you'd have to see this weekend to believe it.

after visiting dj aaron soma at the bar he tends on friday night, I jetted downtown, scooped up matt wild and sped down to walker's point. we were on assignment at milwaukee's monthly guerilla gay bar, and we had it on good intelligence that the revolution would be at steny's this time around ( Read more... )

the cat, as it turns out, belongs to our neighbors upstairs. they called me after I posted a "found cat" sign by the mailboxes and said yes, she's a sneaky one. we'll come get her ( Read more... )

I just came home from watching The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi back to back and eating Chinese food (not the whole time) at Liz and Andrew's ( Read more... )

I usually write some sort of "my year" post on or around New Year's Eve, giving it some sort of dramatic title (like the year of motion and miracles or a year of greatness and lakes). I still want to come up with a dramatic title for 2007 but if I don't do it soon it will be too late and it will feel stale and silly ( Read more... )

last saturday we moved our offices from a storefront in riverwest (what a neighborhood: a smelly guy once offered me a tab of acid at the bremen cafe and I found a dead man in an alley) to a space in walker's point, just south of downtown and the third ward, in a building full of art studios. it's part of the old warehouse district, and the ( Read more... )

my dad, in every way a patriarch, has been planning this trip for years, a caribbean cruise and a trip to disney world for his family, the whole lot of us: his daughter, her husband and their three kids (fraternal twins, a girl and a boy, now 10 years old, plus a younger boy, I think he's seven?) -- his son, his wife and their four kids (big-eyed, ( Read more... )

we spent the afternoon helping liz and andrew move into their new apartment, three blocks down the street from their old apartment, but on a very pretty block of brick houses and trees changing color, just across the street from st. rita's (I always say hello to st. rita -- she is so pristine up there on the steeple, dramatically lit, holding a ( Read more... )

I found out that I need glasses. after many, many years of above-average vision and black-sheepiness in my family (they all, after all, wear glasses), it's time. it's time for glasses. it's time to put an end to the squinting, the watery eyes, the itchiness and the headaches after work ( Read more... )

on monday night we started our plow through the entire third season of the office. I missed a couple episodes in the middle, due to a film fest screening I wanted to catch ( Read more... )

yesterday I went to my first press conference, the media kick-off for the milwaukee international film festival, which opens on september 20. I shook hands with the mayor and met Chris Abele, local philanthropist (the Argosy Foundation) and minority investor in the magazine ( Read more... )