After reading Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States, Bruce Springsteen sat down, wrote, and recorded “Nebraska,” perhaps his best social and political work. Zinn once said he decided to write A People’s History after listening to Woody Guthrie’s lyrics about Colorado’s Ludlow Massacre. Guthrie goosed Bob Dylan towards political consciousness who in turn moved Springsteen to consider writing stories “from below” — stories against the grain of the “great men” theory of history.
Turning Around | Mr. Ignacious Mwambola
So much of the news from Africa is depressing: famine, aids, wars, orphans, despots, you name it. It’s not just the mainstream media; I’ve been hit recently by a kind of “year-end giving blitz” when relief agencies scramble for your 2009 tax planning largesse. Lots of hungry kids with flies in their eyes. I’m told [...]
Broadsheets and Chalkboards | The Daily Talk
The swan song for traditional media is as incessant as it is unquestioned. Don’t tell that to San Francisco’s Dave Eggers or Liberia’s Alfred Sirleaf. In radically different ways, under radically different conditions, they both open a space for the newspaper’s relevance in a landscape of navel-gazing corporate media non-stop blather-a-thon (oh, and blogs, let’s not forget blogorrhea).
100 days in Glacier National Park
This summer, Glacier Park Magazine editor Chris Peterson undertook a photographic project to take photos of Montana’s Glacier National Park over 100 consecutive days, starting on May 1, 2009, for a traveling photo show in 2010 to commemorate Glacier’s Centennial. He used a mix of film and digital cameras, including an 8 by 10 field camera, a Kodak Pocket Vest camera, circa 1909, and a Speed Graphic, among others. His idea was to use the cameras that would have been used over the course of the Park’s 100 years.
it’s been so long
since I’ve posted. But I’ve been in Africa. Without internet. Until tonight. I’m sitting in a joint in Zanzibar missing Sara and Grace and Ruth.
The Upper Cut: Walt Young Hangs up His (and his Father’s) Shears
Walt Young cut hair on East Colfax in Denver for 60 years. His chair was less than 6 feet from the sidewalk, a constant parade of homeless winos. Walt never let that thin sheet of glass get in the way. Everyone came in to his shop.
Born on Third: on Drinking with Racists (Strike One)
A friend of mine likes to tell the joke: the reason I don’t like George Bush is that he was born on third base and he thinks he hit a triple.
90 Seconds in Malawi (MaiMwana Video)
Video footage from the current documentary project on a group of women in Malawi (MaiMwana Project) who organized to begin solving the various health issues in their villages.
American Police Force Turns Tail and Exits Hardin
claiming the prison is outdated, American Police Force turns tail and drops their bid for the Hardin Jail.
95% of Cinematography
I’ve been told that 95% of cinematography is pointing the camera at something beautiful.
I’d like to thank the people of Malawi for making my job easy.
Hardin Jail/American Police Force President Michael Hilton: Scam Artist or True Western Hero?
Here’s a new joke we tell out here in the windswept plains of eastern Montana: what do you get when you cross a wanna-be Serbian Militant with a Southern California car salesman? That’s right, the keys to the Hardin Jail.
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Police Room 619, September 12
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African Sausage
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Ten Most Influential Books
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Sioux Charley Trail, Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness (Winter Count #1)
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Sheep Shearing Video
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Welcome to Montanamo Bay: Hardin Montana continues its campaign to become Gitmo North
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Magic City Hen video & Expo this Saturday
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Some Dreamers Along the Golden Line
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The Mind Eraser
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Bright Edges of the Earth
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Acceptable Blasphemies: Reflections on Opening Day
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Welcoming Autumn
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