I’ve always prided myself on my command of trivia.  I have yet to lose a battle of Trivial Pursuit, and I tend to do pretty well at Keegans’ various Trivia nights.

And yet sometimes I wonder – what useful bit of information, like my kids’ social security numbers or the start-times of today’s various meetings, or the name of the guest I booked for tomorrow’s NARN show – has been crowded out of my mind by less-useful factoids that still clutter my brain.

Like, say, the 1978-era lineup of the band Chicago – a band I never liked much, and actively detested after, oh, 1979, but was in 1978 made up of Lee Loughnane, Walter Parazaider, Danny Serafine, Laudir De Oliveira, James Pankow, Peter Cetera, Robert Lamm and Terry Kath?   And no, I did not  have to google that.  Sadly, no, not at all.

Or the original lineup of Generation X – Bob “Derwood” Andrews on guitar, Tony James (later of Sigue Sigue Sputnik) on bass, Mark Laff on drums and a young Billy Idol singing?  Don’t need it.  Not a bit.  And yet there it is, stuck like those cases of Mason jars on my fruit room shelves.

Maybe I need a brainema.

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