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tornado alley roundup roundup
May 4th
Did you know how flat Illinois is? Â And did you know that with all this flatness, they decided to grow soybeans? And did you know that nobody in that state knows how to use cruise control?
So I made it down to the Lou about the time that the rest of the group was already at the Arch. Â Ducky, Coffey, and Ed all went up to the top to see if they ran from one side to the other if they could make it move (answer: it looked pretty stable to me on the ground.) Â As I was crossing the river More >
TAR update and planning
Apr 1st
TAR is fast approaching, and if you don’t know what TAR is then you should click on the link in the nav bar above this. Â We’re booking rooms and taking names, and all looks like its coming together very nicely.
I’m planning on driving down Saturday from the great state of Wisconsin and through the mediocre-at-best state of Illinois. Â Sorry, but if the Cubs call your state home, then you can only be mediocre-at-best.
As of now, my plan is to leave early Saturday morning and get to St. Louis around noon. Â I don’t know if anyone else from the area is More >
tornado alley roundup
Mar 8th
The Midwest always seems to get the shaft.  Celebrities call it “flyover land” on their way between LA and NY, but celebrities are idiots.  Celebrities don’t know what they’re missing.  Us folks in the middle of the country can party better than those lightweights on the coast, and they just don’t know.
As the graphic below clearly illustrates, we know how to rock it. Â The areas in red are where bars outnumber grocery stores. Â The yellow areas are where life sucks more.
This is a work in progress and we’re still hammering out details, but let either myself, Travis, or Ed know if you More >
