Category Archives: Common Man

Windy City Rollers

Yesterday I went to see the Windy City Rollers face the Philly Roller Girls at the UIC Pavilion. The Philly girls were leading from the start, but the Windy City Rollers tied the match with less than a minute to go and forced overtime. There were some scoring discrepancies as they took at least 4 points off the board for the Chicago team. In the end Philly won 60-59.

If you’ve never been to a roller derby I highly recommend it. The only awkward moment came when one of the Philly girls got hurt and all 500 people in the arena went silent. The quiet was so intense that you could hear the girl cry out in pain.

*Side note:
*The night ended as it began: Hamm’s beer at Stanley’s.
**The rest of my photographs are here.

Rock Around the Block

Yesterday afternoon I ventured out to Rock Around the Block to see the Dot Dot Dot. If you’ve never seen Dot Dot Dot let’s just say they’re ‘flashy’ (at least Little Lisa Kaberlein was). My thoughts on the bad are as follows:

The lead singers needs a new pair of pants.
The bass player needs a pair of underwear.
The musical genius behind Dot Dot Dot is clearly the keyboardist.

*Side Note:

* A game of Duck, Duck, Goose broke out between bands. When Nick asked why the guys had swords the response was “Because we’re awesome… and we’re ninjas”.