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Wisco Wednesday: Cleo’s Brown Beam Cocktail Lounge
The first time we visited Appleton, almost exactly two years ago, we made a beeline for Cleo’s Brown Beam Cocktail Lounge—an iconic Christmas-themed bar downtown. Sadly, we were thwarted by a whole bunch o’ leprechauns milling about, unable to find a spot as the place was elbow-to-elbow with rowdy revelers dressed in green. Luck of…
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My little green friends are back.
One night nearly 20 years ago, I had a close encounter of the strange kind. To set the stage: I was single; living in a townhouse in Vancouver, WA; and hadn’t had a sip of alcohol that evening (this last point is crucial). I had shared custody of my kids, but Audrey and Rusty were…
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Elsa, officially.
Well, that was fun! That being a blizzard–the first one in southern Wisconsin since 2012. Elsa, officially, because a storm isn’t a proper storm without a name these days. And it was unexpected right up until a few hours before it hit. Last week, the weather hype machine was in overdrive, tantalizing us with talk…
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Hunker down and hope for the best.
I’ve long been a fan of ramen. Preferably from a Japanese restaurant, but even the cheap little packets of dried noodles will do in a pinch. Occasionally, we’ll go to an Asian market and splurge on “the good stuff.” How do we know it’s the good stuff? Because it costs 79 cents instead of 19…
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Sometimes I sit and think, and sometimes I just sit.
After announcing my new Mazda purchase, several bloggers asked if I were planning on naming her. Even though I’ve never named a car in my life—I usually just refer to my current ride as “the Markmobile” on this here blog—the thought had crossed my mind. I came close once. With my last Mazda. We’d gone…
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Jim Morrison’s gone missing!
Last weekend, Jim Morrison went missing. I should elaborate. Or maybe I shouldn’t, because that’s not a sentence you’d expect to read regarding a man who broke on through to the other side half a century ago. But I won’t leave you hanging. Saturday night, fresh off our adventure buying a new Mazda, we were…
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