Posted in City Life, College Students, College Town Life, Crime, Downtown Madison, Freakfest, Halloween Party, Madison WI, Police, State Street, Surveillance Cameras, University of Wisconsin--Madison, WISCONSIN, Wisconsin State Journal on October 29, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Little Orphan Annie’s come to my house to stay.
To wash the cups and saucers up and brush the crumbs away.
To shoo the chickens from the porch
and dust the hearth and sweep,
and make the fire and bake the bread
to earn her board and keep.
While all us other children, when the supper things is done,
we sit around [...]
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Posted in City Life, College Students, College Town Life, Downtown Madison, Freakfest, Halloween Party, Life, Madison WI, Police, State Street, University of Wisconsin--Madison, WISCONSIN on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
Igor and I met up with Kathleen when we went out for the last potty run of the day. I saved up both of our energies so we could make a long circuit of the periphery of State Street and scope out the scene. Kathleen said she could not get a taxi to [...]
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Posted in City Events, City Life, College Students, College Town Life, Halloween Party, Life, Police, State Street, Surveillance Cameras, The Isthmus, Things to do/Places to go, University Students, University of Wisconsin--Madison, WISCONSIN on October 28, 2007 | No Comments »
There is a demon
An evil mind
Inside us
Oh I know, I know
We all know the rules
When water will be shed
The wicked witch is…
Demons and Wizards “Wicked Witch” on the “Touched By The Crimson King” album. 2005
Halloween 2007 has begun in earnest at shortly past 7pm. I can hear one of the bands fairly well if [...]
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Posted in City Events, City Life, College Students, College Town Life, Freakfest, Halloween Party, Life, Madison WI, State Street, Things to do/Places to go, University of Wisconsin--Madison on October 26, 2007 | No Comments »
They did the mash
They did the monster mash
The monster mash
It was a graveyard smash
They did the mash
It caught on in a flash
They did the mash
They did the monster mash
Bobby “Boris” Pickett
We had two full moons this month again. Last month it was the Harvest Moon. This month it was the Hunter’s Moon. Diana, Phoebe, and [...]
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Posted in Badger, City Events, City Life, College Town Life, Football, Madison WI, Politics, Restaurants, Senior Citizens, State Street, The Daily Cardinal, Things to do/Places to go, University Students, University of Wisconsin--Madison, WHEG, WISCONSIN on September 4, 2007 | No Comments »
See the names have all changed since I been around
But the game ain’t the same since I left out
Ooh you know we need ya, ooh you know we need ya
Right here is where we need ya, right here is where we need ya
Welcome back..
Welcome back, welcome back…
Welcome Back by Mase
The UW students are back in [...]
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Posted in Chiropractor, City Events, City Life, College Town Life, Life, Madison WI, State Street, The Isthmus, The Isthmus Block Party, Things to do/Places to go, University Students, University of Wisconsin--Madison on August 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Form a line, oh, oh
Come on, let’s go
Hey, Mr. Leader,
Hey, Mr. Leader,
Please strike up the band!
George and Ira Gershwin sung by Tony Bennett
I went to the chiropractor yesterday, Dr Ted Week over on Winnebago Street in the Atwood Neighborhood, just for a tune-up treatment not for any particular aches and pains and goodness I [...]
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Posted in City Government, City Life, College Town Life, Crime, London, Madison WI, Police, State Street, Surveillance Cameras, United Kingdom, WISC-TV, WISCONSIN on July 24, 2007 | No Comments »
Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you
STING “I’ll Be Watching You” (Feat, The Police)
So it begins, the constant eyes watching our every move as we make our way to and from work or play. The authorities are putting up the first security cameras [...]
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The folks over at the Isthmus Daily Page picked up on that question in my last entry so I thought I’d explore it a little. First of all, what IS gentrification really? This link is a pretty good over view by Tom Wetzel.
Madison can’t be said to have any real inner city [...]
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Well I think I’ll just jump right in and start blathering away about my life instead of trying to catch you up to date. After all, I’ve lived 54 and 1/2 years. If I tried to catch you up we’d never get to today and today is the most important day of my life. It’s [...]
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