Category Archive: Wausau
Recycle Your Computers May 16-18
The City of Wausau will be accepting appliances for disposal the weekend of May 16-18, but they will not be accepting computers.
In order to accommodate people who wish to dispose of computer equipment, the Good News Project will accept computers and televisions for recycling on Friday from 10 to 4, on Saturday from 10 to 2 and again on Sunday from noon to 4. The cost for recycling is 25 cents per pound.
“We provide a low cost service to the community, help keep the environment clean and help fund local nonprofits,” says Tom Fladland, operations director for Good News Project.
All …
Exhibitionism in Downtown Wausau
This Friday night, Wausau’s downtown gallery night returns with a passel of businesses decked out as host galleries, exhibiting (and selling) original art, and generally treating Citizen Wausonians and neighbors to a good time. If you’ve never attended one of these gallery nights (this is the fourth year for this twice-a-year event), it’s a chance to stroll downtown, from gallery to gallery where you will be offered free delectables and drinkables.
Typically, there are free horse-drawn carriage rides, free collector wine glasses, sidewalk musicians, and just a dynamic social scene. It’s gratifying to see all those heads bobbing down the sidewalk; …
14 Questions to Try to Elevate My Depressed Seratonin Levels
I sort of feel like I am growing past something some days, but the reality is I am very ready to return to an idea that I used to have, and now can embrace in a new way. I think I have been wrong about something, and I was right about it before. I must have just thought that because I was young, I was wrong. The thing is, I was right. I just doubted myself.
- If they made a movie of your life, who would you like to play you? You cannot play yourself, for …
It is a Thankless World
Your Voice: M-Cosm Update
[A note from Dino: Since this is the summer of Johnny Depp and films in Wisconsin, we wanted to highlight that a member of the CW community is shooting a film here in town. While it appears that the Wausau Film Festival might have died on the vine, it also appears that we have an active and passionate underbelly of scene shooters, and color saturators here in town. This post comes to us from Erik. Good on you Erik!]
I apologize for no commentary this weekend. We finished photography for Daily Routine, a quick three minute short from Stop That …
City Council Meeting, April 22nd
As most of us may have anticipated, the Mayoral veto on restructuring committee appointment procedures set the stage for a contentious City Council meeting here in Wausau last night. As a regular attender of said meetings, this was a night of firsts. This was the first time that I have ever seen the room full (perhaps people were expecting a dog fight of sorts). It was also the first time I have ever seen anyone register for comments in advance. And, it was the first time I have ever seen a Point of Order come from the crowd.
Along with these …
7 questions to ponder so Dino can catch a break
[A Note: These questions come to us from someone else this week. Thanks friend.]
1. Do you watch TV? Have a favorite show? I tend to glom on to one show every few years and then it will be canceled. I loved “Alias,” now I love “House.” (I may actually be in love with “House.”) Other than that, I tend to be a renter of DVDs.
2. Do you think the scandals in local government are becoming more frequent? Is this a trend?
3. Do you think Reality TV is just a phase, like variety shows were so fab in the …
Van De Yacht Documents
It appears from this, that former Council Person VanDe Yacht suffered some form of reputation sabotage at the hands of the City. At least that is how I am reading this, and I can’t make heads or tails from it.
I theorize this thought, this might be the beginning of the adversarial sense that our city council has with itself. This is clearly another example of people being unhappy with the experience of leadership, and progress, and the whole nine yards. In this case it appears to be a person lashing out.
I, for one and in …
Your Voice: The Roys
[In this episode of Your Voice, we highlight the serialized tale from Alex. About the Roy’s. Apparently there have been many Roy’s, and they have all been significant for Alex. I like the serialization of the tale. It feels like we are learning something, at the same time as the author. Interesting use of a blog.]
6 Questions to Think About While Flossing
I guess, in a lot of ways, I like speakers to headphones. I am winding my watch, though it does not need it, it is digital. But I wind, because it makes me think of Thanksgiving, and days of yore, and my pony Willie Boy. I think that sometimes, it is simply enough to say thank you, and to feel good about it. But more than that, it is really enough to own a rowboat and enough lipbalm for a weekend trip to Scottsdale.
- Do you have a sense of your death? Not in a morbid sense, but in a real …