by Claire Wolfe
“Like A Prairie Home Companion … with grenades!” — Michael W. Dean, filmmaker and gadfly
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ONCE UPON A TIME …
… there was a town called Hardyville. Truth to tell, it wasn’t much of a place. The nearest freeway passed about 200 miles away — and kept right on passing. It didn’t have a single sign of what people in the real world might have called civilization or culture. It was just one dusty intersection with one lone stoplight, a few encircling residential streets, a fair number of surrounding ranches, and a whole lot of nothing, all located in a red-rock valley 600 miles west of the precise geographic middle of nowhere.
Hardyville was also — from 1997 to 2007, on and off — located on the Internet, first on a news site and then on the website of Backwoods Home magazine.
Given the town’s absolute lack of conventional appeal, you might ask, "Why the heck would anybody want to be there?" There are reasons — about 1776 of them.
Hardyville does have one really, really great thing: some of the most smart, cussed, stubborn, independent, clear-headed people you’d ever want to meet. And Hardyville doesn’t have one really, really awful thing most of the rest of the world is saddled with: too damn much government.
Hardyville managed to scrape its way into the twenty-first century almost entirely without politicians, bureaucrats, or any of their Evil Spawn. It is, in other words, what America once had a chance to become — and didn’t.
So what happens when the immovable objects of freedom and sheer, bloody stubbornness are slammed by the (so we are taught to believe) irresistible forces of faux-democracy, bureaucracy, and a whole army of other -ocracies and -isms?
Read on and you’ll soon know …
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Not a bad interview, but it would be nice if it was longer and more comprehensive, but I understand, you get the segment and that’s it. Since you mentioned Brian Wilson last week I’ve been listening on the internet when possible. Thanks for getting me back in touch with him. I used to lisent to him when he was on KSFO and always liked his show.
OMG. Somebody was actually listening. Good thing I didn’t know that beforehand.
Thanks, EN. I’m glad you could take time out from reading history and chasing wild women to hear the show. Brian is really easy to interview with, and as you surely noticed he’s a champ about promoting the book. I actually prefer short interviews like that one unless the topic is one deserving an in-depth treatment.
I never claimed they were wild, more like disreputable. Past a certain age wild is a long forgotten state of mind… and I am of that certain age.
No complaints about the interview, just speculating that it would have been nice if you got to talk about your recent ruminations on being a citizen of the police state. Some very good stuff that lends itself to radio in my opinion. Many people have vague opinions and thoughts about that subject and it would be a nice can of worms to have opened in a bigger forum.
For anyone who’s interested, the podcast is available.
http://www.wspd.com/cc-common/podcast/single_page.html?more_page=&podcast=Brian&selected_podcast=555553963.mp3
Thank you, EN. 🙂
nothing says ‘I love you Dear!’ like a copy of ‘Hardyville’ beneath the Tree … its NEVER too early, fellow readers, to get your ‘wubby’ a jolt of good readin’ from the Master herself
so trot on down to your Paypal store and buy one, HECK buy FIVE! and support our Fav-O-Rite author
when your Sweety sees that gleaming copy of Hardyville poking out beneath the Tree you’ll be glad you did!
((this info-claire-mercial has not been requested by the author and is a shameless plug to sell books for her.))
Um, yes. Unsolicited. I guarantee that. But a darned good idea. 🙂
Thank you, Jake.
Hello. This is your post speaking via a random user’s account.
Why am I not stickied? Don’t you love me?
Signed,
Lonely In Cyberspace
;0)
Oh, Hardyville would be a great setup for a movie. Yep… no pressure or anything, Claire.
😉
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