The Vig Company

07/26/2026

Thank you Paula Zanger

Here is a review and comments from Paula Zanger. She is a New York City-based artist and business owner ( Orange Howell ). She is a good friend and grew up in La Crosse.

07/25/2026

"Anna drove fast, hands steady. The town slid past. Houses. Trees. The courthouse silhouette. The hills beyond, looming together in the distance." DRIFTLESS by Stick Vega. The perfect summer read. www.books.by/stick-vega

07/20/2026

I looked up the top stock holding (must be more than 10% of their total portfolio) of each of 35 Billionaire's hedge funds. People like Paul Tudor Jones, Carl Icahn, Bill Gates, Bill Ackman, Warren Buffet, etc,,, These are based on their public reporting from Q1 2026. Here is the list sorted by Year-To-Date Performance.

Note: Berkshire, Google, and Amazon all had multiple investors, so there are only 29 stocks on this list.

Some winners and some losers.

07/16/2026

A faint wind carried the smoke toward the ridge. It smeared the hills in drifting charcoal streaks, but the Driftless region still held its strange beauty with the the long, shadowed folds of land, the patchwork of hickory and oaks, all of it framed now against a towering column of fire that did not belong here.
I thought this pargraph appropriate today. Get my new novel, Driftless here.

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07/14/2026

I just received some of the 2nd Edition of my art, essay book Less Killing. "I light the fuse. The sparks and flame hustle towards the artwork..." You can get one here at our shop... www.books.by/stick-vega

07/13/2026

Country Roads. Dark Secrets.
The Driftless hills are beautiful. The people living there carry secrets.
Driftless blends country noir, conspiracy thriller, and rural mystery into a story filled with hidden caves, lonely back roads, forgotten legends, and people willing to kill to protect the truth.
Rural America meets high-stakes suspense.
Enter the Driftless. www.books.by/stick-vega

06/27/2026

I stared out at the dark slopes of the Driftless: black silhouettes of trees clattering lightly in the wind. Somewhere out there, the land was doing something it had never done before. Listening. Responding. Trembling. DRIFTLESS available now. www.books.by/stick-vega

05/21/2026

The first 50 copies are on order. The will be numbered and signed and available soon.

Explosive art by American gunpowder artist Stick Vega. Modern, primitive paintings.

05/17/2026

The road opened again, rolling into black hills and pale fog down in the low places. The Driftless stretched ahead. It’s beautiful, haunted, indifferent. The kind of landscape that could hide anything. (Hope to print the first 50 copies this week!) www.stickvega.com

03/26/2026

Yesterday I started work on adapting my screenplay KINGS MURDER STILL to a novel. I had a couple of immediate observations:
1. Boy, it's violent! Yikes.
2. Completed in 2010, it sounds dated. Dad was actually reading a newspaper. What is a newspaper?
3. I based it in the fictional town of Rising Sun. I guess I'll have to drive to Rising Sun next week.