Thursday, December 27, 2007

Black Forest Inn hosts life-long pals

Spatzel, dark beer and stories regaled these old boomers tonight at the Black Forest Inn at 26th and Nicollet in Minneapolis. Friends since leaving Concordia College in Moorhead back in the 60s, they are Randy Anderson, Los Angeles; Bruce Berg, Wirt, Minnesota; Stan Rolfsrud; and Paul Mathies, Minneapolis. Later they were joined by Kathy Sampson, Minneapolis. Topics like politics, religion and aches and pains were largely avoided. No senior citizen discount was offered, but, despite being on a writer's strike in LA, Randy picked up the tab. Sunday he'll be at St. Paul Katie's poker table in an attempt to get it all back.