Hadn’t thought about the bull for a few years…then I did this interview with the Milwaukee Journal/Sentinel.
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COOP on the Radio
Weekdays at 12:30 p.m. CST from now until February 12, Jim Fleming will be reading Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting on Wisconsin Public Radio’s “Chapter A Day.” Jim has a wonderful reading voice (I have learned he is a favorite of rural mail carriers) and you can listen to a live stream of the reading right here.
Missed a segment? The five most recent chapters are available here: http://wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=cad&repeats=no
What’s the Thread Count on that Tarp?
Some time ago when metrosexuals were all the rage I did a story that never got published. The premise involved a magazine having me fly pretty much straight from 10 days of northern Wisconsin deer hunting – windburned, stubbled, and with dried deer blood under my nails – to an extremely high-tone New York City hotel, where I then spent two or three days being scrubbed, trimmed, and toned. I did it all – manicure (two, actually — the deer blood, y’know), pedicure, straight razor shave with warm shaving cream, several different facials, an $80 dollar haircut (nice enough fellow, lots of rapid snipping, but when it was over I gotta say you couldn’t tell it from the ol’ DIY electric clippers buzz cut), eyebrow “shaping” (think of being attacked in the eyebrow region by a rabid woodpecker — lots of tears, but when it was over, for the first time in my life I had two eyebrows) (lasted for about a week).
Anyways. I am off track. Point is, as part of the story the magazine had me stay at a hotel that was over the top tony. That experience was a whole ‘nother story for some other time. I bring it up for this post only to ask, do you think a place with “Frederic Fekkai signature bath amenities” and “Frette linens” and “Fully Equipped Deluxe Poggen Pohl Kitchens in every Suite“ (I got the Fekkai and the Frette, but sadly did not stay in a suite, so no Poggen Pohl) ever reckoned a sheet from one of their bedside notepads would make a trip to Farm & Fleet?
Article and Photos in A Country Newspaper
It was so windy outside that the poor reporter who came to write this story wound up having to interview me inside the granary. We each sat on a piece of firewood. She was not the sort of person to complain. The photographs are fun. Don’t let the smile fool ya, I don’t much care for them two roosters. Anyways, here’s the link.
WQOW Interview
WQOW Interview
This is the uncut version.
“COOP” on Video
I wasn’t going to post this for a while (the new book isn’t coming out for over a month yet) (although you can pre-order it here), but HarperCollins is going to add it to their site today, so here goes. I got up early in the morning a while back, sat in a studio, and talked about the new book. As you can see, I remain bald(ing), my ears continue to expand, and my eyebrow(s?) is healthy. At some point I do open my eyes.
Mike introduces “Coop.”
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