Two weeks ago, I got the following email from CEB:
7/6 - Taste of Minnesota. Chubby Checker & George Thorogood and the Destroyers both performing that day. The Chubby Checker steaks will be 'bad to the bone' this year.
Of course, I already knew, because the night before I had taken this phone call:
Me: "Hello."
LCG: "The Chubby Checker Counter just got even better!"
Me: "Oh, yeah?"
LCG: "George. Thorogood."
Me: "At the same place?"
LCG: "Same place, same day. I think we need to have the first-ever Rocksnobs field trip."
Me: "Ooh! Since it is George Thorogood we are all going to have to pile into the back of the Cowboy's pickup and arrive in style. Wait. No. That's not safe!"
LCG: "We should go in a van."
Me: "A rusty van? A crappy rusty panel van?"
LCG: "Maybe."
Fortunately, we know where we can get hold of a rusty van, which is just as well, because the Cowboy extra hates George Thorogood. I love George Thorogood, because his addition to the bill is the extra push LCG needed to attend. As of January, it was confirmed that CEB, Joejung, and The New Guy would all be going to the show with me, but LCG was a maybe.
The other three were at the original Blondie fiasco, so they wouldn't miss the Chubby Checker show. But LCG was at work that night and missed the excitement. He kept telling me he would go see Chubby Checker if he didn't have to work. I was all like, "Excuse me? The Chubby Checker Counter was your idea! It's your fault I have been updating it nightly for the past two hundred days! You have to come!" And now thanks to George Thorogood, LCG is coming to the show. Yay! The big day is still over one hundred days away, but the five of us are ready to go. Maybe this year we'll even try the steaks.