December 28, 2009
(LWI = “Legislating While Impaired”)
Well, it’s obvious that Max is not totally three sheets to the wind – but he definitely doesn’t seem to be 100% sober. Does he appear normal, tipsy, drunk, or perhaps ill to you?
December 14, 2009
This was SERIOUSLY cool: five villagers from Tanna in the Pacific Ocean visited the USA, and along with stays in California and New York, they spent time in Montana. Here’s a promo clip from the five men experiencing snow for (I assume?) the first time:
The Tanna natives spent most of their Montana time down near Belfry and Billings, and also journeyed to Yellowstone. They really seemed to enjoy their visit to Montana – and their host family the Pelicans really seemed to enjoy the experience, too. Wearing cowboy hats, playing in the snow, participating in a hunt, helping out with ranch-hand duties, chowing down on pancakes and bacon, dancing at a local bar – good ol’ Montana stuff.
Just a hunch, but I suspect that the Tanna men enjoyed their Montana experience more than the other places they visited during the USA trip.
On a very sad note, however: if you watched the Travel Channel episode, you may have noticed that it was dedicated to Cole Pelican, with the tragic dates 2000-2009. Cole was the 9-year old son of the Pelican family; he loved rodeo, and he died in a horse-riding accident in July 2009, long after the TV episode was filmed. The family established “Cole’s Western Wishes” in his memory.
December 4, 2009
Montana Jewish community highlighted in the New York Times:
Though there are few Jews in Montana today, there once were many. The city of Butte had kosher markets, a Jewish mayor, a B’nai B’rith lodge and three synagogues. Helena, the capital city, had Temple Emanu-El, built in 1891 with a seating capacity of 500. There is a Jewish cemetery in Helena, too, with tombstones dating to 1866. But more Jews are buried in Helena than currently live here. And yet, in a minor revival, Montana now has three rabbis, two in Bozeman and one (appropriately) in Whitefish.