Chicago, that is. We went to the second city to see some culture imported from New York City: Wynton Marsalis’ Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, a jazz big band with 15 permanent members. We got tickets for both Friday and Saturday. Friday was origins of bebop, featuring works by Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Mary … [Read more…]
Because we live in Madison WI, a college town, we get winter break when the students are gone, basically New Year’s to MLK Day, with the town to ourselves. So we try to take advantage of the situation and go places that would otherwise be crowded. There’s a restaurant downtown, Short Stack, that usually has … [Read more…]
… just a little different. We went to see a show as we’ve often done before but at a bar we’d never been to before, Hungry Brain. Kind of a cool place with little tables and some red leather booths and a nice stage. For the first set, they played excerpts of several classical pieces, … [Read more…]
Of course I’m feeling kind of limited by my broken wrist one-handedness, but I’m looking for the upsides. And musing on which is worse, all the time I spent limited by my knee injury that dragged on for like a year and a half, on crutches, off crutches, on crutches again, followed by limited walking, … [Read more…]
Somehow we didn’t get around to doing a lot of things we usually do at Christmas. We never brought down the lite brite tree. and 2017 We didn’t have lights on the front porch, so here’re some animated ones. We went to Al & Emma & Jasper’s on Christmas day for Chinese take out for … [Read more…]
Aw shit man. Yesterday, Boxing Day, I had my yaxtrax on because I was planning on going for a walk, and I took a short detour to get something in the garage (there was random trash stuck to the bottom of the trash bin that I’d just wheeled down the driveway and I wanted to … [Read more…]
Sorry to be such a sucky reporter of cookie season. It was so compressed this year. I feel like I missed everything from Nov. 30-Dec. 14 when the party was because all I did was stay home and bake. With a few exceptions: we did go to the Madison Symphony Christmas show on the 7th. … [Read more…]
I haven’t posted in almost a month and I started a post about that, that also summarizes cookie season and the party. But I started that post on Tuesday and it’s already Thursday and it’s not ready to publish. But meanwhile, going through pictures, I discovered quite a few cookies shots. So, until the other … [Read more…]
I’m going to use this post to make an attempt at journal-ling, anyways. Since I haven’t posted for about a week, I thought I’d go back and try to come up with one thing from each day. Or maybe something I cooked. I suspect what is going to happen is some days will have more … [Read more…]
In my last post I mentioned some of my recent cooking near misses, slimy, smelly broccoli; bitter squash; elderly peppers. I’ve continued having things go awry in the kitchen, not disasters that go straight into compost, more like disappointments. Like this leek and squash galette I made the other day, where I got the bottom … [Read more…]