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  • Essays,  Video

    MAKEITSHORT: 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,  News,  Video

    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

    MUSIC 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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  • News,  Video

    JUSTICE PROJECT | “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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  • Video

    OP-ED LIMERICKS: “Toady,” “Move Quickly,”“Fauci,” & “ Canary Meet Coal Mine”

    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

    A LOOK BACK: 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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  • Photo Essay,  Video

    Pandemic Memorial Video Project: may7.2020

    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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  • Essays,  Video

    VISITING ITALY IN SPIRIT: ‘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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  • Video

    OP-ED LIMERICKS: “Fauci,” “Mother Jones,” & “To Be Kind”

    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

    Ten Years After: Remembering the Faces from Upper 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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  • Video

    Take a 10-Minute Trip to Havana & Back

    You couldn't have a better traveling companion than to head to Cuba with Susan Werner. Needing a trip out of quarantine? Take a ten-minute jaunt down south to Havana.

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  • Essays,  Video

    The Joy of Little Things and Carrots, too

    If we cannot feel joy in daily pandemic life at the moment, perhaps we can find some teensy joys in our shut-down experiences. as daily human interaction telescopes down to our living room couch. A contagion meditation on carrot videos, Falstaff and a 'furiouser and furiouser' ruling regime

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  • Profiles,  Video

    THE ARCHIVES: Ann Magnuson Channels David Bowie

    Sometimes, nothing else will take your mind off crappy news of the day than Ann Magnuson channeling David Bowie. I've been combing through my old video archives and seeing what's worth preserving and—as an old therapist liked to tell me—"lifting up" for your attention.

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Welcome to the portfolio site of The StoryIsTheThing, a multimedia craft production shop based in West Virginia. The site features essays, photo-essays, short & long-form video, music , poetry & more. The site is a production of writer, editor & multimedia producer Douglas John Imbrogno. Our companion site is WestVirginiaVille.com REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com

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