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Mitch

whoisthedelbert

About Me

"Do you often date girls and not try to sleep with them?"

-Linda Ronstadt, to Steve Martin

My Interests

toothpastefordinner

I'd like to meet:

Meat.

Visit!

the Delbert .
bbs.thedelbert.com

Life is worth the risk.

Music:

all things EAR STEW, and some that's more "challenging".

Movies:

Martin Scorsese, P.T. Anderson, Sergio Leone, Coen Brothers, recent David Lynch, Tom Tykwer, John Waters &c.

Television:

I don't watch television (I love the Office, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Arrested Development, et al).I've been getting into Dexter, lately.

Books:

Pynchon; Gaddis; Donald Barthelme; all else is filler.

Heroes:

Steve Martin in his prime.

My Blog

how long is it going to take???

seriously, when will Jackie Chan learn that you don't mess with a black man's radio?Do they really need a third movie of this dreck? I mean, they showed what I'll guess is the funniest moment in the t...
Posted by Mitch on Fri, 10 Aug 2007 05:42:00 PST

who the heck!?

I got a voicemail this week from an inmate in the Cook County correctional facilities...I wonder who it was?
Posted by Mitch on Fri, 15 Dec 2006 03:06:00 PST

Shameful confession time:

Today, after work, I'm probably going to buy Danzig's first album, because I've been dying to hear "Mother" -- I love his voice.   Your turn.
Posted by Mitch on Wed, 18 Oct 2006 06:03:00 PST

People ask me why I don't write

"--Nobody! just a, he was just a damned kid who used to, stringy beard and sandals sitting on the floor in there talking about building a houseboat, about Easter Island, about peyote and her eyes just...
Posted by Mitch on Tue, 17 Oct 2006 06:50:00 PST

Press!

I just got a note from one Faith Bowman of the Chi-Town Daily News.  EAR STEW is officially in (e-) print!  Here's what Faith has to say:"Ear Stew&some guy handed me an invite at the Damen B...
Posted by Mitch on Mon, 18 Sep 2006 02:10:00 PST

Update for all EAR STEW followers:

I just acquired a key piece of equipment for the EAR STEW inagural ball.I was also offered a potentially key piece of equipment for future EAR STEWs.Things are moving.As you were....
Posted by Mitch on Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:08:00 PST

Look in my head

it's a lot like this: or this:at its best, it's like this:...
Posted by Mitch on Tue, 08 Aug 2006 03:14:00 PST

Excitement -- Bring it.

My all-time fave writer just recently announced his new book, due out two days before my birthday as his gift to me:"Spanning the period between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just aft...
Posted by Mitch on Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:35:00 PST

Now Playing

5 great finds through assosciation, certain to find their way into future EAR STEWs1. Voltage: Building the Bass Castle, vol. 1Voltage has got to be my absolute favorite local band, and Chicago's craw...
Posted by Mitch on Wed, 12 Jul 2006 08:01:00 PST

Another true story

As most anyone with an open mind knows, the Chicago gay pride parade is this weekend.  What it offers to us heteros is a GREAT glimpse of a fabulous counterculture.  I'm all for it, and I'll...
Posted by Mitch on Sat, 24 Jun 2006 05:37:00 PST