I could hardly be more excited for Saturday's "Archer Live," the in-person incarnation of the hit FX show that blows me away every week.

I’ll just throw it out there: "Archer," the animated spy comedy is not only the funniest show on TV now, but it ranks among the funniest shows of all time. Filthy, witty and beautifully drawn, it packs an amazing amount of comedy into every episode.

Saturday at the Pabst Theater, most of the cast will come together for an interactive show in Milwaukee. The team, including H. John Benjamin (Agent Sterling Archer), Aisha Tyler (Agent Lana Kane), Lucky Yates (Dr. Krieger), Amber Nash (Pam Poovey) and Casey Willis (producer/moderator) will read classic scenes live onstage with visual aids from the show. They’ll also participated in a moderated panel discussion with time for audience Q&A.

I expect this to be very, very funny.

In advance of the show, I spoke to Tyler by phone. In our rapid fire interview, we talked about the process of creating "Archer," which, given the pacing of the series, surprised me.

"The great thing about the 'Archer Live show' is that it’s one of the few times that the cast gets to spend any time together," says Tyler. In fact, each actor records his or her lines in isolation, and they are mixed together for the final product. "We use our magical acting powers to deduce what the other side of the conversation will sound like."

Fortunately, the live show is a little different (spoiler alert: Tyler says it involves beer drinking).

"It’s super interactive," she says. "It’s an inside 'Archer’ experience in every way."

What you see on TV isn’t very ad-libbed, she says. "The scripts are really funny and they’re really well-written when they come."

And it’s the kind of show that Tyler would watch, even if she wasn’t involved in it.

"Oh, 100 percent. If I wasn’t on it, I’d still love it. It’s probably one of the smartest things I’ve ever done. That combination of really smart and really filt…

I have a soft spot for Swedish cars, having owned two Saabs and one Volvo. And Volvo is even more near and dear to me: I learned to drive on my parents’ 1987 Volvo 740. When a kid rear-ended me at 40 miles per hour while I was at a dead stop, the car crumpled just like it did in those commercials and I walked away fine.

So I was open-minded when it came time to evaluate the latest car that Fields Auto Group lent me to review, the 2013 Volvo XC60. I’ve always been just a little curious about this car, but I passed it up when buying our 2011 BMW X3. And I remembered how much I liked the '99 Volvo S80 T6 I had a few years back. That car was fast.

Still, Volvo has such a unique sense of style, yet I find myself alternating between like and dislike with this car’s modern lines, sneaky-fast power and quirky interior. For as cool as this SUV’s rear end is, the front looks oh-so-conservative. While its profile casts a similar shadow to a Honda CRV, the Volvo would smoke it under any circumstances, easily running laps around my X3. The interior is unintuitive to me, but it’s spacious and comfortable at the same time.

So what you see with this car is not exactly what you get. Actually, you get more. The XC60 rides low and cushy like a sedan. But it also sports 300 turbocharged horses, 325 pounds of foot torque and fuel efficiency similar to my naturally-aspirated and much punier straight six-cylinder Bimmer.

That’s why the XC60 feels to me like a stealthy soccer mom car, or more accurately, a stealthy soccer dad car. For its many comforts and insane safety features, it plows through snow with the power of a much more expensive car. So I’m split on this one.

To me, the good outweighs the bad. Comparing the XC60 to my everyday car, I appreciate the panoramic moon roof, the quick-to-heat-up front seats and the large rear windows and sight lines, which are a nice departure from that tiny rear slit in my BMW. The blind spot monitoring system comes in handy every…

That’s not a rhetorical question. There are many, many, many reasons why I love Milwaukee, and why I started OnMilwaukee.com in 1998. But it’s the end of March, and the temperature is hovering around freezing.

I’m seriously wondering why we live here.

Maybe I’m asking this because I just returned from Phoenix last week, where it was sunny and in the high 80s. Of course, Phoenix in the summer is a different beast entirely, but I have to question our ancestors’ logic in choosing Milwaukee.

Did they arrive in summer, set down roots and think that first winter was just a fluke? How about the second? Or the 50th?

I’m kidding a little bit. I know that many of the settlers came from similarly cold climates in Europe. I know that they sailed down the Great Lakes until they stopped in Milwaukee. I know the land is rich and fertile and provided numerous opportunities for industry and commerce.

I’m just a little surprised they didn’t keep going.

Or why did my great-great grandparents pick Milwaukee? Sure, the climate might’ve felt a lot like Belarus and Russia, but weren’t my ancestors complaining about the long, cold winter, too? If I were to emigrate to a far-off land, one in which I didn’t know the language or had any family, I think I would’ve headed a little farther south. It’s not like people back then didn’t realize the south equals warm and north equals cold.

Even still, that was 100 years ago. I’m surprised that my grandparents or my parents didn’t pick somewhere warmer.

That leaves only me to blame. I lived somewhere hot once. I went to college in Washington, D.C., where it rarely dropped below freezing. Right now, people are probably wearing shorts and jogging around the National Mall. I used to do that, too.

But I picked Milwaukee. On my own free will. Am I crazy? Are we all crazy?

I don’t think so. There’s only a period of about 45 days each year that I hate it here. It starts in early February and ends right about now. Th…

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – It’s hard to call this spring training trip work. It definitely is, because as I do every year, I strive to take our readers along for the ride. Inevitably, when I tell people I come to Arizona, they always say, with a glint in their eyes, "I’ve always wanted to do that!"

And I always tell them that they should. But this is among the most fun I have all year, too. I stay in beautiful hotels, eat excellent food, sizzle under the hot desert sun, and most importantly, watch my beloved Brewers train in an intimate and casual setting. On top of that, I bring along friends who are also colleagues, and we go and go and go until we step back on the plane for home and reality.

It’s exhaustingly wonderful. It fills that void that arrives after a long, cold winter, and it allows me to write about topics that I’m passionate about. I never sugar-coat the truth, and I’m up front about the gracious freebies that our partners here hook us up with.

The reality is that I don’t need to exaggerate stuff. It really is this great. It’s the same every year, and yet it’s different. Our final 24 hours here were as good as the last.

When I left off yesterday, we were getting ready to depart all the way across the valley to see the Brewers take on the Dodgers in Glendale. We ate breakfast in the gigantic suite that is the Scottsdale Links Resort. Staying in a place that is like a huge apartment means that we can toast bagels, make coffee and even do a load of laundry before leaving. It also, however, means that we don’t get housekeeping at any point. This might work for some people – families, specifically – but for others not so much.

I should point out that group this year stayed in two separate locations. The other team lodged at The Villa Mirage in North Scottsdale. A sister resort to The Scottsdale Links, their spacious room layout was similar to our own, but had the advantage of a personal bathroom for each private bedroom.

The Villa Mir…