…about two weeks to the last time I wrote. January 25th, the weekend Alex Pretti got shot, when we were out in Denver. Here’s our last Sunday morning walk that trip, down the boulevard with lots of really big houses. And on the train pulling into the airport, Monday morning. Monday night when I got … [Read more…]
We spent last Friday, Halloween, in Chicago. We went down for a double-header, Chicago Symphony in the afternoon, and David Byrne at night. And now it’s only Wednesday, but it feels like it’s already Friday. Maybe because of the time change Saturday night. Maybe because Jasper came on Monday this week, so that I could … [Read more…]
And various cooking adventures. The last full week of September, so like a week and a half ago(ish) we spent Thursday and Friday partially in Chicago. Thursday was Mark’s birthday and his present from me was go to Chicago, see Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me in the Studebaker Theater, and stay in a nice hotel. … [Read more…]
Since we’ve been back from TIFF, about two weeks now, we’ve entered into this seemingly endless string of hot sunny days with thankfully cool nights. It’s bright and blue skies and down to the 50s at night, but up to the 80s in the daytime, case in point the current temp is 81°, although that … [Read more…]
And back in Madison, nine days+ already. Saturday started with Glenrothan, about a Scottish family and their whiskey distilling business and the son who left and the one who stayed home. Verging on Hallmark Channel sappiness, but with great actors, Alan Cumming as the son who left and Brian Cox as the one who stayed, … [Read more…]
We started off my birthday celebrations with a party on Friday. On Saturday we went to the Farmers Market and bought probably too much food for people who were going away on both Sunday and Thursday. On Saturday night Madison got over 2 inches of rain, but the basement mostly stayed dry, thanks to the … [Read more…]
Here’s a sign of how old I am. All these groups and organizations in Madison are celebrating 50th anniversaries this year. Or last year, like Willy Street Co-op. WORT, our community radio station where I was a volunteer and then a volunteer programmer and then a Board member from about 1984-1991, is 50 this year. … [Read more…]
Yeesh, as I write this Sunday morning at 8:13am, it’s already 80° outside with 77% humidity. Yesterday we tried to go to Summerfest and wimped out, mostly on account of me, we left at a little after 5:00 having been there since 3:00, when the band we were really there to see, Japanese Breakfast, didn’t … [Read more…]
Last weekend was an all-play and no work weekend, so relaxed, in fact, that I’m just finally finishing writing about it now, Wednesday, Friday, the start of the next weekend, and it’s Memorial Day, too. Friday was gallery night in Madison, artists & galleries all over the city opening their studios and spaces to the … [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…]