Welcome to the part of the web site that explains why valve oil is not a suitable salad topping, even if Tim bets you $10 that you can’t eat a salad covered with it. This refugee of literature is something we like to call Contest Journal.
This week Tim and I stayed close to home and attended the F.J. Reitz and North Posey Invitationals.
It had been a very busy and somewhat stressful week for both Tim and me, so we needed something to cleanse our palates and get us mentally prepared to take some photos. An obvious choice in such a situation would be some good old fashioned classic rock. Unfortunately Tim and I live so close to F.J. Reitz that we didn’t have enough time to listen to one complete song before we made it to Reitz Bowl.
What to do?
Fortunately Tim found what many people believe is the greatest rock and roll song of all time - in a concentrated form.
Check out the abbreviated form of Led Zeppelin classic Stairway to Heaven, which is available on Cliffs Notes Rock & Roll Anthology, Volume 6.
As many of you know, Tim and I are F.J. Reitz band alumni and we always enjoy "going home" to visit the Bowl. Another reason we like to go to the Reitz show is that Tina Raibley does the public address at the show. Tim and I think that Tina’s voice is absolutely incredible. We would happily sit for hours and listen to Tina read something as mundane as a telephone directory or a book on tax law.
Anyway, during a break in the action, I walked up to press box and introduced myself to Tina. As I imagined, Tina was as lovely as her voice. In this photo Tina complimented me on my "really natural-looking toupee" while trying not to laugh out loud.
The folks at F.J. Reitz work very hard to be good hosts. Here you can see the timekeeper performing tricks with a basketball to keep everyone in good spirits before they enter the field.
At the conclusion of the F.J. Reitz show we packed up headed west to Poseyville for the North Posey Invitational.
The North Posey show is always a lot of fun to cover and we enjoy talking to our friends who attend the show. A bonus this year is that we got a great parking spot - once the parking attendant realized that we "were those guys from the Internet." Maybe our license plate gave us away.
One of the things Tim and I love about North Posey’s band is that they are always ahead of the creative curve. Where many bands build bigger and more complex props every year, North Posey has chosen to go in the other direction. Here you see three members of the North Posey pit crew setting up their "micro props" before their performance.
At the end of the day, we were tired and sunburned, but we had a great time and could hardly wait to do it all again.
Maybe that was just the valve oil talking.
