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If you’d like to donate, or help in any way, feel free to get in touch with me here or at. it is a huge undertaking, but should be a pretty incredible resource for everybody once it’s up and running. there will also be a section where fans and musicians can write their own memories of each specific show, and of the fireside in general. each date will be a click-able link to a new window where users can upload photos, videos, set lists, posters, fliers, etc. The goal of the website is to list every show ever played at fireside.

by buying one of these 10 pins, not only will you get a piece of history, you’ll be helping to preserve it. up until this point, every penny put toward production has come from my own pocket. as a thank you to everybody who has given me their time and sat down to do an interview on camera with me, i have given them an original bowling pin from fireside.įor the first time ever, i’m making a very, very small number of these available to the public to offset the costs of not only the documentary, but a brand new website as well. I don’t need bone marrow to get behind that.Many of you know i’ve been working on a documentary on the fireside bowl for the past year and a half. The others just looked a bit horrified I was eating something made by a guy instead of a kitchen staff.Īcross the city, legions of tamale guys court the bars and bowling alleys with little red coolers of delicious food that supports their families. One was familiar with the idea of tamale guys, but said I “look hungry” and moved her hand back as if she’d lose a finger if she got near me. One coworker seemed intrigued, but is a vegetarian. Sure, you can add some tricksy ingredients and charge $15 for three, but that doesn’t make it better. It’s simple because, honed through centuries, there is no better way to make a tamale than corn flour and meat steamed in a corn husk. The tamale guy tamale is simple, but calling it that seems patronizing somehow, as if the Mexican-American who made it just wasn’t aware Mexican food would be better stuffed with dino kale, saffron and trendy ingredient du jour (I think it’s bone marrow this week). It’s a person trying to make some money by filling a need. It’s not locally sourced except that the source is quite possibly the dude handing you the baggie of tamales when you’re four or five sheets to the wind. It’s not from a cool food truck with an agile social media presence. The tamale guy tamale is not a cool thing. I never went to a Fireside show either - I stay the course on being an out-of-touch nerd.īut it’s not OK to have never bought a Ziploc baggie of tamales some dude made in his kitchen and carted around in a cooler to various bars.

It’s forgivable to miss bands, old punk venues or any number of other time-sensitive cultural norms. I had to tell a different coworker a few weeks earlier that Fireside Bowl used to host punk shows. My bowling team coworkers are nice, if young. It was media league night at Fireside Bowl and our little cadre of courthouse reporters had clustered a table as we lost badly and repeatedly to a local news blog that rhymes with schmee-schmen-schmay-schminfo. My coworkers at the paper looked around incredulously at each other. But somehow it managed to shock me that none of my coworkers had ever bought a tamale off a tamale guy.

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The Cubs won the World Series and, electorally, orange is the new black, so I should be through the looking glass on surprises this month. “Tamale!” I yelled, walking up from the ATM.

He turned to the others clustered around the table. Marc from the office got a strange, quirked look on his face. “Tamale!” he yelled, lifting the small red cooler to demonstrate his wares.