{"id":3828,"date":"2013-01-12T08:23:09","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T15:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=3828"},"modified":"2013-01-14T09:36:23","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T16:36:23","slug":"do-you-like-barack-obama-i-asked-richard-marx","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/12\/do-you-like-barack-obama-i-asked-richard-marx\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cDo you like Barack Obama?\u201d I asked Richard Marx."},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Morning News<\/em><\/a>
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Right Here Waiting<\/h1>\n

by Edward McClelland<\/a><\/p>\n

After frequenting a local haunt where nobody knows his name, a Chicago writer makes new friends, rips on Richard Marx online, and then suddenly lands a real live celebrity musician at their door.<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u201cWow,\u201d I told my sister. \u201cRichard Marx is blowing up my inbox.\u201d<\/p>\n

I called my editor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been getting emails from some guy who says he\u2019s Richard Marx,\u201d I said. \u201cI think it\u2019s an impostor. The only thing that makes me think it might really be Richard Marx is that it\u2019s from an AOL account.\u201d<\/p>\n

The next day, my editor told me he\u2019d traced the emails to a MySpace account with the same tag.<\/p>\n

Except the emails hadn\u2019t been coming from a guy with a MySpace account. They were actually from Richard Marx. How do I know? Because I received\u00a0this tweet<\/a>\u00a0from Richard Marx\u2019s verified Twitter account[.]<\/p>\n

\u201cRichard Marx is totally calling me out on Twitter,\u201d I told my editor.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust ignore it,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019ll blow over.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not going to ignore it. I\u2019m not going to look wimpier than the guy who wrote \u2018Right Here Waiting.\u2019 He says he\u2019ll meet me anywhere in the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

So I emailed Richard Marx, inviting him to meet me at seven the next evening at the Lighthouse. Then I went down to the bar to prepare the boys for Richard Marx\u2019s arrival. I wanted a posse behind me when he walked in the door. Vinko and Paddy, our token Irishman, were sitting at the end of the bar, next to the beer cooler. We looked up Richard Marx on Billy the bartender\u2019s laptop and starting slagging him.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou should send him an email and tell him you\u2019ll be right here waiting for him,\u201d Paddy suggested.<\/p>\n

I got to the Lighthouse an hour early. By 6:45, I had half a dozen guys behind me: Vinko, Paddy, Billy, Aquaman, Brian, and Mike. Nobody wanted to miss Richard Marx. By 7:15, Billy had left the bar, convinced Richard Marx wasn\u2019t going to show.<\/p>\n

Then someone spotted a black Jaguar rolling down Chase Ave. I looked out the window. Billy was walking back up the street, alongside Richard Marx. I had steeled myself for this confrontation by drinking an entire pint of light beer. Richard Marx didn\u2019t get two steps past the door before a guy at the bar stuck out his hand and said, \u201cHey Richard, good to see you.\u201d I waved to let Richard Marx know I was the guy who had called him shameless.<\/p>\n

[ click to read the whole piece at TheMorningNews.org<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Morning News Right Here Waiting by Edward McClelland After frequenting a local haunt where nobody knows his name, a Chicago writer makes new friends, rips on Richard Marx online, and then suddenly lands a real live celebrity musician at their door. \u201cWow,\u201d I told my sister. \u201cRichard Marx is blowing up my inbox.\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3828\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}