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  As I was finishing with the last of Walter Benjamin’s 1933 writings (the last was “Experience and Poverty”, which is about, among other th...

 It occurred to me this morning *, while I was driving around listening to A History of the World in 6 Glasses , and a reference was made to...

We ate last night (for about the 500th time) at Jalapeño Loco  - hands down the best Mexican restaurant in Milwaukee.  Just north of the ai...

We peddle a lot of nostalgia these days. A few years ago, Facebook stole my idea and began telling me about things that had happened on t...

I am on vacation. I am traveling. I’m taking a trip. Playing tourist. I will be out of the office starting on Monday… I am staying at…...

Just in the midst of a rare sneeze-fest (8 or so in the last 90 seconds)… Enjoying some sunshine in the backyard. Alongside an a...

I love cucumber sandwiches . Saturday I picked up a few weird little cukes (one was called 'lemon' - I don't recall the name o...

Subjects in motion... *  *  * March 2019 I don't know what this article was about.  There is, in retrospect, a reason for its exis...

The last 45 minutes has been personally significant. I came home from work (which evidently is a bastion of out-of-the-loop-ed-ness and ...

Here's a superb after-dinner cocktail. After you've had a lovely dinner out (or in, i suppose), and are looking to wind down and tas...

On Saturday i went - with brooke, eric, bethany, shane, & grant - to the quaint (don't look up etymologies, as a general rule) littl...

During an AA meeting in 8th Grade, Dan Wallace (ahem, i mean "Mr.") told us that the best thing to do with your goals is to write...

Yesterday afternoon, we drove out of San Francisco and into "wine country". That's in California. Anyway, brooke shot a prett...

South Milwaukee has a "new" bar... Finally a bar, for south milwaukee. But seriously, Telluride, at 2155 S. Kinnickinnic is a grea...

Last Wednesday afternoon i attended my first ever Cubs game at Wrigley Field. Having recently developed a keen hatred for the Cubs & Cub...

Yesterday started like this: ...and ended like this: it's good to be home... We got home from Orlando late Monday evening. Today wasn...

Last night we had dinner at the latest addition to the Tippecanoe neighborhood, Shiver Me Timbers, a new restaurant specializing in America...

It's been a lovely last several days... Since Saturday aftereve much has happened. We've not been without houseguests, we met the...

Tomorrow begin my classes. Strictly speaking classes started today, but evidently Tuesday will be my Mahler day, my day off. The first day...

Last night we made the foray to Summerfest , via the East Side drunk bus. After some Happy Hour cocktails and crab cakes at Yield a large y...