Friday night was strange. When somebody says, 'Stranger things have happened...' I think they are referring to stuff like this. Anyways, Friday night started out pretty slowly. Nothing going on anywhere and just sitting home watching TV. Around 10:00 I get a call from my buddy Silberman. He just got out of work and was hanging out at Finn's, not doing much of anything (he's the cook at Finn's Pub). So, I decided to head on down and watch the rest of the Sox game. I wasn't too keen on drinking for some reason, but I was sorta desperate from some kind of social interaction. Anyways, I get there and Silber appears to be up to his eyeballs in a conversation with some tattooed dude I had never seen. As soon as I walked over, it struck me that this stranger's voice was extremely familiar. Like, I'd heard it countless times but I knew that I'd never seen this guy before. So, Dan introduces me. It's Stephen Wayne from Wayne Manor on WCCC (local rock radio station). Turns out, his girlfriend (Phyllis) is the bartender at Finn's. Now, what was even weirder than this, was that they were in a very animated one-sided discussion about the Civil War. Now, I know Silber doesn't know shit about history, but Steve was going nuts about Grant's march south and McClellan's ineffectualness. I was in my element. We talked about this crap for like an hour. The guy was a maniac. Now, he wants me and Dan to come over and watch Ken Burn's Civil War documentary with him. It's nine fuckin' hours long. He was dead serious too. Not too sure I can take 9 hours of Stephen Wayne. He is an absolute maniac.
I found this pic on the 'net. He's the lunatic in the middle.