This brings me back to hanging at places like Brian Boru's (which was leveled for that Border's, etc. at Broadway and Diversey) and Side Bar (little joint on Buena Ave., I think--between Sheridan and Broadway right near where they join up by Montrose). Those were my hangs for that whole Bulls run, it seems. Good. Fuckin'. Times.

I do love these fuckin' things.

This is the thread where I come to say "fuckin'"

How is your iPod?

Fuckin' great, thanks.

Actually, to be more precise, I followed the easy, three-step process everybody in the world except me knew about to unlock it yesterday. Battery was down significantly. Stopped by the Apple Store to ask them about it. Guy said "no problem"..."software hiccup". I charged it overnight and, when I started it this morning, the battery was not full--it was about 75%--but it hasn't really gone down much and I've been listening much of the day. In short...we'll see.

Did you fix it or did they give you a new one?

See follow-up. I didn't bring it with me to the Apple Store...figured I'll manually unlock it this time, and perhaps once more before demanding a new one.




Fuckin' a.

5 thingers have taken over CPT

It's the next logical step in our (their???) quest for board domination. A quest that will hopefully not involve occupation of any of the PENIS threads.

and in more news not worth mentioning..

MySpace Outage Leaves Millions Friendless

BEVERLY HILLS, CA—An estimated 150 million people continued to be without social lives Tuesday as a massive system failure at MySpace.com entered its third day.

MySpace users now find themselves completely alone in the world.
"The problem is taking longer than we anticipated, but rest assured we're working around the clock to get MySpace back online," said David Gundy, a spokesman for the social networking site. "We're hoping to have friendship restored to our users as soon as possible."

The outage, which occurred late Saturday night, is believed to be the result of a complicated wallpaper upload for the page of a former VH1 I Love New York contestant, which triggered a chain reaction of web browser crashes and server shutdowns. Although MySpace's emergency-response team has so far been unable to reconnect any of the millions currently stranded without access to online companionship, Gundy said he remains hopeful that no profiles have been lost.

However, because the sudden lack of friends has deprived MySpace users of comments, bulletin posts, and searches for elementary school crushes, it is feared that the ordeal could inflict long-term psychological damage. In Chicago alone, an estimated 50,000 people remain trapped in their apartments, with no way of contacting the outside world about new bands, Adult Swim cartoons, or the latest video games.

Desperate citizens gather in communal hotspots to check repeatedly if MySpace is back online yet.
"I lost 6,456 of my best friends in an instant," said Minneapolis resident Peter Steinberg, 20, who has loyally befriended as many profiles as possible over the past two years. "Nothing can describe how devastated I feel. Some of these people I've exchanged two, even three comments with, and I can't tell you how many ROTFLMAOs we've shared, too."

Steinberg was among the first to suspect something was wrong with MySpace.com Friday when he was unable to send an animated image of TV's ALF chasing a cat to his MySpace group, "Welcome to Bartertown, Bitch."

Other stranded, friendless citizens are doing their best to cope, but are finding it harder and harder to go on.

"I've just been wandering in and out of my cubicle in a daze, not knowing what to say and who to talk to," said Upper Darby, PA data-entry technician Patrick "Smiley457" Mancuso, 31. "I thought about asking someone at work or in my apartment building if they'd join my friend group. But how am I supposed to tell which ones I will like and which ones I won't? It's too overwhelming."

Corey "Aqualad" Friesen, 18, of Danville, IL appeared to share Mancuso's fears about manual and analog socializing. "I vaguely remember trying to make friends pre-MySpace, but in 16 years, I only made three real friends," Friesen said. "If I have to revert back to face-to-face friend gathering, I would be middle-aged before I built that number into the double digits. I'd definitely never get back into the hundreds again."

Denver's Marco Imbrescia, known to his MySpace friends as I Smell Tuna, contemplated the existential ramifications of the outage.

'Sorry for the lameness on our end.' - Tom

"Without an 'About Me' section, I've lost all sense of self," said Imbrescia, 17, who depends on the site to convey his innermost thoughts to millions of extended-network friends. "Do I want kids? How tall am I? What's my body type? These are questions I can't answer anymore. I'd pray to a god for help, but I've lost my religion field."

A handful of relief organizations have begun to offer some assistance to MySpace refugees. The American Red Cross is currently setting up a network of approximately 60 smaller-sized "fill-in" sites, where lonely MySpace users can post abbreviated profiles and receive instant messages from aid workers in half-hour increments. But because it's only intended as a temporary stopgap, user options are austere: MySpace members cannot list hobbies and interests, upload MP3s, or link to favorite YouTube clips, making friendship compatibility and popularity nearly impossible to predetermine.

On Monday, MySpace co-creator Tom Anderson issued an apologetic press release on the website of MySpace's parent company, News Corporation.

"So I know alot [sic] of you couldn't check out your profiles and I just want to say sorry for all the lameness on our end," Anderson wrote. "Rock on. "

What am I going to do when I get a new job and can't dick around on this board all day?

make sure your new employer allows access to message boards, during the work day
I understand it has become a common question from applicants during job interviews

Who came along for the ride
Hey, you can't come inside
Do the citizens kneel for sex
It's heaven cumming on her chest

Hollywood Babylon
Hollywood Babylon

Flesh ancient monster design
Unlit pornographic sign
Where did they come from tonight
Who came along for the ride

Hollywood Babylon
Hollywood Babylon

Who came along for the ride
Hey you, you can't come iisde
When do the citizens kneel for sex
It's heaven cummin' on her chest

Hollywood Babylon
Hollywood Babylon
Hollywood Babylon
Hollywood Babylon

"Attitude" being followed up by "Bullet" on Static Age is the ultimate one-two punch in all of music, seriously.

Why does Undo only have four stars?

I thought about this a lot over the past week, and I decided that Undo is undeniably the greatest SOMB poster of all time.

Yeah, whoever downvoted Undo should be banned.

Montana as Pavement's only friend, I laughed. Mitchell's user pic, more clever.

Ha, yes, I saw that. His Britishness is a lot to take in, but man, does it deliver. On occasion.

What's even more amazing is that he thought up that user pic within a few minutes of the new board.

I was going for the Collection 1 sequence, but yeah.

i'll steal some gas,
fix my motor
put on my beatles tape
and get you out of my head

ah yes, here i am,
far away from everyone
and the only fish i smell is on the back of my boat
i want to go but my motor's broken there's no scotch tape,
i'm out of gas, so it looks like i'm stuck here

i'll steal some gas,
fix my motor
put on my doors tape
and get you out of my head

Dance with me, pretty boy tonight
Dance with me, and we'll be alright
There's a whole floor before us, just for you and me,
So follow my lead, and we'll 1-2-3

Fav tpfd:

There's a reason I'm not a "business" person. I heard yesterday that, in response to their competitors raising their cereal prices, General Mills will soon be raising their prices. The price-per-box will actually appear to come down but the boxes will be smaller, if I understand correctly. This, to me, is kind of insane. If your competitors are raising their prices (therefore, potentially, making their product less desirable) wouldn't you--as their competitor--want to keep your prices where they are? I understand there is more profit to be made by simply raising your price, but why make your product less desirable just because your competitor is?

Back to rock music...

Michael Pollan is the shit.



This book was great. A must read. Listening to him speak right now...he's the shit.

Are you going off the meat and onto cereal?

Oh man, I feel like I'm back in school. I'm sure what they are thinking is that people will notice price, but probably not notice that they are getting less. This actually happens all of the the time. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if the size of the box stays the same, but they just put less inside the box. Marketing scams. Gotta love it!

I'm just going off.

In answer to your question, no. My beef will be grass fed from now on--it will not have been fed corn or other grains that the animal has not evolved to eat and are making it/you/the earf sick.

As for cereal, I am the cereal killer. I eat cereal every morning. Nothing's really changed in that regard, other than I am trying to eat cereals that have as few ingredients as possible...I'm striving toward a five-ingredients-or-less practice.

So you're moving out West where you belong? Midwest beef is almost exclusively grain fed.

"Research" = computers.

That book is great. The section on sustainable farming is cool. Never happen in the US, but it's cool.

Each equation is comprised of initials that you must replace with words that will make them correct. For example, 26=L of the A, is 26=Letters of the Alphabet.

Solve:

1. 7=W. of the A.W.

2. 1,001=A.N.

3. 12=S. of the Z.

4. 54=C. in a D. (with the J.)

5. 9=P. in the S.S.

6. 88=P.K.

7. 13=S. on the A.F.

8. 32=D. at which W.F.

9. 18=H. on a G.C.

10. 90=D. in a R.A.

11. 9=J. of the S.C.

12. 10=D in a T.N. ( including the A.C. )

13. 7=D with S.W.

14. 30=S. over T.

15. 8=D. a W. ( in the B.S. )

16. 15=M. on a D.M.C. ( hint: Yo Ho Ho!! )

17. 4 + 20=B.B. in a P.

18. 9=S. in T.-T.-T.

19. 3=S. Y. O. at the O. B. G.

20. 5=T. on a C. ( including the S. in the T. )

21. 200=D. for P.G. in M.

22. 8=S. on a S.S.

23. 3=B.M. ( S.H.T.R.! )

24. 4=Q. in a G.

25. 24=H. in a D.

26. 1=W. on a U.

27. 5=D. in a Z.C.

28. 57=H.V.

29. 11=P. on a F.T.

30. 1,000=W. that a P. is W.

31. 29=D. in F. in a L.Y.

32. 64=S. on a C.

33. 40=D. and N. of the G.F.

34. 20=Q. ( A., V., or M. )

35. 10=L.I.

36. 7=Y. of B.L. for B. a M.

37. 2,000=P. in a T.

38. 4=S. on a V.

39. 76=T. that L. the B.P.

40. 2=G. of V.

41. 1=G. L. for M.

42. 2= T. the P. A. R.

43. 9 = L. of a C.

44. 14 = D. in a F.

45. 15 = M. of F. per P., A. to A. W.

46. 3 = W. in "M."

47. 6 = "B. C."

48. 4 = S. in a D. of C.

49. 16 = O. in a P.

50. 10 = C. G. to M.

The first eleven:

I took care of some of the easy ones:

14. 30=S. over T. Seconds over Tokyo

15. 8=D. a W. ( in the B.S. ) days a week in the Beatles song

16. 15=M. on a D.M.C. ( hint: Yo Ho Ho!! ) men on a dead man's chest

19. 3=S. Y. O. at the O. B. G. strikes yer out at the old ball game

24. 4=Q. in a G. quarts in a gallon

25. 24=H. in a D. hours in a day

26. 1=W. on a U. Wheel on a unicycle

27. 5=D. in a Z.C. digits in a zip code

28. 57=H.V. Heinz varieties

29. 11=P. on a F.T. Players on a football team (US version)

30. 1,000=W. that a P. is W. words that a picture is worth

31. 29=D. in F. in a L.Y. Days in Feb, in a leap year

32. 64=S. on a C. spaces on a checkerboard

33. 40=D. and N. of the G.F. Days and Nights of the Great Flood

34. 20=Q. ( A., V., or M. ) Questions (Animal, Vegetable, or Mineral)

36. 7=Y. of B.L. for B. a M. Years of bad luck for breaking a mirror

37. 2,000=P. in a T. Pounds in a ton

39. 76=T. that L. the B.P. Trombones led the Big parade

43. 9 = L. of a C. Lives of a cat

44. 14 = D. in a F. Days in a fortnight

48. 4 = S. in a D. of C. Suits in a Deck of Cards

49. 16 = O. in a P. Ounces in a pound

18. 9=S. in T.-T.-T.
squares in tic-tac-toe

40. 2=G. of V.
gentlemen of Verona

41. 1=G. L. for M.
giant leap for mankind

45. 15 = M. of F. per P., A. to A. W.
minutes of fame per person, attributed to Andy Warhol

13. Dwarves with Snow White

17. Blackbirds Baked in a Pie

35. Ten little indians.

22. 8=S. on a S.S. - Sides on a Stop Sign

Which leaves us with:

12. 10=D in a T.N. ( including the A.C. )

20. 5=T. on a C. ( including the S. in the T. )

21. 200=D. for P.G. in M.

23. 3=B.M. ( S.H.T.R.! )

42. 2= T. the P. A. R.

47. 6 = "B. C."

50. 10 = C. G. to M.

Hey Jess,

Add this

3=P W have N B in M K

Cheers,
Worrywort

Digits in a Telephone Number
(including the Area Code )

For Simakos:



"Precious Famine" table from objection design.

21. 200=D. for P.G. in M.
200 Dollars for Passing Go in Monopoly

23. 3=B.M. ( S.H.T.R.! )
Blind Mice (See How They Run!)

And you
You can be mean
And I
I'll drink all the time
'Cause we're lovers
And that is a fact
Yes we're lovers
And that is that

Though nothing
Will keep us together
We could steal time
Just for one day
We can be Heroes
For ever and ever
What d'you say