"One Year Later, Splatterhaus Disappearances Still a Mystery"
by Archibald Redrum, special to The Wisconsin GlobeThis October, Madison will observe the grim one-year anniversary of five young lives destroyed by a search in the eastern Wisconsin woods for what many have called the "ultimate scare." But although the official search for Robert ( Read more... )

From Blue Heaven by Joe Keenan, copyright 1988"[She] was our villain, and, so far as we were concerned, she had no right to abdicate the post. For her to suddenly beg to be seen not as some imp of Satan, but as a poor greedy mortal, prey to all sorts of fears and needs, struck us as a horrid breach of etiquette. Listening to her plea, we'd felt the ( Read more... )

Yesterday, I was in Milwaukee most of the day to provide logistical and transportation support to a guest session facilitator, who we will call "Judy Beethoven." Judy is the CEO of a service organization of which we are a member, but neither of us in the office had ever met her ( Read more... )

Hey, everybody! I am playing Iago in Open Spaces Theater Company's production of Othello, to be performed in Veteran's Park in Stoughton starting on Wednesday, July 11 and running through Sunday, July 15. No, that is not a very long run, but I hope that some of you will be able to make it ( Read more... )

Surely by now you've heard that the Reverend Ted Haggard is "completely heterosexual."

In other news, the 40-ounce t-bone steak that I ate last night was completely vegetarian.

And the weather in Madison right now is completely tropical.

I could continue in this vein for some time.

The Reverend Fred Phelps, whose website is well-known, has finally hit upon a way to make the right wing hate him just as much as the left wing; he is now protesting the funerals of fallen American soldiers. Apparently, their deaths are part of God's punishment for America's tolerance of gay people ( Read more... )

So, I have just gotten the one-week-old news that Joan of Arcadia is being canceled, and that it is being replaced by a show in which Jennifer Love Hewitt talks to dead people. Les Moonves commented that "talking to ghosts may skew younger than talking to God."

Look, Les, if young people won't watch Eliza Dushku talking to dead people, what makes ( Read more... )

There was baby waterfowl to be seen last night, as spare time and nice weather finally converged into a long bike ride.

Baby ducks: 18
Baby geese: 13
Muskrats: 2

I also thought that I heard a frog at one point, and I saw something splashing out of Wingra Creek at another, but those don't count. As usual, I have seen more ducks than anything else ( Read more... )

Congratulamations to sesamenoodles on the positive metion of his new CD in the new Isthmus! Huzzah!!!

I was tagged by freecookiesnow, and I don't want the LJ police to come after me, so here are my responses ( Read more... )