Random Bits and Pieces...

By Margaret Lyons in News on Oct 15, 2004 5:09PM

Chicagoist is really hurting today—it's been a long week, and somehow those hours between lunch and going home on a Friday afternoon just drag. We're going to give up on trying to weave these stories together into a coherent post and just throw some stuff out there, "bullet stizz."

• The 3rd Annual International Festival for Cinema of the Deaf is this weekend. The Chicago Institute for the Moving Image is hosting the festival, which features "international films created by, of and for the deaf and hard-of-hearing," as well as some standard Hollywood fare closed-captioned for the hearing impaired. Monday, the Festival is sponsoring a free, captioned screening of Shark Tale for CPS students. "For many children, this is their first time understanding and enjoying a new movie, or even being in a movie theater!" Tickets are $8-$15.

• It's not too early to start thinking about holiday cards…eee, did we just out ourselves as old-school manners freaks? Meh, what's done is done. We're most definitely hitting the Paper Source warehouse sale this weekend, if only because every time we're in that store all we can think is, "I kinda wish this were cheaper." The sale is tomorrow, from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. at 328 South Jefferson Avenue. The sale is cash only, but expect big discounts on stuff that's off season, discontinued items, items out of their packaging—when we called the warehouse, they said most of the goods are in excellent condition, but the selection is "totally random."

• Two of our favorite quotes from this week:
"…an idea so naïve and porous that sophomores everywhere would sue you for defamation if you called it sophomoric." Zing for Eric Zorn!
"Tuesday, the Sun-Times' Fran Spielman asked the mayor, 'What are characters like [John "Quarters" Boyle, who was just indicted in connection with the Hired Truck scandal] doing on the city payroll?'
The mayor retorted, 'Look at the characters you have [at the Sun-Times], you have characters.'" Burn by Mayor Daley! Well, sort of? Like, yes, that's a funny one-liner from Daley, but uh…that's not really the point.