Looking for a link for that old George Burns joke -- I needed to add it to the "in the comments" update to the first post of today -- I turned up this old Ask Metafilter page looking for the most intellectual jokes: J…
That was the challenge last night on "Top Chef," which this post won't spoil, but there are spoilers at here , where I read about it. (I haven't watched this season of "Top Chef." Maybe I'll catch …
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…
I love when summer ends. I love when it begins. Warmth is good, and all this unstructured time. But it's been too hot, and too many structureless days have melted into each other. So it feels good to get up at 5 a.m. and see …
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…
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…
Chris and the coffee. ADDED: Can you believe I put this picture up without even noticing there's an image of a naked woman in it? Someone had to point it out! I see my son, of course, and then the big cup of coffee. I saw the…
Because vlogging's the big thing now. BONUS: Vlogging from the road, literally. I-35, Oklahoma, tempting fate. I've got a longer one, too big to put on YouTube, where I discuss dying in a fiery wreck and specula…
It's rustic, yet impractical. Cool, yet absurd. You'll find it at Cibo , a restaurant in Austin, where we've eaten twice. Not only does it have great food, good atmosphere, and nice music, it stays open all day from 7…
Good lord, Nina's back in France again. Investigating cognac , apparently. Me, I'm in the U.S.A., in Madison's southern counterpart, Austin. Where I did have a cognac last night. But first: On the other side of the t…
That's the hilarious teaser on the home page of the Washington Post, leading to this article . The effort to "humanize" Clinton, as her advisers have put it, was in full swing just two days into her presidential cam…
So I put the finishing touches on my notes for a noon hour talk to the Dane County Bar Association and finished my preparation for my two hour 1:20 class and got in the car and drove over to the Monona Hilton where I drove down a…
Here's "One": This is a perfect example of a song I was embarrassed to like back when it was a big hit but that I'm not the slightest bit embarrassed by today. If you Google "embarrass," the first thin…