Yelp only allows something like 5,000 characters per review, so I had to considerably trim down this one-star review of the new business that effectively displaced us from our home of two years. This is the full version, but you can read the mercifully shorter version of my review of Cafe Delano in Hillcrest on…
(Photo at right by Jason DeFillippo from Milwaukee Irish Fest 2005) Pretty much every obituary for Liam Clancy, last of the renowned Clancy Brothers and Tommy Makem outfit, will tell you that he passed away on Friday, December 4th, at the age of 74. They’ll repeat this quote by Bob Dylan, a lifelong friend who…
My commitment to what the kids call "blogging" is unfaithful and sporadic (obvious to anyone taking note of the hunormous gaps between entry dates here). Even since childhood, attempts at keeping a regular journal of daily events -- whether or not life's been exciting -- have escaped me. I overscrutinize everything I write, and it's…
Contrary to what the news has been reporting today, Irish folk legend Tommy Makem will live forever! Those of us stuck on Earth in the meantime while you’re hobnobbing it up with the angels are still going to miss you, sir. Rest in peace.
As aforementioned, the damsel and I will be making our way up to San Francisco this weekend to visit the good Mister Thor and see the Shane MacGowan fronted Pogues! That's not 'til Monday night, though.
My friend Loud Louisa runs a ’20s – ’30s-themed speakeasy on Sunday nights, and The California Navels will be playing tonight! So if you’re not up to anything already, come on down! Straight from the dame’s mouth (well, fingers, I guess, since she typed it all out): The Bank 3 of Clubs 1123 N. Vine…
Moving out of Hollywood to Long Beach within the next two weeks is helping my mood aplenty, too. I just want it to be over and done with, already. Onward and upward!
I'm finally trying to do something with my site. Rather than clearing out the cobwebs, I figured I'd just tear the whole damned thing down and start from scratch.