Chicago MMXII

awesome!

also, i saw a former stood at a show last friday
~~~ cool professor ~~~

well i saw a guy from a band we used to play shows with at the playground on sunday ~~~ cool dad ~~~

Makes me think of "Who's Your New Professor" but I don't think that's a bad thing.

I had the same thought.

i might have some extra tools for u carl.

There's a materials fee for some metal, saw blades, solder, and sandpaper so I think they provide the tools for the class? But I might make you an offer on them if they are something I can then use to turn my pile of costume cast-offs into Etsy gold.

(j/k I don't have it in me to sell stuff on Etsy. I really just want to turn a bunch of clipon earrings into pierced earrings.)

IMPORTANT PREFACE: I am NOT asking this question with the purpose of mocking anybody's reading habits. My interest is professional and it pertains to something I'm working on right now.

I remember somebody once saying that a lot of mass market paperback mystery/romance bestsellers are written at a fourth-grade (or some elementary school grade) reading level, adult content aside. Can anybody confirm/refute this? A citation would be great (I did try searching for this myself).

i have no idea, but i can offer this -- most of the sentences and phrases in the romance writer's phrasebook are either simple sentences with s/v and a few prep phrases. if 4th gr reading level = simple sentence structure, then maybe?

i really like simple sentence structure if it comes with very precise vocabulary. lean and mean!

N/a, guess who just got chopped in half by a train.

Hint, not me.

This is going to haunt me forever.

What? What happened?

A Very Special and Traumatizing Episode of Homicide: Life in the Streets.

What? What happened?

squashed D'Onofrio

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subway_(Homicide:_Life_on_the_Street)

Spoiler alert.

oh, haha, i still need to watch that whole series but that is, in fact, 1 of the 2 episodes i did see during its original run

2nd place y'all
Wuuuuuut

Nice work!

1st losers. Try harder next time

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-chicago-chick-fil-a-20120725,0,6784667.story

Been surprised that Chick-Fil-A's evangelical values are new news.

In opposing Chick-fil-A, Moreno stakes out a position likely to resonate in his hipster ward

agree with keeping them out, but lol

Cool Professor (feat. Hipster Ward)

http://blog.franchisesolutions.com/images/Fathers-Day-Ward-Cleaver.jpg

I don't think Chicken Filet's values are new news, but since they've only recently started opening stores in Chicago they are only recently local new news.

Like, Joe Moreno wouldn't be in the Trib talking about how Chick-fil-A is a homophobic organization four years ago because they didn't have a restaurants in Chicago so an alderman's views on their politics really wasn't news. Also Joe Moreno wasn't alderman four years ago, but you know what I mean.

I was thinking more about how they're all over my Facebook page this week, related to the priceless quote from their CEO last week. The Alderman story is new news, for sure.

Fuck a Mike Huckabee, deciding only after all the negative press over Chick-Fil-A that we suddenly need a 'Chick-Fil-A Appreciate Day". I mean, he was always kinda 'lol, how cute, he wants to be president' but then I remember that he is just as deserving or ire and hatred as the more obvious Repubs.

"Appreciation", I'm tired.

They've been talked about on gay news blogs size they catered for some anti-gay-marriage group for free. Can't remember the details. But then this stuff with The Muppets happened, so they're getting more attention.

I ate at Chick-Fil-A in NC bc it was a morals vacation and bc my mom needed some chicken and I'm not trying to get into real life too much with her.

*since, not "size"

Anyway GTFO of Chicago bc I'd rather they be an tasty memory.

Is it really that good anyway?

^^ thats what I've always wondered, never had it and heard more than one person be super excited we were getting one here

I haven't eaten at a Chickens Filet in way over a decade because I think their food is gross, but I had to convince my mom that they were a bad place to drink iced tea and eat fries. Apparently she has positive feelings toward the place after she tripped and fell (sound familiar?) right in front of the main window and everyone rushed out to help her. She was ok, but mostly just really embarrassed at all the attention while simultaneously being glad that someone noticed the lady who tripped and fell outside. Still, after our longtime Wendy's ban, she understood why she hypothetically shouldn't patronize the place any more.

because I think their food is gross and also i don't patronize businesses who flaunt their right wing conservative values

well, yeah, i won't be checking it out ever, i just wondered if there was any legitimacy to the claims of it being really good as far as fast food places go

I've eaten Chickens-a-Flay 3 times dating back to 1980. Instantly forgettable sandwich -- all it's good for is to keep your bowels moving.

I'd be curious to see how this flap has affected business at their Chicago Ave. store.

Probably not much.

An 'elevated' Chix Fill Eh style sandwich seems to be a perfect localvorehipsterish kind of thing, I'm sorta surprised there hasn't been a nine dollar version perfected at some Milwaukee Avenue bar.

WAIT I COPYRIGHT THAT IDEA

I've never liked their regular sandwiches but chicken biscuits for breakfast? So good. Let's just say I've wrestled with my better nature once or twice on the matter. (better nature won, btw)

I support Jeff's solution which is to encourage Biscuitville to open a Chicago location. Mrs. Winner's Chicken and Biscuits also acceptable.

Is it really that good anyway?

In the same way that Taco Bell is "good." Which it definitely is. But not as sorta-gross b/c it's just chicken.

xp - Jenny OTM about the chicken biscuit. That is pretty str8-up good.

When I was in NC there were ads in front of all the Chicks-Fil-A for a one-day promo where anyone who came in dressed as a cow got a free chicken sandwich.

The biscuit is a really good biscuit, and it's just a touch on the sweet side, not cloying just a hint of sweetness, and the chicken is juicy and fried just right and that's all it is, a just-right fried boneless chicken breast on a really good biscuit.

God, FUCK YOU CHICK-FIL-A! FUCK YOU FOREVER.

I already went off about chic-fil-a in the huckabee thread, go over there and read my opinions. Btw autocorrect changes huckabee to huckster.

Portland has a hipster biscuit place. Seems like that would do well in Chicago -- more biscuit-focused than Feed, more casual than Big Jones, more cachet than anything on the South Side.

http://www.suntimes.com/lifestyles/food/7544899-423/soul-food-disappearing-in-chicago-as-blacks-leave.html

C-F-A was consistently a problem when I lived in NC b/c on the day I most wanted it as a hangover palliative, it was closed.

Yeh, I was wrong comparing them to Taco Bell.