Friday 1/24/2025 I logged in 39 hours this week. Not normally a big deal but as of late, this is the most hours I’ve worked any week since the first week of November. Next week… Read More »Barkeep give me a drink, that’s when she caught my eye. She turned to give me a wink, that’d make a grown man cry
By Chicago Tribune Shane was a founding member and keyboardist of the musical group, The Electric Hellfire Club. He was killed in a car accident at the age of 25. A 25-year-old man was killed early… Read More »Shane Lassen aka The Rev. Dr. Luv July 15th, 1970 – January 22nd, 1996
Baby, it’s cold outside and my work has slowed up so I’ve been diving head first into this home of mine of 18 years that up till about December 2023 I was boxing up and… Read More »Ten-thirty-five and I hope I’ve made the right decision. Heart is beating I’m alive, but I don’t call this livin’.
Alicia Witt ‘let a smile be your umbrella’, he said. ‘and don’t get a mouthful of rain’, i added. david paused a beat, surprised. then his face dissolved into the hugest, davidest smile – and… Read More »alicia witt on the passing of david lynch
Steve passed just a few weeks ago and now he is joined by Willie Zesto. with Jim Mikolas and Willie Zesto at Phyllis’ Musical Inn Phyllis’ Musical Inn
Melita is still ill today but as driven as she is still went to work at her law firm employer. Look at those eyes that show no hint of the flu. A Clean Breast :… Read More »In the cool of the evening when ev’rything is gettin’ kind of groovy. I call you up and ask you if you like to go and meet and see a movie.
It was 1979 and my only dream at the time was to see KISS live. They were poised to release Dynasty, I was 14 and at the time they were the biggest band in the… Read More »Flashback 2009: There’s a bar where the boys have stopped talking. They’ve been sentenced to death by the blues
I did an excellent podcast yesterday with an old friend who I last saw at the Vic Theater in 1999 when I had them added to the bill of the second Expo of the Extreme.… Read More »they take me to the mall and stick me on some guy’s knee. he sees me when i’m sleeping? sounds suspicious to me. just when you get the hang of it, it all goes back to normal round here. oh man, it’s a weird time of year, oh man, it’s a weird time of year
Steve died the evening of 1/2/25 (aged 73) while strolling in his neighborhood; he had been recovering from his late June cardiac surgery and other complications. Post on Facebook by Michael Balog The Rock and Roll… Read More »RIP Chicago Original “Crazy Steve”
…well, almost. As this long stretch of holiday season comes to an end I have been self contained at home editing photos for this section of the website I have dubbed “Diary of a Damned… Read More »“Now you know the rest of the story”. …