Fearful Symmetries

One of my all-time favorite albums - by Genesis or otherwise - A Trick of the Tail , turns 48 today. And one of my favorite songs of all-tim...

Maybe 10 or 15 minutes in, I thought to myself how much I was enjoying a documentary that was stylistically 180 degrees from Ken Burns. Rath...

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Last week I finally gave the newest Chinese restaurant in Monona a try, La Choza Del Viejo . The name means “the old man’s hut” in Spanish. ...

(mid-August 2023) (Dance to the prelude .) A few days ago thirsty beer geeks from around the country descended upon Madison for the Great Ta...

I ran into another empty pickle beer shelf yesterday. This time it was at Willy Street Coop North and it was the Destihl 's Dill Pickl...

Piper and I watched Gunda today and she really got into it for a spell.   She was napping by the time that last scene started. My eyes were...

My pal Eric the Driftless Cowboy now has a radio show on WVMO called "Classic Country Corner". It airs at 8 A.M. on Saturdays. T...

Back around 1997 or thereabouts, I ran into an essay by a gentleman named Judson Caswell called "Minstrel in the Gallery: History in th...

My survey of winter beers continues.  I was happy to hear that Uff-da has returned. It's been a favorite of mine ever since New Glarus ...

Winter beers are my favorite. They are during winter, anyway. In addition to anticipating Tippy Toboggan , I also greatly look forward to Ca...

It's been a while since I've had mead . At about this time last year I went on a little honey wine jag but I lost the momentum. Not ...

Valkyrie Brewing is no more. Last call was on the 6th and Ryan Urban was there . Saturday’s farewell event featured many of the elements of...

Earlier this month, I tried my hand at mulling beer. It proved unsuccessful with the beer taking on a prominent and distasteful bitterness....

I shoveled 6-8 times during and after the last snowstorm. Roughly every 3 hours during the day I bundled up, grabbed my shovel, and proceede...

spring is right around the corner spring is right around the corner spring is right around the corner spring is right around the corner If I...

Piper has been keeping my lap warm during this cold snap. The weather outside may be frightful, but inside is so delightful.

I may be a bit late with this review but, if breweries are going to release their Oktoberfest beers during those days when Sirius follows th...

East of Milwaukee? Lake Michigan is east of Milwaukee, last I checked, not West Bend which is north of the city.