Eckhartz Everyday

 

*On this day in 2009, I participated in an event called "Cremating the Curse". We held the event at a funeral home to eulogize the Cubs 100+ year curse, and put it into the ground. It worked. 7 years later we won the World Series. It was a fun little lark to promote a book I contributed an essay to, Cubbie Blues: 100 Years of Waiting Until Next Year. See more pictures from this event here. Among the other particpants: future Minutia Men Celebrity Interview guest Tom Dreesen, and future Eckhartz Press authors Randy Richardson (Cubsessions) and Donald G. Evans (An Off-White Christmas)

*On this day in 2013, Roger Ebert passed away, and John Records Landecker was asked to appear on WLS Radio to eulogize his old friend. See more photos about that day here. We also posted this excerpt from John's book Records Truly Is My Middle Name about Roger.

*Today is the birthday of former Eckhartz Press author Dan Burns. Dan has gone on to become a board member for the Chicago Writers Association and has published several other books under his own label. His Eckhartz Press novel Returned to Life was his first.

HalloweeM

This Saturday I'm going to be one of the featured speakers/panelists at HalloweeM, a regional Chicago Area Mensa gathering. That's right, Mensa.

Remember, the first two letters of Mensa are M-E.

I'm sure alarms will be going off when I enter the room at the Westin Hotel in Wheeling between 12:30pm–2:30 pm (*Alert, average intelligence! *Alert, average intelligence!)

The subject matter for this discussion? Cubbie Blues – panel of sports writers on Chicago’s loveable losers. Sadly, Theo Epstein will not be attending. It will just be your humble Just One Bad Century editor (me), the editor of the Cubs book I contributed to (Cubbie Blues) Don Evans, fellow author/Cub lover/Cubbie Blues contributor Randy Richardson, and the publisher of that book George Rawlinson.

I'm actually pretty excited about it. Should be a good time.

Rick is leaving the basement!

If you're in the Oak Park area tomorrow night, I'll be appearing at the Oak Park Public Library to promote the "Cubbie Blues" book.

Here are the details...

Thursday, May 21, 2009, 7 p.m.: Oak Park Public Library (Main Library, 2nd Floor, Veterans Room, 834 Lake Street, Oak Park). "Cubbie Blues" editor Donald G. Evans serves as moderator for a panel of contributing writers to the book, including Don De Grazia, James Finn Garner, Robert Goldsborough and Rick Kaempfer, who will give voice to the essence of being a Cubs fan.