Caption contest

Here is a picture screaming for a funny caption! Will you please submit one?

Mark these dates, music lovers!

Black Honkeys CD release party
September 1, 2005
Chickaboom Room
Dunedin, FL
check them out here.


The Subdudes
October 7, 2005
The State Theatre
St. Petersburg, FL
check them out here.

Best Beer Ad Ever.

OK, my sister Jenny sent me
THIS LINK
and you have to go there RIGHT NOW. I was squealing! It makes Superbowl ads look like local car dealers'. Enjoy! Then tell me what you think.
http://www.ifilm.com/ifilmdetail/2677569

Turn off the stove-- I'm done!

Today I had my last radiation treatment and for the first time in almost a year, I don't have some fresh hell to dread. Tomorrow I will wake up and for the first time since September 2004, I won't have to take a handful of pills and wait in grim anticipation for the after effects.

I can't go back to work until the burns on my chest heal up a bit, (unless the St. Pete Times has instated a new "topless" dress code), but the last few months I have found that you really can accomplish a lot with a laptop, cell phone, wireless connection, and coworkers who make house calls. . . .

Welcome friends, strangers, and cancer survivors!

Time to get this blogparty started! Right now I am one radiation zonk away from ending 11 months of treatment for inflammatory breast cancer. The entire time I have been meaning to get this blog going -- along with my website, jillwilson.com, but I was too tired to be inspired.... now however, I am ready to gradually rejoin my life where I left it last September -- just in time for football season -- yeaa! So, talk to me, ask me questions, share opinions, etc...

Hey, kids, I'm going to Springsteen World!

For twenty-odd years, my friend Anne Turner and I have been following Bruce Springsteen anytime he tours here in the south. I first saw Bruce in concert on The River Tour in 1981. Anne saw him with about 50 other audience members in 74! The pic here is of the last time we saw him -- at the move on concert in Orlando last October...I was already on chemo and went to the doc's that day for a big bag of steroids so I could make it through the concert. Small world city alert: The nurse who dosed me up was also a Bruce lover -- the first time she saw hime was in PARIS! Needless to say, we immediately became BFF! My sweet sister Krista drove me through I-4 HELL and mostly tolerated my shotgun seat commentary, but drew the line at me taunting cars with W2004 stickers with my BRUCE NOT BUSH signs. I figure she was scared of roadrage--don't blame her, I guess. You know all those crazy shrub-worshipers were packing. I don't know if it was the drugs or the usual Bossmania, but I felt great and danced all night -- even though my hair was already falling out.

In September, Anne and I are heading to Jersey to join other like-minded BOSSanovers at the Bruce Springsteen Symposium.This first-of-its-kind conference will bring together educators, journalists, historians, musicologists, and anyone interested in scholarship regarding Bruce Springsteen and his influence on American culture. . .plus Anne and me.

Going to the Promised Land is on my list of things to do in my lifetime, which lately has taken on a greater sense of urgency. Do you have a list of things you want to do before you die? Why don't you share a few here?