Posts Tagged ‘ Kansas ’

Talk shit on Kansas all you want, 7000 miles is enough to make it feel like home.
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Last night, the wife and I attended the opening of Ad Astra Theatre Ensemble’s (@adastratheatre) performance of Neil Labute’s “Reasons to be Pretty” at Blue Planet Cafe (@BluePlanetKS) in Topeka, KS. As it reads on the Ensemble’s website, this “play contains very strong language: Rated R.” Yeah, R for REAL. The characters in this...
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As in most places in the US, St. Patrick’s Day is  a well celebrated “holiday” in Topeka. Since the kids were born, my wife and I haven’t celebrated a St. Pats like we did in college, but we have plenty of other activities, that may or may not include green beer, to fill the...
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Unfortunately, it isn’t every day that I seek to read a piece of legislation, state or federal. However, every so often a piece of legislation is written (usually at the state level) that is so asinine that I can’t help but want to read it for the laughs. A few days ago, in passing,...
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01JUN2011 will be the grand opening of The Kansas Children’s Discovery Center in Topeka, KS. The center will be a colorful, magical and fun place where children will have “hands-on” opportunities to learn about math, science and the arts. As a fundraising effort for the Outdoor Learning Environment, the folks at the Discovery Center...
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Several weeks ago at work, I noticed that several co-workers were sprinkling a concoction, from a nondescript bottle, onto there lunches. According to them it was the fire-hot handmade spice recipe of a fellow Soldier, lovingly called  Monster Dust (the concoction, not the Soldier). I, being a super fan of atomically hot foods, dry rubs, oils and sauces,...
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During after Christmas clean-up, I got motivated to organizing the basement catch-all area. I was amazed at the assortment of items I’ve been able to horde since we moved. It was like Christmas all over again. I found books I forgot I owned, piles of batteries, and boxes of magazines. In these boxes was a truncated...
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Recently, the Topeka Capital-Journal released the results of their annual “Best of Topeka” reader poll. According to CJOnline, the poll is a “chance to say what’s great and compare their favorites with the choices of thousands of others who fill out the annual ballot.” Since I’ve been living in Topeka the poll has...
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As I sit here eating my continental breakfast (waffles and bisquits and gravy), I can’t help but think about how “new” this pending deployment is going to be. Not only will this be my first deployment, but I will be going over as a recently MOSQ’d commo guy with a section of mostly new...
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