Skinny and Houli Welcome Dan McGrath -Tonight on Radio AM 950 at 6PM

Skinny - "Houli, Dan McGrath is the finest prose crafter since Ring Lardner penciled a score card at Sox Park."

Houli - " Lawless, Billy Lawless fills the bill, Skinny."

Skinny -"You're daft man! Billy Lawless is a civic-minded saloon keeper."

Houli - " I'm daft? Rewind, please."

THE SKINNY & HOULI SHOW
Wednesday 6-8 PM

Special guests this week include Dan McGrath, sports writer for the Chicago News Cooperative, an innovative news web site dedicated to building communities through quality journalism. The Chicago News Coop contributes Chicago stories to the New York Times on Fridays and Sundays. Also joining us is Billy Lawless, owner of The Irish Oak in Wrigleyville and The Gage on Michigan Avenue. Billy is very involved with immigration reform as a native of Galway, Ireland. Plus, we will have Mind Over Matter, one of the groups performing at this weekend's Gospel Fest in Millennium Park.

Skinny and Houli -Chicago's Genuine Pour of Plain Speaking Radio!

Tune-in for Real Radio at Avenue 950 AM on your radio dial!

Benefit for Natasha McShane - June 4th at Engineers Local # 399

Let's Pack the Place! Great People always step up to help families in trouble. Every business in my neighborhood of Morgan Park is festooned with posters announcing fund-raising benefits for suffering families - it's a cultural thing. A young girl was savagely beaten near to death and her family needs help. Great people are on it. I'll see you there!

Natasha McShane, an exchange student at the University of Illinois, Chicago, was robbed and beaten with a baseball bat on April 23, 2010, on Chicago’s northside. The attack was a horrible crime with devastating effects.

A group of Chicagoans, including Mayor Daley, Sheriff Tom Dart, Jim Tyree, CEO of Mesirow Financial and former Sheriff Mike Sheahan are hosting a fundraising for Natasha. This event will be held on Friday, June 4, 2010 at Local 399 Operating Engineers hall. The location is 2260 South Grove Avenue (Cermak & Canal) The event will begin at 5:00 p.m. and end when the Blackhawks game is over (approximately 10:00 p.m.) Admission is $40.
Please join us for the event or make a donation to help defray her increasing medical costs.

Big Shoulders and Reilly's Daughter Nudge Skinny and Houli at Avenue 950

Tomorrow on AM Radio 950 6-8 P.M. ...........................Do NOT miss the Skinny and Houli Show!Special guests this week include Joshua Hale from the Big Shoulders Fund, which provides support for inner-city Chicago Catholic schools. 100% of the funds raised by Big Shoulders goes directly to students and schools for scholarships, special education programs, instructional materials, facility improvements and faculty support. In the second hour, we'll be interviewing Boz and Brendan O'Brien, owners of Reilly's Daughter Pub in Midway Airport. Plus, hear what's coming up in Chicago this week... don't miss a minute of this great show!

Well you can miss it . . .like if something comes up . . . like your draft number, or you get called in to work . . .or you forget . . . you the owner is buying at your corner saloon . . . I mean Mothra won't get into the City or squirrels in your ComEd Box and gnaw out all your wiring . . .but it will be a great show!!!

What's Lacking? Any Sense of Transcendence

Here's a fabulous Lord Elton and his catamite at some huge event.

This morning, I heard that Elton John proclaims that Jesus is Gay. Last year Jesus was a Community Activist. Before that, Jesus was an Anti-Semite.

"I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems. On the cross, he forgave the people who crucified him. Jesus wanted us to be loving and forgiving. I don't know what makes people so cruel. Try being a gay woman in the Middle East -- you're as good as dead."

Faaaaaabbbulous! and just in time for Oscar Buzz, Lord Elton!

I always thought He ( Joshua Bar Joseph - The Christ) was a Jewish Carpenter's Apprentice . . .Well Goodbye Yellowbrick Road!
For talk radio I listen to WLS AM/NPR ( for laughs)/Relevant Radio - for news, weather and information. Relevant Radio is Catholic Radio - ( 950 AM) until about 6PM when it becomes Avenue 950 ( Home to the wonderful Skinny and Houli Show which gave Chicago its voice back) with great jazz - Classic Cool!

Don and Roma punctuate every syllable with Healthy Trinity. NPR low-talks news about mistreated Muslims in London who wanted to fight police torture with fertilizer and blasting caps - diversity rocks the Casbah! Relevant Radio presents the news and more - we get great aphorisms beyond Ridley Scott's Gladiator!

What we do in life echoes in eternity. Awesome, Maximus.

On Relevant Radio at drive-time is Father Larry Richards, a stiff collar out of Pittsburgh, PA. He has a great sense of humor. On one show I heard a guest talk about how Pro Lifers are making impacts on young people because they address not only the immediate fears and anxieties of an unwed teen mother-to-be ( school, career hopes, friends, family expectations) as well as the transcendent implications of killing a child. Great stuff.

Lord Elton and his catamite have more substantial porgies in the hot oil.

American Media took the Death of God in 1960's seriously and nailed the Old Guy's Cultural Coffin shut tight. The transcendent - that which reminds us that we are not alone and responsible for what we do every moment is what is lacking in what passes for American culture - this want in our spiritual diet gave us Hope and Change over Courage and Commitment; Graphic Novels (Comic Books) over The Great Books; Jersey Shore over Death of Salesman; Avatar over Best Years of Our Lives; SEIU over American Labor Movement; Abortion and Gay Marriage over the American Family; Carbon Footprint Policing over Mankind.

The Alternative Lifestyle is the norm. Jimmy Kimmell is Alastair Cooke. John Stewart is Walter Cronkite. Keith Olbermann is Oil Can Harry and Rachel Maddow is Ward Bond. Our Media and our public education system and our university group thought have taken the Hegelianism of dopey John Dewey closed the door on Yaweh, Allah, or God. No one told them to shut up, read something or do some hard work.

Relevant Radio is one way to get some transcendence back into our diets. It is Catholic Radio and catholic means universal. I listen to Klezmer music, read Issac B. Singer and still put Mayo on a Bacon Sandwich - give it a try.


Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89).

Pied Beauty 1918.

GLORY be to God for dappled things—
For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow;
For rose-moles all in stipple upon trout that swim;
Fresh-firecoal chestnut-falls; finches’ wings;
Landscape plotted and pieced—fold, fallow, and plough; 5
And áll trádes, their gear and tackle and trim.

All things counter, original, spare, strange;
Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?)
With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: 10
Praise him.

Illinois Justice Anne Burke -Tonight's Guest on the Skinny and Houli Show!

The Chatter is Classic Chicago and the focus continues to be on Chicagoans Who Do for Others. Tonight, Skinny Sheahan and Mike Houlihan welcome the founder of the Chicago Special Olymnpics, Ald. Eddie Burke's Better Half - Illinois Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke. Mrs. Justice, I hope Houli leaves a smidgen of the Corned Beef from Lissie McNeill's Pub* - the damn sammiches where the size of Houli's noggin, but their January 27th Guest - a sweet-natured and sensitive guy - got bugger all. Watch you fingers, Mrs. Burke, if you get any grease or mustard on them Mein Host might think their Chicken Fingers.

Our Guest tonight is Special Olympics Founder and Supreme Court Justice Anne Burke!
She's done plenty of "good in 'da hood!"
Tune in this Wed. Night, 6-8PM. 950 AM
Call-in during the show, light up our phone lines-312-329-0950.

Skinny & Houli Show "a smash" on Avenue 950 WNTD AM

Avenue 950 Timeless Cool, a product of Sovereign City Radio Services, rolled out their much anticipated program, The Skinny & Houli Show, on Wednesday January 20th and "Voila", it's the hottest show on Chicago Radio.

James "Skinny" Sheahan, former Director of the Mayor's Office of Special Events and Mike "Houli" Houlihan, columnist for the Irish American News and former features columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, introduce listeners to the quirky characters and stories that give our city its unique charm.

This two hour, freewheeling talk radio dialogue features two of Chicago's most irrepressible personalities, discussing what's happening in the city each week. The hosts dissect the news, politics, sports, and entertainment scene with their trademark wit and introduce a variety of community activists and neighborhood heroes.

The Skinny & Houli Show, in partnership with Special Olympics Chicago, will feature guests who are making a positive impact on the lives of Chicagoans plus a "Special Olympics Spotlight" on an athlete, coach or volunteer for outstanding achievement.

Tune in to Avenue 950 and hear a show that will make you proud to live in Chicago

* Lizzie McNeill's Irish Pub


Irish, Bar Food, Sandwiches - if you can get one.
400 N McClurge Ct, Chicago 60611
(At E North Water St)

Phone: (312) 467-1992

Podcast -January 27th Skinny and Houli Show

Click my post title for my guest appearance on the Avenue 950 AM -Skinny and Houli Show - I got a face for Radio and a mind like Mortal Sin on Viagra.

Guests include Pat Hickey, Crusader for Leo High School and Israel Idonije of the Chicago Bears talking about his latest fundraising project.

Talk Leo! Talk Chicago! Talk Catholic League Sports - Call in to "Skinny and Houli" Avenue 950 AM Radio Tonight!

Pop Schumacher - " I think Hickey went to Little Flower High School. What's that mope know about Leo High School?For Crissakes."

Ma Schumacher - " You. You got thrown out of Leo your first day there; so what's it to you anyway? Hickey seems a nice boy- a bit slow, but nice. Lord save us! I married a mean Dutchman from Roseland, much good it did me."

Buck Schumacher - " Dad, Houli was a football great at Mount Carmel in the 1960's wasn't he?"

Pop Schumacher - "Come on, Son, Houli couldn't carry Leo's Brian Tansey's jock-strap."

Ma Schumacher -" Listen to him. You we're a Hall snitch at Fenger for four years and robbed freight cars in Hegewisch for mad money- I dated Leo Men and they were at least gentlemen."

Pop Schumacher - "Yeah, but you married me."

Maeve Schumacher- "Stop fighting! We can't hear - I think Skinny Sheahan is dreamy."

Mert Schumacher -" I do too, Let's call in and ask Skinny to sing "Nice 'N Easy!"

Buck Schumacher - "He's got pipes."

Chatty Bill Schumacher - "Uh huh."

Pop Schumacher - "Pipe down, the lot of you. I can't hear my thoughts make change. Now, Quiet!"




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