The answer: Occasional hilarity. Very occasional. Rainn Wilson stars as Robert “Fish” Fishman, who in 1986 was kicked out of Vesuvius, a Cleveland hair-metal powerhouse on the verge of world domination. He never recovered from the indignity.

More than 60 tattoo artists, vendors, live music and even a clown will help celebrate the life of a man who touched so many..

I may not have been a mile high after watching Sen. Barack Obama’s extraordinary speech last Thursday, but I swear there was a moment in there when I felt I was getting ready to levitate. I was among the hysterically happy throng at the former Mile High Stadium, if only vicariously.

What a week it has been since I left you last. My dad has finally gone out on his own and opened up an automotive restoration shop in Lewisville, Joe’s Garage, opening soon. The whole family ordered pizzas and helped him move in on a late Sunday afternoon.

Now that election time is coming up, it’s going to be harder to find events that aren’t supporting or basing their intention on some sort of political pull or promotion. But the good news is, regardless of which way you lean there are going to be a lot more events in turn because of this.

Nor are you the most concise. You sometimes display tendencies to sidestep the main issues and take the long way home to the truth. Why, then, have you apparently turned into a sleek paragon of precise communication? To what do we owe your crisp new eff.

Well they are not being sold out of the bed of a truck but rather headlining at Greene Street Club tonight. Also joining them is What Made Milwaukee Famous, Native Sound and Winfield. Don’t worry it’s an all ages show. Their tour is a big one leading them to all the way Florida and back up to Ohio with stops along the way.

In an election season with so many surprises, so much pageantry, all this spin, we look to the nation’s bookmakers to get a clear picture of what’s really going on. Last week, as the Republican National Convention came to a close, Americans were treated to some of the best political theater since Mike Dukakis drove a tank.

Here we go again. Another e-mail in my inbox with “Fwd: FW: FWD: FWD: Fw:” forming half the subject, sent by some relative to me and about 20 other acquaintances. They started as a trickle — the usual tales of footprints in sand and photos of Jesus on toast, either asking or warning me to forward them to a dozen people by sundown.

Heads up. No really, don’t turn your back or you might end up in a trashcan, or stage dived upon. But they aren’t even the headliner. The evening should be focused around one thing in specific: the Silver Jews (www.silverjews.net). They too have had a summer release, Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea,.