Category: play

• ullage

  February 5, 2012

  hobby

  What do you call that empty space at the top of a beer bottle? There’s already a word for it that goes back centuries, but I don’t think I heard anyone use one word consistently for it until the last five or ten years when I started hanging around beer brewers, who usually call it… Read.

• istanbul

  February 3, 2012

  entertainment, music, play, television

  While tinkering away at something in my basement lair last week, I was listening to swing music on Pandora when I heard the familiar melody of Istanbul not Constantinople, not as I knew it, a pop music celebration on fiddle and accordion by They Might Be Giants, but a swinging saxophone arrangement by Ken MacIntosh.… Read.

• cheddar

  February 2, 2012

  daily drivel, food & drink

  I have mailed cheese. When my mother asked me to mail her some cheese I guessed that this was the thing least likely I would ever mail to someone, but then I remembered the time I mailed a hamburger to someone as a joke. Bought it at the Burger King drive-through, dropped it into a… Read.

• blue

  January 28, 2012

  festivals, food & drink, Friday the 13th, Madison Restaurant Week, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants

  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.

• sake

  January 26, 2012

  booze, daily drivel, festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants

  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.

• homebodies

  January 25, 2012

  entertainment

  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.

• cajun

  January 24, 2012

  festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants

  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.

• beercheese

  January 23, 2012

  beer, daily drivel, festivals, food & drink, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants

  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.

• tacu

  January 22, 2012

  festivals, food & drink, Madison Restaurant Week, My Darling B, O’Folks, play, restaurants

  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.

• pea

  January 17, 2012

  entertainment, food & drink

  Cutest little car I’ve ever seen. I want one. Read.