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Alaska Chinook: "Heart Break" Alaska

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 04:20:00 -0500

National Geographic Freak Show!

Bravo Jeanie Greene! We salute you Jeanie Greene! It is about time that a prominent and wise Native Alaskan stood up and voiced a concern that ethnic cleansing through ethnic stereotyping is alive in well in Alaska. I am talking the arrival of some off [...]

Progressive Alaska: Saradise Lost - Book 4 - Chapter 22 -- 300 Teabaggers Wait in Line Outside BJ's Discount Warehouse for Chance to Meet Palin

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 22:01:00 -0500

I. Chez Che

The estimates on numbers of people who showed up at BJ's Discount Warehouse in northern Virginia to get some face time with Sarah Palin Saturday vary. Some say as many as 500 showed up. Others put it closer to [...]

I Eat Gravel: Ravens Are People Too

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 14:57:09 -0500

I’ve been busy as of late and had to put this one in the “to do” blog pile.

ERIC ENGMAN /Fairbanks Daily News-Miner via The Associated Press

After two ravens roosting on top of a power transformer were electrocuted, hundreds [...]

Alaska Chinook: Go ask Alice....

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 13:46:00 -0500

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The Immoral Minority: Is Sarah Palin a racist?

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 06:11:00 -0500

Number of comments: 24
The New Yorker book review of "Going Rogue" offers this interesting bit of information on sister Sarah.

Palin, though notoriously ill-travelled outside the United States, did journey far to the first of the four colleges she attended, in Hawaii. She and a friend who went with her lasted only [...]

What Do I know?: AIFF 2009 - Francine Lastufka Taylor Recommends Neshoba

Sun, 06 Dec 2009 05:00:00 -0500

At the animation workshop Saturday afternoon, Francine Lastufka Taylor, who's the founder of the Alaska Moving Image Preservation Association (AMIPA), told me she'd been to a great documentary at 1pm. The movie was Neshoba which will play again

Saturday, Dec. 12, at the Alaska Experience Theater at 5:30 pm. [...]

What Do I know?: AIFF 2009 - Devi Snively, Director of Death in Charge

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:12:00 -0500

Here's a brief conversation with Devi after the showing of her film "Death in Charge." All the films in the Humoresque program were solid, interesting, well made films. Death in Charge explored the relationship between a young girl and her mom with the help of the grim reaper and some [...]

Progressive Alaska: PA Arts Sunday - Part 1 - Tan Dun - A Symphony for YouTube

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 23:00:00 -0500

I showed this to my classes on Thursday, as one example to illustrate how the way new music is portrayed is going through an immense transformation:
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The Immoral Minority: More evidence that Palin is blurring the line between politics and religion.

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 21:03:00 -0500

Number of comments: 30
This is a little of what Palin says in a BGEA (Billy Graham Evangelical Association) video discussing the importance of America rededicating itself to God.

"No one person has all the right answers," Palin said. "It takes a united nation, and it does take godly counsel, and it" [...]

What Do I know?: AIFF 2009 - Busy Day with Animation and Shorts

Sat, 05 Dec 2009 17:49:00 -0500

A quick check in. Humoresque was a program of shorts - all of which were quite good. Definitely worthwhile. Then the animation workshop, then the animation package. The internet connection at Out North wasn't working, and so now I'm just posting quickly here at Bear Tooth [...]