Random posts just gave me this post, which was an addendum to this post.

They’re from almost exactly a year ago. So I shall now add another year.

Jonathan Coulton (Birchmere [now 2], so now 3 total)
Del McCoury (DelFest, now 3)
Avett Brothers (DelFest, man, they were great)
Jake Armerding (Adding Wolf Trap, so now 2)
Eddie From Ohio (Birchmere [now 5] and Wolf Trap [now 3], so now 9 total, plus I remember seeing them in Herndon years ago, so 10)
Great Big Sea (Wolf Trap, now 2)

This is an addendum to this post.

I found another keepsake box of tickets. So I’d forgotten even more shows!

Jimmy Buffett (Thunderdome)
Jethro Tull (Nissan)
Steely Dan (Merriweather Post)
Huey Lewis & the News (Wolf Trap, just last year)

Those are all pretty big names to forget I saw them. I remember each of those concerts very clearly, even. The Thunderdome was a terrible, terrible venue for concerts. And hockey. I hope it works better for baseball. I had a sort of press pass for Jethro Tull, because we played JOTTeopardy with an offensive radio personality beforehand. For Steely Dan, we were on the other side of a sort of hill on the lawn and I never actually laid eyes on the stage. And Huey Lewis, of course, was just LAST YEAR.

Years and years ago I saw a comedy sketch on TV where four guys were sitting around playing cards, and “Blinded by the Light” came on the radio and they all started singing along, but different lyrics. The conversation devolved into a heated argument about what the actual words are. The actual words are “revved up like a deuce, another runner in the night,” but the guys in this show were arguing not only that, but also VERY LOGICAL reasons why the others made sense:

“held up like a loofah by the foreman of the night”

“ripped up like a douche, you’re gonna throw away the night” (I remember a douche being described repeatedly as “a small French bath towel”)

“rammed up like a docent in the humble of the might”

The guy who had it right had a speech at the end where he threw up his hands and said “there’s no loofah, there’s no small French bath towel, and there’s no [looking at the guy who said the third one] whatever the hell you said, either.”

I have no idea what comedy group this was. No clue whatsoever.

I was just doing some leftover puzzles in a GAMES World of Puzzles magazine from September 1995 (yes, really) and came across a page where I wrote these lyrics down, apparently having just seen the sketch in question. At the bottom of the page I also wrote this, which I find hugely charming 14 years later:

“http://comcentral.com”

Edited two minutes later to add:

Googling “held up like a loofah,” “foreman of the night,” and even “rammed up like a docent” had no effect. AFTER writing this post, I Googled “small French bath towel” and found it. Unbelievable.

http://finewhyfine.typepad.com/fine_why_fine/2006/08/a_small_french_.html

The group was called the Vacant Lot. I do remember that now.

The YouTube link in that blog post is gone, but this one totally works.

In 1979 John Hughes wrote this story for National Lampoon. It’s called “Vacation ’58.” Most of it will be extremely familiar.

http://www.bizbag.com/Vacation/Vacation%2058.htm

Warner Brothers bought the story from the Lampoon and hired him to turn it into a screenplay, and if I read right, that was his first job in Hollywood.

All these years, I didn’t even know he wrote it.

One small warning to the reader: the story, unlike the movie, actually describes what happens to the dog.