I went to the Old Angle Tavern last night. Gale and I did that classic mistake of ordering too much early in the meal, hummus followed by a huge bowl of tomato soup. Then when the sammies came out, it's automatic box for lunch time. The food was quite good, as always, but damn, there was a lot of it. But the beer was cold.

We were entertained by a guy in an Evel Knievel outfit, playing the guitar and singing the classics. But he also brought one of those windup Knievel toys from years gone by. The one where Toy Evel sits on his cycle and you crank up the revolutions so he goes speeding off in the distance. When his set was done, the singer adjourned to the bar, where they set up a stunt area. They had a book that acted as a ramp and had several plastic shot glasses for Toy Evel to jump over. At first, there was a request to have flaming shots as the hazard. Cooler heads prevailed and they only lit one glass. It was very humorous. Several attempts of Toy Evel careening off the bar, not even hitting the ramp, made it that much more enjoyable when there were a few jumps that were successful.

Kevin (anxious to have a Halloween costume trial run) and Lisa joined us later. We were able to catch most of the final World Series game, which was good, because Tommy Lasorda was starting to hunt me down to encourage me to watch some innings.

Meal of Links

The world is falling apart. "Dancing with the Stars" goes on tour.

Jonestown revisited. And a cliche born.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience means getting sued a lot. This time, it's who owns the catalog.

Video of the Week

I've got The Who on my mind, what with the new tour and all. "Another Tricky Day" was used as part of the in-house ad for the Richfeld Coliseum, self-glossing "America's finest sports and entertainment complex". The song, I love very much. The video is, well...judge for yourself. We are in black and white. Roger from Oz has a scarf tied around his neck. Ugh! Pete looks like he just got up, looking sufficiently scruffy. John Entwhistle's thought bubble says, "I hope I'm getting paid for this." I think this is still the Kenny Jones era on drums, but does that really matter? Not much else to say, except it's the Pete I like, not phoning it in on this, although at about 2:25 he makes faces at someone off camera.

The Who-"Another Tricky Day"



Exercise Yard

The Cardinals are World Series champs. And, quite frankly, baseball has a huge problem. It seems no one cares. I was amazed at ESPN's coverage heading into Game 4 on Thursday. The 6:00 version of SportsCenter covered the QB change in Dallas for the first 10 minutes. That's 10 minutes of non-game action football coverage, while the championship of a major sport is being held.

I know ESPN has dropped their playoff coverage for baseball next year, but that juxtaposition of storylines was jaw-dropping.

Visitor

16 Across: Singer with the 1954 #1 hit "This Ole House" (15 letters) Answer: Rosemary Clooney