ONWARD

© Jake Naughton 2010

Transfixed by the firm hand of taxidermy and the gaze of GOD, we look ever onward and upward. From the PACIFICNORTHWEST™.

All, all alike endear’d, grown, ungrown, young or old,

Strong, ample, fair, enduring, capable, rich,

Perennial with the Earth, with Freedom, Law and Love,

   -Walt Whitman, America

Lonesome Cold Weather: New Music!

from Gerda Suzanna Vegt

Dear Noah,

I hear it is unseasonably cold in Wisconsin right now. To help bear the cold, here are a few things to things to listen to that will warm your autumnal spirit. Cheers, to warmer hearts.

Manifest Destiny™

Gladiator versus the Wyoming wilds © Jake Naughton 2010

OH!FAIREST READERS MINE
In the coming days prepare thine eyes and stomachs for an onslaught of hitherto unseen images from the PACIFICNORTHWEST™ archives.

an intro...!quoi

hi i'm khoa.
this is me in summary:

Herald, the intern

"Puppies Dream" from Ray's Writing Blog: http://raymond-teodos-writings.blogspot.com/

Dear Everybody,

My name is Herald, the editorial intern. I'm supposed to write about myself, but I'm not sure why. I've known these cats for quite a while (four years by count, possibly three by theirs) and I'm quite fond of them. Most of them write frequently while I don't. But it can't be that hard, it's just like talking you know? I do that all the time.

These are the things I like. Actually, let me run down the list of things I look at every Sunday morning.

Halloween Books-What makes your list?

The lightening streaks across the sky over Lake Michigan, chased quickly by the growl of thunder. My favorite weather is thunder storms, and as Halloween approaches, it seems fitting that the weather tonight matches the creepy mood of the holiday. As a bibliophile with eyes too big for my wallet, I have always dreamed of owning a bookstore. And in said imaginary bookstore, I have already planned the Halloween "must reads table".

Allison

Sitting at my kitchen table with a bowl of pasta, large glass of milk, iphone, and stack of papers to grade on a Friday night, I thought to my self "self, find a way to procrastinate!" And thus, I decided it was time to write my introduction. While this encompasses most of my life, if you need more detail, read on!

My name is Allison, I am 22, and I am currently residing in the fantastic city of Chicago. Although I originate from Saint Paul, Minnesota, I spent four years at UW-Madison and have now made yet another move. According to that diploma that I spent years working towards, I am a secondary education English teacher. According to my job that I get paid way too little for, I am a 5th grade paraprofessional.

Working at a charter school in one of Chicago's poorest neighborhoods on the west side has taken over my life, and thus most of my posts will probably center somewhere around there. The school day runs from 8 am to 5 pm and I spend it working primarily with a boy who suffered a stroke due to his sickle cell anemia 2 years ago. At age 11 he walks with a cane, suffered some brain damage, and is one of the sweetest children I have had the pleasure to work with.

Interests outside of teaching involves copious amounts of reading when given the time, drinking a lot of coffee, tweeting, and hanging out with my roommate that I have known since age 5 when she asked me to be bus friends on the way to kindergarten.

Happy reading!

Noah

 Howdy, reader- my name is Noah, and I am a husky voiced, handsome twenty-something that enjoys long walks on the beach, candle-lit dinners and altercations with tentacular horrors from beyond the stars.

Here is a picture of me. Please, don’t stare like that- I embarrass easily.

Let's get to know each other.

I live in the fine city of Madison, WI, living out my post-college days as a general-use underling at a factory. It is precisely as interesting as you have already assumed, and I won’t waste your time with the details.

I am, by aspiration, a writer of fictions; by perspiration, a manufacturer of comics; and by leisure, a complete media-vore: literature, comics, music, television, film, videogames and the trapping of the internet. As such, my contributions to this glorious land of Scrabblegories are those of review, preview and examination of whatever is currently catching my eye and devouring my time.

I can already tell we’re going to get along fine.

The Iraq War Logs

So this is literally breaking as I type this, and I know you all aren't as obsessed with media consumption as I am, but something extremely significant is happening right now.

As you may or may not know, Wikileaks has been ramping up to unleash something around 400,000 leaked and previously classified dox on the Iraq war (unsurprisingly, the largest document leak in US military history). Major news outlets around the world including the New York Times, the Guardian, Le Monde, Der Spiegel, Al Jazeera (links after the jump) and others have had complete access to all the documents for 10 weeks under condition of embargo until about 30 minutes ago. Here's the exciting part: simultaneously 5 of the most important news outlets in the world released their in-depth reporting on the information cache. Nothing like this has ever happened before. And everyone has some pretty damning discoveries.

Jake

illustration by MoxyCreative

lede:
Rather than do a lengthy intro, I thought I might just give you a digest of links I tweeted [follow me!] today. Lazy? Yes! But it's emblematic of what I'm interested in and the gist of topics that I'll probably be posting about here.

soundbite:

I currently work as an intern at the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, a journalism non-profit that funds in-depth reporting on under-cover issues around the globe and spend a lot of time on the computer at work.  

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I am a photographer. Find my work at my website, Jake Naughton Photography.

more after the jump