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  • The Soup Place Scores Again

    One of my favorite Billings restaurants is The Soup Place on Broadway. Lunches are mainly some form of soup and a sandwich which is a sensible lunch. They have a number of set sandwiches and soups and then some variables every day. Friday, 20 November, was a good day. Naturally [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 1:13pm EST

  • Another Good Restaurant

    Bin 119, or maybe Bin 11-9, I'm not entirely sure as the 9 is smaller with a line under it. Anyway, it is located on Broadway, probably 119 Broadway, near the big brewpub and across from The Soup Place. Looked like a good lunch menu including a very good Reuben sandwich,' [...]
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    Fetched: November 21, 2009, 10:14pm EST

  • Loony Tunes: Who Said That Canadians Are Not Funny?

    Check out this blog and the comments that follow. [...]
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    Fetched: November 14, 2009, 11:14am EST

  • Miraculous McFerrin

    Here is Bobby McFerrin doing some Bach and his audience doing Gounod's Ave Maria. He is truly a musical miracle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgvJg7D6Qck&feature=player_embedded [...]
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    Fetched: November 09, 2009, 11:15am EST

  • Cafe Italia

    On trips to the McCormick Cafe next door we have been noticing this place on Montana Ave, usually not open because we eat breakfast or lunch at McCormick's and Cafe Italia only serves an evening meal. It does, however, open at 4:30 in the afternoon, which means that us early [...]
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    Fetched: October 29, 2009, 9:32am EDT

  • Won’t You Be My Neighbor

    Here are a few photos taken in the last few days while managing by walking around (MBWA) the neighborhood. I don't think any of these are dependent on handouts from the general tax-paying public. Upper left is from the front garden at the bottom of Ramada Drive, Mr Rogers' Neighborhood upper [...]
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    Fetched: October 23, 2009, 1:52pm EDT

  • Good Eats in Billings

    We noticed we were hungry a few days ago while looking for some odds and ends at Bed Bath and Beyond, which looks very much like the store it replaced, Linens and Things, wasn't it? The new place has a lot of useful things, especially for the house. Next door was' [...]
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    Fetched: October 22, 2009, 11:53am EDT

  • Viral Marketing

    So This Is What Viral Marketing Is All About The picture to the right is a very cool non-invasive method of detecting fever in large numbers of people as in an airport or other crowded places. This one was in Greece and operates by thermal imaging. I am willing to bet [...]
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    Fetched: October 21, 2009, 1:53pm EDT

  • Is It My Imagination Or . . .

    I am assuming that most normal people, if they are not doing open heart surgery or something similar, are watching the baseball playoff games prior to the World Series. Is the quality of the umpiring unusually bad or what? I watch a fair number of regular season games at all levels [...]
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    Fetched: October 20, 2009, 8:49pm EDT

  • Do They Sell This Stuff in Montana?

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    Fetched: October 16, 2009, 3:50pm EDT

  • Traffic Jam and Fun with Words

    This is the season for looking over and thinking how clever you are to have bought all those great jams and jellies at the Farmer's Market, especially now that the Market is done for the year. I can't resist items with plays on words. This stuff is really good. Onetime I' [...]
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    Fetched: October 05, 2009, 6:49pm EDT

  • Environmental Advances on Ramada Drive

    From the corner of Rimrock and Ramada a water collection advance is being made. It reminds me of a nice poem: There are fairies at the bottom of our garden! It's not so very, very far away; You pass the gardner's shed and you just keep straight ahead -- I do so hope they've' [...]
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    Fetched: October 03, 2009, 1:47pm EDT

  • I Told You So

    "Theatre is a lunatic asylum, and the opera is a refuge for incurables."—Gioacchino Rossini Remember a few days ago when I told you that Rimrock Opera Company's weekend production at the Alberta Bair Theatre of Rossini's Barber of Seville would be good? Well, it was better than that: It Was Magnificent. Chris [...]
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    Fetched: September 28, 2009, 11:48am EDT

  • Trust Me, It Will Be Good

    If you don't know the plot, don't worry. You can check out this website or you can read Friday's Enjoy section or Saturday morning's Gazette, both articles by the very helpful and useful reviewer Jaci (pronounced Jackie) Webb. And don't worry if you don't have time to read these because the [...]
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    Fetched: September 26, 2009, 11:49am EDT

  • BSO Opens Season @ ABT

    Nice, very nice: a really splendid opening night. Thanks to Anne Harrigan and all the players. They play together very well. We missed them in their summer-long absence. Surely we have enough classical music aficionados in the greater Billings region (that should extend at least as far as Sheridan and [...]
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    Fetched: September 21, 2009, 12:51pm EDT

  • The Full Monty

    Today's Gazette featured a promo for this fun musical with only brief and necessary-for-art nudity according to the powers that be. They call these guys courageous. I won't be seeing it until early October as I want them to be highly practiced in their art before I allow them to' [...]
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    Fetched: September 18, 2009, 7:50pm EDT

  • Magic City Rebuilding

    There seems to be a fair amount of building and rebuilding going on here in the Magic City. There is a new building going up on the corner of 17th and Poly. It looks like it might shelter medical types, maybe even a plastic surgeon or two. I think they [...]
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    Fetched: September 17, 2009, 10:50pm EDT

  • Fun In Our Capitol

    I can't resist clever signs, on bumper stickers or in demonstrations like this one in Washington DC yesterday September 12th. It's hard to believe ordinary people could pull this off. They must have had some help from their Leftist friends or the media, sorry for the redundancy there. There is' [...]
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    Fetched: September 14, 2009, 6:52am EDT

  • Another Farmer’s Market

    I love these clowns and they get a lot of attention from our friends of the childhood persuasion. This probably means something. No gathering of farmers should be without an accordion player. Do our children know this? Are any of them learning how to play this awesome instrument? This is a [...]
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    Fetched: September 14, 2009, 6:52am EDT

  • Day Trip from Billings

    This is taken somewhere on Highway 200 between Missoula and Great Falls. I thought for a minute or two I was somewhere in the outback of Australia. I wonder if the geologic features are similar. The grass is fairly green up here and especially so when you get to a [...]
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    Fetched: September 14, 2009, 6:52am EDT

  • The Boys of Summer in Missoula

    This is a view from Allegiance Field Ogren Park, a relatively new baseball park in Missoula Montana. We are looking at the right field fence with the signs about 3 high because the distance is so short right down the line. The same is true of the left field fence. [...]
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    Fetched: September 14, 2009, 6:52am EDT

  • The Boys of Summer in Billings

    Like watching the tearfilled ending of Puccini's masterpiece, Madame Butterfly, you keep hoping that the Billings Mustangs will do something different and maybe the ending will be different, but you know in your heart, at least for the summer of 2009, that is not how life works out. The Mustangs lost [...]
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    Fetched: September 06, 2009, 11:08pm EDT

  • Here are a Couple of Answers

    And what is the question you may well ask? The question is: How shall we try to keep medical costs under control? But some write persuasively that we don't spend enough. Here is the ObamaCare solution to the problem.' [...]
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    Fetched: September 03, 2009, 10:06am EDT

  • Mustard Seed on 15th & Grand

    This place is worth going out of your way. For either lunch or dinner. Good beers and wines. Sort of a popular Asian idea on most of the dishes. Everybody moves here and the choreography works. Recommended. Today I had the appetizer form of glazed ribs for my entree together with some [...]
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    Fetched: September 02, 2009, 7:09pm EDT

  • Jake’s Bar & Grill West End

    The entrance to the new Jake's restaurant south of King, on the curve where S 24th becomes Gabel Rd. This place is larger than the one downtown and seems a little noisier but there were a fair number of people there at lunch on a Tuesday. The menu seems about the [...]
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    Fetched: September 01, 2009, 6:04pm EDT

  • Sorting Fact from Fiction on Health Care

    Apparently straightforward advocacy, like honest graft, gets tiring for some. Our Billings Gazette says some true and some not quite true things about health care reform and facts in their  Opinion section today, 31 August:  " . . . Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion, but with something" [...]
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    Fetched: August 31, 2009, 11:11am EDT

  • Dirty Rotten Scoundrels @ BST

    "Set on the glamorous French Riviera, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a lively comedy that follows two con artists as they take on the lifestyles of the rich and shameless. Lawrence Jameson is a cultivated and suave gentleman who cons rich women out of their money. The other, a small ..." [...]
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    Fetched: August 31, 2009, 9:13am EDT

  • For Movies Go Here

    This is a new movie complex on what is now the far West End of Billings: Off Shiloh Road and King if the former ever comes back into use. Will we be able to count these jobs as "saved?" Pretty snazzy on entrance and very steeply graded in the actual [...]
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    Fetched: August 24, 2009, 12:08pm EDT

  • For movies Go Here

    This is a new movie complex on what is now the far West End? Off Shiloh Road if it ever comes back into use. Pretty snazzy on entrance and very steeply graded in the actual theatres so that you don't have to look around the ladies hats in front of' [...]
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    Fetched: August 24, 2009, 10:08am EDT

  • If You Need Dirt

    Here is where you can get it. This is at the corner of Ramada and Rimrock just beyond 17th. [...]
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    Fetched: August 24, 2009, 10:08am EDT

  • How does one “mourn their virginity”?

    Some times the daily Scriptural readings and maybe other things too just make your head explode. Today the first reading was from Judges 11, which sounded vaguely familiar, but I'm sorry to say that I was thinking of some songs from Mr. Handel's splendid little oratorio "Jephthah." For not very clear' [...]
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    Fetched: August 21, 2009, 11:06pm EDT

  • Seriously Excellent Ice Cream

    Especially good with a little bit of gooey glavoring added. They are located over by Borders, on the other side of King Ave, past the car wash, then look around. [...]
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    Fetched: August 19, 2009, 9:07am EDT

  • Carefully Choose Your Prayers

    Apparently some people have been praying for a long time that this Swiss glacier not flood their town with its continued growth. Being Swiss, their prayers have, of course, been answered. But now they are petitioning Pope Benedict XVI to allow them to revoke their centuries-old vow to live virtuously [...]
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    Fetched: August 07, 2009, 1:10pm EDT

  • The Return of Dr Muskett

    I was getting worried when I hadn't heard for what seemed like months from my favorite cardiac turned plastic surgeon, Billings' own Dr Alan Muskett. I know I've blogged about him in the past but I couldn't find the entries, though I did find in back pages of the Gazette [...]
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    Fetched: August 05, 2009, 11:07am EDT

  • McCormick’s for Sunday Brunch

    Actually, the time was right for brunch on Sunday morning, but the menu was only breakfast, just like at Stella's. This one is on Montana Ave. Root beer was OK. Bratwurst wrap was only fair. I peeled the wrap off. The sausage was good. Other stuff on the menu looked good, especially' [...]
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    Fetched: August 02, 2009, 7:09pm EDT

  • Farmer’s Market: Saturday morning in Billings

    Here we are in downtown Billings on Saturday morning, the 1st day of August 2009 A number of Hutterite colonies bring their excess wares to Billings. In fact they seem to be competing against each other. It may be more than they raise for themselves. The Hutterites are fairly numerous on [...]
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    Fetched: August 02, 2009, 3:03pm EDT

  • Scarlets Win State

    There is a very nice article in today's Gazette about the extraordinary effort put forth by our boys in red, and sometimes green as well. Here they are celebrating after the last out on Wednesday evening. The Gazette article online also has a number of good pictures. Their photographers are [...]
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    Fetched: July 30, 2009, 12:09pm EDT

  • From the pages of The New Yorker

    Here is an article from a well-known magazine about problems with our health care system, if it's not too sophisticated to call it a system. This article is particularly focused on McAllen Texas, but there are some useful comparisons and contrasts with other places too. As far as I can [...]
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    Fetched: July 28, 2009, 6:02pm EDT

  • Caribbean Youngsters Shine

    This is the scoreboard just after 18 year old Daniel Corcino induced the 8th batter in the 9th inning to line out hard to the first baseman Nurre for the final out. The other youngster from the Caribbean was 16 year old Yorman  Rodriguez, the under age beer batter for the [...]
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    Fetched: July 28, 2009, 12:03am EDT

  • From the Land of Snark

    Lately I have been seeing or hearing this unusual word, usually in adjectival form as "snarky." But my correspondents or newspaper columnists or even Rachel Maddow herself neglect to define the word. Of course it is not in the usual dictionaries, though I usually get from the context that the [...]
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    Fetched: July 25, 2009, 5:06pm EDT

  • Remember When National Geographic Was Famous For Breasts?

    It's not just Time, or Newsweek or New Yorker that have undergone some major changes over the years. I remember as a young boy the National Geographic's shocking pictures of half-dressed African or South American natives I think they called them. We only looked at the pictures then just like [...]
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    Fetched: July 23, 2009, 7:03pm EDT

  • MUSTANGS WIN: Beat Ogden Raptors 7-6

    Sorry for shouting in the headline above. There haven't been a whole lot of wins this year. I think the Mustangs' record at close of play this evening is something like 9 wins v. 18 losses. That might be a good batting average but for a team that means ... [...]
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    Fetched: July 22, 2009, 11:06pm EDT

  • Good Burgers Only A Day Trip Away

    This one was noted in Cooke City a few days ago. That is bleu cheese and bacon along with a good burger. And Bozeman continues to surprise us. This is a new restaurant, actually part of a nation-wide chain started a few years ago in Columbus Ohio,and now recently opened in [...]
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    Fetched: July 21, 2009, 12:05pm EDT

  • SummerFair 2009

    Saturday and Sunday, 18-19 July. This year SummerFair festivities were held at Veteran's Park, a somewhat subdued affair, though the heat may have discouraged some. The crowd seemed a lot thinner than the above buggy jam would suggest. I'm not sure what the conttemporary word for these handy devices is. The eggrolls' [...]
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    Fetched: July 18, 2009, 5:08pm EDT

  • A Walk Down 1st Ave With Camera

    The streets and restaurants were crowded on Montana Ave last Sunday so we walked over to Stella's for lunch and then back to the car. Thomas the Tank Engine had attracted a large number of kids and their parents. I think this was in aid of the Depot but I [...]
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    Fetched: July 17, 2009, 7:05pm EDT

  • Irony at Dehler: Mustangs Win in 10

    The usual number of foul balls into the stands and into the streets surrounding apparently did not result in any recorded injuries, but a foul ball off the catcher's glove into the side of the home plate umpire's head resulted in him having to leave the game. The other guy [...]
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    Fetched: July 16, 2009, 1:05am EDT

  • Hard Times at ZooMontana?

    I'm not sure if developing symptoms and dying in less than 24 hrs counts as a sudden death in the zoo tiger world or not. But that is apparently what happened to Luna, one of the Siberian tigers at ZooMontana. She was said to be fine on Friday, then she' [...]
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    Fetched: July 12, 2009, 7:08pm EDT

  • Green-Shirted Scarlets Thrash Gray-Suited Royals 16-6

    A good crowd turned out for this Friday night Royal—Scarlet shootout. Not obvious in this picture because the sun was still fairly fierce early in the game, so most everyone was sitting on the Royal side where there was at least some protection from the sun. No one explained to me why [...]
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    Fetched: July 11, 2009, 12:11am EDT

  • Political Speech on Broadwater

    I guess you could buy a lot of bath tubs cheap here. And maybe a lot of new and used junk and antiques too. Just to make sure the proprietor of this place has posted some nice notes on his fence, short and to the point. Good for him or her [...]
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    Fetched: July 10, 2009, 6:06pm EDT

  • Horseback Riding Along the 90

    Fifteen minutes east of Billings Happy Pappy Dennis McNiven has horses to ride for a couple of beginners on up to entertaining and feeding buses full of travellers. Two of our grandsons from the Seattle area said they wanted to go horseback riding so we quickly found Western Romance Company [...]
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    Fetched: July 09, 2009, 11:07am EDT
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