I think of any good number of reasons to hole up near the closest air conditioner this weekend. Memorial Day around here is more or les the official start of summer but the sticky mugginess we all know and love settled in about a week ago.
I’m bracing myself for Sunday’s"Scratch My Back’’ benefit for the Humane Society at Skipper’s Smokehouse. It starts later in the afternoon, or whenever it is Pinetop Peterson and his Quivering Rhythm Hounds get their act together and get cranked up on the stage of the mighty Skipperdome. Pinetop is the guy who has been organizing this event for more than a decade, as a remembrance of his beautiful black lab Molly who died after being left in a hot car by someone else .
This year the Hounds will again be on stage, along with Sharon and the Boys (Sharon being Sharon Taylor of WFLA radio fame)i and then the great Johnny G. Lyon band.
I get to be on stage during the breaks, giving away prizes and raffle tickets with co-emcee Marti (Party) Ryan with everything going to the Humane Society.
If you’ve never been to the Skipperdome, well, wear shorts, flip flops, some cool shades and maybe a hat. Even after dark you will look like you belong.