Musical Memoirs Continue with Wayne Newton
When the call came late at night on my 14th birthday, my body tensed up, and I started breathing irregularly.
Nobody calls that late.
I answered the phone, and it was a nurse, who asked to speak to my mother. Now trembling, I woke my mom and followed her to the phone. […]
Posted on January 6th, 2009 by Pat
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I’ve said this before: Christmas in California is weird.
When I lived in the Midwest, the holiday season always coincided with the weather, starting with Halloween, when the leaves change colors. By Thanksgiving, the leaves fall off the trees, and it gets chilly. And by December, it’s full-on winter coats and snow.
But here it’s hard to […]
Posted on December 24th, 2008 by Pat
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Charlie Brown.
That’s who I feel like right now. More specifically, Charlie Brown when he goes to kick the football year after year, only to have Lucy cruelly — sadistically — pull the ball away, causing poor ole Chuck to fall on his arse.
That’s how I feel as a Cubs fan. Year after year, I get […]
Posted on October 6th, 2008 by Pat
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When I was around 11, my dad told me to come to the front porch because he had something for me.
Now this was big because my dad wasn’t the sort of guy who brought things home for his kids. So I went to the porch eager but skeptical.
Once there, he pulled out a folded piece of […]
Posted on September 3rd, 2008 by Pat
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The U.S. government will never find bin Laden.
A 13-year-old kid will.
That’s right. A bored teenager is going to peruse Google Earth’s satellite images, and he’s going to spot a picture of the bearded terrorist posting videos on YouTube somewhere near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. And then the kid’s going to turn to his equally bored buddy and […]
Posted on August 1st, 2008 by Pat
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Need Stoke? There’s Surf Everywhere — Even In The Waves Off Of Chicago
After a real crummy week, I was in dire need of The Stoke. So I was elated Friday evening to get what was perhaps the biggest stoke of the year.
At A-Beach in Morro Bay, it was sunny, the water was actually warm (comparatively, anyway), […]
Posted on May 19th, 2008 by Pat
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Okay, so we’re not affiliated in any way with the Chicago Tribune (which, you may have heard, is a slightly bigger paper). But I’ve got to give a big pat on the back to the Windy City’s biggest daily for a major dupe on its rival, the Chicago Sun-Times.
The poor Sun-Times has always lived in […]
Posted on March 26th, 2008 by Pat
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