In honor of many recent changes in my life, not the least of which is the election of a president who speaks in full sentences, I’ve moved Post Irony to a new spot: dondailey.com.
If anybody happens to have this page bookmarked or linked on their blog or Web site, I would appreciate it if you’d bookmark or link the new URL.
I’ll see you over at the new place.
The annual Mule Jump in Pea Ridge is truly something everyone should see once. Once will do it. Mule jumps draw the kinds of crowds you’d expect. Very few of your urbane types, unless they came up from Fayetteville to see how they live in the provinces.
Abby enjoyed the mules, the funnel cake and the clapping from the crowd.
A couple of dcoumentary film makers saw the above photo on Flickr and contacted me about buying it to put on a DVD cover of a film about the Buffalo River. I quoted them a price and they took it. Isn’t that weird?
That’s my dad standing on Hawksbill Crag in the Upper Buffalo Wilderness.
Sometimes as a reporter you have to go places and see things you would rather skip. I covered an exhumation last week for the newspaper. Can you spot me in this photo, which ran in the paper with my story? It’s the only time I can remember that I was in a picture that made it to print. I usually try to watch the photographer and stay out of any shots. I failed to do that this time. Zac Lehr shot the photo and The Morning News owns the copyright to the image.
Witnessing an exhumation is about as bad as you’d imagine. In this case, they removed the body from the casket at the cemetery to put it in the medical examiner’s vehicle. If you want to see more photos of the exhumation go to the photographers’ blog on the paper’s Web site. You’ll have to scroll down a few entries. (There aren’t any shots of the body.)
I created a new blog to function purely as a photoblog. It presents photos better than this blog, but there’s not much room for words. I’m going to put my favorites on there, so check it out if you’ve got the time. I gave it a goofy name: DDay Imaging. Click the link. And click the arrows below the pics to scroll through.
Let’s revisit a fine feature film. It’s got an all-star cast.
