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Getting ready for the Seattle 2025 world SF convention. I'm now officially on staff, even. Nothing but good times ahead!™
August 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
PBS American Masters is about to premier "Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse" about the cartoonist, most famous for "Maus". Best anecdote from producer Alicia Sams at the Wisconsin Film Festival screening: when proposed as the father of graphic novels, Art demands a paternity test. Recommended!
April 6, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Wisconsin peeps: if eligible, please make a plan to vote in the Spring election on Tuesday April 1 (no fooling!). At a minimum, you have choices for supreme court justice and state school superintendant. This includes college students!
February 20, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Celebrating valentine's day with passionfruit truffles from Gail Ambrosius, heart-shaped velvet cake from Far Breton, and heart-shaped pizza from Rocky Rococo.
February 14, 2025 at 2:59 PM
In Minneapolis phantomchorus.com is performing a mixed live action / puppetry stage adaptation of "Dealing with Dragons". They have a streaming option for $8 on either Friday 1/31 (7pm CST) or Sunday 2/1 (2pm CST). We organized a watch party for today, and had a lovely time. Recommended!
Phantom Chorus Theatre
phantomchorus.com
January 27, 2025 at 2:34 AM
It's been an exciting week for US rocket companies: blue origin made orbit on their first New Glen launch, and later that same day SpaceX caught a starship booster. Still some R&D to do; team blue didn't land their booster, and spacex blew up their new orbiter.
January 18, 2025 at 12:36 AM
Reposted
Every year RÚV, the National Broadcasting Agency in Iceland, holds a vote for the Word of the Year. The word of 2024 is "hraunkælingarstjóri" which means "Boss of Lava Cooling".

We've had many eruptions and so have been spraying the running lava with water to slow it down and save infrastructure.
Mikill heiður að vera sá eini sem ber titilinn - RÚV.is
Hraunkælingarstjóri er orð ársins. Þetta er bæði gaman og mikill heiður, segir sá eini sem ber þennan titil.
www.ruv.is
January 12, 2025 at 9:17 PM
The 2022 Wisconsin low budget indie flick "Hundreds of Beavers" will be back in Madison at the Barrymore for one night only, Thursday 12/4. It's hysterically funny - I've never heard a movie audience laugh so much, and I highly recommend it to fans of silent movies, video games, and slapstick.
December 4, 2024 at 12:13 AM