My pal Steve Marmel's stint on the Tonight Show. It was easily the best bit of the segment. Woo-hoo!

Co-Madisonian Mike Baron is posting his new novel, THE HODAG, on Steve Grant's fiction web site, @VENTURE.com. Word is it'll be up March 15. ALSO, Mike's got a brand-new e-mail mailing list, BARON-L@onelist.com. To subscribe, just send some e-mail to BARON-L-subscribe@onelist.com, or go to http://onelist.com/community/BARON-L. Anyone who's into the Badger, Nexus, or any of Mike's too-cool-for-words projects should definitely sign up.

The Finn brothers. Neil, in particular. Sorry. I'm listening to several Crowded House albums, as well as the Finn's solo works, right now (Matthew Sweet finished a while ago). Man, is my mood getting better.

The fact that cartoonist Kevin Knight's new collection of the K Chronicles, "Dances With Sheep," is out now.

The last couple of issues of Alex Robinson's Box Office Poison. MAN, is this comic great. But I still can't believe he killed off you-know-who...

My wonderful, beautiful wife, the lovely and talented Judith. We celebrated our seventh dating anniversary (and fifth engagement anniversary) this weekend at the Blackwolf Lodge, a hotel/indoor water park at the oh-so cheesy Wisconsin Dells. I fall deeper in love with her every day of my life.