Slog - Comments on "Gonna Stop Smoke Today" http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today Well, Frizzelle, I think I've found your Alaskan man of letters, a latter-day Robert Service who wrote a couple of poems during a standoff with the police: Poem number one: Boy I could use a smoke. "Scarey" very noise bullets. Fucking scrary. My, my maybe the holy father would help wish someone would pray for me And the story, from a friend who works as a detective up there: The guy, who was in his 50s and has no criminal history, just went nuts. The day before he flipped he used a backhoe to tear up his son's septic system... Copyright 2008 Wed, 01 Oct 2008 11:54:43 -0800 Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:17:54 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by angelika that's really charming!

]]> angelika http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1155576 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1155576 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:00:15 -0800 Comment by inkweary Tearing up your son's septic system sounds awfully Freudian.

]]> inkweary http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1155609 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1155609 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:05:28 -0800 Comment by dwight moody Seriously, he was in a gas station and ran out of cigs? Did he go through the dozens of cartons they usually have?

]]> dwight moody http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1155692 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1155692 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:17:38 -0800 Comment by Super Jesse @3 - Perhaps he was just really peculiar and only smoked the single ones or something, still it seems like it'd take quite a bit of puffing to clean out any gas station I've ever been in.

]]> Super Jesse http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1155738 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1155738 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:23:58 -0800 Comment by tabletop_joe Interesting news day today, between this and the getaway-raft robber.

]]> tabletop_joe http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1156284 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1156284 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:06:58 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Maybe the gas station had them behind a locked barrier. Or maybe the guy didn't want to steal or something; we already know he's kooky.

But "shit oh dear" is a classic Alaskan phrase I've most often from tugboat people from up in Prudhoe Bay. Them's lovely pomes, all rightie.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1156515 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1156515 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 13:25:25 -0800 Comment by Jiberish John Hoover is from Alaska and an amazing artist. The lines and forms he creates are stunning and rooted in Alutiiq tradition. In Alaska the best art, artists, writers, and singers are mostly Native. Nora Marks Dauenhauer is one of my favorite writers. For music check out Pamyua.

]]> Jiberish http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1157117 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1157117 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:52:24 -0800 Comment by Jiberish "How To Make Good Baked Salmon" by Nora Marks is one of my favorites.

]]> Jiberish http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1157150 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1157150 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 14:57:48 -0800 Comment by Greg Put this guy in a small, padded room with a nice window and a chair, give him lots of paper and some pencils, and just let him do his thing. I'm sure everyone will be happier this way.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1157300 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1157300 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 15:26:00 -0800 Comment by Jimmy Oh to know the bliss and glow
That good tobacco means
Just live among the everlasting ice
So imagine my amazement
When my stock of magazines
Was chewed into a chowder by the mice!

]]> Jimmy http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1157549 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1157549 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 16:16:07 -0800 Comment by Simone Jewel is from Alaska. Is she an artist?

]]> Simone http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1158022 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1158022 Arts Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:25:58 -0800 Comment by raisedbywolves "shit o dear"

... ha, this guy is adorable!

]]> raisedbywolves http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1158536 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/10/gonna_stop_smoke_today#c1158536 Arts Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:17:54 -0800