wisconsin lotuseater never thought id be sayin this, but i wish i was there for a while. shes pretty.. 040104 ... Anna_Began Funny how things change so much in just one year... 040104 ... unhinged god, i never thought i would say it either.... but take me back to cheeseland. shit is too bizarre around here. people need to be on the dl with the drama already. god. yeah and i hope that my apartment hasn't been ransacked. 040105 ... misstree canoeing down the wisconsin river i remember stepping onto sandbars when the waters got too shallow and walking with the boat and setting up camp on larger sandbars, walking its dimensions to see how many creature's prints i could find and bats overhead in the moonlight and mum calmly kicking sand on a coleman stove everyone else had fled and the dog barking as we passed her, we put her in a gunny sack once to keep her in the boat and turtles lined up in families on roots at the shore, some would plop into the water and be gone and graceful and a bald eagle, several times, outside of zoos or "stirring" imagery, simply living its life independent of our perceptions, perched in a dead tree, and waxy-white foot of a clam rudely plucked from the river sand by a child's need to interact with the environment and smallest bits of sand in each bite of a sandwich, mom would frown but it was all part of the fun for me, and hand trailing next to the canoe as it slid through water, seeing the ripples from fingers, slightest splashes and towering sandstone cliffs, dotted with holes from a flock of birds i still don't know the identity of and going under the bridge that signaled almost home, concerned for the rocks under the pylons, first sadness of trip's end starting to set in and dragging the canoe out of the water at the lodge, exausted, and packing the car and having a final meal of the weekend and setting off for home, calm and refreshed. i spent years thinking i had never taken a vacation. i may not have realized, but i never took it for granted. 040106 ... unhinged i must say, amongst the scary things of wisconsin this is one of the scariest: mars' cheese castle 'what the fuck is a cheese castle?' 'i think it's a cheese warehouse wholesale kind of place' 'yeah, but what the fuck is a cheese castle?' 040106 ... Anna_Began(eager for Unhingeds return) The cheese castle also sells wine and beer, just like every other store in this state... With priorities like that, they're more than welcome to consider themselves royalty. 040107 ... unhinged i have like 13 days i think before i go back to wisconsin my parents are kind of pushing me over the edge right now though and i don't think i currently have a flight home.... yeah, i think it's about time i learned to drive a car 040107 ... unhinged i grow to hate anywhere the people here are cold like the weather i hate wisconsin 050301 ... margaux jason is from madison. 080229 ... unhinged madison is cool. tiny, but cool. i saw the dalai_lama AND modest_mouse in madison if that attests to it's coolness. the kohl center and the orpheum theater state street nepalese food shopping shopping shopping mostly state politicians and college students madison being the state capital with the biggest state university but i am solidly of opinion that madison and milwaukee are the only even mildly cool cities in this stupid state 080229 ... unhinged i've been to other cities waukesha delafield brookfield hartland mt. horeb (mustard museum) some other hick places i don't remember the names of the dells eek 080229 ... i just like the sound of it Sheboygan? 080229 ... unhinged i've never been to sheboygan. i try to avoid going north of milwaukee. i don't really fit in up there. 080229 ... nr madison gets pretty sweet musical acts considering its size, i must say. 190521 ... unhinged i saw modest_mouse and the dalai_lama in madison. at one point in time there were a lot of hippie communes and socialist mayors in wisconsin. so we have neuroscientists studying the brains of tibetan monks under the auspices of his holiness and hipster bands sell out decent sized theaters 190527 ... unhinged d'oh 190527 what's it to you? who go blather from