For you! Not me. I have a class. This is just a coffeehouse for you to talk about what you like. ADDED: There now, I'm done. Thanks for carrying on without me. And congratulations, Ernie .
With Chris... ... who's got only a few hours left before he's a quarter of a century old. Tablescape #1: Tablescape #2: At EVP, people make drawings and slip them under the glass tabletops. Go there, and see if you can fi…
Yesterday at the Sundance theater here in Madison, Wisconsin, it was opening night for the "Sex and the City" movie. Women were swarming around and inside the place. Some arrived in groups of 4 and wearing short, tight …
I know I've been spending too much time at Starbucks. Here's something Melvin Jules Bukiet says in that anti-Brooklyn thing I just linked to: Brooklyn’s always been the overlooked sibling among the boroughs. Founded sev…
So I was just hanging around at home, trying to get some reading done, and I see reports predicting hailstorms -- hail 4 1/2 inches in diameter -- baseball size! I have never seen anything close to baseball-sized hail. And I don…
Exclaimed, not sarcastically, just now, by someone who works at Caffe 608 at the Sundance Cinemas in Madison, on seeing 5 of the 7 tables along the wall each occupied by one person working on a computer. ADDED: So Robert Redford…
Yesterday, I was out, walking around the Capitol (see it?): Today, I'm dug in at Espresso Royale, drinking one of those outrageously caffeinated large cappucinos (the very thing I was sipping in that Bloggingheads episode whe…
I'm still fried from that long drive yesterday. Can I get back to blogging about the news? There's the Sunday NYT over in the corner of the table, nicely sorted to include only the sections I like to read. But I got the N…