Why the hell has it taken you this long to just put a cell phone in the thing” — my actual reaction the day cellular finally arrived. Plus the MTM watch Jack Bauer wore on 24 that I was too scared to buy, and why Apple Watch Cellular is the single best product Apple has ever made.
Agent K spent this week losing an increasingly unfair series of contests to an alien drilling robot named Steve — don’t ask, just listen. Three hours of blues, rock, and everything adjacent follows, from Led Zeppelin and Bob Dylan through Stevie Ray Vaughan, Bruce Springsteen, and a hard turn into Talking Heads, The Cure, and Depeche Mode.
With Cronauer gone and DHS working the streets of Viroqua block by block, Dave, Bill, and Brett have hours, maybe minutes, to strip Station Zero bare before it’s found. A stolen trailer, a bluff at a checkpoint, and one of Bill’s trademark mistakes decide how the night ends — and what’s lost for good.
Before Hot Carrier goes live, a quick heads-up on why Signal Drift’s chapter numbers are shifting as Book Two begins — the story hasn’t changed, just the count.
Rolling past a guy sitting next to what looked like a loaded 45 will rearrange your priorities fast, especially when concealed carry training is part of how your brain processes it — turns out it was “just” a BB gun, and he’s lucky nobody found that out the hard way.
Round two of the Dolly Parton deep dive: her early RCA Victor albums, from the gospel of Golden Streets of Glory to My Tennessee Mountain Home.
Last week I said the machine was live. That was only technically true. This week it’s actually done — galleries fixed, bugs dead, and I’m entirely too proud of it to shut up about.
It’s been three years since Tool hit this air — three years too long for a band that used to get played every single week. Dolly’s deep dive takes a one-week breather while Rolling with Scissors reconnects with Opiate through Lateralus in a full Solid Block.
An emergency pharmacy run after eight o’clock at the local Dollar General reveals a post-apocalyptic fashion show featuring local residents wearing industrial-strength Hefty bags.
A deep dive into Smackdaddy’s Gourmet Grub, the Chippewa Valley food truck redefining street eats with world-class comfort food and permanent patio residency at The Brewing Projekt.