Another 12 hour night comes to a close:
I love this fucking city. Great climate- it’s 65 with a breeze. Great food, great beer, great cheese. All the girls are 5’8″ or taller, blonde, buxom, and say OTE instead of out, the greatest cab company ever is here (Union Cab, an employee collective), and I am sure I had lots of other things to say about how awesome this place is but I started thinking about the 5’8″ blondes again.
Madison, Wisconsin. It’d like a northern Austin, TX, or Athens, GA.
TenguPhule
Pics or it didn’t happen.
David Koch
Aren’t the girls in west virgina supposed to be attractive?
PPOG Penguin
Romney: “The girls are the right height.”
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
PPOG beat me to it. Ah, well, too easy.
Awesome Morrison and clip. At first I thought the footage was “Apocalypse Now,” but judging from the number of explosions, I’m guessing a sneak peek at Chris Nolan’s latest.
Speaking of sneak peek, just heard a Brandon Perry track from the latest Dead Can Dance album via their FB page. I do believe the mojo remains with them.
raven
Saw the Dead at Camp Randall Field house in 71. Mixed by Brian Cole! Champaign-Urbana had a smaller scene back then but we rocked too!
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
Also, too, speaking of awesome: Dinner tonight, courtesy Mrs. Pantload, was Ethiopian take out from local (Seattle) restaurant Queen Sheba. Spice heaven.
David Koch
Can’t wait for the movie to come out: “Not Another Late Night Open Thread” with Molly Ringwald as eemom.
Odie Hugh Manatee
If you love 65 degrees, it’s been that temp here damned near every day this summer. I can’t wait for this fall to come so we have some warm weather!
Yesterday I think I saw a sign that the world will be ending soon. I was out on the motorcycle, cruising Highway 101, when I saw a blonde looking down and texting away in her little red sports car.
While parked on the side of the highway. I was amazed.
The Ancient Randonneur
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
Or, she have been waiting for the stop sign to turn green.
raven
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Hey, feelin better?
buckyblue
This is the coolest streak of whether by far this summer. Most of it has been 90+ with a bunch of 100’s tossed in for good measure. Good thing the beer’s cold.
raven
Rendell and Ford are pimping the horse race story on Joe!
Phylllis
Been up since four-ish working on a grant narrative that’s due today. The feds only gave a four-week turnaround and the window came at probably the most inconvenient time it could have. The upside is I’ll make the submission deadline with at least two hours to spare. Appropriate supplies for a weekend-long drunken bacchanal are already in place.
bago
Whoever designed the virtual studio at msnbc was a genius.
kay
I got a direct mail piece from Ann Romney. It’s complicated. It has like 4 inserts, including a photograph, the kind they send to wealthier zip codes.
So they think I’m 1. wealthy and 2. likely to donate to Mitt Romney based on a “values” appeal from Ann Romney.
Someone is ripping them off on direct mail targeting. They bought a bad list.
Shalimar
@bago:
Why, did the set eat Scarborough?
JGabriel
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John Cole @ Top:
I think that’s a national trend. Seems like everyone is getting taller, but women more so than men. I remember when I used to be average height at 5’9″; now I feel short even though my height hasn’t changed.
If it’s not a national trend, then it’s at least happening here in NYC as well as Madison.
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SiubhanDuinne
@kay: I somehow ended up on at least one Rmoney d/m list too. I don’t remember getting a letter from Ann, though. They must think I’m a poor and not worth the photo inserts.
R-Jud
I was just doing some Googling for a presentation I’m writing. I began typing the string “companies delisted by google” into the box, and at “companies de” it autocompleted as: “companies destroyed by bain capital”. Heh.
Baud
@kay:
I bet it was your subscription to Dressage Fancy that got you on their list.
kindness
You’d like California girls John. Would they like you?
@Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn: Don’t you love eating stuff with your hands? The way you tear off pieces of bread, grab up some food and pop it in your mouth. Nice way of doing things. I always forget what grain that bread is made from. Nothing we use here in the States.
kay
@Baud:
You know how it’s always “poorly run campaign” and then the “wasting money” stories come out? See: Hillary Clinton, Palin, Kerry.
That would be fun if it happened here, because it’s Mr. Bidness and his wealthy donors.
I don’t think it WILL, anyone who hires a lobbyist to get a lower assessment on his house pays attention to money, but it would be great if it did.
JoyfulA
@SiubhanDuinne: My father got a pound package from the RNC, and he’s never been a Republican (although I think he voted for Anderson). He was insulted and upset until I told him to think of how much money they wasted.
Jim C
So they’re Canadian?
liberal
@Jim C:
Yeah, I’m wondering the same thing.
liberal
@R-Jud:
Yeah, yer right!
LOL.
RSA
College towns rock. See also Boulder, CO, Ann Arbor, MI, and Amherst, MA.
SiubhanDuinne
@JoyfulA: Oh, me too. I always open the package to see if there are any postage-paid return envelopes enclosed. Then I lick the flaps, drop them in the box, and send them back. Empty :-)
Cassidy
Most women, wherever you go, are attractive.
Linnaeus
More like Austin, TX & Athens, GA are like southern Madisons, WI. That’s the right order. :)
You need to experience a Wisconsin porch party if you haven’t already. Four brats are mandatory.
(and yes, Midwestern college towns are great. Go Blue.)
gravie
I lived in Madison for 10 years starting in the late 70s. It is one of the world’s most wonderful cities. Lakes. Beer. Farmer’s market on the State Capitol Square every summer Saturday. Cows on the Concourse. Open-minded tomfoolery. A sense of fun and a commitment to social justice. If it weren’t for the winters, it would be paradise on earth.
zombie rotten mcdonald
@gravie:
Open-minded tomfoolery.
Dammit, if we had a Democrat in the Gov manse, I’d be starting a movement to change the Wisconsin state motto to THAT. It’s much more energizing than “Forward”.
gbear
With more beer binging.
red dog
@JGabriel: 4 inch heels seem to be standard now even with sandals. Us guys in the north west have been told by the climate people that this global warming will actually make us a little cooler in the summer. So far so good.
Triassic Sands
A few years ago I would have said that was a ridiculous comparison — because Austin and Athens (about which I know nothing) are apparently oases in a
seaocean of wingers. In the last few years, Wisconsin has definitely taken a dangerous turn (ousting Feingold, electing Walker, voting not to oust Walker — three strikes).patrick II
Why do they keep telling John “ote”?
Don
Like Austin or Athens, but it’s not in Texas or Georgia. Although we are having our little dalliance with the tea-party at present. Love both Austin and Madison, and the ideal retirement would be winter in Austin, and summer in Madison.
S. cerevisiae
Corvallis, OR is a nice college town without the traffic headaches of bigger cities. Great beer too.
KXB
Last autumn, we took my aunt up to Madison for her 60th birthday. It was my first time there, by my cousin’s husband did his undergad there. The weather worked out well for us. We grabbed a couple of drinks and headed to the lake. As I looked around, like John, I was stunned by the women. Granted, college was 20 years ago, but I am always shocked at how different other colleges are from Univ. of Chicago. It’s like when all you had in your town were Trabants, and suddenly you are presented with a Ferrari. BTW – I’m sure women would have had the same reaction – a lot of those Madison guys looked like they were born tossing a football around, while we Chicago guys were born in a library.
Ash Can
Remember, Madison isn’t just a college town. It’s the state capitol, too, so the pols have to have fancy-shmancy places to do their wheeling and dealing. This kicks the local dining scene up a notch or two.
BGinCHI
Cole, just move to the Midwest already. BJ needs a relocation. I bet Rahm would give you a tax break or let you park on the sidewalk if you came here.
kindness
@BGinCHI: Yea like John could root for da Bears instead of Pittsburg. I don’t think so. The Cubs, maybe.
kideni
And we also have housing collectives and food collectives in these parts. That and the beer are all part of the long German socialist tradition in which the state was founded.
politifarce
Cole is a real man of the world. Expert on macroeconomics. Expert on Drones. Expert on war. And now, based on his extensive world travels declares, “Madison Wisconsin is awesome”. Do you even own a passport you Midwestern hick?!
dave
@Jim C: No, Canadiens say ooot and abooot, with interspersed ehh’s
AkaDad
“Get ote of here before I call the cops.”
Bobby Thomson
I once dated a Wisconsin woman much shorter than that. But she went to Stevens Point.
Bobby Thomson
I once dated a Wisconsin woman much shorter than that. But she went to Stevens Point.
Bobby Thomson
I once dated a Wisconsin woman much shorter than that. But she went to Stevens Point.
Mark Kolmar
As a destination, Madison is a lovely place to wander for a day, or to have a night on the town. As a place to live, to me it is too much dominated by state government and UW-Madison. Clearly, Milwaukee is more like what most of the U.S. would think of as “the big city” (after the huge ones like NYC, LA, Chicago, Houston) in terms of size, density, and demographics. In other words, it is large and diverse enough to have ghettos, high-rise luxury, suburbs, and major league baseball. If a city like Milwaukee is too large, dense, and/or gritty for your taste, you could do a lot worse than Madison. Milwaukee does contain most of the features of Madison, including a bigger concentration of crusty radicalism than anywhere between here and SF or Portland.
Gus
Go there in January and tell us how great the climate is. On the other hand, there is sweet New Glarus beer. And hippies. Yes, Madison is a wonderful town.
Montanareddog
You should move to the Netherlands, mate.