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Part 2 of 2 We begin where we began last time: with naked Mike Rowe on the Internet. We move on to where we ended last time: with naked Sam Elliott on the Internet. We see, now, clearly there’s a pattern to my thinking, there’s also a purpose: Who is hotter, Mike Rowe star of “Dirty Jobs,” narrator of “Deadliest Catch” and advocate of blue collar employment, or Sam Elliott, actor, horseman and straight-shooter, literally. What is not clear is that the naked videos have no, or...
Kathy Leeds has spent a large part of her life working to help others and, Saturday at the Eagles Club, the community has a chance to give back to her to help raise funds for her recent medical expenses. Kathy was director for 20 years of Quality Life Concepts, an organization which worked to help people with disabilities emphasizing assistance for the very young, from birth to 3 years old. She has been active with Special Olympics and in her church, teaching Sunday school...
Part 1 of 2. I saw Mike Rowe naked. Not in person, of course, like with my eyes reaching out and touching his bare-naked skin — because he’s Mike Rowe, “Dirty Jobs,” “Deadliest Catch,” “I got me a resonant, opera-trained voice that I use to advocate for blue collar work” Mike Rowe, so the possibility that I would personally see him naked-as-the-day is just, that would, so far, it’s really, yeah, right. You know what I mean. Plus, he was holding a “Help Wanted” sign over h...
I have outdone myself this week and turned from being simply old to being old-old. Birthdays come and go and we get older with more or less grace and certainly without any effort on our part because aging is just a byproduct of breathing. We have an endless supply of truisms about age, aging and being old: “Age is relative” — because a 5-year-old thinks a 20-year-old is old, the 20-year-old thinks 40 is old and the 40-year-old thinks 80 is old. “Aging is alright; it’s th...
Motorcyclists, and road trip enthusiasts in general, have an opportunity to cruise north-central Montana roads, win prizes and help out a good cause this weekend in the area's first poker run of the season. Eagle Riders, a motorcycle club affiliated with Havre's Eagles Club Aerie No. 166, is holding its 2nd Annual Spring Opener Poker Run fundraiser Saturday with an expanded venue that also includes a dinner, a silent auction, vendors and a street dance. "We are basically...
The Internet is the biggest thing to happen to mankind since the wheel — and some of us use it just to watch funny videos on Youtube. I know, if I lived in those prehistoric times when the wheel was new, I would’ve thought it was cool just because I could run over people’s toes. But sometimes the Internet brings knowledge and philosophical advancement whether you planned on it or not. You think you’re just watching an odd little video about a bunny nonchalantly digging...
When a Havre man volunteered last year to use his expertise selling secondhand items online to help a friend of his wife's sell her parent's estate, he ended up launching a new local business. Brett Antley, owner of The Past Estate Sales and Service, started selling items on the online auction website eBay after a head injury, about five years ago, left him unable to work. He said it kept him occupied, brought in a little money and helped with his rehabilitation. One major...
In an era when untold amounts of tax dollars are spent on steering kids away from a life of crime — both before and after the criminal behavior has begun — through education programs and activities or young kids, teens and parents, Nebraska police recently dropped the ball during what Pamville editors believe could have been an educational experience for one of its youngest delinquents and his mother. Nebraska TV news website WOWT.com reported April 15 that a 3-year-old boy...
In the late ’70s — when disco was first showing signs of dying a merciful death and my puberty was still lying dormant beyond its expected arrival — author and avid pilot Richard Bach wrote this popular bit of wisdom: “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back to you, they're yours. If they don't, they never were.” I hated that sappy saying. And then someone gave me a poster. The quote was flourished over a fantastical scene of white doves flying off into a tu...
It is, perhaps, true that the world is going collectively crazy. Or maybe it’s just something about North America. ——— Canadians, they always seem like the nicest, most level-headed people in the world, like the United State’s corny, eccentric, responsibly booze-loving, country-bumpkin cousins. Until now. Now they're just us. In May 2013, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford admitted to spending his days drunk in public, smoking crack and being an all-around, um, low-down no-good-nik. This...
One of the latest trending videos on the Internet is of a young man, presumably the Jared Michael who originally downloaded it, who was trying to get a video of himself, with his back to the tracks, as a train approached and passed. That was the plan anyway. As the 10-second video saga unfolds, though, it is revealed that Michael is standing very close to the tracks, and the young man gets kicked in the side of the head and face by a driver on the train. The blow flipped him...
It’s not that I’m afraid of change or that I hate change. I’m just highly suspicious of change, and when I say highly I mean it in a big way that’s in all capital letters — and italics — like HIGHLY suspicious. Change operates under its own motives. Change is amoral. We know these things instinctually. We have the saying: Change for the sake of change is … bad, stupid, pointless, wasteful, insert your negative word of choice here. I know, I know, people also say change is inev...
Montana State University-Northern men’s and women’s rodeo teams are bringing in renown bit maker and equine specialist Dave Elliott Friday evening for a horse-related clinic that offers the public a chance to learn about bitting and equine anatomy and to support the teams’ fundraising efforts. The clinic is Friday at 5:30 p.m. at the Applied Technology Center’s Hensler Auditorium on the MSU-Northern campus. Cost is $40 per person at the door. “We’re just really excited to...
A large garage and workshop adjacent to the home of Trish and Skip Taylor was gutted by fire on Wednesday afternoon. Two antique cars and three other vehicles were destroyed. Havre, Chinook and Harlem firefighters were on the scene of the blaze, on Highway 2 just east of the Hill-Blaine county line. The workshop was owned by Mike Dolan. Skip Taylor and Dolan lost tools in the fire. Vehicles destroyed included a '60s-era Mustang, a Model T Ford. a camper and a pickup. The fire...
I am here to say that I suffer for my art, not quite the cut-off-my-own-ear suffering of Vincent van Gogh, but I suffer nonetheless. Sure, like many artistic sufferers, I brought on some of the troubles myself. I had waited until I had 10 days to do work I could've gotten done in a leisurely two months, but I had a plan, an elegant plan for completion of said duties by said deadline. And, like all fool-proof plans, it had underestimated the fool. On the evening of Day Two it...
While most people in the area know that Big Sandy boasts an international rock star of the music world, few realize that another internationally acclaimed rock star of another sort quietly goes about her work in her small studio on the edge of town. She is a rock star of the metal engraving world, and she is on her own quiet mission. The early years Diane Scalese has been engraving metal since a day in 1986 when she stood watching her husband, Bob, a bit and spur maker,...
It is quite possible that, since the age when mankind invented ways of making fire on demand, science exists solely to make life more awesome. Carrying stuff around on your back? A big drag. The wheel? Awesome. A four-wheel drive pickup? Awesomer, of course. That fire? It not only cooked the food to bacteria-killing temperatures, but it also kept you warm. And you could stay up after dark. Aaaawesommme. Electricity? Awesomer. It’s fire in a light switch. How can you p...
With a high level of self-entertainment and very little sense of self-preservation, my husband told me that I should teach a course on how to effectively torture and kill plants. Everybody’s a comedian. Too bad he isn’t good at it, I say. To be fair, evidence of my, um, expertise in this matter abounds in our household. And to be honest, he did just overhear me in my home office struggling, ineptly, to interview two greenhouse owners and letting slip a few stories of said tor...
After receiving a proposal from the business contracted for the county's stray animal holding facility, Hill County commissioners made a change to their contract that could spell good news for the county's stray dogs. Stray dogs picked up in the county by Hill County sheriff's deputies are held for a mandatory four-day period. During this time effort is made to find the owner and anyone missing a dog can call the county to see if the dog is being held. Any dogs not claimed by...
I wonder about people. I wonder so much that sometimes I think a childhood accident must have stunted the growth of that brain part that reads body language. I can read animals better than I can people. Except cats. Cats make me wonder, too. Like when my cat sees a bird he’d like to snack on but knows he can’t get to, he drops his mouth open into a stiff, gap-faced smile, emits a raspy chatter and twitches his face so hard his whiskers bounce, all while staring at the bir...
"This is my new horse Taz," says I. "What kind of a name is Taz?" says John. "I dunno," says I. "It's just the one he came with." "I don't like it," says John. "It's just a name," says I. "Sounds like Tasmanian Devil. Doesn't bode well for the future," says John. "Well, maybe he's a Tasmanian Angel," says I. "Ha, ha, haw!" says John, as he ends up getting the last laugh after all. The list of this horse's apparently uncontrollable quirks is long - from his joy of packing...
Finland’s Reindeer Herder’s Association is trying something new this year to help save reindeer lives: glow in the dark reindeer. The story was originally reported Monday by Finnish national broadcaster YLE, but the title read “Poroille tarkoitetun heijastinsprayn tehtävänä estää liikenneonnettomuuksia,” so we hear straight from BBC.co.uk translators Tuesday that “Reflective reindeer antlers aim to stop accidents.” Apparently, as many as 4,000 reindeer are killed in traffi...
I am tired of the gradual short-changing of America. Yes, yes, of course, we’ve heard it all before about how everybody wants a job, a job that pays a decent wage, and everybody who’s anybody knows that the only way that’s going to happen is for the wealthiest of the wealthy and those rotten over-paid CEOs to share the wealth, but I think that’s a little shortsighted. Yes, folks, get those jobs lined out, and the ultrahigh-minimum wage paychecks, too, but make those corporate...
Several years ago, a colleague showed up to work limping. After I asked him about it, he revealed that he’d gotten kicked by a horse, each hind hoof connecting with a corresponding buttock, sending him flying headfirst into a snow drift. It’s worth taking a moment to picture that, a mental image that is equal parts horrifying, rich with sympathy pains and hilarious. OK, mostly hilarious. (That is the sort of thing that happens to Yosemite Sam and Wile E. Coyote all the tim...
I hate to sound all hard-core, fundamentalist, evangelical religious, but it just may be true that music is the instrument of the devil. And if that’s the case, the music website Pandora.com is the devil’s stomping grounds, and the earworm — aka the song stuck in your head — is his irritating little minion. For someone like me who really enjoys music but is not an avid-enough lover of music to keep up on new artists and to actually spend money to buy music, Pandora is an amazi...
