Posted in Apartment life, Capitol Square, Chiropractor, City Life, City of Trees, Crime, Homeless, Homeless Shelter, Isthmus Daily Page, Madison WI, Metropolitan Place, Panhandling, Personal Health Issues, Police, Poverty, Real Estate Development, State Street, The Isthmus on November 3, 2007 | 1 Comment »
However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David [...]
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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 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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Posted in "Igor the Mighty", City Life, Crime, Dogs, Downtown Madison, Madison WI, Pets, Police, The Isthmus, WISCONSIN on January 1, 1970 | No Comments »
I memorize every line
I kiss the name that you sign
And darlin, then I read again right from the start
Love letters straight from your heart
by Elvis Presley (words and music by Edward Heyman and Victor Young)
OK, here’s a question for all you dog owners out there. Do your dogs fake poop? I take Igor out for [...]
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