We All Live in a Yellow Submarine

As with all things in spring, the grass gets greener, the trees form leaves, flowers are in bloom, bee's are a pollenatin', and twenty some odd North Side folks, holding mallets and beer, walk into a park for a friendly match of croquet.

Surprisingly enough, there were a few faces amongst the crowd that I wasn't expecting to see. Hasn't Nate announced at every season that this season would probably be his last? It made me glad that he hasn't given up on the wild banshee group of ball whacking boozers that we call Northsiders. A privilege to be one in fact.

Welcome back to another glorious season of shit talking and mallet busting.

Last week's game: Wolff Park

Jess' Top 5

1. Carly tripping over wickets before the game even started, and before she cracked a beer.

2. Boyd's "Amazing Technicolor Raincoat."

3. Acai Tuazon fka JC. I think this might be his real name!

4. The theme song to Indiana Jones that Poops was humming, only the version that we made up was sang with poops and doo doo's instead of la la's. (If that doesn't make sense, ask Boyd to sing it for you. It sort of worked out as a "blue bubble" method in our game.)

5. Asking Dave B. for a quote, unto which he recited Duran Duran lyrics. (I didn't have it in me to embarrass anyone right off the bat, so I'm leaving his ridiculous quote out.)

I didn't really get a whole lot of game action in my Top 5, nor did I get the chance to ask anyone else how their games went. I did however get a story from Eric about their game that made me decide to also write a "Tip of the Week."

This week's Tip: Don't quit playing your game without telling anyone, it only results in "Whose turn is it?" Only later to find out that the person whose turn it is left a long time ago, and you've been standing around getting drunker (which may or may not be a bad thing).

Everyone make sure to look your croquet best next week, we will be shooting the latest player card pics, which also does on the website. That means, Mike G, comb out your fro, yo!

See you next week!