Summerfest!

What's that smell emanating from the east side of Milwaukee? Is it the tiny little fish dying, Lake Michigan turning into one giant half empty sardine can next to a dumpster? Or is the raw sewage that gets flushed directly into the lake? Or is it a condo builders convention? It could be any of those, but no! It's the Summerfest lineup!

Here are some highlights! Steely Dan. REO Speedwagon. Blue Oyster Cult. Foreigner. Styx. Lindsey Buckingham. George Thorogood. Roger Waters. Heart. Bon Jovi. Bob Weir and RatDog. Peter Frampton. And my very favorite: "All Four Original Members of Asia!"

It is, in the form of entertainment, like one enormous nightmare of the past not going away. But it's awesome. There are a LOT of bands, that's one thing for sure. And a lot I have never heard of. And I'm sure that the ones I’ve never heard of ARE ALL kickass!

I only wish they didn't have this thing so near my job, so when I'm trying to get home I'm not getting bombarded by beer bottles and fratboy type people from the suburbs yelling at me from pickup trucks, calling me a stupid hippie, and a bike riding fag, when the bands they just went to see were people who used to indeed be hippies. I don't know why they don't have this thing in some vacant field along the interstate-- it would be easier for everyone. Instead they have to ruin what could be a perfectly nice park by the lake. Well, I guess it's less distance for all that cheap beer piss to travel. I guess the lake level typically raises several inches by the end of this event.