Granta magazine (out of England) has devoted its entire September issue to Chicago. There's a great article on the city as told by a labor attorney, which starts off with a Blagoyevich rant, proceeds through his hopes for Obama (interview was done in early March), and then ends with the city's geographical location, between the flatness of the prairie and the flat water of Lake Michigan.
Spike: Taking up smoking, are you? Harmony: I am a villain, Spike. Hello!
Spike/Harm ,'Help'
Natter 64: Yes, we still need you
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kathy A - Oct 16, 2009 11:04:32 am PDT #14080 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Dana - Oct 16, 2009 11:15:02 am PDT #14081 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
Friday afternoon at the first week of my new job, and every single one of my coworkers is out for the day.
It's awfully quiet.
smonster - Oct 16, 2009 11:16:05 am PDT #14082 of 30001
We won’t stop until everyone is gay.
It's awfully quiet.
Crank the music on your computer! Dance around!
Or, ya know, surf the web.
Calli - Oct 16, 2009 11:20:15 am PDT #14083 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Yay, Jessica! Best of luck with everything.
DebetEsse - Oct 16, 2009 11:22:09 am PDT #14084 of 30001
Woe to the fucking wicked.
A chicken for Jessica! Yay!
Tom Scola - Oct 16, 2009 11:22:39 am PDT #14085 of 30001
hwæt
WOO JESSICA!!
§ ita § - Oct 16, 2009 11:22:49 am PDT #14086 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Congrats, Jess!
P.M. Marc - Oct 16, 2009 11:23:03 am PDT #14087 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Chicken! Yay!
Lee - Oct 16, 2009 11:23:06 am PDT #14088 of 30001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.
YAY Jess!
DawnK - Oct 16, 2009 11:23:42 am PDT #14089 of 30001
giraffe mode
Congrats Jess!!!!