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Charlie Montney
I'm a longhaired almost-hippie stuck in the inner suburbs of a major rust-belt metropolis who's thoughtful, creative, and kind of geeky. In exchange for a paycheck I work from home most days leveraging resources to create shareholder value. When I escape, I play music, hang out in coffee houses, dink around on the computer, take naps, and think I should be off in the woods somewhere. Every once in a while I get in my car and drive far, far away, though I've always come back so far.
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- The Sound
- naylandblake.net
- Chronicles of the Open Hearted
- Virtual Bloke
- Michigan LGBTQ Remember
- Chuck Wendig: Terribleminds
- Ryan Schultz
- casey382
- the drax files radio hour
- tkingfisher
- Tales From B.F.E. (or How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Guitar)
- Wolf
- Lucius
- Life, And Other Natural Disasters...
- Too old to die young
- I only buy it for the articles.
- Altivo
- Patio Boat
- The Wolf Mama's Kitchen
- PostSecret
Tag Archives: michigan
Music festival time
Last weekend I went to the 40th Hiawatha Music Festival, in Marquette, Michigan. I wish I remembered how many of them I’ve been to. The Ott Lake Rambler moved back to Marquette in 1997, so it’s no more than twenty … Continue reading
The Verve Pipe – Overboard
You may remember, a number of years back, a song called “The Freshmen” by a Michigan band named The Verve Pipe (not to be confused with the British band The Verve). “The Freshman” is pretty much their only big hit … Continue reading
Isn’t this election over???
I got robo-called twice today. The second time there was no message left. The first time it was the widow of Bo Schembechler, the late and legendary coach of the University of Michigan football team, asking me to vote for … Continue reading
The wedding bell not-blues
Judge strikes down Michigan’s same-sex marriage ban IT IS HEREBY DECLARED that Article I, ยง 25 of the Michigan Constitution and its implementing statutes are unconstitutional because they violate the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United … Continue reading
Lomax’s 1938 upper midwest field expedition
I’ve been music-geeking all day, first about early 20th-century American pop music and where it came from (that was kind of unsuccessful), and then about the recordings musicologist Alan Lomax made in Michigan and Wisconsin in 1938. Here are a … Continue reading
It’s beginning to look a lot like Independance Day
On the way up north for Hiawatha, I stopped for lunch at my favorite stopping point, Charlie’s Country Corner just south of Grayling. (Must be the name.) It’s a gas station, convenience store, trucker rest stop and service area, souvenir … Continue reading
Voters for Fair Use of Ballot Referendum
Here’s a trick from the Michigan legislature that you may not have heard about, especially if your only exposure is national news media. Any act of the legislature that contains an appropriation of money cannot be put to a referendum … Continue reading
Expansion of the right to blow stuff up
Governor OKs Michigan fireworks sales expansion … Michigan used to have a fairly restrictive list of legal fireworks, but apparently those days are over. Great. Just what I wanted. Well, at least I won’t complain about the police not enforcing … Continue reading
Politics fatigue
Last week, I thought I would burn this LJ up on writing politically themed posts, after Monday’s and Wednesday’s screeds. That didn’t turn out to happen, did it? I still have a couple of ideas, and the world is always … Continue reading
Summer Memory
I’ve been pulling together photos from my trip to Blissfest and the Upper Peninsula in July of 2003. I went to several locations in Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore (on the Lake Superior coast) and eventually got to Marquette. All my … Continue reading
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