Jazz & Blues Lounge

Ouch.  That’s all I have to say about this morning.  For those of you who are not in the Chicago area, you may not know that we have had one of the most brutal winters in almost thirty years.  It has been unbelievably cold followed by one big snow storm after another.  Normally, I love winter and I love fall, but this winter has gotten to me.  This morning, winter bit me back.
I was trying to get to my car.  Of course, walking anywhere around here means walking on what amount to glaciers.  Really, to walk here in Chicago you …read more

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It’s Monday again and there is more bad weather predicted for Chicago.  Now, normally I prefer Fall and Winter over Spring and Summer.  I am not much for heat and I do not enjoy thunderstorms.  Spring is too full of the second one and summer is too full of the first.  Generally speaking, the heat in July and August turns me from a generally good-natured fat dude into a cranky, sweat, smelly fat dude. 
Still, even so, this winter has gotten to me.  It has been one burying snow fall after another followed by these intense, bone-chilling deep freezes.  This has …read more

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Hello there faithful readers.  I hope you have a great weekend.  If you are visiting Chicago this weekend, I hope you have snow-shoes.  Chicago got hit with at least a foot of snow last night and into today.  Despite this, I did manage to get a flight out of Chicago and to St. Louis to hang with friends and watch the Super Bowl.
So, I will be here for a few days.  I did that last year too and posted a few jazz and blues things going on here in the Gateway City.  People seemed to enjoy that.  One thing is …read more

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You have to love the news and the people who do weather.  You would have thought that the snow storm that blew through the Chicago area was going to somehow kill every living being here.  You would have thought that so much snow would fall that every building in the city would collapse, burying millions beneath the rubble.
Of course, the East Coast news people go exactly the opposite way.  It only becomes news to them when it actually hits New York.  Chicago COULD have been wiped out by a freak snow fall and they wouldn’t notice or acknowledge it until …read more

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