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  • 1. This is the summer I'd been wanting to have. I love being an academic, but last year almost killed me. I told Elissa last night, walking up State Street, that I didn't think I could do next year unless I wore myself o…

  • Goings on about town, week of July 18

    1. I had the honor of overhearing a drug deal go down at the public library. It was just pot, and this is Madison, so they didn't even have to keep their voices down, though they did make a token effort to sound underhan…

  • Goings On About Town

    Noon Tuesday found me sitting in the back of the Steep 'n' Brew on State Street repressing the urge to drive my blue Pentel RSVP inkpen through the larynx of the guy around the corner who wouldn't stop whistling.There is…

  • 1. So Israel is 60 years old. I expect I'll have something to write about this next week after finals.2. I did rather enjoy all the festivities on the UW quad, though. There were pro- and anti-Israeli booths set up. By t…

  • Axiom: if you want to have conversations with strangers, try reading a book in public.Cases in point:1. I was sitting on a park bench outside of a shopping mall in Shawnee, Oklahoma, reading The Corrections, waiting for …