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My Wife's Beef

Perhaps some of you might be able to settle a dispute between my lovely wife, better known as the “cup o’ butter” and myself, better known as ##$%$#! As most of you know, if of course you are bright, reasonably intelligent and hip, the Chicago Bears are going to the Super Bowl. This has cause a little tiff betweenst the cup o’ butter and myself.

I want to order “real” Italian beef from my native Chicago and she says, as if she thought I would take this seriously, “How hard could it be to make our own “Chicago Beef?”

After I got up from the floor, wiping a tear from my eye, and falling down again from laughter, I looked her right in the eye and said, “You’re serious aren’t you?”

“As a heart attack,” was her reply.

I am on my way to Evansville right now; I am sure we will “discuss” this issue at length during the three hour drive. I will keep you updated on this as I have more to say on the issue of cuisine in general. For now, I would love to know where you fall on this issue. Can a person really re-produce the original in their own kitchen, or is it just a cheap imitation?

Airborne

Hey, just sitting around trying to find my voice after that Bears game - and then the amazing Colts game - I have nothing left. Oh, the price we pay for our loyalty. Looking forward to Super Bowl Sunday. My son ,who is in the 101st Airborne, is bringing another one of his soldier buds home with him and we are ordering Italian Beef from Portillo’s in Chicago for the occasion. On Monday, after the Super Bowl, Tami and I are going to Nicaragua for World Vision - otherwise I would have begged my way to Miami for the game. Just finished in Florida for a couple of days and will be headed back on Friday to Jacksonville. I’m working a show Thursday for a crisis pregnancy center in Evansville. Tami and I will be touring said center in the afternoon. Anyway, would love to hear from you, drop me a line. Jeff

Bullish on a Bears Market?

Only a few more days and the Chicago Bears will be headed for the Super Bowl. I know a lot of you might be thinking I am jumping the gun on this, but I am trying to think positive. It has come to my attention that I have been leaning towards a negative look at life these past few months, I don't know why that is, all has been, beyond my expectations.

In December, I not only shot a brand new Bananas video, but my lovely wife Tami and I sat on a stage in a Church and opened the door of our home to the world. We shared some of the more personal things of our marriage, on video, to be aired at a later date. It was not an easy thing for Tami to do, but I applaud her for her courage.

Those of you who know me, know my own personal struggles with anger and alcohol that almost led to the demise of my marriage. To have Tami sit next to me and share what it was like for her was both nerve-wracking and healing. Both projects are to be released at a later date that we will post right here.

For now, I will be out with Bill Gaither this week and next in Florida, and in subsequent weeks doing my own little dog and pony show. Check my website jeffallencomedy.com for those dates. Oh, and I almost forgot, Go Bears! Jeff

Get Your Christmas Lights Down by Groundhog's Day

Hey folks, so sorry for the lapse in the blog, I have been lazy for the last couple of weeks. I have a bad habit of shutting down over Christmas and New Years, it could be the pancreatic meltdown from all the sugar I ingest in such a short period of time, or it could be the chronic procrastination that I have suffered from my entire life, either way I am back on the web with nothing much to report other than this week I am heading out to do more homecoming shows with Bill and Gloria Gaither and am looking forward to seeing everyone. I haven’t been able to go out with them since Myrtle Beach, so it will like a Homecoming for me.

I promise to be a little more diligent about keeping up to date with what is going on with me and the other projects I have going on. Take care, and hope to hear from you or better yet see you in Florida over the next couple of weeks. Jeff