McHenry County Blog

There’s an area blog called “Heck of a Guy” by Crystal Lake's Allan Showalter that had me laughing almost as much as I was at Karen Bowman when she was throwing her extended hissy fit at Charlotte Kremer in the executive session of the Prairie Grove School Board last Tuesday night.

He bought a Northwest Herald Friday and found Nick Swedberg’s story about the McHenry County State’s Attorney having requested the minutes of a secret school board meeting at which an illegal approval of School Superintendent Mary Fasbender’s $450,000 three-year contract.

The headline on the jump page was
on political blogger

Right at the top of Heck of a Guy's post is a wanted picture.

Of me.

It cracked me up.

then a picture of me, probably from 1998



The blog subhead line below reads:

Public Officials Placed In Jeopardy By Sneaky Photos Taken Openly

And next,

The Tale of Terror

[Warning: This story contains a graphic account of heckling which may be unsettling.]

I was already laughing, but now I got really loud.

Good thing only my son was home.

Here’s another line or two in that section that set off a belly laugh:

Skinner was heckling through both metaphorically and physically closed doors from the hallway outside the meeting room.

Yep, he was heckling a closed door executive session from outside that meeting.

This guy is very, very good.

But, it gets better:

While taking photos of public officials through a readily accessible window is clearly sufficient cause for arrest, there is more.

The District officials astutely pointed out Skinner’s more antisocial behavior and somehow, thank goodness, divined his far more sinister intention.

District [46] officials also said he was laughing loudly in the hallway outside, and they were concerned that Skinner might photograph documents that they wanted kept secret.

You have to read what the author says would have happened had I succeeded in photographing Prairie Grove secret documents.

I wish I had his sense of humor.

And I think the Prairie Grove School Board Establishment Six should read the Sunday Chicago Tribune article about how good laughing is for people.

Labels: Alan Showalter, Heck of a Guy, Laughing, Prairie Grove, Prairie Grove District 46, Secret meeting