this never gets old

fantastic crowd at La Bahn Arena to welcome home the NATIONAL CHAMPION WISCONSIN BADGERS WOMEN'S HOCKEY TEAM

i'm in on this one

a teacher speaks: spank your kids so i won't be tempted to do it

little-known fact: this is Justice Alito's real name

three hours once a week and you know where all your favorite numbers are

hey, new station on the air (link to more info is in the replies to the original post)

the Mrs and I sang Varsity in our living room with them

WE DID IT AGAIN

Claire Enright i will write your next term paper for you

what he said

"i'll take true facts I'd nevertheless rather not know for 100, Alex"

ESPNU now: Wisconsin vs Ohio State for the women's hockey national championship we are ready we are ready we are ready

what day this week do we think ICE will shoot somebody in an airport security line

John Coltrane was not from this planet

it's 73 in Madison we are not drinking outside but we are close to an open overhead door so OK then

Bluesky serendipity

Many people are saying

as it was written, so let it be done Wisconsin vs Ohio State Sunday for the fourth year in a row, for everything

WE'RE FEELING MUCH BETTER NOW

we are not OK

i will not survive overtime somebody get one

Wisconsin 3 Penn State 2 going to the third we ain't worried (we're a little bit worried)

this is not unlike bulldozing the East Wing a fool without a clue destroying something that doesn't belong to them, with nary a thought for anyone other than themselves, because they can

if you wanna be the best you gotta beat the best Badgers vs Penn State at 630 Central on ESPN+

Our species never should have stopped dropping people into volcanoes.

subbing today not only is it the last day before spring break, the boys basketball team is playing in the state tournament right now i'm posting from a great big empty

stink stank stunk

speaking of Stinkland, the Badgers are down by 1 with 2 seconds to go

i'm wide awake at 3AM and browsing my website archives, as one does, and i think the post below is one of the best things i ever wrote, anywhere anytime maybe you would like to read it

my gob has been smacked by this essay about the cultural and even theological meaning of my favorite movie

"CBS News executives ascribe some portion of the viewership results to changes tied to the recent shift to Daylight Savings Time" excuses not considered include "March came in like a lion and ate some of our viewers" and "the reruns of Roseanne and Frasier have been really good lately"

watching a vintage NFL playoff game, as one does it's the one that somehow ended in a score of 5-0 great quality video with commercials included

here's the story of the night i hung out backstage with Paul Kantner and Jack Casady: thjkoc.net/2016/01/29/m...

when Chris Taylor says "I'm a Democrat" she's being honest, in contrast to Maria Lazar's impartiality hogwash

i was supposed to sub at a middle school today but we're getting a snow day, possibly my first since 1978 i gotta say it's not the first thing i would have chosen to bring back from 1978

PWHL today: Boston gets a comeback win in overtime at Montreal and Minnesota withstands a furious New York comeback to win 4-3 watch women's hockey, friends, for it does not disappoint

never saw this B4: at the Badger hockey game yesterday, Claire Enright lost her stick and it flew into the crowd where a fan caught it end of the period she came over and the fan tossed it over the glass she tossed it back and told him to keep it another reason why this team is so easy to love

maybe i was wrong maybe Monti Rock III deserves more than one monument (thanks to @genebaxter.bsky.social for sending this along)

it has come to my attention that Sir Monti Rock III passed away last month this was, and always shall be, his monument

Driftless Glen Port-Finished Bourbon from Baraboo, WI at Honey Barrel in Verona, WI how *you* doin'?

this was awesome

we won

five minute major for cross-checking warm up the bus

we're feelin Frozen Fourish in Madison Badger Marianne Picard responds to getting cross-checked by pointing at the scoreboard Wisconsin 4, Quinnipiac 0, 3rd period

he'd feel even better if he knew Minnesota was getting hammered by Northeastern right now

end of the first: Wisconsin 2, Quinnipiac 0 shots on goal are 19-4 this ain't the ECAC, this is big-time hockey

we are at the rink one more time to watch Wisconsin women's hockey go for their 17th Frozen Four in 21 seasons against Quinnipiac

the choice between 1 and 2 is harder than i thought