Not really. I've had welcome visitors for a week now and I have a new issue of Night Train due out soon. I figure we'll be back to regular posting in about a week. In the meantime, theres' this: Activists from across Appalachia are in Washington, DC, this week to call attention to mountaintop removal […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here they are– Give Up and Go Home, Jasper–Charles Dodd White http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2010/07/09/give-up-and-go-home-jasper-fiction-by-charles-dodd-white/ Jeff Crook–The End of the War http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2010/05/10/barry-hannah-competition-1st-place-jeff-crook/ John Mcmanus–Blood Brothers http://www.friedchickenandcoffee.com/2010/03/29/blood-brothers-by-john-mcmanus/
Anti-frack, watch your back, somebody's watching you… Pennsylvania Homeland Security has been spying on anti-drilling activists, taking down names of attendees at meetings and even a screening of a documentary on drilling; these dossiers on peaceful protesters are then supplied to Marcellus Shale, a drilling company. The State Homeland Security Director James Powers justifies the snooping […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
From Corvallis to Farmville, the Kesey novel steepled my kneecap, while a girl named Kathy chatted me across the Greyhound aisle, out of kindness, curiosity, spring fever or pity. And the piebald bovines in their greenery, standing still yet rushing past Tillamook where steamy slush hung on the mud flaps chunky as gorgonzola. Kathy, such […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Dan says he’s getting tired of me talking in my sleep. Says I mumble like a child and toss and turn, flail my arms. What I see is the inside of the school bus. I see forty kids laughing. Then the bus tilts and the laughter stops. Water rushes in like a biblical downpour and […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Charles Dodd White made me aware of this. Wish I could go. No doubt some of you are. The festival is sponsored by Gardner-Webb's Southern Appalachian Culture Series. Ron Rash currently holds the John Parris Chair in Appalachian Studies at Western Carolina University. His family has deep roots in the Southern Appalachian Mountains, and most […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Two AM. Highway 50. Ely, Nevada. We laughed out loud at the Break-a-Heart Hotel in Silver Springs, flew past the Last Chance Saloon in Austin, then passed up the Parsonage House in Eureka. A coyote darted across both lanes a few minutes ago, and I've seen more road-kill in one night than in a lifetime […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 0
GUD: Greatest Uncommon Denominator (magazine) Issue 1
