Chicago MMXII

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Pot's decriminalized, we might get a city-wide bike share program... We're like one vegan cafe away from being Portland.

there's a vegan cafe like a block away from my house

We'd have to stop vaccinating so much to get to Portland level.

our metal scene is healthy, but we're still no portland

We'd have to stop vaccinating so much to get to Portland level.

Maybe I have whooping cough after all.

lol

lot higher larper % of population out there too afaict

HOT ENOUGH OUT THERE FOR YOU?

But seriously, I had another song dream last night. This time I actually got up and went to the bathroom and sang the song out loud so I wouldn't forget it when I woke up and sure enough, it's gone.

It was kind of Modest Mouse-esque with a call and response verse that switched back and forth between falsetto and regular singing. It was something about moving to LA.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl9vGHVT_Xs

^^^ the kind of drums I imagine myself playing in my imaginary band

my org had our annual luncheon today and t0ni pr3ckwinkle was there, with a security guy wearing an earpiece

I love her.

i finished the hood and closure of my cape this afternoon! it's almost done.

What? Cape? Are you a super hero (I know the answer to that question is "Yes").

I am a druid. Imma put up a picture soon, hold on...

!!

Funnily enough, I am actually dressing up like the mighty Thor tomorrow for a children's program at the library.

but a druid is more impressive. Perhaps I should have insisted that I dress up as http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20050405044761/marveldatabase/images/0/03/Anthony_Druid_(Earth-616).jpg

omg! I find a person's willingness to look silly in the service of entertaining children to be so f'n endearing. I am endeared!

I'm glad I've made you endeared. I'll post pics if I can find the courage.

DO IT

please do it

both of you need to post those pics. somewhere i have a picture of me dressed up like Captain America for a Halloween kids thing.

i posted mine on wdyll thread but here it is again if you insist
also it's just the hood but today we also made the placket for the button closure
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8155/7463082626_4c0d084cf6.jpg

DUDES black dog gelato (fancy gelato with crazy flavors) just opened a new location where bleeding heart used to be at belmont and damen

nice! i am forced to use IE at work and sometimes the wdyll threads can crash it, so i hadn't looked at it today.

that is an impressive cape.

A+

LL is that an everyday cape or for an occasion?

i guess it's an everyday cape? that's just the hood, i still have to sew the cape to the lining and sew the lining to the hood. and fix the closure.

Where do all these people on my bus wearing shorts work?? I assume some work at Groupon - a few I know for sure do - but others go to buildings near my office. I imagine they are creatives at hip ad and marketing and tech firms. Whatever the facts, the Halsted bus is full of shorts.

it's casual friday!

based on what people wear to work during non-casual days, i would not be surprised if they were wearing shorts to work on casual friday. i'm wearing an untucked polo shirt

(and nothing else)

porky piggin' it

http://images.wikia.com/looneytunes/images/4/4e/PorkyPigBig.gif

I'm wearing shorts. Other men here are wearing shorts too. Yesterday the air conditioning broke at about 3 PM. I was glad I was wearing shorts.

The shorts-wearing people I'm talking about wear shorts all days of the week. I noticed today that a few were wearing flip-flops, too.

I could totally do that if I felt like it.

Feels like we've talked about this before.

This gluten-free restaurant is opening on Broadway and Surf. GLUTEN FREE RESTAURANT
http://www.senzachicago.com/

Huh.

Carl and Je55e you need to see this Carrie ripoff tv movie called THE SPELL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmPuzCcWlN0&feature=related

it is on netflix streaming too

haha The Thnig is already on the (our) case about watching this. Also: the "this" logo in the corner is all the evidence I need that The Spell is a quality movie.

You will like it, I assure you.

1. I started reading Bring Up the Bodies, book two of Hillary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy and it is fantastic. If you liked Wolf Hall, I highly highly recommend this book.

2. Mostly for askance johnson, but maybe not - the old time horror radio show podcast that I like presented an episode of a program The Black Mass that is an adaptation of Kafka's, "A Country Doctor" and it is really weird. I mean, the story is really weird, and adapting it into a radio play is really really weird, IMO.

hmmm, I'll check out the kafka thing, though I remember reading that story ~10 years ago, and finding it totally impenetrable.

It's just about Thor time.

It's no less impenetrable as a radio play. I'm not really sure I'm recommending it, to tell you the truth. I just thought it was an odd choice for a radio adaptation.

THOR TIME!!! :D

description of thor costume: request made

I also meant to say also that the radio play is an almost verbatim read of the story from what I can tell. It's not like hearing the murmurs of the villagers in the background while the doctor ponders the meaning of the patient's wounds or wonders what happened to his horses adds a whole lot of clarity.

i've been reading these gillian flynn mystery novels. i don't know if they're good exactly but they're pretty addictive, i've read two of them in two days each. also pretty dark.