Izzo has perfected his routine of getting in the refs’ faces when they try to call a fair game and fouls on MSU. He got on the refs during most of MSU’s close games this year, and it worked in State’s favor most of the time. 

Game of Thrones has a few more established actors that have actors that view it as a job and nothing more.  Both Stephen Dillane and Ian McShane probably won’t be participating in GOT actor panels or be making appearances at conventions.  McShane IRRC was particularly dismissive of both the show and the fanbase, which…

You also have a better chance of avoiding the people who insist that multiple items are incorrectly priced, holding up the line by having a manager come by and sending someone out to check. Most of the time the customer, who also likely is an extreme couponer is wrong, but the store not to offend their feelings, gives…

My dad, who is more of a dog person, also has 4 cats and claims that he’s not much of a cat person.  He found 2 of the 4 cats, and one of them can do little wrong in his eyes.  Two of the cats are orange tabbies.  One of them is them, a female, really only likes a couple people and hates my dad’s sister and BIL.  My…

The multiple bags of hard cat food my dad got last weekend may have prompted a receipt check. Usually he orders that plus the prescription diet dog food from Chewy, but the weather wasn’t looking great this week for the FedEx delivery person to bring the large boxes up to the house from the road.  Instead he picked…

The largest one closest to where my dad lives in SE WI must have someone checking receipts during certain times.  I helped him restock on his household supplies this past weekend and we had two carts full, mostly of cleaning supplies, cat food, and paper products.  He had to show his receipt when exiting, possibly…

The other group that benefits from doctors and health care systems that don’t share information with each other are the health care providers, doctors and nurses, that either have a prescription drug addiction or steal drugs intended for their patients. One of my cousins lost her nursing license over a decade ago…

It probably helps that my parents’ Weim has very severe food allergies, including needing prescription, meat-free hard and soft food, but both the parents really would make sure he only gets a certain amount at every meal. He still very rarely gets fed from the table and any fruits or veggies that he’s fed are put in…

Margaret Atwood is another author like Gaiman whose work was difficult to adapt for TV and film for a long time. Up until the last couple years, the only adaptation of her work was the early 90s Handmaid’s Tale film, which is not very good. The Hulu series is a worthy adaptation, but the second season was hard to…

The Shining is another King story that would be ripe for another adaptation, either as a film or miniseries/limited series on TV. The Kubrick film is a great horror film with some positives including the set design and has great resonance in modern pop culture. Some of them weren’t original ideas of Kubrick, despite…

We all have our kitchen tool or gadget that we either have multiple of or buy for some reason (and never use). My mother had both. After she died and my father felt enough time had passed that he would not feel her disapproval in reorganizing her kitchen, he found both.  When she was healthy, she’d spend several days…

Keep in mind several things, including this is the average yearly salary, which includes administration and people with years of experience ranging from more recent hires to ones with longer service. Also, Yellowstone, Glacier, and Grand Canyon are the crown jewels of our fantastic national park system, so it’s more…

I work in the public sector and see similar issues where I work. There have been some changes at work, including policy and space renovation projects, that have been met with understandable criticism by both boomers and younger people.

Christmas is very much a food holiday. My late mother loved having something different every year once she got it through my dad’s thick skull that she didn’t want to host at least one set of in-laws for Xmas day. Once her least favorite SIL and BIL didn’t come (and there were multiple siblings-in-law and their…

The tribes that have casino have tighter criteria. My co-worker’s ex-wife is half Ho-Chunk from her father’s side of the family. It’s unclear whether he was ever enrolled as a tribal member and was gone from Wisconsin well before the casino money started making the tribe rich, after he left his wife to raise their…

Maybe learning about Venn diagrams were in one of the classes he missed at Marquette when he was expelled/dropped out.  

I like that idea. Mail an envelope full of glitter to both Robin Vos and Scott Fitzgerald’s offices (the ringleaders of this petty ass bunch of sore losers) with one of my Republican relatives’ return addresses and from outside of Madison. It would be likely the Republican relative I like the least, currently my…

Yeah, that lack of cognitive awareness that your immigrant ancestors themselves encountered discrimination from nativist politicians and their followers is astonishing to say the least.

I went to high school in rural northern Illinois and the ones that didn’t leave the area to go to college and/or get any higher education have conservative views that are very similar to their parents. Democrats, liberals, and progressives were very much a minority there, including among the teachers. Even back in…

Yeah, my sister really made our dinner this year a big production. It took almost 9 hours for the 3o lb turkey with stuffing to cook. It took another hour and a half to bake the sides and bread. We still have a lot of leftovers to eat up or freeze, too much for three people to handle. Thankfully, we’re making soup…