Dave Gudewicz

Pretty good gully-washer up here in Lake County. Lots of thunder boomers too. Calmed down now.

If Time magazine is still doin' its word of the year thing, here's my suggestion: distraction

Can we tack on to the bottom of the constitution - morons and convicted felons cannot be a POTUS.

It ain't too people friendly by design me thinks. Said another way - I don't like it, but YMMV.

Many live in it continually. Rumor has it that it follows politicians of a certain ilk.

There was a bunch of these guys nesting by the Lincoln Statue in the backyard of the Chicago History Museum a few years back. They've since moved on to other places.

Yep, going to the movies is expensive, but the price of bread and most other stuff has gone up too. I like going to the "show" as we call it. Gets you out of the house, with people and the also "expensive" popcorn ain't bad either. 😉

To me, Marty Supreme was one screaming scene followed by another - with a dog. Your serve. Oh and a little ping-pong thrown in for good(?) measure.

Have we traded one bad egg with another? Time will tell. It always does.

A kinda reddish fog up here in Lake County when I first looked out the window. More "normal" now. I thought the end was near, but it probably isn't. 😉

Tragically, the day after I learned that Billy Goat's had its 92nd birthday, Vintage Trib published the story of John Belushi's death from an overdose in 1982.

And just yesterday was the story of Billy Goat's 92nd birthday which was made more famous by the SNL skit, featuring John Belushi.

BTW, wife and I went to Billy Goat's yesterday and folks there didn't know about the birthday until I told them. They know now.

3 Birthdays - March 4th Chicago turned 189 years old 3/4/2026 Billy Goat Tavern and Grill turned 92 Becky turned XX

Celebrated 3 birthdays today - Chicago's 189th, Billy Goat Tavern's 92nd (just learned that today) and my wife's XX 😉

Wife picked where we would go out to eat. Here's what she picked.

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Thanks for the Billy Goat's birthday story, which I didn't know. Same birthday as Chicago's AND my wife!

Mean no disrespect but DuSable was the first non-native settler in what would become Chicago by the river close to where Michigan Ave. crosses it these days. He left the area around 1800, decades before Chicago became a town in 1833 then a city in 1837. Founder of what would become Chicago, YES.

One more "war" thing. My dad was a Nazi POW during WW II for 18 months. He came home (weighing 90 pounds) otherwise I wouldn't be writing this now.

Did she offer discounts to the UN folks for her failed documentary I wonder?

They spelled "L" correctly! 😉

And all the king's horsemen and all the king's men.......

How do I know this horrible thing. I spent 15 months in Vietnam. Some good things too, like helping nuns at a leprosarium in the middle of nowhere in the Central Highlands. The "bad guys" won and now some of our mobile phones are made there as well as clothing and other stuff - by the "bad guys".

With all the talk about "smart weapons" that can target an open window in a building, how do they manage to destroy a school full of kids I wonder? War is horrible. EOM

He was just at the Field Museum a bit ago for another award. He talked about finding frogs as a kid and that spirit never left him. That's no moon.....

Noticed the fence, so kids can't "cut through" like we used to in days gone by.

Alleys, flex or otherwise, in NYC? Who knew? 😉

Chicago should honor this guy in some way. Dunno how, but some way.

To lighten things up a little, I find that as I age, the 5 second rule has become the 10 second rule. 😉

How is this OK? What the heck is Congress doing about it? Why the cave to the lunatic and his underlings?

How many people have died over the course of history because of so-called "my god is better than your god" thinking.

There's a lot of that goin' on from my POV, but what's to be done about it I wonder.

I too stood in line at school for the polio vaccination. Years later at a VA facility close to the medical school I was working at, I found a large room in a building full of no longer needed iron lung machines. Thank you Dr. Salk. No thank you RFK Jr.