Has anyone ever told you that you look like…
Even if you don’t care for my Sunday columns that appear in the SJ-R, surely you must look forward to the investigative stories that I uncover. This week, I expose some local residents who - get this - look like celebrities. I confronted them and made them [...]

A Link to the Molly Hatchet Period
The archeologist in me was fascinated by this find during a weekend birthday party at one of the lake parks.

For you younger readers, that is what was known as a ‘pull tab’ (the Latin name escapes me.) They were used on canned beverages, a marvel of ingenuity at the [...]

My sanctimonious column this month is on running, and apparently, how I think that I’m better than you.
Although, I’m not smart enough to figure out how to get rid of that giant space between the title and this first blog item. Something to do with code, I suspect, but completely beyond me. (But not Russ. [...]

I stopped buying REM albums after Automatic for the People. Although I’ve retained respect for their catalogue up to that point, I haven’t listened to it much over the last five years. Recently, 97.7 added Driver 8 to their weekend playlist and Dave Hustava played a track off Murmur on his show last night, rekindling [...]

I’m in decent shape. I exercise four or five times a week, combining cardio with weight training. Although I’m sedentary at work, having four kids keeps me active at home. So it is both perplexing and embarrassing to admit that I’m suffering from Wii-related aches today.
We rolled several frames at the virtual alley last night, [...]