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  1. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I turn 65 in a fortnight and a day, and I am a big fan of the Millennials. With what they have to face in order to simply survive, I think that they give the Depression/ World War II folks a run for their money for the title of, "Greatest Generation." Baby Boomers? So many of us had...
  2. ChiTownScion

    Public information films/Public service announcements

    Ah, the joys of getting my little sister to join me running through the house and our screaming, "AIR RAID! AIR RAID! THE RUSSIAN MISSLES ARE COMING!! " when we saw these on television. Dad thought it was funny. Mom.. not so much.
  3. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    For whatever an anecdote is worth: I did attend one of those rooftop parties on Waveland across from Wrigley once. The view was nowhere near as good as inside the park, but food and beverage options were a lot better. I'll give That South Side Team this: the food has always been better there...
  4. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Reminds me of Dmitri Shostakovich's definition of a musicologist: "What's a musicologist? I'll tell you. Our cook, Pasha, prepared the scrambled eggs for us and we are eating them. Now imagine a person who did not cook the eggs and does not eat them, but talks about them – that is a musicologist."
  5. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Agreed. Reading a good book is like getting to know a beautiful and intelligent woman. Each turn of the page brings another moment to savor and remember. The journey is as much a pleasure as the destination. Reading a book on Kindle is more like... well, let me just keep things in good taste...
  7. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I really hate the entitled affluent. Always have. My first job was at a gun club (trap & skeet) working as a trap boy/ puller, and I remember the relatively few prancing show- offs who'd expect to be waited on hand and foot like a bad dream. But I also remember the good natured guys who'd make...
  8. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    An odd coincidence but I was at a family memorial/"wake without a body" yesterday held, of all places, at a small neighborhood bowling alley in the city. They had one of those towel things.
  9. ChiTownScion

    Terms Which Have Disappeared

    Lincoln at the time believed that his remarks had fallen flat compared to those of the keynote speaker, Edward Everett . Everett saw it differently: "I should be glad if I could flatter myself that I came as near to the central idea of the occasion, in two hours, as you did in two minutes."
  10. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Likely was shoved into one too many lockers in seventh grade.
  11. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    Terrific idea! Kind of like, "Allen's Alley," only you could call it, "Patty's Porch." The local folks drop by to share their opinions and observations, and she does the same- interspersed with a few songs. Too bad that Kenny Delmar isn't with us anymore: I'd love to see his mid coast Maine...
  13. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Radio Program You Heard?

    Hey, your mom did a great job! Bravo, Patty!
  14. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    More stuff on the Quiz Kids and how they turned out. Evidently, they haled originally at least, from Chicago. A little vetting on my part, and I found out that Joel lived up in Albany Park, less than two miles from where my wife and I owned our first home...
  15. ChiTownScion

    What Are You Reading

    Saw this on YouTube:
  16. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    It's precisely because Bruno Ganz's portrayal was so close to historical reality that those You Tube parodies are so successful. An actor who had hammed it up, or turned Hitler into a two dimensional villain (as so many have) could not have given comedy such fodder. Such fodder only lies in...
  17. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    Pavarotti, a documentary by Ron Howard. Personally, I would have liked to seen a more objective treatment of the maestro and his art. While informative, it seemed like it was written by a publicist.
  19. ChiTownScion

    What Was The Last Movie You Watched?

    "Homer Bedloe" of Petticoat Junction fame. A classic example of the axiom that a good actor can play a character that exhibits a personality 180 degrees in opposition to that of his own: the man was by all accounts a sweetheart in real life.
  20. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    I wear a suit and tie to every lodge meeting. Other lodges in my fraternity make do with polo shirts, and some mandate tuxes, so I suppose we're in the middle of the spectrum. When my mother lodge was chartered in 1916, it was known as a "silk stocking" lodge. Degree nights, officer...
  21. ChiTownScion

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    That brings to mind an ad they ran to get subscriptions in the National Lampoon in the early 70's. Can't find it anywhere, but as I recall it went in part something like this:
  22. ChiTownScion

    What was the last TV show you watched?

    Always loved Oliver's pompous speeches about the American Farmer, with the rising flourishes of patriotic music. On the other hand, I have no use for the notion of "crossover" episodes, particularly when they brought the Beverly Hillbillies to Petticoat Junction. I don't think that the...
  23. ChiTownScion

    You know you are getting old when:

    Certain songs trigger memories of life events, people, experiences- at least in my aging brain. And it happens more and more as said brain ages, I'll confess. Tunes got a lot of airplay at certain times in history, and how that plays out in the timeline of a lifetime is a very personal call. For...

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