I wish someone had on YouTube the time local broadcaster Dick Knipfing was talking about a candelight vigil but pronounced it like the spanish last name…vee-hill. I laughed for like an hour.

But here it’s just another handicapped guy climbing that mountain. Like anyone’s going to top that guy with no legs.

Did I say gay, over and over again? I meant blind. The blind agenda.

That definitely proves he was gay.

Under the categories of Small World and Interesting Past… The mountain climber in question once slept in Zuzu’s basement…. For real.

Yes.

Erik stayed in our basement in, I think, the summer of 1985 or so.

My brother Den was a wrestler, and in the summer, wrestlers tried out for the junior olympics wrestling team in Iowa, and Northern Iowa University.

Since my high school had a gigantic indoor gym, the statewide tryouts were held in our school for the wrestling camp that served as the Iowa tryouts.

Erik stayed with us, along with another wrestler, during the Iowa tryouts.

I remember we took Erik because we were willing to host his guide dog, Wizard, since we had a dog.

But Wizard had to stay in the basement because our dog didn’t get along with Wizard.

I also remember that the other wrestler who stayed with us watched the Iran-Contra hearings with us while Erik was in the basement with his guide dog.

That, and my mother was all concerned that neither of them ate more than broiled fish and steamed vegetables. My brother was in the Heavyweight class, so he never had to suck weight, but these guys did. I think the entire family lost weight when they were staying with us.