Back in the '70s Peabody's was a
T-Shirt printing shop. They had huge piles of over-runs, print errors,
and seconds for cheap. I got a lot of my shirts there, paying something
like two bucks per. My favorite was one that had a psychedelic picture
of a wave with the slogan "SURF STONED" at the time I'd never been been
stoned, it was just a great shirt. I wore it to school for the shock
value sometimes. I was playing soccer in it one time and Jane ran into
me, making my chin bleed and chipping a tooth. I dripped on it a bit,
and the stains never came out. It didn't matter. One of the stoners saw
it, and he had to have it. He bid up the price to $10 before I said
yes. It really made the guy happy to wear it. Nowadays the place is
some sort of bar, but the building still has PEABODY'S on it. The
brickwork still looks the same.
This year Lal won our not exactly
annual golf game. Neither one of us shows much evidence of practicing
between games.
We went out to dinner at The Jewish
Mother. The place has a nice stage for live music. It wasn't long after
we got there that Aiden and Liam took it over and started dancing up a
storm.