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Sunday, July 16, 2006

The Buddha has spoken


I feel as though my mission in blogging has been fulfilled as the highest of all honors has been attained: Don T. Grigas, aka The Buddha, has commented on it!!!!!

Juan T. Grigas and I met around the turn of the century when we both labored for the Chicago suburbs' crown jewel of journalism. We were known to quaff beverages of various types and eat greasy food, as journalists tend to do. We worked right next to The Mothership, so we had to occasionally step over to that oasis for fine dining.

Don, who once tried to have me fired for putting a "T." into his byline, is the king of "writing long," and could easily get a 60-inch story with a 30-inch sidebar on nearly any issue. Don, who along with Joe DeRosier and Jim Pluta practically reinvented journalism, keeps Bolingbrook and Romeoville on their toes. At one point, he had a peanut-butter-sandwich-chewing dinosaur on his desk.

posted by siouxzee at 12:38 PM

4 Comments:

  • If I recall, Siouxzee was the Queen of Zoo Articles, and cranked out items on Brookfield Zoo with such amazing regularity we thought she was a Zoo PR wonk who simply had her desk inside our building...she also quaffed righteously several beverages that led to the following bench mark events:
    * First female to provide lipstick imprints in my 164-lip collection, to be placed on display in the very near future on the internet;
    * Easily won in dominating fashion the "Largest Tongue" contest, which took place at York Tavern in Autumn, 2000;
    --The BVuddha

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 1:42 PM  

  • Part Deaux!

    I also recall one afternoon in Berkely when Sue and I went to lunch at a little diner during work and she tried to pass herself off as a pregnant woman carrying my love child in order to get a free dessert...sadly enough it worked, and Sue got her free dessert (the waitress not only believed Sue was pregnant, but also openly laughed when we tried to tell her we were actually journalists...)

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 2:05 PM  

  • I was getting kickbacks from a polar bear. But actually, it wasn't just the zoo .. domestic animals were part of my beat too. There was the celebrated "pet bakery" story, and also one that received the headline "Precious pooch pulled from precarious perch."

    I do remember the beginning of the lip collection. We had followed Pluta and Sherri to that place on Ogden,restaurant frequented by many seniors. It was winter, I think. As I recall, you got mine, the bartender's, and then Pluta put on lipstick (very fetching) and also made one.

    By Blogger siouxzee, at 2:22 PM  

  • Was that the same women who you always told that we were heading for Sybaris after the meal? Oh wait, that was every single server at every single restaurant or bar.

    There was also the pub crawl in Lemont. You ate an egg.

    And that diner was in Hillside, not Berkeley, I think.

    By Blogger siouxzee, at 2:25 PM  

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