When the Journal’s fine editorial team informed me that this issue would be all about outer space, I realized I had no idea what to write about. Outer space? Well, I’ve never been there, but I’ve heard good things. I haven’t watched Apollo 13 in years, and E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial upset me so badly when [...]
Read More »There was a time when my cell phone was a limited device. It didn’t have a camera. I don’t even think it could send text messages.
Of course, since then I’ve had a few more cell phones, and as time went on they got fancier. I moved up to the camera phones. I had a pink [...]
For Christmas, one of my best friends got an iPhone.
For a few days, no one could get ahold of him. He wasn’t sure how to set up — let alone check — his voicemail, and he couldn’t find his text messages. At one point, we discovered, the iPhone was somehow set on “silent” mode, and [...]
You are really important.
Yes, you are awesome. Brilliant, a genius, a poet for the ages. Every thought you have is so original, so witty and interesting and relevant that it should probably be shared with the rest of the world.
This is why you need Twitter.
Twitter is an online service for the narcissists, the self-important philosophers [...]
It’s got its share of nicknames: Brew City (OK, I see where that comes from,) Mil-Town (lame, but I get it) and Cream City (huh?)*.
It’s got a lot of beer: Miller Brewing Company, Sprecher Brewing Company, Stonefly Brewery and Lakefront Brewery all call Milwaukee home.
It’s got Arthur “The Fonz” Fonzarelli permanently standing on the RiverWalk [...]
A friend of mine went on a date recently. It’s a really cute story, actually. He sat next to her in chemistry class one day, and, well, you know what they say about chemistry. She was wearing a campaign T-shirt, he had the corresponding button pinned to the strap of his messenger bag, and the [...]
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