What is Yelp all about?

Is it just another one of the social media outlets or is there more going on at Yelp.com? With curiosity (and a mic) in hand I went to a Yelp event to find out. Give a listen.

http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/lake_effect_segment.php?segmentid=8919

Cup of Joe with Joe

Here’s a profile of a regular visitor to the Pfister Hotel. Nice guy, Joe. I have to admit, while speaking with this guy, at some point I wondered, “Is this what it’s like to have a grandfather?”

http://blog.thepfisterhotel.com/2012/03/cup-of-joe-with-joe/

If you’d like to know more about why I’m writing these things for the Pfister Hotel, visit here:

http://www.thepfisterhotel.com/pfister-narrator/narrators/ed-makowski.asp

How do credit unions differ from banks?

I’ve wondered this for some time. So I got in contact with the Wisconsin Credit Union League and asked. Listen here to the interview if you’re also curious. Originally aired on 89.7 WUWM during the weekend Lake Effect show.

http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/le_sgmt.php?segmentid=8978

The Problem With Poop- draft of a history poem

My brother mentioned something the other day about the Great Horse Manure Crisis that faced most large cities around the turn of the 20th century. I took some time and researched this problem, which was serious at the time but now sounds like a 7 year old’s toilet humor.

 

The Problem with Poop

 

 

 

They couldn’t decide what to do.

 

If it rained the roads

became a stink slippery stew.

 

When weather was dry

it blew into people’s faces,

stuck to the sides of buildings.

 

Mail transported by horse

Food transported by horse

A public transported by horse

Raw goods transported by horse.

 

Horse feed hay transported by horse.

 

Flies.

 

A horse produces between

15 and 35 pounds of poop a day.

 

Imagine Victorian romance

like walking on a cobblestone cake

while holding your dress’ hemline

above a poop frosting

 

In 1894 the brightest minds

scheduled a 10 day conference.

Met in one of the world’s largest

fastest growing cities

but after 3 days

they could imagine no solution;

gave up, and went home.

 

Then somebody invented a car.

 

New Poem: Time Spends Like Water

I wrote this poem after speaking with a gentleman in the lobby lounge of the Pfister Hotel. I haven’t been writing poems. Not that I don’t want to, but my mental space has been going in the direction of radio and writing for the Pfister. Poems haven’t happened to come out of this head lately but this day one did. Click below and give a read…

http://blog.thepfisterhotel.com/2012/01/the-time-spends-like-water/

 

In honor of Veterans Day

Have you ever met someone who had an out of body experience? And then got shot afterwards? Meet Patrick.

New Lunch Counter segment: The worst date I hope you’ve never been on

Who would take a pretty girl to a grocery store? Give a listen and find out…

5 new poems, aw yeah

Haven’t had a whole lot of time lately for poetry writing considering the NPR and Pfister Hotel writing lately, but here are 5 that I managed to get out to BlazeVOX from Buffalo, NY.

Click the link below then scroll down and click on Ed Makowski

BlazeVOX Winter 2011

Pretty Dang Good Thanksgiving Story

Here are the bulletpoints: Holocaust! Escape! Wedding! (decades later) Same city! Same building!

Pretty crazy story. Give a listen, it will broaden your Thanksgiving.

http://blog.thepfisterhotel.com/?p=2701

 

Serendipity swirls around the Pfister by Ed Makowski

Step up to the newest Lunch Counter

Riverwest resident Michelle Lentzner talks about childhood with a curious pet.

 

http://www.wuwm.com/programs/lake_effect/le_sgmt.php?segmentid=8248