The Idea of Progress » cta http://www.theideaofprogress.com We are what we pretend to be Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:59:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 Travel and a Bunny http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2007/08/28/travel-and-a-bunny/ http://www.theideaofprogress.com/2007/08/28/travel-and-a-bunny/#comments Wed, 29 Aug 2007 04:01:00 +0000 The Idea of Progress http://www.theideaofprogress.com/?p=178 I left work at 7pm today. This is not normal. I’m usually out around 5:30 or so, but I got caught up in conversation with my boss, and by the time I left, it was dark. I made a pit stop at Trader Joe’s, and then got on the Blue Line to come home. After waiting for twenty minutes, the train shows up. We get on, the train moves perhaps 100 feet, and stops. The conductor informs us that due to construction on the tracks, service was going to be on one track only, and we were going to have to sit for five minutes while the other train passed us, as to allow us to continue on our way without any grisly accidents.

Two problems with this.

First, the CTA has told everyone that construction was happening on the weekends. They actually closed the Blue Line during the weekend of the Pitchfork Music Festival, and since all of the hipsters live off of the Blue Line, general pandemonium/apathy ensued. This is Tuesday night, which in case you’re wondering is not the weekend.

Second, we sat for thirty minutes. Riders were eying each other in case we had to result to cannibalism. Good thing I’m a skinny vegetarian, we make for stringy eating.

I didn’t get home until nine o’clock.

Why am I telling you all of this? Because I didn’t have a post for today, and I didn’t want anybody to start hating. So I bring you a picture of a bunny, as is the tradition here at The Idea Of Progress, and the realization that this non-post has become, in fact, a post.

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So, apparently R. Kelly is insane. We all knew that he was a pervert. We all knew that he was a mad filmmaking genius. But the man now thinks that he is the Martin Luther King, Jr. of his generation. And he said this in an interview, so all of us could see what goes on inside that head of his. It must be an exciting place to live.

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The Scientologists have pissed off the BBC. Seems that the Beeb has been making a documentary about them, and they responded by making a documentary about the BBC. Uh-huh. The producers of the programme (like the spelling?) respond.

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They might be putting bathrooms in CTA stations. On one hand, a good idea when you’ve really got to go and options are limited. On the other hand, homeless people using them as apartments. Maybe it’d keep drunk frat boys from pissing between cars.

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Elijah Wood is going to be playing Iggy Pop in a movie. Honest.

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