In non-food, non-Wisconsin related news, Creative Loafing Inc., the new owners of my former employer, the Chicago Reader, filed for Chapter 11 bankrupcy protection this morning, exactly one year and four days after its first wave of layoffs hit. So far only the Washington City Paper (formerly owned by Chicago Reader Inc., and now also under Creative Loafing’s leaky umbrella) has details. Note thoroughly mystifying final graf. Says B., “Does this mean we’re all hired back?”

UPDATE: Miner has it now too. My heart goes out to the few friends I still have on staff, who at this point are either losing their collective lunch or so flattened and demoralized by the rollercoaster ride of the last year that all they can do is shrug and IM their friends. In either case, I am glad I no longer have to deal with it for a living. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the evolution of journalism in the NEW NEW, HOT HOT iPhone-sized world (I find the impending launch of Eater Chicago, for example, strangely depressing) and am increasingly unconvinced that I want anything to do with it.