Eric's House Of Ego

So ... it was a birthday party. I knew there were going to be shenanigans. The level of shenanigans was far more extreme than I thought. There will be some video later. As well as a lot of thanks yous for a lot of people.

1st Set
Circus Of Dreams
Disenchanted
Mamaw’s Kitchen
Seaside Evening Market
Stream of Consciousness
Tea & Fireflies
Widow’s Garden
Ghost Train

2nd Set
Calvin's Girl
Hamlin’s Bow
Shadow Moon
Nachthexen
Persephone
Winter's Night
Solstice

A year ago yesterday I took the Megabus to Chicago. A year ago today we woke up in Lizzie's apartment, surrounded by boxes. Later that day we went to see Flogging Molly play, it was Lizzie's birthday present. The next day the truck got loaded up and we drove here.

Today we woke up at home, together. One year. It will be an anniversary that will always be easy to remember because today is the birthday of my love, my partner, my soul mate, the fabulous, brilliant, beautiful Lizzie Crowe.

Happy Birthday my love.

Why am I crazy about this woman? She writes poetry for me

Happy birthday, love!
Birthday haiku is quite hard
Refrigerator

It's in two weeks ... we're trying to get an idea of who is going to show up in Joliet. So give us an idea if you are going to be there.

December 21st is my 50th Birthday !!!

Yeah, I know, I appear to be a gibbering idiot of slightly lesser years.

I have been trying to think of what I want to do for this occasion and this, for what it is worth, is what I came up with.

Since my birthday is on a Sunday, I have decided to celebrate on the 20th. So ... here is the cunning plan that cannot fail. I'm going to Chicago.

At about 3:30 pm on Saturday December 20th I will be at the Lincoln Park Zoo ... dressed warmly I am sure. When I lived in Chicago I went there for my birthday several years running. The idea is to be there about dusk ... to listen to the wolves. There is no more sublimely lovely and unnerving experience. On one hand it is one of the most beautiful sounds in the world. On the other hand there is some primal thing in the back of your head that starts screaming !!! RUN !!! RUN YOU FOOL !!! RUN !!!

After that we will head south to chezdork in Joliet for food and music until we just can't take it anymore. So bring an instrument. If no one else brings instruments (and yes I know that there are quite a few in that house, I'm ignoring that for the moment) then I shall play more. Yeah you betcha, that should get them pouring in.

So ... please ... show up to one or the other or both. It would be a terrible thing if I am the only person there (guilt guilt guilt).

Presents are not necessary, but if you do feel the urge to go buy me something, I have a wish list on Amazon that includes 300+ a couple of items.

Mostly I want friends around me. Living in Iowa gets to me sometimes. I have a few friends here, but I really don't see them often enough due to traveling and the responsibilities inherent with the WSPA.

If you can read this, you are invited. Some folks I don't know as well, I'd like to get to know you better. Oh, and anyone who brings black balloons or anything like that will be thrown to the wolves. I have never been so alive as I am at this time. Come celebrate with me. 50 years ... it's been quite a ride.

It's just a little under 6 months to my birthday, and it's one of THOSE birthdays. Yeah, I am 50 at the end of the year.

So what do you think I should do for my birthday? The last local party I threw was attended by 6 people, maybe 8. I'm thinking I may need to go out of town for this one.

So, gimme some ideas, be realistic ... if you can ...

1117 Thomas Becket (Archbishop of Canterbury)
1639 Jean Baptiste Racine (dramatist)
1804 Benjamin Disraeli (British PM 1868, 1874-80)
1853 Isolde Kurz, German writer/poetess (Meine Mutter)
1859 Gustave Kahn (poet claimed to have invented vers libre)
1879 Joseph Stalin (Russian dictator; murdered 11,000,000)
1918 Kurt Waldheim (Austrian statesman, president)
1922 Paul Winchell (actor, ventriloquist)
1935 Phil Donahue (TV talk show host)
1937 Jane Fonda (actress)
1940 Frank Zappa (musician, songwriter, singer)
1942 Carla Thomas (US singer)
1943 Jared Martin (actor)
1946 Carl Wilson (Beach Boy)
1948 Samuel L Jackson (actor)
1954 Chris Evert (tennis)
1955 Jane Kaczmarek (actress)
1956 Debbie Boone (Luminary)
1958 Eric Coleman (itinerant wise-ass)
1959 Florence Griffith Joyner (track star)
1965 Andy Dick (supposed actor, director, writer)
1966 Keifer Sutherland (actor)