Archive for October, 2008
Sunday, October 5th, 2008
multisport and four seasons in one weekend
It was meant to be a big sporting weekend for some of us southern zoners. Starting on Saturday with the Peak to Pub, a race which consisted of snowboarding or skiing down Mt Hutt, biking down the access road and then running to Methven. A few hardy souls had entered but were at the mercy [...]
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Friday, October 3rd, 2008
what’s in a name?
            Blog. Spelled backward, it’s gold-pretty close, anyway. And the family name that sits pretty close to my first name is, of all things, Gold.            The Gold family is comprised of the lovely and talented Southside Patty (32 years of watching over me, of blond-haired and blue-eyed Scandinavian heritage, nine brothers and sisters). Ben, the [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Chicago,Miscellaneous by timezoneone
Thursday, October 2nd, 2008
the sometimes there’s a rough road between thoughts and words
           I’m rarely without something to say.                      But today, I am.            Here’s what my somewhat silent day has been about. I’ve done a story for Promo magazine about our honest-to-god, wild and uniquely positioned organization. I was moved to put together a list of what I thought were the best of blues, r&b, [...]
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Wednesday, October 1st, 2008
to you, you, you and you
           Here’s to a sweet Rosh Hashanah-the celebration of the Jewish New Year.            It started yesterday and will continue through to next week when the holiday is culminated with Yom Kippur.   Going way, way, way back over 5,000 years ago-even before Robert Johnson and Bill Bernbach-these holy days were created by “my tribe” as [...]
