WI born and raised here. My mother does love her Old Fashioneds and I had been trained to make them by the time I was in middle school. She prefers seltzer as well.

A good friend of mine loves to drink "Kor-Dews" which is just Korbel and Mountain Dew. It's his deer camp drink of choice.

EitS puts out such consistently good records.

I didn't buy the new Rosenstock record until last month when I saw him playing a free show in town. Like everything else he's done it'll probably be one of my favorites after six months.

Somehow I missed that Okkervil River had a new one out. I've got to check that out.

I liked Real right off the bat but it really became one of my favorites after listening to it for a couple months. It helped that I got to see Lydia play a small club in town right after the record dropped.

1. Direct Hit! - Wasted Mind
2. Arms Aloft - What A Time To Be Barely Alive
3. Drive-by Truckers - American Band
4. Lydia Loveless - Real
5. Two Cow Garage - Brand New Flag
6. Against Me! - Shape Shift With Me
7. Descendents - Hypercaffium Spazzinate
8. Austin Lucas - Between the Moon & the Midwest
9. Charles Bradley - Changes
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Dillinger Four's "O.K.F.M.D.O.A."

That's a really good one right there.

I had a Blackberry FB app and treated it like some kind of work status notification, so I have a lot of posts stating that I was going to northern MN for a site walk.

Looks like I'll be drinking a beer from a sippy cup at the Overture Center. Because what am I gonna do, not drink?

My favorite interaction happened about two years ago when I was driving down to IL on Christmas Day with my parents. My dad wanted a breakfast burrito so I put in the order and the woman responded by saying, "Oh Peter, how is your aunt doing? I missed her at mass last night." Since my name is not Peter I leaned out…

Back when I was 19 my friend's family was having a reunion party and rented a keg trailer for the event because Wisconsin. The next day my buddy invited me over to help kill the last keg. I was trotting back across the lawn with a full pitcher and a cup when I rolled my ankle in a small hole. I went down in pain but…

Dude can sure paddle a kayak, that's for certain.

Warped Tour '98 was the highlight of my summer as it fell in that sweet spot between HS graduation and heading off to college.

I think she was Albanian and I think I know that from reading a feature on her in a Parade Magazine at my parents' place and I'm not proud of any of this.

I prefer the term "flaccid cock rock" these days.

I flew Warsaw to Chicago with a window seat and an inquisitive toddler on the lap of the guy next to me. She never went to sleep, not once. The one time I dozed off I managed about 10 minutes before she grabbed my ear. I tried to ask the guy if he might move his kid away from me but he just said something in Polish.…

I was quite the Schleprock fan when I was in high school. I caught one song off the major label album late one night off a radio station out of Rockford and I wrote down the name on the list I carried in my wallet. When I finally came across the CD it had a sticker on it that said "If you're a phony punk or a bigot…

I saw Goldfinger at least four times myself, including once or maybe even twice with the Bloodhound Gang. I still listen to the self-titled album and Hang Ups on occasion. I can also riff on the Abby Normal call with my friend verbatim. "Do you guys play fast tempos with odd time signatures? Have you ever heard of a…