Before my senior year of college, I was a bit uncertain where I would be living. I had just been named the editor of the school literary magazine, and there was an apartment that traditionally went to the new editor. But the last editor seemed unsure if she was moving out, and I wasn’t entirely… Read More A fridge full of urine: My college experience
A few weeks ago, Ava kept asking me why I haven’t watched “Minions” yet. After being asked the same question a few times, I finally replied “Why haven’t you watched ‘Citizen Kane’ yet? She’s four, so of course she hadn’t seen it. She asked what it was about, and I said it was about a… Read More Ava Reviews Daddy Stuff: ‘Citizen Kane’
Elvis Costello has been a bucket list concert for me for a long time. I only recall one other opportunity I had to see him: I was in college and in Atlanta for a conference and had other obligations. Thursday night, I finally got a chance to see him in concert, at Hoyt Sherman Place,… Read More Review: Elvis Costello at Hoyt Sherman Place
I’m starting off this entry a little different because I found a beer that I tried a few months ago that I forgot to write about. So beer 151 is probably beer 110 or something, but I don’t want to go back and renumber everything, so I’m just sticking it on the start of this post.… Read More 365 Iowa Beers 151-160: Little Giant Beer Summit Part the First
Last week my son, Jonas, turned two. If you follow my Facebook posts, you’ll see a lot of them focus on my daughter, while Jonas doesn’t get as many mentions. The biggest reason for that is the fact that at four-years-old (or four-and-a-half, as she’ll inform you), she’s much more verbal. She’s an endless font… Read More Happy birthday son, am I failing you as a dad?
This week is the seventh wedding anniversary for me and my wife. That’s a pretty good number, but 2016 also marks 20 years since we started dating. I’m going to focus on that one for a bit. Just to be clear, we haven’t been dating for 20 years. Even though I married my high school… Read More 20 years with the love of my life
I don’t really have a good intro for this post. I kept coming up with a lede, but it felt too forced. So I’m just kind of typing words until it feels like I’ve set this up well enough. Is this enough? No, too soon. There, that’s probably good. Beer 107: Millstream Hoppy Hour White… Read More 365 Iowa Beers: 107-112: Flix, Forks & Cheese
I spent a good portion of June reading “The Girl With All the Gifts.” It was written by The Unwritten/Lucifer author Mike Carey, but it’s a novel, not a comic. There’s a film version coming out in September, directed by Col, McCarthy, who directed the entire second season of “Peaky Blinders.” Between that and “Peaky… Read More My June comics reading list
I’m clearing out my last few beers in this post, before I come back with the list of beers consumed during Des Moines Beer Week. I will say that Beer Week has opened my eyes to some breweries outside Des Moines that I need to visit. Beer 51: Peace Tree Blonde Fatale ABV: 8.5% Purchased… Read More 365 Iowa Beers: 51-57
Recently, I watched the documentary Cropsey, about the urban legend of a serial killer living under a mental hospital that turned out to be true. It made me think about urban legends that spread among the kids in my own neighborhood. I’m sure local happenings like the 1982 disappearance of Johnny Gosch, and children being… Read More Urban legends from my walk to school
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