Chicago MMXII

Wow, Argyle looks incredible! Is it accessible now, too?

I can't wait for Wilson. That station is an utter shit show as it is now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfkV1E0sBZ0

guys i probably shouldn't go into this into too much detail online but i had a pretty amazing professional interaction with a guy who says he is a psychic who helps the chicago police department solve their cases

its okay, he probably already knows you are posting about him

(thats awesome though)

write it down and refer to these notes when i grill you about this the next time i see you
thx

Yes, agreed.

i will say that he told me, with no solicitation or even expression of interest on my part, that robert wagner hired christopher walken to poison and then drown natalie wood. then he said "i thought you might be interested in that" and left.

<3 this guy

I don't know if Argyle is accessible. I don't see an elevator in those pictures. The CTA's record on accessibility is pathetic.

I hope the psychic is actually Richard M. Daley. He just keeps his superpowers on the d.l.

thank god monday is over, only 11 more days until the weekend!

I'm sorry, justin3.

I don't know if Argyle is accessible. I don't see an elevator in those pictures. The CTA's record on accessibility is pathetic.

It seems like any new construction would have to be accessible. The crappy record is due in part to how very old the stations are. They got grandfathered in.

I think you meant to post to Just1n3 in the 77 thread.

The part that says "I'm sorry, justin3" but not the part about the Argyle station.

Yeh, that's the part. Sorry, I mentioned it b/c I figured you would want to know that she probably wasn't going to receive your message, not just to point out your humiliating mistake.

141 years ago Chicago was burning.

400 homicides and it's only Oct 9, same diff.

Was having coffee at a fast-food establishment and one young guy at the table next to me was playing a recording of himself rapping (not too well) and one of the other guys days "That's drill-hop!" And he says, "What?" And the other guy says, "That's drill-hop--you're doing it and you don't even know what it's called!" And indeed it was.

There's a young Republican phone banking center in a storefront next to where I get my hair cut and I have this overwhelming urge to do something super crass like hike up my skirt and mash my bush against the window and yell MY BOX MY CHOICE and then run away. The guy who cuts my hair said they are always outside smoking ("probably because they hate themselves so much") so I don't think they'd be able to catch me.

Red Eye says bush mash is the new flash mob. Reports of a bush mash at Chick-Fil-A at Chicago and Wabash.

I just realized I don't like the word "bush."

a.m. radio in Logan Square:
https://www.facebook.com/events/117753685042828/

Also, I noticed with the Thorndale remodel that the convenience store in the station is gone. True at Argyle and elsewhere?

I am trying out a standing desk right now. Really, it's a $150 contraption that I could probably build out of scrap lumber. However, it is also awesome and I am enjoying the absence of neck pain, as well as the freedom to bop around and dance a little bit while I work.

I would really like a convertible desk since sometimes sitting is nice but then sometimes my butt hurts.

yesterday i was giving my regular every-other-week talk at work about nonprofit funding and where it comes from, and i was at the part where i was talking about how religious organizations (churches, synagogues, etc.) receive the most charitable donations by sector, and right then a nun in a habit walked in and sat down at the table in front of me. it was distracting.

Would have been more distracting had she flashed her ... oh, I can't even say it.

...rosary beads?

if anyone knows anyone who'd be interested in editing work, there are two positions (1 copy editor, 1 managing editor) open right now at my place of employment

The doctor we go to is doing Saturday appointments.

Also, a movie is being filmed right in front of my place.

Oh and the Saturday appointments are very conveniently take. at 3000 N. Halsted.

Omg I just learned that a janitor at a daycare in my hood was accused of making children eat "boiled babies" during the satanic panic of the early/mid 80s.

The end of this week cannot come soon enough.

this is a slow-ass week

Lol.

yes, this week is terribly long. and it isn't ending any time soon. we have a big meeting first thing on monday morning in champaign, so a bunch of us from our office have to go down there for prep and a meeting all day in sunday plus prep in our office here on saturday. plus i'm working about 10 hours days every other day. so i'm really, really looking forward to the weekend, of the 20th-21st anyway.

i'm going to be in springfield on mon/tues for work

Yeh, it's been a(nother) balls-to-the-wall week for me too. Boss is out tomorrow though, so I can have some calm and straighten up my office area, which I find soothing and fun.

Dan, this URL makes me think of you http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2215653/Kitty-Cat-Buttons-Jack-Russell-think-SISTERS-rescue-centre.html.

Damn, this URL makes me love you more than I thought was even possible.

omgsisterz

Librarians: what's up with some ebooks from the library not being transferrable to devices wirelessly? I mean, I know it's because of publishers but what is their reasoning? Does it strike you as kind of dumb?

Ebook users/nerds: $12.53 will get you eight DRM-free sci-fi/spec fic ebooks, including a Neil Gaiman comic, here: http://www.humblebundle.com/.

But only for ten more days.

Three of those eight were already on my "to read" list and they all look really interesting so I'm pretty excited. Now I'm finishing this amazing 1808 Gothic horror novel called The Witch of Ravensworth, which is delightfully gory and lurid.

I downloaded a free "e-book" that turned out to be a PDF and damn girl, it's annoying as fuck to read.

PDFs are a pain in the butt to read, I agree.

The Reader's series on the murder of Dantrell Davis reminds me that I wrote a terrible mawkish poem about the incident for a creative writing class. I was 13. I think I used the phrase "urban decay."

I assume you still have this poem and are going to post it in this thread any second.

Might be at home!

violet hour to sell its own version of malort: http://dinersjournal.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/another-taste-of-malort-is-arriving-to-chicago/

further indication that malort has jumped the shark

yeah we need to find a new disgusting alcohol drink to rep

like natty light