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CONCEPT

COMMENTS
- CALL FOR PHOTOS! There are now half-a-dozen of us that have taken pictures of the five Gothic Funk parties to date. If you email me the photos at connot at afterdusk.org, I'll create a gallery!
- Gothic Funk Party #5 was delightful. Colin's place on S. Hyde Park has, of course, evolved over the years into a facility uniquely suited for such gatherings (if you ask him, he can tell you some stories of the past). An astonishing number of people actually arrived wearing scrubs, masks, surgical gloves, and accoutrements. There were also a few med school students. At least four groups performed, ranging from improvising DJs to the half-pop, but everything I saw was cool. The main act, Zinc Finger and the Major Groove, a group of med school students that rap about med school, managed to get more fleshy U of C hands in the air than I've ever seen... which is always a good thing. Attendance topped 100, and with a lack of excessive drunkeness, the party was a definite contrast with #4. The was, however, more dancing.
- The 3-6 inches of snow failed to materialize in Chicago. Evidently, it was just a little too warm, and so it rained instead. It is, however, snowing over the entirety of Michigan and Wisconsin, and even Chicago's northern suburbs. So it goes.
The next several days will bring similar temperature, but less precipitation.

STATE OF THE DAY
Louisiana.

WORD OF THE DAY
Ghostbuster.

NEWS OF THE DAY
The New York Times: Bush Begins to Seek a Thaw in a Europe Still Cool to Him

PICTURE OF THE DAY
Spectre. RPG Gamer.

QUESTION OF THE DAY
Do you believe in ghosts? Describe the nature of your dis/belief.