I'm not dead...

...I'm just on summer vacation. Until next week. Then school starts, and I'm back on a real schedule. Or as real as a blogging schedule ever truly gets. So, art will have to wait for my thoughts for another week. There's a lot to wrap up from the summer, and I promise it will all be coming at you pronto!

But, if you're in the hood, you might want to join me and friends for some laughs tonight. When I say tonight I mean, Tuesday, August 26. When I say "the hood", I mean Bay View, WI.

Tonight I receive the greatest honor of my life. Read the invite below that I've been circulating and you'll understand.

As if my life wasn't great enough already, this Tuesday it will reach a new level of awesomeness. Somehow, I was elected as one of the Neighbors of The Night for The Bay View Neighborhood Association's "Chill On The Hill" in Humboldt Park. My honored night is this Tuesday, August 26, and I'm hoping you can come and party in the park with me and other pals.

Here's the low down. It's a free concert in the park starting at 6:30. I will be at the park at about 6:00 or 6:15. As a Neighbor of The Night I get priority seating (look for the GREEN TENT) and some free Miller Chill. I also believe I get to wear a crown and give a speech, and you can only imagine what that's doing to my ego right now.

The band that night is the superb SWING NOVEAU. And since my good pal Tom Lueck is the lead singer for that band, I'm conspiring to sing with the band (tapping into my Sinatra alter ego even as I write). It should be a great night of fun tunes in the Humboldt Park (just North of Oklahoma Avenue on Howell Avenue), and I certainly hope you can make it out for some good end of summer revelry.

Hope to see you there! Bring a blanket, a bottle of vino, some noshes and your party shoes.