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The RED BARON remodel begins...this came (named and all) with the cabin, I always have to make a case against it being recycled into beer cans-maybe a small motor and some more red paint next summer:^))

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True to their word, our Russell Moccasin order turned up exactly 6 months from the day it was ordered from the Berlin HQ~a cabin bound detour I've wanted to make for a years.
Happy Feet....in house relatives here and here.
Russell Moccasin Co. of Wisconsin.

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Grabner: Perhaps that is why I have been spending a lot of time thinking about the necessity for creating a studio scenario built on situational boredom. I am finding confidence in David Foster Wallace’s belief in boredom as a necessary human condition. Of course I am not talking about the crippling, existential kind, but boredom that recontours our relationship to time and social networking, a condition absent of distraction, or as Dave Hickey puts it, absent of static. I am interested in how ideas emerge, grow, and sustain themselves within this condition. Positive boredom is contentment. I am positively content in the studio but endlessly unnerved and anxious in my other work.

~Taken from Barry Schwabsky's awesome interview with Michelle Grabner in The Brooklyn Rail.

~you need to read it.

The Suburban & Poor Farm

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Picked up at Renaissance.

In house decoys-slow your scroll here.

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Whittled bird found in the Northwoods WI- I'm drawn to pieces which use minimal descriptive information in the act of whittling to achieve the desired form...it could also be the measure of ones attention span or rudimentary skill~but this bird is singing O<.

In house relatives here...here and here.

Renaissance Books WI

I love Wisconsin-for a bunch of good reasons~Renaissance used bookstore located inside General Mitchell Airport in Milwaukee being one. I always find something in there, and have had my name called over the loudspeaker due to its powers of distraction. If you are flying out of Milwaukee the plan is to get there a little early.

ps-the downtown location is just nuts.

OWKAY GUYS, NEXT ANTIQUE MALL.

Give me a future...old guys ruling in Northern WI.

*ps~WXPR is AWESOME.

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Michelle Grabner & Charlotte Perriand.

The Real Scott Walker

...is not a cunt.

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The reason for Green Bay's survival is its unique public ownership structure. It has 112,158 shareholders, of which I am one. None of us can own more than 200,000 of thePackers' 4.75 million outstanding shares. The stock pays no dividend. It does not entitle you to a ticket to a game. It cannot be sold or transferred, except to family members. Nor can the team move except through dissolution of the Packers corporation, which until 1997 required all proceeds of the sale of the team (which now would be in the hundreds of millions of dollars) to go to a World War I memorial at the localAmerican Legion post.

Fortunately, wiser heads prevailed, and now the proceeds will go to the Green Bay Packers Foundation, which has distributed more than $2 million to charities in Wisconsin since its founding in 1986. Besides the Packers Foundation, profits from the team go to the team as salaries, not into the pocket of some greedy owner.

As a result, Green Bay is liberated from the egomaniacal ownership of a Jerry Jones in Dallas, the tyranny of an Al Davis in Oakland or the team paralysis of a McCourt divorce as with the Dodgers. Unlike the owners in Minneapolis, Buffalo, N.Y., or Jacksonville, Fla., there can be no idle threats to move the team to Los Angeles in an effort to blackmail the community into building luxurious stadiums the local governments can ill afford. Yet, NFL rules prohibit any team other than Green Bay from being owned by more than 30 owners.

Historic Lambeau Field, home of the Packers, is reflective of the franchise's community spirit. No corporate monolith governs the food and beverage sales. Rather, by community tradition, each concession stand is staffed by local charities, which raise close to $1 million annually from their efforts. Thirsty for a beer? Try the booth staffed by De Pere Knights of Columbus. Hungry for a bratwurst? Volunteers from the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh girls softball team are there to serve you. My personal favorite for years was a buttery grilled cheese sandwich served up by the Green Bay East High School Athletic Booster Club.

*excerpt from Mark Neubauer's awesome LA Times article 'LA should follow the cheeseheads'~here

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Jurassic>Johns>Janesville

Michael Ned Holte goes back to the source for This Long Century-here

Now I Got Worry

Drinking At Home

Ye olde Blatz can found by our electrician Paul between the walls-Milwaukee's Finest!-could be as old as the house itself (1924).

Texting With The Dead

Found in WI this past Christmas.

Homeward Bound

She Shirt

Les found someone's 1950's-60's wardrobe in her size today during our antique run, Betty Draper gowns etc. This chambray shirt with red buttons and pocket/inside lapel trim is my pick of her picks.

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Items we didn't buy in Northern WI today. 1960's snow suit with back patch/50's biscuit tin with printed lid/1940's chainsaw with users manual/Playboy archive late 60's through late 90's *All centerfolds and covers intact unless noted-please do not open.

Holiday Thread

Some loot from Milwaukee and Northern Wisconsin, returning to our favorite antique haunts. Native American blanket-throw with flying birds/Huge Serape with beautiful color gradation and silk fringe/Vintage L.L. Bean rabbit hunters cap manufactured by J.J Seifter & Sons Inc. N.Y.C/Mighty Mac plaid cotton, tab collar sports jacket 1950's/Vintage lambswool Marshall Field & Company sweater, made in Italy/Vintage woolen snow pants-needed!

Ready For WI/Happy Holidays

Heading to Wisconsin for Christmas, where the sweater was made, found and returns to each winter, enjoy the holidays. Go Lakers/Go Bucks, yes I have two teams now.