Tuesday's Fortune: 30 November 2010

MEAL: 1 order (8) Fried Dumplings + 1 large order of Kung Pao Squirrel = $6.70 + $1.30 tip

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 188

Steely Dan: Katy Lied: "Black Friday" [mp3]

Such an obvious choice for this week's S4TW...So obvious that it's shocking I hadn't made the choice before...

Of course, this song has nothing to do, really, with the day after Thanksgiving, known as the busiest shopping day of the year in the United States, and everything to do with...

I dunno, the JFK assassination? The riot at the Warner Brothers studio lot in 1945? The Haymarket Affair?

Or maybe just a song of dark days, and surviving in the face of ruin.

Hotcha Holidays! Hank

Tuesday's Fortune: 23 November 2010

MEAL: 14 Roast Pork Egg Rolls + 1 2-liter bottle of Coca-Cola = $17.40 + $2.60 tip

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 187

Cake: Comfort Eagle: "Long Line Of Cars" [mp3]

There are few absolutes in this world, few truths, but here's one of them:

If you find yourself behind a chick in a RAV4 with a MAGIC HAPPENS bumpersticker on the back, you can be sure of one thing - the speed limit WON'T happen.

Truth.

Hotcha! Hank

Tuesday's Fortune: 16 November 2010

MEAL: 2 Roast Pork Egg Rolls + 4 Vegetable Spring Rolls + 1 order (8) Steamed Dumplings + 1 large order Hunan Triple + 1 Fried Sweet Bun = $24.60 + 40¢ tip

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Would She Be Your Lover?

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Trixie Sets Fatal Fires With Her Tongue

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Tuesday's Fortune: 09 November 2010

MEAL: 1 order (8) Crab Rangoon + 1 small order Sweet & Sour Chicken = $8.30 + $1.70 tip

Hotcha! Hank

Something 4 The Weekend # 186

Eleventh Dream Day: Beet: "Go (Slight Return)" [mp3]

I saw Eleventh Dream Day at Marquette University's union sometime in the early '90's, playing in a medium sized room in a lower level of the building to a crowd of about 200 other people, including "Pogo Man", a Milwaukee legend of sorts in those days.

Anyways, this room had a dropped ceiling of the kind you might find in somebody's finished basement, or a typical office environment, and with the band playing on an actual stage, there was a fair, but limited, amount of head space above their heads. Well, at some point, singer/guitarist Rick Rizzo did a Pete Townshend sort of jump, which including swinging the neck of his guitar above his head.

This caused the headstock of the guitar to hit that dropped ceiling, which proceeded to collapse a rather large section, so that it was hanging down, nearly touching the stage itself. In the process, the falling/hanging ceiling hit one of the PA speakers on the side of the stage. The speaker was pretty big, and mounted atop a rather sturdy tripod of sorts, and the whole thing came crashing down onto the stage.

The band didn't miss a beat or a guitar solo as it appeared the entire ceiling would eventually collapse upon the entire room full of drunk and stoned kids who were driven nearly ecstatic by the bedlam and destruction of it all. Eventually the rent-a-cops cut the power to the stage and cancelled the remainder of the show, which only fueled the bedlam, and prompting the crowd to take to streets, with a mini-riot breaking out on Wisconsin Avenue.

Eleventh Dream Day were/are a great fucking rock band, and you really truly had to be there.

GO!!!!!

Hotcha! Hank

Tuesday's Fortune: 02 November 2010

MEAL: 2 Roast Pork Egg Rolls + 1 order Hunan Triple = $11.15 + $4.85 tip


Hotcha! Hank