John Wolf

17h

Milwaukee is tough. Have you tried to get to the Mitchell Domes lately with all the road construction?

20h

I thought the Rays dropped the Devil part?

So a league that gets in bed with professional sports gambling doesn't expect conspiracy outrage when it's officials get wildly inconsistent about game-changing calls? Who could have guessed.

As a fan, my personal solution is easy. I can just start taking the NFL as seriously as I do professional boxing.

Not great. It’s only the 3rd inning and I already want a ‘mute Smoltz’ button.

I am told baseball is a game of balls and strikes. I am rooting for the strikes.

Had to briefly interact with the hellsite to look for an old photo. Came back with a video instead. Playing along with the greatest rock song of 1995.

LOL NFL REFS

LOL COWBOYS

Potluck about to close for good. So one more lobster roll.

“I can’t tell you what a balk is, but I know one if I see it.” Gotta love how stupid baseball can be sometimes.

Absolutely awful AI logo at Johnson High School. Besides the icky AI art, how does this represent former MN governors? Were they rail barons?

The school was named after John A. Johnson in 1911. Wendy Anderson would come later. Either way, no monocles to be found.

If you know, you know.

Finally found summer sausage in the form of a beer bottle.

As much as I would love to try this signature dish, I think I’ll go for the tenders basket here.

In Milwaukee, rockin’ the friar.

No internet for 3 days, good thing I got a couple new games.

Never say ‘can’t be worse than comcast’

Rare purchase. Treat usually reserved for Ellsworth Wisconsin garage euchre tournaments.

It’s funny how mainstream country music doesn’t realize people like Sierra Ferrell, Lukas Nelson, and the Turnpike Troubadours exist. So good.

21 Sept

Railways Of The Lost Atlas is a great place to start with 18xx train games. TIL it has a local MN creator. I had assumed it came from the UK for reasons?

21 Sept

Local MN board games spotlighted on TV this afternoon. A couple I didn’t realize were local.

youtu.beI Fall to PiecesYouTube video by Greg Kihn Band - Topic

Remembering the first song I ever sang in front of people. Our HS band playing Chuck Berry, Beatles, and Buddy Holly at a HS dance. I sang 1 of the songs we did in our 20 min spot. A version of Patsy Cline's I Fall To Pieces we learned from the recent Greg Kihn lp. youtu.be/CWCPYiB3k3s?...

So, this is just a long-winded way of saying I'm probably done. Unless my long time bandmate, friend, and high school history teacher Jim needs me to fill some time in his gigs, I'm not going to seek out anything new. And I'm kind of sad about it. I really love performing.

Anyways, Here's Wonderwall.... No, Long White Cadillac we recorded in Jim's basement in 2010. I'd like to imagine there are a few people in western WI that think of me when they hear that song.

youtu.beI Fall to PiecesYouTube video by Greg Kihn Band - Topic

I probably sang Dave Alvin's Long White Cadillac at every gig. I sang Yellow Ledbetter once. I sang You're The Inspiration once as a wedding gig request. I sang the lyrics of Stairway To Heaven to the tune of Freebird a couple times, which I stole from @dashriprocknola.bsky.social (sorry Bill)

For 20 years I had a lot of fun with it. But last year the physicality and the late hours got to me and I gave it up. I've tried pivoting to laid back acoustic gigs, but the demand isn't really there.

youtu.beI Fall to PiecesYouTube video by Greg Kihn Band - Topic

I quit being in bands around the time my kids were born. But about 10 years later in 2005 I got the itch again and joined a cover band called Boondoggle with some old HS friends (and a teacher). And we were a fairly busy one around the western Wisconsin bar circuit.

We played in front of 5 people at the Hersey Cave Bar. 500 people at Roberts Good Neighbor Days. I would sing 12-15 songs a night during our 4 hour, 50 song gigs. We probably played 500+ gigs in our 20 year run. Some songs I sang hundreds of times, some only once.

youtu.beI Fall to PiecesYouTube video by Greg Kihn Band - Topic

youtu.be24 Hours At A Time - Marshall Tucker Band | The Midnight SpecialYouTube video by The Midnight Special

The bands I was with in college and soon after I stuck to playing bass or guitar and staying away from the microphone. But one fill-in job I did for a buddy's country band they asked me to sing one. It was The Marshall Tucker Band's 24 Hours At A Time. youtu.be/28IP7wHVP-A?...