"Women - can't live with 'em, pass the beer nuts." - Norm Peterson, "Cheers"
My last trip to California in 2005 yielded one major disappointment as I was not able to meet Dennis DeYoung following his concert in Vegas. The big disappointment on this trip was Friday night, February 16, 2007 after the Courts show. Bob had gotten himself, David, and me tickets to see one of Ray Bradbury’s […]
I would have never guessed that when my friend Lance sent me home with his copy of The Smiths’ Louder Than Bombs cassette tape in 1988, that nineteen years later I would be shaking hands with the group’s lead singer. In fact, I would have been surprised at that prospect even one month ago. I wasn’t really […]
After the Green Festival, Jon, Jennifer, Mary, and I all decided that we should head into downtown Chicago. My car was currently in the McCormick Place parking garage and I didn’t relish driving it around downtown, especially since neither they nor I had any idea where we were going. So we ended up taking a bus which traveled all […]
I would like to introduce you to The Piddling Greenies…or The Unwed Lumberjacks…or The Skinny Firemen…or most recently, Whoops! That’s a Crayon, Not a Laxative. These are just some of the names we’ve come up with for our Wednesday night trivia team at Cadillac Jack’s. I began attending these weekly get-togethers back in the beginning […]
I must have been anxious to get to Chicago on Saturday, April 21, because it was only a few hours after heading out that I got my first speeding ticket in over a year. I had left about 10:00 am and was a bit north of Indianapolis having just eaten lunch at Burger King when I noticed […]