Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s…View post

If you’re within range of (or can stream) one of these stations tonight (Saturday, July 13th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua. This…View post

On Friday, July 19, the Long Beds and I will be playing at the Potter’s Shed up in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. If you’ve never been, it’s an unusual venue in…View post

For reasons best expressed by the Wendell Berry poem “The Peace of Wild Things,” I went out and picked until I had a tubful.

Every week the Wisconsin State Journal runs “Roughneck Grace,” a weekly column written by Mike (many of the columns will be adapted from Mike’s Tent Show Radio monologues). This week’s…View post