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Stoogey

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  1. The Tale of Genji. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-sensualist-books-buruma
  2. Greasefreak prefers beefs with green peppers but otherwise he's pretty accurate. http://www.greasefreak.com/
  3. Chicago hot dog and french fries, Italian beef dipped with giardiniera (although some people prefer green pepper), Chicago deep dish pizza, poutine (which is Canadian but close enough), Green River soda water, smoked chubbs. Navy Pier fireworks on Wednesdays and Saturdays through summer. The Miracle Mile, top of the Willis (formerly Sears) Tower, a river or harbor boat tour, Gangsters and Ghosts. (The garage where the Saint Valentine's Day Massacre occurred is long gone.) If you do rent a car, Milwaukee's Summerfest. Check out which bands are playing which stage, get there early, park the kids at a picnic table to reserve your place and use the buddy system for food and drinks. Other festivals: https://onmilwaukee.com/seasonal/festivals/articles/2018-milwaukee-summer-festival-guide.html?viewall=1 .
  4. The Rolling Stones, United Center, 2013. Jagger addresses the audience. "Hello, Chicago! When they told me this is the house MJ built, I thought they were talking about me."
  5. Lil ShopVac's snacktimes. Gotta keep up his strength between meals.
  6. People driving roadsters or convertibles with the top down, windows up.
  7. A co-worker admitted she worked at Chuck E Cheese during high school. Very surprising as she had a bitch personality. She said the worst part was wearing the Chuck E costume because it had never been cleaned and smelled bad especially the head. The tail was super-reinforced from being pulled off so many times and the kids treated Chuck E like a punching bag. My buddy and I discussed her talking about her Chuck E Cheese experience. "When she got to the part about being treated like a punching bag, I felt happy." Me too, pal.
  8. We still doing the banhammer thing?
  9. We still doing the banhammer thing?
  10. Someone tried to change the channel on the TV (pre-remote control / cable days) from The Price Is Right and a big fight broke out. Those fuckers knew the vacuum cleaner was more expensive than the Rice-A-Roni.
  11. So. You are familiar with Asian football. Impressive. Japan and Team Mexico are kind of cool.
  12. An after shit you have heard in a bar story, Busted for underage drinking in 1975. Shared the bullpen with two elderly drunk black gentlemen. One was wearing an old brown chalkstripe suit and a light grey fedora. The other guy was in a torn blue suit. Chalkstripe is slowly reading the graffiti and gets to "Pink Floyd was here." Blue suit: "Pink Floyd? Oh shit no." Cracked me up.
  13. In the Lifetime Movies telenovela, I'm thinking Valerie Bertinelli as the mom.
  14. Fuck those guys with the electric HO racetracks.
  15. If you didn't have to use the ice scraper on the inside of the car windows it doesn't count.
  16. Used to go see Cheap Trick almost every Saturday night during senior year of high school at Humpin' Hannah's and Someplace Else until freshman year of college when a show scheduled for IIRC February 1976 at The Electric Ballroom / The Palms was cancelled after they got picked up by Epic. Penny beer nights at Hannah's were brutal. Taxis were cheap back then. $5.00 to get to the club, $4.00 cover charge for you and your girlfriend, 25¢ for a night of drinking and $5.00 for the ride home. You'd get there on time to get a table. After the first set, Cheap Trick play'd a lot of Bowie and Stones. I honestly do not remember Cheap Trick covering the Beatles. But the crowd was getting pretty dangerous on penny beers. And there was smoking. (Hannah's was a basement club with only one set of stairs.) After the third set it was time to head home. And the neighborhood was delightful. Every night wasn't penny beer. There were multiple band nights. That is how Rick and Robin found future replacement guitartist. Long term engagement at Someplace Else was different. Cheap Trick and sometimes my girlfriend and I would be the only ones on the music side vs the bar side. Rockford is near the border. So. To answer your question, I'm thinking Cheap Trick (Original Line-Up) spent so much time in Wisconsin they didn't become true flatlanders and therefore didn't suck. REO Speedwagon sucked even back then. They play'd upper east side bars which weren't part of our stomping grounds. We pronounced it as "rheostat". A few years ago, went with friends to Riversplash. REO Speedwagon was the headliner. Kevin Cronin actually skipped across the stage. That was it. Outta there. Abandon lawn chair.
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