Chicago MMXII

it should be like a middle ages-style map with a massive compass and "WARNING: HERE THERE BE HYPSTERS" in calligraphy and ornate illustrations of cheap tacos and frat boys and strawmen

i bet if i made prints of that, people would buy it. too bad i'm lazy!!!!! ;)

haha

I'm just gonna ask this here because I know one of you will know the answer -- who is responsible for that current top pop hit song that sounds exactly like the Police?

Bruno Mars, "Locked Out of Heaven". I've not liked him before, but that one is really growing on me.

Not sure I've heard that one? I was going to guess Gotye.

Garfield Park?
No thonx.

I know that I have a disgusting mind, but the second column made me pause, re-read, pause, then chuckle.

http://www.chicagomag.com/whet/Screen%20shot%202012-12-11%20at%205_32_49%20PM.png

It totally is Bruno Mars! I swear, within the first 10 seconds you can hear The Police. Not a bad song, at least I don't hate it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-fA-gBCkj0

Hmmm, trying again:

http://i.imgur.com/ZOV8M.png

Yep, I was 100% confident that that was the song you were thinking of, as I thought the exact same thing within 10 seconds of the first time I heard it.

So far today I've listened to Big Black, The Jesus Lizard, and Monster Magnet so I am clearly in some kind of a mood.

Going back to the map, the whole "South Side of Chicago" part is what really puts me off, because it's a total cop out and makes me think the jackass has never been south of like Roosevelt.

dan m otm, like he's saying, "I don't even know how to deal with or process this huge area I'm too scared to even think about so we'll just leave it at that"

There's an article in the New Yorker this week about Trent Reznor, so today I've been listening to the excellent The Social Network soundtrack, which I seem to recall Kenan sent me.

Someone on NPR was talking about Bruno Mars last night and they played a bit of that song. I immediately thought "that sounds like Stewart Copeland's drumming" and like 30 seconds later the reviewer referenced the Police.

Its a pretty fantastic Police homage, at least that's how I think of it.

i'm listening to "i'm different" by 2 chainz over and over, it's the dumbest song but it has an amazing chorus that i just want to walk around yelling at people

Going back to the map, the whole "South Side of Chicago" part is what really puts me off, because it's a total cop out and makes me think the jackass has never been south of like Roosevelt.

I actually took it as a joke about the singularity of the South Side, but I'm probably being too charitable.

this is how it goes:

i'm different yeah i'm different
i'm different yeah i'm different
i'm different yeah i'm different
PULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSING
PULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSING
PULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSING
PULL UP TO THE SCENE WITH MY CEILING MISSING
MIDDLE FINGER UP TO MY COMPETITION

yeah my interpretation was similar to jaymc's

I thought it was a scathing commentary on common non-South Siders' perception of the South Side. Or what j and n said I guess.

On his facebook page he just says the whole thing is a joke.

I went through a period of obsession with that 2 Chainz song too, it's ridiculously stupid and ridiculously difficult to not want to shout the hook at people.

Ha, my wife thought the Bruno was the Police, too. I thought it was so shameless it had to have something to do with Maroon 5.

Yo, I'll be at the half acre tap room tonight for a tweet up of beer nerds, if any of you in the area want to drop by. It's bring your own Instagram.

that sounds fun but i'm pretty beat. had to move all of the library's books for the second time in three days today.

"shameless" = otm

this is what my library looks like right now

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A-AdTxoCUAEkMrs.jpg

Wednesday night drinking probably wasn't the best idea for me.

What does "bring your own instagram" mean? I've thought about it and I still dgi.

It was a joke. Because twitter beer nerds post pictures of their beer on Instagram.

What are those n/a? They look like pumps or generators.

i'm not 100 percent sure but i think they're superpowered dehumidifiers

I'm on one of the fancy new trains. It's possibly the gentlest train I've ever ridden.

I hate the CTA. I'm buying a car.

Jarvis stop is almost ready to open again! Hooray!

Oh wait I guess I have heard this Bruno Mars song. The Police hadn't originally occurred to me, but that's a good call.

That was such a smooth, quiet train. I didn't care for the seating layout, though. I'm looking forward to riding one of the new cars when it's super packed at rush hour.

Man, I barely remember what it's like to ride a train during rush hour.

Miserable. I don't see how anyone south of Fullerton on the Red/Brown/Purple line do it. All trains are packed. Sometimes I left 3 or 4 go by before I can even squeeze on one.

New bike lane opens on dearborn today. I wonder if the messengers will pay attention to the bike signals.

I like the new trains, seating layout and all. They can hold more standing passengers, don't have that natural bottleneck that occurs around the doors in the current trains, and there are straps/rails along the length of the car. In the Brown and Purple line configurations, there are dead spots where there's nothing to hold on to if your standing, which is an inefficient waste of space.

Of course I'm saying this as someone who rides a morning train that is almost always standing room only (if there's room at all) and who rides an evening train from a stop exactly halfway around the Loop so there's always a seat. Either way, the seating config is kind of beside the point.

you're not your blah blah blah fart

New bike lane opens on dearborn today. I wonder if the messengers will pay attention to the bike signals.

I'm sure fearless crime fighter and force for good John Kass will treat us with another column either way.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-1214-20121214,0,3628535.column

I dislike the new trains.

Have no fear, those new trains will be degraded down to old trains in a matter of days.

I took my daughter to England a couple of years back, and I left wondering, huh, why can't we have trains with toilets, upholstery and food service? And I immediately answered myself that they would be rendered disgusting or destroyed almost immediately.

The BART in San Francisco is weirdly spotless and comfortable and very fast, with nice soft fabric on the streets. Not sure how they manage that.

Maybe because the weather is nice enough that the homeless don't just ride the trains all day?

also the BART is a much smaller system so fewer people use it i think.

Also it has an ejection mechanism for smelly disgusting people built in.