Fearful Symmetries

While shuffling the various containers of leftovers, multiple bottles of kefir, and large Ball jars of iced tea & limeade around in my r...

My serrano plant is proving to be very fecund. I have picked three batches of chilies so far, if you count a mini cull of just 2. With my la...

  Oddly enough, she didn't seem to mind the collar and bow tie too much. I didn't keep it on her for a long stretch, though, either.

The yard was all aglow one recent evening, even if it was a bit smoky.

On a recent trek downtown, I came across a snake named Steve who was next to the City-County Building where Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway plotte...

Lately I've had a taste for pork chops cooked on the grill. That charred porcine goodness has just been appealing to me as of late. Plus...

My most recent trek to a Polish grocery store yielded not only an IPA but also flour. I was in the baking aisle looking at the various type...

Last weekend I went to the Lake City Books grand opening at their new digs with my ladyfriend who is a big fan of the store. The move wasn...

One of my great uncles worked for Marvin Glass and Associates in Chicago where he started as a model maker for the toy design company before...

Earlier this week I went down to Chicago to see Pavement . Finally! I think I got into them a bit after Wowee Zowee was released but it too...

I couldn't resist tasting a Polish take on the American IPA. Żywiec is a large Polish brewer and I was curious to find out if they went...

Jay Farrar is in full Woody Guthrie mode these days. "Raw power at the root and heart of evil" "Skeleton at the Feast" i...

Pink Floyd kicked off the tour for Dark Side of the Moon here in Madison on 4 March 1973. While I have never seen an audio recording of tha...

My ladyfriend recently received a rather odd gift: Some kind of cat dome mask. To prevent cat attacks? Keep a feline friend from gnawing at ...

I watched season 1 of True Detective knowing that it was inspired by The King in Yellow but hadn't actually read the text. When I reve...

When I look at this photo, it looks familiar to me but I cannot figure out why. The best I can come up with is that the composition is vague...

I am not enjoying this heat. It is stifling and now we've got the forest fires up in the Boundary Waters putting a diaphanous layer of g...

Last week Phish had a two night stand here in Madison. Back in the spring when the shows were announced I considered buying a ticket. I am ...

I cannot recall what we had for dinner the evening my ladyfriend and I went to Ice Cream Social but I do remember that it was blazing hot o...

If you need your Spam fix for breakfast, head on over to the Cottage Cafe .

I was reminded the other day that beer is, generally speaking, best when fresh. Poking around the frig for a cold one because it was 90+ deg...

Despite having played in Stoughton back in March , Los Lobos returned to Madison for two shows at La Fete de Marquette last week. I missed ...