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Most recent posts
- Been Here Done This February 4, 2025
- The Phantom origin myth January 31, 2025
- A happy a cappella morning to all January 29, 2025
- The turnaround tree + 42 January 26, 2025
- Out with the wolf moon last night January 15, 2025
- The view from my burrow December 14, 2024
- Ian Mollusk November 25, 2024
- Say something to a veteran today November 11, 2024
- Today’s goings-on November 7, 2024
- Phantom blather October 17, 2024
- Liar Liar October 7, 2024
- So after the dirt roads of Vermont… September 21, 2024
- Hither & yon after all September 21, 2024
- I need some new aphorisms July 19, 2024
- Adventure’s first cousin July 11, 2024
- What a summer! June 3, 2024
- I would like to send you push notifications April 27, 2024
- Snow day February 13, 2024
- See what’s on the page February 1, 2024
- You’re good at this. See you in 90 days January 24, 2024
- The so-far 2024 blab of little to no consequence January 16, 2024
- A winter by the by December 12, 2023
- October? Inconceivable! October 25, 2023
- Five nights out September 11, 2023
- As it turns out… September 4, 2023
- BYO colorful expletive August 30, 2023
- One side left to side August 21, 2023
- John X August 1, 2023
- Back from soggy VT July 24, 2023
- The Sunday Phantom July 2, 2023
- Belatedly Yours July 1, 2023
- The Maritimes June 1, 2023
- Getting out of Dodge May 10, 2023
- Filed April 28, 2023
- An April summer in New England April 17, 2023
- All quiet on all fronts March 21, 2023
- Frosty Vermont, now with pine ceilings January 16, 2023
- Where we left the Phantom December 27, 2022
- About that winter storm December 21, 2022
- A few snow pics December 18, 2022
- A few photos from Vermont December 12, 2022
- The bug bugs out December 9, 2022
- A little December news December 1, 2022
- We’ve got the weekend off October 14, 2022
- How is it the weekend already? October 7, 2022
- Headed back north October 5, 2022
- The Death of the 21st Phantom October 3, 2022
- 4 men + 3 days = 1 building September 27, 2022
- RI to VT to RI to VT… September 19, 2022
- Getting around a bit more September 6, 2022
- Not in Montana or Sweden but carrying on here July 19, 2022
- A working weekend in Vermont June 22, 2022
- For the riders among us June 9, 2022
- Riding videos & the Phantom & Cape Cod &… June 8, 2022
- Limping home in the wee hours May 23, 2022
- A May Day this & that May 1, 2022
- Checking in with the everyday everyday April 20, 2022
- Went down with the Aircraft Carrier Langley February 27, 2022
- Phantom blab February 24, 2022
- February what, baby? February 14, 2022
- A bit of winter after all January 30, 2022
- Your highly anticipated report on next to nothing January 11, 2022
- So much for the short light of 2021 December 21, 2021
- Because Jessica Chastain October 19, 2021
- So you’re the kind of pain I’ve heard about October 10, 2021
- Vermont pics October 4, 2021
- The everyday yah dee yah September 25, 2021
- Back in the Green Mountains September 7, 2021
- So that was Vermont August 25, 2021
- Going upcountry August 18, 2021
- Back on Flanders Bay August 2, 2021
- Darling Betty July 5, 2021
- There goes the long light of 2021 June 21, 2021
- It followed me home all by itself, honest May 16, 2021
- A landmark day on two counts March 31, 2021
- Actual report just now March 28, 2021
- Half in the bag February 21, 2021
- Maiden voyage of the kids’ travel van January 27, 2021
- Lawyers, Guns and Money January 18, 2021
- What the hell kind of blogger are you? January 13, 2021
- Starting today December 22, 2020
- The trial run on low key December 3, 2020
- Sans windshield November 22, 2020
- GoPro 8 November 21, 2020
- So that was the summer of 2020 October 28, 2020
- The Dog Days in 2020 Houndsight July 27, 2020
- Roll with it June 28, 2020
- Been lax on the yakkety yak May 25, 2020
- A gray April morn in Little Rhody April 18, 2020
- Social distancing on the high plains April 12, 2020
- Results are in April 4, 2020
- Final lap March 18, 2020
- Nobody knows anything March 5, 2020
- The big boots of Round 4 February 18, 2020
- A bump in the road January 21, 2020
- Thank you sir may I have another? January 1, 2020
- Sneaking up on halfway December 9, 2019
- The thing about mainlining anti-nausea meds November 20, 2019
- Meanwhile, life goes on October 22, 2019
- The La Salette Report October 8, 2019
- Yeah, cancer, blah blah September 26, 2019
- The marshmallow slice and dice September 20, 2019
- More road people September 18, 2019
- Arctic odds & ends September 4, 2019
- So that was the Arctic August 10, 2019
- Two sleeps to Ontario August 4, 2019
- Homeward bound in the morning July 31, 2019
- The Game Boy Killers July 26, 2019
- Back home in Tete Jaune Cache, British Columbia July 23, 2019
- Glaciers and bears July 20, 2019
- The turn south July 18, 2019
- Back in the Yukon July 16, 2019
- Time to start wandering home July 10, 2019
- So that was the Dalton Highway July 6, 2019
- Deadhorse, Prudhoe Bay, Alaska July 1, 2019
- Tuktoyaktuk, Northwest Territories June 25, 2019
- The Dempster Highway to Inuvik, Northwest Territories June 20, 2019
- Teslin Lake, the Yukon June 15, 2019
- Headed north in the morning June 10, 2019
- Up and over the Rockies June 7, 2019
- Saskatchewan to Alberta June 5, 2019
- Wisconsin to Saskatchewan June 3, 2019
- The rainy, windy week that was May 31, 2019
- Handlebars pointed west again May 20, 2019
- To the extent that Tolstoy rocks March 30, 2019
- The man in the ball February 12, 2019
- Revisiting a little Gunnplay February 10, 2019
- The hawk is out January 28, 2019
- Get Sofia Coppola on the line January 18, 2019
- Star-crossed South America January 12, 2019
- Solstice+7 December 28, 2018
- Ahoy from frozen knuckle country December 10, 2018
- One of the greats December 3, 2018
- Between holidays blab November 26, 2018
- Consider the infamous Nomad reckoned with! November 10, 2018
- Daughter #2 Marries in Maine October 17, 2018
- Home again (for now) October 7, 2018
- Piggybacking the iron piggy October 5, 2018
- Mail from H and M September 12, 2018
- Three naps later… September 9, 2018
- Closing in on Little Rhody September 7, 2018
- Dodging rain in Oklahoma September 4, 2018
- Champing at the bit September 2, 2018
- Colorado and New Mexico September 1, 2018
- Nevada and Utah August 30, 2018
- Rainy Foggy Frosty Idaho August 28, 2018
- Los hombres libre ride again! August 26, 2018
- Iron piggy smoke dance August 22, 2018
- Random pics from Lake Cushman August 19, 2018
- Back on Lake Cushman August 18, 2018
- CCjon and Nestor resurface August 15, 2018
- Back in the States August 14, 2018
- Leaving Valemount today August 12, 2018
- The road to Valemount August 9, 2018
- Lost and Found, Found and Lost August 6, 2018
- Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska August 2, 2018
- Dear Chicago… July 31, 2018
- Saddled up and looking west July 26, 2018
- The beautiful mystery goes on July 23, 2018
- On truth and cool April 20, 2018
- Finally getting our burros in gear April 4, 2018
- Mail bag March 25, 2018
- A woodcutter’s lucky day March 19, 2018
- No sign of that March lamb yet March 14, 2018
- On scribbling March 11, 2018
- Post-Nor’easter Rhode Island remains swell March 8, 2018
- The road report from God’s Waiting Room February 27, 2018
- I told you she was fast February 18, 2018
- Again I fail to follow instructions February 10, 2018
- This and That February 5, 2018
- A little motorhead blab on a snowy afternoon December 14, 2017
- All hail bugs in the beans December 12, 2017
- Happy Black Friday/Buy Nothing Day 2017! November 24, 2017
- Winter’s here all of a sudden November 12, 2017
- May the fleas of a thousand camels invade your shorts, Verizon November 7, 2017
- Windy! October 30, 2017
- Honey I blew up the iron piggy October 13, 2017
- Nuther bachelor weekend October 8, 2017
- So that was Vietnam episode 10 of 10 September 29, 2017
- Phantom’s not dead yet! September 26, 2017
- Ken Burns on Vietnam tonight September 17, 2017
- On the picket line September 10, 2017
- There goes the custody of the eyes September 8, 2017
- Well that was weird August 16, 2017
- CCjon and the Phantom, both in trouble August 6, 2017
- Texan spotted in Cranston August 2, 2017
- And a bruising time was had by all July 17, 2017
- That’s it for me and the Phantom May 31, 2017
- Greetings from Turkish Prison April 3, 2017
- Hacking away March 26, 2017
- Fresh eyes on the yarn February 26, 2017
- Keeping the home fires burning February 10, 2017
- So that’s good December 21, 2016
- On matters of nose v. grindstone March 31, 2016
- The Phantom is in good hands March 21, 2016
- Paul Ryan, R.I.P. March 7, 2016
- Home from NY February 17, 2016
- New York, New York, Helluva Town February 13, 2016
- Why are you so loud!? February 7, 2016
- It’s good to be home! December 22, 2015
- Bull Run, Virginia December 19, 2015
- Roosting in the rain December 17, 2015
- Night ride to DC December 15, 2015
- Confirmation loud & clear November 18, 2015
- Plan B, the Continental Divide November 15, 2015
- South America! October 19, 2015
- Thanks for everything, neighbor! October 16, 2015
- So that was Canada 2015 October 11, 2015
- On the sea and on the farm October 4, 2015
- Big Apple for breakfast September 29, 2015
- L’Anse aux Meadows to Channel-Port aux Basques September 20, 2015
- At the Labrador Sea, bound for Newfoundland September 13, 2015
- Quebec and Labrador September 8, 2015
- And then the piglet balked August 19, 2015
- Now or Never, Manicouagan August 2, 2015
- Long time no blab June 12, 2015
- Headed home tonight March 31, 2015
- Everybody running to the coconut tree March 27, 2015
- Iron piggy rides again! March 19, 2015
- Headed home in the morning March 11, 2015
- Enjoy the snow while it lasts March 7, 2015
- Gravity takes over February 15, 2015
- South to the Land of Fire in 2015 January 18, 2015
- New baby, new year January 4, 2015
- News of journeys December 14, 2014
- Where the advent of Winter finds us November 18, 2014
- This is this October 26, 2014
- That ain’t right October 8, 2014
- Return of the Bride & the news from Zurich September 29, 2014
- Autumn 2014 September 24, 2014
- This isn’t why I’m writing July 29, 2014
- The heat, the rain, and the GWB June 15, 2014
- Our last night on Tybee June 9, 2014
- Tybee Island, Georgia June 7, 2014
- Old friends in Levittown, PA May 31, 2014
- Bronx is up, Bowery down May 28, 2014
- South to Savannah May 26, 2014
- Do you see the light!? March 11, 2014
- Alaska! February 5, 2014
- Nothing to report January 6, 2014
- Christmas 2013 December 26, 2013
- Huzzah the light! December 13, 2013
- Orval completes his journey August 28, 2013
- Alaska Highway, Haines Highway August 23, 2013
- Home to Little Rhody August 8, 2013
- Limping east on worn-out skins August 3, 2013
- High Plains drifting July 29, 2013
- Goodbye to the Pacific July 15, 2013
- The days speed by at Lake Cushman July 8, 2013
- Lake Cushman, Washington June 30, 2013
- Back in the Lower 48 June 29, 2013
- The road to Alaska June 13, 2013
- Blizzard pics February 10, 2013
- Lighter days ahead! December 23, 2012
- A welcome milestone today November 19, 2012
- Up the hill one year later October 29, 2012
- The summer of 2012 September 23, 2012
- Iron Piggy rides again May 28, 2012
- Carlisle PA, 2012 May 21, 2012
- Mother’s Day 2012 May 13, 2012
- Reincarnation of the Iron Piggy, Take 2 May 12, 2012
- Iron Piggy came up the hill today May 11, 2012
- Smash Corporate Hegemony! May 8, 2012
- Close but no potato April 26, 2012
- The iron piggy is down off the lift March 13, 2012
- In the home stretch February 29, 2012
- Piggy’s got her drive back February 12, 2012
- The 1995-97 Restoration January 29, 2012
- Blessings duly counted January 3, 2012
- Last exit before 2012 December 9, 2011
- A successful flathead-ectomy November 12, 2011
- Making progress on the Ford November 5, 2011
- The old Ford workhorse comes apart again October 23, 2011
- Seattle and home to Rhode Island October 10, 2011
- Wee Wee Wee all the way home September 23, 2011
- West to Seattle, July 29 to August 6, 2011 August 12, 2011
- The River Towns Ride, July 1-8, 2011 July 9, 2011
- The Fall Run to Montana, September 2-23, 2010 November 7, 2010
- The Spring Run to New Orleans, April 21-30, 2010 May 30, 2010
- The 2009 Trek Redux April 13, 2010
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The Phantom origin myth
TODAY looks like my best chance for a while to say something about the origin myth, this most detailed version published by King Features since 1936, when Lee Falk created the Phantom. I’ll stick to the first of its two … Continue reading
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