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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!

That's a good idea to put the Trib feed on iGoogle, though -- I only have NYT and top Google News headlines.

iGoogle going away kind of pisses me off, it was sooo useful when I was working at a place that had pretty strict web filtering going on. I could still check fb, read blog articles, etc without crossing the line.

Oh! Nov. 2013? Heck, I'll probably be hooked into a neural interface that allows me to stream news directly into my brain by then.

I have news feeds from the Trib (Chicagoland and Business news), Chicago Defender, the Reader, NYT, Guardian US, and the BBC World. Used to have the Sun Times on there until they started putting everything behind a paywall.

I kind of love iGoogle, esp. for Gmail. Pretty much the only time I have to open up the full Gmail is if I need to send an attachment.

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.

And apparently you do have to actually google the article and open it from the search results page? I went to the Trib's main page, clicked through to Chicagoland, and then on the CTA story and it still blocked me! FU, Trib.

I just signed up for an account.

dunno if you guys tumblr but if you do and you like to look at pictures (why else would you have a tumblr) you should follow my yearbook blog

today's photo is one of my favorites
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m8xpfu4enT1rcq6xho1_500.jpg

this is the link

Wait, that's YOU???

I'm surprised only b/c Max reposts you all the time and I had no idea it was you.

:)

p sure that dude on the lower right went to my school too

or his haircut did

Here's my tumblelebekeeerrr http://fuckyeahcookieskillets.tumblr.com/

btw surprising/foiling jaymc has buoyed my spirits

http://us1.campaign-archive2.com/?u=f01a81569c999464978344ea0&id=5da2b90a9a

Lakeview COC is running a campaign to save the Lincoln bus if any of you #11 fans would be sad to see it go.

I don't have reason to take the Lincoln bus very often, but whenever I've wanted to, I've noticed that it's either already stopped running or that the next bus is in like a half hour.

I take that bus a lot. I wish there was more frequent service (and I wish a lot of the buses had later service - stopping service at 8 pm on a weekend is straight nonsense), too.

It's the bus that takes me to and from bars. Guess I'm going to have to buy a car now and start drinking and driving.

You should email the CTA and tell them that.

Don't really understand the gist of that grand cultural plan - what it means to achieve, where it gets the money from - but I think the city would be better served putting all that effort into bettering the CTA, and then, fine, hanging some art on the trains and buses and stuff.

I just found out that argyle stop will be closed for six weeks! Yikes.