My Annual Weatherman Rant

Great weather last week. Of course, what goes up, must come down. We are now looking at very cold temperatures. Now, the fact that cold temperatures are following warm temperatures doesn't surprise me. I've seen that occur my entire life. What does surprise (okay, annoy) me

Saturday

Weekend BYCU I like it when another person thinks like me. This guy read a study, called "bull____," and used common sense/experience to explain why the scientific study is obvious bunk: What men really talk about in the pub [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/the-filter/

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I saw this poster in St. Louis.

Friday

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

Conan

* 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.

Thursday

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

GKC Wednesday

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

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Tuesday

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"):

Monday

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