection and my head is going to rot away from the inside out. I'm about 45% kidding.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
You've been reading the horror poll countdown too long, haven't you?
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:57 (eleven years ago) link
There haven't even been any plague movies in the results yet!!!
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:58 (eleven years ago) link
I just meant wrt the terrible puns, but I guess that too!
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 20:59 (eleven years ago) link
Oh hahaha then yes, Eric H. was a direct influence on that pun, definitely.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:00 (eleven years ago) link
ok well then i'll definitely be at bad apple from 5:30 for a couple of hours, probably sitting outside
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:04 (eleven years ago) link
sorry jeff
also not crazy about paddy long's BACONBACONBACON theme
Fuck u hipster.
Let's meet at the bad apple then. COURTNEY ARE U THERE?
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:08 (eleven years ago) link
JESSE ARE YOU LISTENING
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:09 (eleven years ago) link
ANNIE ARE YOU OKAY?
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
ARE YOU OKAY?
ARE YOU OKAY, ANNIE?
We should get our own board.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
OK -- Kr and I are planning to get to Bad Apple around 6.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Bad Apple sounds great, but its pretty far from both my office and the wine tasting event for me to make it in a relatively short window.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:40 (eleven years ago) link
No worries.
― Jeff, Friday, 18 May 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
but it's on the way home!!!!!
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:43 (eleven years ago) link
jvc I would like to meet you
Jeff I would like you to come my lady to the Bad Apple.
― Pita Malört (Je55e), Friday, 18 May 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe later. For what it's worth, I made it to paddy Longs. Let's see if I can nurse a low abv beer for 2 hours.
― Jeff, Friday, 18 May 2012 22:02 (eleven years ago) link
I would like to meet the rest of you guys, but I'm in the South Loop at work now and I ultimately need to be at a wine tasting in LakeView at 6:45, so it doesn't really make a lot of sense for me to head out to the Bad Apple tonight. Maybe next time.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:06 (eleven years ago) link
ugh bad apple doesn't have its outdoor seating set up and I want to be outside. Standing on the sidewalk trying to decide what to do.
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
pretty stupid not to have that set up for this weekend's weather
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
Tell them it is stupid not to set up outdoor tables for this weekend's weather and just stand there in front of the hostess stand until they do something about it.
― Polly biscuit face (carl agatha), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:24 (eleven years ago) link
(have you arrested)
they're being annoying about knowing exactly how many people are coming and when so I'm moving elsewhere TBA
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:28 (eleven years ago) link
I'm in the beer garden at Gannon's next door to bad apple
― congratulations (n/a), Friday, 18 May 2012 22:30 (eleven years ago) link
It was a bit of a clusterfuck last night. I was there two hours early and then the Bourbon Country went on at 7pm. The Coffee keg kicked in 18 minutes and the Bramble Rye bottles didn't last longer than half an hour.
― Jeff, Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:27 (eleven years ago) link
Bourbon Country or Bourbon County?
― mh, Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:58 (eleven years ago) link
Bourbon Country Cash Grab
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Saturday, 19 May 2012 15:59 (eleven years ago) link
County. Sorry, was fuzzy in the brain.
― Jeff, Saturday, 19 May 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
Next event for me is mini-golf at the Goose Island barrel warehouse.
― Jeff, Saturday, 19 May 2012 16:30 (eleven years ago) link
http://chicago.cbslocal.com/video/7303431-nato-delegates-come-out-for-kite-festival/
my friend josh gets interviewed about nato delegates, I kind of love his answer
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Sunday, 20 May 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
also they fuck up both his and his son's names in the captions, wtg cbs
J@n schak0wsky was the keynote speaker at my graduation today! She was great and talked abt the fair pay act. She also danced in her seat when the band played. Good times.
― game of crones (La Lechera), Sunday, 20 May 2012 00:33 (eleven years ago) link
She's so lovely.
― carl agatha, Sunday, 20 May 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
nice. i like jan (except her stance on israel-palestine i guess).
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Monday, 21 May 2012 04:42 (eleven years ago) link
What the hell...
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-tinley-park-melee-20120520,0,4546147.story
― carl agatha, Monday, 21 May 2012 12:36 (eleven years ago) link
I'm just going to come right out and say that I am skeptical of the prosecution in this case (also they are in good hands with their defense lawyer):
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-hd-nato-chicago-arrests-0520-20120520,0,7496291.story
― carl agatha, Monday, 21 May 2012 12:43 (eleven years ago) link
(they = the accused dudes)
huh, story fails to note that the attackers were anti-racist action and attackees were white supremacists
still a crazy story
xp to j3553
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Monday, 21 May 2012 12:45 (eleven years ago) link
xp - I know! I got that info from the comments (which... I almost recommend for the one comment in which a white supremacist talks about how only the Aryan nation has true freedom of speech or something really confusing and wrong). Man, I'm not an avowed nonviolent person at all, but rolling up on people with bats and hammers is kind of not okay, even if those people are rotten, awful, disgusting people.
But back to my news coverage rant... What's pissing me off about all the Trib's coverage of the protests is that it's all about 1) arrests and 2) inconvenience. Nothing about what the folks might be protesting or why. Just shit like this:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/photo/2012-05/70036255.jpg
Which don't get me wrong, is a hilarious picture, but how about interviewing some of the leaders of the people out there chanting? Or if you're doing a human interest piece, throw in a paragraph about one of the actual protesters and what she's up to and what she thinks, etc.
― carl agatha, Monday, 21 May 2012 12:50 (eleven years ago) link
won't someone please think of the commuters
I gotta say the WGN live coverage of ppl getting kettled & beaten yesterday was compelling and totally showed what a bunch of lameass talking heads modern tv "reporters" are
― Steve Youngblood (dan m), Monday, 21 May 2012 12:56 (eleven years ago) link
My commute was awesome this morning.
― Jeff, Monday, 21 May 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know, I was watching some local coverage this weekend where they were talking to protestors and they chose literally the worst interviewees to show, people who just sort of stammered and hemmed and hawed without answering any of the questions. Which pisses me off, because I know there are tons of well-spoken, thoughtful protestors out there but they won't fit with the convenient narrative of "these people are young kids with no real end goals".
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Monday, 21 May 2012 13:23 (eleven years ago) link
We were walking home from the library on Saturday and found ourselves amid the protest march from Horner Park to Rahm's house. A middle-aged dude walking the opposite direction sneered, "Join the army, you assholes."
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 21 May 2012 13:25 (eleven years ago) link
That was rude. Yes, TV loves to edit together as many dopes as they can.
Well, I found a place in Wicker Park that was as cheap as all the other options, so that's where I'll be July 4th week.
― World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Monday, 21 May 2012 14:15 (eleven years ago) link