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Greetings and Salutations, everyone. (Who's seen "Heathers" recently? I have!) Whatcha got going on this soggy and mucky and cold and possibly fun weekend? Here's what I aim to do: Tonight: I'd like to try to hit the opening at the Kemper, which our friend Raygun installed, but Mark's sonic art show on Webster's campus is also tonight, so I'm not sure I can make it. Hey, Mark--where exactly is this place, and what time are we supposed to arrive? After, a friend is having birthday drinks at a bar around town, and I plan on toasting her. Tomorrow: homework, gym, cleaning, etc. A surprise thing for a non-Geeklifer (shh...don't tell!). Sunday: Not really sure just yet. maybe breakfast somewhere, maybe more gym, maybe lolling about with a book. Oh, yeah, and stuffing something for SUPARRRFOOOOTS! See you there! Tuesday: POLYSICS (and Glass Teeth) at the Firebird!!! Also: Laundry, and lots of it. Sheesh, but I go through clothes fast. It's only been, like, weeks since I've done some serious laundering,...
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Is it just me, or are the weeks flying by at an alarming pace? I swear it was just New Year's, and now a whole new month is already upon us. Anyway, I'm looking forward to February and all the delights that it holds. Groundhog's Day, Superfoot, Valentine's Day (or anti-Valentine's Day, if that's more your style), and my birthday. Mark your calendars now, people. February 26th is reserved for FUN. But I'm getting ahead of myself. What shall we do with these last, few precious days of the palindromic 01/10? Tonight: I'm up for dinner. I'm thinking El Paisano might be a good fit. It's the Mexican restaurant near the corner of Watson and Fyler. We've been in a bit of a restaurant rut, and this is slightly off our beaten path. They promise they will "Take Your Taste Buds on an Unforgettable Journey" and they serve jalapeno poppers, so I think that's a win-win right there. Saturday: Bug & I are going to a very dorky baseball lunch at Mike Shannon's. I believe there will be lots of obscure...
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Seems like there's lots going on this weekend. So much stuff, in fact, I can't remember it all. I will do my best.... Tonight: How do you all feel about La Tropicana for dinner? Sure, they don't have their patio open because of the freezing cold and all, but they have expanded the seating area indoors. Just think Coronas, empanadas, margaritas, fried plantains and tres leches cake. So delicious. Doesn't' that sound good? Also it is right down the street from my house where I will be assembling records till the absolute last minute. Because I'm DJing tonight. At the Royale. With maybe a special guest DJ. And records. So you should come check that out. Tomorrow: After getting my hairs cut, I will probably lounge around the house till evening when maybe I will eat some food with some people and then head to the Crack Fox to hear Mark early play some records with some other people I know. Do you remember Monday nights at the Upstairs Lounge and penny pitchers of PBR? It's those people. Fun...
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Well, the snow melted. Don't get me wrong, I'm thrilled to pieces, but now it's all about a big, sucking mire outside (sucking as in 'sucks-your-shoes-off', not 'totally suxxors'). At least it's warmer now! Whatcha doin' this weekend? Me? I'd love to join everyone for a food, and then I'm going to go to a birthday party for my friends John and Josh (twins!). How about Lemongrass? Tomorrow, I'm exercising, cleaning, and hoping to finally win at Soulard School Trivia after two years of coming *this* close. Sunday, it's all about the relaxing, maybe the breakfast, not sure what else. Any thoughts?...
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Sorry for the lateness, but I got rather distracted with, you know, life and stuff. Here's my weekend-y thoughts... Tonight: I'm going to the hospital! Just to visit. I don't plan on staying. After that, I'm going home to bed and lame-ville. Whoo-hoo! Saturday: Looking at a wedding venue in the AM, possibly brunching, then chillin' at the house for a bit. I would be up for dinner/drinks since I'll be missing any Friday night HL festivities. How about India's Rasoi? Has it been long enough that we could return there? I could put the hurt on some naan. anyway, let me know if you're up for it and I'll make us reservations for tomorrow night. Say 7pm? Sunday: Bride stuff. What-what!? How about you? Any big plans for this snowy, arctic weekend?...
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Who's the sucker who is at work today? Me, that's who! I thought I'd write up a RL post to while away a few minutes. Some plans for the weekend: Tonight: NYE at JB's with all of you guys, I hope? Maybe a stop of two along the way for me if I feel ambitious enough. Friday: Pancakes and Back to the Future with some pals, then recuperation, maybe some resolution-making. Saturday: Not a durned thing. Sunday: See Saturday. I'd love to do some hanging out/dining/etc. on Sat or Sun, if anyone is interested....
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Gots lots of work to do yet, so I will keep this short... Tonight: making merry with the fam. Food, carols, more food, rob your neighbor, some food, a visit from Santa, and probably some more food. Tomorrow: PRESENTS (the reason for the season). Saturday: Lounging in the daytime. Just relaxing. Maybe sipping some nog by the fire in front of the tree. You know how I roll. I'd be up for hanging out in the evening with those who are around for hanging out. Maybe dinner? Sunday: Xmas 2.0 = more food, more fam. How about your weekend?...
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Cripes! The Holiday is nigh! I'm not ready! I will stall even longer by participating in some weekend cheer with my friends. What are you up to? Tonight: I may actually be able to eat a food with some of you--any thoughts? Tomorrow: Making vegetatian marshmallows, taking a test, and answering some trivia questions. Sunday: Making things, making merry, feting my lil sis on her pop-out....
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There are approximately one billion things being planned for this holiday season, and this first December weekend is no exception. How are you doing on your holiday prep? We've got the decorations up in the living room, the tree is trimmed and the stockings are hung, but Bug has decided that makes the rest of the house not festive enough, so we may be trying to remedy that. The gift situation is in a woeful state at the moment, but I am hoping that by the powers of the internet I can get some presents out to California for our early Christmas/new niece visit next weekend. Till then... Tonight: YGM has requested India's Rasoi for dinner, and I'm seconding it. Who am I to deny the delights of the Vegetarian Feast? Afterward, please head over to the Royale where I'll be spinning records under the twinkling Christmas lights. There'll be some Christmas jamz and and a special late night visit by our favorite bearded elf, Mark Early. Tomorrow: Christmas presenting, card writing, eggnog sipping,...
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Yo - Thanksgiving weekend - wazzup? I think pretty much everybody's out of town (including us, until about 20 minutes ago). If anybody's reading this and interested, the fam' and I will be looking for dinner companions in a few hours. Holla. Rest of weekend - Not driving to Iowa with a toddler. We've done that for the holiday season, thanks. You?...
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Hey, it's the weekend before Thanksgiving weekend! There's so much house puttering needing to be done this weekend, that I am disinclined to schedule much for my precious weekend hours. Maybe I'll get a second wind, but until then, here's the plan... Tonight: Dinner. I ate at EBL yesterday, but you know what? I want it again. It's soo freaking good. What do you think? After that, maybe Mark is spinning at the Royale? I'm not sure. If so, I will probably head over that'a'way. Tomorrow: The aforementioned puttering. I have meals to plan, laundry to wash, and with any luck, some baking to do. Tomorrow night: I don't know. How about you? Sunday: Completing any puttering left undone. How's about your weekend?...
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GUY FAWKES WEEKEND! Tonight: I'm DJing at the Royale, starting at 10pm. Be there, get your groove on, get your drink on, shake a tail feather. Prior to that, I imagine some folks will be getting some food. I don't know if I'll be able to join you, so I don't know if I should suggest a dining location. Somewhere in South City, not too far from the Royale, so you can all come there after you eat. Saturday: Bug and I will be getting the house ready, then getting our costumes ready for Guy Fawkes 2009: Book Titles! P-a-r-t-y! Show up at our place around 9pm, bring booze if you like, have a grand old time. Sunday: Sleep. Wish someone else would clean my house. Sleep. How about you?...
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If you missed the earlier Geeklife post and any Facebook conversation going on about it, well, you'd better be getting your costume act together. The party's Saturday night at my place. Write me (dave at woot) if you don't know where I live or how to get there. I'll have some public crappy beer and chips, but feel free to bring good beer and/or appetizers. I like to keep the specific costumes a secret, but I'm interested in a) how many costume ideas did you go through before you came up with The One and b) how hard was it to gather the things, build the parts, and get the costume together? Barbara and I spent an evening at the Royale brainstorming through all the books we could think of. We narrowed it down to a half dozen possibilities that seemed fun, and then applied the "is it available at Target/Johnny Brock's/Schnuck's" filter to come up with our final designs. I'm going to go truly last minute and put the final costume together on Saturday afternoon, so we'll see how all that works...
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Seems like a good weekend is stretching out before us. Bug is out of town, so I have lofty plans of knitting, watching movies I love for the umpteenth time, winterizing the garden, and reading my new book of etiquette in Jane Austen's time (how does one properly open a formal ball?). What's on your agenda? Tonight: I'll be skipping Happy Life in favor of the Famous Fictional Villians art opening at the Mad Art gallery. I believe our own Raygun and Redbird will be among the artists featured. I hear "It goes from 7 to 11, there'll be Hors d'œuvres, a cash bar, and tunes spun by TONE WOLF." Doesn't that sound like FUN!? Saturday: Bumming around in the day, maybe meeting some folks for dinner or drinks in the evening? Let me know if there's anything good going on. If not, maybe I will try to watch all five Harry Potter movies this weekend. Or the whole BBC Pride & Prejudice miniseries. Gotta have some sense of accomplishment, you know? Sunday: Quite possibly hanging out in my pajamas all...
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Well even though this ongoing wet, rainy mess has been lingering for weeks, the rumor is that it's actually supposed to clear up tomorrow. We'll see about that. There's one thing no weather's gonna stop from coming, and that's Halloween. In case your costume is not yet ready, that's tomorrow, folks. It is right up on us. So what are your plans to celebrate? Tonight: Punkins and pizza at the Onion Hut. I hear this shindig goes from 6pm - 9pm and is friendly towards the wee tot set. I believe there will be pumpkin carving, if you're into that sort of thing. Saturday: Halloween! I think the rain has made me procrastinate as long as possible this year, because we have no candy and I'm not 100% sure our porch light works. Hopefully, we can take care of all of that Saturday morning, or else the millions of trick-or-treaters descending on our home will have to settle for granola bars or fruit roll-ups in their goody bags. They're closing the street to traffic this year, and there's a kid/pet costume...
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Tonight: even though we were there a few weeks ago, I am ready to go back for more EBL. Really, a margarita sounds like perfection just about now. Who's with me? Saturday: Cuban Missle Crisis Party at the Royale, then pumpkiny pumpkining at the Deer's. Hopefully the squirrels will leave enough pumpkin that they are still carvable. Sunday: up in the wee hours for a family photo shoot. (Bug's my assistant, so not too many shots of pumpkin tequila, all right, Deer?) Also, it's official: the Guy Fawkes 2009 theme is Book Titles . Come dressed as your interpretation of your favorite book title. Not a character in the book, but the book's title. Maybe I will post the event on Facebook or something, so you can see who's invited. I think there's a few friends who don't frequent Geeklife that we would still like to see at the party. So how about your weekend? Any big plans?...
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Go Porkchop, it was his birthday. Go Porkchop, it was his birthday...If I didn't have to go to work, I'd photoshop up a little porkchop with a birthday hat. Can somebody with a goof-off job get on that for me? Thanks. I suggested that he should pick the Happylife restaurant, on account of it was his birthday, but he claims that's the worst present ever because he hates having the pressure of being the one to pick. So, um, somebody else pick. Plus, with Porkchop Jr.'s schedule, you never know who from our family will actually be awake and able to attend. I still vote no Applebee's, even if I'm not able to go, since I'll still have to put up with take-out. What else is going on this weekend? I hear the Birke family is hosting a picnic on Sunday, so we'll get in on that action. Any excuse to hang out with Miles - that kid's a riot. Also maybe we'll sit around and sip some Woot wine, if the UPS guy times his delivery right. Otherwise, sittin' around waiting for that Indian summer the weather...
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First up, because I've been meaning to post this for awhile: The Guy Fawkes Day party will be on November 14th this year. Later than usual, because of Halloween falling on a Saturday and because I'm out at a conference the next weekend. It'll just give us more time to procrastinate our costumes. Speaking of costumes, there's been a big push for a re-run of a theme of years past: Before & After. I'm up for that, but there's also possibilities like clichés, puns, dress-like-the-name-of-an-animal-but-not-the-animal, book titles, mash-up fictional characters, internet memes, etc. Feel free to vote for one and/or suggest new ones below. Maybe you'll be busy doing that all weekend, but if not, here's what I know of tonight's plans: Our own Prof. Hotpants will be spinning at the Royale tonight. Be there, or get kicked out. Prior to that, I'll be eating some dinner. Lemongrass? What else is going on this weekend? I'm probably going to watch some baseball, but it's hard to even think about it...
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Hi, Everybody! What are your plans for this crisp fall weekend? Here's how it's gonna go for me: Tonight: Working late, and then attending Bacchus at the Basin, a big wine and food party at the bottom of Art Hill. Hey, Deer--did you get my message about being my date? If she can't make it, does anyone else wanna be my plus one? All the wine and cute little mini foods you can handle... Tomorrow: cleaning/dog walking/farmer's marketing/gym-classing/drawing/reading in the daytime, and a Brazilian wedding party in the evening, where I suspect I will see many of you! Sunday: Maybe some work, plus a big, sprawling, Irish-style family reunion (Xian's). Dog park, maybe? Now you go....
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Hey, WTF, who dropped the ball on the HL posting? Me? Oh, right. Tonight: Porkchop Jr. Jr's taking an early evening snooze, so maybe he'll wake up and be looking for dinner, or maybe we'll get take out - give us a call if you're reading this so late in the day. I hear Tim Hutchings is having an art opening tonight, but looks like we ain't making it. Saturday: Maybe we'll head off for Strange Folk - let me know if you're interested... What's the happening on Saturday night? Beats me. Sunday: Who's to say?...
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This weekend my good buddy Jeff will be coming to town, the evil Chi-town Cubbies will be here as well, and there's going to be balloons and fire in the park! Tonight: The Kemper Museum will be having the opening reception for their new Fall shows from 7pm - 9pm. Go visit Raygun and tell him he's done a nice job making all that art stuff look good. This weekend is also The Great Forest Park Balloon Race , so if you're in the neighborhood, you can check out the Balloon Glow tonight in Central Field, from 7pm - 8:30pm, with fireworks at 9pm. All of this sounds great to me, so I think I'm going to try to make it to as much of that stuff as possible. If you're interested in joining me, I'm thinking a late dinner in the Loop (maybe Pi, maybe Eclipse, maybe Blueberry Hill) or at Katie's Pizzeria on Clayton - depends on the size of the group, I guess. Now, does anyone have any suggestions for not getting bogged down in miles of traffic and tourists to attend these events? A back entrance perhaps?...
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I've just returned from a delightful trip north which involved, in no particular order: canoeing, hiking, shooting guns, bonfires, a very large pumpkin, maple sugar in a mind-bending assortment of forms, a tent full of sheep, bells rung from an ancient basilica, a very tiny marcon, fire-baked bagels, a breath-taking view from a mountain, and a fountain set on fire. Everything was awesome. I'm a bit befuddled by a day of trying to catch up on work and have only heard rumors about things happening this weekend. Please confirm or deny the following... Tonight: I think there's a taco bar and horror movies at the CLAM hut. I don't recall what time this starts, but I think the movies are of the 80's cheese variety and the tacos, presumably, involve cheese as well. I am not sure of my personal attendance at this shindig, since there is a careful set of checks & balances which must be considered regarding my fear of horror movies vs. my love of tacos. Tomorrow night: I am pretty sure that Bug...
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Hey peeps. What's shaking? Bug and I are going to be out for the duration on a Vermontreal extravaganza. I mean, really, what's the point of renewing that passport if you're not going to use it? And if we try to go to Canada or Vermont any later, they surely won't have the balmy 80 degree weather we've been promised. So we're off for an extended weekend of canoeing, hiking, shopping, and eating the finest gravy-covered fries Montreal has to offer. What are you going to be up to?...
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Man oh man, summer is almost over. I can't believe it. Where did the time go? And why did I not spend more of it on the beach? What are you going to be up to this fine, nearly last weekend of summer? Tonight: I believe some of you are going to TGIF, near Ronnie's theater, in South County? Good luck with that. Me, I'm going to a baseball game. Then it's off to dine/drink with out-of-town Woot employees in town for Saturday's festivities. Saturday: Festivities. If you don't know what I'm talking about, Shirt.Woot is turning 2 years old, and we're having a big old party in the City Musuem. First 200 people get in free, and there's even some free parking set aside for the truly punctual. If you get there later, be prepared to pay admission, even though you know the big Shirt.Woot folks in charge. Hey, it's the City Museum's world, we just rent it. Games, prizes, cupcakes! Mark Early and Christian Chellis on the ones and twos! Wear your favorite Shirt.Woot shirt and get cool stuff! You can read...
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yo, y'all, whut up? Tonight, I'm down for some sort of victuals. If I recall, we are not supposed to do TGIF until Sept. 4, so what's up for this weekend? (no cumin-heavy foods, plz) Tomorrow, I will try to go: to the farmer's market, to my first gym class, to catch some friends/colleagues reading from Ovid's Metamorphosis as part of a two-day marathon at the Pulitzer, to the concert/BBQ at Apop, to play nerd games with Ezz and Ima, and something in the evening that I can't quite remember right now. Whew! How about you? Sunday: sleeping in, shopping for a bookshelf, picking up a Hamcake!, and dinner with Xian's moms. Rest of the week: Picking up after the dog. How's 'bout 'chall?...
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