Category: play

• sushi

  February 13, 2012

  food & drink, restaurants

  It was a dark and stormy night, filled with snow and sleet driven by a lashing wind. Why would any sane person want to spend any amount of time walking the streets of Madison tonight? Well, because there was all-you-can-eat sushi at Restaurant Muramoto tonight. We thought about going to Restaurant Muramoto tomorrow night, in… Read.

• chimp

  February 12, 2012

  entertainment

  Trunk Monkey is awesome. Read.

• santorum

  February 6, 2012

  entertainment

  “I had some porn, and I swore. This weird witch gagged me. My old burrito princess had a teepee, and we’d go vomit in two different food stair wells in the Americas. In between then, we’d surf!” “And this orange was just sitting there for me — for me to take it out and lunch… Read.

• 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.