It took you a little while to realize that the sun rises in the east...

... but eventually you overcame your presumption that the first travel photograph must be a picture of leaving, not coming back. Here's a photo …

Yes, I could in the woods of Wisconsin.

"I don't think I'd die for a taco. But I might die as a taco."

I don't know how I missed the viral video of the skateboarding taco , but I'm seeing him this morning, because he's on that Village Voice…

"Everything I will need (including laptop!) is rolled into a yellow sack clipped onto the rack."

I don't understand it, and I won't pretend to understand it. I don't get how you can get all your stuff in such a little bag or why you&#…

Recycling your turkey-frying oil in Madison, Wisconsin for the greater good of America and the world.

A City of Madison news release: "We know that there are many people who have lots of oil left over after frying their Thanksgiving turkey,"…

"What is Bob Dylan? Why is Bob Dylan?"

"After listening to him since I was a kid and seeing him live for—gulp—nearly 40 years, I think I’m beginning to figure it out." I'm no…

"So far, B-cycle bike-share program is glitchy."

It's Madison’s bike-share program. We were out biking — on our own bikes — yesterday, and we noticed one of the "stations." Meade took…

"I think it's time you read my journal from my bike trip," said the author's dad about his 1977 cross-country ride.

"Knowing my dad had quit something rocked my perspective. I started reading his journal and, very quickly, realized this wasn't some joy rid…

Exactly how dorky...

Is a recumbent bicycle? There are lots of them here in Madison. I thought I'd warn you.

"When the doper’s code of silence around Lance Armstrong cracked, Sheryl Crow was obliged to sing."

"Crow, who was once engaged to the tarnished cyclist, provided information last year in a far-reaching federal investigation into the doping pro…

At the Sandhill Café...

... you can hang out all night. ADDED: Unfortunately, that dot that seems to be on the lens is not on the lens. It's somewhere inside the camera.…

Instead of a bike helmet...

... a head airbag.

"Try to refrain from musical tones."

Says the unknown, young Frank Zappa on "The Steve Allen Show" in 1963, orchestrating noise on the bicycle. UPDATE: I've removed the cod…

Wisconsin Ironman Triathlon.

It's today. The Ironmen are right about now getting out of Lake Monona and onto their bikes. The switch to running begins around 12:30 at Monona…

"We've got Johnny Depp with a taxidermied crow on top of his head and painted to the nth degree... and he looks like a gothic freak."

"There's no way you can look at this and not say it's odd, unusual, strange, arresting, startling... It's a major setback for the Na…

At the Bikes-in-the-Living-Room Café...

Are they still there? No! *** "Café," here at the Althouse blog, signifies an open thread in the comments. Write about what you like. And i…

On the shore of Lake Waubesa...

... with my wonderful new e-bike . That was yesterday, when it was overcast and chilly. Today, sunny and almost 50°, which is nicely warm for Wiscons…

"If my rule-breaking is ethical and safe (and Idaho-legal), why does it annoy anyone?"

Asks Randy Cohen , the original NYT "ethicist," who admits to treating stop signals as yield signals when he's on his bicycle. I choose…

On the Lower Yahara River Trail.

Here's a look at our new $8-million, 2.5-mile trail that connects McFarland (population 8,000) to Madison: Talk about anything you want in the c…

"Delivering restaurant food has always been a hard, thankless job. With the apps..."

"... it is becoming more flexible and better paying — but in some ways less stable. This, said Niels van Doorn, an assistant professor of new me…