Eric Scheske

* 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

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:

I just returned from a short vacation to St. Louis. I hope to blog/ramble on about it Monday morning. For now, just this pic of a mosaic from its beautiful Cathedral.

BYCU Kontent from the Kindle Summer is coming, and with it comes gin and tonics. When I first abandoned beer, I turned to gin, but it occasionally gave me headaches, so I switched to vodka, which I've really come to enjoy. After reading this passage from The Drunken