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TODAY’S QUOTE
“Fun is good.” — Theodore Geisel
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POLITICAL FAVORS
A certain handsome reporter/blogger/smart ass was walking up Walnut Street in the brilliant sunshine Saturday afternoon. At 6th Street he ran into the Honorable Regina Moore, newly reelected Clerk of the great city of Bloomington.
The reporter revealed to Moore that he is working on a Top 10 Local Political Stories of 2011 piece for the upcoming issue of Peter LoPilato’s Ryder magazine. “Oh, ______,” Moore said, tugging at the reporter’s jacket sleeve, “do me a favor. Put in the piece that I got more votes than Mayor Kruzan.”
Let’s Make A Deal
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I won’t reveal the reporter’s name because, in addition to being handsome, he is modest.
Moore continued. “All you have to do is put in a footnote or something. Nothing much. I can’t wait to show it to the Mayor!”
Consider it done, Regina. Um…, I mean, I’ll bet he does it.
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POLITICAL ROCK STAR
City Council president Susan Sandberg got a kick out of the Beach Boys vid we ran in these parts Friday.
She revealed in the comments section that as a callow, hotsy-totsy youth, she formed a garage band called The Tsunamis. They played — you guessed it — California surf music.
Bloomington may be fortunate Susan’s band went nowhere as she now leads us boldly into the 21st Century. But alas, the world suffers.
What a chick troika it could have been — Madonna, Lady Gaga, and Susan Sandberg.
Or, The Dem Girls — Regina Moore, Susan Sandberg, & Isabel Piedmont-Smith
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WE DO FACEBOOK SO YOU DON’T HAVE TO
This is a No Spamily, No Brattle zone.
◗ My old East Pilsen neighbor and pal Rachel Thole, now of the Bay Area, links to an Onion newscast that would be freaking hilarious — if it weren’t so uncomfortably close to a serious newscast.
◗ Al Yellon of Chicago was hot on this Saturday night, beating NPR by a day and a half. Seems that there’s a reality show about Muslim families living in the Detroit area. It shows them — get ready for this shocker — as normal, everyday Americans. Well, this just won’t do; this holy land’s Christian Taliban blew a gasket and threatened to condemn the show’s advertisers to hell. As far as I’m concerned, hell is having to live in a world where religious fundamentalists call the cultural shots.
◗ Jan Takehara of — where else? — Chi-town, reminds us of Dion DiMucci, former front man for Dion & the Belmonts and, later, a solo act. Dion recorded a beautiful and touching song after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. “Abraham, Martin, and John” became a hit in late 1968. It was the first song that ever made me cry. To this day, I still tear up when I hear it.
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Hey, Bloomington Facebookers: you’re falling down on the job. Start posting some stuff I can use here, okay?
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ANYBODY HERE SEEN MY OLD FRIEND…?
Here’s Dion’s (and Dick Holler’s) homage to King:
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