“I was wrong about the people”: the Bismarck on North Dakota, Liberalism, and Punk in the 21st Century

Despite having spent the better part of this century in the Washington state, Dan Mohr, Eric Fundingsland, and Chris Jury know a bit about the American Midwest. Growing up in and around North Dakota and playing in all manner of punk bands in Grand Forks in the 1990s (Happy Accidents, They Drive By Night, the … Continue reading “I was wrong about the people”: the Bismarck on North Dakota, Liberalism, and Punk in the 21st Century

White Buffalo: OUT and the Politics of Despair

Not to sound all theological, but there are times when it feels like the Cosmos just has a plan and yall best get out the way. Convenient, isn’t it, that something like Philip K Dick’s fascists-take-America alternate history novel The Man in the High Castle (1968) was finally made into a television series that debuted … Continue reading White Buffalo: OUT and the Politics of Despair