@madisonstu.bsky.social
Plugging Monday's Madison BookBeat with Cary Seagall about his engaging new book "A Talk in the Woods: Voices from the Appalachian Trail," about the people he met while hiking 2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine. Monday 1-2 at 89.9 FM and anytime at wortfm.org and on the WORT app.
November 16, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Plugging Monday's Madison BookBeat with Cary Seagall about his engaging new book "A Talk in the Woods: Voices from the Appalachian Trail," about the people he met while hiking 2,200 miles from Georgia to Maine. Monday 1-2 at 89.9 FM and anytime at wortfm.org and on the WORT app.
142 years ago today, five men died in a frightful and tragic accident while Wisconsin was building an extension to its state capitol. {From "Madison: The Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Vol. 1, 1856-1931 (uwiscpress.wisc.edu)
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM
142 years ago today, five men died in a frightful and tragic accident while Wisconsin was building an extension to its state capitol. {From "Madison: The Illustrated Sesquicentennial History, Vol. 1, 1856-1931 (uwiscpress.wisc.edu)
September 20, 2025 at 6:14 AM
To exploit Lily Tomlin's 86th birthday yesterday, posting our 2015 conversation:
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Transcript:
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Illustration by Charlie Powell, courtesy Isthmus.
archive.org/details/b-bw...
Transcript:
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Illustration by Charlie Powell, courtesy Isthmus.
September 2, 2025 at 9:32 PM
To exploit Lily Tomlin's 86th birthday yesterday, posting our 2015 conversation:
archive.org/details/b-bw...
Transcript:
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Illustration by Charlie Powell, courtesy Isthmus.
archive.org/details/b-bw...
Transcript:
acrobat.adobe.com/id/urn:aaid:...
Illustration by Charlie Powell, courtesy Isthmus.
Promo reel for Monday's Madison BookBeat episode with Fred Risser and Doug Moe - Author about their new book, Forward For The People: The Autobiography of America's Longest Serving Legislator. Listen live 1-2 at 89.9 FM or anytime at wortfm.org or on the WORT FM app.
August 30, 2025 at 3:43 PM
Promo reel for Monday's Madison BookBeat episode with Fred Risser and Doug Moe - Author about their new book, Forward For The People: The Autobiography of America's Longest Serving Legislator. Listen live 1-2 at 89.9 FM or anytime at wortfm.org or on the WORT FM app.
Industry, government, the UW and tourism/recreation - the Madison economy, captured from a kayak on Lake Mendota.
August 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Industry, government, the UW and tourism/recreation - the Madison economy, captured from a kayak on Lake Mendota.
Forstmann Woolen Company, inside front cover Life magazine, 1945-1947.
June 28, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Forstmann Woolen Company, inside front cover Life magazine, 1945-1947.
Catalpa has entered the chat. My backyard, Madison WI.
June 18, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Catalpa has entered the chat. My backyard, Madison WI.
Back when federalizing the National Guard made sense. October, 1957.
June 13, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Back when federalizing the National Guard made sense. October, 1957.
My 2023 conversation with the esteemed music journalist and historian Joel Selvin about his book "Sly & The Family Stone: An Oral History." Madison BookBeat, on listener-supported community radio WORT 89.9 FM. www.wortfm.org/joel-selvin-...
June 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM
My 2023 conversation with the esteemed music journalist and historian Joel Selvin about his book "Sly & The Family Stone: An Oral History." Madison BookBeat, on listener-supported community radio WORT 89.9 FM. www.wortfm.org/joel-selvin-...
New York Times giving some solid props to Barry Goldberg.
February 2, 2025 at 2:15 PM
New York Times giving some solid props to Barry Goldberg.
Tickets for Bob Dylan in Mankato on the secondary market a day before the presales. Not cool.
January 31, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Tickets for Bob Dylan in Mankato on the secondary market a day before the presales. Not cool.
That time I talked about drugs with President Carter backstage at a Willie Nelson concert in July 1978, after White House drug advisor Peter Bourne resigned under fire. POTUS took a very calm and enlightened position, contrary to his hard public position at the time. Then things got weird.
December 30, 2024 at 9:18 PM
That time I talked about drugs with President Carter backstage at a Willie Nelson concert in July 1978, after White House drug advisor Peter Bourne resigned under fire. POTUS took a very calm and enlightened position, contrary to his hard public position at the time. Then things got weird.
Sam Dolnick in the Times Sunday magazine on Jerry West as NBA logo and man suffering from lifelong depression. If you find a more elegant, powerful sentence, give me a call.
December 29, 2024 at 9:12 PM
Sam Dolnick in the Times Sunday magazine on Jerry West as NBA logo and man suffering from lifelong depression. If you find a more elegant, powerful sentence, give me a call.
@bobserve.com It's the "Chronicles" of biopics. "All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie"? No, all the lies in the film add up to one big truth. Elijah Wald nailed it -- "historically inaccurate, poetically accurate." And he should know.
December 25, 2024 at 3:12 AM
@bobserve.com It's the "Chronicles" of biopics. "All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie"? No, all the lies in the film add up to one big truth. Elijah Wald nailed it -- "historically inaccurate, poetically accurate." And he should know.
@bobserve.com It opened in Madison this afternoon. I'm overwhelmed. Great film, damn near perfect. Not quite, but damn near.
December 24, 2024 at 11:06 PM
@bobserve.com It opened in Madison this afternoon. I'm overwhelmed. Great film, damn near perfect. Not quite, but damn near.
After the snowfall.
December 21, 2024 at 1:38 PM
After the snowfall.
Not a bad way to spend the last day of my 70th year on the planet - taking third in the Turkey Trot 5K. Overdressed and undertrained, but very rewarding. Gobble gobble, everybody!
November 28, 2024 at 4:28 PM
Not a bad way to spend the last day of my 70th year on the planet - taking third in the Turkey Trot 5K. Overdressed and undertrained, but very rewarding. Gobble gobble, everybody!
It says something really nice about @govevers.bsky.social and Wisconsin that (a) he and Kathy are at the @badgervb.bsky.social match and (b) they're just sitting in the crowd like normal folks (which they are). Not even in the nice seats with backs and arms. On Wisconsin! (Badgers won in five).
November 28, 2024 at 5:34 AM
It says something really nice about @govevers.bsky.social and Wisconsin that (a) he and Kathy are at the @badgervb.bsky.social match and (b) they're just sitting in the crowd like normal folks (which they are). Not even in the nice seats with backs and arms. On Wisconsin! (Badgers won in five).
@officialbobdylan.bsky.social in concert. Bobby Weir and the Chicago Philharmonic. The @badgervb.bsky.social team. The end of a full day's research for my new book at the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
November 27, 2024 at 6:12 PM
@officialbobdylan.bsky.social in concert. Bobby Weir and the Chicago Philharmonic. The @badgervb.bsky.social team. The end of a full day's research for my new book at the Wisconsin Historical Society Archives.
Ad published in the underground newspaper Take Over (Madison WI), Dec. 5,1972. I suspect this may not have been an official Columbia Records ad.
November 26, 2024 at 6:09 PM
Ad published in the underground newspaper Take Over (Madison WI), Dec. 5,1972. I suspect this may not have been an official Columbia Records ad.
ICYMI, @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social -- turns out Charlie Watts collected first editions, about to go to auction at Christie's. www.christies.com/en/auction/c.... Here are some that might interest you.
September 13, 2023 at 3:41 PM
ICYMI, @annemargaretdaniel.bsky.social -- turns out Charlie Watts collected first editions, about to go to auction at Christie's. www.christies.com/en/auction/c.... Here are some that might interest you.