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I am here for Friends

About Me

I'm just a Montana boy who had to get out of the little town and see what the big city was like, but also felt a great need to escape BUSHWORLD, so here I am in Istanbul for the last eight years. Probably didn't need to go half-way around the world to get a big city experience, but then that's not really moving. A person might move about in the US, but it's still the US perspective. I already knew that one, so I had to try something else. A little European, a little Asian in a minor key. A strange language that is not Arabic as many Americans falsely believe. Yeah, I gave up certain Montana amenities, but then again I can't go and look at ruins and statues that are as old as civilized humanity in MT either. It's all trade-offs. My knee won't let me drop cliffs anymore, hell I can't even run anymore, so the ski bum dream died a while back. Now it's just family man with an occasional dash to a powdery hill to sate the demon on my back.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Buddy Bolden, Lead Belly, Billy the Kid, Kemal Ataturk, Ghandi, Madam Curie, Marcel Duchamp, Tolkien, Evrett Ruess, Scott Schmidt, Craig Kelley

My Blog

Books of the last year!!

Summer is nearly upon us and the lazier days of sunshine reading are awaiting. I'll give you mine, you send me yours, and I'll put it all on to my blog so we can all look at the results!Number one rea...
Posted by on Fri, 04 May 2007 11:12:00 GMT

protest slogans from NYC

The following are protest slogans posted by http://www.tomdispatch.com/ from the weekend's protest in NYC against the Iraq War, war generally and Bush generally. Thought some of you might enjoy t...
Posted by on Mon, 01 May 2006 14:55:00 GMT

Feral driving 101

One cold mid tuesday night in the winter of 1960, Granmma Farrell was awoken by a ringing phone. She never woke well, but she especially didnt waken well past midnight on any night. Specifically any w...
Posted by on Mon, 01 May 2006 13:12:00 GMT

Friends family love death

The following is a letter I wrote to my good friend Zoltan after he had written to me informing me of the suicide of our mutual friend Mike Stubblefield. This occurred a few years ago. Dont know why I...
Posted by on Tue, 18 Apr 2006 23:30:00 GMT

Best Reads of the Past Year

So, I know that not everyone spends loads of time reading, but traditonally I do. This is gonna be a short list of the best reads of the last year in no particular order. After you read my list f...
Posted by on Sun, 09 Apr 2006 12:40:00 GMT

top 5 all-time best concerts

1. TreePeople at Connie's Lounge 1991-first time I heard Doug Marsch 2. Beasty Boys-opening of their first world tour in Missoula, MT because beer is cheap in MT 3. Pearl Jam Also their 1st date of th...
Posted by on Fri, 10 Mar 2006 13:42:00 GMT

A necessary Q

So this'll be a bit of a rant, I guess. I've got a basic Q, and any man who has had a live-in girlfriend or a wife will understand this Q and why it needs to be asked. Why the hell do women feel it n...
Posted by on Fri, 04 Nov 2005 17:06:00 GMT

simply had to share

this is just too funny not to post here. cheers, o satirist!PRESS RELEASE FROM AM GENERAL FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: JANUARY 6, 2004 Do you get on the road these days and wish you could have just a little...
Posted by on Mon, 31 Oct 2005 03:42:00 GMT

a short story long, or How I got here

I ended up spending 10 years in and out of the Univ of MT usually going in the fall and then snowboarding all winter while working part-time from fall through winter. I then spent spring and summer wo...
Posted by on Fri, 21 Oct 2005 12:13:00 GMT

After 11pm

As I was saying before the four month old raised his voice and silenced mine, Time is far more precious. When I lived in Montana, all I had was time. I didn't have any money, but I had a great view an...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Jul 2005 13:38:00 GMT