A few pics from Irish Fest 2013 at Gaelic Park just outside Chicago.
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Friends of mine in Chicago have an associate who I’ll call Spider and is probably the nicest guy you’ll ever meet. He doesn’t have a mean bone in his body. He’s the definition of a blue-collar worker, minus any assholeness. He’s a dockworker who can also work on cars. A true monkey wrench, this Spider. He fixes anything. He’s also part of our “Asshole Book Club” that was formed by Chicago reclusive author Clive Javanski several years ago. But more on that later. Spider has been catfished. Spider has been catfished long before catfish was the word to describe being catfished. You see, at the moment Spider is having Internet relations with an attractive white girl in Ghana. That’s right. Ghana. Which I just…
I have no idea when it’s on, and I don’t watch it, but there’s a cable show in Chicago called “Sports Talk Live.” Last week its guests included Tim Doyle of the Big Ten Network and Comcast Chicago Bulls analyst Kendall Gill. There was an argument during the show about a Bulls call and what followed was a case of violent grab ass as Gill ended up punching Doyle in the hallway afterwards. Gill has been suspended from his job. Doyle has not. And some people have been critical of Doyle…the Doyle haters are out there. One ChicagoNow blogger compares Doyle to one of those people who make you wonder “how do they have a job?” Basically he calls Doyle “bland/boring and “annoying/irritating.” He also criticizes…
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