I think Ive only ever had one addiction. Watching basketball. I mostly blame it on Pineapple. The Texas Outlaw Comics had gotten booked at Snikkers in Chicago, It was a club that was on the edge of bankruptcy. In one of my brilliant Texas Outlaw Comics managerial moves I got Hicks, Shock and the boys to agree to go to Chicago with just a weeks notice to do Outlaw Comics Get Religion there. The problem is we were all doing mushrooms & X when I got them to agree. This is another story Im not telling tonight. Well Bill and Ron didnt make it but based on Bills rep, the timeliness of the show and a favor owed to the owner Barry Manheim we ended up getting the our picture and story on the 1st page of the Friday entertainment section of the Chicago Tribune. Well Hicks & Shock couldnt make the show. They gave me some pitiful excuse about already being booked and that they were on hallucinogens when they said theys do it. So it ended up being Pineapple, Andy Huggins, Tracy Wright. & I. OK here my addiction story begins. Pineapple and I went to Billy Goats to get drunk and have some cheeseburger, cheeseburger no Pepsi, Jack Daniels (straight no coke). It was supercool just being in the tavern that not only inspired the Saturday Night Live bit but the bar where Mike Royko always hung out. On top of that we got drunk & loose enough that when we saw a copy of the Chicago Times on the bar we showed the bartender who we were. So now he is giving us free drinks. I had never been into watching sports on TV but this day happened to be the day Dr. J was retiring . So we watched that game and my addiction began. Then I went to L.A. & I was staying at Joe Morriss place. Joe was a rabid Lakers fan. The Lakers won the championship in 87,88.and 89. Put that together with the fact that one of my best friends who had moved from Houston to L.A. was Laker half time performer Dancing Barry Richards and I ended up not being able to miss a Laker game from 1988 till 2002. Chick Hearn helped me break the addiction by dying. Then my aversion to seeing bubble gum being chewed really kicked in and Kobe Bryant ended my addiction entirely by turning out to be an asshole. Now Im gonna have fun posting youtube clips in the thread of all the names I dropped.
Posted on: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 06:27:00 +0000
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