22 November, 2010

Fassbinder

Seems Fassbinder (the rock and roll group - check out the Myspace for this band - pretty spare, but .... ) will be amking its first apearance in hilts living room on thanksgiving. Years past th kids would rummage through my acres aof cloths,a nd since Ive been an eclectic dresser for several decades now, there's lota stuff for th kids to play dressup with and look totally goofy. We used to little skits - but since this year I can actually claim to be an actualy musician - and Neice.1 is as well - nd I have a collection of instruments now - we we'll stwitch to a music show this year.

The 8 kids, Bolo, Mom and I are the memebrs of Fassbinder (original single put out under 'Pasolini Trio' moniker here:



No kids in that song- but they will be in the rrst of them. There are problems some of the kids are not, un, quite the freak that their uncle is - so i totally see the three boys not being 'kool enough' to get involved. I have a feeling all 5 girls - if they are allowed by their parents - will take art.

one plan is o come uo w. a totally original song, centered about Gramma. Then maybe 2 covers - Ive been practicing "What yr doing" by the Beatles, which I first started playing Thurday, and it's one of those songs where the riff gets under yr skin - and so it is SO HARD to walk by the guitar and not pick it up. Playing guitar is very often a great joy. But so much work remains to be done.

I'm hepped up for this Thanksgiving. Should be fun to play w. the kids.

Was lovely

...and the thoughts, lovely just. Made my aduly bookclub debut, having rea donly 40% of the book. It was Ice Berg Slim's Mama Black Widow. I've always loved autobio's and novels by African Americans because truely they offer a slice of life I never knew existed. When I was younger, especially - constantly reminded by reading what a DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE different peoles have here - and my thoughts are not the universal thoughts of ths country.

But - the book club. Good showing - Gallo, Homes, Dagwood, Rocky, Jbird, The Hen, and Army Z's girlf (who am I missing?). Funny, because these dudes wanted some sorta ALLCOCK party, where girls are not allowed. Therew as some quibbling about this or that girl invited - but even though it was a gay book and a gay movie, don't we want that female element involved in the discussion -WAIT WAIT WAIT - I just ralised that 100% of these fuxs are married, and so .....

Oh. we did more that laugh when the word "mit" was used in the book and all that - we ate and drank goodly. Gallo had jubbled up the dished ths nite, and the Deustch fare was fairly fantastic. Loved it. Kraut and suusages and all that. Loved it. Also good to dehouse myself and hang out in evanston - watched Bears game thursday nite @ Rocky's w. Gallo.

So - proximo beis I actually read the book fully.

The Pratzen Heights

My life, early on it seems now to do a slite juxtaposition w. Austerlitz, present sitution w. me on the heights, but before the huge counterattack that left the Russian army in shambles rambling backwards in defeat.

Funny, Ive hard a lot of experience being unemployed - but this time surely is worst. I'm too old, these days, and my 2/20 vision on the future hurting, and bad. Earlier days, I was young and couldn't care less. However, the loss of that one girl, who was looking to get married and have babies several yars ao (and did that) when I wasnt yet - (and am still not) - ready for - has totally changed my mind on maturing and all that. I was happy last year that I actually made $10k+ than her (smugishly happy, tho' I knew she'd bnever find out - or care)- but this year it will be .... $80k less than her. That's actually not the big deal, tho'

The added point is that I would really like to buy this house when I can. However, being unemployed destroys that- they wont give any sorta loan to the jobless. So, unless I get hooked up soon, I sense I may lose anychance to buy this house - which my mom wants me to do eventually.

And the unemployment benefits!! I get somethinglike $390/week in unemployment insurance. Now, I ve bnever gotten this before - kinda funny - but since I cannot even substitute (econ.s so bad that they stopped newly unemployed teachers from signing up, since so many recently unemployed teachers had already signed up to do it), I'll take it. I have lotsa bills - $330 for corba a month, rent, food, etc etc... so Im gonna have to start budgeting soon. That'll be fun - I love to budget and do w/out - but, again, something new since I started piling up the cash 15y.a.

So I dunno. There are very scarce jobs available in CPS. I may be screwed forever. But, on I go. Again scouted what was available in CPS, am willing to work in the worst enviroment - and started looking seriously again today.

Sitting arounf may have been ok for earlier years - but I gotta get going.

20 November, 2010

book club!

Was never involved w. anysorta book club I wa an active participant in besides school based ones whene we read kids stuff. Now I am. Trying to finish up "MamaBlack Widow" for tonites events, which included company, dinner, book discussion, and "Fox and his Friends" - combo combo combo diner/book/fassbinder club club club.

Kool. Strange rules. Heard that originally no women were allowed - then there was one thought he crax - then not ...then....... to quote one of the members when i asked him ((@ a party years ago where chix were swimming)) if I should fone Blackie to come over and he said basically "Why ask a dude to comever - so may women here). Since Im slitelt woman starved - the rest of these dudes - the ones who say no women - are all married anyway, s they dont understand fully. Should be a good time. Am excited. AM missing the St. Rita- Lake Zurich State 7A Football semifinals to make it (Went to Rita game last week, know they will wiin this week, and am fearful of the Wheaton-Warrenville State Final game next week in Champaign- and am going if Rita wins tonite (they will).

17 November, 2010

second fav. scence hre this movie

fingerless

Love to play rough w. Bolo - he rolling on his back, 'biting' my hands, growling, all in good mood as we goof off. Since he went blind about ayear ago, this game is a little dangerous for me - Bolo can no longer see exactly where to leave off his bite so he actually doesnt bite me. So, 5-6 weeks ago, he bit me when we were playing and its effects have lastet to this day. He came down hard on my hand and cut up my left pinkie bad.

At first I figgered the pain would go away - then started to fear (before i knew it was infected) it was some sorta carpel tunnel syndrome from playing guitar (really - I feared i'd have to quit plaing to save my hands). Then I figered it was broken - it hurt so damn bad. SO BAD. I mean anytime I would happen to clip my pinkie against a table as i was walking by, fex, I'd be overcome by the terrible pain and would yake 30s of concentaration for the pain to pass. Yes, I know - im not having my leg amputated w. anestetics - but it was a real hurt and a real bother. twice in waves of 2 days the pain overall was just rotten.

Finally went to doc, told me it was infected, and heat would have to be applied to it - I guess i idnt get antibotics ecause of the wwhole over perscription of them etc etc etc.

Pinkie still hurts. Still slightly ballooned up, reddish, and skin falling off of it. Looks horrible. However, guitar is easier now and things are seeming to heal slowly.

the beta band

Rockit had a slite slip about finding the first betaband chanson he care'd about or what. My first moment of listening to beta was special - i remember it to this day. w. blackie. @ his crib. he was so into getting all the latest goos stuff, he always liked to dj w. the latest hits. Id never heard of them before, ans he slipped on that EP w. their first three 45's on it - he played their wonder hit, the song that will always 'make them' (tho', this moment, the name of it is forgottn - oh wait, dry the rain!!). The song itself starts lazily, struming and low, but builds up and up and up - and then, in the midst of the song, there is this moment, when a single horn sounds out, complementing .... and for me that was the extreme genius moment - this song is incredible!

Switch later to gallos, a random Sunday nite, and me having gotten the 3 EP's Lp dry the rain is on. Played it for Gallo, just the two of us, Shipley off somewhere, were their kids @ that point?? -- and that moment, the horn, flows up. Gallo, ' who has never heard the song before, suddenly lets out a "UHHH!!" and kicks hs leg out to indicate this song is incredible!

16 November, 2010

fightin!

fightin!

from fucking auntie

BOB's brothers

So deeply did I love Band of Brothers - such an experience. Not here and now to go on about it - but ti was one of the more deeply felt -by me - art werkes ever. Loved it. lately Ive finally gotten around to enjoy two of BOB's children - as in HBO miniseries on war.

I'd read the Rolling stone article "Generation Kill" back when it came out - still a RS subscriber back then - and deeply love dit. well written, interesting, and an excellent cast. I don't know why I didnt read the book when it can out - su cant understand why I didnt - and I also mided the HBO series about it when it came out. But last month, @ the Sulzer, there it was in DVD - so I figgered id try the first few episodes and see if it was worthit - and yes , very much so.

Just loved it. It didnt slay me to absolute death like BOB - but i put that to the time of my life and how i interpret my life through art - but th impression it has left on me rite now is tremendous. Again, like BOB, you are in a small band of men in deeply dangerouz situatons. You spend hours w. them, share their laughter, "share" their danger, triumphs, problems, frustartions, etc etc etc... Again, i felt like I was in this unit - part of the brotherhood. When the mimiseries (7 episodes) ended, I wanted it to continue - so the book was checked out of the library (the West Town branch - it's housed in that beautiful old Wiebolts building on Chicago Ave. that they wre gonna tear down 15ya but the city saved - thanx). I'm nearing finishing - but dont want it to end.

So - military stuff - i love it. the teamwork, the results, the weapons, the solutions, the situations - fetish i have for that stuff. but other fetishes - bodily functions - show up. So may jokes about shitting, etc... Love it. But what struck me most was the how all the marines - although doing a good job as Marines - also know that the situation is kina fucked up. Again and again the thought "What would we think if some other army came to the USA and started 'doing what we are doing' " came up. One of my favourite scenes comes up w. this thought - in the midle of the city, w. women around, the Marines just shit out i public. Funny.

So, 506 PIR, let 1st Marines Second Battalion join the Pantheon(sic) of my fave military units. There are Winters, Liptons, Cobbs, Dykes, Martins, etc etc etc rive throughout the 7h. Do see it.

I watched BOB mainly w. 2 sets of people. When it was first out, i went to those September and October 2001 Sunday's @ the Gallos. I watched the first seven episodes there - but had to wait a year to watch the last three. Joker got the DVD eries, so The last three episodes I watched w. him -especially during those very dark times in my life (some girl or other...). SO, for me, I wanted to watch The Pacific w. eithe the Gallos or Joker Gallo has BO demand, so we planned to watch it that way bit by bit over a 2m period or so. When we finay looked for that first episode - it wasn't on demand!!! However, the same week it was put out on DVD - and I luck upon the first four episodes. ow - what to do - wait for Gallo? Joker? I decided to just go ahead and watch the first four and go from there. It's to hard to plan things these days, and i knew I wouldnt be able renew it - so i just watched the first two episodes.

Good? Very. As good as BOB or Gen Kill? Nope - not yet, not close. Only 1/5 through it - and loving it - but it's definitely in third place. Part of it may be that it is a hoge pge about he war in th Pacific. BOB and G.K. were true stories about the units in action. Pacifc, i believe (/fear), is more of a compilation, or greatest hits, or American units. So, @ Guadalcanal, the two most famous massacres of Japanese men - one a flanking maneuver on the beach and the massacre on the ridge - this nit is in the middle of both. Not sure if they were -but the battle sconce's of these two battles are extremely ell done and actually give you feel for those two battles.

See it too.

Mr. J&B

Written By Lazers
names edited by Hilts


J&B was back at the trivia version of “The Waltons”, aka Salerno’s (“good-bye J&B”, “good night, J&B”, “good night, John Boy”…), where wins have been few since the 2009 Championship.

Prior to the game, Benkowski visits the J&B table and asks MG about being around one of the Huck Finn locations. MG indicates that he lives near there, and Benkowski indicated he saw MG walking past it and thought, “I think that’s Mr. J&B.”

The competition: Awesome, Auntie J, Peeps, and Team Chicago

First half: Scary Movies/Music ’77 and ‘97/Celebrity Year of Birth
1977- sang “Car Wash”?
1984 scary movie was Johnny Depp’s first flick?
1981- scary movie “An American ________ __ ______”?

As you can see from that last one, it was not Benkowski’s strongest night for questions.

During the 1st half, a cute brunette sits at the bar for dinner. She has been around before, but she was particularly noteworthy tonight, wearing a little skirt with either high dark boots or stockings. Dressed like that, could she have been coming from anywhere other than a shift at one of the local strip clubs? Benkowski informs us that she is the owner’s daughter, and J&B now has a huge distraction for the rest of the night (at least some of J&B). She was named “Skirty”.

Scores at the half: J&B 1030 Awesome 860 Chicago 800 Peeps 560 Auntie J 490

Second half: QB Year of Birth/TV 1988/Military Camps

Fort Knox- what state?
Fort Hood- what state?
Camp Pendleton- what state?

On “Empty Nest”- what actresses played the two daughters?
2nd highest rated non-comedy TV show of 1988?
On “Growing Pains”- occupation of Alan Thicke’s character?

On a TV question, J&B guesses incorrectly when MG quickly answers prior to consulting with the rest of the team. As punishment, the “&” is taken from him, the nickname now whittled to “Mr. JB”.

Some guesses for the TV 1988 category: “Marcus Welby MD” and “Columbo”.

Scores after two halves: Chicago 1700 J&B 1570 Auntie J 1510 Awesome 1310
Peeps 990

Final category options:
60s Entertainment
70s Music
90s TV
80s Radio (red flags go up for J&B)
Celebrity Gossip
In the News
Current Major League Baseball
Current National Football League


Instead of the “guess a number” draft, teams were allowed to select their categories in reverse order of their scores. J&B will wager to beat the 3rd place team by 1 if it doubles.

90s TV (Peeps):
On “Roseanne”- what actress from a famous family shared a controversial same-gender kiss with Roseanne?
On “Northern Exposure”- who was the female lead that once dated Mark Grace?
On “Murphy Brown”- what political figure was written into a guest appearance on the show after derisively mentioning it in a speech?


Celebrity Gossip (Awesome):
Taylor Swift’s new song allegedly is about this entertainer?
Christina Aguilera allegedly had a fling with what Lindsay Lohan ex?
When Bill O’Reilly feuded with Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar on “The View”, who was the surprise peacemaker?


In the News (Auntie J):
An ad promoting a November 9th event with several motivational speakers includes these 2 Superbowl winning quarterbacks?
General Motors agreement with what car dealership just ended, rendering all of these cars as “used”?
A British company has invented a follow-up to the bulletproof vest- what did they make?


70s Music (yes- this lasted for J&B):
Sang “Little Green Bag”?
Sang “More More More”?
Sang “5-10-15-20 (25-30 Years of Love)?

80s Radio (Chicago- big mistake, fellas):
WMET had a promo in which the program manager imitated Peter Gabriel so well that what competing radio station complained?
On Q101- all shows from the morning to afternoon drives had the same dj act as fill-in, when needed- who was it?
In 1987, when Benkowski went on vacation, what Blackhawk filled in for his radio duties?

Nobody selected the other categories, but brief summaries and one question will be provided here:

Current MLB (aka Benkowski watches game four of the World Series)
Current NFL (aka Benkowski watches some football games last Sunday)
60s Entertainment: In what movie does Raquel Welch kiss another famous actress, and who was that actress?

Gentlemen?

(Part II to include details of the 2010 Trivia Championship)


PART II

Part II

First half answers:
Rose Royce
A Nightmare on Elm Street
An American Werewolf in London

Second half answers:
Kentucky
Texas
California
Kristy McNichol and Dinah Manoff
Murder She Wrote
Psychiatrist (side note: Benkowski does not accept the J&B guess of psychologist)

Final:
Peeps- 990- 90s TV- guesses Ellen DeGeneres (no), no guess for the 2nd question (no), and Bill Clinton (no)- all 3 incorrect- didn’t hear the wager, but probably “thanks for playing”.

Awesome- 1310- Celebrity Gossip- guesses John Mayer (correct), Samantha Ronson (correct), and Elizabeth Hasselbeck (correct)- all 3 correct- with wager plus bonus up to 5410 and the lead.

Auntie J- 1510- In the News- did not catch any of their answers, but they did not win their wager and fell to 390 points.

J&B- 1570- 70s Music- guesses George Baker Selection (correct)…

(let the controversy begin: When given the second question, Benkowski provided the option of learning either the first or last letter of the answer. J&B (ok…Stix) selects the first letter, which Benkowski gives as “T”)…guesses Andrea True Connection…. Benkowski staggers, not sure what to do, pointing out that he gave the first letter as “T”…Stix baffled as to what Benkowski could be getting at…Lazers and Cheial Man thinking the band name might actually be True Connection and should say that…turns out Benkowski was looking for “The Andrea True Connection”…did I hear someone from Awesome suggest that J&B should be allowed to use their Fluff?…Benkowski decides that J&B will get a different question, says a song lyric and asks for the next lyric…Art knows the song but not the next lyric...

…(no), and The Presidents (correct)- two correct- wagered 1451- up to 3021.

Chicago- 1700- 80s Radio- guesses WLUP (correct…duh), Tommy Edwards (correct), and Denis Savard (no)- wagered 1441- up to 3111.

With their stalkerazzi- esque knowledge of Celebrity Gossip, Awesome is victorious tonight!

05 November, 2010

true

rewatched 'the unbelievable truth' yesterday. hadnt seen it it many years - 15+- and i kept remembering when i watched it first. in many ways, a time capsule back to 1990. the neighbourhood of then - rogers park - was really felt by me sitting there watching. and what ahood back then - not quite the old neighbourhood growing up, where every face was a familier one - but my old saying back then - a walk up sheridan road will result in a meeting w. some friend or other every tiime- evokes for me that place in time. that hood being rife w. familiers on every block spread out. loved it.

changed all. i still am through that hood these days, but rarely. a new crowd -neice and nephew and another- actually live there these days. should make it up more. but the grounds are so different.

whatever - it always changes. but the foundations of back then - so young i thought that these were permenant things. time goes so slowly back then - maybe it seemed forever. but...

26 October, 2010

CJBROWN

A Rainer Virgil Hiltsbinder film garners viewers - and yes, i did notice that it was billed as a Virgil Rainer Hiltsbinder film.
in todays dcs


manga - Yoshihiro Tatsumi

Been reading lotsa manga lately. Been exploring the Subarb libraries for hard to get movies (i know, redbox or whatever, but i like free from CPL, so I search and wait and plot...). The Oak Lawn library - heavily used by many people i know finally i use it thissummer. They have a lot of book that the CPL system doesn't have - or @ least easy rite there access to stuff, instead of driving up to Portage Park or visiting the BEE branch (Have to for Slim) I lucked out browsing when i got The Push Man and Other Stories by Yoshiro Tatsumi. Wacked out subject matter - sex slaves, prostitution, murder, orgies, abortion, porn, crime, voyerism - Of Course a massive favouite of mine. I read it on a driving trip to KC to watch Manchester United play and I didnt want to sto reading it. Deeply compulsive. Like the subjects he writes about.

It's interesting to see how the Japanese manga market works - here you have these 8 page spread, there you have a different type of magazine, here is this type of mange, etc etc etc... Since i dont have to backing in the history of it, it's all very interesting. For example, Push Man was erilized in a magazine - most of the stories are told in 8 pages. Yoshiro also wrote a book about the history of manga and his involvement in that history in A Drifting Life.

This is a full book - not a collection of comix - and it follows Yoshiro as he got into the comix business - and how the business changed. fascinating hitory of something I never would have thought of as interesting - thehistory of mange and it's genres - but great. it's also kool to follow his life story - espcially having read Push Man - you eally wanna find out where this dude got som out there. Long hauling ass book - but well worth it.

Try Push Man.

25 October, 2010

Bombshell…or not?

written by Lazers
edited by Hilts


J&B was back in action at Salerno’s for a little tune-up heading into the Queen of Martyrs trivia coming up on Saturday. During pre-game discussion, J&B finds out that Benkowski and Rich Koz once shared the same agent, who once put them in a room together and told them to “create something.” I think that’s how we ended up with “Goodfellas”.

J&B represented by: Chemical Man, Stix, Hilts, MG, Dragon, and Lazers
The competition: Awesome, Sharks, Peeps, and Auntie Joanne


First half: NFL 2010/Old Love Songs/Blonde Bombshells

Born 1984- appeared in “Horse Whisperer”, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” and “Iron Man 2”?

Died 2007- was a stripper, centerfold, and reality TV star?

Born 1982- appeared in “The Piano”, the X-Men movies, and “True Blood” on HBO?

Born 1976- appeared in “The Hot Chick”, “The House Bunny” and several “Scary Movies”?

Born 1975- appeared in “Devil’s Advocate” and “Monster”?

Died 1967- appeared in “The Fat Spy”, and daughter Mariska Hargitay was in the back seat of the car during the accident in which she was killed?

Died young in 1937- the original blonde bombshell got her big break from Howard Hughes?

Born 1989- appeared in “Remember the Titans” but best known for TV “Heroes”?



That last question actually was the very first question of the night, given to Team Awesome, which features a young blond girl, young guy, and an older guy. After the question was answered, one of the guys told Benkowski, “if you said born in 1986, I would have guessed BombShell” (the blond girl on the team). One of the Sharks loudly asks, “she’s a bombshell?” BAM!

Scores at the half: J&B 1000 Sharks 970 Auntie J 870 Peeps 720 Awesome 380

Second half: TV/Really Big Countries/Fattening Beer Products

1st largest country- even after the split- at 6.5 million square miles?
2nd largest country- at 3.8 million square miles?
3rd largest country (per Benkowski)- at 3.7 million square miles (think Asia)?
4th largest country (per Benkowski)- at 3.7 million square miles?
5th largest country- at 3.2 million square miles?
6th largest country- at 2.9 million square miles (though not every square mile of what you think is included goes into that area)?
7th largest country- at 1.2 million square miles (think Asia)?
8th largest country- at 1.0 million square miles (think New World)?
9th largest country- at 1.0 million square miles (the largest land-locked country)?
10th largest country- at 967,000 square miles (think Africa)?

I don’t think any of us, including Benkowski, understood the clue for the 6th largest country.



Scores into Final Question: Sharks 1960 Auntie J 1770 Peeps 1420 J&B 1390
Awesome 960

After its less-than-stellar second half, J&B wagers 1301 with no rationale other than knowing it needs all 3 answers correct and a lot of help for a shot to win tonight. Benkowski is disturbed by the many hearts filled with the word “’shell” on J&B’s wager sheet. Unbeknownst to Benkowski, Hilts had become infatuated with BombShell from Team Awesome, bombshell or not. (bombshell-Hilts ed)

The draft:
1- Sharks select 80s Movies
2- Auntie J selects Celebrity Obituaries
3- Awesome selects Halloween
4- Peeps select Music 2000s
5- J&B selects Male Celebrity Year of Birth

Nobody selects NFL 95.


80s Movies (quote from what movie):
“What kind of belt do you have?”; “Canvas. JCPenney. $3.98. You like?”
“I’m staying. Hear that New York? The frog is staying!”
“Wheel of Fortune. Look at the studio filled with glamorous merchandise. Fabulous and exciting bonus prizes. Thousands of dollars in cash. Over $150,000 just waiting to be won as we present our big bonanza of cash on Wheel Of Fortune.”


Celebrity Obituaries- 2010 (age of death, within 2):
Barbara Billingsley?
Simon MacCorkindale (from “Falcon Crest”)?
Jorge Gonzalez (former wrestler and Argentine basketball player)?


Halloween:
Is the eve of which Christian holiday?
In the Legend of Bachelor’s Grove- what caused the 2nd noise heard by the girl?
In what decade did the Legend of Resurrection Mary begin?


Music 2000s:
Sang “Wifey”?
Sang “Girl on TV”?
Sang “I Wish”?

Male Celebrity Year of Birth (with 2):
Elijah Wood?
Ben Affleck?
Mike Myers?

NFL 1995:
Best record in the league (13-3)- what team?
Won the Superbowl against Pittsburgh?
Current college coach was “Comeback Player of the Year”?

Gentlemen…and Vaughn?

Part II

First half answers:
Scarlett Johansson
Anna Nicole Smith
Anna Paquin
Anna Ferris
Charlize Theron
Jayne Mansfield
Jean Harlow

Second half answers:
Russia
Canada
China
US
Brazil
Australia
India
Argentina
Kazakhstan
Sudan

(Note: the website I used for reference had China and the US in the opposite order)

Final:

Awesome- 960- Halloween- guesses All Saints Day (correct), boy hung upside-down, feet scraping car (no), 1960s (no)- only 1 correct- wagered 950- down to 10.

J&B- 1390- Male Celebrity YOB- guesses Wood 1984 (no), Affleck 1968 (no), Myers 1964 (close enough)- only 1 correct- wagered 1301- down to 89- that’s almost 9 times greater than Awesome’s score- J&B in the lead!

Peeps- 1420- Music 2000s- I didn’t hear their guesses, but all 3 were wrong- wagered it all- thanks for playing. The J&B Magic Number is 2.

Auntie J- 1770- Celebrity Obituaries 2010- guesses 94 years old for Billingsley (correct), 80 years old for MacCorkindale (no), 38 years old for Gonzalez (no)- only 1 correct- wagered 1080- down to 690 and the new leaders.

Sharks- 1960- 80s Movies- guess Karate Kid (correct), Muppets Take Manhattan (correct), Rain Man (correct)- all 3 correct- wagered 1581 plus bonus for 6541 and a slaughter rule victory!

Answers:
Halloween: All Saints Day, fingers scraping car, 1930s
Celebrity YOB- Wood 1981 Affleck 1972 Myers 1963
Music 2000s- Next (Wifey), LFO (Girl on TV), Carl Thomas (I Wish)
Celebrity Obits- Billingsley 94, MacCorkindale 58, Gonzalez 44
80s Movies- all correct from Sharks
NFL 95- KC Chiefs, Dallas Cowboys, Jim Harbaugh

Upcoming events:

-J&B appears on Saturday, October 23rd at Queen of Martyrs school which, based upon payouts, can only be considered an exhibition event.
-Benkowski is planning a $25 per team Southside championship at The Castle on Saturday, November 6th. Is J&B going to attend?
-Thursday, November 25th- Thanksgiving- J&B eats turkey (though not together).

11 October, 2010