Let's Play "Catch Up"
WHEW!
OK, I'm back in town and for the most part, rested enough to play a game of "Catch Up" with you regarding my travels, my shows, & my "Birthday Week".
First I went away to do some shows in Ohio. I left early in order to hook up with my brother and take in a Whitecaps game in Michigan, which was most excellent! Minor League Baseball and all of the Independent & College Wood Bat leagues are the ONLY ways to go if you're a true baseball fan. FUCK the Majors!
Next it was off to Akron, Ohio to do an absolutely dreadful show in a hot, echo-chamber of a gymnasium. It was one of those sunken gyms and the crowd was a good 20 feet above the actual show. To make things worse they were on opposite ends of the performance area and not a single person was in front of the action. I always hate these performing conditions, but I love paychecks and therefore, shut the hell up about them.
I did get to see my cousin and my aunt while traversing through Ohio and that is always a treat. They spent way too much money on food and drinks for me and were extremely accommodating. I don't get to see them often enough.
The next day had two shows in a beautiful old theatre in Cleveland. I was hoping to meet Kim and some of her family at one of the shows, but figured she'd be busy elsewhere. Those shows went very well and I can never say enough about the fun I have at great old theatres. This one is always being renovated a bit at a time every year and since I haven't been there in a while it is was fun to see what had been fixed in my absence.
After the shows I got some Don Hermann & Sons dill pickles (the BEST dill pickles on Earth and ONLY available in the Cleveland area), made a stop in the Toledo area to buy some Tony Packo's hot dogs for my freezer (The BEST non-Chicago hot dogs on Earth, only available in the Toledo area), and head on home for more shows.
3 Comments:
A post on fantastic reginal foods would be very cool, Andy. Give that some thought. I bet you have a whole collection of them. Then you could start a side business as an on-line purveyor of that kind of stuff. There's a place that fed-exes Philly cheesesteaks that charges a fourtune. Like $75 a hoagie for christsakes. I guess the shipoping is expensive for fresh food. Just a thought. Glad you're back. Got to get to MBC and read your piece. And then write one of my own pretty soon.
11:52 AM
I have long wanted to go to Toledo for the sole purpose of eating at Tony Packo's. Now I also need to go to New York and buy Spam in the Spamalot collector's tin, thanks to you.
1:45 PM
You can get it at the SPAM Museum and I believe you can buy it online at the SPAMALOT gift store.
I got my can in Chicago, where SPAMALOT had it's debut, so I didn't need to buy MORE of it. ;)
Bud, I'm sure I'll share lots of tasty food treats here before I die...of a heart attack.
1:49 PM
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