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Take the Plunge!TRANSCRIPT
MONSTER TRUCKS Invade The La Crosse Center
POLAR PLUNGE: We Take A Dip
SPRING BREAK STIMULUS: Let The Frats Decide!
ST. PATTY’S DAY Q&A: Leprechaun And A Ginger
JULIEN K: Two-Person Orgy
FREEVolume 9Issue 154
March 12, 2009
MONSTER TRUCKS Invade The La Crosse Center
POLAR PLUNGE: We Take A Dip
SPRING BREAK STIMULUS: Let The Frats Decide!
ST. PATTY’S DAY Q&A: Leprechaun And A Ginger
JULIEN K: Two-Person Orgy
Second Supper vol. 9, issue 154�
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Well, this is a nice change of pace. I usually use this section of the newspaper to pontificate my feel-ings — most often on some story contained within Second Supper, but sometimes it’s whatever comes to mind as I finish laying out the issue. That’s good for stoking the ego, of course, and some-times I might stumble upon some insight, but as far as communication goes, it’s decidedly one-way. But not this week! After reading my introductory piece in Issue 153, one that suggested ways to make downtown La Crosse more happening, one local businessman wrote back and did me one better — make that 11 better. Joey Kay, owner of Simply Living, offers these simple suggestions to make downtown a more inviting place. This, readers, is called a Letter to the Editor, and we accept them at any time as a way to foster community dialogue. So if you’d ever like to see your own thoughts in this newspaper, feel free to write me at [email protected]. — Adam Bissen
Letter from the Editor
Here are some of my ideas to help fix downtown The Main Street Fountain AreaWe should sell Kiosk space here. Treat it like a mall treats it hallways. See if car dealers would like to put a car here or something; maybe some music on Friday’s lunches; or the weekend. This would be additional revenue and help draw people out of the park and move into town.
Hire a RecruiterWe need to be more aggressive. Malls have people shopping downtown here; looking for and recruit-ing business to move to the mall. They offer kiosk space and incubator programs. We lost Katmandu to such a program; they offered it to me. We should be doing the same.
Downtown Directional MapsAgain, like a mall we need maps. I would like to see 3 of them. One in front the La Crosse Center, one in the Park by the Main st fountain and one on the corner of Main and 4th Street. Some of the cost of the maps and maintenance could be offset with advertising on it.
Pearl Street should have diagonal parkingTo increase spots, slow down traffic and create a more “intimate” street.
Saturday Morning Farmers MarketWe should move the farmers market out of the county parking lot and move it to the lower part of Main Street, close that part of the street until 12 pm. With the shade of the trees the First Bank Building it’s the coolest place downtown during the summer morning. This would help get people downtown in the mornings.
The Leasable space downtown is too large.We need more 1000 or so square feet spaces Downtown to offer. Look at State Street in Madison and how small those spaces are.
Benches, Bike Racks and an effort to replace the trees that have died.
DMI (Downtown Mainstreet, Inc.)Retailers downtown need an organizing body. One to share what’s going on, ideas and shared promo-tions. For a variety of reasons DMI is not filling this role. We either need to change it or add to it or create something new.
Krazy Days is for Crazy people.It’s crazy to hang on to this dead and dying sale in its original format. It’s from a bygone era when Downtown was a very different place filled with big retailers; national retailers. It was held on Thursday when moms stayed at home with the kids. We need a downtown sale in the summer that includes the new reality that is downtown and not focused on price because that is not our sale advantage any longer.. And it should be on the weekend. We should try to include the banks and other professional services downtown by having them sponsor The Big Event company and other food or entertainment and bring flee market in to fill up some sidewalk space. Close a street and have some music, have an art fair on Pearl.
We need to Re-Brand Downtown.Historic Downtown? Great tag for when we were trying to preserve the downtown twenty years ago. But it does nothing to tell people what is going on now. Maybe cut into to “Districts” Main Street could be the “Wedding District” in Historic Downtown La Crosse 4th Street could be Arts and Entertainment district, the Pearl Street District. The Wharehouse District; for the Bars. And build on shopping locally. “Local Places, Friendly Faces”
Get the ticket writers out of their jeeps.Have them walk; take the wrap around tough guy glasses off. Get to know the habitual parking viola-tors, give directions to our guests.
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THIS PAGE ............................................ 3SOCIAL NETWORKING ......................... 4FOUR ADS ............................................ 5MOMMY COLUMN ................................. 6FRATIRE ................................................ 7STUDIO SUCCESS ............................... 8POLAR PLUNGE ................................... 9GINGER/LEPRECHAUN .......................10MONSTER TRUCKS ............................ 11JULIEN-K Q&A ................................... 12REVIEWS ............................................. 13FUTURE SONS ................................... 14CROSSWORD/MAZE ............................15COMMUNITY SERVICE ..................16-17ENTERTAINMENT DIRECTORY .......... 18
COVER PHOTO KELLY SAMPSON
CORRECTION: Christian Hansen was not given credit last week for a photograph he took at the Root We regret the error.
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Social Networking
NAME AND AGE: Melissa Jean Fannin, 29 BIRTHPLACE:Hortonville, WI
CURRENT JOB: Deli cook, People's Food Co-op
DREAM JOB: Over-fed artist
COVETED SUPERPOWER: Ability to kick ass
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Second Supper’s finally on the so-cial networking bandwagon, with a whole chain of townies to answer our deliciously revealing questions. Each week, the interviewee will name someone they're connected to, who will become the next per-son interviewed, and so it shall continue. You see? We really are all connected.
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Things to do on St. Patrick's Day
1. Drink.2. Wear green.3. Hunt lepruchauns.4. Eat corned beef and cabbage.5. Try to get lucky.6. Pump your fist to Flogging Molly.7. Not puke on our doorstep.
3 MOVIES YOU’D TAKE ON A DESERTED ISLAND: Lord of the Rings (set), The Princess Bride, Jane Eyre
3 BOOKS YOU’D TAKE TO PRISON: Books 7, 8, and 9 of Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series
3 CDs YOU’D TAKE ON A ROAD TRIP: Maybe some Wilco, Kate Nash, and TV on the Radio
IF YOU COULD PLAY ANY INSTRU-MENT PERFECTLY, WHAT WOULD IT BE? French horn
WHAT IS IN YOUR POCKETS RIGHT NOW?Nothing
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How’s this for torture: someone very, very im-portant who holds an unimaginable amount of power over you proclaims that a.) you are to become wickedly busy, b.) you are to reduce your usual amount of delicious sleep to far, far below what used to be the bare minimum, and (this is the especially scary part) c.) you are to do this without coffee. That’s right — without coffee. Not even one little pot. Not a cup. Not a teeny tiny little ounce. None! Whatever, you horrified readers might think. I’d quit that job in a heartbeat and happily guz-zle four pots of Guatemala. But you can’t quit this job and you can’t break the rules. This is a job description of parenthood (OK, technically motherhood, but if you’re a halfway decent man, you won’t tempt your desperate baby mamma by drinking coffee when she can’t). What kind of alternate universe is this?! It all begins when you find out you’re preg-nant, or even before you find out, if you’re one of the lucky 70 percent or so who gets the dreaded morning sickness — which would be more accurately named “all damn day and night sickness.” Most preggos vomit at the smell of coffee, and even if they don’t, studies show that caffeine is bad bad bad for little fetuses. That makes it bad bad bad for mommy. If only your silly placenta could just hold back the little caffeine molecules from passing into the baby — get on that, mad scientists. When I was pregnant, the word on the streets of Francis-can Skemp was that one cup a day was accept-able (this has since changed to no coffee, which should be pretty effective birth control for lots of folks). One?? I scoff at one cup of coffee! Surely they meant one pot. One pound of beans. One liter. Not one cup! Daunting as it was, I tried desperately hard to adhere to the torture. But I frequent a coffeehouse (read my coffee re-views and you can probably figure out which one) that elegantly offers a free refill. I tried to drink decaf instead, but oh how I hate de-caf (you can find out why in the coffee article just pages from this one). I tried half-caff, but that just contaminated the good half, kind of like that friend you have whose girlfriend you hate and avoid at all costs. I eventually gave up trying to fulfill my duty to free refills, and stuck to one cup rule. But I do work in a coffeehouse and make delicious espresso shots for hours at a time. The temptation was severe, but by and large, I succeeded. Just a few more months, I told
The madness of motherhood
myself. Ah, how the pregnant brain forgets the most important details. I was forgetting that I was committed to breastfeeding. When my due date approached, I started learning more about nursing and found out that anything I consume, the baby consumes too. Coffee + tiny squalling newborn = disaster. And I planned on breast-feeding for at least a year, probably two. This equation didn’t seem to have any kind of ratio-nal solution. When my little bundle of joy arrived, the adrenaline of actually being a mommy was over-whelming enough to distract me from coffee for quite a while. My fierce instinct to protect him and do the very best thing for him kept me from coffee persuasion. Giving up booze? No problem. Sushi? Not so hard. Jumping on tram-polines? That sucked too, but giving up coffee was one heck of a battle. But he came a whole month early and had some health issues, so I couldn’t very well stress his little body anymore than it already was. But imagine it — caring for a tiny little preemie on negligible amounts of sleep for months and months. Oh yeah, and I had tons of schoolwork to finish up before the deadline for incomplete grades. Awesome. But the human body is a marvelous thing — I adjusted pretty well to running on empty. It seems the body has this hidden cellar full of energy that is reserved for parenting purposes only, and did I ever empty out that clever trea-sure! Eventually, my little baby got healthy and wasn’t nursing every hour, so I decided it was time — I could try just half a cup. When you’re pregnant, you hear all sorts of horror stories; I heard one about a woman who drank a Coke when she was nursing and her kid was awake for 24 hours straight — this would not be a good thing. I was nervous, but I had papers to write and I no longer had hours upon hours to write them, so I was willing to give it a shot. It didn’t seem to affect him, so I carried on, happily drinking whatever amount of coffee I was allowed. As the baby grew into a little boy, he started eating more food and drinking less milk; this meant I could drink more coffee. Hooray! And now, 15 months later, he’s tired of breastfeeding and I’m back on the sauce, sort of. As the cruel universe would have it, my sto-ry doesn’t really have a happy ending. It turns out that I really shouldn’t be drinking coffee at all for other health reasons…ones that won’t ever go away. My doctor said I could have two cups a day, tops. I said, “What size cup?”
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Peterson: Hello. I’m Jonathon Peterson, and you’re watching WSAU’s nine o’clock evening news. Earlier today, President Obama made an announcement that has left the country and the rest of the world in a state of shock and disbelief. Effective March 15 at midnight, the United States economy will be run and bud-geted exclusively by members of the Lambda Beta Xi fraternity for the entirety of their spring break. We turn to Peirce Pearson for special coverage with the Lambda Beta Xi fraternity at their house in La Crosse, Wis-consin.
Camera shifts onto Pearson standing in front of a beat down frat house.
Pearson: Thanks Jon. I’m standing in front of the Lambda Beta Xi frat house, or as the members themselves call it, the “sex cavern.” Our sources indicate that as soon as the word spread to the La Crosse chapter, several kegs of Keystone Light were purchased, along with three packs of Solo cups and ping-pong balls for the “bitchingest beer pong tournament in the history of awesome.”
At this point, a man wearing a backwards Chicago Cubs hat and a pink polo with the collars popped stumbles into the frame of the camera.
O’Brien: WOOOOH!! (Flips off the camera) Hells yeah, mofos! We’re totally running this bitch!
Pearson: And, ummm, are you a member of this fraternity?
O’Brien: Member? Awww hell no, man. I’m the president! Andy “Panty Crasher” O’Brien here and I’m wasted! I’m also here to say that we are going to turn the economy into the most kick ass economy around for this com-ing week. It’s so cash, man!
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Pearson: Well then. Now that you have total control of the United States economy, what is your first plan of action on improving the nation’s well being?
O’Brien: Well, when I first heard the announce-ment, I had to set down my bong and I was all like “Is this shit for real?” and then I called up the rest of my bros and told them that, like, we have all this money now from the government or sumthin’, and that we needed to throw a wicked kegger, like, right now.
Pearson: Yes, well…that’s all very good and all, but do you have any plans on how to curtail the economy from its seemingly continuous downward spiral?
O’Brien: Ahh, hell’s yeah man! One of my roomies is in Econ 104 this semester, so he totally has this shit down. Our first course of action is to, like, offer tax breaks to chicks that want to get bigger boobs. We’re also going to make it mandatory that every American re-ceive at least, umm, one six pack of Keystone every day.
Pearson: What? Why on earth would…
O’Brien: Think about it, man! Like, if everyone in the country is drunk, just think how many piz-zas will be sold every night! Trust me, dude…the midnight munchies will save this country!
Pearson: OK…well, back to you, Jon…
O’Brien (Leans into the camera and interrupts Pearson):WOOOOH! SPRING BREAK ’09 BITCHES! PARTY AT 13th AND VINE AND…BLARGGGH
Peterson (Looks visibly disgusted): Ugh, Jesus. Erm, well, yes. Thank You Peirce for that, ummm, insightful interview from the field. Next, we
turn to Mark Davidson for a full market report, coming live outside the fraternity’s national headquarters in San Diego.
Davidson: Thanks Jon. The Dow actually climbed 300 points today just following the president’s announcement. Notably stocks in Topper’s Pizza, Anheuser-Busch, Miller, and Pfizer Phar-maceuticals all saw stock prices climb into the triple digits. Trying to grab a piece of the action, CEOs of GM, Ford, and Chrysler announced earlier today that they will be holding confer-ences at the hip tourist spots, notably in the Florida Keys and in Cancun during the follow-ing week. When asked for comment, GM CEO Rick Wagoner responded that the outreach into these exotic lands was to “…show today’s youth how ‘flip’ it is to be driving around in a hip new Saturn…please, for the love of Christ, just buy our cars!” At that point, he broke down into sobs and tried to run away from the camera, causing a young coed to spill her cosmopolitan.
Peterson (-): Well, just when you think things couldn’t possibly get worse for the automobile industries! I bet that was the first girl he’s seen in years that he didn’t have to pay for!
Davidson: I bet your right, Jon!
Peterson: Thank you Mark. Well, that’s going to do it for our coverage of newly run economy by the Lambda Beta Xi fraternity. Tune in to-morrow night when we examine how pizza delivery drivers have now become the highest paid position in the country. Until next time, enjoy your spring break and watch out for ruff-ies. Good night, and good luck.
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Patch up your patchwork pants and roll your hemp up into a necklace, kidz, the Great Amer-ican Jamband Summer is back! Not to harsh everyone's mellow with some political grooves, but it was getting pretty lean there in the Bush years. Gas was four dollars a gallon, this war was bumming everyone out, and hooded sweatshirts got to be really cool looking. No one wanted to do a long summer tour then — not even the jambands! Beginning in 2002, the debut year of Bonnaroo., Phish began its first hiatus, Grateful Dead members stuck to side projects, and the Big Wu never ventured out of Minnesota (well, maybe just for Old Style). And woe the kidz were without a parking lot to chill in. Bummer. But it's all coming back to us now! Last weekend, Phish returned from a five-year hia-tus with three rediculously scalped concerts in Virginia, and their complete summer tour sold out in under 20 minutes. "For people in hard times, we can play long shows of pure physi-cal pleasure," guitarist Trey Anastasio told the New York Times — yes, the New York Times. "They come to dance and forget their troubles. It's a service commitment." The surviving members of the Grateful Dead (who now just call themselves The Dead) are also getting back in the game with a 22-date cross-country tour. Guitar mercenary Warren Haynes will fill in for the deceased Jerry Garcia while The Dead — an unfortunate band name, no? — hit up some of the nation's largest are-nas and ampitheatres. While Dead tickets are $100 face and Phish tickets were selling for $1,000 in the lot, the cheapest jam around still comes from your old friends the Big Wu. Now reunited with wayward guitarist Jason Fladager (not pictured, below), the Wu are touring again and will even revive their famed Family Reunion at Harmony Park. I'll be there with nag champa on. Who's got my Deer Creek?
— Adam Bissen
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Green Bay Street studio presses onBy Briana [email protected]
It had been too long since Jenn Bushman made art. Sure, she could draw in her sketchbook. She could still take gorgeous photographs. But the former UW-La Crosse art major had a small apartment that didn't allow for the necessary space to paint, and she didn't have access to the equipment needed to practice her true love of intaglio printmaking. "Basically if you're going to school, you have access to the (printing) press," Bushman once explained. "But once you graduate, you're cut off. You don't have access anymore. And no-body on an individual basis can afford to buy or store a press on their own." She paused before continuing. "There's really no reason to stay in La Crosse if you want to do fine art, because there are no studios around." Bushman teamed up with Matt Duckett and four other like-minded artists from the community to change that. Instead of setting their sights on a bigger city and packing up to do art elsewhere, the group decided to start a studio from scratch right here in town. Not only did they want a chance to practice their own art, they sought to provide others in the com-munity with the opportunity and the means to do art as well. They scoured the streets of La Crosse and found a spot on Green Bay Street that was well-suited for their needs. Even bet-ter, the space was for rent. When Second Supper first met up with Bushman and Duckett, they hadn't even moved into the studio yet. In fact, they hadn't even named their studio. They had just gotten back from a local bookstore, where they had poured over books, trying to educate themselves about what it took to run a business. They had a small pile of old school desks and other furniture ac-cquired from Craig's List, and a decent printing press they had on lease. But that was a year ago. "I think when we first started we hoped it would (succeed), but we didn't necessarily think it would," says Duckett now. "We had to get other people involved, and service their needs in order to make it work." Now, one year after opening the doors to Green Bay Street Studio (GBSS), Bushman and Duckett not only have learned a lot about what it takes to run a small business, but they have already made a huge outreach to the communi-
ty and have accomplished many of the goals they set out to in the first place. "Two years ago when we started brainstorm-ing," Duckett thinks back, "we just threw all these ideas onto the table like, 'We could find store-fronts downtown where we could have a place to exhibit. We could have a figure drawing session. We could do an exhibition with the schools, or we could have workshops.' And we just kept hitting those." According to the two, the biggest achieve-ment so far has been the start up of their weekly figure drawing sessions. The session, which is open to the public, allowed GBSS to get a dialogue going with fellow artists around the community, and gave Bushman and Duckett personally the opportunity to once again practice the art of the human figure with a live model, something they had been missing "The past few weeks for me, personally, have been amazing — the drawings I've gotten out of it," gushes Bushman. "It's just so nice to once again have that on a regular basis. I mean, each time, each week, you grow." "And that's everybody's story," Duckett adds, visibly excited. Within only a few months of the figure drawing session's beginning, the group of reg-ulars has grown from six people to a steady set of 15 to 16. Artists drive from Rochester, a model drives in from Iowa, and there's a signifi-cant group that also comes from Winona every week. "There's a woman, Carol, who gets the Winona crew to come out," Bushman explains. "She's always like, 'Yeah, I keep telling everyone that they need to get out here and come to this, that it's worth the drive'... and it's so great to hear somebody say that." Bushman and Duckett make sure to stress that you don't have to be an experienced art-
ist to pop into the sessions, however. "You get people in here who haven't drawn in two, four, five years," says Duckett. "It's just about being here, and doing it every week." "Exactly," adds Bushman. "I mean, the fact that somebody who just graduated high school is now coming to our studio, when she's prob-ably never done live drawing before is amaz-ing." Reaching out to young aspiring artists is another thing GBSS has done in its short life, and plans to continue doing. Last year, the stu-dio sponsored a juried exhibition for schools in La Crosse, Holmen, and West Salem. The win-ners got to see their work on exhibit at the La Crosse Public Library, and the overall win-ner was awarded studio time, in a one-on-one workshop. "We're trying to start them off early," ex-plains Duckett. "When I was in high school, I didn't know anything about being an artist. So we want to foster that kind of thing, so they graduate knowing more than what we did back then." At the end of January, the end of the lease on the printing press was looming, and the en-trepreneurs had to decide what to do next. They set a goal to replace it by the time the lease expired, but it wasn't going to be easy. "I can count on one hand the number of presses in La Crosse," Duckett states, "and that's including the universities. So the chance of us finding one we could actually afford was non existent." Bushman began searching the Internet and, sure enough, found a printing press that they could actually afford — in Lansing, Michi-gan. "We left La Crosse at six Friday night, stopped at a hotel at three a.m., woke up at seven, drove to the place, packed it up, and drove back," says Bushman, matter-of-factly, as if there was nothing to it. "We were back in town by 11 p.m. Saturday to grab wings and a beer," she laughs. Lightheartedness aside, that kind of dedi-cation is one of the main reasons the Green Bay Street Studio has been able to survive its
first year. The endeavor has not been easy by any means. "This past year has been stressful. Very Stressful," admits Jenn, looking at Duckett for validation. "It's not like we have momentum that we can coast with," Duckett agrees, "if anything it's getting harder. But on the other hand, more artists are becoming involved, new guys are coming to the figure session every week. It be-comes more and more clear that you gotta try. What's the worst that could happen?" The passion that exudes from the talent-ed entrepreneurs when they talk about their artistic endeavor not only makes you want to see them succeed as a business, it makes you want to create. Setting foot into the studio, an unpretentious, yet still serious vibe smacks you in the face as soon as you pass through the door. Green Bay Street Studio is not just an-other gallery filled with paintings of the bluffs that seem to abound in this city. It's a place that urges you to push yourself with your creativ-ity without holding back. They welcome — and encourage — novice artists to join in the cre-ative process just as much as they welcome experienced artists. They seem to have no lim-its, talking eagerly — yet realistically — about expansion, including space for more disciplines like sculpture and ceramics. Ironically enough, on the day of this inter-view, the studio reached another breakthrough. They'll now be able to have an ongoing exhibi-tion space in the storefront of the old Valley Ski & Bike shop downtown, which they plan to rotate with installation art, video art, as well as paintings and prints. The future of the studio seems to be nothing but optimistic. "Right now in La Crosse, there's a lot of potential," says Duckett. "There's been this ebb, where everyone leaves town to continue art, but the wave is coming back in. Ten years ago there was the Odin Gallery, ten years before that is when the Pump House was started. Now it's ten years later and we're trying to kick it in the ass. And who knows, maybe this time, we'll be a foothold."
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I have horrible memories of Christian camp. When I was a kid, I'd go every summer for a few weeks to a youth retreat to learn how to make birdhouses and how best to praise Je-sus. I used to think my aversion to these sum-mer excursions indicated the beginnings of my religious doubt, but thinking about the Polar Plunge these past few weeks has gotten me thinking otherwise. Memories, long-hidden and hazy, of being pulled out of my warm bunk at 4:30 in the morning and taken, along with the other campers, down to a chilly lake in north-ern Wisconsin have crept to the surface of my recollections lately. Once we reached the lake, our camp counselors introduced us to a twist-ed ritual known as the Polar Bear Plunge. It was some sort of confidence- or faith-building exercise, I'm sure, but what I remember from those chilly mornings was mostly the choking sensation upon entering the bitterly cold wa-ter, and the fear of a heart attack at age 8. S a t u r d a y , though, I faced my fears — alongside the rest of our Sec-ond Supper team and 1,240 others — at the 10th An-nual Coulee Region Polar Plunge for Spe-cial Olympics. The day dawned gray and cold, but after down-ing a couple of beers for strength and good luck, our team was ready for the worst Wisconsin could give us. We ar-rived shortly before our scheduled plunge time of 1:45 p.m. to see Black River Beach flooded with people: teams and individuals of all ages, some with costumes, some without, and many families and friends wrapped snugly in parkas, there to cheer on a less-inhibited loved one. Our Plunge time seemed to reach us at warp-speed. I barely had time to remove my shoes and collect myself before we were signaled into the water: my male teammates' longer strides left me in the dust and I was showered with the water from their collective splash before leaping in head first. My memo-ries had served me correctly. Within seconds, I resurfaced, barely able to breathe, searing pain gripping my legs. I slogged through the water the rest of the way to the goal before turning
around to head back to shore, unsure if I would make it back before passing out. My mom has said that after a mother gives birth, she immediately forgets the pain of la-bor because of the overwhelming emotion she feels upon first holding her newborn child. The Polar Plunge was kind of like that, except it was the overwhelming gratitude of having a hot tub to step into, followed by free beer and pizza at the Post-Plunge Party, which somewhat eroded the immediacy of the shock of the water. The Post-Plunge Party also afforded opportunities to hear first-hand how the Special Olympics athletes are benefited by the proceeds from the Polar Plunge. Heather Hansen, an athlete who has competed for 17 years and who won a gold medal in powerlifting at the 2003 Spe-cial Olympics World Summer Games in Ireland, says her experience with the organization has been wonderful. The best part, she says, is
“the friends that I make, definitely the parents and the volunteers, the coaches, the staff of Special Olympics, who especially mean a lot.” Eleven c o m m u n i -ties around Wisconsin participated in this year's
Polar Plunge, earning an astonish-ing total of $1,293,000 for Special Olympics. The 1,249 volunteers in the Coulee Region raised $160,000 of that total. Kerry Gloede, who is among the original founders of the Polar Plunge in Wisconsin, says the event began on a much small-er scale. “Our goal [in 1999] was to have 100 Plungers and to raise $10,000. We ended up raising $30,000 and we had 330 Plungers. We outgrew our spot — we were in Brice Prairie for the first year, and it was just too small — so we ended up moving to Black River Beach.”
The event only continued to grow from that point on. Says Gloede, “With our success [the Polar Plunge] became a statewide endeavor. The next year, four other areas did the Plunge, plus ours. And eventually it got to the point where it is today.” Of course, the most important part of the Polar Plunge is the ways in which it helps the community, and Special Olympics athletes and families in particular. “The money raised helps support all of our tournaments,” says Gloede. “So the money raised will actually stay in this area to help the athletes. For example, we have a basketball tournament this Saturday, so the money will go towards T-shirts for the volunteers, ribbons for the athletes, and any equipment that's needed, so the athletes can compete at no cost to them.” And as Gloede continually stresses during our conversation,
it's impossible to attach a value to the men-tal, physical, and social benefits participation in Special Olympics offers athletes and volunteers alike. I thought our interview was complete when Gloede and I hung up the phone after a few chuckles about Saturday's event, so I was sur-prised to see her number on my Caller ID a few moments later. A fact she wanted to cor-rect, perhaps? Nope. In the great tradition on Second Supper antics, teammate Allan Moore p-lunged into the Black River dressed as The Flash. While our team was disappointed we hadn't raised enough money to make the Top 5 contributors to the Special Olympics (we raised a respectable $1,200), The Flash had won the best male costume for the day.
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Second Supper vol. 9, issue 15410
By Brett [email protected]
St. Patrick’s Day is a holiday born of snakes and Catholicism that has grown into the Kwanzaa of Ireland. It is a dangerous holiday, and must be put down. To prove my point, I spoke with two St. Patrick’s Day archetypes, a ginger and a leprechaun. The ginger, a dour man-boy named Jason Wild, talked frankly about his pasty white experiences during a house party. After Ben Clark’s Skat'Tsmen tore up the basement show, Wild and I stood in the kitchen, next to a simmering bathroom. We were both quite drunk. As we left the party, I slipped on some ice, and my recorder flew from my pocket. After I noticed, I frantically searched the trash-soaked parking lot, but it was nowhere to be found. This interview, I thought, was lost to history, but somehow, Wild ended up with the recorder. Not remembering who the device belonged to, he planned to sell it, but he gave it back, and here we are. Damn dirty gingers.
Second Supper: So when did you first know you were a ginger? (Edi-tor's note: a ginger is a person with red hair.)
Jason Wild: Jesus died one time.
SS: Are you sure?
JW: Kind of. That sucks.
SS: Jesus died and you became a ginger?
JW: I don’t know if it happened in that order, but yes.
SS: What is life like for a ginger?
JW: Basically, I slave away for nine-tenths of my day — rhyme! — and the other tenths, I just kick ass.
SS: I heard that gingers have a magical compact with Lord Bahamut, the dragon king. Do you have anything to say about the ginger-dragon alliance?
JW: Honestly, I’m not that learned in Norse mythology, but yes. Yes we do, and you know what… fffffuck.
SS: How do you feel about the stink emanating from the bathroom?
JW: That suck, cause that was a girl, and girls don’t do that.
SS: Can you kill a ninja with your freckles?
JW: No… well, it depends what ninja. Go.
SS: All right. What ninja?
JW: Tom. Tom Ninja. Tom Ninja’s OK; he checks out.
SS: What is your final statement on the state of the ginger world in regards to St. Patrick’s Day?
LL: Absolutely.
SS: Do you support Ireland’s struggle for inde-pendence from England?
LL: I think any leprechaun would.
SS: Are there black leprechauns?
LL: It’s kind of like saying that Eminem’s a rap-per, now isn’t it?
SS: Do leprechauns have drinking problems?
LL: They can.
SS: Are there leprechaun rehab centers, in which leprechauns are weaned off of corned beef and cabbage?
LL: [Giggles] There must be one somewhere; I don’t know where, though.
SS: What does the future hold for lepre-chauns?
LL: Well, a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, isn’t it?
SS: Are you saying that leprechauns are gay?
LL: No, we’re just happy.
SS: Oh. The old school definition.
LL: [Giggles for about ten seconds]
SS: Do leprechauns listen to a lot of Judy Gar-land?
LL: [Giggles some more] No, just Erasure. [Gig-gles even more]
SS: And what does St. Patrick’s Day mean to you?
LL: It means that it’s two days after the Ides of March.
SS: That’s cold, man.
LL: It’s an excuse to drink green beer.
SS: You know if you drink green beer, your shit turns green.
LL: I was just going to say that, too. Drink green and shit green.
In conclusion, Jaysis, Mary, and Joseph. Or some-thing similar.
JW: Sometimes when I’m all alone I like to dance, but those times are few, because… of America.
Whereas Jason Wild is surly and clever, Larry the Leprechaun is giggly and oddly fascinated with Ger-man Industrial music. I conducted this interview over the phone for fear that I may be overcome by his four-leaf machismo. But the message was very clear. Leprechauns are a menace. Let us rise up and overthrow our clover-wielding overlords!
Second Supper: Why are you a leprechaun?
Larry the Leprechaun: Evidently it’s because I have red hair, red facial hair, and I’m short.
SS: Do you have any gold?
LL: I’m not telling.
SS: If you did, would you make a killing at cash-intogold.com?
LL: No, but I was thinking about going to Pawn Amer-ica if I needed to.
SS: Is that what leprechauns have been reduced to, hang-ing out at Pawn America?
LL: That could be, but my gold tends to be in the form of old CDs.
SS: Are they at least made out of gold?
LL: I try not to have many gold and platinum records.
SS: Do you feel like you’re the victim of racial stereotyping?
LL: Yeah, I think so.
SS: Any examples?
LL: People chronically quoting the movie, Lep-rechaun, as they walk and point at me.
SS: Have you ever eaten a bowl of Lucky Charms? LL: They’re magically delicious!
SS: Can you name all the marshmallow shapes?
LL: Hmm. I can go old school on this: [in ri-diculous Irish brogue] red balloons, orange stars, green clovers, blue diamonds, and purple horseshoes! [Note: he forgot yellow moons and pink hearts.]
SS: How did you feel when they switched up the colors and shapes?
LL: Oh, it pissed me off, especially when they swirled the colors.
SS: Did you feel betrayed?
A ginger and a leprechaun
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There are few things in the world that are as garishly macho as monster trucks. They rank right up there with bazookas, nunchucks, kick-ing ass and Nature Boy Ric Flair as the most cartoonishly over-the-top representations of '80s excess that found its way into pop culture to help teach little boys such as myself what it means to be a man. The monster truck scene in Cannonball Run II was one of my most “hell yeah” inducing childhood experiences. I to-tally wanted a monster truck so I could drive through traffic jams, crushing everything in my path. These days, those that I associate with, mostly educated creative class types, don’t see the awesome in these vehicles that I did for a fleeting moment as a kid. Perhaps they don’t want to step out of their well-crafted image they identify themselves with, deriding these spectacles as ridiculous low-brow redneck en-tertainment. Admittedly, I took on this assign-ment with a sense of irony, boasting to friends I saw for the few days previous about my me-dia pass to go witness the mayhem, receiving the typical eye-rolling snobbery and sarcastic retorts. As I entered Thunder Slam at the La Crosse Center on Friday night, the fish-out-of-water snickers and quips that were passed between myself and Staci, my photographer for the night, helped shield us from the not knowing what to expect scenario we were placing ourselves into. The National Anthem over, it was time to start some engines and inhale some ex-haust fumes. The monster trucks, with names familiar to the fans in attendance, pulled off all the flashy tricks that bring on the ooh and ahs. I found myself amused when the trucks rolled and they’d send out the rescue team to tip it right side up. I pumped my fist in the air when Bear Foot popped a wheelie on its way to crushing some old Buicks. When in Rome, you know? But the thing that put the biggest smile on my mouth was looking at the faces of the people in the crowd. These weren’t the al-coholic/GED/rap sheet/processed foods-eat-ing dregs of society that wear Puddle of Mudd and Stone Cold Steve Austin shirts who sit around day and night in the front lawn of the rent-per-week Bluebonnet Courts in a chaise lounge semi-circle around a Coleman cooler filled with cheep beer they bought with loose change from the stop n’ rob my friends pre-dicted I would see. Well, maybe some of them were. But mostly it was regular, salt of the earth, Joe the Plumber looking fathers tak-ing their sons out for something they will be boasting about on the playground at school all
this week. These kids were beaming with capti-vated awe as the tuff trucks ripped around the dirt to the blaring Back in Black soundtrack. We spotted Zachary Meyer from Galesville stand-ing on the railing holding a handmade sign with Bounty Hunter scrawled out in magic marker and approached his father to ask if we could take a picture of Zachary for the paper. I was given an enthusiastic yes by dad. During inter-mission, Zach came running up to me with his address asking if I would mail him a copy of the paper. I gave his dad, still in his seat 50 feet away, the thumbs up and got an ear to ear smile in return. Meanwhile my sidekick Staci was track-ing down the snow cone vendor to indulge her pancreas. Our jaded shells had been cracked and we were experiencing the simple joys life has to offer like two kids in a candy store, all brought on by a collective crowd excitement of seeing trucks with 800 pound tires that get about a mile to the gallon rev their engines and get airborne. The next afternoon, I got to go back to the Center to meet with Jeff Richards, the an-nouncer whose auctioneer voice boomed over the loudspeakers at the event. Richards, from Denver, has been in the game for 20 years and announces 30 or so events a year around the country. He is also the host of Motor Sports Live Radio during the week. The intrigue that was perked the previous night had me want-ing to understand this subculture of American society more, and who better to learn from than a veteran of the game? Richards couldn’t have been a nicer guy, even going so far as to remove his hat when shaking my female pho-tographer’s hand and comping us tickets for that night’s show. He explained the ins and outs of the industry to a complete ignorant novice while never coming across as anything other than gracious for the fan support and the op-portunity to do something he loves for a living. We addressed the recent incident at a monster truck show in Madison where a promoter got run over by a truck and killed at a show, and I could feel his emotions as this man was a close friend of his, while also making it clear to me that safety measures are a high priority at these events. I learned about Bob Chandler’s Bigfoot truck that came onto the scene in the mid '70s and his performance at the Pontiac Silverdome in 1982 that launched the craze. Spending time with him made we want to run away to join the proverbial circus and tour with the AMP posse. After filling me with all sorts of stories from over the years, he gave us a real treat. We got to go with him onto the floor of the Center several hours before the doors opened to the public and play on the dirt among the crushed cars and jacked up trucks! The driv-ers were all milling about, and most awesome, a newlywed couple, Abby Marson and Luke Han-sen of Onalaska, were there to ride around in the back of their favorite truck as part of their wedding reception! I hope these guys continue coming to La Crosse annually, just to put smiles on the faces of kids. Perhaps I’ll be able to pull some strings and ride shotgun in one of those trucks. There was way more fun and joy than you probably expect at one of these events. Of course, I wish there would have been one of those car-eating robots or at least something that shot flames, but hey, that just gives them something extra for the event organizer to try to one-up them-selves next time, right?
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Q&A with Julien-K
Todd is one of us! Yes, the man behind some of the area’s prettiest music has joined The Second Supper, putting his journalism degree to fine abuse. Now, a question may be raised whether a review of my fellow jerkwad’s new-est album can retain my usual sparkling journal-istic integrity, or if this will be little more than a puff piece. Nyet, I say! Heller Mason is brilliant gold on its own merits, and this new album be-trays a growth in confidence and songcraft. Though the core of Heller Mason’s style remains largely unchanged, there are tracks which infuse its usual orchestral acoustic tone with a bit of alt-country slide guitar, in particu-lar display during “Blood on the Strings.” This shift doesn’t change the formula but instead indicates an inclination toward honest, natu-ral growth. Further evidence of this attitude is displayed in the songs “Duluth” and “Fools & Angels,” which appeared as wholly acoustic bonus tracks on Minimalist and Anchored, but appear on the new album with the full band treatment. In addition, Todd continues to avoid the usual pretentious poor-me jive that often ac-companies a boy and his acoustic guitar. When it does appear, it usage is often intentional, tend-ing toward either self-effacement or the satire of his genre’s usual stereotypes. “Give me a sec-ond to write another song about myself/cause I
think too much and I’m so self-absorbed, that’s all I know,” Todd sings in “Another Song About Myself,” eschewing the usual contrived intro-spection. The closest point this album comes to a full-on singer-songwriter mope is in its opening title track, where Vandenberg’s lyrics note life’s disasters and shrug in response. But even here, the vocals, accompanied by the usual gorgeous instrumentation, keep with the usual Heller Mason tack, and are so well delivered and minimalist that whatever lyrical shortcom-ings wash nigh nonexistent. The album’s cornerstone is a black and white song called “Smoke and Shadows,” a beautiful, crawling mixture of cellos, guitar, and piano in which Todd’s lyrics and vocals are at their zenith. Half of the song is instrumental, and when words come – however simple they may be – they strike hard, as when Todd sings: “Now I’m not claiming I know anything about anything/but I know it’s not black and white/but the devil says it is.” The song is remarkable in that it is the quintessential example of Heller Mason’s artistry without becoming alien from the rest of its work. Todd’s around, people. Hunt him down, hold him by his ankles, and shake the music from his pockets if you must. Just get it. Welcome aboard, Todd! — Brett Emerson
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Oh hi, I’m listening to the latest shipment I ordered from Sublime Frequencies, a record label based out of Seattle. Sublime Frequen-cies puts out international music from a wish list of countries I want to go to at some time in my life. Java, Bali, Sumatra, Burma, Morocco, Thailand, India, Iraq, Mali, Syria, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, Brazil, Peru, and Nepal are some of the represented countries in the discography, but the music they have put out isn’t the white washed Americanized coffee shop feel good stuff that most of you have probably been ex-posed to that falls under the umbrella of “world music,” nor is it the scholarly ethnomusicolo-gist field music that are used in college classes on the topic. This is the sort of raw funky stuff you would find at late night weekend celebra-tions in these far-flung corners of the globe. For those of you who have ever been a part of the Lonely Planet backpacker circuit, and found yourself in some village of a third world country on a Saturday night drinking the local moonshine brew with the natives who wel-come you (and your American currency) into their personalized get down, you might have heard music that propelled you through the night leaving you with good vibes. Or maybe
The band Orgy was a synthetic and stylized outfit which struck hard in the late '90s with its debut album, “Candyass.” Mixing an intriguing blend of rock, electronica, and glamour, the group vaulted into the spotlight on the strength of their innova-tive music — though having a spotless New Order cover in its back pocket didn’t hurt, either. Follow-ing up with its sophomore album, 2000’s “Vapor Transmission,” Orgy pushed the envelope further, creating a parallel universe populated by the hedo-nist cyborg spawn of Phillip K. Dick. It appeared to be nothing but bigger and better for Orgy, but then the bottom dropped out. Having parted ways with Reprise, moving to singer Jay Gordon’s D1 label, and preparing for potential member shakeups that never materialized, the band released its third al-bum, “Punk Statik Paranoia,” four years after Vapor, and almost as an afterthought. It was around this time when rumors began to bubble up concerning an upstart side project called Julien-K. On the initial, stripped down ver-sion of its Web site, Orgy guitarists Ryan Shuck and Amir Derakh offered a glimpse into their future, with samples of electronic pop songs teasing the audience. The album was to be titled “Death to Analog” and its release was meant to be quick and severe, but it was delayed, and delayed, and delayed again. Six years after Julien-K’s formation, “Death to Analog” is finally being released. But contrary to expectation, the band has not been taking it easy. Including keyboardist Brandon Belsky and drummer Elias Andra, the Julien-K en-
tity has produced video game scores and a slew of remixes, toured on a regular basis, performed as a DJ act, and even created a mirror group, a more straightforward rock band known as Dead by Sunrise which features Linkin Park’s Chester Ben-nington on vocals. But with the release of Julien-K’s debut album, the big wait is coming to a close, and as frontman Ryan Shuck explains, the fun begins.
Second Supper: The Julien-K Web site has been up since 2003, playing samples from the songs that are just now coming out on Death to Ana-log. What took so long?
Ryan Shuck: It didn’t have much to do with the songs being done, but more to do with the business end — deals and issues that didn’t pertain to music. We got caught up in a bunch of extraneous bullshit that prevented us from releasing the record when we wanted to, which had to do with the business structure of how we wanted to release the album. It’s not that we didn’t utilize the time — we wrote the Dead by Sunrise record at the same time.
SS: Any specifics?
RS: We were going from a larger label to a much larger technology company. We started a new company called Level 7 with an execu-tive named Henry Nicholas and a company called Broadcom. We were encouraged to create a new distribution platform. It would have brought economics back into music and changed everything. But now, [Nicholas] is un-der serious fire from the government, and that froze our ability to perform for that company. We scrambled and changed our plan, and now we’re doing it the more traditional route.
SS: What ideas did you have to change the in-dustry?
RS: I can’t give a lot of details because some of it is proprietary information, but let’s just say we would have had Apple in our sights, and it would have been ugly.
SS: How did Julien-K form?
RS: We sort of faded into Julien-K out of the disintegration of Orgy. We didn’t know that Orgy was going to not talk to each other for three years.
you tuned in the local radio that was in your hostel to be greeted with the odd sounds on the bottom of the dial that seem otherworldly, as if aliens were channeled through the per-formers who thrive well below the radar of the pop superstars seen on local billboards. Or perhaps you ingested some of the local eth-nobotony recommended by Terrance McKenna and the sounds of the insects in the nearby jungle are creating a symphony unlike anything heard by the Berlin Philharmonic. The people at Sublime Frequencies have had these expe-riences too, and they captured these sounds for your listening pleasure, focusing on ethic folk, pop, ceremony, animist, bizarre, ritual, and exotica as an alternative aesthetic of explora-tion and research of global sound and culture. They’ve got some DVD documentaries too for that visual fix. They have a limited press-ing of vinyl, some CD’s, as well as affordable downloads. For those of you who don’t want to financially support this rad company, I found a torrent on thepiratebay.org that compiled 36 of their releases you could illegally download. Expand your worldview and check this stuff out. — Shuggypop Jackson
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Masala MamaTown Hall BreweryMinneapolis, Minnesota
darker than most IPAs — with a bubbly, clingy head that churns two fingers high. The aroma attacks sinuses with a hoppy burst of pine and lime, but a long in-hale reveals some but-tery malts hidden low in the mix. In the realm of high-performing IPAs, those understated de-tails are appreciated. Masala Mama smacks the lips and tongue with an aggressive introduction, puckering the cheeks with some grapefruit bitterness, be-fore surging out sweeter orange and pineapple flavors. Served fresh, the hops are a little too dominant, but on the next day I noticed some pleasant caramel malts and a bit of nutty yeast. The mouthfeel is perfect and the drinkability is good, although I think the alcohol content could prove daunting should you try more than a few glasses. In sum, Masala Mama is a pretty damn good beer, although I’m not ready to pro-claim it America’s finest IPA. First, I’d need a few more growlers for comparison. — Adam Bis-sen
Appearance: 9
Aroma: 9
Taste: 8
Mouthfeel: 10
Drinkability: 8
Total: 44
For a beer snob — like a snob in any field — no product is too underground to be lauded. You see this when critics’ “top ten” lists omit the year’s best-selling albums and movies, or every time a Sneaker Head walks by with un-scuffed shoes from some boutique shop you never knew existed. So it goes in the world of beer. BeerAdvocate.com is a global brew-lov-ers clearinghouse, and its 100 “Top Beers on Planet Earth” list is as esoteric as it is self-righ-teous. Although Belgian and California beers dominate the top of the member-selected list, Minneapolis’ Town Hall Brewery stands promi-nently at #10 with Masala Mama — a distinc-tive beer that by extension would be the top-rated American IPA. For an Upper Midwest IPA lover, this would seemingly be awesome, but I had never even heard of Masala Mama until yesterday when a special acquaintance brought me down a growler from the brew pub in Minneapolis. The Town Hall Brewery, you see, doesn’t bottle or ship any of its beers, so if you want to try possibly America’s finest IPA, you’ve got to get to the source. The real question, of course, is whether Masala Mama could live up to its billing. After twisting the growler open with a fresh hiss, the beer pours a stained copper color — much
We all know that decaf coffee tastes worse than a bubbling pot of dirty sock stew would, but the question is why? Decaffeinated soda isn’t terrible, so why does the removal of caf-feine from the queen of beverages transform your coffee from necessary and delicious life blood to foul and disgusting poison? To un-cover the scary truth, we must delve into the equally scary world of chemistry. There are four ways of ripping the glorious caffeine molecules out of their native homes in the coffee beans, and some of the ways suck less than others. Let’s start with the grossest one — using methylene chloride. There is a di-rect method, where the beans are soaked in methylene chloride and an indirect one where the beans are soaked in water, which removes not only the caffeine, but also the oils in the bean that give it its flavor. The water solution is then treated with methylene chloride and some of the oils are reabsorbed by the beans. Both of these methods lead to coffee that tastes of chemical residues more strongly than it tastes of actual coffee. Methylene chloride, by the way, is also used as a paint stripper and plastic welder and just might give you cancer. Mmmmm, bring on the decaf! Another method is virtually identical to the first, but uses ethyl acetate instead. This chemi-cal is naturally occurring in some fruits, so it’s not as crappy as the paint-stripper chemical. The third method is better than the first two
Why decaf sucks
— using carbon dioxide at a high temperature and pressure. The beans are pressure cooked with the gas, which enters a “supercritical” state and captures the small caffeine molecules while leaving the larger flavor molecules in their rightful place. This method results in a more flavorful, less crappy coffee. The final method is the best, as far as decaf goes. The beans are soaked in water, which is then passed through a carbon filter to remove the caffeine, and then given back to the beans to reabsorb the flavors. A slight alteration of this process is the “Swiss water process,” in which the beans sacrifice less fla-vor because they are soaked in a coffee-fla-vored solution instead of plain water. Any way you look at it though, decaf cof-fee is sick, wrong, and immoral. It should be abolished. Especially the icky chemically ones. I understand some people are forced to drink the nasty garbage-juice decaf, and I pray that someday soon, someone comes up with a bet-ter way to make the stuff still taste the way it should. — Amber Miller
Good enough. That seems to be the general consensus regarding Zack Snyder's faithful-yet-rudimentary adaptation of writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons' landmark comic se-ries. You have to assume that, with under three hours with which to work, the filmmakers would have great difficulty including everything on film that made the comic great. That being said, Snyder and company capture the true es-sence of the source material as best they can, garnering an "A" for effort in the process. Only a mere fraction of the comic's motifs, moral themes, subplots, and visual Easter eggs find their way to the big screen, robbing the film of the depth and psychological realism Moore in-tended this story to impart. As a result, Watch-men, though thoroughly entertaining, might best exist only as supplemental material to the actual book. Watchmen retains the meat and potatoes of its source's plot: in the midst of an alternate 1985 in which Richard Nixon is serving his fifth term in the White House and the Doomsday Clock is on the verge of hitting midnight, an ex-super hero named The Comedian (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) is murdered. A former partner of his, the masked vigilante Rorschach (Jackie Earle Haley), sets out to solve the murder, galvaniz-ing the rest of his former team, the Watchmen, into re-donning their masks en route to discov-ering a larger, more horrific conspiracy. With the exception of the super-being Dr. Manhat-
tan (Billy Crudup), the film's six main characters never get developed past the point of their functionality. There's a palpable urgency to move quickly from one scene to the next. Viewers unfamiliar with the material may won-der how one scene leads to the next. Even I found the final hour to be particularly slow and disjointed, despite having read the comic sev-eral times. I did an experiment at last week's midnight showing, bringing my roommate (who had not read the book) along for the ride. He enjoyed it to the point of wanting to now read the book, which has most of its visual style and gritty, shocking essence faithfully retained, enough so that non-readers should at the very least walk away with a budding interest in the book. Snyder must have known it would be hard to please both the curious movie-going public and the die-hard Watchmen fanboys, and yet he still took on the project, making the best Watch-men movie that could possibly be made. The time was right for it to come out, and Snyder was the right person for the job, and while the film might not be as groundbreaking as the comic, I'm content with describing it simply as "good enough."— Nick Cabreza
Watchmen (2009)Director: Zack SnyderCast: Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley, Malin AkermanWriters: David Hayter and Alex Tse, based on the comic by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
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SS: Was that around the Punk Statik Paranoia phase?
RS: Yeah. Punk Statik Paranoia was a record that we didn’t really intend to put out. It was really a B-side record, and it got cobbled together and brought out without a lot of us signing off on it. It was during those sessions and in trying to do a third record when the band reached a level of out of controlness that would have made Motley Crue proud. We stopped calling each other, did a lot of drugs, and there was excess everywhere. We were successful, so we could do that.
None of us have quit Orgy — it’s still a band and we’re still friends — but Amir and I just kept writing. We’re the electronic guys in the band, the Depeche Mode guys, much more likely to write it on our keyboards. Orgy made it more rock. So Julien-K became this elec-tronic side project we were working on, and we imagined the name as an alter ego to Orgy, an android persona that we could go out and have a dual life under. It ended up becoming the main focus.
SS: Aside from Depeche Mode, Daft Punk, and a few other exceptions, there’s really an ab-sence of electronic groups in the mainstream that avoid using guitars and live drums as an al-most disclaimer. Whereas Orgy was more of a rock band that used electronics, Julien-K seems more like an electronic act that occasionally uses guitars.
RS: Yeah, I think you accurately described what we’re doing. We write from a totally electronic standpoint. Occasionally, we need guitars on something, but there are a lot of songs on the record which have no guitars at all. Orgy would have never done that.
I think that I agree; there aren’t many prominent bands that are at their core electronic. What we’re trying to do with Julien-K is be that elec-tronic band, that flag-bearer. Our creed is that we want this to be passionate, honest music, with lyrics that you can actually get into that are real, that are my diary. We want to have melody. We want to deliver songs. We don’t want to just be so abstract and have such fuck you attitude; we do want these songs to work in a pop sense.
SS: Do you feel that many electronic musicians go the vague, vacant, jaded lyrical and musical route?
RS: Most electronic bands that are out right now — and I like a lot of them — are like a pair of really cool new leather boots that you wear for a while. After a while, you’re not ashamed or embarrassed of them, but they just don’t work with what you’re doing anymore. That’s exactly what I don’t want to do. When we started Ju-lien-K, it was a straight electro band. We didn’t even know who was going to sing. I was no lead singer; I sang in Orgy, but I wasn’t the lead. It took Chester Bennington and Amir to coach me and help me understand that I could ac-tually be the lead singer. We almost fell victim to that jump off the electro, because we were always doing that type of music, but we stood back and said that we didn’t want to be a part of this act. We’ve got to write songs, songs that
you could play on an acoustic guitar or a piano, even though we’re going full-on electro.
SS: In addition to the band itself and the album, Julien-K consists of a DJ act, and the group is constantly remixing songs as well as providing soundtracks to video games. Did you always see Julien-K as something bigger than a band releasing albums?
RS: Absolutely. It’s a creative team. Julien-K is two bands: Dead by Sunrise where Chester sings and writes the main body of work, and Julien-K where I sing and write the main body of work. There’s also a production team; as we speak we’re producing a band called The Delta Fiasco, an amazing band from Liverpool. And it’s a remix team. We’ve only been doing a few remixes a month. We scored the entire game of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. That’s an entire album of music. We have three hours of music coming out this year! It’s pretty ri-diculous.
We do all these different things, but to make it easy, it’s a group of friends: me, Chester, Amir, Brandon, Anthony Valcic, and Elias. We’re all these different things, but Julien-K is the iden-tity.
SS: Are there any plans of doing future Orgy material?
RS: I wouldn’t say never. We’ve been talking about doing some shows, or a big show — maybe a Coachella type of thing — but Amir and I aren’t capable of committing to Orgy this year. We love Orgy; I think it’s still cool and still relevant, and I’d love to do more stuff.
SS: Are you going to be releasing this material at a much faster clip than in the past decade?
RS: Definitely. A lot of it’s going to come out. Under the current deal that we have, we don’t really have any obstacles to putting music out. We can crank out music pretty quickly.
SS: You used to be a professional hairdresser. Is it something you still do?
RS: I have four clients, and they don’t pay me: Amir, Brandon, Elias, and occasionally Chester. I still cut Jerry Popoff from the band Lit, all my friends that come over to my house. I cut my girlfriend’s hair occasionally.
SS: It’s a labor of love, now.
RS: Yeah. I do it because I’m good at it. The band’s image and the way we look are very much de-signed. Everyone can do a look, everyone’s into fashion and style naturally. But from the top there has to be a directive of the way a band is going to be packaged, and it’s just as important as the music. It’s fun. It’s real. We live this. So my background in hair is really useful, but I own three restaurants, I have 100 employees, I’m in three bands. It’s stupid. I can’t have a job.
To read the full interview, visit www.secondsupper.com.
Julien-K, continued
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"Earning All A's"--good grades, good grief.By Matt Jones
I'm Jonesin' for a Crossword
Answers to Issue 153's "Slash of Inspiration"
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54 Concert memen-tos55 Fast food restau-rant fixture56 Close female rela-tive57 World's Fair kinDown1 Op. ___ (footnote abbr.)2 It can be spiked or set, but not bumped3 Indian tourist city4 Scrapes from a mo-torcycle spill5 Trophy for Sam Bradford, in 20086 Thoughtful pieces7 "Hot Buttered ___" (1969 Isaac Hayes album)8 "Hold on a bit..."9 Proceeded as planned10 Aquafina rival11 Gets warmer12 Show that re-leased the edited version of "I'm on a Boat," for short15 Dark parts of sun-spots
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47 Santa Fe's st.48 Hoard49 Pal 'til the end, for short51 Brit. honor©2009 Jonesin' Cross-words ([email protected])For answers to this puzzle, call: 1-900-226-2800, 99 cents per minute. Must be 18+. Or to bill toyour credit card, call: 1-800-655-6548. Ref-erence puzzle #0405.
Editor's note: Due to a layout error, the bottom of Maze Efflux was omitted from last week's Second Supper. Gemini is reprinted below.
Maze Efflux by Erich Boldt
Across1 Scorch5 "___ a Liar" (song by the Bee Gees)8 Dana, a.k.a. Queen Latifah13 "Otello" baritone14 That objeto15 Lopsided16 Dessert made with ladyfingers18 Like some labor19 Like the coolest celebrity chemist in the world?21 Covered in frost22 Some CFC's23 Greens used for bra-stuffing?27 Up and about28 "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" victo-ries, briefly29 ___ Jong Il32 Detroit : Michigan-der :: Salt Lake City : ___33 A.M.A. members34 U.K. indie band named for a Soviet space dog36 "Solaris" author
Stanislaw37 Life sentences?38 More like dishwa-ter?39 "Equus" character Alan transforms to become useful to a
lumberjack?42 Cry on the set44 Colorful desktop computer45 Boozed it up with skeezy intentions?49 Word after dirty
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Italian beef meal:$6.15Chicago chili dog:$3.45
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$6.75shrimp dinner
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11 a.m. - 4 p.m
closed $2.50Blatz vs. Old Style
pitchers
Thirsty Tuesday
10 cent wings (9 - CL)$1 High Life bottles$1.50 rail mixers$2 Guinness pints
Wristband Night
$3.00 Captain mixers/mojitos$2 Cherry Bombs$1 Bazooka Joes
7 - CL$1 domestic 12 oz
$2 Stoli mixers
7 - CLTequila’s chips & salsa, $2 Coronas, $2.50 Mike’s, Mike-arita
7 - midnightLadies: 2 for 1
Guys: $1.50 Coors and Kul Light bottles
7 - midnight$1 rail mixers
$2 Bacardi mixers
7 - midnight$2 Malibu madness
$2 pineapple upsidedown cake
WING NIGHT-$1.25/LBBUFFALO, SMOKEY BBQ, PLAIN $1.00 PABST AND PABST LIGHT BOTTLES$1.50 ROLLING ROCK BOTTLES $2.25 BUD LIGHTS $1.00 SHOT OF THE WEEK
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$3.00 JAGER BOMBS
Build your own Bloody Mary
16oz Mug - $4.00
$1.25BURGERS
Bucket of Domestic Cans 5 for $9.00
25 Cent Wings
HAPPY HOUR 6 AM - 9 AMbeer pong 6 p.m.$8.95 16 oz steak free wings 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. HAPPY HOUR
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$8.95 1/2 lb. fish platter
$5.99 gyro
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Buy one gyroget one
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free baklava, ice cream or sundae
with meal
$1.25 domestic tapsbuy one burger
get one half price
buy one appetizerget one half price
GREEK ALL DAYappetizer half price
with meal
Bloody Mary specials10 - 2
HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 -7 and 9 - 11
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Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday SaturdayLA CROSSE
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Dan’s Place411 3rd st.
$4full pint Irish Car Bomb
$1Kul Light
cans
Topless Tuesday
Ladies Nightbuy one, get one free
wear a bikini, drink free
Karaoke$1 shot specials
live DJ$1 shot specials
Karaoke
HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 - 6Homemade Pizza & PItcher of Beer
$9.00
HAPPY HOUR 3 PM - 8 PM
Fiesta Mexicana5200 Mormon Coulee
chicken & veggie fajitas
for two
football nightdomestic beer: $1.50Mexican beer: $2.00
chicken primavera
shrimp burrito
chili verde
Ask server for details
The Cavalier114 5th ave.
HAPPY HOUR 4 - 7closedMartini Madness
$2 off all martinis$1 Dr. shots
$3 Jager Bombs2 for 1 taps
50 cent taps 4 - 7(increases 50 cents per
hour)$1 rails
Wristband Night
$5 COLLEGE I.D.$9 general public
$3.00 Bacardi mixers/mojitos$2 Cherry Bombs$1 Bazooka Joes
$2 Tuesdays, including $2 bottles, import taps, beer pong, apps, single shot mixers, featured shots, and 50 cent taps
Chuck’s1101 La Crosse st.
Mexican Monday $2.00 Corona,
Corona Light, Cuervo
$.50 domestic taps, $1 microbrews, $3 domestic pitchers, $6 microbrew pitchers
$3.00 Patron Shots$2.00 Cruzan Rum Mixers, $2.50 Jameson Shots, $3.00 Mixers
$2.00 Captain Mixers$2.00 Malibu, $2.50 Jaeger,
$3.00 Jaeger Bombs$3.00 Domestic Pitchers, $2.00 Shots of Cuervo,
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Beef & Etc.1203 La Crosse st.
CheapShots318 Pearl st.
Coconut Joe’s 223 Pearl st.
Arena for specialsto 83361Ladies drink free Rails and Domestic Light Tap Beer 9-11pm on the
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$1 cherry bombsuntil
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meatball sandwich meal: $6.692 Chicago dogs meal: $5.89
Italian beef meal:$6.69Chicago chili dog:$3.89
grilled chicken sand-wich meal: $5.29Polish sausage meal: $4.49
hamburger or cheeseburger meal:$3.89Italian Beef w/dog meal: $7.89
pepper & egg sandwichmeal: $5.00Italian sausage meal: $6.69
Italian beef meal:$6.692 Chicago dog meal: $5.89
7 - CL$1 domestic 12 oz
$2 Stoli mixers
7 - CLTequila’s chips & salsa, $2 Coronas, $2.50 Mike’s, Mike-arita
7 - midnightLadies: 2 for 1
Guys: $1.50 Coors and Kul Light bottles
7 - midnight$1 rail mixers
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Dan’s Place411 3rd st.
$4full pint Irish Car Bomb
$1Kul Light
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Topless Tuesday
Ladies Nightbuy one, get one free
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Karaoke$1 shot specials
live DJ$1 shot specials
Karaoke
The Cavalier114 5th ave.
Martini Ladies' NightJames Martini: vodka, triple
sec, orange juice
6- 8$1.50 taps
All Mojitos $5
Wristband Night $5 COLLEGE I.D.$9 general public
$2 Tuesdays, including $2 bottles, import taps, beer pong, apps, single shot mixers, featured shots, and 50 cent taps
Chuck’s1101 La Crosse st.
Guys' Nite out 1.50 silos $.50 taps Domestic 3.00 pitchers
RING TOSS NIGHT 3 Rings for $1
Ladies' Nite out 1.50 Raill mixers/ $2.50 X bombs
After Class $3 Pitchers $1.75 Rails
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Holmen Meat Locker Jerky Raffle
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All day Everyday: $1 Doctor $2 Silos. M-F: Happy Hour 2-6 $.50 off everything but the daily special
Fox HollowN3287 County OA
Gracie’s 1908 Campbell rd.
The Helm108 3rd st
Build your own Bloody Mary
16oz Mug - $4.00
$1.25BURGERS
Bucket of Domestic Cans 5 for $9.00
25 Cent Wings
$5.99 gyro
fries & soda
Buy one gyroget one
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free baklava, ice cream or sundae
with meal
$1.25 domestic tapsbuy one burger
get one half price
buy one appetizerget one half price
GREEK ALL DAYappetizer half price
with meal
Football Sunday11-7 happy hour, free
food, $1.50 bloody, 1/2 price pitchers DTB
HAPPY HOUR EVERYDAY 3 - 6Homemade Pizza & PItcher of Beer
$9.00
Fiesta Mexicana5200 Mormon Coulee
chicken & veggie fajitas
for two
football nightdomestic beer: $1.50Mexican beer: $2.00
chicken primavera
shrimp burrito
chili verde
Ask server for details
$1 dom. taps, Dr. shots, $2 rails, imports, Bud, $3 calls mixers, all apps, $4 top shelf
closed
Italian beef w/dog meal: $6.69Pizza Puff meal:$4.49
Chances R417 Jay st.
12 - 7:2-4-1 rails
$2.50 beers
Happy Hour12 - 7
10 - CL:$1.50 rails
7- CL:Margarita Monday
$2.50(rocks only)
3- CL:2 Beers, 1 topping pizza
$11
7- CL:Ladies' Night
$1.25 beers & rails
7- CL:Guys' Night
$1.25 beers & rails
Happy Hour12 - 7
50 cents off most items
Thirsty Thursday 2-CL3 12 oz. dom. taps $2
$1 vodka drinks$1 12 oz taps
All day (everyday!) specials$1.25 Old Style Light
$1.50 LAX Lager/Light$1 shots of Dr.
6 - 8 p.m.$1.50 rails/domestics
Great drinks! Great drinks!
Barrel Inn2005 West ave.
Howie's1128 La Crosse st.
9-cl -$2 captain mixers, $2 bottles/cans, $3 jager bombs
9-cl- NBC night. (Night Before Class) $3 pitch-ers of the beastHappy Hour 4-9 p.m.
9-cl- $3.50 Domestic pitchers
9-cl- $1 rails, $2.50 pitchers, Beer Pong
$5 AUCD 9-cl $1.25 rails, $1.75 bottles/cans
9-cl $2 bacardi mixers, $2 domestic pints, $1.50 shots blackberry brandy
2 for 1 bottles and cans during the game
2.25 for mini pitcher
Buck Burgers 1/4 Barrel giveaway during Monday night
football
Bucket Night 6 beers for $9
AUCD Taps and Rails 8-1 $6
25 cent wings Dollar shots of Doctor
$4.50 domestic pitchers Pitcher and Pizza $10
Animal House110 3rd st.
$2.00 Domestic Silos$2.50 Jack Daniel Mixers$2.00 Goldschlager
$1 Domestic Taps$2 Craft Import Taps$2.50 Vodka Mixers$1 Shot Menu
$2.50 Select imports/craft Beers$2.50 Top shelf Mixers$2 Mich Golden bottles
$2 Domestic Silos$2.50 Premium Silos$2.50 Three Olive Mixers$2. Goldschlager
Stop in for Value Menu too big to list here
$2.50 Bomb Shots$2.50 Ketel One Mixers$2 Retro Beers "Your Dad's Beer"
$2.50 X-Rated Mixers$2 Captain Mixers$2 Premium Grain Belt$2 Snake Bites
Happy Hour 4 p.m. - 9 p.m. M-F
Happy Hour 7 - 9. $2 for all single shot mixers and all beers.
$1 cherry bombsuntil
midnight
ALL NEW!
Arterial 1003 16th st
$1.50 U call domestics and rails $1 Most Pints, $2
Absolut Mixers
$2 Domestic Bottles and Cans
$2 U Call it imports $3 Crown
Mixers
$5 All Pitchers $2 Corona/Corona Light, $4 Patron
$2 Stoli Mixers, $1 DR Shots
happy hour 1 -6 M - F
Eagle's Nest1914 Campbell rd.
OPEN-CL$2 U "Call" it
7-CL:$1.50 domestic pints, $1.50 rails
7-CL:$1.50 domestic pints, $1.50 rails
7-CL: $1.50 domestic pints,
$2 craft pints, $1.50 rails
3-9: 2 for 1 domestic bottles and rail drinks
OPEN-CL$2 U "Call" it
7-CL: $1.50 domestic pints,
$2 craft pints, $1.50 rails
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COMMUNITY SERVICE Area food & drink specials[ ]
WINONAGodfather’s30 Walnut st.
any jumbo, large, or medium pizza up to 5 toppings: $11.99
large 1 topping pizza$9.99
(get 2nd large for $5)
family buffet 5 -8 kids under 10 pay .45 cents per year of age
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Crescent Inn444 Chestnut st.
$2 Rolling Rocks$2 domestic beer
8 - CL$1.50 rails
$1.75 Bud cans
$1 shots of Dr.$2.50 Polish
$1 domestic taps$3 Jager Bombs
$2 u-call-it(except top shelf)
$2.50 Captain$2.50 Jager
Bombs & Polish
LA CRESCENT Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Nutbush3264 George st.
Ringside223 Pearl st.
Schmidty’s3119 State rd.
Shooter’s120 S 3rd st.
Karaoke @ 10 p.m.2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10
AUCD Rail mixers @ 10 p.m.
HOOP DAY!! MAKE YOUR SHOT AND YOUR ENTRÉE IS FREE!
Price by Dice2 for 1
Happy HourALL NIGHT LONG
double cheeseburger$6.50
HAPPY HOUR 4 PM - 7 PM$6.99 FISH SANDWICH FOR LUNCH, $7.99 FISH SAND-WICH FOR DINNER, $9.99
ALL YOU CAN EAT FISH FRY ALL DAY
happy hour all day long! $1.00 OFF WILD WINGS, $1.00 PHILLY STEAK AND
CHEESE.
breakfast buffet$9.95
10 a.m. - 2 p.m.
$1 Shot Night Ask Nicely See What Happens
Tie Tuesday Great Prices For Sharp Dressers
$1 Rails, $1.50 Pint Taps, $3 Long
Island Pints
$2.50 Bacardi Mixers, $3 Long
Island Pints
Ralph'sIn John's Bar109 3rd st. N
Mighty Meatball sub $6
chicken parmesansub $6
Italian sandwich w/banana peppers and parmesan &6
Southwest chicken pita
$5
Chicken salad on rye w/ lettuce,
tomato, onion $5
Tailgators1019 S 10th st.
happy hour all day
$4 domestic pitchers
$2 Bacardi mixers
$2 Spotted Cow & DT Brown pints
Bucket Night5 for $9
$1 Dr. shots$3 16 oz Captain mixers
$1 Dr. shots$3 16 oz Captain mixers
Legend’s223 Pearl st.
WING NIGHT$2 SVEDKA MIXERS $2.50
JACK MIXERS$2.25 BUD LIGHTS
$2 SHOTS OF ALL DOCTOR FLAVORS
AFTER COMEDY: PINT NIGHT$1 PINTS OF RAILS MIXERS AND DOMESTIC TAPS $2 PINTS OF CALL MIXERS AND IMPORT TAPS$3 PINTS OF TOP SHELF MIXERS
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The Joint324 Jay st.
1/2 off Pearl Street pitchers during Packer
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JB’s Speakeasy717 Rose st.
$1.75 domestic bottles
$1.75 domestic bottles
$1.75 domestic bottles
$1.00 off all Irish shots$2.50 pints of Guinness
$3.00 imperial pints
Players214 Main St
Karaoke @ 10 p.m.2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10
$1 Pabst cans, Dr. shots @ 10 p.m.
2-4-1 Happy Hour 5 - 10$2 Capt. mixers $1.75
domestic beer, $1.50 Rails, $1 Pabst cans @ 10 p.m.
2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 9Best Damned DJ'S
@ 10 p.m.
2-4-1 Happy Hour 3 - 8Best Damned DJ'S
@ 10 p.m.
$2.50 Bacardi Mixers, $3 Long
Island Pints
Top Shots137 S 4th st.
Fiesta Night 7 - 12$2 tequila shots$2.50 margaritas
$1.75 light tapsand Dr. shots
$1.50 Bud/Miller Lite/PBR taps all day$1.75 rails 10 - 1
$2 domestic bottles7 - 12, $2.50 Skyy/
Absolute mixers 10-1$2 Dr. drinks
5 domestic bottles for $10, $2 Bacardi mixers, $1.50 rail vodka mixers 10 -1
$2 Long Islands, PBR bottles,
Captain mixers
$2.75 deluxe Bloodys ‘til 7, $5
lite pitchers 7 - 12
Sports Nut801 Rose st.
BuckBurgers
Tacos $1.25
15 cent wings
12 oz. T-Bone$8.99
Fish Fry $6.95
15 cent wings
open4 - 9
open4 - 9
4 - 8 p.m. Bacardi $3 doubles/pints
4 - 8 p.m. domestic bottles/rails
$1.75
4 - 8 p.m. domestic bottles/rails
$1.75
5 - 7 p.m. 2-4-1 happy hour great drinks!
every day $1 shots of Doc
LUNCH BUFFET $6.45LUNCH SPECIALS CHANGE DAILY
Chef specials daily
HAPPY HOUR 3 - 6
HAPPY HOUR 10 AM - 12, 4 PM - 6 PM
HAPPY HOUR 5 - 7
$2 SHOTS OF GOLDSCHLAGER$5 DOUBLE VODKA ENERGY DRINK
Sunday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday SaturdayLA CROSSE
COMMUNITY SERVICE Area food & drink specials[ ]
Yesterdays 317 Pearl st.
$1 Point special bottles
$2.50 pints Bass & Guinness
$1.75 domestic bottles
$2.25 Pearl st. pints$1.50 PBR bottles
$1.75 rails$1 PBR mugs
Train Station BBQ601 St. Andrew st.
ask forgreat eats
11-3: Extra side with sandwich
4-9: $1 off rib dinner
11-3: Ruben $6.954-9: Wings $4.99
11-3: Barn burner $7.954-9: Hobo dinner (serves 2) $25.95
11-3 Crispy chicken salad4-9: Bones &
briskets $13.95
1/2 Chicken3 bones
Second Supper vol. 9, issue 1541�
Entertainment Directory 3/12 - 3/18ÃJust A Roadie Away...Thursday, March 12 March 14, continued
Del’s BarKin Pickin’ 10:00
Northside OasisCaleb and Joe and the People They Know �:00
Popcorn TavernLAX All-stars 10:00 NighthawksDave Orr's open jam 10:00
JB's Unstratified 10:00 Alpine InnPat McCurdy 9:00 Friday, March 13
Popcorn TavernTBA 10:00
Viterbo Main TheaterLa Crosse SymphonyOrchestra �:�0
JB's The Sharp and Harkins Band 10:00
The JointThe Smokin' Banditsand White Iron Band 10:00
Trempealeau HotelIrish Music Jam �:00
Train Station BBQPatrick O'Brien �:00
Piggy's Blues LoungeMudcat and the Bottomfeeders �:00
Howie's LiveCardiac Radio, This Building and Conscious Limit 9:00
The HideawayCopperbox �:00
Del’s BarErock 10:00
Coconut’sLive DJ 10:00
PlayersKaraoke 10:00
Popcorn TavernBrownie's Open Jam 10:00
Wednesday, March 18
Popcorn TavernSterus 10:00
The JointBrownie's Open Jam 10:00
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Beef Slough Boys Ed's Bar Sat., �/14
Ralphed, Megan Nelson and Todd Hanson Acoustic Café Sat. �/14
Driven American Legion Sat., �/14
Willie Waldman Project Riverside Center Mon. �/1�
Saturday, March 14
Popcorn TavernMoon Boot Posse 10:00 Nighthawk'sThe Kissers Reunion Show 10:00
The Freight HouseNick Stika �:00
JB'sBull Dyke Rodeo 10:00
Starlite LoungeKies and Company �:00
Coconut Joe'sGeared Under 9:00
The Waterfront TavernGreg Balfany and the La Crosse Jazz Quartet �:00
River Jack'sThe Memory Brothers �:00
Northside OasisSellout 9:�0
The JointBrainchild 10:00
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Monday, March 16
Tuesday, March 17
Popcorn TavernEric and Al 10:00
Popcorn TavernShawn's Open Jam w/ Up and Coming 10:00
Houghton’sHootenanny w/ Mike Caucutt 10:00
Del’sOpen jam with Chubba 10:00
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The little man eyes him up and unexpectedly blurts out "You know, I'm a Leprechaun, and if you bend over so I can poke your arse, I will grant you three wishes".
Than man replies, "Yes I'm 29 and have a wife and two kids"The Leprechaun says, "Well aren't you a little bit old to be believing in Leprechauns?"
A man walks in a bar, sits down, and a little man comes and sits next to him. The little man asked if he had a family and how old he was. The man told him he was 29 and had a wife and two kids.
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They go to the bathroom and the Leprechaun bends the man over. When he’s almost the Leprechaun says, "You did say you were 29 and had a family right?"
Second Supper vol. 9, issue 154�0