Barry Alfonso Since you last noticed what time it was your brother has been taking care of your white bulldog for two weeks and the waitress has converted entirely to the metric system and five ancestors have had flat tires on the bridge to the 21st Century and you, you just inhaled that piece of rhubarb pie for Chrissakes…Ted Burke This it! Thing! The Only Way!
- Ted Burke The front list features the obscure album "My Fist in a Glove Box" by Skeeter Davis and the bass player from the Banana Slugs
- Barry Alfonso The Front List was a club on La Jolla Blvd. next to the White Whale; the Blitz Brothers played their first gig there, opening for Jamul before they started on their tour with Trampoline. You needed hydrogen peroxide by the gallon to get the grease out of your ears.
- Ted Burke Raf Algren put pepper into his bottomless cup of coffee as he sat at the counter of the Colony Kitchen at the bottom of La Jolla Shores Drive, plotting a move that would make those girls drawing chalk circles in front of his house sit up and take notice.
- Barry Alfonso Just then, my mind went blank at John's Waffle Shop wondering how many votes Barry Commoner would take from Jimmy Carter when I noted the faux-maple syrup collecting around my feet and the next Century burning on the griddle..
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