Your life list, non-sportswriting version

Just read all 9 pages of this thread. I got nuttin' to compare.

That having been said, what a great, inspirational thread.

I admire one and all of you...

 

yeah, it was kinda a freaky high to be honest.

 

There was that time in college I made a highly-efficient makeshift mini-bong out of a toilet paper tube . . .

 

And that was an hour ago...

 

Doesn't the autograph burn your fingers when you hold it?

 

These are all non-serious fun stuff that happened Some might be of interest. Religion, family, etc. are ongoing matters to be assessed at one's deathbed, which I'm not old enough for yet.

1. Worked on a Christo project. Rifle Gap Curtain, Rifle, Colorado, August 1972.
2. Toured with a C-W band composed of stoned Easterners. We played the NCO club in Fort Carson when it was the detox center for guys returning from 'Nam, a downtown Samoan gay bar in Oakland, and the Garlic Festival in Gilroy. Learned a lot about the USA.
3. 47 states, all but Hawaii, Alaska, and North Dakota.
4. Have seen the Northern Lights on several occasions.
5. Once treed by moose.
6. Pursuant to band duties, had to hitchhike 100 miles through Rockies in snowstorm -- with a piano.
7. Got a big sloppy kiss from Grace Slick for delivering Airplane's warmup act Spider John Koerner to Boston concert in time for show. He'd been sleeping off the weekend in basement of our fraternity house.
8. As a sports spectator, it'd have to be 76ers-Knicks, 1968 Eastern Conference finals. Game played at the Palestra because roof blew off Spectrum. Triple OT. Hal Greer had 50. Walt Frazier AND Billy Cunningham broke their legs. Wilt won it at the free throw line, honest.

 

the post was more for effect, but touche dammit, touche.

 

And that folks is the #1.

Only thing that could beat it would be a bear story.

Congrats, Michael

 

"Your humorless I'm-a-baseball-superstar and squeaky-clean themed entry seemed far more self-aggrandizing and me-centric."

First of all, I am/was hardly a baseball superstar. I was fortunate enough to play on some really good teams against some really good players. These were highlights in my life.

Second of all, the whole point of the thread was to be me-centric. So of course I'm listing highlights that involve me. It wouldn't be much of a personal highlight list if there is no me in it.

Third, the only reason this train of thought got started was because Lee asked why not having drank/smoked/used drugs was a highlight. I simply was telling him why. I don't expect everyone to be "squeaky clean." I'm certainly no such thing.

My only point was, and this is my personal opinion, illegal drug use isn't something to be celebrated. That's all.

 

I have a 1980 World Series batting practice baseball I nearly caught with my mouth. The soft pretzel I was eating cushioned the blow. The ball and the pretzel fell onto the ground. Clint Hurdle picked the ball up and threw it to my father. I was seven so all I remember is the kid next to me screaming "It hit my mom's hair!"

 

I really hope you got a shot of something after that. You no idea where those lips have been. Grace Slick in 1967, hell yeah. From the mid-1970s on, no way.