The NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament is over, and I have mixed feelings.

FEELING #1: PRIDE
I may not be a huge basketball fan, but I'm not immune to patriotism, so as a Madisonian and a Wisconsinite, I was pretty pleased when the Wisconsin Badgers advanced to the national semifinal round of the tournament. (That several members of the ( Read more... )

I try not to be one of those fans, but last night's Community episode prompted me to find my inner Comic Book Guy and say, "Worst. Episode. Ever." That's probably a bit unfair and hyperbolic, but it's certainly true to say there's never been an episode of Community I enjoyed less than "G.I. Jeff."

A large part of my dissatisfaction stems from its ( Read more... )

Just a few minutes ago, I was standing on a street corner, waiting for the traffic to let up so I could cross the street. A driver in the right lane slowed down as he neared me; I waved my arm in the universal "go around me" gesture, and he accelerated past me. And about 30-45 seconds later, the traffic cleared and I crossed the street ( Read more... )

A Facebook friend recently posted a link to a blog post. I'm not going to name the blog or mention the headline, for reasons that will become clear, but the gist of it was that Ohio State University's newly appointed president, who happens to be black, will receive half the salary of OSU's last president. It starts by talking about Lee Daniels' The ( Read more... )

I'm still on that fanfic kick I mentioned a few weeks ago, which means I've been seeing a lot of things like this:

Disclaimer: I own nothing; it all belongs to J.K.Rowling. I'm just borrowing the characters to play with for a while. This is for pleasure only, no profit is being made, and no copyright infringement is intended.That's the disclaimer ( Read more... )

Channel3000.com, the online home of the local CBS affiliate, posted an article today about "exquisite New Year's Eve dinners in Madison." Seeing that, I figured it was as good a time as any to decide what movie I'll see that night. As many of you know, my New Year's Eve tradition is to see a movie that starts late enough in the day on December 31 ( Read more... )

Three Wisconsin cities where Doctor Who fans could attend public events to watch the global simulcast of the 50th Anniversary Special and one where they couldn't:

1. Appleton
2. Eau Claire
3. Milwaukee
4. Madison

I expected better from the home of WisCon and the Whedonesque Burlesque.
 

As I said I would, I attended a UW-Madison women's hockey game with my college pal Scott yesterday afternoon.


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Toward the end of the last school year, the Badger Herald, one of the two daily newspapers produced by UW-Madison students, announced it was moving to a semi-weekly print schedule. Stories would be posted daily on their website, but there would be just two print editions, published Monday and Thursday ( Read more... )

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