Dispatch 16 — Why This Project Exists. What’s The Point?
Filed November 29, 2025 Why This Project Exists …and why it just might matter to someone like you. And this, this is a true account. It all started with, and still revolves around, a book.A mostly true tale about a guy named Willie. Willie Lyonsan was born and raised in a no-stoplight farming town in […]
Dispatch 15 — The Mob Called About The Cowboys: LISTEN
Click the play button below and listen Your browser does not support the audio element. The Mob Called About The Cowboys Filed: November 24, 2025 Radio Dispatch 6 NEW RADIO DISPATCH LIVE FROM THE MARGINS Click the image or here to listen. This is Live From the Margins — a story-driven radio episode built primarily […]
Dispatch 14 — The Snow Monkeys of Nagano Japan: WATCH
Filed: November 24, 2025 NEW VIDEO DISPATCH: LIVE FROM THE MARGINS Click the image or here to watch the film. Breathtaking.=================================Today we’re going to venture out to something a little less “one-of-a-kind” but equally awe-inspiring. Jigokudani Yaen Kōen, Nagano Prefecture. Japan. The Snow Monkeys! Five hours by bullet train from my base in Kyoto. And […]
Dispatch 13 — Fire in the Hole. A Sijo in Kentucky: LISTEN
Listen to this latest dispatch below Your browser does not support the audio element. Fire in the Hole: A Sijo and Kentucky Filed: November 23, 2025 Radio Dispatch 5 NEW RADIO DISPATCH LIVE FROM THE MARGINS Click the image or here to listen. You’re not going to want to miss this one. Oscar Slamp checks […]
Dispatch 12 — The Rice Harvest Part One: WATCH
Filed: November 22, 2025 Dispatch 6 THE RICE HARVEST: PART ONE It’s rice harvest season again. Tag along on another beautifully quiet morning in the village…the kind where the air still feels cool, and the hum of daily life starts slow. As the kids head off to school, the farmers are already out in the […]
Dispatch 11 — A Calm Morning in The Village, Visiting The Matriarchs: WATCH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lpv6onwsMNg Filed: November 15, 2025 Tag along and enjoy a slow morning in rural Thailand — soft light spilling over the rice fields, cows moving in quiet procession toward the horizon. From there we visit the two original matriarchs of the village: women who’ve seen nearly a century of harvests and festivals. One, the village […]
Oscar Slamp: The UK Gets It!
Filed: August 10, 2025 Oscar Slamp: The UK Gets It Seems word’s out across the pond — and it didn’t come from a press release, a polite email blast, or some PR intern who calls me “Oskar” in subject lines.It came the old way: somebody read the thing, loved it, and couldn’t shut up about […]
Bread, Circuses, and the Cupertino Dummy Factory:
Filed: July 24, 2025 Bread, Circuses, and the Cupertino Dummy Factory: Can I Have That With a Side of Scroll Drool, Please? A Manifesto from the Margins on Sovereignty, Screens, and Breaking the Feed. By Oscar Slamp Let’s talk about the scroll. That hypnotic, bottomless pit of thumb-jiggling slot machine nonsense we call “content.” Aza Raskin […]
About Louie
Filed: July 18, 2025, About Louie Willie’s Dog, Louie. An excerpt from MOSTLY TRUE TALE: ROOFIED IN TOKYO. Scene 5, The Maria Incident. Willie rescued him from a shelter in mid Michigan and both their lives changed forever. …Not your Westminister variety Boston Bull, Lou was thicker-set and blocky. His forty pounds pressed the outer […]
Scene 3 A Sijo and Kentucky
Filed: July 12, 2025, Lexi lit the spark Excerpt: Scene 3 The Starlite – Vacancy. It looked like it hadn’t seen a renovation since Elvis faked his death. A horseshoe of tired little rooms wrapped around a parking lot the color of scorched toast. A single bulb flickered above the office door. Willie parked under […]
Something Strange Happened a Few Days Ago
Filed: July 8, 2025, The Reveal Thanks to my wife, and the deep ancestral roots she carries into this part of the world, I’ve experienced things most people only brush against in dreams. Soul-level things. Things that defy language, because language was never designed to hold that kind of truth. There’s an occurrence in the […]
Found in a Tin Roof Bar Near Cambodia Border
Filed: July 2, 2025, somewhere near the Cambodia border. You ever get so empty the wind blows straight through you, like you’re not even real? That’s how I found Willie. Or maybe that’s how he found me. Depends on which one of us you believe. It was a few weeks after the fallout—after the rescue, […]