Day 7 was a recombobulation day: laundry, blogging, trying to get some strange stench out of the car. Today we worked in the hotel room all morning and then headed out to sightsee in the Dells and at Circus World. … Continue reading
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We stopped at the Holy Ghost Grotto in Dickeyville, WI, among other places. Full set here.
We thought we’d take a recombobulation day in Peoria, but our friends D. and L. called us over to Iowa City. And who are we to resist that call? Of course we went. But we are us, so we went … Continue reading
Young Abe wonders why his presidential museum will be so completely Disneyfied. 30 Foot Abe ponders the Springfield, IL fairgrounds. Abe contemplates his tomb and well-rubbed nose. And perhaps also the Defiant Tomb of Mr. Accordion, which all visitors must … Continue reading
We drove from Cleveland to West Lafayette on the afternoon of the second day, sadly passing up the Dan Quayle Vice Presidential Learning Center because we were running a little late. My panel was on Friday morning, and then I … Continue reading
Day 1, in case you wondered, was running around packing, getting out of the house at noon, driving over to Cleveland, and having dinner with our friend Kenny.
Does a dish count for the Recipe Project if I never actually tasted it? I think so. What happened was, I was wandering through the Wegman’s produce section one day and happened upon baby artichokes for about $1.25 a pound. … Continue reading
Welcome to Thinkery, est. 2003. At the moment, I'm an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Writing at Syracuse University. I'm interested in new media, historical conceptions of authorship, and human/machine agency. I write about all of that elsewhere, mostly, and keep this space for other areas of investigation about the world: namely, cooking, gardening, and travel.
