Reducing Our Dependence on Foreign Vitriol: new annoyed thread

[C of heartbreak]

Jim please please do this.

[YojimboMonkey]

That grocery store is miles away at this point, and good riddance.  The fuckers. 

I suppose I could stop by on my way home and see if it's still there though.  The possibility obviously exists, since nobody has bothered throwing the shit away yet.

[heather marie]

if it's still there, i think you should buy it and see if the cashier says anything.

[heather marie]

fuck if I wasn't sick as hell I'd drive to Lincoln Square to see if it's still there.

[DCDave]

Corporation of the store, cc the health department and whatever the Cityblog is for Chicago (Chicagoist?)

[YojimboMonkey]

Good suggestions Dave.  I actually have e-mailed Safeway corporate, posted it as an anonymous tip on Chicagoist, and sent it to WGN already and I'm mulling over the health dept. 

[FreddyKnuckles]

I'd go with your local fox affiliate over wgn.

fox eats that shit up.  I remember one time they camped outside of an NYC fast food joint (taco bell?) and filmed rats jumping from table to table through the window. 

[elpollodiablo]

Awesome.

Yeah the Fox affiliate in Columbus just recently did some expose on restaurant cleanliness, too. I think the Knucks is right.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Awesome.
 I think the Knucks is right.

[YojimboMonkey]

The e-mails I've sent to our Fox affiliate have bounced.  "maildir over quota"  Apparently they either get a ton of spam or never check their fucking mail.

[elpollodiablo]

Awesome.
 I think the Knucks is right.

Ain't like you never been right before! Like when you expressed approval of Bell's

That was a right thing

[YojimboMonkey]

From WGN: "Please note that we do not have a consumer/investigative unit at this time."

[RoyBiggins]

Send it to boingboing, too, and mention that the bread was probably corrupted by safeway's DRM.

[elpollodiablo]

Also that the counterman was like "I'll bet there's no way that Doctorow guy could ever be involved in this"

[jebreject]

holy shit you guys are funny

[diesel_powered]

Hahahahaha

[SPACERACE]

LoL corey doctorow reference +10 internet pointz!

[diesel_powered]

Yeah, so in the process of updating my calendar with the 400 appointments I have written on my hand, I realized that the thesis show opens in six weeks which means my thesis (which I haven't really lifted a finger on in the past few weeks) needs to be done in less than five and a half weeks.

Kind. Of. Freaking. Out.

[elpollodiablo]

I feel you man. Totally. I have to show progress on my thesis as of March 20. What I've got to show for this entire quarter? About two pages, plus reading notes. Of course, I lost 13 pages to my MB disaster. But still. I've been procrastinating like FUCK for almost two months now. Almost nothing to show. Eep.

[diesel_powered]

Yeah. Right now I've got a hopelessly obsolete outline, a vague idea about what I'd like the piece to look like, a mound of research that I have yet to read, and a very expensive HD display system. So all that's got to come together sometime between now and Tuesday because I need to write a bitchin' proposal for my thesis show piece to show the curator and his assistant so they'll deem me worthy of a sweet spot to install in the museum. However, this all is probably building up to nothing because the little room I want will probably end up going to a group rather than just me.

And less on the existential crisis tip, I left my door unlocked today. I was carrying my TV out because I'm using it in a show for the next month (which means I'm reduced to an eight inch set I picked up at a thrift store, the only one I have that's not either tied up in my studio or in the aforementioned installation... This is an example of a first world problem,) and had my hands full and I just forgot. And at first, I had a minor freak out because one of the little irrational OCD things I do when I get home is to see whether my door is locked in case some horrible criminal (or worse, the police!) had somehow gotten a copy of my key and was now waiting for me to return in order to commit unspeakable acts against me. But then I realized that I was carrying a rather heavy TV this morning when I left and that I probably forgot to lock it because I had smoked a bit and it was a bit of a shock to go from eight inches of snow to bright sunshine in less than eight hours. Then it occurred to me that there could be a horrible criminal (or worse, the police!) waiting for me inside as I left the place vulnerable all day. Then it occurred to me that somebody could just as easily have completely cleaned the place out all day and I could be coming home to a completely empty apartment.

But then I opened the door and walked up the stairs and everything was exactly as I left it. And I realized that there was a time when not locking one's door would not have even been an issue, much less precipitated a crisis and that there was something very wrong with the above.

Man. I am Mr.Anxiety this evening.

[bethany_m]

1.) Exhaust leak
2.) The time is took to repair Exhaust Leak
3.) Paying to fix exhaust leak
4.)the electrical fire that started in the rear of my car, after I had paid to fix the car and picked it up
5.) my car smells like burnt plastic, the inside is covered with nasty sooty junk and its back in the shop.
6.) I had travel plans this weekend

I hate everything

[diesel_powered]

Yech. That sucks. 

[Maaik]

I'd go with your local fox affiliate over wgn.

fox eats that shit up.  I remember one time they camped outside of an NYC fast food joint (taco bell?) and filmed rats jumping from table to table through the window. 

Christ!  We did a news report here yesterday about a local Mexican restaurant that got a 19 out of 100 on their last health inspection.

I will repeat that.

A FUCKING 19/100 HEALTH INSPECTION SCORE.  How the shit is that even possible w/out a steady stream of bodybags rollin out of that joint?

[YojimboMonkey]

...by not removing the dead bodies?

[diesel_powered]

I really think this discussion is best suited for the serial killing thread.