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Well check your email bc I have an offer you cannot refuse.

Why is this happening to me? ??

Because you were using URL instead of IMG.

I am kind of shocked this is the first gay bar. Or even first out one. I thought Duluth was kind of hip?

Ah yes, I was thinking of Soup-town. They're slightly interchangeable, there's only a bridge in between. A big bridge, mind you.

R now confirms that Superior has multiple gay bars.

You're right, ca. I get those BBCode Plus keyboard shortcuts mixed up.

xp Haha "R now confirms" -- Story developing.....

Alert: we are going to Craigslist a vintage Lane-brand cedar chest but I will give it to anybody reading this thread who is willing to come get it and carry it out of our house. I don't know the measurements off the top of my head, but it's sizable. It's a little beat up but it smells really good and it's in good condition for as old as it is.

I will post the measurements this weekend, or sooner if I remember.

got no room for a cedar chest :(

i'm not sure if anyone here is looking for a new job or wants to apply a job as "manager of web communications" but email me if you do
it's not at my workplace so i can't answer any specific q's about it but i can send you the link
that's all

Anyone want a beer at the fountainhead after work tomorrow? I'll prob be there. https://www.facebook.com/events/441759285868858/

What time? We have a staff outing tomorrow and I'll probably get home early.

I'll go right after work, get there around 5:15ish.

I should note it will be only me there. If you are looking to hang with Jenny or despise my company, then you are SOL.

I may be in the area around that time...

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/48736648/ns/today-back_to_school/#.UDPH-allTng

There has got to be an appropriate ILX thread for this article, no? This thing is just crying out for group mockery. Electronic narcotis? BARF

20. Exposed bra straps have always been a fashion statement, not a wardrobe malfunction to be corrected quietly by well-meaning friends.

I mean, I don't know any college freshman, it's true, but this list feels very essentializing and also seems to assume that Kids These Days (KIDZ DEEZ NUTZ amirite???) are all very stupid.

why does that list have to make me feel old?

i deal with college freshmen all the time btw
they do not make me feel old, just different

TBF, the fact that this year's college freshmen were born the year I graduated college does make me feel a little old, but it's the same way hearing 80s songs played on "oldies" radio makes me feel old. It's a benign, "Holy shit, time really does pass and I'm not actually goign to be in my 20s forever!" kind of old feeling.

LL, I would like to know whether college freshman, in your experience, are unfamiliar with the Biblical origins of common phrases. I would also like to know if people born before 1994 all know that "the writing is on the wall" is from the book of Daniel.

They are unfamiliar with a lot of things -- it's my job, at least in part, to help make them familiar and contextualize their unique life experiences within a greater cultural context.

Not to be all serious, but right?

pretty much, imho

it's also up to them to want to learn things

xp Not to be all serious in response, but that's a beautiful way to describe what you do. I'm being sincere!

39. The Metropolitan Opera House in New York has always translated operas on seatback screens.

LOL FOREVER

41. Good music programmers are rock stars to the women of this generation, just as guitar players were for their mothers.

...

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that article is stupid

Why did my coworker send it to me? WHY? I should be eating lunch or working or both. Instead I'm getting annoyed at MSNBC.

Muslims doing the Eid prayer at Toyota Park (home of the Fire) on Sunday last:

http://i.imgur.com/1h959.jpg

I don't know why they do it in a group but it's kind of cool to see.

Bridgeview is a pretty heavily middle-eastern suburb. I've gotten directions from a local to "the best" restaurant in the area, but have never gone. Need to rectify that.

I may head over to Fountainhead tonight too, depending on when i get off work, etc.

Great. You are a good person.

what do you guys think a person could expect at a "fleetwood mac spaceship dance party"?!

I probably won't be going to fountainhead because that's around when I have to pick up Evie. I'd go now though.

Or maybe I'll bring Evie there.

You should bring her. Evie likes the Fountainhead.

what do you guys think a person could expect at a "fleetwood mac spaceship dance party"?!

― these albatrosses have no fear of man (La Lechera), Tuesday, August 21, 2012 7:31 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Cocaine?

how do people dance on the fleetwood mac spaceship?

Evie can bid in the silent auction items.

Askance is here. Askvanxr a is here.

My Streetwise lady isn't well :( She is a really sweet woman in her late 50s/early 60s, grandmotherly. She took my $5 without offering change and she told me she'd started drinking bc she found out he had stomach cancer. She had tears in her eyes and her magazines were crumpled and dirty.

Wish I could join you guys. Kind of a crazy work week.

I was going to try, but today was super busy, which is what happens when you make an honest to-do list.

Fontainhead has bad AT&T reception. Makes me sad.

Potential CTA changes. Good and bad. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-cta-decrowding-0822-20120822,0,2878974,full.story

Part of the Lincoln bus route will be removed, from Western to Fullerton. That blows.

that does blow

So what's the deal, do I have to register with the Trib to even read it now? I had to do that last night with The Washingtonian, b/c I wanted to see their top 100 restaurants in D.C.

It only seems to be problem when you follow a direct link -- if you google the article, you should be able to access it through the search results.

^^^this is what I've been doing, works well

I know it's bad, but I hardly ever follow local news unless it pertains to music/culture/food. Like I was kind of in the dark about the CPS issues (I mean, apart from a vague sense that things were fucked) until a woman in my yoga class said that she was going to be at a demonstration this week.

I felt a strange disconnect when I was at a family gathering right after Maggie Daley died and a bunch of my relatives were trading stories about the news and also about her life over the years and I was like "how the fuck do you know so much about Maggie Daley?" And I suppose part of it's because I was just a kid for the first few years of RMD's mayoral tenure, but I also feel like these are people who still get a daily Tribune and watch Ron Magers every night. Whereas I avoid TV news and read the NYT online.

Right now, I'm subscribed to the Trib's newsfeed through iGoogle so when I go to Google, I see headlines. That's the main way I keep up with local news. Plus I watch Chicago Tonight every once in awhile.

iGoogle is going away in November, but I'll still probably check out headlines every now and then just to keep on top of things.

Not until Nov. 2013!