Wilderness Bison & Cougars & Bears! (And Lies) You may have seen the picture. The road leading away from Yellowstone National Park is impassable, crowded with grizzly bears fleeing the area. Accompanying the picture is an explanation that park officials believe that "they know something we don't," suggesting the imminent eruption of the supervolcano
History The Man Who Made The West Wild 149 years ago, on August 2nd, 1876, Jack McCall walked into Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No. 10 in Deadwood, drew his Colt Single Action, yelled "Damn you! Take that!", and shot James Butler Hickok in the back of the head. Wild Bill was dead before he
Music See ‘Em While You Can I was around twelve when Elvis passed. While young, I had several older cousins who were huge fans of the guy and remember the profound shock many experienced. I’d seen more than a few of his movies and heard the hits so often the shock was real for me,
Music Mama, I’m Coming Home Mama, I’m Coming Home Years ago, a thirteen-year old kid with a serious jones for The Beatles, Buck Owens and 60s jangle bands was hanging out with a slightly older friend. “You should listen to this. It’s cool.” As is the case with most kids going through those
Pop Culture Standing for Nothing A lot of us have asked ourselves when it started. This slow slide into whatever the hell version of reality we’re trapped in now. If you’re an adherent to “the worst timeline” type thing, it’s easy to see the butterfly’s wings in motion back when that
Environment What We Stand to Lose at Dinosaur There’s a photo in a family photo album, from way back when you took a thing called film to a place called a photomat, where they did a thing called developing said film, and you put a physical copy of the resulting photograph in a book where your mom
Books For Your TBR Stack My favorite job, in a lifetime of many jobs, was managing for WaldenBooks in the late '90s. I loved Waldens. It was, to me, way better than whatever Barnes & Noble is now. I don't like going into bookstores and having the same damn books suggested to
Pop Culture The Mundane Hulk When I heard that Hulk Hogan died, I didn’t think about Terry Bollea. I thought about being seven years old, sitting too close to the TV, watching WrestleMania III. I thought about the way Hogan’s music hit—"Real American" crackling through grainy speakers—and how the
Education What We Were Taught Today I got this meme in a text from a friend. One of those internet declarations that gets passed around like gospel: “School never taught us how to do our taxes, but we sure learned how to square dance.” My first thought—and the response I sent in the group
