As Alaskans took a breather this weekend to enjoy the lovely weather, which seems to be fading fast, a whole bunch of little potential blog posts were drifting by on the lazy river.  So now it’s time to round them all up with a big net, and have a little Monday Morning Super Caffeinated Speed Blogging!   [...]

I was puttering around the house yesterday, and the phone rang.  I ran over and got it just before the answering machine picked up.  “Hello?” I said, out of breath.  “Hello, this is Allan Tesche,” came the voice on the other end of the phone.  My first thought was, “Wow.  Wonder why Allan Tesche is [...]

Another totally perfect day in Anchorage.  I decided to take a little hike to see if things were waking up yet.  Usually, the first spring flowers I see are violets, so I headed down to the creek to see if they’d decided to make an appearance yet, and check out what else might be around. [...]

Well, don’t that beat all.  In another stunning display of “you can’t make this stuff up,” yesterday’s Kentucky Derby winner, a 50:1 longshot named Mine That Bird belongs in part to Mark Allen, son of former CEO of Veco Corp. Bill Allen. Yes, THAT Bill Allen.  The Bill Allen that copped a plea deal with the [...]

We have received many great submissions for the blog which will be appearing over the coming weeks. We now have almost 40 blogs on the Mudpuppy Blogroll – is your blog listed?  If not, you can add your blog via this page. Mudpuppy News - We have some sad news – this week mudpuppy womanwithsardinecan [...]

(brushing grass off arms) It’s a perfect day in Anchorage.  Warm, but not too warm.  A cloudless sky.  A slight breeze.  And I’ve come to a conclusion. There are few things in life quite so wonderful as lying in the grass on a warm spring day with a dog and a kid, looking at this: [...]

Conservatives are all….”a-Twitter” (as you’ll see below) about the fact that, as we all knew, the President of the United States will actually be appointing a justice to the Supreme Court. David Souter today announced that he will be stepping down in June. Here’s what President Obama had to say today when he interrupted a press briefing [...]

It was Friday night until recently, and for those of you who are as up to your eyeballs in Dan Sullivan as I am, here’s an open thread to start the weekend and talk about other stuff.  After today, I truly believe if I hear the name Dan Sullivan again my brain will start bleeding.  [...]

Court documents came to light yesterday which seemed to point to Dan Sullivan mayoral candidate and bar owner, as the infamous ”Dan” who served drinks to a young cocktail waitress in his employ until she was over the legal limit and then sent her out into the world at 4am to drive the wrong way down [...]

I popped in to see the mayoral candidates forum hosted by the AARP at Central Middle School last night. Each candidate has made his views known, and has honed their answers to most of the questions by now. These two have been seeing a lot of each other lately. So, I’ll just note a few [...]

Dennis Zaki just got back from Kodiak, where he met Bob Poe. He asked him the question, “Who is Bob Poe?” and got this answer. Dennis hopes to ask this question of all the gubernatorial candidates. **WARNING** Do not watch this video if you feel insecure about your resume. Who is Bob Poe? from Dennis [...]

Don Young Twitterjacked! Oh, the Twitter fun just never ends.  Not only is the good governor tweeting up a storm on her brand new Twitter account, but so is Don Young…..or so we thought.  Turns out that according to Young’s office an imposter has been tweeting weird stuff using the name and image of Don Young, [...]