We enjoy (and benefit from) communicating with readers and listeners via Facebook and other social media outlets, but every now and then they tweak an algorithm or change the rules…View post

You’re in a band, you thank the crew. You’re a writer, you thank the copyeditors. The show behind the show, making us sound smarter than we are. See also.

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…View post

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

Backstage, Stoughton Opera House, right before the show. I worked mainly out of the little blue book with Wisconsin on it.