IT'S ALL GOODYEAR

Happy Opening Day Eve everybody! Your Humble Narrator only made it to one Cactus League game this year, to see the D-backs take on the Reds at Goodyear Ballpark...

I rooted for my beloved Snakes of course, but to no avail; they lost the hard-fought game 9-8. My only disloyalties that day were culinary; I enjoyed Skyline Chili Hot Dogs...

...as well as Handel's Ice Cream from Youngstown...

Quite a Buckeye State pig-out; indeed, the flavor on the bottom is called Buckeye, a mixture of peanut butter ice cream and Reese's-like peanut butter candy. It wasn't all Ohio, however; I also saw the Whataburger Man...

...and got one of the lamer imaginable selfies with him...

Anyway, Play Ball!

PARTY HOPPING

Happy September everybody!

Check out, on Phoenix Magazine online, some hard-hitting reportage by Your Humble Narrator about the odd political signage from my part of town...

...regarding the race for Moon Valley Justice of the Peace. Also, check out the September issue of Phoenix Magazine, now on the stands...

...for the "Love Your Downtown" cover story (page 66, or here), to which Your Humble Narrator also contributed; I got to cover the glamorous downtowns of Glendale, Peoria, Wickenburg and (online only) the Southwest Valley communities of Avondale, Goodyear and Buckeye.