Fearful Symmetries

On Friday during the lunch hour, folks down on Library Mall were treated to the spectacle of some vintage International Harvester trucks and...

Yesterday The Dulcinea and I met up with a trio of friends last night to catch Moon out at Sundance. What follows contains spoilers so cav...

Like many other people, I upgraded to Firefox 3.5 last month. It wasn't long before I got annoyed. I'd be happily doing my thing whe...

On Wednesday The Cap Times had an article which described Madison's bike friendliness , which, bicycle advocates say, has stagnated. Thi...

A local blogger named Tim Morrissey recently wrote a post regarding the furloughs being foisted on state employees in an effort to deal wit...

Next year's series of Doctor Who has started shooting and the new Doctor's costume has been revealed : He looks mighty dashing in tw...

Wowzers! This guy does not like Goldman Sachs. (h/t to Matt Taibbi .)

I read Nathan Rabin's review of Food, Inc. today in the paper incarnation of The Onion and found this line to be funny: "Kenner t...

While I'm on the subject of fast food, I see that the New York Times has an article about the history of the gyro . The description of t...

Last week (or was that the week before?) I read on The Daily Page forums that The Dawg House on State Street had closed. Restaurants come an...

For the past few nights, I've been listening to the Solaris audio drama produced by BBC Radio. It comes as two 1-hour episodes and I...

"I want you to go in there and demand to look at her shit!"

This past Sunday The Dulcinea and I left Madison for parts west and south: Mt. Horeb & New Glarus. Mt. Horeb hasn't changed much fro...

This past weekend as the La Fête de Marquette festival . I could hear the music from my front porch and wondered to myself on Friday night e...

So, the Madison school district accidentally applied some Roundup to the grounds of the Marquette school and now one of my neighbors, Sarah...

Mmmm... When your staff of life needs to take a turn towards death, Kittiwat Unarrom is your man. The above are examples of what the man do...

The Gene Genie shall return! The BBC show Ashes to Ashes was given a third (and final) series. Producers have revealed the climax of the ne...

A new trailer for next Doctor Who episode, "The Waters of Mars", is available. Doctor Who returns in November.

I now understand where impatiens get their name. While it took about four months, mine are finally blooming. Concurrently, the flower of unk...