Getting ready for the Victory Garden Blitz of 2010

The Blitz is coming! The Blitz is coming! And that’s a very good thing. For it’s the Victory Garden Blitz, which will bring home gardens and good food to the people of our Milwaukee world. Before I get into that, a little digression: I’ve spent the past three days pouring over sets of addresses. making

Detroit, not Rome, is burning

Nothing like it when you consider that an arsonist has set eleven abandoned properties ablaze in the past month. Or that there were “6,486 arson fires in 2008 investigated by the Arson Squad,” according to the Detroit News. This line rings a bell for me: “[Detroit] fire and city officials [are] worried as Halloween nears,

Former Pabst brewery site poised to become a great neighborhood

According to OnMilwaukee.com, the many-acre site that was once home to one of Milwaukee’s biggest breweries is now becoming a veritable neighborhood. There’s a lot of adjectival phrases that are easy to circumscribe this site with, most of which include the word “abandoned.” For that’s what the former Pabst Brewery site once was. When the

“garfield minus garfield” is a bit of brilliance that comes to you in conveneint TCP/IP wrappers

A few times each week, I will preface a story to my daughter by saying “When I was a little boy…” With that I try to share with her something memorable, if not a kernel of wisdom gleaned by an eight year old me. Indeed, when I was a little boy, “Garfield” was my absolute