Month: January 2017
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They say it’s National Escape Day
Margaritaville’s various social media feeds have alerted me to the fact that today is National Escape Day. If ever a nation needed an escape day, today is probably the day. Until tomorrow. In the spirit of elsewhere and faraway, here’s a throwback all the way back to December 1976. Jimmy Buffett was interviewed in the […]
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One from the road: Mobile, Ala.
Have you been reading the news? I’ve been reading the news. Anyway, here’s a photo of folly chasing death in an old cemetery in Mobile, Ala. where a man whose story blends fact, fiction and fun is buried. His name is Joe Cain. He features in Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, out May […]
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One from the road: Pensacola
Winter, which barely ever exists in Portland, has sucked in Portland. I was warmer when I took this in 2015, on the beach behind the Margaritaville Hotel in Pensacola, Fla. “This must have been a fun book to work on,” people say. It was. Jimmy Buffett: A Good Life All the Way, the story of […]
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40 Years ago, just before ‘Margaritaville’ came to life … it was COLD
Forty years ago, as Washington D.C. prepared to welcome President Jimmy Carter, jackhammers were employed to chip ice from the parade route. Republican senator Ted Stevens invited the president-elect to move the inaugural festivities to his home state of Alaska, where it was warmer than in the nation’s capital. But the weather sucked everywhere — […]
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It’s almost a book
Two photos taken 364 days apart. On the left, the first blank page of a book as I sat down to begin writing exactly one year ago, on Jan. 4, 2016. On the right, that book–almost finished–on the far end of the year and as it arrived yesterday in the mail from the good folks […]
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