Fearful Symmetries

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I continue to work my way through NessAlla Kombucha 's brews. It's a Madison company where brewers ply their trade just across Stark...

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(late December 2023) You may recall from an entry or two ago that I had received a photograph from a friend of mine last month that depicte...

    (Now read #117 .)

After seeing Black Philip on a can of hard apple cider leading us into dark temptation, we now have a label featuring a white goat snugglin...

On a bus ride home some night last week, I stepped aboard and found that the driver had decided on mood lighting. After a short time, he tu...

Something to quaff while you watch The Witch .

Last summer I sampled Bragg's lime citrus drinking vinegar and now, a bit over a year later, here I am drinking what I presume to be th...

Some performances by fine Polish performers are coming to Madison.

I went to see Conclave over the weekend and enjoyed it quite a bit. To my mind, it's a humanist tale and I cannot get all of those shot...

Those of us at UW Cinematheque last night for the screening of Dahomey got a taste of next semester's schedule as they showed a traile...

It was on this day in 1989 that Rush released Presto . This was about 2 years after I had taken the plunge into their catalogue. Not as stro...

Last week I wrote in black distress that I hadn't seen Planters Salt & Vinegar cashews for some time and feared that they had been...

Piper played with a catnip toy last night. As she chewed on it, I could smell the pungent aroma. I think she got rather high as she didn...

We got a dusting of snow last night - our first of the season. It's either snowing out now or it's very windy. I must get the shovel...

Have you seen the poster for the movie Dahomey ? It's a documentary about the repatriation of artwork to Benin from France. And it scree...

News is out that Genesis' opus The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is getting the super deluxe 50th anniversary (which was earlier this week...

And it was only 11 when I first heard it. Tempus fugit. But it has aged well. Still a classic. The closest The Lamb tour got to Wisconsin w...

My wife has renounced gluten so I spend time in the gluten-free aisles at grocery stores and have come to know which pizzerias offer a crust...