Luna

Had the dilemma. Wanted to see the moon movie bad, but because of mismanaged time and lots of strands to tie to-gether meant that I wasn't able to see it until the nite of the 27th- directly in the path of a J and B match. Saw the movie, and as one can see, we won the trivia match. Three in a row, though reports of a lame nite make me both happy that it was this week I missed but also 'badful' because I mita made it less lame.

Saw In the Shadow of the Moon, which was a 'talking heads / archival footage' type film of the Apollo moon missions. Went w/ Gf, fellow astronaut Nas A., Homes and Rocksy. They were meating @ some burger joint and then a bar, but since Gf and I had a 2 for 1 coup (admit it, Hilts- you had it, not Gf) @ some noodle joint, I wanted to rock that before it expired. Went to the noodle shop. The shop was across from the Century, andnit sucked. Had the pad thai, and screw me for not getting it at an actual Thai place. GF loved her meal- it was............indoneasian this or that, I can't remember. Maybe to go back. Maybe.

Movie was great. Give me any slow motion films of a Saturn V uplifting into the atmosphere anytime. I wanted more archival shots, since this film film was billed silly wit' them. However, evenm though I'm not the #1 NASA expert in the world, I was aware that a lot of the shots I had not seen before. This is some the Rockateer's ideas onnit.

An aspect that was tough was seeing the old fotos of the astronauts--SO YOUNG-- justaposed with what they look like now-- OLD MEN. They did have an old foto of First Man on the Moon 'Crank' Armstrong and I did register a "Wow he was young then" rite before they said his age-- 39. Not bad, I self-reflectively say, nodding to the touchy march of time. If he looks not bad @ 39, then I don't.......

Forced people to one of the Young Guard's favourite haunt's..........um, what's it's name?? The bar on Belmont and =THE HUNGRY BRAIN. Gf and I had a some half cider/guiness drinx that have suddenly become our mainstay, and talked film w/ the boys. Stayed out too late, but the first one to leave was Rocketship. Seems he has a baby on the way or something and that made him responsibletogethomenowbeforeitstoolateintheevening.

Always like the Hungy Brain. Three of the Bully Pulpists were discussing playing a show there- they do have a stage and I just disc. that they do have shows there.

Here's some lynx=
nasa
fantail
to moon

wired review

I Want My J&B

It is late September, rosters have expanded, and trivia fans shouldn’t be surprised to see that many star players are not in the lineup. Hell, TC Pub was so empty last night, I was amazed that the battle involved four teams.

BREAKING NEWS: Benkowski informs us that he recently found out that the liquor distributing entity owned by the Wirtz family has the exclusive local distribution rights to Jack Daniels. Benkowski is looking for a new shot. He also is debating how to handle the passing of one William Wirtz on his show- restraint or not.

The competition: Amigos, Senoritas, and Bar (minus Trophy, Lawyer and Kearney Meats)

J&B represented by: Stix and Lazers (donning the Chelios jersey, pulled out of mothballs in this dawning of a new era in Blackhawk hockey)

First Half: Bears/90s Music/Offbeat Oddities

Wore #13 for the 1997 Bears?
What does “regicide” mean?

Scores after a quiet first half: Senoritas 980 Amigos 960 J&B 870 Bar 820

Second Half: Sports Mix/Chicago & World/TV & Movies

What breed of horse is Mr. Ed?
In which country is Transylvania?
Since 1936, the only Cub with 200 or more hits 3 times?
Two players in the 2003 NL postseason hail from the Island of Curacao- one was the Cubs’ Randall Simon- who was the other?
1985 Oscar for Best Actor?
Currency of Panama, named after the explorer who discovered it?

Some second half controversy, as the Bar selects the Sports category, but Benkowski instead reads the next question for Chicago & World. The Bar had a legitimate gripe. Even without Lawyer, they’re a bunch of lawyers.

Scores into final question: J&B 2170 Bar 1990 Amigos 1630 Senoritas 1380

Choice of final category: MTV Videos or Playboy Joke Punchlines

All teams select MTV. Benkowski: “Only bar in history that rejected Playboy.”

2 of 3 wins wager. All 3 wins 3000 bonus points. J&B wagers the classic.

MTV Video of the Year for the following:
1996- Smashing Pumpkins
1998- Madonna
2000- Eminem

Anyone want to take a shot at that one?

Part II

J&B guesses 1969, Take a Bow, and My Name Is.

First half answers:
Rick Mirer
To kill a King or Queen

Second half answers:
Palomino
Romania
Billy Williams
Andruw Jones
William Hurt
Balboa

Final question:

Senoritas- 1380- guess Tonight Tonight (yes), Like A Prayer (no), Real Slim Shady (yes)- wagered 1100- up to 2480. Uh-oh.

Amigos- 1630- guess Tonight Tonight (yes), Ray of Light (yes), Real Slim Shady (yes)- wagered 1630 plus 3000 bonus- up to 6260.

Bar- 1990- guesses Tonight Tonight (yes), other answers not read, but both (no)- wagered 1500- down to 490.

J&B- 2170- guesses 1969 (no), Take A Bow (no), My Name Is (no)- wagered 1811- down to 359 and an end to the brief winning streak.

Well, with no money to collect and no babes to scope, J&B makes one of its earliest exits ever. Next trivia night in two weeks: Thursday, October 11th.

‘A People’s History of the Chicago Danse Floor: House Parties, 1980-2007’ part 4: The Summer of 1980

Yes there was dansing to be done @ the PRE dansing age of 14.

Part One-

The Great Eighth Grade Danse

We all thought it would be wack as hell. That nite, after the danse, we ran to our class officers to see if they would go to the principal to have another danse.

Our grammer school was special. Many my-memories are from that era, and I count myself lucky to have gone there. Some people have great h.s.'s, some great university time, but I think all who went to St. Rita grammer school back then felt special.

We recently-- well, summer of long remember, 2005-- had our grammer school reunion. I know that in The Middle Guard many are now in their "H.S. Reunion" Time. Some are going, some not. But over the decades between 1980 and 2005 members of The Old Guard talked a lot about our grammer school reunion- jokes, etc, but we really wanted it to happen. I will write about that nite someother time, but I'd like to point out we went dansing that 2005 nite.

But it's 1980, not 2005, I write about.

Originally put, The New Association were originally recruited to play the show. However, since most of our songs made fun of our classmates in decidely non p.c. ways, we decided not to gig.

Three of us had baseball games the day of the danse. I'd played little league for the last six years, and baseball came first. We'd have to arrive late, although that wasn't that big of a drag. Future NIU lineman and I were on the Bankers (no lie), and El Greco was on the team we played. Can't remember who won, but the three of us arrrived fashionably. Late.

We had our danse @ our schools gym. And the scence we came in on would be familier to all- boys on one side, girls on the other.

My buddies had brought my records there- we had "The Early Beatles", "Aftermath" (Had to pay "Stupid Girl"), "Hot Rocks", etc... I think "I am the Walrus" was played, but times ravages.......... People weren't too hep to music back then @ my school, so our gang of grunts could play kool guys by bringing in the Stones.

Did we danse?

Yes, these13 and 14 yr old boys dansed. We sure did. Bless the El Grec for starting the bravery in the boys. El Greco was the first of us to do The Slide, which was basically just run across the floor and............slide on our knees. He started, I burst onto that scene second, and if I remember, a few others joined us. Something about El Greco and I liking to look like fools. The other great danse was The Twist, and that was all Moho. Moho was wearing the white shirt and a black tie, and soon lots of us were doing it. I suppose he was dansing w/ someone, but I can't remember. But to this day:

"C'mon baby, lets do the Twist"

It ended too soon. Way too soon. Just like our youth. Mentioned earlier, we immed. tried to get another danse thrown for us the next week, but it was 25 years before some of us dansed to-gether again.

That 1980 nite, though, not wanted to be ended, massed great gangs of us to-gether as we walked all the way up 63d Street from St. Rita to Pulaski looking for a place to eat*. We settled on Arby's after being said no to @ every foodjoint along the way

Little Joe's

gave us big no's

so we atook

our-a business

elsewhere

Part Two-

On being a scared little boy,asked by an European Girl to danse, whilst not on the Contintent

Two months later I was called out by an Irish lass who crossed the danse floor in my uncles village to ask me to danse -- and I.................

The other great dansing incident in the Summer of 1980 occured in Ireland. I went for a month from c. 25 July-25 Aug 1980 and had the time of my life. Summer of '80 was outstanding and I hated to miss what was going on in the heighbourhood (Great changes), but deeply exciting to go to ireland for the second time.

My mom's island is very small, so they had two danses a week there. One a Caeli (sp), which was traditional music played by-- ready-- an accordianist and a drummer - and that was it. And yes, some of the best music came out of those two instruments. The other was more regular rock and roll stuff.

The Irish danse was great fun and I've done plenty since. However, so young and sacred, and now here is a girl crossing the floor on "Girls choice" time. I had to get up, I had to go out, but screw me forever for not actually being able to danse. It was a very uncomfortable time- just a scared boy, nothing but funny to look back on now-- but again-- this wonderful piece of femininity (please don't take "piece of feminity' in a bad way- she wasn't a 'piece'- wait, she was a piece- but wait, I don't mean it that way......ah, whatever..... ) and I too scared.

City boy unable to handle country girl. And it wouldn't be the last time.

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*=A long straggling line of students returning up 63d Street would in later years become one of the FAVOURITE targets of the Lancing Five's Roofing Force (not called so back in the day)

Linx to previous chapters

Part I

Part II

PartIII

The Beckham/Hitler connexion

It was reportedly down to the L.A. Galaxy and Der fussball team der Waffen SS that Bex was gonna sign for, but he realised that signing to an extremely right wing team would not be good for his commercial ventures, so he sign w/ L.A/.

danke herr Crankface

After all my drinking weekend

friday nite !!

Hung w/ The Rock and co manny bits of last wkd. Friday nite was the planned stopover in Russia to see Mena (i thInk this giants name is), then throttled back to make the Trans Evanston Injection to go to The Rocks.

Had comapny. Knew that the two little fluffy bits running about both my place and his place would enjoy hours to-gether, so Bolo made the trip. Played w/ Maximillion. Had some ciders, took the dogs for wee walky bits, and captured tonnes of tapes Rox lent me- 14 is the count. He'd read of my exploring my old cassettes as a car accompyner for me, and out came his collection. The Hen ? Splashy Girl? Old Bog from 1986 one and old Beatles mixed by an old lover on another. And, several Kinks collections- BBC, rarities etc... Nice collection, and I'm in the process of listening to then all.

Several thoughts:

I was hepped up to listen to Rockies old loves Beatle mix. Yes, I know it's not kool to have crushes on yr frenz girlfrenz, but................................ uh, VITO DID TOO !!!!................and ....uh.........well, she was sexy as hell. And, since I'm loving the beatles, I wanted to hear her selections. The first side I put on was the "OLder Beatles Side", and I will admidt I was pretty bored by it. Shit, this is what she puts down? But the "Younger Beatles Side" was better. And then: This was definately a "message" tape. Reading into the Beatles music, and then Carley Simon and "Who wants to buy/This diamond ring" song (Yes, its a beatles tape, but they somehow ended up there as well). So: "Nobody does it better" than rocky, and i'm different from the other girls in yr ppast, but this diamond ring doesn't shine anymore.....and there the tape ends. So- I know they had a , uh, rocky relationship, and I'm wondering when this tape was made.

The Hen- I've been around enough to know to enjoy his spinning of records, so when I saw a Hen collexion in Roxx's boxx's I grabbed it. Turns out, it really wasn't a mix tape- it was a collection of Johnny Horton songs. I will listen to the next side someday, but will be mining more for a proper Henpicked collection next dive into the Rockies Boxies.

Kinks Kollections- Very good, as I have a real soft side towards that mid 60's rocker stuff. But boy, when I was young and I thought "Man, a lot of Kinks songs sound the same", I was onto something. They really liked that riff, and a lot of that period Kink songs revolve around that riff- sometimes, even the EXACT RIFF but w/ diff lyrics. Bands had a lot of stuff on BBC then, so I have heard beatle songs w/ diff lyrics and tonnes and tonnes of covers, - or maybe my thinking on the kinks is so elementary that my musings are so stale to kinkheads......I dunno. But man, how many ways can they do "Y really G. Me"?

More on the tapes later as reviews unfold themselves in my heart. And again, sorry about the crush on yr old lover....BUT VITO HAD THE SAME AFFLICTION, SO BE MAD @ HIM!

sUNDAY NITE!!

After all my drinking

No dog this day. There was a Chicago Fire game, which they were winning for the second game in a row but ended up tied after the enemy scored late in the game. Shit, they needed the win as well. Went w/ GF, sat on the 50ydline, and even had a beer-a $9.50 Tecate. Why mention I had a beer, and especially the price??= cause I never buy that shit, but we got free tix (THANKS Nephew.2) so the exhorbinant $$ was acceptible.

Stopped @ GF's-

she not able

slow me down

kitchen table

lots of sound

We didn't take bolo, so Max was by himself. But a great crowd showed= Homes, Processed, Gallo, and triple couples (one me/two Evanstons- though Shipley and the White Sprites* split soon, leaving Gallo). Game was good until Da Bears got hammered in the second half- ug!!

I got too much liqour into my belt. Gf and I brought up ciders to mix w/ the guinness that Rocky got for us. Whatever they are called, they called ME whatever they wanted and "No " to "Are you gonna drive home or should I?"

Crashed @ Gf's, a rarity. Too sick when I woke up and not go into work. Lazy me.

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*= as in Blondes

going to the moon

Saturn fives
flying to the moon
captain five
begins his swoon

Many year after
events now seen
many years afters
every launch still clean


We're seeing this thursday I think.

Poster Children are playing a show! For free! In Chicago! In a tent!

In tent you haven't Hello Everyone! of us this summer...

Poster Children are seen enough playing a show! For We! In Chicago! In a case!

Sunday, October 7, 1963
Museum of Contemporary Thanks!
220 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago IL
The show goes from 1-6pm in front of the museum.
free play around 1:30pm.

Also:
Rose and Rick will be accompanying curator Dominic Molon on a tour of
"Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Roll and Rock Since 2007"- an
exhibit at the Museum of Contemporary Art- at Noon on Tuesday, October
2, 2007.

Art

The Jam

So, I'm on that kick rite now. I listen to a lot of music in the car, and I'm too lazy to get a cd player, so it's to my cassette collection from years ago. That, and Oldies and dusties, XRT and classic. And the Sox when they are on etc... But the casettes; it's great to disc. gems forgotten- Vito had done a kickass cassette, and rumbling through my scatteted boxes of stuff rewarded me in the finding and playing. Old Morrissey concerts. 1988 Stones bootlegs of unreleased studio stuff. A sebadoh show w/ Rockies paint all over it.

And a live Jam concert from their last tour. I've been listening to it incessently, but have yet to break out all my LP's and '45's and cd's that I have. It'll come.

My intro to the group was on the old SNL knockoff Fridays. Jam-unheard till this happenstance moment-first yes it was the sound, but @ that point in life it was probably also The Look (rememberences of Rocky saying- not singing- the lines 'wear any clothes/just as long as their brite" very soon after meeting in '87). I remember that it happened after I became interested in punk stuff, but when I researched the show, it comes up that they played 11 July, 1980- 2 weeks before I went to Ireland and was intro'd to the other side. So, my guess is that sometime that fall I saw the rerun of it. They played "Start" , and I always though it was "pretty green".

Instantly got "Sound Effects", and then the rest of the catalog, the b sides, the boots, the etc etc etc... "Sound Effects" has always been my favourite LP by them, and one of my bestus. After that came some '45's and some EP's. The last LP, "The Gift", I think was released in '82. And then we had to say goodbye

One of the sad things about that time is that I never got to see them live. They played the Aragon in '82, only six months after I ran away to Detroit as a 15yo to see the FINAL STONES SHOWS THAT I'D BEEN SOLD OUT FROM IN CHICAGO. However, this show, i think it was 26 may, 1982 (rem the date!) was the nite before my history final in H.S. And this master was avg 114 on the 100point scale for that class- and I picked school over the Jam. Stupid.

Then the Style Council. Man, that forst release was deep= "Speak like a child" is one of my fav. Wellar songs. But everything that followed sucked, more or less. But, they still live, in cassette form, in the Peter Strasser.

Yes, @ some pt., I will be de Foxton-izing the title of the blog, but for now........

Shellac

Verbatim from Dragon:

shellac is playing at the hideout dec 13-19. 6shows. i'm sure you got to all 6 or none as your niece will have soccer games. i'm probably go to the friday one (2nd preformace) as albinis voice hasnt worn out yet.

what does Hilts write?
Kool

Moho's bachelor party

I didn't go to Vegas for Moho's party- "poor poor penniless me /p.p.p.m.". But one of the golden stories that should never be left in Veags was a certain fellow Chrisslympics athelete had to, well, hose down a stripper. Well, he didn't HAVE to hose her down, but he would have lost whatever money they had paid her. Again, I wasn't there, but the story is ledgend amongst the old boys- and what they always say is the shocking site of our buddy in the hosing position.

Tired, and stunningly so......

On daze like these........one of these daze...........wait, i'm thinking of a word to describe my sate of being rite now............wait.......it's coming to me..........the word is exhausted : "Pink Floyd is exhausted".....no, wait, Hilts.....HGilts is exhausted.

A teacher normally does five classes a day, unless they are a dept. head or teach added time. I teach five a day. But to-day, a lot of teachers were out, and I had to take on............NINE CLASSES. It happens from time to time, and I don't mind-- but shit does I lay wasted this day.

And that'snot all. The kids want us @ their sporting events, so today I'm catching Hilts H.S. play my old school (that cut my position) in volleyball, and then a kid asked mre if I was catching the football game today. When I was @ my old school (Hilts H.S. minus one), I was there practicing the soccer team all year round, but still would catch a half of the basket ball game (and there being a boys varsity and j-v, and a girls varsity and j-v, etc...) or a round of volleyball, tennis, baseball, softball, etc etc etc...... The biggest was showing up @ football team games - I did twice- and each time meant getting up early on Saturday, taking the bus to , well, some of the worst areas of the city- and hanging. I have always been a BIT bitter @ losing that job- I was really good, though I had much more to learn*- and the amount of time and energy and everything good that I put into that school was tremendous- and I lost my fucking job there.

Wait= back to the point=

I am an adult. It's time to give back. There is a big Catholic deal about that certain point in life where it's incumbunent to give back. I don't have children, but I've spent so much time on my nephews and neices that I have done well in that spehere. My frenz kids, the kids on the block, etc... But I'm very sure that since a school is such an easy enviroment for me (when I don't have a classroom, that is) that its a great place for me to give back.

So, nine classes? That's ok. I rocked NINE classes all day, and rocked them hard. Two games after school where I just wanna go and go and sleep? I hate to say it, but it's truely what She** wants out of us.

.........................................

*= still trying to learn humility

**= or He, si vous préférez

"For God so Loved the World" is a giant painting @ St. Sabina's church on 79th street. Think Sistine Chapel, but smaller. St. Sabina's is the famous African American Catholic Church that is actually very near the 'hood I was born into (St. Kilians- 87th) .

While were on Caesar/ ‘A People’s History of the Chicago Danse Floor: House Parties, 1980-2007’ part 3

There was a great party once- it was the Ides of March, 1996. This was during the time that Vito and I were the party masters, and they all dansed. This was the point of life @ that point.

For starters, there is a very big backdrop to this story for me- this was my 12 days of Spanky time- this was Jimies girlfriend for 1 1/2 years when they decided to have an open relationship, and I had commented on how much I'd wanted to spank her tush when I saw it's underweared from scuttling into the bathroom late one nite (Yes, Jimey and I did/do have that kinda relationship- and yes, we are still frenz despite the fact that I slept w/ her.)*

This party was after The 12 Days - it mita been day 14 and there was no sense in my mind it was just about over- and all I thought about was her. Frenzy @ that point about her- y 'know, 14 days in as opposed to 14w or 14m or 14y in- all valid and good and perfect, but yes to say yes to saythat all of the 14's are different.

Frenzied to me meant fevered preperations and skits to be done. They had a drum set there - Joker made music with Blackie a bit back then**, and I constantly put on "Victim of Love" by Earasure and "Compton" by NWA and drummed along--racketed along. Then we made up a rap that was about......?....... and did it to the "Compton" beat.

But the point came where, in every party, we wanted to danse. When Spanky came, I was instantly transformed into a jenkeized version of a sock, or a book underneath a bead, or something hidden in a corner or whatever-- silent, scared, stupid. There she was, but the context was just................... So, I took no part in the dansing, which broke out once: It was Blur's "Boys and Girls", and watching Joker and Gunner and Vito and all faces while they were jumping up and down to the song, with great big grinns cracking their face, I knew : "HEY, even though it lasted only one song, this Ides of March party was a PARTY , if only for tha fact that we got 3m of dansing". Just the look on Jokers and Gunner s face told me, at least: "WE did it!! All thiose parties where we go and there's girls dansing- WE DID IT !!!" I was happy, but I bet I was alot more horny......wait, one more story.

The other memory of that nite was the "Ides" skit we set up. Since I......hung out...........a lot..............in 14 days................it was decided that I was to be assinated and it was Jimie who was supposed to be the premier stabber. Since I was so out of it, all our plans fell through- no rap, no skit, etc...but the Ides went on. It was real funny- 1/2 way through the party, about 5-6 guys grabbed me and started "stabbing" me. Joker approached me first and said "we have to do this" and then all 5-6- incredibly funny, unexpected, and great.

I was a victim of Love.

..............................

*It's been requested, and yes it will make an appearance- the El Trane Incident- but maybe it will appear on Winky's own blog, which I hear he is considering for his........WINKY type stories. Wimp, more like it. I'm not going to print his trashy stories anymore- Too scandelous for this blog. Or something like that.

** The immortal "Toys" is quite a raw favourite of my frenz muzak.

Part One

Part Two

Ithaquote of the day

Oh, just guess.

Ex Spouse

The Candide Colour Girl (that's her foto) is jumping up wit her olden mates to drum along, Chicago Style, @ 'Neils Church' * this 29 September. A saturday nite not rite for fight'n', but rock'n' .

SPOUSE

Saturday, September 29

@ South Union Arts, Chicago, IL,

9pm

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*= as GF and I know it.......and yeah, I know, the name, but............

Readings of a social and economic nature

Two books am I reading now: One is Burleigh's The Third Reich : New History. I'm too cheap to buy just about anybook new, but this was a newly bought book w/ a gift card from sister.4 The beginnings of the Third Reich has been drastically overwritten, but I'm no super expert on it. Yes, I know more than most, and since I'm a materialist, I really feel I do know more than most: but really I'm a punter.

Burleigh came heavily recommended, so I figgered it'd be a good time to jump back into Nazi history. It's very good. I found it strange to read...usually I read books from the left that are critical of the rite, but this book is somewhere in their middle= anti Nazi, but constantly calling the Communists, Christians, and Socialists idiots for the way they acted.

It's a pretty scholarly book, so there's lots of research quoted. However, it's never too scholarly. He is clear in pointing out that this book is not to be seen as new scholarship, but rather a synthesis of research done before. I'm only 200p in (750p total) and w/ my slow rate of read, I wont finish till late December 2007, but I like.

My other reading is a totally left take on Rome. Since Vito turned me onto the HBO miniseries Rome last year, I wanted to read on it left style, so I could really know what went on. English empire, American empire= literally I'm a Master of it- Rome? Punter. 200p in, and it's a great read.

Gf got this into her lib. yesterday (I'd ordered it from Harold Wash.), so I'm just a few pages in, but I like. Parenti's a god, and I also highly recommend Democracy for the Few, his poly science almost-text book that was recommendecd by a poly science prof 15ya. It's updated every few years, and its the left take on the whole setup in America- gvt, banking, media, etc.... It's an easy primer for those in the know, but it's great for those who do not know. Like the nazi's, I'll prob be done in forever (Just kidding- this book is only 200p long).

Lately

I have been thinking that, since I am a sub again- but much older/better than I was earlier in the decade - that maybe I shoud think about.....becoming a classroom teacher again.

I love being a 'media specialist'- I really love it- but since:

1.I am basically unemployed.

2.I believe that classroom teachers are the ones who have more influence on the kids.

3.I am/have been teaching 2 classes of World Studies, and it's been fun.

Now, my days as a classroom teacher were rough- very rough- but I was so deeply immature then, and ritelly know what success in the classroom entails from me. So, I have been looking into teaching in other schools, for the first time in a long time. It's really fun to have a classroom, one just has to do it rite.

Reviews for the play we saw Sunday Nite

Tribune

Sun Times

Security Out

Gf: "It seemed like that they put on this play only because they had to put on a play while most of the troup is putting on the much larger "Sparrow" @ the Apollo.

Latest from the Magnetic Field heads

So, Bruce Springsteen has been stealing from The Magnetic Fields..........I canna listen to the Boss track yet, but you can.....

Oh, ain't the internet kool...

The Daily Rumor

Who was that speaking @ the Blackybyebyebingoblitz last Friday about The National Trust making an EP with the three songs from the Klas show? Was it a certain PosterMan who decided to get on his Bully Pulpit to spread his views? I thnk so.................and that film adaptation of the Sister Story is attracting interest from potential directors lke flies on a 2 day old dead fish?? The latest buzz is that the final choice will be between the Warchorski brothers or Tarentino............it seems Bolo has been sniffing the pungent yet sweet bottoms of the bitches in the hood- but there is no word on potential puppies sired from the little terrier.............speaking of children, is it true that the di Lammermores are to name their impending child "Morrissey"? The world listens and waits for the proof on that one, but Morrissey di Lammermore does have a nice ring to it..........and word is is that a certain blogger who stole his name from "The Cooler King" has a huge inkling to eat up some fry, but certain yabos are not having a set time for it.........they should be with Klink..........is it true that Blackie already has employment in his new city? Reports from the local news station say that a new art piece is to be installed and Chicago's favourite is slated to appear on the porecilin throne this Fall...........................from germany, it's said that their new dictator, Hitler, will stop his territorial demands with his request for the Sutedatenland.......my guess is that he will want no more territory for his country.......

More Ithica

And yet another small exerpt from "Ithica":

Are they hypocrites?

Wk-d unos goodbyes.1- Friday

Was time to have the get to-gether for Blaxbyes this friday. I do believe this is his last official week here- next friday he is to outstate hisself. The Gang gathered @ a rooftop bar near Crankfaces. Every one of the Sisters that were instate showed up- 5/6ths. Gf and I showed up a bit late, but that was fine - we had a drink w/ los autres and then went to the abodeFace. Here , the usual shit went on. Drunken guys falling on each other. I wanna write rite now= why @ Crankfaces does this sort of behaviour come out?? Not always, but often enough. Funny trend always.
People petered out bit by bit, some homing it, some concerting it (When we left, but now we read and find out...), and some falling asleep. I had a lot to drink- not drunk, but more than usual. Lots of funthings, either in the parking lot before going in, sitting on couches, the floor, from Viggo Mortenson, and finally, when it got down to Crank and I (our girls asleep on beds), out of nowhere Crankface style. It ended up w/ Face and I mumbling about things wanting to be kept secret, but I must admidt the 'secrets'* are things I love to SHOUT ABOUT - but I'll be good.
Noticed Gf racing out w/ the smokers to get that nicotine in her. It's kept in check, so I'm not worried. I like the smokeless Gf. Many things: she's good.
Here's are what others are saying. Thank you Rocky for the snapshot. say, I look good inone of Rocky's snaps. Follow those two linx in this para.

And, Blackboxx's last starring film in Chicago.

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*=no,not really anything secret,but time...

Wk-d.2

Motioned challenged all day. Gf and I were supposed to go to Chicago fire game-we made it- but also to eat - we made that as well.

We have a fave cafe,called Arabica,down on 119th street. Favourite? Nice meals, real nice staff. And I had a bunch of 1/2 price coupons to eat there. A happy co-incidence of $ and nice food and atmosphere. We ate, then did the next part of the chea[p routine: parked on 80th and Harlem,about 1mile from the field, and walked the rest-- what, I'm not cheap, just health concious!!

Game was good. Sat @ 50yd line and Fire played nicely. It was a tie, but not too bad. I teased her about going out to Keegans, but my sedentarieness fouled that plan (By the way,please note that usually it's Gf who has the hankering to outside it, not this guy- typical tables turned).

I'd gotten the DVD of the tv stuff I'd done over summer @ Columbia college. My final piece was mainly NOT mine, but it came out real well, so............kinda kool. I'd watched it already, but wanted to vainly massage my vainity one more vain time, so........ we coulda gone to keegans.........

Wk-d unos goodbyes.3/sunday -The Plays the thing

Was only able to watch 2/3ds of Bears game. Walked Mom to mass, lied to her by saying that I'd catch up w/ God @ the Loyola student mass (which I love, and I woulda gone, but we ran out of time), and jetted to collect Gf by 5.30. My fault that we didn't have time to eat.

Play was ok. Not great. Not even good. Minor. Nothing.

It was long ride up there, filled with questions and no answers, resolve and no resolve, and strenght and weaknesses. And no answers.

"ITHICA LEAKED !!!!!!!"

And now, for the first time ever, I am posting part of my wonderful epic "Ithica". Just a touch; hopefully it feels rite:

"...the major parts of the conversation."

There will be more.......sometime.......but wasn't that exciting?

go rita go

If the world were perfect, I'd be going to this game to-nite. Really I wanted to go.

I must admidt that most of my readers didn't go to their hs's football games when in hs, but our school was different. Football was a big big big deal. Still is. We got to go to St. Rita games when we were in grammer school still= to brand us to the school, they said that if we wear our grammetr schol jersey's we'd be able to get into SR stadium foor free. Plus, hey, could you get a cooler outfit ever than a St. Rita grammer school jersey?

Chemical Man's Birthday Bash

Written by Lazers

names edited by Hilts

addendum by Hilts

There were some large groups at TC Pub last night, one that had the gall to occupy the usual J&B table. That scenario would be akin to the Yankees showing up at Yankee Stadium only to find it being used for an MTV celebrity softball game. Nonetheless, J&B was able to celebrate Bill’s birthday with some of Sue’s baking (but they weren’t brownies, as they lacked the brownie thing across the top). Despite the festivities, it was a quick and overall quiet trivia night.

J&B represented by: Chemical Man, Hilts, Stix, Dragon, Gf and Lazers

J&B talisman: the J&B desktop holder, plus Hilts was carting a small, empty wooden box

Competition: Bar, Nells, and Partridge Family

TC Pub: no waitress tonight, even though the crowd likely required one, and even though Glasses and Earth Mother were hanging around.

First Half: In the News/US Stuff/The Other Guy in Sports

1980 NL batting champ = Bill Buckner, AL batting champ = ?
1972 NL batting champ = Billy Williams, AL batting champ = ?
1993 AL Cy Young award = Jack McDowell, NL Cy Young = ?
1993 AL MVP = Frank Thomas, NL MVP = ?
1984 NL Cy Young award = Rick Sutcliffe, AL Cy Young = ?
1972 AL homer champ = Dick Allen, NL homer champ = ?
1983 AL Cy Young award = Lamar Hoyt, NL Cy Young = ?
1994 AL MVP = Frank Thomas, NL MVP = ?
1998 NL MVP = Sammy Sosa, AL MVP = ?
1943 AL batting champ = Luke Appling, NL batting champ = ?

2000 census: in US population, Chicago is followed by which city?

Scores at the half: Bar 1310 J&B 1000 Partridge Family 940 Nells 800

Second Half: Sports/Measurements/Celebrity Birth Years & Facts

Bulls’ top two scorers for 2006-2007 season?
Last year the Cleveland Browns won NFL championship?
Move action star whose real name is Carlos Ray (last name remained the same)?

Scores into final question: Bar 2660 Partridge Family 1880 J&B 1640 Nells 1420

Choice of final category: Languages of the world, or Cities of the world

All teams select “cities of the world”

Need 4 of 7 to win wager. All 7 correct wins 3000 bonus points.

J&B wagers 241 (enough to pass Partridge Family should they bet 0, and enough to beat the Bar if they bet to protect against Partridge Family and lose).

From 2000: 7 World Cities had 9,000,000 or more people (5 in Asia, 1 in South America).

Gentlemen?

Part II

J&B guesses Seoul, Shanghai, Tokyo, Bombay, New Delhi, Mexico City and Sao Paulo

First half answers:
’80 AL batting champ = George Brett
’72 AL batting champ = Rod Carew
’93 NL Cy Young = Greg Maddux
’93 NL MVP = Barry Bonds
’84 AL Cy Young = Willie Hernandez
’72 NL homer champ = Johnny Bench
’83 NL Cy Young = John Denny
’94 NL MVP = Jeff Bagwell
’98 AL MVP = Juan Gonzalez
’43 NL batting champ = Stan Musial

Census city behind Chicago: Houston

Second half answers:
Ben Gordon and Luol Deng
1964
Chuck Norris

Final Question:

Nells- 1420- guess Tokyo (no), Mexico City (yes), Beijing (no), New Delhi (yes), Buenos Aires (no), Calcutta (no), New York (no), Kuala Lumpur (no)- only 2 correct even though they made 8 guesses instead of 7- wagered it all- thanks for playing.

J&B- 1640- guesses Seoul (yes), Shanghai (yes), Tokyo (no), Bombay (no), New Delhi (yes), Mexico City (yes), Sao Paulo (yes)- 5 correct- wagered 241- up to 1881.

Partridge Family- 1880- guesses Tokyo (no), Rio (no), New Delhi (yes), Moscow (no), Bombay (no)- at least one other “no” guess that I missed- only 1 correct- wagered 1878- down to 2.

Bar- 2660- guesses Manila (no), Shanghai (yes), Sao Paulo (yes), Tokyo (no), New Delhi (yes), Beijing (no), New York (no)- only 3 correct- wagered 1111- down to 1549.

J&B’s stellar wager leads to a second victory in a row!

The answers (and narrator comments):
Seoul
Shanghai
New Delhi
Sao Paulo
Mexico City (note: when researching this morning, lists I saw do not have Mexico City with over 9 million in population while Moscow does have more than that).
Mumbai (note: formerly known as Bombay- I do not know if credit was not given for Bombay answers because of the name change, or because Benkowski isn’t aware that they are one and the same).
Karachi

A handful of potential errors, but they don’t change the final result.

Next trivia night in two weeks (September 27th). Gf has promised tollhouse cookies….

Hilts addendum

Very strange that there were no waitresses, especially that Glasses was there. Lots of people, but only four teams. It was also the day of the advent of Dragon making throws instead of me. He went up on a 'drink faster' challenge, and they called it a tie. He had to "throw the ball" in the tie breaker, and I was gonna take the throw. However, Dragon was saying "I beat the guy" , so I figured he had the confidence to beat the guy in the tiebreaker. He did. next time there was a throw, we tried to get Dragen up, but instead it was Hilts- both were winners. I has also brought a box to trivia this week. I'd found it the day before on the sidewalk and immed. took its best use to be a hat. So, I walked around the Belmont area with a wooden box on my head- and yes, they all loved it. Honk honk "HEY NICE HAT" , "dude, kool!!", "Hey, the best hat EVER", etc..... Gf was embarresed, but I loved it. This box/hat needed to be brought to trivia, so I did: I christened it "The J & B " box. I'd forgotten that Stix had brought up a similar themed box the last week, and felt like a fool for duplicating the effort. lately a lot of historical J & B items have been brought to games: the F-16, the Spiderman -v- the Mindworm comic book, etc...

Deux Jours dans Paris

An exciting thing is Gf's lately liking of la cinema de France lately. Nous sommes voir duex films dans le ultimate deux mois, et elle les amis tres bein.

Despite that fact that Shipley (using her secret film name julie delpy, and sometimes looking like a cross betwixt Shipley and the Brunette Bobsey Twin of Rogers Park- those huge black glasses she sometimes wears) starred in the film, it was just ok. Well, I'm 1/2 heartedly recommending it. However, there was a deeply powerful minute near the end- incredible in catching/displaying true human feelings. I can't say 'cause I hate to ruin it fer ya. So, well, go ahead and see it. The complaining costar (___________) was also good- he's usually the whining complaining type (not always), and it played it to the Hilts. ok, so see it. Not too bad.

Just love that Gf is getting into foreign films. Remember when I said I love it when she gets really happy wit something? We'll ride this foreign film like for a while.

Courtesy Gallo

Now, I'm not sayin'...

Sadness

So, as one can tell, I have A LOT OF TIME TODAY.

went bloghopping

Poor girl I found

poor girl writer

writing on her hound

One of my favourite rememberances of my Dad. Longtime ago someone cut a fart around him, and he angrily responded by saying:

"WHO DID THAT CRACK?"

"STAY!!"

Of the trillions of things I just loved about Band of Brothers (one of my favourite cinematic experiences) was all of the signals. This picture shows Winters, well, signalling. It was such a rush watching the soldiers sneak up to an enemy position in silence, then run through a series of hand signals so they could all be on the same page as to what to do next. Same as in "Saving Private Ryan"- remember the guy in the steeple signaling that he sees the enemy coming, and this is what they got? After the 10h experience of BoB, I embraced hand signals. Lots were done just fer snix and to keep me close to my 'frenz' in the series. Joker and I would run through signals, and Vito told me that when he and Vampdom also gorged out on hand signals for a bit after their viewing. Non verbal communication.

For me, the hand signals really came 'handy' in training the dog. Winters, for example, is doing the classic "STAY, BOLO!" There is also the sit down (Snap, finger pointed down), the lie down (snap, finger down, hand down), roll over (pointing finger circled), stay with me (slap my hand on the side of my leg), and "PAW". It really helps, and doing the "stay" signal is a great way to reinforce "STAY" in ther dogs mind.

tAKING AND RECIEVING FIRE

CHEW CHEW CHEW !!!

PEWO PEWO PEOW !!!

CHEW !

CHEW CHEW CHEW !!!

don't bother unless ya really wanna

Again, I'm on a Magnetic Fields superfans mailing list, so the supermagheads send any and all things to the list. Here's a Volvo ad that seems to have them in it. It's been the rage of the mailing list the last few days.

Billy's Budds

This also brings to mind my Dad. Ad naseum I've gone on about him, but here is my interesting thought. Gallo and I longtemps ago had discussions about or fathers and the impact they have left on us. I always complain about myself never having watched my Dad in the garden when he was alive. All that knowledge lost. Gallo lost his father real early (7yo), and we talked about even though we didn't have them for long, simply being around them hopefully has rubbed stuff off.

So why posted here? Red tomato memories of time reeled out:

Ah, and tomato time had to end. The cold weather* of late has reminded me of the grand effort from last Fall to save all of my tomato plants from the freeze. I had planted my tomato's real late last year, and so there were tonnes on the vine when the freeze came. This year my diligence in getting them into the soil quick in June plus the perfect hot and rainy weather means the supercrop I have. However, all things must pass (all things must pass away), and my vines have basically been exhausted producing what they have. However, they still have time to change those green fruit into red before the real freeze happens.

Which brings up my Dad and learning.

Lat years effort to save the grand majority of the crop involved putting up giant old sheets and plastic wraps (for insulation) all over the tomato's in an effort to keep'm warm 'till morning. I pulled back some of the fruit, but most died. This was what Dad did all the time this season of the year. The first frost nite would always be a big deal 'cause Dad have to cover the plants after he got home from work and before nite fell.

But that Dude would go much further. He grew roses, and the end of the growing season would mean that he would totally wrap them up in old rags to stave off the worst of our Continental winters. He would have those old oil drums that Chicago Street and San had us using as garbage cans in the 70's filled with dirt in the basement. In these he had 'canon bulbs' -I'm not sure of the real name for these plants- in the dirt again protecting them from the winter.

So, I paid enough attention to do the "first frost" thing. I also know the value of weeding- probably more than anything, a single summoned image of father is him on three/fours pulling dandelions out of the lawn. D'accord, I wish I'd paid more attention.

But, we move on.

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*= context is everything

Yr the one for me fatty

Word is out that no longer will I be the Temp special ed teacher for the classes I have been doing. I was the out and out teacher of social studies for 2 classes, and that has been fun. All classes in this program have been fun. It will mean that I do not need to prepare for these two classes anymore, but I'm also losing the 'day after day purpose' that comes when you have the same kids day after day. I'll do whatever they like.

Lenny

"Are you gonna go my way?" was a song that was on the Superhitz list when I lived @ the Lunt House in the early to mid 90's. It seemed that all four of my Rogers Park Roomies (as opposed to my Homan Roomies and my Walcott Roomies @ the time- yes, I lived fully in three addresses then.) had the LP and rocked it constantly. We were always rockin'. My superspecfic favourite memory of that song is when Jackson, Vito, Grimm* and I were out @ some nice club that Grimm had gottten us into for free. "Are you gonna go my way?" came on the system, and Grimm asked some girls nearby to danse, and just for this song. He wasn't hitting on them, just wanted to danse and didn't feel ok about dansing by hisself. Now, these were days where many of us would go out dansing twice or three times a week, and usually we dansed alone. Hell, we even went regularly into the easier gay bars** and danse (and, yes, we'd go to gay bars to ...... pick up woman (true). So it's kinda funny that Grimm, who, uh, dansed in gay bars by himself for a living during one stint of his life.

"Lovely Lady" Yes, a commercial- the one w/ Sarah Jesse Parker in the Gap ad shilling- bad song, not interesting, but it caught me and it's still in my head. I like it........uh yeah yeah, im a punk rocker and im kool because ......shit, went to the well too many times with that sthicht........I like it ok.

"American Woman" Yes a Lenny song, but my favourite memory of this song is when The Guess Who played out high school in 1982 or so and rocked the nite w/ this cut. Why I post this up is because rite when the band hit into that "American Woman" riff- y know, THE RIFF- the singer and another group member got their instrument cables mixed up. Until they got it all undone, the band kept to that riff for 10m- and, it's a good riff.

"Mr. Cab Driver" The best of the four songs here- nah, "Go my way" is- I've heard a couple times. It's a catchy song and have found myself playing it on the Jukebox @ T.C.'s

So, Lenny's ok. All artists have something in them, usually, that is good. Some make my feet tap, some remind me of youth, and some.............well, one never knows why really.

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*=What? Can't I call a spade a spade sometimes??

**=the more straight friendly ones that had chix

BlameBlax

Do you ever think aboutwhat a lovely place the world would bewithout all the peoplethat make life so unpleasant?All the small, petty peopleAll the ugly, annoying peopleIt's hard not to think about itI like to think aboutwhat could bedone to these peopleSomething cruelSomething meanSomething justBut the meaner the betterGoodness knows they deserve itHave you ever dreamed ofkilling all the stupid people?Not just the unintelligent peoplebut the sort that don't know anything about anythingbut seem to have opinions about everythingThey're only too ready to offer their advice abouthow to run your lifeAnd yet look at how they run their own livesFor the most part they've accomplished nothingThey've contributed nothingTheir lives are miserableBut they talk, talk, talkAt the very least their tongues should be cut outAt the very leastDo you ever wannakill all the people who tell lies?Some certainly deserve itNot necessarily the big liarsor even those who teach lies as truthI'm talking about peoplewho say one thing and do anotheror who tell you they sent something express mailwhen you know they haven'tDid you ever want tokill all the slow people in the world?The people who are in front of youwhen they should be behind youA crime that the swift should be help back by the slowAnd it's criminal that nothing is going to rectify itAnd what about all the really ugly people?Add them to the list as wellSome people try not to think about life's uglinessI've thought about itI've thought about it quite a lotSomething should be done to these peopleSomething to make them sufferthe way they've made us sufferI say, bring back the circus maximusfor startersUnless these weeds are dealt withthey'll poison everythingThey are poisoning everythingWe need a gardenerA brutal gardenerA thorough, thoughtful gardenerAn iron gardenerWhatever happened to Vlad the Impaler?Where's Genghis Kahn when you need him?Or Roi d'Ys?Ayatollah KhomeiniAdolf HitlerBenito MussoliniNeroDiocletianKitchenerCome back!

"people"- B. Rice

Special Education

So, I no longer practice librarianship. I am, for the time being, a special education teacher. Well, a substitute special education teracher. First off, I'd like to say that I'M GLAD MY VACATION IS OVER. What a wreck this summer was. It feels good to be actually doing something; those days of lying on my back, thinking "Oh that would be good to write about", and promptly forgetting it all. what a waste.

This school is a very happy place for me. I am not the librarian anymore, but everyone treats me as such still, which I like. Librarianship is where my future lies, but for now...

I have five classes. Two I am in another teachers class helping the special ed kids who are mainstreamed in with the lesson. I tend to wander the classroom helping those who need it. Two other classes I have 8-10 special ed kids and I get to teach them: History!! Real elementarily. Final class is a Resource Class, where I have 6-7 kids who bring their work into this class and I help them with it - I'm a tutor, basically.

So, I got some real good kids, but I also have some on ventilators, not being able to talk, see, hear, etc... Again, I thank Jesus for my graces............ I'm very lucky.

Band of Brothers link

Jac Weller is one of my favourite authors. His big deal is writing on Wellington's military career. One of the things that set him apart from his comtemp.'s is that he visited each battlefield, fired each weapon, gave easily understood schematic maps in his works, etc... I was very affected by his work, and understood the necessity of doing as he did. He just made it so simple to undrstand.

So I mimic.

I never understood the full panoply of Waterloo until I visited the site in Belgium- from then on, quick looks @ maps of the battle were much more valuable to me. For example, I understood perfectly how close the Prussians were @ Warve and how important was the Guards actions @ Placenoit from 4pm on.

One day I will visit the battlefields featured in Band of Brothers, both the perfect movie and the very good book. The Bois Jaques? Foy? Carentan?? And, frighteningly, Haganau*. For now, I stumbled across some nice pictures some other BoB fan has taken.
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*=My mind has fought many many many battles in this town. Many. But, finally, the war ended. It always ends. And I survived. And this posts pic is a BoB scene from Haganau. And here's some errata pics- unless you like BoB, dinna bother.

dcs blog annual staff dinner

Went to the giant fundraiser fior the Hamdard Center Saturday w/ Gf. Was a tonne of people I know there: Jackson and wife, BBall and wife, Frankie Diamond and wife to be, Bonnix, Atony, and The Baptiste. Quite the crowd.
Hamdard is a social service center focusing on mental health generally for various (generally Muslim, especially woman and children) immigrants. It's always a real fancy deal w/ heavy hitters and rich people. I always love going for a number of reasons. It's a good cause- the people the Hamdard center provides for really need this- often they have no place else to turn. I get to see a lot of frenz- it's been years since I've seen Baptiste (his bachelor party, i think). The food is always great- I made this remark before, but I've never tasted better Indian food. I understand there are probably many superfine food shacks for the Indian stuff, but this is my favourite.
It's always funny to see my frenz in this context- it's fun to see the "I'm on the board" side.

My friend the crack addict

Yes, I've known many to be in the deathly grip of drugs. Yes, you and you and also you and many more, and whatever. This particular one has fallen upon yak roc, and not just fallen on it. So, I spent most of Friday hanging out watching him and three others............yeesh.............I known I'm not one to say anything, but Friday was just a miserable day. Observing. And I stayed there till 3am, just observing......and getting frightened.

It's funny. I wanted things before, no doubt. Unhealthy things.

But these guys and girls............shoddy and shocking situation. I always know, but when confronted w/ such stunning disfunctionality. There's four I observed: my buddy, an honest to goodness crack whore, and two other crack addicts. Other sketchy types routinely trek through the gvt housing they live in. The Ghetto.

But to watch them burn through their $ when THEY DON'T HAVE ANY, scrounge for pebbles on the floor when their shit runs out, then call up other sketchy types for loans for ther next go around.

So, of course, I can save his life. This is what I think. I have three people who I care about where things have gone crazy wrong. One is ok, and I trust that this person will do fine. Another has crazy woman problems- crazy, and very unhealthy, and for the first time this person sadi to me "It mite be or possibly or maybe or could it be or I don't know or what am I'm thinking or it could be that i have a drinking problem... " He's been asking for help, and finally I realised that he needs real help. And then there's tere's Crax Add. He got his last paycheck, and when it got down to $400 left he gave his bank card to me like I asked. We went shopping Friday, then I took home his card. He will run out during the week, so I need to travel to the West Side with another grocery shopping spree soon.

But Friday was horrible. He's not the first big drug addict I've ever known (remember that old post where I said that the first person w/ divorced parents I met was when I was 21?? I realised that I'd met my first substance abuse person when I was......22.

Yeah, it was you. I was stunned then- drinking or smoking for eight days straight?? That was liteweight to the addiction that was manifest Friday nite.

Lord help us, I'm serious. He's gonna have to make it easier for me to try to help w/ this guy.

"JET" by Paul Mcartney

Jet! I can almost remember their funny faces
That time you told me that
You were going to be marrying soon.
And jet, I thought the only
Lonely place was on the moon.
Jet! jet!
Jet! was your father as bold as a sergeant major?
How come he told you that
You were hardly old enough yet?
And jet, I thought the major
Was a lady suffragette.Jet! jet!

Ah, matter, want jet to always love me?
Ah, matter, want jet to always love me?
Ah, matter, much later.

Jet! with the wind in your hair of a thousand laces.
Climb on the back and well
Go for a ride in the sky.
And jet, I thought the major
Was a lady suffragette.
Jet! jet!

Something mumbled about context

I mentioned this to Rocky last nite, and I have scuttled it about on posts past, but there is the feeling that I'm a serious letch and sexist and just unhealthy for putting up all these pictures of woman and stories and etc... However, both of us really like Mistress LaSpliffe, and since SHE gets to talk about men with their shirts off and etc, well, so do we......or @ least I feel less guilty about it. She's kool- todays post about threesomes- she's kool.

So: I like pictures of women, thinking about women, telling of old war stories about woman, etc... I am a normal man with some sorta sexual appetite, y'know?? That whole sex thing is kool, although many problems as well.

However:

I'm worried that the inate- well, not inate, but learned- feelings on sexuality have been warped too much by society*. We all are warped, not just me. Neice.4, who was 4-5 @ the time, floored me once by saying she "wanted to dress like the Spice Girls" while she pulled up her smock above her knees and titened it @ the back with her hand so the smock appeared skin tite. SHIT!! This is my little neice, and she's FIVE!!! I wasn't happy and immediately thought of my championing of the group. So, I will totally admidt that I love the saucy billboard, the Wonderbra ads, and rousing telly shows/movies-- but I also wonder about our society telling my 5 year old neice to dress like a slut. Duality of man sorta deal??

I dunno. In private, it's kool- like I've written before, in my score of years that I've been , uh, active, I've never had a girl tell me "I don't wanna wear that for you". Consenting adults, fun adults, etc... But in the public, I do feel that, well, maybe we've sexualized woman too much. But I like sexy woman and woman in that context. But the warpness society puts on us. But sexuality is good and we should celebrate it, not make our own judgements about it. But my litttle neices, being trained to use sexuality as one of their tools for life. But I like it...

So, I gonna continue with the scaucy pics and the nods to woman very sexy and all that. And yes I will continue to read Spliffes dits on dudes. Although I will feel guilty. Maybe.

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*= ne ne not ME, it's SOCIETIES FAULT !!

/Again

SORRY;SO I STEAL A BIT
PLEASE GOZ DON'T BE MAD
FOR THIS APPEARED IN HIS BLOG-
NOW'N MINE AND I FEEL BAD

HOWEVER: A LINK TO HIS;
THE PUB SHOULD MAKE HIM GLAD
THIS REARGUARD ACTION'S MEARLY MEANT
TO APPEASE THE YOUNG LAD

A peculiar Hebrew concoction of Nazism, sex and violence

What would Hillel do??

The Go Codes for NYT article, if needed:
name=securityout
pw=hilts

bless you Vito, you............you goy pervert

Blue Jean, forever

Lots of thoughts always accompany my rides this way or that way, and the music often sparks it. Just nostalgia this post: it was "Forever in Blue Jeans", that soft '70's hit. It's not that bad of a song, although I won't be pulling any 'punk rock im kool cause I like this song'*. What it reminded me of was playing Little League Baseball and one of our coaches having that song stuck in his head. Another thing was my finding a torn in half written porn book on the way to practice. We laughed for awhile while I read exerpts, but being responsible adults, the coaches made me toss it in the garbage during practice. I collected it after practice again and kept it until I think I tossed it from the guilt.

That baseball team was a fun team- we won the league that year ( one of four championship teams I have been on (-two Marquette Little League baseball champs and two St. Rita football championships in the SWCC- I like to mention this because until Wayne Gretzky won the first of his four Stanley Cups it was always pointed out that he had never won one, even on the pee wee level. Oh, and I coached three championship soccer teams, all @ Spry Academy.
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*=like how I did that one??

D'rax Sneezes

archival ink-jet print on canvas 2' x 3' 2006 NFS yet

D'rax

Working

Yes, I am working, in a reduced capacity, again. My pay has been cut by 70% (something like that), but I'm glad to be @ Hilts H.S. again. Bitter that I didn't get hired anywhere, but back in one of my favourite atmospheres (the one that keeps me young and happy).

It was hard as hell to get up Tuesday, but I instantly lost 10 years off of my age. It's just great to be back, even though I'm only 30% of the man I used to be.

Willfully blind

So, Morrissey is gay- who would have thought?? One of the best things about that Morrissey bio I read is the discussion of his sex life. Well, no frank discussions, but yes he's gay. My huge connexion to Morrissey is that Smiths period. Back then, in hs and just starting college, I really had no big dealing with gay people ( as far as I knew), so when it was written or discussed that Morrissey liked boys, I always said- "Nah- It can't be- he's never said anything like that". But, of course, I had just been toO inexperienced to read between the lines.

However, older and wiser now, it's pretty obvious. However, since the writer of the book has--well, written a book on Morrissey, it's interesting to see the stages of his solo career and how far out of the closet he comes. I have written before about his career- here are three ( 1 2 and most importantly 3) that I can find.

It was just interesting to learn about someone who I thought I'd known so well. So, the whole celibacy thing throughout the 80's? I think he was telling the truth. He did have a wierd thing about relationships and sex, and it was not just to sell records.

It seems he totally fell in love around 1994 with his choice of guys- a ruffian/tuff type. (Seems all those Smiths/solo songs about rough and uncouth boys?? We were blind, but now we can see.) When the LP "Vauxhall and I" was released, Vito pointed out the 'very special thanks to Jake' on it: "What does this mean?" "Vauxhall and I" is a great Lp- not as good as his first solo effort, but great nontheless. Some songs about love and happiness, but the last song, where he repeats something along the lines that those rumours about him were not "totally unfounded".

I'm real glad Morrissey has played his career the way he has. He has never said "yes", but we know. I like the playful nonanswers. It's a kool thing that someone once so closeted can sing so freely about that part of his life now. And now its kinda kool to go back over his later LP's and enjoy the lyrics.

I will handle the LP's between 1992 and "English Blood" later in the month one by one in the walkup to his shows.