Category: Muskrat Ramblings

MINNEAPOLIS — If here’s one thing I missed this holiday, it was just hanging out with some friends, being festive. Good friends are the best thing on earth (after Family), and I’ve been blessed with a few great ones. Today I drove into the Twin Cities to visit my good friends Steve Sack and Sean […]

ELLESWORTH, WI — MERRY CHRISTMAS! War is over, if you want it. – John Lennon, who was murdered 20 years ago this month.

ELLSWORTH, WI — A person I know who shall remain nameless (save to say it is not my wife, the lovely and talented Judith) was devastated today when the Green Bay Packers won their frostbound game with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Not because she hates the Packers. She loves them. But the Packers victory meant […]

ELLSWORTH, WI — My wife — the lovely and talented Judith — and I drove up to her home town ("Ellsworth: The Cheese Curd Capital Welcomes You!") this afternoon. Though there was little snowfall, there were still plenty of cars in the ditches around Madison. The usually four-hour drive took about six, between cautious driving […]

WHY I’M A CARTOONIST — …and not a public speaker. It’s far to easy to make a fool out of yourself these days. Especially in a world of talk radio and sports talk radio (where it seems it doesn’t matter what you say, as long as you say it loudest and longest) and television (you’d […]

REASONS TO BE GLUM — The weather is stupid cold in Madison. The windchill factor is -40 degrees farenheit, and my brief attempt at cross-country skiing after finishing five cartoons this morning was an abject failure. I am NOT going outside without long underwear, and I think long underwear is one of the silliest things […]

REASONS TO BE CHEERFUL, PART III — Madison is in the process of being hit by ANOTHER winter storm. Oh, well. If you have to be trapped inside, it’s best to have both Radiohead and Gulden Draak on hand. Since I quit the State Journal in 1996 (where I worked for part of the time […]