Adventures in Mastering the Art of French Cooking

For Romantic Thanksgiving (because it’s just the two of us and it sounds better than Lonely Thanksgiving) Mike and I are creating our own feast. Since Mom’s cooking turkey, I decided to try a kind of gross sounding recipe from Julia Child’s book. We’re having gigot en chevreuil otherwise known as a big hunk of [...]

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Rockin’ a beard

I guess at some point every man feels like he has to grow a beard. So, here I am growing a beard. I’m pretty much just doing it to see what it looks like. This isn’t the first time I’ve had facial hair. I actually had a goatee for more than four years, from 1994 to [...]

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Masters of trivia

The day after Spamalot, which was hilarious, Mike and I went to trivia with Steve and Christine, Eileen and Anthony, and a bunch of Eileen’s friends. Well we rock, we won against nearly 330 other players! OK, so it wasn’t just Mike and I, Steve and Christine, Rob and Melissa, and Kim and Bernie all [...]

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A dorky Sunday

Today Mike and I Ozark Mountain Cat Fanciers’ Association Show. That’s right, we went to a cat show. It was actually very interesting and filled with beautiful animals. Did you know if you get a hairless cat it will leave little grease spots on your furniture instead of hair? But seriously, I’m not going to pay [...]

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Blogging the Bears #2

Mo and I went to the first Bears games tonight. They beat the University of Toledo 79-66 and are now 1-0 on the campaign. They were up big at the half and then Toledo came roaring back with a cascade of 3-pointers. The Bears were still up by 8 or 10 points most of the [...]

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A couple of columns

When I started writing my music column for the NL more than five years ago, I had no clue what the hell I was doing. It was kind of thrust on me by the then-executive editor. I’m glad it was, because I’ve been able to grow into the part. At some point I’d like to be [...]

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A weekend with Mom

Mom at ArtwalkOriginally uploaded by mike.and.mo.
Mom surprised us with a visit last weekend and we had a great time. We went on the November Artwalk, which wasn’t as busy as it normally is, and I learned two things: Nearly two thirds of women on Artwalk wear scarves (Mom’s observation) and one of Mom’s boyfriends once [...]

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I’m not at work and I want to be

Election Day is one of the few times I want to be working at night. The newsroom has such a great buzz and everyone’s working; there’s nothing like it. I actually tried to stay; I volunteered to help to two different people but it looks like we planned better than I thought we did. It’s [...]

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I’m a radio host! (Kinda sorta)

The News-Leader’s first podcast will be posted on Thursday, and it’s my project! We’re a little behind the times I guess, but better late than never in joining the multi-media revolution. It’s an interview with local band-made-good Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin. Funny name, awesome band. I have a profile story running Thursday, too, and [...]

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Blogging the Bears

Seems like all I’ve written about on this blog lately is sports … Am I a frustrated sports writer masquarading as a features creature? Nah … just a fan.
So with baseball over and only the sweet, glorious glow of a World Series victory left until spring training, I went to the first Bears basketball exhibition [...]

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