Comments on: hot. damn hot.

By: Uncle Crappy

Uncle Crappy — Fri, 21 Jul 2006 03:42:18 +0000

Carolina Boy! Great to hear from you, my friend…

Sounds like you and Mrs. MRS did well at your Buffett show. As I said before, it’s nearly impossible to get hooked up with tix in Pittsburgh, unless you write a nice newspaper story about the venue … which is what I did in 1998. As thanks, their PR guy called and asked if I knew anyone who could use a pair of tickets to that summer’s Parrothead deal … I said I might be able to use them. So he tells me to show up at this booth in the VIP lot; my name, he said, would be on the proverbial “list.” I was skeptical, but sure enough, the dude in the booth hands us a pair of freaking gold circle tickets — that’s Star Lake code for 10th row and up.

How close were we? Close enough that when Jimmy started tossing guitar picks out into the audience during his encore, one of them hit The Wife squarely in the the forehead. As Sal apparently knows, VIP is the only way to go…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 21:30:52 +0000

Kewyson.....never had a "slider"!!! Man, I used to use the WC for cutting weight in UAHS dayz. 4 castles, fries and some H20 and the weight would come off! You might want to try'em but make sure the "facilities" are close.

UC-welcome to cool air world! After 17 consecutive days of 100+ back in 1985, AC has been my friend. You can only get so acclimated to being hot, sweaty and smelly until it reaches the breaking point.

The wife and I were fortunate enough to see Jimmy B (Fingerless at the time) in Charlotte. He has not lost it even though the band has come and gone. Lawn seats = $39 times 2 plus mail turned out to be $90 something. Of course, it had not rained in weeks except for the 2 1/2 hours during the show. Still a great time. Mama Sal and the younger bro saw him in Cincy (Fingers showed up!). They were on the VIP list or something. Mama Sal calls me at work the next morning, screaming, yelling and hooting about the show. I believe that was number 25 for her since 1991!!

Enjoy your new toy and the power bill that comes to the door in about a month!

CarolinaBoy - forgot my password!

By: drunkdude69

drunkdude69 — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 15:38:43 +0000

If the subject would have come up, I would have imparted my AC wisdom to you: When I lived at the Ranch with the rest of the dd69 crew, we were all very righteous about not getting any air conditioners. I wasn’t quite as militant, but the general idea was along the lines of your reasoning: extra electricity cost, spending money, environmental issues (inside and out), etc. After four years of enduring ‘surface of the sun’ temperatures during the summer, when I couldn’t sleep at night because the bed had turned into a humid, scorching sweatbox, I caved. I bought a huge AC unit for my bedroom. A couple things happened immediately – (1)I smacked myself in the head and thought, “Why the @#$% didn’t you do this years ago?”, and (2)My room suddenly became the place everyone wanted to be. From that point on I decided that, despite my Catholic upbringing, I really didn’t need to suffer when comfort was just a few bucks away.

By: Learned Pig

Learned Pig — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 11:21:27 +0000

we are all very happy you have gotten cooooool…

By: Uncle Crappy

Uncle Crappy — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:33:45 +0000

Oh, and all those misgivings about joining the World of Air Conditioning? Hah. Gone. What the hell were we thinking?

By: Uncle Crappy

Uncle Crappy — Thu, 20 Jul 2006 03:32:36 +0000

You’ve NEVER HAD A WHITE CASTLE? Crap. I thought I had converted all my friends a long time ago. It’s not too late though — last time I checked, they were abundant in the NY/NJ area. I know because I personally stopped at a White Castle in West Orange once while on the way to visiting Juan when he lived in Brooklyn.

And I’m not surprised by the rapid Buffett ticket sales. His annual Pittsburgh show always sells out in minutes; the only time I’ve managed to see him here was when I scored tix after writing a nice story about Star Lake, back in the pre-Clear Channel days.

By: kewyson

kewyson — Wed, 19 Jul 2006 11:03:05 +0000

UC –

Good to hear the show was good – I’ll let you in on a little secret – evan as a Columbus native, I’ve never eaten at Whities. Can’t start now – the streak is too long.

As for window unit ACs – we have an older house – and window units reside here – I’ve done my part the past couple of days helping set the new single day record of elecricity consumption – sure, they are not very pretty – but I also don’t like breaking a sweat trying to get the girls ready for school either.

Jimmy Buffett sold out in about 2 minutes – I guess I need to get on the preferred lists (Amex pre-sale, etc.) – I’ll look into some resales – the floor seats were selling for $176! Wow – not really the price point I was looking for.