I heard sad news that Baldy’s in Iowa City closed about two years ago (news travels slow out to SF). I ate many wraps there and at one point was a regular before my 9:30 M/W/F Calc II class. Nothing primes the mind for learning about integration like a heavy breakfast. Their happy hour was […]

Why are there so many monstrously sized vehicles in Des Moines? I think I might lose it if I see another Hummer with a big “support our troops” sticker on the back. To say that the irony is lost on the consumers of central Iowa would be an understatement.

I did get the opportunity to visit […]

The Des Moines school system is pulling junk food, soda, and candy from their vending machines in order to promote healthy eating from its students. Taking away things like cigarettes and alcohol from teens is definitely successful in promoting healthy abstinance of those products, so why wouldn’t it work on food? But these plans face […]

The storm fans down at Joe’s were in full form last night as cows and mostly demolished barns were cheered on with much gusto. Your feerless author managed to take a pic of the destruction — ignore the word copter — he was really there.
I smell some sort of industry award for photo journalism here….