This photo reminded me again what a wonderful place the Wisconsin Historical Society is. If you’re ever in Madison, you won’t regret dropping in.
This is also the place to go for anything and everything IH. Y’know, if you’re the sort of person who likes that sorta thing.
If you’re within range of one of these stations tonight (Saturday, August 20th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua. Information on streaming the show here.
The musical guests will be Los Lonely Boys, and in this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike discusses the glory and responsibilities of being a cheesehead (regarding the green-and-gold elephant in the room, this was recorded prior to the recent Super Bowl, and we didn’t want to jinx anything!).
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So last winter your freezer conks and you find five whole chickens on the outer edge of thaw and you think they’d probably be fine but you just don’t have the gut-based gumption, so you refreeze and wait ’til windfall apple season and you make the following recipe:
5 whole chickens
3 5-gallon buckets of windfall apples
Some water
Boil in cauldron
Stir until repulsive
Let cool overnight
In morning, feed to joyful pigs.
…coffee fumes and laser printer dust and last night four hours of sleep, but still getting chores done and just now dear friend I haven’t seen for years just walked in, so computer goes off for rest of day.
Is that Dad calls wondering if I have the keys to the trailer after I borrowed it for the family reunion and I tell him I don’t, and everything is cordial, but when the call ends neither one of us fully believes I don’t have the keys.
Seriously: somebody give this guy a Guggenheim.
Sadly: turns out story is fake. Thought those quotes were a tad Onion-esque but pulled the trigger anyway. That’s on me.
*At least I think I sent my check…better look through the big stack of paper on the floor beside the desk…
If you’re within range of one of these stations tonight (Saturday, August 13th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua. Information on streaming the show here.
The musical guests will be the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and in this episode’s monologue – delivered from the backstage dressing room with the one lonely little lightbulb burnin’ – Mike discusses banjo jokes and the joy of live performance.
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After chores and before beginning the writing day, I butchered a chicken. It’s a meat chicken, healthy enough until yesterday when it lost the ability to walk. This despite it being free-range and not all that big. But I’ve learned the hard way that once their legs give out, it’s just a slow decline and you also wind up with a bird you wouldn’t want to eat. So off I went behind the pole barn. Didn’t take too long, although it helped that last night before going to bed I made a quick review of this site.
Upside? While plucking the chicken I worked out a paragraph transition, which I will apply myself to right now.
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