"Work has been kinda slow since cartoons went to color. Boop-boop-be-doop"

Hungry for a greasy breakfast, we take the concierge’s recommendation and taxi to the Michigan Diner (220 E Michigan St). The menu is ordinary:  eggs; eggs and toast; eggs, toast and a side of bacon, sausage, hash browns or American fries.

What’s the difference between American fries and hash browns? Is there any difference between American fries and home fries? I order French Toast with two eggs, a menu combo that lends itself to more breakfast-food pondering.

The Michigan Diner gets points for authenticity–an un-ironic, grungy diner.  A giant ceramic Elvis poses in the right front window and an oversize Marilyn Monroe vamps in the left window. A plastic Betty Boop baits customers from the countertop.

A “Stop Diabetes” pamphlet is stacked on the counter next to a green metal bucket of Dum-dum lollipops. Three on-duty cops relax over coffee in the center of the room.

After breakfast, we walk from the downtown end of the Riverwalk to the north end near our hotel.

Completing a lazy morning, I relax and digest in a giant wicker cave of a chair in the Aloft hotel’s courtyard, an open-air, sparsely-furnished patio. Check out some photos of Milwaukee’s Riverwalk.