Author: McFeats
Professor, writer, hiker.
Digital Impasse – Blog Out of Service
I won’t be including any scans or photos for this post. My WordPress memory is maxed out. This means that I need to archive previous posts or upgrade my plan. It dawns on me that there will be a day when I won’t be able to maintain this blog. Like everything else, it will disappear…
Ukraine, War, and the Uranium in Navajo Nation
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/01/us/politics/russia-uranium-nuclear-power.html?smid=url-share https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/04/10/473547227/for-the-navajo-nation-uranium-minings-deadly-legacy-lingers https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/598471-uranium-mill-adjacent-to-bears-ears-has-become-a/amp/ https://amp.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/mar/28/native-americans-ban-russian-uranium
Facing Black America: A Dream in Progress (Typewriter Event at UNM-Gallup)
Link to Ingham Chapman Gallery: https://www.gallup.unm.edu/gallery/
Call for Fiction, Poetry, and Art: Cold Hard Type (Deadline March 1st)
The deadline for the latest volume of Cold Hard Type is around the corner: March 1st, 2022. (I’ve attached the promo here.) This volume, titled Margin Releases: Typewritten Tales of Transgression, is more pliable in terms of genre. There are many ways to envision and represent transgression. See the link for the open-ended prompt: https://loosedogpress.blogspot.com/2021/10/call-for-submissions-margin-releases.html?m=1…
Second Draft of Work in Progress
Apparently cycling and writing do not mix. I typically have one full day off per week, which means that I have to choose one or the other if quality is the goal. When I take the mountain bike out, I like to push myself. By the time I get home, the body, which happens to…
The Untimely Typewriter:Daily Writings Against the Tides of Distraction 