Finally

Today we finally got some real snow.

Rollins on Montana

I've got tickets to see the Henry Rollins "25 Years of Bullshit" spoken word show here in downtown Missoula next weekend. He's making three stops in Montana and just got interviewed by the Great Falls, Montana newspaper, the Tribune.

Never one to disappoint, he had this to say about Montana:

"A few years ago, I started doing shows every once in awhile at the universities in Missoula and Bozeman, and I'd never really spent much time in Montana before and I just thought it was really beautiful and raw and intense," Rollins said. "Your point of view out the window is just incredible. I thought the people (of Montana) were really cool."

"I don't know a great deal about Montana, like as much as I know about the town I come from, but it's a very beautiful place. And people always strike me there as, kind of no B.S., just real cool people."

Roadside America

There is nothing that compares to it.

On a recent drive home because of a death in the family, I got to see a lot of unique things on "roadside America."

I got to see an abortion sign with an extremely old graveyard right behind it. A clever tactic for the pro-lifers.

I got to see Sturgis and Deadwood in the Black Hills of South Dakota. Somewhere near a hotel I stayed at was Mt. Rushmore, but it wasn't visible from the road.

Then there is Montana's own Rock Creek Lodge, home of the infamous annual Testicle Festival about 20 miles from where I live:



But of all the things I saw, this was the funniest. Once I got into South Dakota, I noticed at every rest area I pulled off on was had this newspaper: