For anyone who has read the piece I posted about my mom yesterday, you’ll know that I was hunting for a particular picture of a Halloween costume she made me that I couldn’t find. Thanks to my sister, another copy was located, and I’ll embed this picture in the article too. Behold, Gurgi! I think I [...]

Looks like I’ll be taking a little more time off than I thought, Mudflatters. I got the news last night that my mom passed away, so I’ll be tending to family matters until next week. Others will pop on and leave you things to read and discuss. I debated whether to post what I’d written [...]

(Show up tonight so you can say you were at the taping of the first “Moore Up North” of 2011!) From Shannyn’s website: Join us tonight, Thursday, January 6, 2011 for the 45th taping of Moore Up North with Shannyn Moore, at the world-famous TAPROOT! Taproot is located in the Republic of Spenard at 3300 [...]

Everything is melting around here. I can even see my lawn. But here’s one I snapped about a week ago when everything was still Winter Wonderland.

~Lisa Murkowski and husband Verne Martell when she declared her write-in candidacy. Today, Lisa Murkowski was sworn in for her second full term as U.S. Senator. She was escorted to the swearing in by Murkowski the Elder (Also known as Murkowski the Lesser). Frank the Bank who gave her the seat when he left to [...]

After posting last night’s open thread, I thought it might be fun to post the rest in the series of road signs that got riddled with lead. Seriously, what else is there to do on the long drive between Anchorage and the Valley?

Why would I have to tell you that this is not a joke?  Read below. “The Anchorage Fish & Game Advisory Committee will hold their elections for regular seats on January 4th at 7:00 pm at the Anchorage Baptist Temple Children’s Ministry Gym, located at 6575 E Northern Lights Blvd. The public that is interested [...]

Going through a bunch of photos tonight and came across this one – one of my all-time favorites. I snapped this in Eagle River which is about half way between Anchorage and Wasilla.

Happy New Year, Mudflatters. The Mudflats is slowly returning from its hiatus… Of course, I’d never want to come back and all of a sudden just bonk you on the head with a large cast iron skillet, but sometimes we don’t get what we want. This is one of those times. Over the weekend, there [...]

The sunrise may come late this time of year, but the good thing about that is that I’m usually up to see it! This was the view out my window this morning.

By Retired Pastor This retired pastor is not nearly brave enough to read Sarah Palin’s ghostwriter’s book, America by Heart. We all appreciate AK Muckraker’s noble sacrifice in plowing through the platitudes on our behalf, and commenting on whatever chunks of fertilizer the plow turns up. Here is one such chunk of manure which caught [...]

Anchorage’s beautiful Town Square Park was put to good use last night as thousands gathered to ring in the new year. It was a gorgeous spectacle with Currier and Ives skaters on the ice, little blue lights twinkling in the birch trees, fire jugglers in the street, families eating kettle corn and reindeer sausage, musicians [...]

It’s that time of the year again – the beginning of it. And it wouldn’t feel right, hanging up that new calendar without our yearly round up of the ne’er-do-wells, miscreants, and rogues of Alaska politics. Yes boys and girls, it’s time for the Muddy Awards. Now that our heads are clear after the holidays, [...]