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Bad news, or just bad news? 13 Aug 2013 | 06:33 am
Back in January, I wrote about four guys — bullies, I guess. Three of them were dead, the third one just then. Now the fourth one, the guy who hassled me in junior high school and stole my wallet, is...
Our evening with Paul McCartney 29 Jul 2013 | 07:13 am
It’s been almost two weeks since we saw Paul McCartney at Miller Park in Milwaukee, and I’m still trying to make sense of everything we saw and heard. It was almost surreal. Buying seats on the field...
Mr. Green is not serene 29 Jun 2013 | 08:37 am
The weekend squire is back from mowing his lawn, but Mr. Green is not serene. He has a nice new Mac, but is discovering there is more assembly required than anticipated. The turntable that plugged in...
Soundtrack to the ride of a lifetime 13 Jun 2013 | 07:23 am
One of the girls was still in high school, the other not long out, listening to the radio as they cruised what they called “The Circuit” in the late 1960s. They sat up front in that Mercury Cougar, va...
Mission: Accomplished 26 May 2013 | 09:16 am
Why so few posts here lately? Blame it on senioritis. Our son’s senior year of high school, now down to just a handful of days, has been a blur. You want to save each memory, savor each moment, but th...
In search of the girl from U.N.C.L.E. 24 Apr 2013 | 07:55 am
A couple of thoughts in the wake of Record Store Day 2013. Have we come full circle? On the local hard-rock FM radio station last week, they were making a big deal about playing a vinyl record with Re...
The kicker, the go-go girls and Nixon 19 Apr 2013 | 07:57 am
On the sports wire today was a short item out of Missoula, Montana, that Errol Mann, an NFL kicker during the ’70s, had passed away. That name rang a bell. He’d played for the Green Bay Packers, altho...
Boom shaka laka laka by the lake 5 Apr 2013 | 07:46 am
Depending on your passion, today was a day chock full of anticipation. If you dig the Green Bay Packers, as many in these parts do, you likely enjoyed getting the first glimpse of the preseason schedu...
The empty playground 1 Apr 2013 | 07:50 am
One way to keep in shape during the long Wisconsin winters is to run inside. The track at our Y provides a bird’s-eye view of the basketball courts. So, as I plod around the track, I keep an eye on … ...
Under the Motown covers 13 Mar 2013 | 06:50 am
Was there ever a record company better at getting mileage out of its songs as Motown? One artist would cut a song. Then it would be covered by another, and perhaps another, and perhaps still another. ...
