David Burge

Karma's janitor

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Happy Easter to all who celebrate!

No #davescaridservice today, but I'd like to announce that I'm working on a little project involving it. In short, a series of books. Each book will be somewhat brief, 80-100 pages, with a central theme: Flappers, Weddings, Immigrants, WW2 GIs, WW1 Doughboys, Femmes Fatale, Beefcake, Farm Life, Fashion Plates, Bonnies & Clydes, etc., etc.

The contents of each volume will 100% come from reader submissions - nothing pilfered from copyrighted material, no historic archives - along with whatever prose I can provide to wrap it all together. If I've ID'd a family photo for you previously, and you'd rather I'd not use it for this purpose, please let me know in the replies and I will honor that. I will do what I can to reach out for specific permission on photos I choose for the project; while I can't pay you for them, I will provide attribution and a special discount if/when the volumes become available.

The end goal is a growing list of volumes, each touching on an an aspect of 20th Century life in America and elsewhere. I'm also hoping it will be beautiful, and am working with a dear friend in Chicago who is a terrific professional illustrator and book designer. I don't have a specific deadline, but hoping to have the first 5 volumes available by late 2025.

Incidentally I've had a bit of interest of this from a publisher friend, but no contract as such. If you are in the book biz and want to discuss, let me know in the replies and I'll open my DMs to you.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

@BrettKnoss There is no BBQ to speak of in Luckenbach, other than maybe a food stand during a concert. Luckenbach is a post office, a dance shed, and a couple of buildings

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Honestly, drive to Austin

[John 🏴󠁧󠁢���󠁮󠁧󠁿 @BRFCJohn]

Best place in Dallas for a Texan BBQ then folks?

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Let us pray the curse last no more than 10,000 years

[CFB Home @CFBHome]

Since Roll Tide, Go Vols "country rap" dropped, the SEC hasn't appeared in the national championship
#ItJustMeansMore

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

I don't think Iowans would even care. The ones into NFL already are dyed-in-the-wool Packers, Chiefs, Vikings, or Bears fans. College football rules in places like Iowa and Alabama because that's the organic tradition, and a hypothetical NFL Des Moines Commotion would be doomed to failure

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

I'd say about 35% Packers, 25% Chiefs, 20% Vikings, 20% Bears

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[Justin D. Hein @jdhein22]

@iowahawkblog Serious question: At a consensus level, what NBA/MLB/NFL team do people from Iowa cheer for *AND* if the @packers @bucks @brewers made a concerted effort to convert the state into their fandom, would it be met with derision or welcomed?

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

@archon5050 @ZitoSalena Nope absolutely did. I don't personally remember it (my brother and I were like 4-5 years old) but my mom would retell it endlessly

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Gotta say this kinda shit enrages me, and not irrationally. I have a certain reverence for the the past (I mean, just look at my car ID stuff) and loath this ahistorical/anti-historical brain pollution. I despair witnessing people fall for it.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Stop falling for this AI-generated garbage from South Asian clickfarmers. The Great Depression and Dust Bowl were brutal enough without retrospective hallucinated image engineering. Look at actual photos from Dorothea Lange and Russell Lee.

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

July 6, 1936, Route 66, New Mexico. This is Martha Evans, 32. She had been walking for three days. Her husband died of tuberculosis in Oklahoma in May. The farm was foreclosed. She took the six kids and a Radio Flyer wagon and started west for California. The twins in the wagon were 11 months old. The boys walking were 6, 5, 4, and 3. Her dress was torn on barbed wire. Her leg was cut and infected. She wrapped it with a feed sack. She had $1.60 in her pocket. A photographer from the Resettlement Administration saw them and pulled over. He offered her a ride. She said no. She said if she took a ride now, the kids would expect one every time they were tired. She gave him her name and kept walking. The photo ran in newspapers across the country. Donations came to a PO box in Barstow. She got $200 and a bus ticket. She made it to Bakersfield and picked grapes. All six kids lived. Three went to college. Martha died in 1978. The wagon is in the Smithsonian.

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

@cancel_trent @ZitoSalena The "worsh" thing is specifically Western Iowa, doesn't exist 100 miles east of Missouri River

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

And the Simpsons' Itchy & Scratchy is a blatant ripoff of Kit & Kaboodle from 1970s Nat

[Barstool Sports @barstoolsports]

The Dutch are fully invading Dallas as we speak

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

Many people don't realize the whole anti-Dutch thing in Austin Powers was blatantly stolen from a 1970s National Lampoon gag

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

When I am elected President, I will bring all America together by staging a horrible community theater musical that turns into a steel cage death match

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

@davidclowery Prospective students at the ICPCPBF must complete a rigorous blind audition of Bang! Pow! Boom! and Chop Chop Slide

[David Burge @iowahawkblog]

I will say without a moment of hesitation
There is just one place
That can light my face
Gary, Indiana, Gary Indiana
Not Louisiana, Paris, France, New York, or Rome, but
Gary, Indiana

[Josh Barzon @JoshuaBarzon]

Say something nice about Gary, Indiana.

[David C Lowery @davidclowery]

Promise not to get mad at me if I say something?

[Tom Mars @TomMarsLaw]

ICYMI, the Big 12’s lawsuit provides some entertaining comic relief about Texas Tech’s “strategery.”The second numbered paragraph of the lawsuit describes Texas Tech’s and the Texas AG’s threats to sue the Big 12 as the very basis upon which the Big 12’s lawsuit is based - no threats, no Big 12 lawsuit - making Texas Tech’s board and the AG look like the village idiots. 😂