Feb

9

Scorn On The Cob

February 9, 2010 | Leave a Comment

New Montana blogger Jason King is off to a great start – he’s an illustrating genius, and topical to boot! And how could you not love the title of his blog, Scorn On The Cob?! Check out his “condolence card” to Conan O’Brien:

Oct

7

Big Sky Blogs

October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments

Just a reminder: there’s a whole lotta bloggers here in Montana; here’s the current roster of all of the Big Sky Bloggers that I know of! Please let me know of anyone that I have missed, and keep me posted of new bloggers. If you ever run out of blogs to read, come [...]

Sep

5

Right Montana

September 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

If you’re a right-of-center person – who in 2008 can be called Conservative, Republican, Libertarian, Paleocon (or should that be Palin-ocon now?), Neocon, Independent – and you want to start blogging, check this out: Right Montana! It’s a free, push-button simple blogging site where anyone can sign up and begin blogging literally within minutes. [...]

Aug

29

Palin as VP Pick

August 29, 2008 | 4 Comments

The dark horse just might turn out to be the front-runner: some sources are saying that they have confirmed that Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has been selected as John McCain’s Vice-Presidential nominee. You knew that there is a blog about this, right? I suspect that most (not all, but most) Montanans will approve of this [...]

Jul

31

Plug: Billings Free Press

July 31, 2008 | 1 Comment

Randy’s Billings Free Press continues to improve — he’s done a great job with it. He’s got a great layout/design, fresh content, images, tags, the whole thing. If you live in Billings – or will be visiting – you owe it to yourself to both read the Billings Free Press AND add it to your [...]

Jun

30

Big Sky Bloggers

June 30, 2008 | 1 Comment

The roster of all of the Big Sky Bloggers! Please let me know of anyone that I have missed, and keep me posted of new bloggers. If you ever run out of blogs to read, come on over here and just start clicking!

> read the rest (click here) all done [...]

Jun

7

Montana Appreciation Day

June 7, 2008 | 1 Comment

I’m not sure what calendar she is referring to, but Tara from Ohio has posted a blog entry about “Montana Appreciation Day!” I did some light Googling and couldn’t find any references to such, but I sure like the idea of having a day of appreciation for our wonderful state! Tara, we might have [...]

May

25

Site Update & New Blogs

May 25, 2008 | 2 Comments

Remember back in February the Big Sky Blog got hacked? And I had to start from scratch, because I wasn’t able to import all of the old entries from the backup? Well, the good news is that I was finally able to do it! So everything is back, going all the way back [...]

Aug

30

YAMB: Miss Montana!

August 30, 2004 | 2 Comments

Courtesy of Craig (via David), here comes the newest Montana blogger: Evangelina Duke, aka Miss Montana 2005!
I trust that all of my fellow MT bloggers will click on over to her site and wish her well as she represents the Big Sky State!

> read the rest (click here) all done

Aug

30

Moon

August 30, 2004 | 5 Comments

I noticed the beautiful full moon this morning and I grabbed my camera to take a picture of it to share. I was not overly happy with the way it turned out so I wasn’t planning on posting it until Kalamity challenged Monatana bloggers to share their pictures so I decided to share it. [...]

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