Chicago MMXII

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.

hey n/a i am finally watching damages
are you happy now?

yes. but mainly because i get out of work in half an hour.

i'm currently in season 2, still pretty good but honestly i am enjoying the frequent appearances of rose byrne's lower frontal snaggletooth almost as much as the plot and katie's frequent hairstyle changes

I've only read one Gillian Flynn book so far (Sharp Objects) but I've got Dark Places read to roll when I finish Bring Up the Bodies. Sharp Objects was dark as hell! I am usually pretty enthralled by dark dark books, but there were times when I was kind of upset about it. Ct read Sharp Objects and said it was even darker.

i read the new one ("gone girl") first and then "sharp objects" and the former was considerably less dark than the latter so you might want to check out the new one. started "dark places" this morning.

Kr ~loved~ Gone Girl. She said that at first she was put off by its genre trappings but then got really sucked into it.

I really want to see S4 of Damages, but we have something else out from Netflix right now (I forget what).

Leaving for Madison in a couple of hours!

(Preemptively: We're just going to get out of town for a couple days and staying w/Kr's friends.)

i've talked about this before but: i love mysteries but i hate that all mystery books are part of series - hardly anyone publishes stand-alone mystery novels. i don't want the responsibility of a whole series, knowing which one comes first, etc. if only stand-alone mysteries were published, that would be all i read.

have i seen damages s4? i don't remember! maybe there's a season we haven't watched yet!

gone girl is pretty ridiculous but that did not stop me from thoroughly enjoying it

Have you read Tana French? (I know Sarah has.) Her books are related to each other, but not in a series.

yeah i like her stuff too, though the newest one wasn't quite as good

have i seen damages s4? i don't remember! maybe there's a season we haven't watched yet!

It just came out on DVD this week, so unless you have DirecTV or have illegally streamed it, then you haven't seen it.

This was my Thor Costume:

http://www.halloweenfancydressuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/Thor-Costume.jpg

I wish I was going to Madison!

I am eating a bag of BLT flavored potato chips.

I never pictured Thor in flat-front trousers and 1 1/2 inch dressy heels.

Or really even sleeves, for that matter. But maybe there's a lot about Thor that I don't know.

Everybody's got a day job nowadays.

Leaving for Madison in a couple of hours!

oh word? holler if you want to hang or need event suggestions.

Reading Gone Girl right now - addictive is right. Tana French's new book comes out in. July - cant wait!

Just saw a pic of aj as Thor on fb. Class.

Is Netflix.com down for anyone else? My blu-ray player won't connect to streaming and my computer won't go to the website.

messed up over here too

oh wait i forgot
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/netflix.com

I don't have netflix so I can't tell you. damn it xpost

Yeah, seems down. S much for my nitky Louie.