joe

Or, The Best Night Ever

As it turns out, shooing a fly from you car can drastically change your luck. Notes from Miranda and my adventure to the Double Door in Chicago to see Joe Firstman

Occurrences Before Fly Removal:
-Gravity and Lipstick conspire to ruin Miranda's shirt
-the dryer makes the shirt more wrinkled
-Abby is cut in line at McDonald's
-Cheese and ranch dressing fall on Randa's black skirt
-Construction and traffic drive us onto an "alternate route"
-The alternate route went through a sketchy weird neighborhood

Occurrences After Fly Removal:
-Alternate route leads back to the Dan Ryan sans traffic
-We find free parking
-We've accidently arrived an hour before the doors open
-But our new best friend Curtis Peoples lets us into the club
-Where Joe Firstman is doing sound check
-And then calls us pretty
-Hours later we see an amazing show from a distance of 3 feet
-Afterwards Joe's tour manager invites us to an after party
-We got hugs and pics with Joe
-Joe said Miranda had a memorable face
-Joe's new CD was amazing all six times we listened to it on the way home

Joe is perfection. He's so good and he had a bass cellist in his band. Here are our pics.

Was that a Transformer?!?!

Oh, yeah it was.

So we (the fam, Miranda and Dove 2) go to see Pirates II, and there are a dozen previews. There is one that presents like an earth-shattering investigation into the Mars rover. Then it gets dramatic talking about the top-secret classified last images. I get all hopeful and start perking up with whispered chants for aliens. Miranda leans over and goes "Was that a transformer?". Then suddenly the title flashes accross the screen. The Transformers!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! My cup runneth over.

The movie was worth the $7 just to see Orlando's shirt ripped off and to see Kiera make out with Johnny. Delicious.

-Abby