Chicago MMXII

Amanda, this news article was linked with the text "Lurid criminal trial in Los Angeles" and thought you might be interested: http://www.laweekly.com/2012-09-13/news/scott-barker-trousdale-estates-murder-trial-tony-takazator/

I haven't read it yet, but I'm finna.

I can think of worse restaurant names, but GAG would always make the top five. I smell a McSweeney's list there somewhere.

i know this is annoying, but can i get a c & d on the irl name?

can't wait to read that article or wear my ridiculous new boots!!!

I smell a McSweeney's

also a bad restaurant name

I am wearing the leather blazer that I bought early in the summer for the first time today, and I'm strutting in it. Black, butt-length, fits beautifully, cost me $15 for something that someone once paid $300 for. I feel like Rick Deckard. Or at least I feel like I look like him. Which is a fine feeling.

can i get a c & d on the irl name?

kept reading this as "can i get a classic & dud on the irl name?"

Carl, perfect day to have a day off. Alas, The Master doesn't open for another week, so you'll have to take a sick day or long lunch hour for our matinee.

i feel like people have failed to properly appreciate this picture
with the weather getting a little cooler and all i am totally psyched for creepy season
http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m9yp0fJZGH1rcq6xho1_500.jpg

I noticed that one! I'm not a usr of tumblr so I do not know how to comment on these things. But I really liked The Hand.

I was very very cozy in a hooded sweatshirt last night, with all the windows open.

i know this is annoying, but can i get a c & d on the irl name?

Yes, sorry! It took me until just now to realize what c & d meant, and then to realize you weren't talking about Green Apple Grill.

i was advised to make a twitter so there's a yearbook editor twitter too
i never realized how unnatural self-promotion is

sorry to be a pud about the name thing

clearly i want to be visibly invisible

You're not being a pud! It is a reasonable request. I'm just slow on the uptake today.

ok i give up, what does "c&d" mean? cloak & dagger?

cease and desist!

oh! doy.

is that not a term?
i just wanted to say please stop posting my name please in a nonconfrontational/nonpissy way

This is the time of year when I need a longsleeve shirt for outside, but our building overcompensates and it is 82 inside.

LL what is the twitter for your tumblr? that's a better way for me to follow it since i'm never on tumblr

nevermind, i figured it out

@Yearbook_Editor

i think i hate twitter

i like-a the twitter

something about it makes me feel like i am just barfing up words and then they just sit there on my lap in a mess
nothing i have to say is important enough to broadcast scattershot like that
like seriously NOTHING

at least on ilx there is a semblance of conversation and topic
i dunno, i realize this is just me

that's why you don't tweet anything important. it's only for dumb stuff.

i don't have that many dumb things to say, i guess

well i'm sure people who know me would contest that but ykwim

twitter! it's not for everyone!

i just miss jibjabbing with you guys here i guess ;_;

personally I really liked the puppy mspaint portrait yr hubs posted last night

my handiwork is best represented in picture form i guess

c&d, keep her on the dl asap

i think i hate twitter

Me too. I tried, but it's not really for me. I like reading funny absurdist stuff on it, but it sucks for conversation - especially group conversation - pics, and events.

I think it suits my brain better than long form discussion. All my ideas start to fall apart after 140 characters.

Twitter is much better for beefs than blogs. Can't go on too long.

I have no interest in beefs.

Sometimes beefs find you, or so I've found.

Another good reason to hide then. I guess I just wanted to say I miss u, chilx.

that's why you don't tweet anything important. it's only for dumb stuff.

For example, I tweeted about The Toadies today and not for the first time.

tenative deal for the CTU

tentative too

Carl fyi yr toadies post made me lol in the breakroom earlier this afternoon. Luckily I was alone in there.

I was on my third go-round of Possum Kingdom when it occurred to me that with the windows open, I was surely not the only person listening to the song (just possibly the only person voluntarily listening to it).

I also like Twitter for keeping up with people that I used to be FB friends with but don't know well enough to communicate regularly via email, and for following writers who don't have dedicated RSS feeds for their stuff (so for example, Lindy West, because fuck following all of Jezebel on Google Reader). It's not idea for the latter because at least three times/week I have to declare Twitter bankruptcy and just mark all 100000000 tweets as read. Also sometimes I want to reply to someone but it's been four hours since their tweet and the tweeter has long since moved on.

Come to think of it, Twitter kind of sucks.

Anyway, I follow the LL's tumblr output via Google Reader because if I just followed it on Twitter, I'd miss half of the posts and that would be :(.

Also it is definitely very warm in the direct sun, at least out in the auto-centric wasteland that is the Elston/Logan big box shopping center mecca/gateway to hell.

I don't know that I would be all about Twitter if I weren't tweeting as part of my job. Even though we can technically tweet whatever we want, the context in which I'm doing it definitely shapes the kinds of things I tweet -- lots more links that I would normally share, for instance. I'm not really a "hey check out this out" guy, but it's a useful Twitter mode.

Also, I just tweeted at a noted jazz musician, and he tweeted me back. High five!

i have a professional twitter account too but it's pretty boring, mainly i just use it to tell people if we're going to be closed during weird times, i can't really figure out how to make it more interesting.

of course it's got like 4x as many followers as my personal account

I gave up on my professional twitter. I even locked it when I was interviewing for my last job, since it's one of the few related results that come up if you search for me via my full name.