Chicago MMXII

Carl, that is a truly impressive career achievement.

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!

That really is a great achievement!

You get mega bonus points if you were not quoting anyone.

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.

You're gonna get rabies.

What kind of document did you write those dirty words in?

I hope on top of not being a quote, they were in something mundane like an extension form or a request for information.

I think it would be advisable not to feed the racoons. That woman should be arrested.

It is illegal.

She was somewhat nutty or senile.

I want to thank He Who Walks Behind the Rows in whom all things are possible

I just want to big up this reference.

i am not one for references as communication, but i also appreciated that

Still have very fond memories of the night we rented and watched II through V.

i am not one for references as communication

Can you explain what you mean? I am not taking that as a criticism, just curious.

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.

i should say more specifically that i find this behavior tiresome, not offensive.

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

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!"

That makes me a little scared to talk around you bc I throw around more references than Dickey throws knuckleballs.

Xp

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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.

OH HEY

Don't forget that tomorrow is pizza night at HPC on Southport. We were tasked with selling five pizzas each so I just need two of you to eat pizza for dinner. Please!!!

"I read the Financial Times."
"I read the Sun and the Times!"

<3

That one was for you.

Re references, I get tired when all of a person's jokes and LOLs are references and they don't seem to have any original material. That's right up there with the weird urge some ppl have to repeat a funny conversation that just happened seconds ago to laugh at it all over again.

"She just said 'Blippity bloo!' and then I was like, 'Joey Joe Joe Junior Shabbadoo!'"

No idea what "He Who Walks Behind the Rows" is, though.

It's what the kids call the evil corn demon in Children of the Corn.

outlander!

by that i clearly am referring to

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.autoblog.com/media/2009/11/outlandergtfd_01_opt.jpg

I am still at a conference

We are definitely getting pizza from HPC tomorrow

I am only going to make cultural references to books or TV shows I made up in my brain. I'm an equal-opportunity gatekeeper.

I've known a couple of people who frequently make casual references to relatively obscure people or historical events in a way that's not necessarily ostentatious so much as just oblivious of their audience. In conversations like that, I feel simultaneously annoyed that their communication isn't more inclusive and flattered that they assume I can keep up.

I think I have such a bad memory that I can't make any references because I can't remember them.

I will consume pizza tomorrow for a good cause.

i was gonna see if anyone wanted to go to trivia night tomorrow or next week?

Are you still interested, A?

Rounds tonight:

1) In The Year 2525 10 pts
2) Smiling Arcade Roll 11 pts
3) Match- Band's Tour Hookas 15 pts
4) Chemical States Round 16 pts
5) Dead Or Canadian 11 pts
6) Picture 15 pts
7) General Knowledge 22 pts

2 = American Girl Dolls
3 = Books and Authors

I might be up for trivia, assuming I can get out of work on time (not necessarily a good assumption).

i want to bike there but i don't know if it will still be too hot
still, i do think we could do something with these categories...

I am a maybe for pub quiz. It sounds fun but also this week is kinda nuts.

I'm too tired and hot to be around people about whom I care enough to not want to subject to my tired and hotness (except Jeff, per our vows: "In tiredness and in hot, in sickness and in health, for as long as we can take it").

I may be, but really, it's just too damn hot.

I was talking w/ my roomates in New Orleans and one of them said something funny that reminded me of a Simpson's episode from years back. I said "Haha, that's like the time Lisa said _____." They paused, right as one of them asked who Lisa was, another said, "...are you talking about Lisa Simpson?"

Pretty embarrassing b/c I wasn't even intentionally making a reference, just talking about my friend Lisa ;__;

xp

i will assume that because you guys are my friends, you know what i am talking about here:

i saw this ad for our very own saul while i was watching the pablo escobar telenovela

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7267/7591915688_83c8c300c6_z.jpg

Haha. My cousin used to live a couple blocks away from one of his offices, which was in a former Taco Bell. Seemed super appropriate.

((CINTAS)) ((DE)) ((INFORMACION}} ((DE)) ((LA)) ((BANCARROTA))

Is "Toreros de la Ley" Spanish for "infotapes"?!?!

I don't think that was his main office, but I wanted to stop in to see if there was a wall with a false collonade and the Constitution.

bus bench lawyer

All I know is that I don't think his English language ads call him the Bullrider (bull wrangler?) of the Law.

Really the title goes to Barry Glazer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HM6ZMmZEVQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fu6vcJwOZl8

Although I fondly remember The Hammer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=62xreSr25uI&NR=1

Whoops:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=62xreSr25uI

Torero is another word for toreador, right? So, bullfighters of the law. All very awesome.

i didn't know if it was the same or diff, just that it had to do with taming bulls in some way
and when i think of bulls, i think of PFG

Well yeh. Also when I think of bull.