Cows II
The evidence continues to pile up. I learned fromJesse, who is one of the select few who have lived in both Mauston (which is gearing up for its first annual Pumpkin Bash) and the hip metropolis of Boston, that Boston is also having a CowParade this summer .... OK, so I visited Boston in late April and not six weeks later, a CowParade comes to town!!!
It's just uncanny .....
Other cities I have visited that are currently having CowParades are Edinburgh (OK, I was there in 1985, but it still counts) and Athens (check out the link to see cool Greek) -- OK, I actually haven't been to Athens, Greece, but I've been to the lovely city of Athens, Wisconsin, scene of the notorious Kunz murders, when an entire weird, creepy family was shot to death in their trailer (and there was no Truman Capote around, not even Philip Seymour Hoffman).
Back to the cows .. I almost forgot that some of the members of Madison's CowParade visited the humble town that was my birthplace ... and I was there only one day after the cows were there!!!
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1:12 PM
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Also in the pantheon of "Boston to Mauston" was my gossipy hard-edged Mauston hairdresser (whose jerk brother wouldn't give me a job in Beantown) and the high school cafeteria manager. The one time I met the cafeteria guy, some well-meaning Maustonite left us alone, saying 'I bet you guys will have a lot to talk about!'
Cue crickets.
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jesse, at 6:02 PM
I was not the only Boston ex-pat in Mauston.
1)My hairdresser, who was a hard-edged no-nonsense gossipmonger from old Boston money. She fell in love with an Elroy boy and they bought a ranch by a lake. Her brother is a headhunter in Boston who said he would get me a job, then told me I didn't have enough marketable skills. Bastard.
2)The other guy worked at the Mauston high school cafeteria. A well-meaning but misguided Maustonite brought me over to meet him and said, "I bet you guys will have a lot to talk about!" Then this person walked away. "Mauston huh? Don't get me started!" Silence.
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jesse, at 10:23 PM
The lake was manmade, I should mention.
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jesse, at 10:24 PM
Jesse: here's another expat/hairdresser story for you. When I lived in Munich, I went to a very pricy salon staffed by native English speakers (partly because my ex got an awful haircut because the person couldn't understand his German). Incidentally, it was called "The Green Door," like the classic porn flick. I would pay 90 deutschmarks (about $60) for a haircut!!! Anyway, the first couple time I went, I got a bisexual South African named Stephen. But then I went back and he was gone .. replaced by another bisexual South African (I think he might have also been named Stephen). what are the odds ....
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siouxzee, at 12:15 PM
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