Tuesday, May 30, 2006

 

BEER BONG TOWN

This last weekend we went to the Leinenkugel's Brewery.

Aside the excellent establishment known for their delicious beers, it also has a free tour in which they offer you two beers to sample at the end of the tour. It is awesome!!! The only thing that needs to be forewarned to anybody deciding to take advantage of the greatness that resides in Chippewa Falls, WI...are the plumbing facilities in the bathrooms and the roads through town.

The restrooms have the most powerful plumbing on the planet, I'm sure. Upon flushing the "ass throne", it felt like everything from a 3 mile radius could have been sucked into the "unknown". Where all of the previous goldfish owners have sent their animal companions away to become mutated beasts that haunt children in the darkness of the night. Yep, for all of you that have fears of loud and spastic toilets...Keep as far away as you can!!!

Chippewa Falls roads are both menacing to the out of town tourist and most likely to the residents of the small downtown area. If you follow Hwy. 124...it just takes you around the town in a circle. Many of the crazed intersections have random stop signs here and there, just to make it look as though somebody tried implementing some sort of order to abide common traffic laws. Also, at the Leinie's Lodge turn off, there is only 1 stop sign camping out at the 4 roads in front of the brewery pro shop entrance...Why just one stop sign at this particular intersection? I have reason to believe that the people who designed the patterns of the roads in Chippewa Falls were, in fact, possibly drunk on Leinenkugel's beer for the whole development of the town's routes.

The brewery is, however, a fantastic place to visit and I highly recommend it.


# posted by Mikey B @ 3:22 PM 1 comments

Tuesday, May 09, 2006

 



Football Obelisk????
Yet, another fine trip to Madison and I see or learn something new every time.
Donald Lipski, an internationally renowned sculpture, was asked to design a work of art that emulated the spirit of Wisconsin Badgerites. Being a University of Wisconsin Alumni, he was overjoyed when they asked him to come back to town and make this creation.
He came up with the first ever football obelisk. It looks more phalic than anything else or possibly corn on the cob from a distance. But, you can partially see how he was trying to make it resemble the outline of the Washington Monument from its base aside the sporadic crumbling away of concrete to reveal a core of footballs.
In his head, he wanted it to be a meeting place that you could join forces with your fellow spectators outside and continue your energy into the arena. It is, in fact, an easy place to find and you could tell your friends that you would meet them at "Nail's Tales"....and if they didn't understand that, for some inane reason, you could say, "Okay, let's meet at that ugly and strange looking football obelisk on Breese Terrace and Regent Street."
Another odd thing about the statue is the name..."Nail's Tales". Sounds fun and has some sort of potential, and I'm sure there is some symbolic meaning behind the name. The fact that only he and/or maybe people from Wisconsin are the only ones to understand it, doesn't make it any more attractive.

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