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Don’t call it food

January 10, 2023 by Dave Knadler 4 Comments

  It was with great sadness that I read of the impending closure of the best restaurant in the world. Many’s the time I’d stop by after work for a couple of fruit-leather beetles and a grilled reindeer heart. That was some good eating. But nothing stays the same in this world, does it? […]

Filed Under: eating

One enchanted evening

January 9, 2023 by Dave Knadler 4 Comments

Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"

We watched “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” last night, thus ending my 57-year streak of not watching it. When someone else grabs the remote, you sometimes end up viewing stuff you might not choose alone. Here’s the IMDb synopsis: “A bitter, aging couple, with the help of alcohol, use their young houseguests to fuel […]

Filed Under: drinking, Movies

A man called Kevin

January 6, 2023 by Dave Knadler 2 Comments

Kevin McCarthy, giant of the House. He’s definitely going down in history. Just not the way he thinks. Going down: That’s an apt phrase in a couple of ways. There’s the history thing, sure, and then there’s other thing that could be seen as enthusiastic abasement for the gratification of someone else.  But let’s […]

Filed Under: american life, politics

The ’20s, then and now

January 4, 2023 by Dave Knadler 2 Comments

History’s a bitch when you’re living through it. Take the last five or six years. But when history hails from before you were born – where the past truly belongs – that old girl can be pretty fascinating. Hey baby, can I buy you a drink? I liked Bill Bryson’s “One Summer: America 1927.” […]

Filed Under: american life, Books

To post or not to post

January 2, 2023 by Dave Knadler 13 Comments

Today I read a piece pining for the return of personal blogging. You remember blogs, right? They were kind of like this: A smattering of uninformed opinions, desultory philippics (get out your dictionaries!) and occasional attempts at humor. People would also post recipes.  In the early aughts, everybody had a blog. Most tried to […]

Filed Under: Me, Writing

We don’t need no stinking followers

April 26, 2022 by Dave Knadler

stinking badges

Should we care that Elon Musk is about to acquire Twitter? Not really. Remember that Twitter, like Matt Gaetz and Marge Greene, is just a tool. Like any tool, it can be used for evil or good. Well, mostly evil in the case of Matt-n-Marge, but you see what I mean. I’m not going […]

Filed Under: american life, social media, Writing

This could be
the last time

March 10, 2022 by Dave Knadler

You always know when you’re experiencing something for the first time. But you can never be sure when it’s the last. After a certain age, most things take on an elegiac cast. Only later can you look back and recognize a final moment for what it was. And you always wish you’d paid more […]

Filed Under: american life, Me, montana, Writing

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