it's not "the jewel of the north" or "a diamond in the rough" or "a private haven for dreams"...it's "a nice place to live."
i liked that too. good town motto!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 13 July 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.les-leach.com/images/pimages/delaware-sign.jpg
― carl agatha, Friday, 13 July 2012 03:09 (eleven years ago) link
"Home of Tax - Free Shopping"
iirc the slogan of Marquette, 100 miles down the road, is "Queen City of the North"
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Friday, 13 July 2012 04:35 (eleven years ago) link
i don't know what the motto of ontonagon is, but my guess is that it's not LOOK AT THESE MAJESTIC MOTHERFUCKING TREES
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7116/7556508820_d4b4c1fbf8.jpg
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Friday, 13 July 2012 04:39 (eleven years ago) link
I don't think Pink Hill had a motto.
― Jeff, Friday, 13 July 2012 11:45 (eleven years ago) link
"No Pink. No Hills."
― carl agatha, Friday, 13 July 2012 12:24 (eleven years ago) link
The motto of Bolingbrook (where I grew up) is "A Place to Grow."
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Friday, 13 July 2012 12:58 (eleven years ago) link
Jeff do u know if it was your building that she'd glass all over Madison St. this evening?
― Je55e, Saturday, 14 July 2012 00:42 (eleven years ago) link
Not that I'm aware of.
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 July 2012 01:31 (eleven years ago) link
Well it came from somewhere.
― Je55e, Saturday, 14 July 2012 01:48 (eleven years ago) link
Heaven
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 July 2012 01:49 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/chi-bird-strike-cracks-window-causes-downtown-street-closure-20120713,0,6318944.story
― Jeff, Saturday, 14 July 2012 10:32 (eleven years ago) link
Small Bar Logan has an even more impressive beer list going than what I posted earlier, and their pig roast is starting to waft throughout the neighborhood.
― DX Dx DX (dan m), Saturday, 14 July 2012 20:40 (eleven years ago) link
Two things about food:
1. I made this for breakfast this morning and it was super delicious - http://ohmyveggies.com/recipe-coconut-mango-overnight-oatmeal/. I don't know about agave syrup; I just added sugar this morning. I used frozen mango from TJ's. Also I increased the recipe by half because I am a woman of hearty breakfast appetites. But I love oatmeal and get sad when it's too hot for it and this was good and refreshing.
2. I just ate at Green Apple Grill. Nothing smelled weird in the food court, either from the fast food places or from upstairs, and the food was great. I got bulgogi and you seriously get a heap of food for $7. I probably could have saved half for another lunch but I was too busy for any morning snacks and was ravenous when I was finally able to get away from my desk and eat. Definitely adding this place to my regular lunch rotation (bonus points for it being on the pedway, although it's also like 100 feet from my building so whatever.
― carl agatha, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:14 (eleven years ago) link
i am at a conference
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
i was gonna see if anyone wanted to go to trivia night tomorrow or next week?
also there was something else i wanted to tell you guys but i have since forgotten what it was :-/
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 16 July 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
You should make that oatmeal. It felt like a very Amanda kind of food to make and eat.
― carl agatha, Monday, 16 July 2012 21:27 (eleven years ago) link
sounds pretty good, would def skip the agave b/c i like my oatmeal not too sweet!
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 16 July 2012 21:35 (eleven years ago) link
Not that I give much of a hoot about these things, but I read somewhere that agave has a much higher glycemic index than regular sugar and makes you get all shaky faster or something, so it actually isn't very good for you. Or something. I don't know.
― carl agatha, Monday, 16 July 2012 21:45 (eleven years ago) link
mango is pretty sweet as it is, so i can't imagine it needing more sweet?
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Monday, 16 July 2012 21:59 (eleven years ago) link
Hey Jeff/carl -- have you been to Atlas Brewing Co. yet? Was thinking about checking it out soon, but it looks like they're not serving their own beer yet?
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 16 July 2012 22:41 (eleven years ago) link
YES. Jeff has gone there a bunch bc it's right by the house. I've been there once. I had a very interesting stuffed squash blossom sandwich (vegetarian).
They are on the verge of serving their own beer. My verdict is still out on them. They could go great places w/ the food or end up kind of meh like The Fountainhead or generic like, I don't know, a million other bars in the Lincoln Park corridor of Lincoln. But I'm sure we'll go back since they have a decent list of other people's beer right now and it is the closest bar w/ food to our house (Delilah's is closer).
― carl agatha, Monday, 16 July 2012 22:44 (eleven years ago) link
Word.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 16 July 2012 22:50 (eleven years ago) link
Alert: I have finally had the opportunity to write "pussy motherfucker" in an official legal document. Thank you.
― carl agatha, Monday, 16 July 2012 22:54 (eleven years ago) link
I've been waiting for this day since I first got my law school acceptance letter.
They keep saying they expect their beer very soon. Maybe this week.
― Jeff, Monday, 16 July 2012 23:10 (eleven years ago) link
Alert: I have finally had the opportunity to write "pussy motherfucker" in an official legal document.
Awesome. I felt a mild thrill at work last year while writing about Cee Lo's big hit.
― Never translate Dutch (jaymc), Monday, 16 July 2012 23:14 (eleven years ago) link
Carl, that is a truly impressive career achievement.
― JuliaA, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 00:40 (eleven years ago) link
Thank you! Thank you!
I am so pleased to receive the Pussy Motherfucker career achievement award. I want to thank He Who Walks Behind the Rows in whom all things are possible, and the Illinois bar, and all the pussy motherfuckers out there in the audience tonight! This one's for you!
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 00:43 (eleven years ago) link
That really is a great achievement!
― Je55e, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:01 (eleven years ago) link
You get mega bonus points if you were not quoting anyone.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:04 (eleven years ago) link
Tonight T'mas and I went to visit the racoons of Belmont Harbor. There were 4 or 5 other people visiting them, including an old white haired woman w/ an accent and a big bag of peanuts, which she had fed to the racoons. We took some of her peanuts and got very close and got some really good pictures. Also, I briefly touched one very small one who was standing on the lady's foot. Some of them were 100% chill w/ humans.
I counted 10 of them (only 4 on our side of the chain link fence) but there were many others rustling around, cooing, growling, and barking at each other when they scuffled. Very cool. Will definitely take a stick and some other kind of defensive tools when I go back. And a better camera.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:12 (eleven years ago) link
You're gonna get rabies.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
What kind of document did you write those dirty words in?
― Je55e, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
I hope on top of not being a quote, they were in something mundane like an extension form or a request for information.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 03:17 (eleven years ago) link
I think it would be advisable not to feed the racoons. That woman should be arrested.
― Jeff, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 11:32 (eleven years ago) link
It is illegal.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:36 (eleven years ago) link
She was somewhat nutty or senile.
― Je55e, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:37 (eleven years ago) link
I want to thank He Who Walks Behind the Rows in whom all things are possible
I just want to big up this reference.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:39 (eleven years ago) link
i am not one for references as communication, but i also appreciated that
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
Still have very fond memories of the night we rented and watched II through V.
― heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:42 (eleven years ago) link
i am not one for references as communication
Can you explain what you mean? I am not taking that as a criticism, just curious.
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:45 (eleven years ago) link
Just imo, I prefer when people don't try to communicate stuff (whatever sentiment) by namedropping other stuff (stuff unrelated to the feeling they desire to communicate)
-- for example, someone says, "You've got a real Nico look today." and you are supposed to interpret 1) whether that is negative or positive (old grizzled heroin Nico? pretty young Nico?) and if you are really disadvantaged, you will have to ask who the fuck is Nico before even getting to whether it's a positive or negative remark. It's disingenous to say that it's uniformly positive because understanding that relies on a lot of cultural knowledge that just not everyone has.
Double negative points if it is designed to weed out people who "understand" and people who don't.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:50 (eleven years ago) link
i should say more specifically that i find this behavior tiresome, not offensive.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
Namedropping, especially as a gatekeeping tactic, is super tiresome. I went to law school with a guy who did this so incessantly it was impossible to have an actual conversation with him. Like, we'd find a thing in common (once it was enjoyment of Neal Stephenson's books), exchange two sentences about it, and he would immediately say something like, "And of course there's Pierre Robert's 1932 book 'Rain Smash'* to which Stephenson owns an obvious debt."
We also took a class in economic justice (the commie answer to University of Chicago's fiscally conservative law and economics school) and he would very ostentatiously come in early to read the Financial Times before class started. We had all of our first year and a good chunk of electives together and he'd never done that before.
*I made that up
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:07 (eleven years ago) link
Anyway, I am sure I communicate via references a lot, because the more I think about it, the harder it is for me to draw the line between relying on a shared body of references to improve communication, and assuming a shared body of references and thus impeding conversation. Plus really all language is references when you think about it.
So let me just close by saying:
"I read the Financial Times.""I read the Sun and the Times!"
― carl agatha, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:10 (eleven years ago) link
That makes me a little scared to talk around you bc I throw around more references than Dickey throws knuckleballs.
Xp
― Je55e, Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:11 (eleven years ago) link
...
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:14 (eleven years ago) link
say hello to my little friend
i mean everyone does it, i just prefer it when people don't use it as a gatekeeping tactic, as jenny said. i don't even want to walk through the gate at that point.
― nicest bitch of poster (La Lechera), Tuesday, 17 July 2012 15:16 (eleven years ago) link