Came back from our bike trip to learn Chris Pazder, an old friend, died this week, climbing in the Tetons. Slipped and slid down a snowfield, off a cliff. Not the first friend to go this way, and likely not the last. Kinda weird this mountain life we’ve chosen, but none, I believe, would switch for another. Be missin’ ya, Chris.
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Radio producer Leni Holliman died this week. She a PRX Most Licensed Producer; creater of the popular series Day by Day with Lewis & Clark, and the Arts and Humanities Producer for Yellowstone Public Radio, and just good folk. As she sez: “So I’m this chick who lives up in Montana and makes radio.”
The Micro Fiber Militia blog noted this crocheted-graffiti in honor of Leni outside the Yellowstone Art Museum:
“Basketball is a wonderful thing for a community because it is a warm place where everyone can go and it isn’t a church or a bar.” - Phil Jackson
Apathy was thick as I approached the theater for a screening of Class C. Five minutes in, I was completely converted. Class C, a documentary film produced by Bozemanite Mark Zetler, follows 5 Montana Class C girls basketball teams as they make their way to the State tournament. Instantly engaging and entertaining, it’s a beautifully crafted story about Montana and basketball; an interview with coaching legend and Montana native Phil Jackson is deftly intertwined. Go out of your way to see it!
Free screening at the Alberta Bair Theater in Billings on February 23rd at 8pm.
Airs on MontanaPBS:
Wednesday February 27th at 8pm
Monday March 3rd at 7pm
More on Class C
This scene is a whole world unto itself - I am completely captivated by it.
I especially like the small deer, seemingly ready to fight or play (it’s a fine line between the two).
(photo by a friend of a friend of a friend in Missoula)
This morn on NPR the Western Folklife Center’s What’s in a Song series caught the core of Greg Keeler’s “Coyotes and Cowboy’s” (4:03 mp3):
Greg is a long-time fren, composer of several songs for our radio work, and pollutes young minds at our local MSU-Bozeman.
Had some visitors here in the ‘hood. This message and photo came in from my neighbor (Thanks, Debbie)…
This is one of the 2 cougar kits that was roaming our neighborhood. This one found refuge in our window well until Fish and Game came and got him. What a beautiful animal.
Born in Butte, Montana; died in Clearwater, Florida. Robert Craig “Evel” Knievel, Jr., October 17 1938 – November 30 2007:
Everywhere in this world I go
No matter who or what I know’
The people they look and most of them stare
And I wonder if they really care
They see this king with his golden crown
Some of them smile but most of them frown
Each time I was hurt they all said
That guy is lucky that he’s not dead
(And they were right.)
But I wanted to get up and try it again
I kept telling myself that I knew I could win
So I’d close my eyes and to the Lord I would pray
Oh help me God… let me walk someday.
And He did.
Every stitch on every scar
Just brought me closer to my dream afar
To be a man and to do my best
To stand alone is my only quest
Success is a term that has broad use
For you and I to have none in life there is no excuse
For YOU to do what I do is not right
But for ME it’s not wrong
What I’ve been trying to tell you all along
Is that it’s got to be
So, if you wonder why
The answer to that is
That just like you… I gotta be me.
–Evel Knievel, 1974
via Ben- Comma Q.
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