A friend of mine died yesterday. For many years we hung out all the time but eventually we started to head in directions. We still hung out here and there but not as often. Then he got sick and I moved away. Eventually I came back but we just had a hard time connecting. I got caught up in life and he was kept busy being sick and slowly dying. I always meant to stop by to see him but it was always next week. Regrets... I have few but I regret not seeing him these past couple of years. But I can't dwell on that so I'll remember all the good years we had together. Brad was always goofy and about having a good time, not doing any one wrong. You were crazy as I was and the best of people. Now your with our other best friend, Nicole. You two better meet me where ever we go when we get out of this place.

A friend of mine died yesterday. For many years we hung out all the time but eventually we started to head in directions. We still hung out here and there but not as often. Then he got sick and I moved away. Eventually I came back but we just had a hard time connecting. I got caught up in life and he was kept busy being sick and slowly dying. I always meant to stop by to see him but it was always next week. Regrets... I have few but I regret not seeing him these past couple of years. But I can't dwell on that so I'll remember all the good years we had together. Brad was always goofy and about having a good time, not doing any one wrong. You were crazy as I was and the best of people. Now your with our other best friend, Nicole. You two better meet me where ever we go when we get out of this place.

Here's one of my favorite bands playing one of their best songs. They're an amazing band that should be more well known than they are. You can see the rock, country and a little blues in their music. If you ever hear of Backyard Tire Fire coming to your town they're worth the $10 you'll probably have to pay to see them.

So every year in chicago there's an event called TBox. It's an 8,000 person bar crawl in Wrigleyville. For those of you who don't know Chi Wrigleyville is the area where the Cubs play and there are streets of bars. It's an awesome area when you're in the mood for the city. I don't know how I had never heard of this bar crawl until this year but damn and I glad I found it. The Twelve Bars Of Xmas was one crazy mess. We started off at 10:30 am and didn't stop until 3am. It was rough. The night was full of some random and crazy moments.

Here's some pics from the night.

They have this thing with cereal. I don't know how it got started but everyone has cereal and you throw it in every bar you go to. No one cares and its a bloody mess but so great.



The event starts off at the Cubby Bear, one of the most well known bars in Chicago and across from where the Cubs play


People get dressed up, some keeping it simple (me with my ugly sweater) and others go all out.

some people really shouldn't try to dress up


Some people can really pull off the dirty santa look

So a couple months ago my friends and I took a trip to the Dells to go camping.

After we finished the keg we thought it would be fun to play with the gas around the fire.

There was an incident..... Yes, and it involved me

This was the start of the fire

Later that night

This is just before the moment


After I got on fire, stopped, dropped and rolled....
The next morning

My foot swelled so much that I couldn't fit in a shoe

The cream the doctor gave me made my wound turn green! Fucking nasty! Freaked me out!

So I heard that Dispatch was getting together to play one more show to bring back awareness to Zimbabwe. They were going to play at the Kennedy Center so that meant the tickets were going to be hard to get. After a few dozen phone calls I got through and got my tickets! The problem was that the tickets weren't together and far back from the stage.
But it was Dispatch so I said fuck it. Got in my car and drove straight to DC. WHen I got to the show some guy wanted trade tickets. Don't ask my why someone who had second row tickets would give them up but he took my tickets and $50. Worth it