Month: October 2013

Happy Halloween!

Here’s a genuine horror story for your Halloween Thursday.

This isn’t the usual music video but an NPR remembrance of Lou Reed. So you can take your pick and listen to the NPR broadcast, read the text highlights or watch the linked video of the Velvet Underground’s Heroin: http://www.npr.org/2013/10/29/241437872/never-back-down-fresh-air-remembers-lou-reed Lou was one of my personal musical hero. I played…

Now Hear This: Celebrating One of the Most Iconic Albums in Rock | The Daily Banter   God save the Queen; she ain’t no human bean….   Speaking of anniversaries and the queen… It’s also the anniversary week of the Queen’s opening of the National Theatre at the Old Vic…

From my email inbox comes a copy of the resignation letter sent by Democratic State Rep. Chris Sinicki to Republican State Sen. Paul Farrow and Republican State Rep. Jeremy Thiesfeldt, the co-chairs of the Select Committee on the Common Core Standards. In her resignation letter, Rep. Sinicki cited the “deeply…

As report by Dan Bice of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mary Burke will be traveling to Washington, D.C. next week for a fundraiser at the home of uber-lobbyists Bill and Cindi Broydrick. Lobbyist Bill Broydrick and his wife, Cindi, will host the fundraiser at their Georgetown townhouse from…

  No doubt public education will be a topic of discussion for the upcoming elections in 2014 and 2016, and most likely those discussions will include mention of how crucial education infrastructure is for a healthy economy, which is true. At the same time, what so often gets marginalized in…

I am no longer going to make it a secret that I believe the blogging community is doing a disservice to the State of Wisconsin and Democrats alike when we sit here and bash candidates for anything and everything during a time when we don’t even have an announced primary….

More idle Halloween distraction because Halloween is just so darn fun.   Hey Shindiggers – The full episode of Shindig’s Halloween episode from 1965 is a smile-maker if you’re into this kind of nostalgia. I seek out the nostalgia every Halloween season. The Monster Mash is one thing, but the…

I don’t believe this for a second. Milwaukee County Board Chairwoman Marina Dimitrijevic said Tuesday she was mulling whether to run for state Rep. Jon Richards seat in the Legislature and won’t make a decision until after work on the county’s 2014 budget is complete next month. “I haven’t made…