Editor of The Tribune
WILBER, Nebraska - At some early point in any writer's young career, someone throws out the idea that writing is fighting, and that the best writing comes after you've been around the block a time or two or three. Some writers love the sounds of the Big City; others run for the outs of civilization.
Journalism is about the lightning story of the day. You want that, well, you head for the Big City, where electric stories come out of nowhere, where the creativity of the large population offers stories that both stun and excite. New York is like that, as is Boston and Los Angeles and Miami and Dallas - great places for news reporting.
If your bent is writing fiction, the best inspiration comes from leaving all that behind, from abandoning the rat race and from decelerating to a lifestyle of corn bread and beef hash and home-grown vegetables and sun-ups that come as if on Valium. Sunsets are for closing the chapter of the day, for ending the day's writing output, for ditching the favorite, ragged cowboy shirt and looking for the best one in the dirty pile. Nothing is important in the small towns, like this one. And everything has meaning.
Writing fiction in book-form is a long sonofabitch of a journey, one that energizes you at dawn and pisses you off at noon. And don't bother with the telephone. Stash that bastard away until the weekend. Don't bother me, not even if the damned building's on fire. Catch up with me in Texas, baby. I'll be here a spell.
Motel television has it some other guy wants to be president. A tornado has ravaged Massachusetts. The Dallas Mavericks have beaten the Miami Heat in pro basketball. Summer is scorching the land from Wyoming to Manhattan. One hundred degrees in Columbus, Ohio. The usual noise is out there if you want or need it. Days can be planned or allowed to go to Hell. You decide.
Outside, the town looks as it has looked for the past 100 years...
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20 comments:
Good read, mr. editor, as always your articles are energizing. Just out of curosity do you plan to travel the entire East Coast or just the heartland of America??
julia
With all due respect to Dr. Kivarkian, but he got his wish, death wish. Sorry Dr. no tears from me, I enjoy life too much.
May you rest in peace.
Kevorkian was a dinosaur. He died when he died. That's it. Life is not forever. I think he helped some people out of theri misery.
The bloggers have gone after, juan jose Ortega, what a poor excuse for a loser
Marshall Dillon has passed away, what a pity, he was a good man, well on TV that is. He came out on gunsmoke.
Is that an outhouse on the picture,near the old rusted pick-up. Wow, that must be some old folks who own the property.
Mr. Editor, did the sign say, Capital city fo the Cheweks, or something like that, I couldn't read the letters.
Good story and good pictures, what an interesting trip.
Juan Ortega and his dumb comments are appearing on Jerry's blog. Now that no one reads Tonie's Blog, even Juan, el Mamom, ran to another blog.
Like rats, applicants for police chief in Harlingen, have been declining the appointment. What is wrong with this screwed up city anyway????
There has to be someone that knows the answers, Carlos Yerena doesn't.
FYI, Tony Chapamecos blog had 4 comments, two from his boyfriend, Junan Ortega, and two from a blogger, who blogs under capt. America.
Two were sacastic comments, Chapa and J.J.O. can't tell when someone is making fun of them, par de burritos sin mecate.
Side bar, ofcourse, they shouldn't charge the teacher, todays students are unruly, arrogant, and the parents are worse.
I still watch Gunsmoke on cable, I have been a fan of Matt Dillon for many years. May he rest in peace.
The heat in the midwest is not to bad, it is dry heat, here in South Texas, is humid and hot as hell.
Dr. Kevorkian did some amazing Surreal Paintings while on Jail.... check out his art work on Google and on Youtube !!!
Jake, is now using a fake name of Isidro, they are trying to get names, and comments. Only Juan Josefa Ortega, cara de burro cansado blogs there.
Mr. Editor, If you seen any (one screen) movie houses in those little towns in rural America. Take a picture and post them your blog.
I find those theaters facinating. Thanks
Mary lou
In re: your side post about Twitter.
BY DANIEL LIBIT SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 2011
As the world has attempted to make sense of Rep. Anthony Weiner’s claim that his Twitter account was hacked, a key clue has been missing: exactly how the notorious groin pic was posted online.
But according to data provided exclusively to The Daily from TweetCongress.org, a nonprofit website that captures each member of Congress’s Twitter feeds in real time, the shot seen round the world was transmitted using TweetDeck — a popular Adobe desktop application that links up with social networking sites. A review of Weiner’s Twitter stream from May 27, the day of the crotch pic, shows that Weiner had been posting only from TweetDeck — one of many ways to post messages to Twitter — that entire night.
Chet Wisniewski, a senior security adviser at security software company SophosLabs, said the TweetDeck stamp “does make it more plausible that it did come from him.”
Weiner used TweetDeck frequently, but he often also posted from the Web directly or from his BlackBerry. A widely circulated explanation for how Weiner’s Twitter account could have been hacked by email would also seem to be incompatible with the fact that the message in question originated on TweetDeck. If email had been used, the message probably would have originated via the photosharing site Yfrog, where the infamous picture was posted.
However, this information doesn’t rule out the possibility that the congressman’s Twitter account was infiltrated — as Weiner has publicly suggested. But experts say it adds another hurdle for an alibi that has come under increasing fire.
“The complexity goes up,” said Chris McCroskey, the Texas software developer who founded TweetCongress.org. The site, which has advocated the increased participation from congressmen on Twitter, aggregates and archives all the feeds of the 112th Congress from Twitter’s application programming interface. It is the only known database to do this other than the Library of Congress, which does not publicly share its data.
Robert Stribley, a senior information architect at Razorfish, a social media strategy agency, reasoned that if Weiner used the TweetDeck app, “it would probably make it less likely his account was hacked.”
When reached by The Daily, TweetDeck’s community manager, Richard Barley, declined to comment.
Experts caution that there are several scenarios in which the congressman’s Twitter account could have been compromised. Wisniewski cautioned that a savvy hacker may have intentionally noted Weiner’s posting platform the night of the offending tweet, and intentionally matched it.
“If I had his password, I could add his account into my TweetDeck and start sending tweets, and it would all say ‘TweetDeck,’” Wisniewski explained.
On the other hand, Matthew Green, chief technology officer at Independent Security Evaluators, said that if the offensive tweet had been transmitted through something other than TweetDeck that night, it might have gone a long way to exonerate Weiner.
“Here’s the thing that solves it all,” said McCroskey, “for him to call for a criminal investigation. All they have to do is look at his TweetDeck and see if it came from there, see what IP address [it had]. The local police department or Capitol Police could probably figure this out in 15 minutes.”
Herman Cain has about as much of a chance of winning the presedency, as Tony Chapa being able to write a sentences.
That Mr. Paz-Martinez is not going to happen, there are too many bigots in the US.
Anthony W. better get her twitter and facebook and his personal e-mail protected. Otherwise, this practice will continue. Now a days you can't trust anyone with personal stuff. Interesting post. Specially in Politics, where anyone will back stab you.
I really like these reports from the Midwest.
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