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  • GTMW07 names

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    The good people who brew beer for a living have a tradition of dreaming up the goofiest names possible for their potions. Featured at this year’s Great Taste of the Midwest were brews such as Dirty Helen Ale, Discombobulation Celebration, and Under the Kilt Heavy. For the people who like to drink beer, giving them Read.

  • GTMW07 preview

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    It’s beer day! I probably won’t be in any shape to write about it tonight, so I thought I’d mention it now. After lunch, Barb and I will head for the Great Taste of the Midwest, an annual festival of microbrewers who converge on Olin park, bringing tuns filled with their wares so we can Read.

  • GTMW07 score

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    My Darling B got hold of two tickets to the 2007 Great Taste of the Midwest craft beer festival, sponsored by the Madison Homebrewers and Tasters Guild. Tickets have been sold out since early May, so this was no small feat. I keep saying she’s magical, but this proved it once and for all. Read.

  • sports agnostic

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    Apparently the Milwaukee Brewers (that’s baseball, right?) traded a player to, well, another team … I forget which. I heard about it only because a guy was trying to explain it to me in the break room at work yesterday and he didn’t get the signal that he was speaking to a sports agnostic. Under Read.

  • Baskerville

    Front entrance to the Baskerville building on Hamilton St. (This is a hand-held shot, although I had to take about a half-dozen snaps to get it, and hold my breath each time. I’ve learned a new setting on my digital camera that lets me take photos at night. ) Read.

  • The Lamb Building – Michaelangeo’s

    The Lamb building on the 100 block of State Street, home to Michelangelo’s, the finest coffee shop in downtown Madison. Wouldn’t it be heaven to live in an apartment over a great coffee shop? Especially an apartment with leaded, stained-glass bay windows. Maybe someday… Read.

  • Inside Taylor’s

    Time to share a few more photos of the interior of Taylor’s antique store, on Carroll Street in capital square (next to Shakespeare’s book store). I wandered in today to see the newly-arranged selection of trinkets and baubles. The assortment is dizzying. The shop resembles nothing so much as your very rich aunt’s eclectic collection Read.

  • Taylor’s on North Carroll

    Taylor’s on North Carroll Street in downtown Madison has decorated their front window with a dizzying display of old-time toys. It’s more than I can do justice to in a few snapshots, but perhaps I can capture a tiny bit of the fun to be had looking in the window. A close-up of a few Read.

  • Mautz mansion

    I went for a walk through the ‘mansion district’ once again. Most of the old piles have fallen on hard times, their rooms now parceled out as flats to students. The landlords certainly aren’t much interested in preserving the character of the buildings, as evidenced by the cartoonish color of this lost mansion. Pink? Read.

  • Makado

    I went back to the ski slopes again! A couple guys as work, Romeo Bautista and Dave Christy, were headed for Makado, up north by Mutsu Bay, and asked me if I wanted to come along. I probably shouldn’t have; my legs were still sore and tight from skiing at Moya, but I couldn’t say Read.

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