They live the reality of constantly denying human nature (it’s a tremendous amount of work they’ve taken on!), ’cause ol’ nature, the bitch, just keeps on coming and won’t go away.
Yeah, I can see where heterosexual marriage > forced female circumcision by a male dominated society.
Of course, if, as I suspect, Deveny prefers women, then she’ll be able to avoid circumcision through the death sentence she will receive at the hands of the masters of the Berqua.
Bob, what is it with people like Deveny who choose to ignore the threat of an ideology that has no compunction against indiscriminate killing, let alone what Islamics do to groups they single out?
Blake, perhaps it is because they have fully embraced a way of thinking, an Ideology, that is a product of Fantasy, so her mind has been trained to ignore Reality.
It’s a form of Hubris, really.
And, sure as the turning of the Earth, Nemesis is waiting to pounce.
– When you know going in your side has not a shred of credibility or any way to compete in the arena of ideas the only out left to you is to change all the rules, redefine as many of the languages words as necessary, and manufacture your own reality, replete with artificial everything and a gushing Narrative that is more of a fairy tale than snow white or Cinderella.
– Think of it as the ugly, clumsy little ogre of a kid who nobody wants on their team, so he threatens to take his ball and go home. That’s who they are, that’s what they do, in the oft-repeated words of a noted blogger.
– But like all fairy tales eventually truth and common sense over runs the idiocy and fantasy. That’s what you see happening now after their glorious 6+ year movement which has alienated almost everyone, including their own moron gaggle.
…..In other news….
– Where the hell has this been in the main stream media. Is Kerry paying journalists paychecks directly now?
– Two paper bagger fer sure, just like Mandy. You need a second one for emergencies ib case hers falls off.
– These morons are just now figuring out they’ve been whoring for Obama for over 6 years. Brilliant. And then people wonder why they can’t get the news these days.
– Of course some whores are more grateful than others. If they even run this on HuffNPoop the lede will be:
“Out of the mainstream press sour grapes as usual.”
– So now the vote for Independence in Scotland is being looked at from a man versus woman view point, at least listening to this link for a live radio accounting of the voting and various activities as it and they occurs.
– Another interesting observation, also unexpected:
The rise of Catalan would-be secessionists in Spain, the rise of parties of the far right in European countries as diverse as Greece and Sweden, and the Tea Party in the United States are all rooted in a sense that, having been granted vast control over the levers of power, the political elite across the advanced world have made a mess of things.
– Locals are reporting that 95% of the vote is in. Some of the early returns are showing a clear lead for the “no’s” vote.
>all rooted in a sense that, having been granted vast control over the levers of power, the political elite across the advanced world have made a mess of things. >
Here is the thinking such as it is: examples one and two.
They find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. With the English they can’t vote in a complete worker’s paradise. Without the English they’d actually have to find the funds for it.
A vote no shouldn’t necessarily be read as a conservative vote. A great percentage of those no votes are also voting for the greatest possible welfare state that they consider to be possible.
Not sure that I like my usage of “conservative” in that last paragraph. There’s probably a far better local term that properly applies but I’m wholly ignorant of it.
I find the Scots interesting here in any number of ways.
A bloodless balkanization? Interesting. That doesn’t happen very often. It’s a very post-empire sort of thing. (In both the historical and Brett Easton Ellis senses.)
Scotland playing the role of our own currently blue Rust Belt? Interesting. Ohio could go this way completely. Indiana now seems on a completely different path. Wisconsin is up in the air.
Regardless of anything actually worthwhile, I’m a bit a of an anglophile (most former colonialists are) and things like this make it interesting to consider whether or not that has much to do with the Scottish, Northern Irish, or Welsh.
I’ve always found it effective to come up with a cash proposal that consolidates everything so that it’s just a number that needs to be agree upon rather than the little details that snag with different decision makers and so make it hard to close a deal.
People can say yes to $5k far easier than they can get over the fact that they themselves didn’t receive random hiring perks they’re signing off on now even if those little allowances and perks came in at a far lower combined price than the lump sum agreement.
The details are what hang these negotiations up. Make it a one sentence close that you can just shake hands on.
yeah we did that today and then after I agreed on salary I gave them a couple things to work on that aren’t deal-breakers
a lil help on moving and vacation time
the vacation time is important cause i need to be close to having the time I need to hike the john muir someday… but HR departments tend to work with you on things like that
mostly i’m just so glad to maybe have a ticket out of here
Without the English they’d actually have to find the funds for it.
I was told by a friend when I said the same that the Northsea oil wells would fall into Scottish possession. I don’t know that for a fact but that would bring in some funds, OPM so to speak, to spread around if true.
Don’t know how much shit you have collected over the years but I was recently on the other end of this and agreed to $17k lump sum. Covered all relocation.
He ended up going with Mayflower into storage pods, furnished condo for the family until closing on the house and then movers into the house. That was from Oklahoma to the middle of nowhere in northern Wisco.
As a principal though, I gotta tell you, this vacation time thing could queer the deal for me.
I’d say to myself, “He doesn’t even work here and he’s already worried about time off.” Then I’d pace around a little and think of a reason to say no.
Not saying this isn’t something you should go for but it would put “screw him” thoughts into my head if I was having a bad day for some reason or another. Dicey.
Maybe your field is different. Time off seems like a partner level demand to me though.
The psychology is problematic. It’s hard to argue that you’re so important and valuable as a possible employee that your attendance isn’t even required. If you’re valuable, you’re valuable.
If you negotiate for partner level hours then you need partner levels of personal clients who will come with you to the new firm.
Again, just my opinion but that could be a red flag.
– I could never go for a re-up with a company I’d already done, even at the end of my career just before I retired when the courting was sincere and intensely pleasing. The point being that if there was a reason to go back there most probably was no reason to leave in the first place, and after a 50+ year run with only a few years of probable employment left in the tank, perks lose a lot of their glitter.
i downsized my role where I am to where mostly I’ve spent this whole year hiking and learning to cook
right now i mostly just sit in on conference calls, write proposals, do blog posts, tweeters, presentations and proofings of stuff
but I know everyone in Chicago at the new place
most of them even like me
I think I wanna get a realtor to nail down a place for me long distance so I can do the road trip thing, stash the car in Minnesota at my lil brudder’s, then fly to Chicago from Minn.
the road trip thing is so important for my soul
it’s sorta my thing
Lincoln Park isn’t my thing really
I’m thinking Logan Square for renting – hopefully on the cheap since I’m not bringing a lot of stuff and the only valuable stuff I’m bringing I’m gonna take to Sotheby’s there as soon as i can
then I save save save like a squirrel to buy a place
if I get a mortgage it would be just cause I never had one
I’m probably laboring under the false assumption that you need to put on a good spread for partners or clients at your house or at clubs you join.
You don’t schmooze people in marketing?
I didn’t go to the Plaza because I liked the food. I did it to “accidentally” mention a commodity pool to people with money. I didn’t rent a house because I used more than the bathroom, bedroom and kitchen. (Okay, the dogs used the yard for shitting.) I did it because you had to have coworkers and clients over for a party every few months to show I was a solid and non-flaky individual.
Isn’t this a thing with your profession? It seems like this should be a thing in marketing.
If this isn’t a thing then you should definitely live in Albany Park.
Cheapest rent. You can live a block from the Brown Line. Best variety of food within the walk home. About five minutes from the interstate. It’s a really, really great place to live. As you’re outta LA then the things that might bug other people will remind you of home in a very pleasant way. I’m guessing.
in the new job I’m wholly outside the sales umbrella
maybe in chicago I’ll find a need to impress people, but that would be odd cause I’m more in product development going forward
but in LA you mostly just went to lunch or for dinner you took them to nice restaurants relatively near their hotel or house and got them back home safe
– Glasco just voted yes by a very large margin with the vote count greater than 350,000 something like 195,000 went for yes. This thing isn’t nearly over yet.
Mr. R. A. Dickey did a nice thing for Mr. Derek Jeter this evening, giving him his retirement present during the game by serving him up a sweet fat cookie so’s Mr. Jeter could leave Yankee Stadium with at least the one home run to his name this season. Who says knucklballer’s are weird?
Yep, right to the Loop and it takes a rather picturesque path in. You’ll see the bridges on the river at one point. You’ll see Walter Payton High. Best of all, you get on early enough that you’ll get a seat most days right off the bat and can sit down and flip open your laptop.
Yeah, the train is nice if you ask me. I always used it as an opportunity to read a book or catch up on work if I could get a seat (which you won’t for most of the trip home, you’ll be standing up for half that ride everyday). The way to think about it is how you don’t have to think about traffic or pay for parking. If you use the time to read a book or catch up on paperwork or just have a pleasant daydream then you’re ahead of the game.
You’ll get this immediately. In Chicago, everyone takes the train.
When I was in Albany Park I did my shopping on the walk home. Bread was from a Greek bakery. Meat was from a carniceria. Produce was from a verdi… something.
Got sweets from a Lebanese place. Got chicken shawarma and tea from the joint across the street.
Got Colombian meat stew two blocks east.
Got corn on the cob and tamales on the corner.
But, yeah, you do occasionally go off to the near suburbs to stock up on toilet paper and canned goods. For this you buy a car, your roommate has a car, your girl has a car, or your buddy is taking a trip and then you buy in bulk.
Yeah, I now realize those aren’t the nearby ones. They were the ones I was thinking about though for some reason. Childhoods are confusing geographically.
When you run down that dune at full kid speed you can flip yourself forward and the slope of the dune lets you fly for a half second and do a couple front flips before you land safely and slide for a few yards. Then you can do it again.
I have no idea why ma didn’t want to burn off 20 or 30 thousand calories doing this for a couple hours on a hot day.
Remember back when no one carried water? Like, no one did. If you did it’d be in a canteen maybe. You’d wrap cans of soda in tin foil back then for some reason.
Did that on field trips too. A sandwich in wax paper and a can of soda in tin foil. That’s how you knew you were going off to have some fun.
sammich in wax paper i get kind of, but I always thought that was more of a europe thing (scandi, specifically, for some reason)
the tinfoil soda can thing is awesomely exotic though
i guess maybe when you grow up in the south south south where the heat’s just so oppressive so much of the time, you just don’t think of tinfoil having any function with respect to the coke cans
No idea with the tin foil with soda/pop/coke but I do remember when we went to the Milwaukee County Zoo it wasn’t just my ma who did it. It was standard. Didn’t seem to work in our zone either but we all had tin foil wrapped soda cans in our brown paper bags when we went back to the bus at lunch.
Okay, here‘s our last Gremlin song. Unless I link another.
The can sweating theory is pretty solid but I don’t know really.
If I had to guess I think it was probably a matter of them just being used to wrapping stuff up and tin foil made sense because there was a thermal aspect involved. No idea though.
Here is another Blondie song that we probably all heard in Gremlins.
if there was a thermal thing going on maybe the tin foil was meant for so the cold pop could help keep the sammich cooler longer
That’s smart. Okay, the soda is the cooling element for the sandwhich and the tin foil keeps the condensate off the sandwich. That’s gotta be it, I figure.
Was all late 70s music that you’d pick up on AM radio depressing as all hell? It really wasn’t easy listening or anything like that. It was just depressing.
This is the very archetype of what you’re always hearing in a Gremlin.
charlie pride and the oakridge boys and cap’n and tennille and maybe olivia newton john but back when she was country plus the soundtrack to Jesus Christ Superstar and mac davis and that Barbra Streisand Evergreen song and Diana Ross solo stuff and um
What I notice most now when I watch these early 80s videos is how coked out they all must have been. They’re like really coked out. Superlatively coked out.
Awhile back JD linked the Welcome to the Boomtown song and pointed out how that one dude was obviously coked out of his mind and I’ve never been able to not laugh about it since.
Just cracks me up.
Hope that coked out dude is okay but he’s probably not. Probably not even a little.
We would talk through the night about what we would do
If we just could get started – I would choreograph
Eileen she would act while Steve was a writer
Then Stevie ran away and get bored
Eileen took a job in a store
Me, I became this drunken old whore
Cause you see we’d be swallowed by the cracks
Fallen so far down
Like the rest of those clowns begging bus fare back
A vote no shouldn’t necessarily be read as a conservative vote. A great percentage of those no votes are also voting for the greatest possible welfare state that they consider to be possible.
bh, it is the exact inverse. I offer this as an illustration, not dispositive proof:
Bringing my eldest and his room mate back from college in Perth last week, there was not one single ‘Yes’ poster from my west coast village to Perth. This is a very conservative with a small ‘c’ country, especially in the sticks where there isn’t a plurality of the population dependent on welfare.
The main support for ‘Yes’ was in Glasgow and Dundee. It is no secret that the ‘Yes’ campaign was an attempt to thrust socialism on Scotland which couldn’t be delivered from Westminster. Nationwide, every election around 400,000 vote Conservative in Scotland. These votes may be lost in a constituency first past the post election, but in a national referendum, vital.
I’m wondering if I might ask you to write up an on-the-ground report for a brief little post for our edification so that I might then post it here with attribution?
I understand that this might be a pain in the ass. But, you’re local to these events and well-spoken so…
Not saying this isn’t something you should go for but it would put “screw him” thoughts into my head if I was having a bad day for some reason or another. Dicey.
Lake Michigan is fresh water, feets, and the dunes start in Indiana.
There is a nice quiet beach with small dunes at Zion State Park. Which is north of Chicago near the Wisconsin boarder.
bh has lived there more recently than I have so he knows the cool places to live and shop.
I lived and worked there when Ukrainian village was a four square blocks with a watcher posted on each corner to monitor who wandered in and out of neighborhood. Now it’s nice and safe and filled with Ukrainians who are nice and friendly people.
You might want to keep your car if the place you live has parking. It is a pretty reasonable place to get around in by car. There are only a handful of streets that go off at angles. Everything else is laid out in a grid and the numbers all almost universally consecutive so it’s hard to get lost.
Get all the touristy stuff out of the way because people you know will ask you if you’ve been to……insert the name of a local attraction here…….
And don’t forget to invite bh and me to your house warming.
I’ll bring a plant.
Including the story of T.E. Lawrence’s promises to the Arab world that England and France went ahead and broke, and of course, how Woodrow Wilson ::spit:: figures in.
As usual, I’m stunned by how much Plain History we aren’t taught, either in school or just as part of Common Knowledge.
And now it all makes sense: they want the Ottoman Empire back.
If you decide to swim in Lake Michigan it is better if the wind is blowing toward shore pushing the warm surface water into the shallows, unless you like brisk. If so then Superior is the way to go for brisk all the time.
Funny how she takes to Twitter, rather than directly to those individuals who advocate for a return to treating women as if it were the 7th Century.
Truth to Power, indeed.
Just another Narcissist, Shermlaw.
Perhaps our biggest problem, here in The [former] United States Of America is Narcissism?
…she said, with her eyes screwed tightly shut and her fingers pressed firmly in her ears.
For starters, how does heterosexual marriage oppress women? I mean, last I checked they were consenting partners in the union…
And really, more so than the Burqua? I wonder sometimes what reality these folks are living…
I wonder sometimes what reality these folks are living…
The one located inside the funhouse mirror, fellow Bob.
They live the reality of constantly denying human nature (it’s a tremendous amount of work they’ve taken on!), ’cause ol’ nature, the bitch, just keeps on coming and won’t go away.
@Bob Reed
R. Stacy McCain’s Sex Trouble series explains the Feminist Metaphysics regarding heterosexual marriage quite well. It’s definitely worth your time.
Yeah, I can see where heterosexual marriage > forced female circumcision by a male dominated society.
Of course, if, as I suspect, Deveny prefers women, then she’ll be able to avoid circumcision through the death sentence she will receive at the hands of the masters of the Berqua.
That’s the funny thing, Blake, her kind will be the first to be stoned or have walls collapsed on them.
The Ideologues always purge their own house first upon gaining Power And Control.
She thinks the burqa is just cosplay, like when she wears flannel shirts and work boots.
I got through about 10 tweets on her page, and came to the conclusion that she’d just as batshit insane as our friend Mandy.
What an out-and-out, certifiable loon.
People like Deveny are weak-minded ideologues with too much time on their hands.
Unfortunately, there are enough such people to create problems for the rest of us.
Bob, what is it with people like Deveny who choose to ignore the threat of an ideology that has no compunction against indiscriminate killing, let alone what Islamics do to groups they single out?
She’s one hundred percent correct.
She does regard marriage as a bigger problem than a huge death cult.
“She saaaaaid, I’d like to know what it’s like to be dead…”
From the waist on down, as it were.
Blake, perhaps it is because they have fully embraced a way of thinking, an Ideology, that is a product of Fantasy, so her mind has been trained to ignore Reality.
It’s a form of Hubris, really.
And, sure as the turning of the Earth, Nemesis is waiting to pounce.
Copybook Heading powers, activate!
– When you know going in your side has not a shred of credibility or any way to compete in the arena of ideas the only out left to you is to change all the rules, redefine as many of the languages words as necessary, and manufacture your own reality, replete with artificial everything and a gushing Narrative that is more of a fairy tale than snow white or Cinderella.
– Think of it as the ugly, clumsy little ogre of a kid who nobody wants on their team, so he threatens to take his ball and go home. That’s who they are, that’s what they do, in the oft-repeated words of a noted blogger.
– But like all fairy tales eventually truth and common sense over runs the idiocy and fantasy. That’s what you see happening now after their glorious 6+ year movement which has alienated almost everyone, including their own moron gaggle.
…..In other news….
– Where the hell has this been in the main stream media. Is Kerry paying journalists paychecks directly now?
she seems like a very ordinary confederate of that weirdo genre of narcissistic mentally-diseased losers like Marion Zimmer Bradley
they’re twitter’s bread n butter anymore
this hoochie reminds me of another piece of narcissistic shit named David Sedaris
he’s a sleazy National Soros Radio whore
i learned this story just recently
Another fugly heard from, yee-ha!
From her? Twitter she likes “People are Cunts”. How sweet. Being an Aussie, can she get at least this right, that People are Right cunts.
Recommended head gear for Catherine? Paper bag or burka?
– Two paper bagger fer sure, just like Mandy. You need a second one for emergencies ib case hers falls off.
– These morons are just now figuring out they’ve been whoring for Obama for over 6 years. Brilliant. And then people wonder why they can’t get the news these days.
– Of course some whores are more grateful than others. If they even run this on HuffNPoop the lede will be:
“Out of the mainstream press sour grapes as usual.”
– So now the vote for Independence in Scotland is being looked at from a man versus woman view point, at least listening to this link for a live radio accounting of the voting and various activities as it and they occurs.
– Another interesting observation, also unexpected:
The rise of Catalan would-be secessionists in Spain, the rise of parties of the far right in European countries as diverse as Greece and Sweden, and the Tea Party in the United States are all rooted in a sense that, having been granted vast control over the levers of power, the political elite across the advanced world have made a mess of things.
– Locals are reporting that 95% of the vote is in. Some of the early returns are showing a clear lead for the “no’s” vote.
– A fire alarm caused the complete evacuation at the Dundee polling station just as the vote count for that region was about to be announced. *Blimey*
– The final vote is expected around breakfast time in Scotland this morning, but so far no’s seem to have a slim lead.
>all rooted in a sense that, having been granted vast control over the levers of power, the political elite across the advanced world have made a mess of things. >
ruining class ™
– Here at home another mass shooting in Bell Florida.
– There was a live news conference a few minutes ago at which the local sheriff said pretty much nothing.
no matter which way they vote all those poor people will still be scottish
wtf they think is gonna change?
maybe if they all voted yes U2 would let them have their new cd for free
but that’s about all i can think of
>but that’s about all i can think of<
the scots want their own special proggtardia
be real they’re too stupid to have any real actual clue about what they want
SO FAR:
NO 58%
YES 42%
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And they think the reason it isn’t already working to their satisfaction is because of all those sassenach Thatcherites south of the Borders.
they make tasty eggs
and that’s just going to have to be enough
Here is the thinking such as it is: examples one and two.
They find themselves on the horns of a dilemma. With the English they can’t vote in a complete worker’s paradise. Without the English they’d actually have to find the funds for it.
A vote no shouldn’t necessarily be read as a conservative vote. A great percentage of those no votes are also voting for the greatest possible welfare state that they consider to be possible.
these people are poor dismal trashy and fundamentally irrelevant Mr. bh
they’re scottish you see
in a slow news week, this is what being scottish looks like
and now that we know
we never have to participate in their internal melodramas ever again
Spot-on, BH.
I was hoping ‘Yes’ would win so England would stand a chance.
Not sure that I like my usage of “conservative” in that last paragraph. There’s probably a far better local term that properly applies but I’m wholly ignorant of it.
I’ve been hoping for the same by the same reasoning myself, Bob.
this idea that the desultory citizens of failmerica have some sort of vested interest in scottish dependence or independence
it does not amuse us
I find the Scots interesting here in any number of ways.
A bloodless balkanization? Interesting. That doesn’t happen very often. It’s a very post-empire sort of thing. (In both the historical and Brett Easton Ellis senses.)
Scotland playing the role of our own currently blue Rust Belt? Interesting. Ohio could go this way completely. Indiana now seems on a completely different path. Wisconsin is up in the air.
Regardless of anything actually worthwhile, I’m a bit a of an anglophile (most former colonialists are) and things like this make it interesting to consider whether or not that has much to do with the Scottish, Northern Irish, or Welsh.
Ohio and Indiana are both all up into medicare expansion. There’s no get rid of them now.
Pence Kasich
Kasich Pence
america is just smelling its own farts anymore
SO FAR:
NO 59%
YES 41%
slow and steady proggtardia winning
oops i meant medicaid
oh my goodness
*getting* rid of them i mean
i’m distractered i think cause i just got off phone with that potential new job in midwest
they’re gonna get back to me with a start date, which i take to be a good sign, but you know how these things can go
plus they haven’t committed to helping me with move
which isn’t a deal-breaker
I’m just in no mood for all that work
I’m thinking if it comes to it I’ll have movers get all my stuff into storage in Arizona and start fresh in Chicago
if you look at a map on google
Los Angeles, which is in the “west,” and Chicago, which is in the “mid-west”
they’re actually not particularly adjacent
I’d rather just nail down an apartment by phone, stash my crap and enjoy a road trip
I think I’m gonna aim to mostly check the Nevada, Utah and Nebraska boxes, depending on how much time I have
I was thinking Yellowstone but I’d rather have that be more open-ended than it could be on this trip
I’ve always found it effective to come up with a cash proposal that consolidates everything so that it’s just a number that needs to be agree upon rather than the little details that snag with different decision makers and so make it hard to close a deal.
People can say yes to $5k far easier than they can get over the fact that they themselves didn’t receive random hiring perks they’re signing off on now even if those little allowances and perks came in at a far lower combined price than the lump sum agreement.
The details are what hang these negotiations up. Make it a one sentence close that you can just shake hands on.
>just shake hands on.<
moar "white priviledge"
yeah we did that today and then after I agreed on salary I gave them a couple things to work on that aren’t deal-breakers
a lil help on moving and vacation time
the vacation time is important cause i need to be close to having the time I need to hike the john muir someday… but HR departments tend to work with you on things like that
mostly i’m just so glad to maybe have a ticket out of here
keep your fingers crossed
I was told by a friend when I said the same that the Northsea oil wells would fall into Scottish possession. I don’t know that for a fact but that would bring in some funds, OPM so to speak, to spread around if true.
they could always sell those tasty eggs for like 2 maybe 3 bucks each
I’m good for a half-dozen
From a warm Peoples Democratic [Party] paradise to a much colder one. Welcome to the Midwest, where at least there is no shortage of water.
just remember bag pipes music are also involved with this vote
Don’t know how much shit you have collected over the years but I was recently on the other end of this and agreed to $17k lump sum. Covered all relocation.
He ended up going with Mayflower into storage pods, furnished condo for the family until closing on the house and then movers into the house. That was from Oklahoma to the middle of nowhere in northern Wisco.
As a principal though, I gotta tell you, this vacation time thing could queer the deal for me.
I’d say to myself, “He doesn’t even work here and he’s already worried about time off.” Then I’d pace around a little and think of a reason to say no.
Not saying this isn’t something you should go for but it would put “screw him” thoughts into my head if I was having a bad day for some reason or another. Dicey.
omg nonono
$17K????
no I do not have lots of stuff cause I never lived in more than a 1-bedroom
and the couch is going to the curb cause even though it’s nice it has bad couch juju
I can stash stuff in Arizona and make one trip back for art/kitchen stuff early next year
i’m not sure what happens to oils in a storage shed in Arizona, but they should be fine for one winter
oh
the vacation thing I’m safe on
this is my old co, so I just want to start with the vacation I left with, which is more than generous to where if they lopped some off I’d be happy
they know me
I left with a full sick bank
50 days
that was max
Maybe your field is different. Time off seems like a partner level demand to me though.
The psychology is problematic. It’s hard to argue that you’re so important and valuable as a possible employee that your attendance isn’t even required. If you’re valuable, you’re valuable.
If you negotiate for partner level hours then you need partner levels of personal clients who will come with you to the new firm.
Again, just my opinion but that could be a red flag.
Ohhh, forget what I was saying.
If you’re moving internally then this is a different thing than I was thinking.
i have boatloads of expertise that’s not a worry
i left with 19 days of vacation
so if they come back with 15 that’s good cause you still get holidays and sick days and personal days and summer days
i think though what you’re pointing out is that this company spoiled me for the real world so this is like crawling back into the womb
this is that place I worked for almost 10 years what had the 35-hr work week
>SO FAR:
NO 50.91%
YES 49.09%<
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ot
The 100-Year-Old Agreement You Need to Know About to Understand What’s Driving the Islamic State
As you’re moving in-house, do you know people in the Chicago office then?
Book a cheap Southwest flight for tomorrow and buy the locals a drink or six under the guise of looking around for an apartment in Lincoln Park.
– I could never go for a re-up with a company I’d already done, even at the end of my career just before I retired when the courting was sincere and intensely pleasing. The point being that if there was a reason to go back there most probably was no reason to leave in the first place, and after a 50+ year run with only a few years of probable employment left in the tank, perks lose a lot of their glitter.
Scotland has lots of hills that’s the only reason they can pull off running around in those kilt thingies you know
it’s hard to find a more better illustration of the nexus of geography and fashion really
the cowboy hat is another good one
Shit, I could still get you into the Plaza Club. Half of them probably haven’t even been there yet.
SO FAR:
NO 50.95%
YES 49.05%
hmmm
not in-house exactly
i downsized my role where I am to where mostly I’ve spent this whole year hiking and learning to cook
right now i mostly just sit in on conference calls, write proposals, do blog posts, tweeters, presentations and proofings of stuff
but I know everyone in Chicago at the new place
most of them even like me
I think I wanna get a realtor to nail down a place for me long distance so I can do the road trip thing, stash the car in Minnesota at my lil brudder’s, then fly to Chicago from Minn.
the road trip thing is so important for my soul
it’s sorta my thing
Lincoln Park isn’t my thing really
I’m thinking Logan Square for renting – hopefully on the cheap since I’m not bringing a lot of stuff and the only valuable stuff I’m bringing I’m gonna take to Sotheby’s there as soon as i can
then I save save save like a squirrel to buy a place
if I get a mortgage it would be just cause I never had one
debt makes me crazy
even “good debt”
it just feels like scabies to me
i never been to the Plaza Club
this is/was #1 on my chicago bucket list but I’m confuzzled if it even exists anymore
now it’s all branded “Next”
That cracks me up. We all bought shit in Bucktown and Wicker Park back in the day for investments.
A decade ago we gentrified all these areas for you.
You’re welcome.
oh wait now i get it
i think last time i went to that website i landed on a sub-site that was confuzzling and I couldn’t find the alinea menu
My understanding is that Next is the reservation you want anyways.
i do not know these places but thank you very much
chicago real estate for the most part is realistic and I love that
if you pay for something nice you get something nice
i have a lot of appreciation for that
it’s not like that here
I don’t anymore either really. It’s probably been a year and a half now since I had to spend money on a client in Chicago.
Compared to the coasts Chicago is a dream. It really is.
I used to regularly rent a house in safe (-ish) neighborhoods for less than a shoebox would cost anywhere else.
it’d be silly for me not to at least try to go the shoebox route for the first two years or so
i’m so excited already a spacious apartment with nice countertops isn’t gonna move the dial
I’m probably laboring under the false assumption that you need to put on a good spread for partners or clients at your house or at clubs you join.
You don’t schmooze people in marketing?
I didn’t go to the Plaza because I liked the food. I did it to “accidentally” mention a commodity pool to people with money. I didn’t rent a house because I used more than the bathroom, bedroom and kitchen. (Okay, the dogs used the yard for shitting.) I did it because you had to have coworkers and clients over for a party every few months to show I was a solid and non-flaky individual.
Isn’t this a thing with your profession? It seems like this should be a thing in marketing.
If this isn’t a thing then you should definitely live in Albany Park.
Cheapest rent. You can live a block from the Brown Line. Best variety of food within the walk home. About five minutes from the interstate. It’s a really, really great place to live. As you’re outta LA then the things that might bug other people will remind you of home in a very pleasant way. I’m guessing.
that was the old job
in the new job I’m wholly outside the sales umbrella
maybe in chicago I’ll find a need to impress people, but that would be odd cause I’m more in product development going forward
but in LA you mostly just went to lunch or for dinner you took them to nice restaurants relatively near their hotel or house and got them back home safe
thank you thank you i am bookmarking that comment
I’m all about walkability
– Glasco just voted yes by a very large margin with the vote count greater than 350,000 something like 195,000 went for yes. This thing isn’t nearly over yet.
oh cool that’s right next to Lincoln Square
and this Brown Line goes to Michigan Ave?
Mr. R. A. Dickey did a nice thing for Mr. Derek Jeter this evening, giving him his retirement present during the game by serving him up a sweet fat cookie so’s Mr. Jeter could leave Yankee Stadium with at least the one home run to his name this season. Who says knucklballer’s are weird?
Yep, right to the Loop and it takes a rather picturesque path in. You’ll see the bridges on the river at one point. You’ll see Walter Payton High. Best of all, you get on early enough that you’ll get a seat most days right off the bat and can sit down and flip open your laptop.
no laptop just the kindle I hope
am I retarded?
I’m hoping doing the commute/public transportation thing, you get to catch up on your reading
weirdly, I’ve never had a commute before
and public transportation in L.A. is mostly a novelty
“I took the subway this week”
Yeah, the train is nice if you ask me. I always used it as an opportunity to read a book or catch up on work if I could get a seat (which you won’t for most of the trip home, you’ll be standing up for half that ride everyday). The way to think about it is how you don’t have to think about traffic or pay for parking. If you use the time to read a book or catch up on paperwork or just have a pleasant daydream then you’re ahead of the game.
You’ll get this immediately. In Chicago, everyone takes the train.
oh my goodness that rent is less than where i was looking
once i make peace with giving up car I should be set thank you
how the hell you live without a car god will explain I’m sure
i’m so excited
cross your fingers this happens
i don’t even need to sit down on the whatever
just tell me what color ballcaps not to wear
If you’re a northsider then mainly just don’t get on the Green Line by accident. Don’t take the Red Line south.
You’ll pick it up in all of about two weeks.
ok i find it all a bit daunting though to be honest
my biggest criteria for an apartment outside of the usual is it has to be somewhere amazon prime can deliver
cause how on earth do you shop without a car
I’m a Walmart kinda pikachu
we shop once a year for the basics you know i mean
When I was in Albany Park I did my shopping on the walk home. Bread was from a Greek bakery. Meat was from a carniceria. Produce was from a verdi… something.
Got sweets from a Lebanese place. Got chicken shawarma and tea from the joint across the street.
Got Colombian meat stew two blocks east.
Got corn on the cob and tamales on the corner.
But, yeah, you do occasionally go off to the near suburbs to stock up on toilet paper and canned goods. For this you buy a car, your roommate has a car, your girl has a car, or your buddy is taking a trip and then you buy in bulk.
It’s not a tough thing though. When I lived in the far Belmont area in barrio hipsterville there was a Costco all of about six blocks west.
ok that’s normal enough
ok no it’s really different
but that’s fine
I’m gritty
I’m urban
Yeah, it’ll be normal for you so quickly that you’ll soon wish it was weirder and more exotic.
For a time everyone I knew did these sorts of chores so high that we mainly focused on “dude, act cool”.
oh.
plus there’s no hills
no hills at all
there’s no goddamn hills
how can there not be hills
Three mile deep glaciers
they made them great lakes thingies yes?
there are dunes on the far side you know
I’m so excited
plus I’ll get to live in America again
but anyway we have to keep fingers crossed til i get the letter
Scraped the tops flat and then melted and made the valleys all filled with water and dropped all the topsoil just to the south.
I always did think of Michigan as the “Far Side.”
well when I get there we can start working on this lack of hills problem
they really do add value you know
There’re some sand dunes around there but that’s about it.
the dunes I’m thinking of are in michigan
like these ones
i get stupid excited about things like that
These‘re the ones I’m thinking about.
Yeah, I now realize those aren’t the nearby ones. They were the ones I was thinking about though for some reason. Childhoods are confusing geographically.
You never drive and fall asleep all the time.
those are beautiful
lots of people there huh
maybe not so much in autumn
I love to travel in autumn
hah
except that so could’ve been me
glad i read that
Climb the one at Warren first.
from the pics the warren sand looks squishier
here is more better signage i think
i’m dying to do the climb up now
at least on a cool day with a pack
on a cool day with a pack there’s not a lot a pikachu can’t do
as long as it’s not super-difficult
When you run down that dune at full kid speed you can flip yourself forward and the slope of the dune lets you fly for a half second and do a couple front flips before you land safely and slide for a few yards. Then you can do it again.
I have no idea why ma didn’t want to burn off 20 or 30 thousand calories doing this for a couple hours on a hot day.
with a pack plus a health splatch of the obamacare there’s no dune what can’t be conquered
we’re americans dammit
pro-tip: if you pre-exhaust your calves hiking on mid-west flatness can actually be quite grueling
Remember back when no one carried water? Like, no one did. If you did it’d be in a canteen maybe. You’d wrap cans of soda in tin foil back then for some reason.
Did that on field trips too. A sandwich in wax paper and a can of soda in tin foil. That’s how you knew you were going off to have some fun.
This is back when you’d listen to Ray Stevens cassettes in Gremlins.
It’s the long, long ago.
*
Here‘s another song you might hear on a road trip in a Gremlin.
sammich in wax paper i get kind of, but I always thought that was more of a europe thing (scandi, specifically, for some reason)
the tinfoil soda can thing is awesomely exotic though
i guess maybe when you grow up in the south south south where the heat’s just so oppressive so much of the time, you just don’t think of tinfoil having any function with respect to the coke cans
lol here’s the story where I read about sammiches wrapped in wax paper
it’s weird how the oddest things stay with you
No idea with the tin foil with soda/pop/coke but I do remember when we went to the Milwaukee County Zoo it wasn’t just my ma who did it. It was standard. Didn’t seem to work in our zone either but we all had tin foil wrapped soda cans in our brown paper bags when we went back to the bus at lunch.
Okay, here‘s our last Gremlin song. Unless I link another.
it must be cause otherwise the can sweats and gets the paper bag wet?
In re the wax paper we did fold up the wax paper and brown bag and reused them for probably two weeks on average.
Don’t think we ever threw away a bit of tin foil either.
Maybe that explains it.
The can sweating theory is pretty solid but I don’t know really.
If I had to guess I think it was probably a matter of them just being used to wrapping stuff up and tin foil made sense because there was a thermal aspect involved. No idea though.
if there was a thermal thing going on maybe the tin foil was meant for so the cold pop could help keep the sammich cooler longer
I’m certain this is something terribly clever for some reason
Here is another Blondie song that we probably all heard in Gremlins.
That’s smart. Okay, the soda is the cooling element for the sandwhich and the tin foil keeps the condensate off the sandwich. That’s gotta be it, I figure.
that heart of glass video looks amazing for the age of it
when i grow up i wanna be cool like debbie harry
Let’s figure out a new question then.
Was all late 70s music that you’d pick up on AM radio depressing as all hell? It really wasn’t easy listening or anything like that. It was just depressing.
This is the very archetype of what you’re always hearing in a Gremlin.
I’d like to grow up cool like Siouxsie.
70s are tuff for me
i was very protected as a young lil pika
charlie pride and the oakridge boys and cap’n and tennille and maybe olivia newton john but back when she was country plus the soundtrack to Jesus Christ Superstar and mac davis and that Barbra Streisand Evergreen song and Diana Ross solo stuff and um
we only had one radio station you know
my parents did the best they could for us
i realize that now
it was LAME
but they tried
the Carpenters are from Downey
I never asked NG if she knows that
she just moved form there
first I’d have to ask her if she knows who the Carpenters are
Prepare to have you mind blown then. Blam!
*from* there I mean
we’re having lunch next friday I will ask her and hopefully tell her we’re co-workers again at same time
one of the cool things about this new job is if i want i can come out to LA and work out of the office here from time to time
and that is just very America
cause Los Angeles is a great place to visit
but you wouldn’t want to live there
The answer is that the Carpenters are the singing people with the sad story at the end about the skinny lady.
if I remember right
that Cars guy went on to do A&R for Madonna’s label
He also dated or married some super model.
What I notice most now when I watch these early 80s videos is how coked out they all must have been. They’re like really coked out. Superlatively coked out.
yes yes she was foreign i think, as all your better supermodels are
the biggest cokehead I know anymore works for Enterprise rent-a-car
me and my lil brudder just had the realization the other day that this guy just hit the two-decade mark of enthusiastic snorting
that’s a lot of coke I said
yup said my lil brudder – that’s a shitload of coke
Awhile back JD linked the Welcome to the Boomtown song and pointed out how that one dude was obviously coked out of his mind and I’ve never been able to not laugh about it since.
Just cracks me up.
Hope that coked out dude is okay but he’s probably not. Probably not even a little.
that whole cd i loved it more than beans
it’s not in my cloud cause of it’s on my shelf i just have so so so many cds to rip
That’s just good writing.
We would talk through the night about what we would do
If we just could get started – I would choreograph
Eileen she would act while Steve was a writer
Then Stevie ran away and get bored
Eileen took a job in a store
Me, I became this drunken old whore
Cause you see we’d be swallowed by the cracks
Fallen so far down
Like the rest of those clowns begging bus fare back
Okay, one last song 80s song for the road.
Gonna buy that album.
Convinced.
I am.
that should say *got* bored
I think esl people do a lot of the transcribing I should’ve proofed better
A vote no shouldn’t necessarily be read as a conservative vote. A great percentage of those no votes are also voting for the greatest possible welfare state that they consider to be possible.
bh, it is the exact inverse. I offer this as an illustration, not dispositive proof:
Bringing my eldest and his room mate back from college in Perth last week, there was not one single ‘Yes’ poster from my west coast village to Perth. This is a very conservative with a small ‘c’ country, especially in the sticks where there isn’t a plurality of the population dependent on welfare.
The main support for ‘Yes’ was in Glasgow and Dundee. It is no secret that the ‘Yes’ campaign was an attempt to thrust socialism on Scotland which couldn’t be delivered from Westminster. Nationwide, every election around 400,000 vote Conservative in Scotland. These votes may be lost in a constituency first past the post election, but in a national referendum, vital.
Thanks for this, SW. I do appreciate it.
I’m wondering if I might ask you to write up an on-the-ground report for a brief little post for our edification so that I might then post it here with attribution?
I understand that this might be a pain in the ass. But, you’re local to these events and well-spoken so…
Truth be told I was thinking about putting up a post on this tomorrow but I’d much rather put up a guest post from someone with actual insight.
I’m entirely certain that Jeff would also invite you forward for a guest post on the topic if you might find the time.
Check your email, bh. It’s brief, but all I can manage at the moment.
Thanks, SW. Got it.
I’ll put up a post tomorrow afternoonish.
Thanks again.
Bette Davis, aye.
Wherever there are Progressive socialists, the GOTV campaigns overproduce.
Not saying this isn’t something you should go for but it would put “screw him” thoughts into my head if I was having a bad day for some reason or another. Dicey.
Yes?
Oh…
Lake Michigan is fresh water, feets, and the dunes start in Indiana.
There is a nice quiet beach with small dunes at Zion State Park. Which is north of Chicago near the Wisconsin boarder.
bh has lived there more recently than I have so he knows the cool places to live and shop.
I lived and worked there when Ukrainian village was a four square blocks with a watcher posted on each corner to monitor who wandered in and out of neighborhood. Now it’s nice and safe and filled with Ukrainians who are nice and friendly people.
You might want to keep your car if the place you live has parking. It is a pretty reasonable place to get around in by car. There are only a handful of streets that go off at angles. Everything else is laid out in a grid and the numbers all almost universally consecutive so it’s hard to get lost.
Get all the touristy stuff out of the way because people you know will ask you if you’ve been to……insert the name of a local attraction here…….
And don’t forget to invite bh and me to your house warming.
I’ll bring a plant.
Sooner or later, there will be so few men willing to get married, the feminists will be trying get a bill passed requiring ALL men to get married.
If I was a kid now, I’d pick one of my drinking buddies and get hitched. Get cheaper insurance that way.
One of the Indiana Dunes is closed because it was eating people.
Also, Michigan city is a shithole, come down south.
I gotta recommend last night’s Glenn Beck program, wherein he explains what ISIS really wants: an end to the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 100 years ago.
Including the story of T.E. Lawrence’s promises to the Arab world that England and France went ahead and broke, and of course, how Woodrow Wilson ::spit:: figures in.
As usual, I’m stunned by how much Plain History we aren’t taught, either in school or just as part of Common Knowledge.
And now it all makes sense: they want the Ottoman Empire back.
thank you! any housewarming will be many moons away I imagine
also I need to find out more about these treacherous dunes
and think more about the whole car thing
If you decide to swim in Lake Michigan it is better if the wind is blowing toward shore pushing the warm surface water into the shallows, unless you like brisk. If so then Superior is the way to go for brisk all the time.
that’s a good tip too
i love what I’ve seen of the great lakes so far but that was mostly Lake Erie and those wonderful lil towns around there
I suggest you take Mayor Richard J. Daley’s advice to Paper Lace when they suggested the city should fete them for this little ditty.
us midwesties have to stick together
Just remember that Lake Michigan is big enough to have riptides and undertows.
The best beach on the lake is Grand Haven State Park, Grand Haven MI –that’s about a 90 min drive from Chicago.
The fact that my grandmother lived in Grand Haven, has nothing to do with that assessment.
The proof is that the worse sunburn I ever got I got at the beach at Grand Haven State Park.