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Airhead #1: If I was a fireman, I would just hang out on my truck all day!
Airhead #2: I know! Where are they?

--Astoria

Overheard by: Barry Ward

Mrs. Fields Chocolate Chip Cookies -- now vegan! (Yes yes, I reused the photo.)

Dee Sunshine - writer, artist and musician, has set up a Facebook Page where you can stay posted about his various projects. Soon to be announced, the launch of the free e-book version of his novel, "Stealing Heaven From The Lips Of God" and his 3rd Poetry collection, "Visions Of The Drowning Man" which will also be available for free download. Port-folios of drawings and paintings will be posted up presently, as will links to sites where you can download his music for free. See http://www.facebook.com/pages/Dee-Sunshine-Writer-Artist-Musician/201729451659?v=wall# for more details.

• 21:21 Even though I have very little school spirit, I'm always glad when Cal wins the Big Game against Stanford. :P #
• 21:36 We're birdsitting this cute conure for the month: ow.ly/Es0K, ow.ly/Es1J. She's adorable and super interactive. #

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Woman #1: So, she had half her lung removed.
Woman #2: Does she talk funny now?
Woman #1, confused: Why would she talk funny?
Woman #2: Don't you breathe through your lungs?
Woman #1: You are a moron.

--34th & 7th

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Hipster guy: Be right back. (ten minutes later, comes back and sits down) Nevermind.
Hipster girl: You can't "nevermind" a "be right back" ten minutes into said "be right back" time. It then goes from being a "nevermind" to a "back."
Hipster guy: I was only gone a second...
Hipster girl: It was still a valid time to say "back." Not "nevermind".

--Starbucks

Overheard by: Rad Rayna

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Skinny girl: I'm sorry you have to go through this.
Sobbing girl: I just...I just hope he's going to... be okay.
Skinny girl: Do you think that maybe you want to go and compose yourself in the office?
Sobbing girl: I was just... there. And I would... but the candy... sucks.
Skinny girl: I'll... I'll give you my last Mentos.
Sobbing girl: The Freshmaker?

--The Met

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Young woman: Dude, you forgot your purse at my house!
Flamboyantly gay man: It's not a purse, biatch, it's a satchel.

--Bed-Stuy

Overheard by: anna

Tweets for the Day

• 01:38 Quantum of Blah! is.gd/4XIKn #GregTheBunny #vampires #
• 01:52 #Rats in the urban ecology - is.gd/50gd5 (via @boingboing) #
• 13:38 RT @marklisanti: REO Landspeederwagon #starwarsbandnames #
• 13:41 The Wampas and the Papas #starwarsbandnames (via @secondperiod) #
• 18:17 RT @trentvanegas: Nice!! RT @kentology Boba Fett and The Blackhearts #starwarsbandnames #
• 18:17 RT @starwars: Nat King Clone #starwarsbandnames (via @darthvader) #
• 19:12 #UFOs caught on video! bit.ly/8vZcTD (via @klaatu) #
• 19:16 My favorite poster from George Lucas' collection hanging at work. is.gd/50KBk & is.gd/50KC2 #Godzilla #
• 20:10 #Twitter put up a feedback form for new Retweet format. Go to web interface, look above search box, GIVE YER FEEDBACK NOW! (RT @fuzzz @tara) #
• 20:17 RT @TotalHell: Modest Mouse Droid #starwarsbandnames #
• 20:38 For those of you who can't attend @flecksfilms -- Don't worry, I'm taking photos. is.gd/50MsL #
• 20:59 RT @starwars: Nine Inch Neimoidians #starwarsbandnames #
• 22:21 Before Bluetooth, there was Phone Relief! is.gd/50Pvr (via @E_I_T) #
• 22:36 RT @marc7071: Goo Goo Talz #starwarsbandnames #
• 23:49 Anyone know how to get rid of the System Defender virus fom a PC laptop? Got it tonight from some web site apparently. Ugh #
• 23:54 Everytime I try to search info about how to get rid of System Defender virus it bypasses the site and sends me to spam. #
• 23:55 I have McAfee OAS virus detector on my pc laptop so dunno why/how System Defender is on it now? #
• 00:00 Will System Defender screw up my files or is it just merely annoying? #
• 00:50 36 minutes into full scan & Malwarebytes has found 4 infected objects. Here's hoping it fixes this mess! #

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Older woman on park bench: How is Barry?
Older man on park bench: Barry Manilow? Don't know 'em.
Woman: You know Truman Capote's son? He liked pumpkin soup.

--Union Square Park

http://muttscomics.com/art/dailyarchive.asp?month=11&date=08&year=2009

I really love Chicago. I love that I can have a late dinner with friends and walk to a train at 1AM, ride it to my stop in a car filled with what look like people from all walks of life, and then walk home on well-lit and still well-traveled streets feeling perfectly safe.

I love that today I took the same train one stop further and went to the DIY trunk show, and saw a whole bunch of local artists and craftspeople selling their work - and I love how crowded it was with shoppers. I love that I got an awesome present for my best friend for only $10.

I love that I had a delicious dinner in good company, and that when they'd run out of the dessert we'd wanted, our waiter gave us salted caramel ice cream and chocolate sauce for free (a little cup for each of us who wanted any!).
I also love that almost every restaurant I go to has either mac n cheese or grilled cheese or both, so that when Best Friend visits or eventually moves here, he can come out to diner anywhere with us and have food he likes.

I love that I got home and turned on my TV to relax until I could sleep and they are rerunning the Blackhawks game, and that even though I'd started recording it midway through the 1st period before I left, that I now caught it only 4 minutes into the game.
I also love watching Patrick Kane score.
And I love that I think we figured out a night to go see the Hawks play live.

Chicago is just a badass city, guys. I love it here. For all its problems, it's really a brilliant place.


Something I don't love, but is not Chicago's fault, is that I started getting a migraine before dinner for no explicable reason, and while I took my pills I am feeling the after-effects. No real headache, but I got super light-headed leaving the restaurant and was very careful walking home. (And no, I did not drink during dinner.)

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Trendy undergrad #1: You should read "Dry." it's by the guy who wrote "Running with Scissors." it's when he moves to New York and becomes an alcoholic.
Trendy undergrad #2: Great--I love fucked-up shit.

--16th St & 8th Ave

Overheard by: Jaded Grad Student

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Heavyset guy: Hey, I don't mind telling you. I'm a psychopath. I don't give a fuck about people.
Woman in wheelchair-scooter: Mm-hmm. Oh, I know.
Heavyset guy: Yeah, I just I don't give a fuck. I'll be a psychopath till the day I die, and I don't even care. I'm not gonna lie about it.

--Lenox & 129th

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Girl #1: So I should just break up with him over e-mail?
Girl #2: Yeah, this is New York, transportation's not easy!

--Park Ave & 42nd St

Overheard by: Anna De Souza

• 19:29 Heading out to a friend's b'day movie nite. Cupcakes ready! #
• 19:29 @digitrash happy birthweek! #

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Old, foreign Asian, looking through comic book collection: Want a Looney Tunes with Porky Pig on the cover!
Vendor, turning to stranger: Porky fucking Pig, man!

--Flea Market, 23rd St

Hotel Utah 11/4/09. The Housecoat Project with Meri St. Mary, Eva Jay Fortune, Ol' Cheeky Bastards and The Yes Gos. Dim red lights in a red room, not so easy.

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Dude #1, looking at Yu-Gi-Oh! cards: Oh man, opening a new pack is pleasurable. Like having sex.
Dude #2: How do you know? You have sex?
Dude #1: Trust me, I know. I have sex.

--Anime Castle

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So we're still collecting Things You Don't Want to Hear Your Bandmates Say.
Thanks to Roy, Dale, Jonah, Bob, Daniel, Danny, Jay, Timothy and Ritche for contributing so far!

- C.


Right before a show: "Is that your drummer I just saw the cops leading away in handcuffs?"

"THIS is how it's done."
(As if there's only one way to do things. Not talking so much about the technical aspects of music-making here but more of the business end of band stuff. I also greatly enjoy when people who have never sold any appreciable amount of albums tell me: "I've STUDIED this stuff, I know what we HAVE to do." (to sell records) ...yeah, sure.)

"Sorry, I can't jam tonight.. My dog is sick."
(When really it was either an overlapped schedule with a hot date or an overlapped jam schedule with another punk band that you whored yourself out to, and it also got more of an attendance than your original band.)

"Ugh... No, It ain't verse, chorus, verse, chorus. It's verse, chorus, verse, bridge, then chorus."

Another one: "Where's the singer?" "Gone to buy shoes..."

"Uh, I don't know what's going on but dude can you maybe take a look at this?" (Bandmate starts unzipping pants...)

"Wanna jam some Green Day???"

"I don't want to talk about anything. I just want to play."

"Why can't you remember what I just thought of?"

From the drummer... "Hey guys! I just wrote a new song!"

"How about tuning down another whole step ???" (after being tuned down a whole step in the first place)

"Tabs gone."

"When do I get paid?"

"I don't know how my finger got in there... but I like it!"

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Girl #1: Dude, how amazing was Adam Lambert in concert last night?
Girl #2: Holy shit! There was a point in the show where I actually considered going on Zoloft because I have absolutely no shot with him, but then he gyrated again and threw me out of my heterosexual-girl-in-love-with-a-hot-flamboyant-gay-man funk.

--Whole Foods, Columbus Circle

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Mom, reading magazine: You heard of Twilight? Is it good?
Kid: Dunno. I don't think you'd like it. It's got kissing. And vampires.

--Barnes & Noble, Tribeca

Overheard by: Quack