When All IS Said and Dunn is ramping up an underused Category “Tales from an Ordinary Life”.
Your blog host is a raconteur, a teller of tales, not about legendary heroes but about regular joes like him, and you, too, if only you look at life the right way!
Without further ado, it is our pleasure to re-introduce the blog post Category “Tales from an Ordinary Life”.
Its theme: Life Is an Adventure & We’re All Heroes, If We Just Look Hard Enough!
We kicked it off a week ago with the post “Adventures of a White Guy in Chicago’s Third World Football League”. Continuing that, we are now featuring “Paddy Wagons Weren’t Meant for This” which records some further adventures of a White Guy in the Third World League. This will be followed, next week with an account of car break-ins and juvi justice, Chicago-style, which culminates in your host being offered a discreet bribe in open court not 15 feet from the judge, followed by an awkward and unplanned meeting with the perp in the Court’s lavatory.
Demographic note: As many (but not all) of these stories are drawn from my days in Chicago, they reflect the demographics of Hyde Park, one of what were then a mere handful of integrated communities in Chicago. Hyde Park is located smack in the middle of Chicago’s South Side, well-portrayed by Lena Waithe’s highly-recommended drama The Chi, whose second season premiered on Showtime on April 7. So, a lot of my Chicago stories reflect the upbeat but neither risk-free nor frictionless race relations experienced by me, and my homey of that time, Barack Obama. I never met him, but he lived in a 53rd Street development halfway between the condo on 50th Street where I lived before coming to Miami and the co-op on 55th Street my wife and I moved into after leaving the International House grad-student dorm on 59th Street where we met. I claim two degrees of separation from our much-missed 44th.
The good old days: when the only scandals were fake scandals.
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