Chicago MMXII

A brigade of emergency vehicles just pulled into the bus stop at Western/Armitage & a Firefighter asked waiting passengers what the emergency was. Nobody knew and they started to pull out, which caused a Camry to swerve and nail a flatbed, crushing the Camry's hood, so the FD an paramedics and cops didn't waste a trip after all!

http://i.imgur.com/Ogos1.png

in case anyone other than me is incredibly sinusy today and couldn't figure out why
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-historic-mold-counts-20120808,0,2998669.story

Hey! I am! I have been snotty and have lungs full of crud and I've been saying aloud "What is going on?"

However, I cannot read that Trib story b/c it's a "Plus" story so you can either register and log in or No Thanks.

Dan, what is your post about?

does the image not show up any more?

It does, but I wondered if it was in reference to a real life thing.

nope just something I thought was kinda funny

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443545504577567763829784538.html

This is a good idea.

Oh, yes, that is a good idea! It would be nice to have lockers for shipments from other companies and for just storing stuff, too (a borrowed tape measure, for example).

yes. sarah had to go to the ups facility on the near southside to pick up one package, and my parents' birthday present to evie was sent back to amazon and had to be reshipped to my work, because now there's no one home to pick up packages during the day.

I know from personal experience that Sarah's employer is fine with their employees receiving packages at work. Poor Jeff is like a pack mule sometimes.

Fantastic idea.

I learned tonight that the Atlantic (just down Lincoln from Hidden Cove) is having Saved By the Bell trivia coming up soon. I did not mentally imprint the date/time.

Anyone heard of a bar called W@ng'5? It's on Broadway across from Ping Pong. Yelp reviews go back to 2008, but I hadn't heard of it until it started blowing up on my Facebook. Apparently it's a semi-secret gay bar that that is under investigation by the IL Dept. of Human Rights for having a policy of men only after 11:00. Anyone heard of it?

If they really do have that policy, I'm surprised at some of the guys who Liked it on FB since they are pretty enlightened and safely presumed feminists.

But then again, there has to be some kind of consideration for how the human rights act is applied in settings like sex clubs, which perhaps this place becomes after 11, so maybe who knows.

Misread that as "W@ng Five." Like Hang 10.

everybody wang chung tonight, but only if you're a dude

I can't decrypt the web search proofing.

A coworker gave me some Gold Bond hand sanitizer moisturizer and I used it and then looked at the active ingredient, which is benzethonium chloride and now I swear I can feel bacteria becoming antibiotic resistant on my hands and growing into superbugs as I write this.

In other news, why did Jay Cutler name his child Camden? It would be like naming a kid Gary as in Gary, IN if Gary wasn't already a name.

gary indiana
garyindiana
gary indiana
let me say it once again

gary indiana

I can't decrypt the Google web search proofing.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Indiana

Another really cool collection of pics of Chicago http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/uic_bru

I have a p¡#73r357 page, btw, in case anyone feels like checking it out or following m3. http://pinterest.com/yambrusco/

Anyone want to go see vanilla ice on Sunday? http://www.playerssports.net/bigdig

ha it's $5. That certainly more reasonable than the $35 or whatever to see Better than Ezra at the zoo. But I guess that was also a fundraiser.

if you guys are going, i'll go
why not
for real, the other day i was listening to the radio and ice ice baby came on and not only did i know all the words, i could sing them and i also? also i enjoyed it.

Stop.

Collaborate and listen.

Do you all want to know something about Jeff? He sings that song a lot more than you think he does.

will it ever stop?

yo i don't know

true confessions time: when i was in high school and constantly taping songs off the radio, i used to wait and wait for it to come on so i could listen to it by myself in peace. one time it came on and i taped over the tape of songs i taped from the local "modern rock" station, so what i wound up listening to for years whenever i felt like listening to that tape was "stone cold yesterday" (lol) interrupted by about 2/3 of ice ice baby, and then (i think) "beach bump" by baby ford.

good times

just yesterday I was singing "ice ice baby" to myself in the shower, only I was crooning it. It was pretty cool.

my friend gave me the vanilla ice tape for my 11th? 12th? birthday and i kept it hidden from my parents because it had the parental guidance explicit lyrics sticker on it and a couple of the songs were dirty.

dr aj's on the scene just in case you didn't know it

I taped songs off the radio regularly from 1990 to 1992. I think I ended up with about 14 cassettes (of varying lengths, probably). Anyway, I'm pretty sure "Ice Ice Baby" was on one of the first of those tapes, along with Snap!'s "The Power" and Tony! Toni! Tone!'s "Feels Good" and whatever else was hot in late 1990.

"on THE first," rather.

did someone say 1990?

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7scrq8ilQ1rcq6xho1_500.jpg

Back in 2003-04, when I first started getting into pop music again and blogging about music, I really wanted to dig up those tapes, but alas, I couldn't find them at my parents' house. I'm guessing they were thrown out at some point when I wouldn't have cared about their preservation as much.

i have all mine but my tape player just broke! like just about a month ago ;_;

I think I used to "rap" ice ice baby on the school bus in middle school. Perhaps I was famous for it among my peers.

I really wish I'd at least have written down the track lists somewhere. My tastes were fairly indiscriminate back then (I was in middle school) -- Europop jams next to power ballads.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voices_That_Care

I only had a couple of tapes of the radio like those, made in the late 80s, one labelled "A" and one labelled "B". I think they may still exist somewhere. If I ever have a house or whatever I'm going to get all the shit out my mother's basement and have a party.

Taped stuff off the radio by pushing one of these against the speakers

http://www.arsenalamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/Cassette-Player.jpg

waiting for the DJ to play the song I'd called in and requested.

My dad had a fancy stereo set up with components and shit, so the tape deck was connected to the radio and I used to do this thing where'd I'd tape stuff off the radio, bits of songs and ads and DJ patter and then go back and listen to it to see if it sounded like anything interesting. The only two things I remember about the results are taping "She's a brick... house... house... house" and liking that, and the across the highway neighbor swearing that she once managed to splice together the phrase "synchronize your baby in a Hersey's candy bar," but I think she was lying.

if there was a problem, yo -- carl solved it

I taped the radio using something very much like this:

http://www.pennpollyvintage.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/yellow-boombox-sony-cfm-104.jpg

Also I used to make DJ tapes of me playing all of these old 45s (and some 33s) that my parents had from their childhood and teenage years and improvising DJ chatter in between. I was in third grade or so, so I think I'm far enough removed to really want to hear that again.

Also I graduated from high school in 1990 and you are making me feel old.

Oh lord, I just got a memory of walking home from elementary school or maybe junior high? listening to radio tapes on my off-brand Walkman that was the size of a freaking brick. I distinctly remember Robert Plant's solo stuff being on one of these tapes.