Garden Party
It’s the most wonderful time of the year: the Sheffield Garden Walk (2007 ed.) is finally here. A time to run roughshod all the way from Friday night’s volunteer/patron-only “President’s Party” at DePaul, to Monday morning’s last call at TBD. (This year it turned out to be Gaslight.) Who completed The Amazing Race? Only A, A.R. and me. SGW weekend has always been a classic example of deficit spending; in terms of energy, that is: burn through all you can on Friday, Saturday and Sunday… only to have to pay for it in full on Monday (and come up short). Ugh.
Good times, though: dozens of FOBs, unlimited pours of Coors and Blue Moon, and Chicago’s The Redwalls and Poi Dog Pondering on Saturday, followed by Catfish Haven and Cowboy Mouth on Sunday.
Only one thing would have turned this weekend up a notch to an “eleven”: suggesting to T.L. that his brand-new shoes, in fact, were cool… not handicapped. Why, oh, why could we not have just lied?! Damn you, conscience! We’d have had an unending supply of Clark Griswold/Star Wars/Miami Vice-inspired material with which to work (to name but a few). Where’d you think we were headed? Wimbledon? (In a related story… they were returned the very next day.)
“Gonna get it right this time…”
Poi Dog Pondering
That’s the Way Love Is at Sheffield Garden Walk in Lincoln Park on Saturday, July 21, 2007.
Cowboy Mouth
Light It On Fire at Sheffield Garden Walk in Lincoln Park on Sunday, July 22, 2007.
Easy at Sheffield Garden Walk in Lincoln Park on Sunday, July 22, 2007. (Looking back on it… it’s got a long take, GoodFellas feeling.)
“Red Spoon Throw” during Everybody Loves Jill at Sheffield Garden Walk in Lincoln Park on Sunday, July 22, 2007.