I drive through Duluth & Superior a lot for work, and I always laugh like I'm in junior high when I take the Bong Bridge on US 2.

Speaking of Taste Test alcohols, I was coerced into a shot of Malort this weekend. I too was struck with the sudden realization everyone around me was sexually attractive, followed with the sudden realization that a tire fire was raging in my gullet.

I missed the starting minutes of almost an entire semester of my Political Geography class due to an unavoidable Magnum P.I. conflict.

Arkham House
I work in the same town that August Derleth and Arkham House Publishing were based. I've never really gotten too deep into the Lovecraft stories, but it was interesting to learn Lovecraft's continued legacy is in no small part due to devoted followers starting up their own publishing company to keep his…

I saw a video with that dude the other day, and I thought he looked like the Degrassi guy. Being neither Canadian or tween, I'm slightly embarrassed that I recognized Jimmy the wheelchair guy.

The D
I doubt it would work for everyone, but in college my roommate and I made the Madison to Austin drive straight. He'd just bought Tenacious D, and over the 22 or so hours in the truck we listened to it over an over. It became the soundtrack to the trip.

@i and 1 - you're right on about the classic rock radio stations and growing up in that particular era. I'm just now getting back into reexamining this genre, as throughout high school and college I never even bothered. I'd been under the impression that I'd heard it all based on countless hours listening to the…

I do love the Tragically Hip, so help me…

I'm with you that they've really got nothing left to prove, but reviews aren't just for those familiar with the story of the band.

I Love It
I had received a six song sampler after pre-ordering this, and the album came in the mail yesterday. I'd already listened to those six songs repeatedly, but the album as a whole comes together a whole lot better than the sampler did. I've got friends that aren't sold on the new sound, preferring the…

My hair's a bit long on top and I drive a Honda, but I make up for it by drinking mostly all American beer (it's OK to drink German beer at a German restaurant, right?). Hell, I basically only buy Wisconsin-made beer, and I ain't talkin' bout no Miller shit neither.

Haughty Melodic was excellent, Golden Delicious not quite so much.

NOFX & Jawbreaker
I did think of these two right off the bat, and both are good ones. I somehow missed that J Church song, but that's not all that surprising I suppose since they had so many releases.

WMMM in Madison plays "Alice's Restaurant" every year too. I've always liked the song.

Medium wave AM radio signals both follow the curvature of the Earth and reflect off the ionosphere at night. A massive clear channel station in the US would have no problem reaching Jamaica, certainly at night. I can routinely get WGN out of Chicago hundreds of miles away. Speaking of WGN, I remember in the late…

Babcock Ice Cream from UW-Madison is pretty damn good, as one would expect from America's Dairyland.

Sara - people went batshit over "Public Enemies" in WI. My friends live near Columbus and when they shut down the town for filming they took off work to try to see the famous people.

It might be all yuppie and shit, but whatever - hit up the local farmers markets. Also, local butchers have much better stuff than the supermarkets and it's not all corn-fed feedlot stuff. The best burger of my life came from a cow raised and butchered by my coworker's neighbor in Mazomanie, WI.

Eh, too death-y for my tastes. I'm more into the punk/hardcore end of the spectrum. That, and I'm a snotty scenester at heart.

Doomriders - pretty good stuff there
I would have probably dismissed them on account of the name, but I like what I hear.