Wow... what a hot mess. Many of you remember, or have heard, that our first location lacked a restroom. As you can see from the above pic, that was only one of our, let's say, issues. So, there we were, with two rooms. Threadbare blue carpet in front, 70’s lime green shag in back (I really wish I had a picture of that), and neither of those rooms was a restroom. Thankfully the bar next door was willing to let us use their bathroom, but anyone under 21 had to go around the corner to the...

Shaddow Domain, Circa sometime in the early 2000's I’ll always be thankful to Rosie (Dave) Harmon and his amazing mom Ora for renting us our 175 S. Eastern Avenue location in 2002, and to the rest of the family for being there for us so many times. At first, Rosie was very apprehensive. He wasn’t sure what I was planning, but to be honest, I wasn't sure either. Rosie was afraid that I was planning to open a tattoo shop for some reason, and he didn't want that. My sister and I got him to talk...

Yea, life jumped me, stole my car keys and gave me such a pile of work to do that this blog just kind of got piled in the corner with the laundry and empty candy wrappers. But I'd much rather be busy than scrambling for things to do, so there's that. I do feel kinda bad about it, so this is my mantra today, feel free to use it if you need it: Anyway, I aplolgize for starting a blog, then starting the riveting story of the beginning of Shaddow Domain only to leave you in the lurch, so I'm back...