The world’s most famous snowmobile racer in the history of the world, former almost-one-term Alaskan First Dude Todd Palin has lots of sponsors. What company wouldn’t want to have their logo slapped on the side of the most famous piece of snow machinery on the planet?  Mystik Lubricants sure does. [From the Mystik Lubricant website] [...]

Let’s see… I know there were 10 of them.  (Counting on my fingers) Water to blood, flies, frogs,  death of the first born, ….hmm.  Oh, and diseased livestock, lice…. umm…..thunder and hail, darkness.  And boils.  Who could forget the boils?  That leaves one.  A plague of….. LOCUSTS!  That’s it!  And not only are locusts a [...]

No, it’s not “mammoth oysters” like rocky mountain oysters.  I just mean that this is an oyster round up of mammoth proportions!  For those of you unfamiliar with the oyster roundup, it’s what we do here at The Mudflats when the stories come too fast to catch up.  It’s a little homage to Lewis Carroll [...]

Here is the first of many little treasures I’ll share with you from my trip to the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Museum of the North.  This first shot is designed to set up the mystery.  What the heck is that thing?   I used Brian the Mudflats Moose for a sense of scale.  He’s has far [...]

  So, back in 1982 there lived a recently former mayor in a city in Alaska.  His name was George Sullivan and the city was Anchorage.  And as the mayor of a city, he had a life insurance policy. And those at the time liked George Sullivan so much that they thought they’d insure him [...]

I promised a better blog post than my bleary-eyed one yesterday night.  So, here’s my day up north. 4:15am – Alarm goes off.  Eye opens. Denial.  Hand slaps snooze button. 4:30am – Alarm goes off.  Eye opens.  Horror at the realization it really is time to get up. 4:35am – Shower, teeth, hair, clothes, bag, [...]

Please just make it stop.

Schaeffer Cox, 2008 State House Candidate for District 7 in Fairbanks got himself in a little hot water yesterday.  The former candidate and founder of the local ”Second Amendment Task Force” was arrested yesterday on second degree assault charges.  Fairbanks had eyebrows raised yesterday when I arrived, and only today have details become available on the arrest.  [...]

I had not planned on writing about Sarah Palin today. Nor had I planned on almost getting into an accident, driving down 36th St. a few moments ago. I was listening to Shannyn Moore on the radio, and she made the announcement. She even warned people to put down any drinks they might be consuming [...]

by Geoffrey Dunn Sarah Palin’s penchant for duplicity followed her to Hollywood and the Tonight Show with Jay Leno, on which she predictably praised the Tea Party Movement and heralded “the fairness, the balance” at Fox News. She even did a stilted turn as a stand-up comic — dishing out sophomoric digs at Congress and [...]

What a day!  I had a great time participating in a panel discussion on Sarah Palin at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.  I’ll write more extensively on the day tomorrow, but I thought the event was very well-done, and I thoroughly enjoyed myself.  Many thanks to Sine Anahita and Kayt Sunwood who coordinated my [...]

Off to bed early tonight.  Tomorrow, I’ll be winging my way to the interior for a visit to Fairbanks!  I was kindly invited by the University of Alaska to participate in a “Palin Panel.”  Don’t worry.  I made sure to inquire and verify that it is not, I repeat – NOT a Death Panel. It’s actually part [...]

Mayor Dan Sullivan promised to end the unpopular ‘rolling closures’ that shuttered fire stations in Anchorage on alternating days last year. Now that cost-saving measure has been replaced with another one that will trim $150,000 from the Fire Department’s budget. These are tough times, you know. Or so the Mayor says. Even though the city [...]

 As the Olympic Games draw to a close, we welcome back Mudflatter JD, honorary Chair of the Mudflats History Department. Our final installment of the Olympic trilogy featuring Brian the Mudflats moose follows.   And further historical adventures await… ******************************* The next pictures are at Delphi. This was the home of the Pythian Games. The Pythia [...]