Ez knows you've missed him. He's sure of it. Like all prophets without honor, or is that men without a country, Ez feels unloved sometimes, you know, worried about his ratings is what it comes down. Ez likes to think that, when there's any kind of gap between blogs, his fan base gets anxious and goes into withdrawal. Like they can't live without Ithaca Sucks. Sucks, Sucks, Sucks, we need Sucks everyday.

Truth of the matter is that Ez has been travelling. He's been visiting Milwaukee. You know, home of the Braves, beer capital of the United States. Milwaukee, matter of fact, shares a few things in common with Ithaca. Both Milwaukee and Ithaca have had Socialist mayors. Remember Ben Nichols?

Some people would like to forget Ben. (Carolyn Peterson, for one. Since just about anyone, including Jeffrey Dahmer, would be a better mayor than Carolyn so when anyone brings up her predecessors, she gets anxious,especially when any kind of comparisons are made. Carolyn makes any of the Ithaca's most forgettable chief executives seem memorable much the same way that George Bush makes Warren G. Harding look like a Pillar of the Republic.) Probably a lot of Socialists would like to forget Ben Nichols because Ben was pretty much a Socialist in name only. He didn't distribute the means of production to City Workers, didn't declare a Commune, didn't raise the red flag over City Hall, didn't collectivize the tofu makers. Ben spent endless hours in meetings, talking about the Octopus. The Octopus, as you recall, was the subject of an earlier blog.

No, that's not a picture of Ben in the right hand corner. Everyone recognizes the iconic serial killer gawkiness of Jeffrey Dahmer, right? Ain't it amazing? How the most humanly repugnant individuals are the most instantly recognizable? Adolf H, Charlie Manson and Jeffrey, of course. Most people today wouldn't recognize Jonas Salk if he walked into Collegetown Bagels on a busy weekend, but Jonas Salk invented a vaccine for polio that saved millions of children from contracting the crippling disease. Jeffrey Dahmer ate 17 human beings and he's easily identified as a celebrity killer by millions world over.

Milwaukee is, of course, the home of Jeffrey Dahmer. He lived up there in the north central. Milwaukee isn't proud of the fact that it was hometown to a notorious cannibal. Ez was wondering if there was actually some kind of museum dedicated to Dahmer but, of course, there isn't. How strange, Ez thought. Thousands, even hundreds of thousands of tourists might pile into Milwaukee to visit a Jeffrey Dahmer museum. With cities all over the US in the red due to the rising costs of protecting the Homeland, hosting republican national conventions, rebuilding infrastructure, you'd think that Milwaukee would welcome the influx.

Hey, people still visit New York to see the ghoulish wax figures in Madame Tussad's. Folks climb up the stairs of the Tower of London to see where Richard III imprisoned the princes. People have a morbid curiosity for those kinds of things, let's face it. Even little Ithaca capitalizes on the mad genius Ruloff. There's a Ruloff's bar in Trumansburg and the evil savant's brain is swimming around on display in a jar somewhere up at Cornell.

Incidentally, did you hear that one of the two cops from Milwaukee who came upon one of Dahmer's victims who had somehow escaped, and was running around naked and dazed with a drill bit indentation in his temple through the streets, and returned same to Dahmer's apartment for eventual consumption, is applying for Chief Singer's job. Hey, you can't rise through the hierarchy in Milwaukee with a rap like that over your head. But Ithaca, New York is another story...........

Maybe Ithaca could develop a Fay Gukakis museum? The horror, the horror. Do you think that anyone would come?