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). Today’s column (about why a clodhopper…View post

If you’re within range of one of these stations tonight (Saturday, September 14th) we hope you’ll join Mike as he hosts another edition of Tent Show Radio from Big Top Chautauqua. Information on streaming the…View post

I am beginning to think that once you hit forty, you spend the bulk of your time suppressing the urge to harangue everyone who comes within forty feet of your…View post

Spent some time in the chair with the 2013 and 2014 Wisconsin Poets’ Calendar yesterday. Dispatches from all corners of Wisconsin…urban and suburban and non-urban, cows, no cows. The real…View post

If you missed last weekend’s Tent Show Radio episode with musical guests, Arlo Guthrie & The Guthrie Family Band, it can now be heard online. During the monologue at intermission,…View post