Mighty Bob

Escoobie Verde, originally uploaded by bobobobob.

I saw this Green Scooby at a laundromat in Logan Sq. Anyone who wants to win it for me will be my hero!!!

The kind of band that solves mysteries

I can’t play a single instrument, but I’m pretty good at coming up with Big Ideas, and my latest is to form a band, the kind that goes around solving mysteries. We would need to write one or two songs about groovy times and what it’s like to be in love, then the rest of our set/album would present some (scripted) stage banter setting up our characters and a mystery, some sound effects and incidental music, a couple songs that thicken the plot, maybe a chase scene, and then a totally rockin’ rock song about solving the mystery. Ideal bandmates include people who can dress like a teenager of the mid-to-late 60s, the 70s, or 90s grunge, esp. if you know how to play an instrument, and people who are good at writing dialog or doing different voices. Sorry, but if you want to look like a teenager of the 80s you HAVE to be able to play casio keyboards or key-tar, no exceptions. TALKING DOGS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!@1

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Video Fishing, originally uploaded by bobobobob.

Are you wondering what video fishing is? The latest high-tech craze to make the jump from the Asian market to the US?

It’s actually a store – perhaps in the tradition of Andersonville’s video store that also sold “general nutrition supplements” (weight gainer, Fen-phen, etc.), handmade wardrobes, and giant wooden handcarved statues of Don Quixote (now closed) – that both rents Korean videocassettes and sells fishing poles and tackle. So it isn’t a Video Fishing Store, it’s a Video Store and a Fishing Store.

Russian literature is about life.
English literature is about class.
American literature is about the self.
French literature is about death.
Spanish/Hispanic literature is about literature.

Computer literate people born before (approximately) 1970 use the Internet the way that they use books, the telephone, the fax machine, the television, the radio, and the postal system.  Computer literate people born after (approximately) 1970 use the Internet the way that they use the Internet.

Sexy Girls, originally uploaded by bobobobob.

Diabetic Socks, originally uploaded by bobobobob.

These poor socks have to shoot up with insulin several times a day.

Intersectionym, originally uploaded by bobobobob.

Intersectionym: A name for a building or business derived from the cross streets at or near which it is situated, esp. in Chicago. I got a good deal on a case of Old Style at the Lawrel Liquors and Tap Room on Lawrence near Elston. They must have one of those “Packaged Goods” licenses.

The Ashlie, originally uploaded by bobobobob.

Intersectionym: A name for a building or business derived from the cross streets at or near which it is situated, esp. in Chicago. I’m staying with friends at The Ashlie on Ashland south of Ainslie – you can’t miss it.