Eric Scheske

I saw this poster in St. Louis.

I've never been a big horse fan, whether racing or otherwise. When I lived in Detroit, I went to the local racetrack and bet on the Kentucky Derby simulcast, which was pretty cool. To this day, I normally watch The Big Three (KD, Preakness, and Belmont), and I

* It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.

This is a bar in St. Louis. It's on the main floor of the City Museum. That's right, the City Museum, the St. Louis attraction that I described on Monday as, "an anarchic, do-what-you-want exploration playground for kids." But in the middle of this

Chesterton Short(s) When Max Beerbohm took over for Shaw as the drama critic for the English Saturday Review, Shaw introduced him with the following, "The younger generation is knocking at the door, and as I open it there steps sprightly in the incomparable Max." "The incomparable

I saw this restaurant in Clayton, Missouri. I couldn't tell whether it was a Panera Bread franchise rip-off or not: It reminded me of this movie scene ("I got the Big Mick"):

That's me, standing with Chuck Berry on Delmar Boulevard in Clayton, Missouri. [http://www.claytonmo.gov/] Clayton is one of St. Louis' most famous suburbs (after Ferguson, of course) and is so much a part of St. Louis, our tour bus went there, Delmar Boulevard is listed

> Once upon a time, Tolkien nixed the Beatles' proposal to star in LOTR (with Lennon as Gollum). http://t.co/rR6f6S9pHy pic.twitter.com/VJ6nKh4clb [http://t.co/VJ6nKh4clb] > — First Things (@firstthingsmag) April 12, 2015 [https://twitter.com/firstthingsmag/status/587398433780162560]

I saw this book on display in St. Louis. I dang near bought it, but the price tag ($22) held me back: > Merton and Waugh: A Monk, A Crusty Old Man, and The Seven Storey Mountain http://t.co/KtPcDZSGAU > — The Daily Eudemon (@TheDailyEudemon) April 11, 2015 [https: