Rob Sherwood Blog

Open Blog - October 7 - 12, 2008

Posted by Rob Sherwood • Tuesday, 2008-October-07 • 10:29

Yesterday I had to go back to MY STORY, Chapter 5 to see what I wrote about Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The reason? I heard from someone mentioned there who was definitely part of MY STORY. Wayne Johnson. My memory failed me and I referred to him as Duane Johnson. Oops! I'll have to fix that. We went to Brown Institute together for a while. Here's how Brown worked. Every month a new class began and ever month those who had been there for 9 months graduated. Wayne beat me to Brown by several months and left to begin his career while I had months to go. At one time, if you were a broadcaster in the five-state mid-west (Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, North & South Dakota) the chance that one, if not all, of your colleagues was a grad of B-I were almost 100%. I remembered quite clearly that Wayne worked in Cedar Rapids, but I had forgotten that we worked together in Austin, Minnesota. (What did I do to kill all those brain cells?) I also forgot his visits while I was KDWB and KSTP. (Do Big Macs kill brain cells?) Now I will have to pick Wayne's brain and grab my webmaster and do some editing and correcting. He also had some pix and I'll link to them this week in a comment....

Damn! I have to write to my friend Claudia...NOW she wrote to ask me if I'm in a coma....

BTW...the Vikings win last night was dirty but welcome. Just one question....Whose idea was it to kick to Reggie Bush? (I have an idea....)

Rob Sherwood wrote on 2008-October-10 20:56:32:
Oops!

"Never leave for tomorrow what you can do today."

Ben Franklin
Rob Sherwood wrote on 2008-October-10 21:00:36:
I thought of one more...sorry:

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

H.G. Wells

Now I shall go to sleep. Until.....well...you know.....
Rob Sherwood wrote on 2008-October-11 19:37:50:
It was a very short opera...only a single act with no intermission. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The soprano who sang Salome..the title role...was asked, as she emerged from her dressing room, how she was feeling. She replied, "You know what I always say...'Let's kick this thing in the ass.'"...the audience laughed.

They pronounced it: Sal-oh-may.Her Pic John the Baptist was actually called The Prophet Jochanaan. Of course there was the lecherous Herod and Salome's mother Herodius. It began at noon and I was home before 2:30P....That is a short opera.

In this production, I should say, that Salome did less of the Dance Of The Seven Veils and more of a lap-dance for Herod. Jochanaan lost his head because he wouldn't kiss Salome. Jochanaan's head actually spent more time on stage than Jochanaan himself. But, Jochanaan took the curtain calls and the head took none.

In 1989 I came very close to playing the head in a production of The Robber Bridegroom. After only two days of rehearsal I lost my job as the head and took up the role of Clemment Musgrove. Much better even though my head was quite adequate.
mikevbutler wrote on 2008-October-12 10:35:25:
Robby Baby...Loved the photo postings...I think I may have won all the Yen for U...I still have my letters...I remember taking my fistful of Yen to Northwestern National Bank in downtown Minneapolis to exchange it for U.S. currency & the looks I got from the exchange lady wondering where I stole this cash from...I don't think she bought my "cover story" that I won it from "U100".....HUH?...Anyways I think I still a 1000 yen bill in my radio letter archives.. Odd what folks hold on to.... I wonder with the state of the current economy if that bill is worth cashing in?
Rob Sherwood wrote on 2008-October-12 14:33:25:
Mike! Hurry to the bank. That 1000 yen is worth a little more than $10. Thanks to U100, now you can retire and never work again. Somewhere on MY STORY I told the story of how, months after U100 was just a memory, I opened a box of 'stuff' from my desk and found a wad of yen from the contest that we hadn't given away. At the time I was trying to live on income from working theater in the Twin Cities and wasn't doing very well. Like you I took my 'trove' to Northwestern Bank in downtown Mpls and did the exchange. At the time mine was worth a bunch of money and I splurged with a meal at Chi Chi's.
funkykenny wrote on 2008-October-12 15:09:51:
Hey, Anne and I went to HER 30th reunion last nightdavis High). We enjoyed mine more a couple weeks ago. But our table of 8 people won 7 raffle prizes last night!! That was fun. Let's get that Modesto story going(only if I'm treated with respect!!). K.
Rob Sherwood wrote on 2008-October-12 15:24:41:
What a social butterfly you guys have been. I actually stayed awake until after midnight last night working on the next MY STORY episode. Soon...I promise.
Rob Sherwood wrote on 2008-October-12 20:57:03:
I just got off the phone. It was my web-master and I was reading to him the first bit of Chapter 23 of MY STORY. (Proof that I am, indeed, writing it) After I finished and we agreed it needed some work, he informed me he was naked. That's a little creepy.

Well, the Vikings had a dirty win this afternoon. And Chicago lost too. A pretty good day for football. Damn! Green Bay won. In my personal opinion, the TV announcers on the Vikings game were hard-corps rooting for the Lions. It was pretty obvious. Sure, there is a question about the pass-interference call in the 4th Quarter..but....I am partisan enough to take a win in ANY WAY.

Sunday night is turning out to be a pretty good TV night. As long as Keith Olbermann is on NBC Football I refuse to watch it. Unless I really want to. Then, if I catch his bit by mistake I just close my eyes and go "la la la la la la" until I think he's finished. But....DEXTER and The Unit are both good shows. And when baseball is finished...The Simpsons and Family Guy. (Except last week. When I saw the promo and all the Jesus stuff I just skipped it. It still amazes me how Christianity is such a convenient subject for sacrilege. If they tried that with Allah they'd be killed!)

Well.....I'll open a new thread tomorrow and see what happens THIS week. Hope you are all content.
MBiolo wrote on 2008-October-13 20:43:03:
Being a die hard Packer fan I was more than happy with the NFL weekend, though I would have loved to have seen the damn Lions win one, if only because they were playing the Vikes. (And that was a dirty win.) I don't know what it is about that team but I have no respect for Vikings since Bud Grant last walked the sidelines. In a pinch I could be a fan of Da Bears but never, ever the Vikings. Even in the dark ages when the Pack was coached by the likes of Phil Bengston I would rather have suffered through the agony of defeat (after defeat, after defeat, after defeat) than jump on the Minnesota band wagon. But I still love ya.

Speaking of garlic . . . (okay, that was a few days ago) I have indeed partaken of the fare at the Stinking Rose on a number of occasions. Nothing like eating garlic, garlic, and more garlic on Fiestaware. Fun place! As is the Gold Spike, Caffe Sport, Columbus Avenue and all of North Beach. My favorite eatery in that part of The City is, however, a little hole in the wall a bit further south on Green Street from Caffe Sport, Sodini's. Best gnocchi anywhere outside of my kitchen. Anyway, after reading your blog I remembered that I have one of the Stinking Rose cookbooks so I broke the sumbitch open and made a 40 clove garlic chicken this past weekend. Nobody would talk to me today.

Marco