Potatoes on the Moon I Spent a Week Probing the Alien Landscape of Idaho (Audible Audio Edition) Jim Goad Audible Studios Books
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What do most people think of Idaho? Well, see, that's the problem - they don't think of Idaho. Despite its breathtaking natural beauty and the fact that it's crammed to the gills with eccentrics and freethinkers, Idaho may as well be the moon as far as the rest of America is concerned.
Jim Goad recently spent a week in Idaho mingling with state troopers, political extremists, collegiate progressives, and heartbreakingly friendly locals. Spending most of the week in the wilderness allowed him to examine one of the most pervasive yet ignored forms of cultural bigotry - the endless disdain that "urban supremacists" have for rural people. In this case, the countryside wins by a landslide.
Potatoes on the Moon I Spent a Week Probing the Alien Landscape of Idaho (Audible Audio Edition) Jim Goad Audible Studios Books
In personal recollection, I've been through rural Idaho once. Twenty five years ago on a family road trip through Yellowstone to move out west, we passed through its towns boasting of population 30 and fewer. It struck me as a nice place of watering holes, probably perch and pike fishing, rodeos, county fairs and porch sitting.When feared author of the zine Answer ME! , The Redneck Manifesto and a weekly Takimag column explores there though, I'm scratching my head. It so happens that this is a love letter to the state of Idaho. In photo-essay formats this almost reads like a parody of travel writing. That's because as the author puts it in the introduction, why would anyone want to go to Idaho?
For example, did you know Idaho contains the nation's largest untrammeled wilderness within its borders, the Frank Church River of No Return wilderness area. Noting that Church blew the lid off the NSA Watergate FBI spying scandal of the 1970s, the region was set aside for freedom lovers presumably who value nature instead of a surveillance nanny state--that goes hand in hand with technological tools.
A few exchanges with people on the road here and there but mainly this short work is Whitmanesque descriptions of springs, babbling brooks and meadows, country breakfasts, and sky. Goad availing himself of urban burdens (for Whitman it was taxes, for Goad its pc/leftists and hate speech witch hunts) within cell phone communication becomes so transcendental that speaking of the land and Nature.
This is the kind of thing you wouldn't expect from Goad if you're one of his readers. It's bucolic food for thought that I haven't really let myself soak in enough yet. I can't really figure out what I read but I have to recommend the book for its novelty value alone.
I'm also considering purchasing a plot nearby Yellowstone.
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Potatoes on the Moon I Spent a Week Probing the Alien Landscape of Idaho (Audible Audio Edition) Jim Goad Audible Studios Books Reviews
Leave it to Jim Goad to take a subject that you couldn't possibly care less about and watch as he uses his wit and unique voice to open your eyes as to what you're missing out on. I've read articles of his before on subjects I've never cared about (Nascar and Bo Diddley, for example) and each time I came away with a new outlook. Seriously, the Idaho Department of Commerce should adopt this book right away, what with the tantalizing pictures coupled with the author's wistful descriptions of lands you thought were only in New Zealand after you watched Lord of the Rings. Goad's writing voice also draws you in fully and reading goes by awfully quick. Reading the book, you get a sense of how relaxed the author was while visiting Idaho. At the end, I found myself wanting more, similar as to how Goad feels when he realizes his trip is up and he has to leave Idaho.
A short and sweet ebook from America's best author, this book will make you want to move to Idaho.
We moved to Idaho a few years ago and love it. Thanks for writing this Jim
A few bucks for an hour of mirth? Do it! It's not like your buying a house.
Jim Goad is one of my favorite writers. I read his book "Redneck Manifesto" twenty years ago, it was an eye opening book for me. It obliterated many wrong assumptions I had about some of the history of America. His style of writing is invigorating in its energy. I started reading anything I could find by Jim Goad. I highly recommend searching for his zine "Answer Me!". I think there are only four issues, but they are all packed with excellent writing. "Potatoes on the Moon" did not get five stars from me because it was too short. Not enough Goad. We want more Goad!
Kind of an odd book. I enjoyed it, but it was short and kind of narrow in focus. Sort of like cold mashed potatoes heated up the second day.
Jim Goad’s travelogue “Potatoes on the Moon I Spent a Week Probing Idaho” is a pleasant romp, with the only flaws being its brevity (it takes about an hour to read) and its lower density of “Goadisms” per page than normal.
Full disclosure I am a foaming-at-the-snout fan of Goad’s writings, and most of his opinions, and am trying to complete my collection of his writings in their original form (the elusive original printing of “Answer Me #4). He is the greatest writer of prose and wit and social criticism since the late great Florence King. When I criticize this work for being less dense with bon mots or withering logical eviscerations, or those glorious turns of the phrase, it isn’t a complaint really, for Goad always provides value for your attention. But this is less dense than “Redneck Manifesto” or his excellent postings at Taki’s Mag.
“Potatoes” is a travelogue of Goad and gal-pal-of-the-moment driving around Idaho and enjoying its spectacular beauty and contrasting travelers’ encounters with the locals and local fare. He frames his piece by pointing out the contrast of Idaho’s landscape is comparable to the wide contrast of the inhabitants the dull flatlands of Boise are in stark contrast to the independent northern nations and tribes and spectacularly beautiful wilderness, just as the hippies at the college town are in stark contrast to the Christian constitutional separatists. His circuit of the state is a well-chosen sampling, and his soaking in hot springs is jealousy inducing, so this makes for compelling reading even if it were not Goad writing it.
Travelogues ultimately should be judged by really one criteria though does it make me want to go there? Or alternately, does it tell me everything I need to know so that I don’t have to go there? Goad’s treatment ends with him saying he wants to go back, and that he enjoyed his week but wanted more. He makes a persuasive case for Idaho, with his usual insightful and poignant writing style, but with a lighter tone in his recounting, reflecting that he was having fun instead of frustration. Highly recommended.
In personal recollection, I've been through rural Idaho once. Twenty five years ago on a family road trip through Yellowstone to move out west, we passed through its towns boasting of population 30 and fewer. It struck me as a nice place of watering holes, probably perch and pike fishing, rodeos, county fairs and porch sitting.
When feared author of the zine Answer ME! , The Redneck Manifesto and a weekly Takimag column explores there though, I'm scratching my head. It so happens that this is a love letter to the state of Idaho. In photo-essay formats this almost reads like a parody of travel writing. That's because as the author puts it in the introduction, why would anyone want to go to Idaho?
For example, did you know Idaho contains the nation's largest untrammeled wilderness within its borders, the Frank Church River of No Return wilderness area. Noting that Church blew the lid off the NSA Watergate FBI spying scandal of the 1970s, the region was set aside for freedom lovers presumably who value nature instead of a surveillance nanny state--that goes hand in hand with technological tools.
A few exchanges with people on the road here and there but mainly this short work is Whitmanesque descriptions of springs, babbling brooks and meadows, country breakfasts, and sky. Goad availing himself of urban burdens (for Whitman it was taxes, for Goad its pc/leftists and hate speech witch hunts) within cell phone communication becomes so transcendental that speaking of the land and Nature.
This is the kind of thing you wouldn't expect from Goad if you're one of his readers. It's bucolic food for thought that I haven't really let myself soak in enough yet. I can't really figure out what I read but I have to recommend the book for its novelty value alone.
I'm also considering purchasing a plot nearby Yellowstone.
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