So What About Those Music Box Steps? – Part 2
Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
After my visit to The Music Box stairs in 1997 (that and previous visits were chronicled here), I had no association with them for more than eight years…except for my minimal involvement in 2002 with a documentary about the stairs that was put together by my good friend Jimmy Willey III. And when I say minimal, I mean microscopic. When I saw this documentary, I was not only amazed with how well it was put together, I was thoroughly entertained from start to finish. I was extremely proud to have my name listed with “special thanks” although I think I only supplied Jimmy with one small fact during his production.
I’ve never quite jumped on The Simpsons bandwagon yet. Sometimes I travel in the sidecar…having purchased the first nine seasons of it on DVD, but not quite being done watching the first one. As a Disneyphile, I find the chintzy animation a little disconcerting – while being fully aware that the second-to-none writing more than makes up for it. I know one day I’ll really dive into them and then there will be no going back. In fact, I got into Matt Groening’s Life in Hell comic strips way back before anyone had ever heard of The Simpsons. 
I met Lee McAdams during the Summer of 1988 when Shirely Yaussy, one of our fellow Beavercreek Church of the Brethren members and a close friend of our family, suggested that I might carpool with Lee to camp Woodland Altars for our week at Youth camp. Lee lived in Tipp City and immediately accepted me as a friend after I was dropped off at his place. For the next few years of camp, our names synonymous with ‘hell-raisers’ – or at least as close as you can come to that at church camp. Our counselor Mark from 1989 saw me again about a dozen years later and remembered me as ‘one of those Metallica guys.’ Obviously he had confused me with Lee. 
I supposed I spoiled any suspense or anticipation on whether or not I ever met Donna Mills in my last celebs from 2005 posting about