Mountain Man turned Writer--Alaska, freedom & the New World Order

~BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN

Tuesday, 07 September 2010

I JUST WANTED TO BE FREE

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"Twenty-five a night, thirty-five for an upstairs room, but we don't 'llow no parties up there … not even no whores--understand?" Yeah, I got it. Ten bucks more for being spared the noise, puke, fights, bed banging, and a shooting or two that was seemingly expected on the waterfront level; payable in advance of course. Sizing me up, the clerk leaned across the old mahogany counter as a ship's bell...
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MY MOST FAVORITE POEM EVER

BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN

Had I truly envisioned where this crazy path would twist, I may well have started writing earlier on. Nonetheless, living came first--mostly so renegade & raw I've yet to sort it all out--the lessons too close to the bone for the necessary dispassion.

I forget when I put my gamble on words, but after three years horseback in the Rockies, and then three decades trapping & guiding in Alaska, writing came as natural as the adventure. So what if it's been rough-broke trail, ''least I've got a story to tell instead of just a stack of old time-cards.

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WHY DOES EVERYBODY TAKE IT SO PERSONAL--or don't shoot the messenger
Saturday, 30 August 2008 | W.J. Lynus O'Brien

Look, as I've said many times, I've done enough bad, thoughtless, selfish or just plain mean things in my life that I for damn sure must have a big glass house by now--but fuck it, 2012 ain't far away so I'm going to throw some stones. It's not that I even want to say or think the things that I do. But the simple fact is, I've went from buckskins, trapping fur, guiding hunts, shooting black powder guns and striking fire with flint...
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Do You Like The Cult You're In? 15:21 - 14.07.2009
I feel like I am surrounded by a cult these days. Yeah I'm talking about the United States of America. Look I may be way off and just crazy from spending my entire adult life trying to live simple and self sufficient in the bush, but I finally have to just say it--

To my family, to
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