Monthly Archive: February 2008
11 Questions While Waiting for Tea to Cool
I admit it, I am feeling a little disheartened this morning. I have been having problems buying a pair of sneakers, and have ended up with like 3 pairs that just don’t feel right. I just want a casual pair of sneakers! For the most part I buy from Dwellers, but the shop is sort of in between seasons so they are a bit sparse on the options. So I went off the beaten path and bought some other shoes, and they were a half size too big but I did not check at first; my fault. …
Computer Recycling
(A Note from Dino: Today we received word that Good News is once again recycling our old machines. While I cannot imagine letting a computer ever go, I guess not everyone wants to keep their first computer around their house as a keepsake of a more innocent time. A time when you could play Spyhunter, or any number of other HI RES games. So, if you need to get rid of a machine, this is what we know…)
Businesses and families with computers or related equipment to dispose of can have them recycled professionally at a roundup event in Wausau Friday, …
Librarian Demotions: Not Merely Unfair
What are we to make of the demotion of the 3 librarians at the Marathon County Public Library? Good business? Solid fiscal prudence? Oh, I don’t think so. It’s shoddy and negligent – embarrassing to the whole community. What happened here? Nothing less than an outrageous incursion of a corporate value structure poorly overlayed on top of a public good. It’s unfair and I call rot nihilism. Had people in positions of power acted with greater prudence, this lament would be unnecessary.
The quotes by those sitting atop the hierarchy strike me as doubly wretched in that they render forth two …
Obama at NTC: A Firsthand Experience
(A Note from Dino: We were pleased as punch to find out that one of the students who attended the Barack Obama rally in Wausau was a friend of ours. Then we found out that he had a chance to spend some time with the candidate as well. We thank Andy Straub (not Laub) for giving us this narrative. We also hope to see more students from NTC become a part of CW as we think that NTC is a crucial part of our community.)
Last Thursday started just like any other day. I woke up, went to class, and then …
Your Voice: Riding, pain and wanton distruction
(Note from Dino: This week we find a selection from Billie. Billie has a blog in our community titled, “A Stable Personality: A Life with Horses“. It is a fascinating group of stories so far, and we encourage Billie to keep writing. Her voice is valid, and should find its audience in a place like Citizen Wausau perfectly. I have known her for a while now, and honestly as a non-country fellow, the whole world of horses seems absolutely alien to me. We hope Billie keeps writing, as we hope you keep writing.)
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16 Questions from a Vegan Sneaker Purchaser
So again, it is left up to me. Sigh. Here I sit, wondering about some stuff, but not really thinking about it too much, after all I am getting a new tattoo today. So that is nice, but often I am left to wonder…
- What do you think Sidney Poitier thinks everytime he see Eddie Murphy in that fat woman suit? Does race and the discussion of race matter in Wausau? Are the Hmong people (and that is an umbrella term I suppose in Wausau) the primary form of diversity?
- I have heard of this band Freedown, and was wondering if anyone …
Cool Dude #1: Gary Barden
Gary Barden is a cool dude, and I have scars to prove it.
I think that I need to start off with something of a confession in the name of transparency. I have something that Gary Barden created tattooed on my body, and five friends have the same tattoo. My friend Scott Holt trusted Gary with the creative vision for his own identity, and Gary has produced the Annual Report, website and quarterly newsletter for one of the most influential foundations here in Wausau.
That all sounds really good, but what about that makes him cool? Its hard to …
The Cool Dude Series
Part of our purpose here at Citizen Wausau is to celebrate the cool. We live in an amazing city, and there are amazing things happening. We seek to go find the cool folks, and talk to them about what they do, and why they do it, and what kind of fun it is. We don’t want to let this site become some sort of self-referencing fashion show of vanity, something that you can find many other places on the internet. We want it to be something else.
A wise man said that the key to our success …
21 Questions from the Slumberland of Large Fleece Jackets
To my esteemed colleagues here at Citizen Wausau I say this…from time to time, it sadly falls upon my shoulders to put forth a shovel full of questions. These questions while seeming entirely random, and aiming in no directions, I can assure you are often pointed toward a finish line. While this finish line might be abstract, and only in my imagination, it is most certainly something I am kind of aware of, at least on one of the many levels of chakra consciousness. Though, I have not had a real chance to cleanse myself through any …
City Council Agenda, 2/12/08
It is that time once again. The City Council is meeting tomorrow, and we hope to see more of your smiling, dissenting, note taking, question asking, over all holding the elected official accountable faces in the Birch Room. Even if you do not have any vested interest in any of issues on the agenda, it is really interesting to see the collected faces there. It is an interesting reflection as to who is who, and what is what in this city. So, here is the agenda:
City Council Agenda (PDF)