As someone who's lived (and currently living) in Wisconsin, I'd have to drop a few nice factoid:
- Having a town declaired a city pretty much just requires 4 bars and a church. It used to require 6 bars, but we're trying to improve our image.
- The UW System has tendrils everywhere. I swear, half of Madison Proper is UW...If you need a good college town, my brother went to UW Whitewater campus, and there's not much else there unless you drive down to Janesville or up to Madison.
- Mount Horeb, WI claims to be the Troll capital of the world. And they have
Black Firetrucks.
- Politically, it is a mixed state - pretty much half liberal progressive and half republican conservative. In fact, the Liberal Progressive movement has it's roots in the Madison area.
- One of the handy things about Madison is that it is smack dab in the middle of a bunch of lakes. Google map it - you can easily set up a limited area of operation to the UW campus and downtown area. There are also no skyscrapers in the area, because of a local building ordinence that prevents the obstruction of the Capitol dome. There is no subway system in Madison, but there is a bus system.
- Last I heard Madison had a fairly strong indie music scene, but my information may be a few years out of date.
- Southern Wisconsin has a lot of small, podunk towns that are rather close together. Some of these commmunities are a cluster of houses sometimes less than a mile away.
- We have a few caves, and we have a lot of campgrounds.
- Devil's Lake State Park would make a great setting for anything. It has bluffs, cliffs, woods, a lake, and (most importaintly) an appropriate name
Media with Wisconsin in it:
-
That Seventies Show was set in Steven's Point, WI. The early episodes, at least, seem fairly accurate.
- Ever seen Bobby's World? His mom was from Wisconsin, don'tcha know.
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Da Turdy Point Buck and pretty much anything from the group Bananas At Large is relatively, painfully, accurate.
Sigh. Of course, this means that you'll probably have to encorporate Betty Lou - a combination AK 57 oozie radar laser triple-barrel double-scoped heat-seekin shotgun.
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Let me tell you that
you no, it's not so much the heat,
as it is the gosh darn humidity.
You no when u sit there in the bed,
and your just sweaty you no?
And you just,
you go to reach for the water on the nightstand,
and you slide right out of bed
and the wife says,
"Stop making so much noise! Your waking me up, go to sleep!"
Well let me tell you,
(yeah?)
times like that,
make me think bout movin up north,
you no?
(good idea)
Ya I'd do it to.
Course then I couldn't watch the Packers.
You no the Packers are...
Cause I like the Packers.
I'd do nething for the Packers.
Who can forget Vince Lombardi, you no?
Back in the glory years?
Not me, boy.
Yeah nehow.
Gettin to be that time of year,
eh?(yeah, oh yeah) [/sblock]
