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Does anyone here outside of me actually live in Chicago anymore?

05:44 / 09.04.02

Cuz, I was just wondering and all. There used to be people, but apparently they've all drifted off somewhere, but where?

03:14 / 10.04.02

I'm here . . . on the north side . . . still guilty about blowing my chance to see Cherry Bomb when she's got people lined up to hang out with her on another continent.

we could meet but I'm not going out 136th st. or where-ever-t-f.

or we could put together a real agenda. something constructive. let's design a role-playing-game together Cop Killer, what do you say?

22:51 / 10.04.02

I never played rpg's, wouldn't know what to do. And I live on 127th. Perhaps we should find some sort of median or something.

00:16 / 12.04.02

y'know, that probably qualifies you more in my eyes to be a designer- RPG-heads, like comix fans, are awfully susceptible to cliche. If you're half-way interested, I'll send you reviews of a couple truly innovative (+ independently produced) RPGs that suggest whole new modes of design (+ fun).

otherwise we could set something up. problem is I don't got a car. But I'm more likely to do something if its constructive/creative.

next weekend is some big internet art/hacktivism fest, set up by one of the Lumpen Times guys. What do you think?

13:11 / 12.04.02

Um, I am actually here in Chicago until the end of May. It would be nice to get some sort of meet going. The Lumpen thing sounds cool - I've always wanted to meet those Lumpen folks!

Where/when/etc etc

And does anyone know if there's a new Lumpen out actually (like since end of Jan)?

15:07 / 13.04.02

lumpen.com: (also has new issue Cherry)

Version>02>digitalartsconvergence>

A tour thru the digital commons. Via our sister/brother project Select and some secret running ties to OVT and the MCA, we are co-producing this wonderful event: Version>02.

It is a dream conference/film festival/digital music showcase / multimedia convergence for activists and artists of the radical persuasion. Nomads and Homesteaders, Big Noise Films, Hexstatic, Pal:ndrom, Animal Charm, Davy Force!,Salvo beta, Softskull Press, Mark Hosler from Negativland, Scott Reeder and the Zero Tv posse, Kurt Heintz, Indy Media and Freespeech Media Activists, Eduardo Kac, Miltos Manetas, Dragan Espenschied ,Bruner and Bay, hactivists, Adbusters, GNN, Critical Art Ensemble, and a hundred other heads are converging on Chicago to blow your mind and define and/or reclaim our public spaces and encourage communication revolutions!

Please log in at the site to see the latest program and participate in the conversation taking place at the version exchange. If you aren't going to DC for the antiwar party, you really need to be in Chicago April 18-20 for Version>02.

Questions? email ed@lumpen.com

http://www.versionfest.org/

18:21 / 16.04.02

So anyone up for meetnig at this either Friday or Saturday?

18:44 / 16.04.02

friday yes- staurday I'm babysitting, heh.

21:30 / 16.04.02

copkiller, any other Chicago peeps, wanna come?

21:50 / 16.04.02

If any of y'all can make it out to the South Side on Sat. 4/20, I'm playing at a coffee house, called the Gossip Cafe, it's in Blue Island, I am, however, open for Friday, so, suggestions or that Lumpen thing would be cool, yo. If you want directions to my show PM me.

00:28 / 18.04.02

CK that sounds intriguing but don't know if I can get out to Blue Island. It'd be nice to see you again, though.

Is the Lumpen thing at the MCA? Sounds like it would be but I haven't had a chance to chekc out their web site. Perhaps we could meet someplace in the Wicker and then go.

16:42 / 18.04.02

yes ma'am, the MCA. I'd like to be down there by 6:00- d'ye wanna meet earlier in Wicker Park? I'm off work (Logan Square location) @ ~1:00.

I'm gonna PM you + cop killer my pager #, to make sure this happens this time.

Big

13:05 / 19.04.02

Hey BT due to just some crazy 2-day circumstances I really can't page you - I don't know my direct line at work and I'm catsitting for someone without a land line . I'd like to come out to the MCA thing but I'm going out first and then I dunno. Might just go home and watch movies. Talk to me baby.

13:16 / 19.04.02

if you want to meet in Wicker or hit the MCA early, anytime after 1:00, we can do that. otherwise, if I don't hear from youse guys I'll be down there around 5:30 or 6:00, probably meeting people in the plaza.

easisest thing to do is leave me a voice mail on the pager- just talk after the beep.

I wonder if we'll get to talk about internet circulation of the R Kelly sex video + its impact on sales of 'best of both worlds' @ this thing . . .

Big

20:10 / 27.04.02

So, yeah, sorry 'bout that lots of craziness going on w/ my life, couldn't make anthing really. Cursed Chicago threads, never working...y'know, I think it's been almost a year since the last Chicago meet...

16:58 / 28.04.02

ok what's the new (doomed, feckless) plan?

17:04 / 28.04.02

Let's think of something that can actually happen and is not doomed!

I would love to do something this weekend but will be pretty broke as am buying my plane tickets back to England with my paycheck this week. Next weekend will be babysitting my cousins. But of course you don't have to wait for me.

What if we all met some place downtown? Copkiller that's really the most logistical place I think to actually get people together. I know you're on the south side but i'm just thinking practicalities.

It has been almost exactly a year since the last Chicago meet, if memory serves.

Any suggestions, guys?

17:31 / 29.04.02

that's great cherry, we should form- well, I guess we'll have to call it 'the babysitters club'. we gotta get this kids together. how old are your cousins? moreover, do they play yu-gi-oh dueling card game?

19:06 / 29.04.02

What's everyon doing this Friday afternoon? Mayhaps we could meet at one of Chicago's finer watering holes.

Can't afford the Hancock, sadly. But I can afford Rossi's on State & Grand.

Don't know if they'd Copkiller's baby butt in however..

05:29 / 30.04.02

I got practice on Friday, I think, in Bridgeport. And yeah, a lot of bars don't let me in because of some sort of law that says I can't drink cuz I'm not 21.