Wisconsin and Illinois as they are: Fine
WI if Illinois had Milwaukee: Iowa
WI if it had Chicago: The Promised Land, The Shining City in a Hill
Illinois without Chicago: Even Bleaker Iowa

The game is baseBool and I’m Ken Riffey Jr.

Biggest W of living in New York is not walkability or night life but being called “boss” at least once a day

Chickless, dickless, and most of all… ticklish

Doing hand grenades at the bar after close and wobbling home singing come out ye Black and Tans… is there hope for me, lads??

The U.P. is a timeless and storied land. Marquette is another Rome, Houghton a Damascus. Sault Ste. Marie? A New Athens unto itself

If you like Connections I would suggest watching the excellent show Only Connect which has the same thing but is twice as hard

Always enjoy buying old Soviet stuff like cameras or electronics on eBay bc 1. It usually works pretty well and 2. You get to talk to a guy named Mikhail over google translate

What I love about my mom is routinely she will get involved with a new crafting/book/hobby club of some kind and get frustrated that nobody actually reads the books/cares about the crafts/is there just to chat with the girls. She came to make greeting cards, not to gossip!

Reading about Abigail Adams and came across the line “she was the first second lady and the second first lady”

Thinking about my high school’s French club which had 7 people and how 5 of them (not me) were Presidents. What was I there for? Listening to Stromae once a week and getting a T-Shirt? We may never know…

My dad’s nickname for my mom was “boots” and I like it when people use it in the drag sense bc it reminds me of their love :)

I find people really wear Class a lot of the time and the biggest indicator of it for me is eye-contact. If you look through me I can immediately tell what your parents’ tax bracket is.

Iowa (15.4) is the first team since 1934 Centenary to score under 16 points per game and win 10 games

Poetry for the new year!

Can a couple of 7-5 Wisconsin boys really take on LSU? Definitely not but Go Badgers nonetheless

Interesting to see what map the legislature draws up now with the court’s decision. Bc like, we know they’re not going to draw a fair map, they can’t, but *how* unfair will they make it? My bet it is the new map will be as gerrymandered or worse, out of spite. Thoughts?