Month: January 2012
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classic
It’s Tuesday night, and you know what that means: Classic Cocktail Night. We pondered long and hard to decide which of the classic cocktails – martini, Old Fashioned, Manhattan, whiskey sour, zombie with a hangover – we would have tonight, and after careful consideration we decided upon the Classic Cocktail. No kidding, there’s a drink… Read.
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bookless
“I don’t get art,” My Darling B confessed, as we wandered from room to room at the former Madison Public Library on Saturday night. All the books and most of the shelves had been removed to a temporary location while they build the new library, and to collect a little extra dough they opened up… Read.
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blue
Our final stop on our lineup of the places to eat we chose for Madison Magazine’s restaurant week, The Blue Marlin truly impressed us. Read.
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sake
How could I have lived so long without knowing what good sake tasked like? For years, every glass of sake I’d brought to my lips smelled like turpentine and tasted worse. I really, really didn’t like sake until I was stationed in Japan for four years and was lucky enough to meet people who not… Read.
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premonition
I have this idea that dreams are a premonition of what it’s going to be like when you get old and start to disconnect from reality. A warning, really. You go walking around in public without any pants on, you do things that don’t make any sense but you pretend that it’s perfectly normal and… Read.
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homebodies
We didn’t go anywhere for dinner tonight. We stayed in, ate salad with slices of foccacia dipped in olive oil and some nice gouda cheese on the side, and listened to the governor give the state of the state address. “Why do you want to listen to that?” I asked My Darling B. “You know… Read.
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cajun
What I know about Cajun food is that it’s spicy and it should look like the chef burned it. True or not, I don’t know, but in my experience that’s what often passes for Cajun food. What I liked about Liliana’s, our second place to visit during Madison Magazine’s Restaurant Week (Winter Edition) was that… Read.
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maintain
The spam bots are back! After ignoring my blog for months, and frankly deflating my ego quite a bit (the spam bots wouldn’t even read my blog!), I’m back to getting half a dozen comments every day that are complete gibberish (except for the response from Lindsey Lohan – apparently, she loves my blog!) and… Read.
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beercheese
The most unexpected thing to happen to me this weekend: I ran into a distant relative at the Isthmus beer and cheese festival. Standing in the middle of the room with My Darling B, just minutes after we got there, I looked up from the map we were using to plan our attack on the… Read.
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tacu
My Darling B and I went to lunch at Inka Heritage to kick off Madison’s Restaurant Week (winter edition). I have no idea if they’re serving authentic Peruvian cuisine, never having been to Peru myself, but I can tell you that the food I ate there tasted really, really good. I started off with an… Read.
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