Milwaukee and Me.

It's so funny about Milwaukee...

Oldies are playing everywhere - coffee shops, bars where young people hang out - and so it's no wonder that that was my formative music growing up... My one roommate from the summer who's this cool 40-something guy from Vancouver noticed it and *hates* it, but I love it.

Also, some of the people I meet here who are from northern Wisconsin have accents with features very similar to mine - e.g. they say the /ir/ in "bird" as one rhotacized vowel rather than as a vowel sliding into the /r/ - and so when I talk with them, I hear myself.