R. Bumblepoint Badger

I’m all in!

Would be a perfect album, if not for the typo on the front cover.

I'll be signing copies of my Ice Age Trail novel, The Freakin' Destination, at the annual Central Wisconsin Book Festival's Local Author Fair this Saturday, 9/27, 8:00-9:30 a.m. at the Portage County Public Library, downtown Stevens Point. If you're heading to farmers market, stop by & say hi!

Why the mainstream media silence on trump’s successful ending of the war between Cambodia & Armenia through mediation? Had Biden announced ending the war between these two longtime foes, it would have been all over the nightly news.

What about the 8:00 a.m. Europe game kickoff? Especially when you have to head to a bar because you don't subscribe to Prime.

And, in retrospect, his wine was pretty pedestrian, but so were our tastes back then. Our palates have evolved as wine has improved stateside since the 70s.

But, but… T.E.A.M.!

They only got 321 points, but all 321 points went and started a band. 😉[IYKYK]

Ice Age Trail user hiking and reading at the same time. Bad idea!

Front cover of The Freakin' Destination, by Rick Bie, the first Ice Age Trail novel.

October means #MammothHikeChallenge on the #iceagetrail. Hike 45 miles, visit 3 trail towns, discover the Badger State. Or, just read about it in my novel, The Freakin' Destination. But for safety's sake, don't do both at the same time like this knucklehead below. Visit thebumblepoint.com for more.

Hey Richard! I was 7 years old when the youngest of these #5albums50s60sfinal records was released, so blame youthful indiscretion for any poor choices.

1) Velvet Underground & Nico-s/t
2) Guaraldi-Charlie Brown Christmas
3) Beefheart-Trout Mask Replica
4) Miles-Kind of Blue
5) Stones-Let It Bleed

Halcyon Vestige
2025
Photograph

The ceiling of my EZ-Up Tent. Struck me as a JMW Turner/Cy Twomby collaboration.

Wait - Weird Al Yankovic, or weird artificial intelligence?

That’s a passable haiku with a minor edit:

somehow, among all
my facebook friends i’m often
the voice of reason

The pride of Kenosha.

Graham Greene is trending.

Tennis up a band:

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Fault Trouble

Fellow Cheeseheads! Stop on over to Point Beach State Forest near Two Rivers, WI, on Saturday, September 6 for Authorfestaramapalooza! I'll be among several terrific authors there, chatting about this spectacular land of wonder, and signing copies of my Ice Age Trail novel, The Freakin' Destination.

Sunset over Tomahawk Lake

Having our roof redone all day today. (Tomorrow too.) Sounds like London during the Blitz. The cat is freaked, I have a headache. Ahh, for the good old days - last week - depicted below.

My washing machine plays Schubert to end a cycle and never texts.

This is old news with some facts wrong. Google it.

Yes, dude’s a scumbag. But be relevant.

Lots a great moments on Freak Out. But Absolutely Free is their masterpiece, IMO - more fully realized and overall more fun.

Tough grouping, Richard, but here are my #5albums50s60s5

1) Capt. Beefheart-Trout Mask Replica
2) Miles Davis-Kind of Blue
3) Mothers-Freak Out!
4) CCR-Willy & the Poor Boys
5) Stones-Beggars Banquet

Just missed: The Doors debut, Bringing It All Back Home

Thanks, mate!

You beast!

Dog bites man.

Any of those 4 tin cans before I ate their contents!

Dude wasn't good enough for the Cubs.

Hi Richard! So happy to hear your wife is doing well. Here's my #5albums50s60s4

1) The Fugs First Album
2) Vince Guaraldi-Charlie Brown Christmas
3) Bob Dylan-Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
4) Bob Dylan-Highway 61 Revisited
5) The Who-Tommy

I wish I'd had time to look into the late Tom Lehrer's stuff.

Why would anyone want to make art if they knew how it would turn out?

Visiting means having at least one beer for me. Unless I was 9 at the time, in which case it would've been a soda.

20, unless it's just drove through. Then it's 26.