Jul

31

The Last, Best Place

July 31, 2005 | 2 Comments

August 1, 2005: All Montana bloggers are urged to change the name of their site to “The Last, Best Place” in symbolic protest of Lipson’s attempt to copyright the phrase for his sole commercial use. More details here.
Among the participating blogs: Karen @ KarbonKountyMoos; Kim @ Revolving Duck; Randy @ SFO Life (with [...]

Jul

31

Pictures

July 31, 2005 | 1 Comment

SanityEludesMe, aka Andrea, has some really great pictures of Montana wildlife – go take a look!

Jul

29

Montana Quarterly

July 29, 2005 | 1 Comment

New magazine discovered at the newstand today: The Montana Quarterly. I like it. Nice article on the drive to preserve Montana’s “Open Prairie,” some great pictures, an article about the new “Big Sky On The Big Screen” legislation, a cute story about pig racing, and other cool stuff. Good magazine, and only [...]

Jul

29

Miss RSJS Election Day!

July 29, 2005 | 2 Comments

Many of the Big Sky Bloggers know Sam, of “The Real Sam Johnson Show.” We seem to have adopted Sam as an honorary Montanan – he has quite a fan-base here! In light of that, it is time to take action to ensure that a Montanan is elected as the first-ever “Miss ‘Real [...]

Jul

28

Last Best Place: The Opposition

July 28, 2005 | 5 Comments

Courtney left a comment in the entry below that needs to be seen by everybody:
“All of us indeed should help rally folks around creating a community opposition to this. The state is intervening and Congressman Rehberg is trying to coordinate something, but we need to all band together on a community-wide campaign against this. We’re [...]

Jul

27

The Last, Best Place

July 27, 2005 | 9 Comments

I’m sure most of you know about the controversy surrounding a Las Vegas businessman’s attempt to trademark the phrase “The Last, Best Place.” This is the phrase used by William Kittredge for the title of his Montana-themed anthology. Naturally, this does not sit well with Montanans. I think that most of us [...]

Jul

26

You Rascal!

July 26, 2005 | Leave a Comment

The latest incarnation of The Rascal Fair is up for your reading pleasure! This week it’s hosted by the always-gracious KarbonKountyMoos, and it’s got a slightly supernatural theme.

Jul

25

Montana Earthquake

July 25, 2005 | 5 Comments

(cross-posted from GreaterFalls.com) Um…did anyone else feel a bit of shaking at about 10:08 pm on Monday night? I was at the computer and suddenly the monitor seemed a bit jiggly — it disoriented me for a moment — then I noticed the stuff on top of the desk (router, pocket-pc, etc) kind of [...]

Jul

25

Butte

July 25, 2005 | 3 Comments

The Montana Standard, I would say, has the least beautiful and functional website of any daily paper in the state. They are doing some revamping though, and recently launched a forum for Butte Rats (and honorary Butte Rats) to talk about Butte stuff.
Hopefully, it will foster some real conversation. Oftentimes in Butte people [...]

Jul

24

Thank You

July 24, 2005 | 4 Comments

I want to shout a huge “THANK YOU” to the entire state of Montana for making me feel so welcome during my three years here. July 24, 2002, is when we arrived in Great Falls, and while Great Falls is now Home, I very much appreciate all of Montana and the friendly people all [...]

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