Currently I’m in Canada - soon to be joined by SbB Girl Wendy. We’ll have oft-incoherent commentary coming this weekend, so keep checking back. More details below.
(SbB at Toronto’s Virgin Festival this weekend, thanks to My Boy Barry!)
Yesterday I spent the day flying from Los Angeles to Montreal. Here’s one of the many highlights of my layover at O’Hare Airport in Chicago (nice to see the city’s most famous extinct dinosaur Bill Wirtz getting the proper tribute he deserves):
I also enjoyed the chance to stock up on all things Cubs. This Chicago airport store display featured 21 (I counted) different Cubs’ memorabilia items …
… and one White Sox item, which after the ALDS will most likely be the latest fashion trend on the streets of the Central African Republic.
On the flight from LAX to ORD, I saw something I’ve never seen. Some poor old, oxygen-tanked woman actually swapped her own stuff for that drop-down oxygen mask. She ended up making it through the flight ok. We might have lost her in the changeover, but thankfully Ozzie Guillen wasn’t sitting next to her, ‘else she’d have had to assist him with his mask first.
So as for my trip, it’s my birthday weekend, and I thought a trip out to T.O. for the V Festival would be fun. Foo Fighters and Oasis are the headliners for the weekend drunk. Those 48 hours feature about 50 bands - with the whole thing being staged on Toronto Island. You can only access the venue via ferry, so I’ll be on the lookout for sunken wrecks. Thankfully, the Blue Jays aren’t in town, so that’s one less thing for the boat captains to worry about.
(Last time SbB saw Oasis, Liam was kind enough to give Alex, Annie & Denise his tambourine)
Thursday and Friday I’m chilling in Montreal. I’ve worked hockey games here before, but never been to MTL in the summer. So it’ll nice to be able to enjoy my poutine without being stuffed in the back of a foul-smelling minor league hockey bus as I endure yet another involuntary screening of Slap Shot.
Saturday I’ll limp travel to Toronto during the day. Saturday and Sunday we’ll tool around Ontario’s crown jewel before heading to the shows.
(Brooks & Jenna having fun at SC-ND in ‘06)
Next Saturday I’ll be at the USC-Ohio State tilt, live blogging from the game all damn day. It’ll be great to be back at the Coli, and you’ll be there with me. Sept. 19-21 I’ll be gambling and drinking at BlogExpo in Vegas, so if you’re planning on going, give me a shout, would love to hook up for a milkshake or three at Circus Circus.
Then I’ll be back in Chicago the last weekend of September. I’ll do a Chisox game at The Cell, and then a couple Cubs-Brewers games the last two days of the season. Those games probably won’t mean much playoff-wise, unless the Brewers go all Mets on us. No matter, it’s a great rivalry and will be an amazing atmosphere. And of course, I’ll be live blogging that as well. And hopefully get my own pic of that 12-man beer bong.
So I’ll be back on soon with some pics and hopefully more fun crap for you. Just gotta pace myself, and save the hard stuf for lata.
New photo of SbB Girl Whitney:
