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    “Chasing Birds in Snow”

    Take a 2-minute excursion into the heart of the heart of Nature, as a bunch of birds play leapfrog in the midst of a West Virginia snow squall.

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    How a West Virginia Artist Captured 100 Badass Women

    Overwhelmed by the headlines, by Donald Trump, by a pandemic and with winter coming, West Virginia artist Sassa Wilkes couldn't get herself to her easel. Then, RBG died and Sassa found she wanted to get to know the legal legend by painting her portrait. Then, she kept on going with 99 more portraits of badass women.

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  • Essays,  Video

    Three Not-the-News, Under-a-Minute Videos

    When you are suffering from an overdose of dire news, may we suggest spending a minute with a happy dog tooling down the road, a koto-fueled Japanese fire, and bird upon a Buddha's head?

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    EDITORIAL: Shelley Moore Capito Remains Missing-In-Action

    It is Dec. 4—28 days after the 2020 U.S. presidential election was called for Biden/Harris. Yet WV Sen. Shelley Moore Capito has yet to formally recognize Joe Biden as President-Elect or repudiated Donald Trump's dangerous lies about election fraud lies.

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  • Songs,  Video

    An “Over the Rainbow” Primer and Duet

    "Let the boys have the damn song." How "Over the Rainbow" almost didn't make the cut for "The Wizard of Oz." A look back at a "sacred" song in the American canon, on the occasion of creation of a down-and-dirty music video version.

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    “Pills & Suits” & Patrick Morrisey

    In an illustrated excerpt from Pulitzer-winner Eric Eyre's "DEATH IN MUD LICK," he describes WV Attorney General's Patrick Morrisey's entanglement with one of the huge pharmaceutical companies that helped spawn the opioid crisis, and the devastation that continues to affect families.

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    A Few Op-Ed Limericks for the Times

    When all else fails in trying to understand the current American political regime, there's always the art of the Op-Ed Limerick. A new collection of four recent animations.

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  • Memoir,  Video

    When Elephants Walked in West Virginia

    You may not believe it. I would well understand should you not. The querulous mind dances lightly upon the phrase—and then rejects it utterly. There have never been elephants in West Virginia. But you would be wrong. Oh, so wrong.

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    Pandemic Memorial Video Project

    A couple of weeks ago, they began appearing. Brief, heart-wounded, heartfelt memoriams on Twitter. They note the passing of mothers, fathers, grandparents, kids. I began to screen capture some of them. I wasn't sure why.

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  • Memoir,  Songs,  Video

    Sheepish Thanks to an Old Friend

    I spent the day before my birthday making a ridiculous music video that shows only lambs, sheeps and rams for three minutes. Here's why

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  • Songs,  Video

    May John Prine Awake in ‘Paradise’

    John Prine has passed on. Here's a video homage to one of America's greatest singer-songwriters—a video version of his tune "Paradise." May he awaken in his paradise.

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  • Essays,  Longform Essays,  Memoir,  Video

    “The Key To My Grandfather’s House”

    Take a trip to Italy in spirt and in solidarity during this time of global pandemic and lockdown. What unites us is that we are all immigrants of one kind or another. Here is one family's tale out of Calabria. What's yours?

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    More Op-Ed Limericks for Trumpian Times

    I am doing my bit to man the barricades by helping to Illustrate the op-ed limericks by a sister-in-arms in West Virginia. Baby Trump balloons feature prominently.

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  • Memoir,  Video

    Remembering the Faces of Miners Lost at Big Branch

    It is has been ten years since the Upper Big Branch mine Disaster in West Virginia, which killed 29 miners, from their 20s to their 60s. Here is a video remembrance of their faces, as still-grieving families brace once more for Don Blankenship to rub salt in their wounds.

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    A Pandemic Video Diversion

    If you can't fly away from the Covid-19 pandemic, take this diversion into the skies, set to a 4th grade flute thingie, two guitars, and a whole lot of birds.

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TheStoryIsTheThing features poetry, essays, photo-essays & experimental video by writer, editor, multimedia producer, and itinerant musician Douglas John Imbrogno. SUBSCRIBE: thestoryisthething.substack.com | An AmpMediaProject.com production. REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglaseyeATgmail.com

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