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On the road with The Jerks -- Part 3
When it came to playing out—whether on the road or in one of the bars in La Salle-Peru—the band had a lot of equipment, which required a truck to get to wherever they were playing. The truck used … more »
Stopping to smell the roses
What's that woman doing with my husband...on television!?
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judithmara wrote 1 month ago: No need to panic. It’s just Wendy Smedley of Simple Scrapbooks showing a layout I created of m … more »
On the road with The Jerks -- Part 3
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Jeffrey wrote 3 months ago: When it came to playing out—whether on the road or in one of the bars in La Salle-Peru—the band … more »
On the road with The Jerks -- Part 2
Jeffrey wrote 3 months ago: I officially started working with The Jerks in the summer of 1981. I had taken some time … more »
Eureka, Baseball and Greek Town -- Part 2
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Jeffrey wrote 3 months ago: The next day, it was an early start for those of us heading to Chicago (I have recently gotten in to … more »
Eureka, Baseball and Greek Town -- Part 1
Jeffrey wrote 3 months ago: There are a lot of cool things that a person could do to celebrate their birthday besides just getti … more »
Crossing the Isthmus of Panama with Howard and Other Stories -- Part 4
Jeffrey wrote 4 months ago: Let’s look at the scorecard thus far. It’s 1976. I graduated from high school on June 3; six d … more »
Crossing the Isthmus of Panama with Howard and Other Stories -- Part 3
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Jeffrey wrote 4 months ago: From 1976-1978 I was stationed at Howard Air Force Base in the Panama Canal Zone. I wasn’t too cr … more »
"Rocking and rolling, got my Kiss records out" -- Cheap Trick, "Surrender"
Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: Well, not exactly having my Kiss records out, but when I was a small boy growing up in Oglesby, Illi … more »
Shelling Corn
Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: An essay in progress. This is something that I have wanted to write for sometime but I just have … more »
Paul banging on the wall and other weird scenes inside the gold mine
Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: I am not sure what I am going to do with this. At first I thought it might be a great introduction t … more »
On the Road with The Jerks -- Part 1
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Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: For almost a year in the early 80s I was sort of a roadie and light technician for The Jerks, a roc … more »
From Carbondale to Daejeon
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Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: You just never know who is going to stumble across your blog on the Internet and then either write … more »
Crossing the Isthmus of Panama with Howard and other stories -- Part 1
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Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: I have to confess that I wasn’t too crazy the day I found out that I had orders to Panama. At fir … more »
Ten weeks at Del Monte -- Part 2
Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: It was the summer of 1990 and I was spending my first summer in the Illinois Valley since 1985. Two … more »
Ten weeks at Del Monte -- Part 1
Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: One of the more humbling experiences I’ve had when it has come to working had to have been the tim … more »
Are you a Stooge?
Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: Anyone who has ever served in the military at one time or another is bound to have at least one or t … more »
When the carnival came to town -- Part 1
Jeffrey wrote 5 months ago: Growing up in a small town in the Midwest, summers were always a time for picnics, outdoor barbecue … more »
The day I was asked to hold some marijuana at LAX
Jeffrey wrote 6 months ago: In what has to be one of my more bizarre travel experiences, one time I was asked to hold some marij … more »
An evening with Devo -- November 1982
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Jeffrey wrote 8 months ago: It was a cold, wet November night fifteen years ago when I was sitting in the Holiday Star Plaza Th … more »
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