Alison

I was curious which recipes you'd pick! An excellent culinary swath, from "plant-based international flavors" to "when you're craving Hamburger Helper but have a shred of remaining dignity."

Dan rushes out the door, proclaiming the neighbor texted and needs urgent help. What is the one emergency Dan is qualified to deal with on a Sunday night? TELESCOPE ALIGNMENT.

And Daylight Saving is ending, just in time to further mess with your dinner schedule.

At least he has a therapist now!

Too bad Steve Sax went on to commit all those murders in New York City.

Dan poses with a tyrannosaurus in the foreground and an apatosaurus in the background.

Dan, trachadon, me, American flag waving resplendently, cloudy gray sky.

Me breaking up a fight between a tyrannosaurus and a triceratops.

Me riding a stegosaurus

Rapid City is undefeated for interactive statues.

Dan high fives a statue of Jimmy Carter

I give a thumbs down to a statue of GWB giving a thumbs up

I tower over a statue of diminutive James Madison

Dan helps a Truman statue hoist the classic newspaper

Had a few beers and took a self-guided tour of the president statues in Rapid City.

I told him it was because a 1200 page mass market paperback is almost impossible to hold, which is true, but more importantly I was getting a rush of embarrassment every time I picked up the tv promo edition.

I planned to reread The Stand this October, but we only had this dime store “now a tv miniseries” edition with Gary Sinise on the cover so I made Dan go to the library and get a newer paperback version.

Hope they did a sing-along for Carmen!

Since they're both baseball-human hybrids, it's less of an abomination than that time Dinger tried to chat her up.

Mrs. Met ready to start texting Mr. Redlegs.

Relieved to finally get notice that our office is doing the usual flu shot clinic this year, rather than switching to the HHS preferred prevention method of raw milk enemas and push ups.

Soon the only entertainment I consume will be "physical books published before 2022."

The song is misleading - you can’t just agree to meet at the fair, you need to pick a specific point or you’ll never cross paths. I suggest the horticulture hall.

The SNL Ditka sketch cast, contemplating bratwurst and fascism.

Discussing Ditka vs the National Guard.

Endut! Hoch Hech!

Like maybe we need to call in the National Guard to figure out what's haunting the abandoned, flickering-light stairwells and skywalks of the Pere Marquette.

If we're doing random personal experiences in place of data for City Discourse: in the past year, I've been to the downtowns of Detroit, Seattle, Phoenix, Minneapolis, and Louisville and more unsettling than all of them combined was Peoria, Illinois.

Okay I ran into this creepy guy last time I was in DC - can’t be too careful!

Oooh, I loved the haunted circus brewery in Baraboo! What a delightfully odd little town.

Just logged a better than average run despite the terrible AQI, which makes me think I would have been a pretty good smoker.

My then-burgeoning Cardinals fandom was at least partially bolstered by Jeff Suppan's Word of the Day.

Food, drink and "remembering some guys, 1999-2004 edition" is the best way to spend time with old friends.

I love the idea of a household Larry Bird jersey.

Probably good that we did bookstore first, brewery second, as the opposite order is generally a budgetary disaster.

It's basically a real-life version of the raccoons in Pawnee.

Is there a map of Minneapolis that shows which public territory has been ceded to the geese? I think I crossed an invisible line this morning and briefly feared for my life.

Bartender to Dan: