![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/files\/2010\/09\/yes-sir.jpg\")
Ladies and Gentlemen of Iowa City, I am happy to write that Hawkapalooza will go on. After a mind-blowing scare that rain and severe thunderstorms were going to put a damper our first annual Hawkapalooza, we have confirmation that the show will not be moved inside.<\/p>\n
As a member of the Hawks Nest Executive Board, and a founding member, this is the best news I’ve heard in quite some time. With an estimated 10,000 people flooding Hubbard park last year for the inaugural Hawkapalooza (and even more expected this year), the worst possible thing that could have happened was thunderstorms.<\/p>\n
We would have had to move the entire event into an enclosed venue, with the max capacity being 3,500. That’s a giant hit, and with all the work Hawks Nest did to get this event going, thunderstorms would have literally “rained on our parade.”<\/p>\n
The group of 12 of us literally planned and fund-raised, planned and fund-raised, and then planned and fund-raised some more — all summer long.\u00a0This event\u00a0went from an on-paper plan to a full-out spectacle with an opening act (Super Mash Bros), a pep rally (featuring Jon Miller as host and athletes from the Iowa Football, Wrestling, and Men’s and Women’s Basketball teams), and\u00a0a main act (Grammy Award-winning artist Big Boi [1\/2 of OutKast]) … almost like a Phoenix rising from its ashes.<\/p>\n
But over the past few days, those indecisive weathermen decided to give us mini heart attacks by\u00a0changing the weather at least 10 times.<\/p>\n
I mean: Come on, fellas! How can the weather go from clear, to possible rain, to guaranteed rain, to thunderstorms, to guaranteed thunderstorms, to now just rain up until six on Thursday?<\/p>\n
Your faulty calculations of the doppelganger caused some extreme chaos in the hearts of many people. I hope you realize that.<\/p>\n
But, as I said, the show is going to go on (a dream come true).<\/p>\n
So for those of you that read this, come on down to Hubbard Park (next to the IMU) beginning at 6 p.m. Thursday, September 2, for a *FREE* concert featuring mash-up group Super Mash Bros, a pep rally featuring some of your favorite Hawkeyes, and the man, the myth, the legend: “Sir Lucious Leftfoot” BIG BOI!<\/p>\n
If that does not completely tickle your fancy, and you still need more convincing (I don’t see why), there will be free stuff (iPad anyone?), food, and a $1\u00a0raffle where you can win a variety of things — from 50 free boneless wings at Buffalo Wild\u00a0Wings to\u00a0two Press Box tickets to this Saturday’s\u00a0Iowa football game! Plus, all the proceeds go to Dance Marathon (a UI student fundraiser for sick children).<\/p>\n
Oh, and for those of you still reading, here is the set-list from a free show Big Boi just played in Miami. If I do say so myself, it’s pretty baller:<\/p>\n
Do Dirty
\nAtliens
\nSkew it on the Bar-B
\nRosa Parks
\nSo Fresh, So Clean
\nMiss Jackson
\nGeneral Patton
\nFollow Us
\nDaddy Fat Sax
\nGhetto Music
\nB.O.B
\nStar Wars
\nThe Way You Move
\nSouthernplayalisticadillacmuzik
\nPlayer\u2019s Ball
\nElevators
\nShine Blockas
\nFo Yo Sorrows
\nShutterbugg
\nTell C-Bone
\nKryptonite<\/p>\n
As always, On Iowa, and Go Hawks.<\/p>\n
-Jerry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ladies and Gentlemen of Iowa City, I am happy to write that Hawkapalooza will go on. After a mind-blowing scare that rain and severe thunderstorms were going to put a damper our first annual Hawkapalooza, we have confirmation that the show will not be moved inside. As a member of the Hawks Nest Executive Board, … Continue reading Don’t the weathermen know Hawkapalooza’s tomorrow?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/jerry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}