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Sep
29
2008

Day 2: Progress

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Sep
29
2008

Omaha to Rapid City in Eight Minutes

Omaha to Rapid City from Sir Arthur SpamZalot on Vimeo.

By Matt | Also posted in SpamZalot, iowa, nebraska, on the road | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Comments (0)
Sep
28
2008

Nightshots: Rapid City Blues

Rapid City, SD was a sleepy, almost lonely little town. Zoo and I met an interesting cross-section of people.

First off, we ate at the Firehouse Brewing Company and Michelle served up delicious Chicked Fried Steak for Zoo and a beef chimichanga for me. Spicy, good. I had the Beaver Brown Ale, which was soooooo [...]

By Matt | Also posted in SpamZalot, photography | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)
Sep
28
2008

Maybe We Picked The Wrong Hotel

Upon checking into the Alex Johnson, Spammer was asked to sign the following release form after he started snapping photos.  Check out the highlighted phrase:

All in all, the hotel was alright.  I’d give it 3 stars if they hadn’t sent us to an occupied room.  Service was friendly .. especially Darwin, Betsy and Sara.

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Sep
28
2008

Badlands National Park

I have so many photos to process, plus some seemingly amazing panos to stitch. BUt, nighttime photography here in Rapid Falls is calling to me. I even got a quick tour of AJ’s Ballroom right here in our hotel.
Here are four photos as a sampler of how incredibly mind-blowingly beautiful the Badlands Park is…

By Matt | Also posted in SpamZalot, from the road | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)
Sep
28
2008

Day 2 Musings: Advertising Across America

Today’s drive across South Dakota was flat, then not flat, then amazingly gorgeous (Badlands!). One thing that stuck out like a sore thumb was the constant (and sometimes hilarious) billboards for “Wall Drug”. Wall is a small town at the end of the Badlands small loop that apparently sells EVERYTHING under the sun. And Wall, the [...]

By Matt | Also posted in on the road | Tagged , , , , | Comments (0)
Sep
28
2008

Jesus, if you’re out there …

… you need to fire your marketing team.
– END COMMUNICATION WITH JESUS –
Folks, the last two days, we traveled through parts of the country where signs like “Jesus Died For Your Sins” or “The Wages of Sin Is Death” [sic] are commonplace, and the most subversive grafitti we found was “Jesus Lives”.
After reading both God [...]

By zoobroker | Also posted in nebraska | Tagged , , , , | Comments (1)
Sep
28
2008

The CORN PALACE

Hey, what can I say? My grandmother said I should go!

By Matt | Also posted in from the road | Tagged , | Comments (0)