Red-Light Cameras Not So Special?
Cubs Combat Casino
PHOTOS: Peaches And Amanda Blank At Metro
The Return of The Chicagoist Reader Meet-Up
County Sales Tax Rollback Vetoed - Here We Go Again
Update on the Waukegan explosion: Nine people were injured, at least two seriously, and one person still may be unaccounted for. [Trib]
The gigantic stuffed bear Truffles, mascot of the Rocky Mountain Factory in Orland Park, has safely come home after he was stolen. "Rumors surfaced Wednesday that a high school student wore Truffles' clothes to class." The students returned the bear. [S-T]
What if all the fashion-conscious outfits featured on The Sartorialist were boiled down into their color palettes?
Conrad Black's appeal was denied, so he's going to prison on Monday. [Trib]
Doors open on the right at holy shit, future, hurry up and get here so we can ride in tiny, personal train cars.
add to stumble upon
add to reddit
tweet this
post to facebook
oh my god, those tiny little trains are so freaking cool.
...unfortunately, I think it would just encourage train-peeing. This is why we can't have nice things.
You mean, in the car, while nobody is looking? Hmmm ... urine produces a definite smell, indicating that a component of it goes into the air in appreciable amounts ...
Maybe a Chemfet solve the problem - a chemfet set to trigger a locking mechanism on the door and an automatic call to the police.
My first thought was "you know how many people will have sex in those trains?" Yeah!
A few thoughts on that one
1. Security cameras, to deter vandlism.
2. No reasonable expectation of privacy, if the presence of such cameras is made public knowledge.
meaning
3. No reason I know of why, after the couple was stupid enough to couple there, that the tape of their rendevous couldn't be passed around for general enjoyment, or even sold without their consent. After their trial for public indecency.
I'm guessing that the popularity of love on the treads would drop after that.
All right, since we don't get a day-of post from Amy to help with attendence, and no one from the blog actually showed up, I'll break down how the trivia night throwdown went.
- Apparently, Sheffield's already had a trivia night scheduled with Goose Island that night. It sucked. Spav and me agreed, the questions were bullshit questions and did nothing to test one's knowledge of dick. It was all guesswork to make the trixies and chads feel like they had a chance. Team Chicagoist did win a round of free beers, though. We correctly guessed the difference between the population of the US in 1900 and 2000. (A: 205 Million)
- Spav, Smussy (Jocelyn, an old blogger for the site), Andy (a great guy who's only posted twice) were the only ones with balls to show. Spav brought friends, and one of them played too. They were both pretty cool.
- New City Weekly sent a FUCKING REPORTER to cover it! Maybe someone should have been there from the blog proper to be there. I have no idea. We came off like huge ass nerds and/or dicks (because we are), and spent the whole time shitting on everyone that didn't show their face. Spook... you're famous now.
- Jocelyn needs like 15 minutes to answer a question and needs to rationalize every possible answer before she decides. It was cute and irritating all at the same time.
- Spav saw the strength of my trivia fu and went running into the comedy open mic next door to heckle, get free cigarettes, and flirt with Maxim Magazine readers.
- There were some TOTAL bullshit questions and questions that were like "FUCK!". Example of the former:
"What Midwestern city invented deep dish pizza?"
and the latter had something to do with oil derived from cow shins. Seriously. Fuck that.
- Andy sucked at "Sports and Leisure." I struggled with "Science and Nature." Everyone else had issues with the "Wild Card" category.
- I won. Handedly. By like three pies. And I ended up winning with a retarded Jeff Foxworthy question of all things.
- Spav has enormous boobs. I didn't start playing well until she went into the next room. And she didn't smoke (indoors) once. This was OK by me, but had spook been there, I would have been disappointed. I like conflict.
- I changed my name because as the new top commenter in these here parts, Spook needs to start emulating me instead of the other way around. I have proven (by default) that I'm now his intellectual better. If he showed up, things may have been different, but they aren't.
- It was agreed that fun was had by all, and we needed to do this again.
Love,
The artist formerly known as
spookhatespuppies/thundercougarfalconbird/nmpkm...
P.S.- Matty, don't think you're getting off lightly either.
Um, all of the above is correct.
Thanks for the shout out.
My most awkward moment:
Plum to me: You look kind of like my cousin. And my cousin is ATTRACTIVE.
Well she is!
/from hicktown, USA.
I really liked the spookhatespuppies tag dont retire so soon