- Hospital Bed
- A Princess for Christmas
- Stay humble
- Nicked!
- Nerd Roast
- Well howdy there, Internet people
- Star Anise!
- Deer-Mageddon
- War
- Ukraine
- Maple Leaves
- Bar Towel
- Therese doesn't like it
- Clicks
- Borderlands Dreams
- Sushi not sushi
- Hy Vee
- Ham and Eggs
- Hipster
- Like a bus
- SNES
- Pregnancy test
- Hammers
- The morning after
- Cows
- Human
- Last Supper
- Grunkle
- Tenant
- Ox, Rabbit, Monkey
- Referencing
- Why??
- Generation Control Z
- Age
- Randy Sinz and other topics
- Goose Hater
- Hamsters!
- Ron Johnson
- Crocodile
- Gummed up
- Bayonetta
- Cancer
- Furnace schemas
- Stealing the show
- Run for the border
- She ace
- Sharing
- Clovers
- Cecil's Deli
- Good Name
- Cop Elf
- Granola
- Heartless
- A gentleman's sport
- Wild boar
- Covid makes the rounds
- Shrimp Fried Rice
- PlaySTATION!!
- Hat-Ception
- Chicken Dinner
- Robbing a convenience store
- Decked!
- Under the Bridge
- No fantasies
- Gandalf or Sauruman
- Wise old man
- Poison
- Gandalf!
- They finally caught it
- Travelled
- Mariner!
- Amish
- Charter
- Sediment
- Separation
- Royal Treatment
- New Seat
- Not now
- The magical fruit
- The fall of Rogan
- Absolute Zero
- Cats and the Supernatural
- Day in the Woods
- Supplemental anrarchy
- The days of summer
- Worth it!
- Best Selling Author
- If you're really lucky
- Kelly
- Wilder than fiction
- Geopolitics
- Do you
- Borderlands
- Bowhunter
- Can't get away
- Signed Off
- Gun Dog
- Ready for the floor
- Eagle Scout
- The Therese stare
- Weekend viewing
- My dude
- Towel Rack
- Life jacket diaper time
- Skittering
- Pillow non-fight
- The no-fun call
- Catching the 'Rona
- Store-Brand Disney
- It's a mystery
- Checking her work
- Civil War
- Conscientious objectors
- Patriotic tomfoolery
- Popsicle break!
- Jazzing around
- Orville
- Without violence
- Weavers
- It was Kit
- It was depressing anyway
- Legally forced
- James
- Rules for me but not thee
- I can't eat asparagus
- EEE!!
- ASBESTOS???
- Trolol
- By Bye Niagara
- Because they're form Ohio
- Sweltering
- Our math textbooks warned us
- How fares Europe?
- Less Recognition
- The after times
- Spotless
- Ten years
- Coffee shop prophets
- Keep the beat
- A certain vibe
- Carpet Angels
- Surprise!
- We'll be back
- Haunted
- The Christian Girl
- Shaving
- Gross
- Omelette
- Wrecking Ball
- Evolution
- Closing the Doors
- Recession
- Total Eclipse
- Adolsecent rebellion
- YouTube
- Flat Earther
- Snapping turtle
- I may be back
- Birthdays and thrift sales
- Local events
- Sacred
- Toad-herding
- Insist
- Checkmate
- Scrubs
- Chattering sound
- Diamond Dogs
- Whitemail
- The Cutest
- Ages
- Statement
- Rocking it
- Dadding
- Muscular people
- Bourbon Barrel Aged Peppermint Stout
- Nightmare fuel
- Get ot a Coinstar
- The secret meaning of funerals
- A Dartmouth man
- Not with that attitude...
- Perkins
- Stand by Me
- Moon
- Office Space
- Relish the moment
- Rest in power, JayBee, rest in peace, Will Smith's career
- Professoring
- Oh Steve
- Melting
- Pill Gun
- Picard!
- Munich
- Drag show
- Scooters!
- Shrimp that clucks
- Coucounaughts
- If I die
- Roth
- Phone charger
- Grass
- Beads
- Knew Back in High School
- Very Alike
- Backseat Drivers
- A night on the (best bar in) town
- We shouldn't have!
- Fascinating Airplane Story II
- Fascinating Aireplane Story 1
- Robert's Squirrel
- Good enough
- Sunlight
- The dreaded bike rack
- Furniture
- Getting Play
- Manga, Folk Music, and Rock n Roll
- Star Trek has always been woke
- Thump
- Breath of the Disappointment
- The war In Ukraine plods on
- Comics Class
- Cooking School
- Hot Shiitake
- Messengers
- This is War
- That giant fish
- Anime in the Woods
- Yo Dawg, I hear you like Cabin in the Woods
- Vegetarian serial killer
- PUSH
- Country strong
- Taking a quick trip
- The Unforgivable Man-Bun
- Cold vibes
- How about them Packers?
- Me and my big mouth
- Howdy there, Internet people
- A Winner is Therese
- Escape from Bowl Winkle's
- No Packers, No Watch
- TenCent
- The pet owner's dilemma
- Twin subarus
- The dead of night behind The Pickle
- When he's sober
- After concert field trip
- White people taco night
- That guy
- Reunion
- Mural
- Impastor!
- Chalk Rattery
- The Job Situation
- When he was a youngster
- Student Housing
- It's still talking
- Morgan's amazing dreamcoat
- Lasso!
- CAT BUTT
- Them Coulee Boys
- That time everybody died
- Calories and Covid
- Stay Puffed, my friends
- Phoenix burning
- The music that changed my life
- Transplant
- Don't Look Up
- Call Center
- Cancun
- Sportsball
- Milk disposal
- Stomach gurgling
- Need stuff
- Slow Laptop
- Padawan
- Ice Road
- Swetest
- Justice
- Escape
- Resolutions
- Restaurant Review
- Brave and cheerful
- Running in moon boots
- Nelson's Deli
- Dad Joke Punch
- The morning after
- New Years Eve
- Pickle
- Anarchist Energy
- Ah-Mee-Kron
- Eff this
- Arby's
- Christmas Day
- EEEEEEE
- The Patriarchy
- Sparrow
- At Work
- An early Christmas gift
- Direct hit
- Berens
- Learning to be Italian
- Monsoon
- Subaru Train
- Riding the dragonfly
- Stargate
- Atheist
- Ride
- The fall of Bitcoin
- Bitcoin Stonks
- The Panhandle
- Not Helpful
- Cartoon
- Waiting
- Bourbon
- Catch Up
- Leftovers
- Studded
- Mort returns
- The most magical time of the year
- Paninis
- Turkey Vampire
- Thanksgiving, 2021
- Meme
- Heave Ho
- Spectre!
- Cloak
- Venture
- Remember this?
- Weirdmageddon at last
- Weirdmageddon is coming
- Mother's day
- BIEBER!
- Steven Seagal
- O Scandinavia
- Tycoon
- Matthew is alright
- A sock full of quarters
- Turtles!
- Quarterbacking
- Where everybody knows your name
- Alan's bike shop
- Casper the Friendly Drunk
- Vidya games
- T-Swift FTW
- Things I don't understand
- Alan's solo trip
- I try to blame Therese
- A real tomato
- Jewish heritage
- Wholesome times at Racys High
- The woke mob
- Bughouse
- Resigned
- Band-aid
- Table
- Wilbur is the king of his castle
- Game with the squid
- Springtime in Fall
- Pancake
- Old School
- Talks Business With my Father
- Tears of joy
- Jungle Jim's
- The Onion-ification of History
- Ferguson's Orchard, Part 3
- Weekend at Ferguson's, Part 2
- Weekend at Ferguson's
- Infirm
- A Real Tomato
- Referential
- Hy-Vee
- Contact
- Kentucky Fried Road Trip
- Ivy League
- Getting older
- Night shift
- Science!!
- In the panhandle
- Accents
- Jungle
- F**k Eric Clapton
- A Career Consult
- Long day
- Cat Call
- The machine stops
- A Meme Reading
- Retro George
- Avoiding controversey
- Hitler in a toga
- What's a Snapchat?
- Zoomin
- Adorable
- Same hair
- The night and morning after
- The Great Twinkie Burn
- Trunk Slamchest
- Cajun boil and pathos
- Danger Croquet
- Danger on the high lakes
- Alan discovers Barnes
- 9 to 5
- Blue Ox-- BAH!
- Crises in the backyard
- The Covid shot blues
- For Science
- Wag's!
- John takes a chance
- Many happy returns
- The Spreadsheet Mines
- Reconnecting with Anu
- Grand Reopening
- The Joynt returns to Eau Claire
- Too old to care
- Full of hope
- Farm to Fork
- A soft, almost inaudible reopen?
- Cookie-Tunes
- The housing market is...
- Popcorn avalanche
- Pan-Fanservice
- Space Jammin!
- World on fire
- John heard it on Alex Jones
- Small town politics
- A Loving Swug
- Don't eat that!
- Mystery Science Theater 3000 FTW
- Survival skills
- A cop
- Backdoor to Narnia
- Not very woke
- Medical "practice"
- Welcome to the future
- The liquor license plot thickens....
- George Cares for His Mother
- George on the Road, Part 2
- A Boy and His Subaru
- Szechuan surprise
- Showering in the basement
- Extreme cabin-ing
- The morning after
- Weird drawers
- Therese, explosives and muinitions expert
- Blackberry pie
- Ripping a huge fahrt
- Callback!
- Sunbathing and shade bathing
- Comics and beer... on the river
- This trip to the beach blows
- Slaying the demon car
- Blackberry pie
- Fireflies
- Biking!
- Therese Badinov
- Korean, American Supper
- Converter-jacking
- Clunky, CLUNKY backend software
- Will Wilbur re-open?
- And... safety!
- Running from the Hennepin County mounties
- GET BACK
- Even right-wingers in Minneapolis film the police
- Look to your right
- Reality sets in
- B-Dubs
- Believe
- Blackout
- The Winston Boogie Smith Protest, Part 1
- Wilbur is no quitter
- The Dobsonfly Menace
- Baker's Plight
- Callback!
- The Marvelous Mr. Moffat
- Back to the grind
- More signs of the Covid era easing
- You can't take the Missouri out of John
- All in the family
- A history and art lesson
- Cat's in the bag
- Modern art
- Cat door
- Was that a stop sign?
- I'm an artist too
- Dark Kermit!
- I am (not) Batman
- Heather Hugs
- Come together, right now
- The pandemic slowly lifts
- The orange challenge that nobody asked for
- Young love
- Spider-Man
- The Jog Life
- Interociters
- Basic self-care goes to Washington
- My superpower
- Camping with Therese
- Hobbes the human
- Nightmare fuel
- Townie bars
- The parade of weirdo bikers
- The (unnamed) second-richest man in town
- Meet Terence's family
- Our future leaders
- Oyster bound
- At least we're not in Iowa
- Hair tie
- Tree hugger
- Masking
- Lilac heist busted
- Science at Racys
- Lord of the Avocados
- John's dad
- Stabby
- Sunburns
- And still more science!
- Zefrank FTW
- Parasite
- First Date
- SNAKES!
- The good old days in the shallow, dirty south
- Another reopening?
- Meet the (narrator's) parents
- Racys Reopens
- Wilbur's Storyline Thickens
- Drunk History
- Therese returns to her family cabin
- Soft Reopen!
- Food buddies
- Morgan's new job
- Therese, reunited
- Long-lost
- Old Country Buffet 4ever (or not)
- Davise
- Outsiders to art
- SHE LIVES
- Chauvin takes the fall
- One year, no haircut
- Health regained
- Car talk
- The perils of Crystal Cave
- Southe'n Cousin
- Alvin Green strikes again
- Black lives really DO matter
- Bran 'n' Bikes
- Sick of snow
- I'd like to check you for ticks
- The road to indy comics
- Family reunion!
- Christine Anderson Karma
- Anu, Epilogue
- Wilbur will never be THAT old!
- Anu, Part 3
- Anu, Part 2
- Anu, Part 1
- I don't draw so good
- A meeting of the cliques
- Good bike news and bad bike news
- Nut allergy
- Space Jammin'
- Growing old and dying in a tavern together
- George takes good care of my baby
- The fountain (actually a well) of immunity
- Belle's drawings
- Leg or Arm?
- Lake Altoona Beach
- Content Expertise
- Olive Garden
- Homeless day shelter
- Spring better have sprung
- Life's work
- A thousand points of light for the homeless man
- Movie night!
- Smoke em if you got em
- Ah, single parenthood
- Career freedom
- More birthday talk
- Naggy Jewish Mothers and Birthdays
- Pandemic Pals on the Road to Wellness
- Decades of blissful (un)marriage
- PJ, the non-vaxxer
- First jabs!
- Confessing my soda bread sins
- Simpsons Forever!
- Cardio and playgrounds for the soul.
- Life's to short for sharing
- Soda bread is harder than it looks... at first.
- That one Racys regular...
- All vegetable diet gettin' real
- Wilbur contains multitudes
- Home-bound!
- Homeward bound
- In fact, go see a Star War or two (or three)
- The Great British Bake-Off Caper
- Not-Straight in the 90s
- Zelda 35!
- Late winter sledding!
- How history will remember this
- Pets of all stripes
- The Covid shots start to roll in!
- The people in the comic read the comic in the comic
- Goodbye old Subaru... but not goodbye forever
- Goodbye Subaru (and hello new Subaru)
- Squirrels are not so cute, really
- Fighting the Covid good fight
- The old couple in the bar
- Satan's Cake
- Milk Dud Peanut Butter Balls
- Post-surgery and reality TV (the good, non-American kind)
- Jog on wood
- Strange cake
- Cool Runnings!
- A dog and his boy
- Heather makes an album
- The sweets of mid-winter
- What a time for a coffee shop to be takeout only!
- The darkest heart of winter
- The REAL dog days of winter
- A new member of the family
- The Dog Days of Winter
- Sketchy AirBnB
- The before times!
- Early 2021 supply chain blues
- Wisconsin: Where -10 is too warm
- A new lockdown hideout
- True Crime in Eau Claire, WI
- The legend of Oscar
- My son tells a joke
- FLAME THROWERS
- (Not) taking Therese's dad out for drinks
- A banal tour
- Surgery recovery buddies
- Encounter at the Asian market
- Of parenting and other things
- Pain solidarity
- Heather gets some news of Therese
- Career Trials, Tribulations, and Triumphs
- Electric blankets and take-out
- More Covid electric blanket parties
- George comes home
- On the home stretch with Mr. Robot
- Good times with Ben Sidran
- Deep thoughts with my son
- George hits the road
- Dream donuts
- Remembering Krispy Kreme
- Wilbur doesn't show his age
- January 6 4ever
- Catching up with Belle
- Career Day
- Weird weather and homesickness
- Catching up with Therese
- Bri Squared
- Beach blanket party (well,not exactly...)
- In the words of the great Baba Fats
- Jan 6 Begins
- Therese's pit crew
- Isolation for everyone
- Never as bad as it appears
- Midterm surprise
- Living the Blog Life
- Minnesota Bound
- Upper Midwest Road Trip!
- Mr. Robot!
- Good news for the new year
- MANDO!
- The new wonder years
- A New Years miracle
- Waiting for a (soon to come) miracle
- Therese's liver transplant comes through.
- Covid-safe high school reuinion
- A Magical Christmas Near Death Experience
- A Christmas Yoga
- A 90s nostalgia Christmas
- The people in the comic read the comic in the comic
- Transferred to a third hospital
- In and out of lucidity
- Good night
- A sudden sense of hope
- A tender moment against a sad backdrop
- Heather brings the hope
- Meet the family: The Epilogue
- Fear and loathing for Christmas
- Adopt-a-cat
- Belle has her own "meet the parents" moment
- I finally attempt to draw the Witch King
- Therese gets the "meet the family" report
- Therese's dad, the doctor
- Helicopters!
- Meet the family!
- Matthew makes a house call
- Good music in a closed down bar
- Billy Joel and an actual fire
- I forgot who the Witch King was!
- One Punch Man!
- Fussing over a friend
- The foreshadowing comes to a head
- LASIK BEAMS
- The Covid war
- Naps and donuts
- It's true. Cats are weird
- Two old music lovers muse about Adele
- The lockdown sneaks indoors
- Friendship and Vaccines
- Chariots of Exhaustion
- The metamorphosis
- GROGU??
- Korean by way of Spanish, couched in English
- Crossing death's path in Red Wing
- Red Wing, here we come!
- A strange Thanksgiving repast
- Hair in an Era of Covid
- Not all who wander are lost
- 'MERCA
- Pseudoscience in an era of fake news
- Managing expectations
- It's science!
- Sk8er Boi
- Meet the press
- More fond memories of the late Eric the White
- Oh, Chesterton!
- A Covid-era virtual funeral
- Our departed, omni-present friend
- Superskate!
- Eric the White's Unofficial Wake
- The death of Eric the White
- Great moments with Eric the White, Part 2
- Great moments with Eric the White, Part 1
- Sk8 skooled again
- Sk8 skooled
- Into the blunderdome
- Cheshire grin
- Baked potato energy
- Done running for the season(?)
- Run 4 Life
- Trump era politicking
- Trump tantrums
- Shelter from the storm
- A walk in the park is no walk in the park
- SPOILER: Trump Didn't Pull Through
- Candy corn!
- The Halloween Rush
- Therese is ready to stop the steal
- Go climb a tree
- Therese's Gunshow
- "Tomorrow this day's madness did prepare."
- Recovering from not-Covid
- The first Covid death in my circles
- Hard decisions
- Suspended disbelief
- Macho names and head shops
- Video Game Nostalgia
- Boys are weird
- Knock on Wood
- Winter is coming
- The beauty of the Great Resignation
- Heather moves on up
- Wilbur nixes the first Covid-winter warmth plan
- How DO you stay warm when all indoor spaces are Covid-closed?
- First snow
- The fall of Therese
- BONK
- Heather takes requests
- Heather draws a crowd
- Heather throws an impromptu concert
- A local zine
- Therese's Kitchen
- Disney Princess Laser Tag
- The Teacup Ride: Small Town Wisconsin version
- Bruised, slightly gross apples deserve love too
- Callback Saturday
- Ferguson's Orchard: Year One
- A mother and child reunion
- Remember when Donald Trump got Covid?
- There is a cheater among us
- Impromptu wake for Chuck's dad
- Chuck's dad passes
- Therese has nerves of STEEL
- Jogging in crocs
- A very debatable debate
- Therese and Matthew's horrible, no good, very bad week
- Trump regime blues
- Planning for a safer world
- Heather and Matthew talk shop about spirits and death
- Heather really is the best
- Staring into the Trump-Era abyss
- Online gamers among us
- Covid gets politicized
- Allies exchanging highly sensitive information
- Language exchange
- Faint pre-pandemic memories of The Grossest Water Park
- Fine dining again, FINALLY
- More reflections on the Big Smoke
- One last dad joke on the beach
- Therese: Toxic Avenger
- Final 2020 Trip to Big Falls: COLD
- The big smoke finally reaches Wisconsin
- A lazy fummer day on the East Hill
- Therese and Matthew both had epic weeks
- First Covid scare, first Covid test
- Occupado
- Shirtless Dave
- Venturing back into Racys
- Matthew pays it forward
- Wilbur and Matthew's cup-heist
- Therese gets ready to slay the dragon
- The true horror of student housing
- Return to the Murder Car!
- Belle joins the protest remotely
- When the shouting ends....
- Never forget Jacob Blake. Never forget any of them!!
- The charming stench of the Chippewa River
- A Magnolia and His Dog
- Listening to some Kinky Friedman
- Wilbur is still closed for business
- A visit to Carl and Belle's backyard
- Saying Goodbye to MortKev
- The birds, the bees, and the dragonflies
- Backstreet on the Chippewa River
- Tubing on the Chippewa River, Part 3
- Driving to Phoenix Park in my 2003 Subaru Crap-Forester
- Meeting Kev and Morty at the Hobbs boat landing to go tubing
- Caleb rules the lake
- MURDER CAR
- I am (apparently) Therese's spirit animal
- SWIMMING in a cold late summer rain
- Boating in a cold late summer rain
- Lions and tigers and wolves, minus lions and tigers
- I really do hate spiders
- Sweaty Velvet, Part 2
- Sweaty Velvet, part 1
- The Rice Lake Gorilla
- Roadkill Blues!
- Josh has counted up the cost, and he knows the sacrifice
- An awkward run
- Casper the Friendly Ghost in my cemetery??
- The central truth of pandemic safety
- Catching up with Heather
- The Big Sick
- Introducing Carl
- Aww, NUTS!
- Fear and Loathing in Forest Hill Cemetery
- Therese: Butterfly whisperer
- My superhero origin?
- Wilbur's jukebox
- Enter Wilbur and Jennie
- How does she do that??
- Fire ants at Beaver Creek Reserve
- Rock Trick!
- Morgan gets my "old man" pop culture reference
- True Facts about Beach Towels
- Therese: Horsefly slayer
- Therese gets me to take the plunge!
- Therese's devil horns show a little
- Differences in adulting
- Caleb dives into a giant blender
- Approaching the fireworks grand finale
- Fireworks!
- Therese and Caleb Reunite
- Enter Josh
- Shoo fly, shoo!
- Dodging injury at Big Falls
- Big Falls!
- Matthew imagines a zombie apocalypse in the midst of an actual apocalypse
- Lockdown 2020: Outdoor Tables at Racys
- Mooch gets a truck
- Meet Mick!
- The stroll across Eau Claire, Wisconsin's East Hill Continues
- Heather and I take a Covid-lockdown stroll on the East Hill in Eau Claire, WI
- And so, my rapid weight loss begins.
- Beaver Creek Reserve, Part 3
- Beaver Creek Reserve, Part 2
- Tubing, Part 3: The Sad, Weird End
- Tubing, Part 2: Things start to go off the rails.
- Tubing!!
- "How do we know she is a witch?"
- DON'T SHAVE YOUR HEAD!
- Heather needs some confidence
- And then, Chauvin killed George Floyd
- The Way of Clover
- Introducing George
- Caleb presages the Great Resignation
- Fitness in the Age of Covid
- That's a Mood, Second Downer Page
- That's a Mood, Page 1!
- Therese's Good Deed
- Last but not least, meet Therese
- Introducing Heather
- Introducing Caleb
- Introducing Belle
Adorable
MattDavise on March 29, 2023
AUGUST 2021, EAU CLAIRE, WI: There's something strangely fun about driving a good friend home from a long, fun weekend retreat and having them fall asleep in the back seat. The only thing more fun is if you're the one sleeping!
