As usual, our traditional end of summer involves a concert: Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes are coming to Hampton Beach again. We have a new member of the family this year as Stepson #1 got married. John's bride Kelsey will be coming with us to see what we've been blabbing about all these years. I'm really hoping that Kelsey enjoys the music so she won't be too embarrassed when she sees us doing silly things like flailing our hands up in the air.
So here it is, Labor Day weekend. Forget what it says on the calendar about summer ending on September 21st. Summer officially ends not at the end of the Southside Johnny show, but right after the last note of "Hearts of Stone." It will surely bring a tear to my eye but hey, it wouldn't be the first time.
Article comments
1 - Tom Johnson
You're colorblind? You learn something new every day. Quick! What color is the top of BC? What color is a banana? What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
2 - MarkSaleski
not completely, like i know red, yellow, etc. i get into trouble with various shades of gray, green, brown...which can all look the same depending on the amount of light.
you should have seen it when i had an eye exam recently. the doctor pulls out that book with the dots that show numbers? i saw the number in the first and could see NOTHING in the rest.
3 - Mary K. Williams
Hope you enjoy the show
4 - jcmosquito
Better Days - a great little album I'd quite forgotten....... will pull it out later today.
5 - Cindal Lee Heart
I really enjoyed this article Mark, partly because I also live in New Hampshire. So I can relate with the emotions that inflict during this part of the year. I am tempted to check out Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes- Just to place myself in the same mindset you offer through this article. :)
Cindal Lee Heart
6 - MarkSaleski
hey, guess what? they did NOT play "Hearts of Stone" last night so you know what that means.....SUMMER IS NOT OVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
7 - Mat Brewster
I, too, am colorblind and I always get those little dot tests wrong.
Random Story: A friend of mine in college was completely color blind, like he only saw black and white. One time, while riding down Atlanta Highway in Montgomery I hit a left turn arrow as it turned yellow.
The friend, in back, yelled "its pink! its pink! Go Go Go" I turned, then turned to him and asked "pink?"
He then realized his mistake and said, "pink, yellow, whatever, you needed to go fast."
It was funny in person. Maybe not so much in cyberspace.