There is something in the water in Idaho. I suspect it might be Philadelphia. Exhibit A: Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was a poet who happened to be (unfortunately) a fascist.
Continue readingThere is something in the water in Idaho. I suspect it might be Philadelphia. Exhibit A: Ezra Pound Ezra Pound was a poet who happened to be (unfortunately) a fascist.
Continue readingStatus of the Kilgore Project The end of 2019 has brought with its shortest-of-days some Kilgore Project-related gifts: December 18, 2019 — Advocates for the West won a ruling from
Continue readingI stumbled over some familiar words while reading Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia in preparation for a trip to Patagonia in early 2019. The words are ones that have been stuck
Continue reading[Stage Directions: Please listen to Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2 in D minor as you read this post. It is the perfect tincture of macabre and adventure.] The other morning, in
Continue readingThursday March 29, 2018 I’m in the APA Hotel in Tsuruoka, Japan, up around 4:30 AM. up before the sunin the Land of the Rising Sunwhat does that make me
Continue readingOn one particular night spent alone in a tent in the Idaho backcountry, I had a peculiar dream. I was in the basement of the house that I grew up
Continue readingOur Thing I was standing inside a glass box whose walls didn’t quite reach the frosted cement below. I withered into myself, hands in the coat pockets, chin buried in
Continue readingWARNING: This post contains spoilers for William T. Vollmann’s The Dying Grass. It also contains spoilers for the historical event known as the Nez Perce War. If you are interested
Continue readingScholarDay has been writing recently of a proposed open pit cyanide heap leach mine proposed in the Centennial Mountains in Eastern Idaho: the Kilgore Project. We’ve talked about how the
Continue readingBefore things get out of hand, let me state unequivocally that I support wildlife underpasses (and overpasses, fish ladders, canopy bridges, and all other infrastructural devices that unite wildlife populations
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