If I was the King of Missoula, I’d set everyone free to go fishing for a day (though because I was King, I’d go fishing the day before).
And how does one get to be King? Bloodline? Royal proclamation? Violent, bloody coup?
Nope.
All it takes are 300-500 words.
The New West Magazine Contest
The exceptional New West Magazine (an excellent online magazine covering the Rocky Mountains) is running an essay contest, with the first place prize being two tickets to a Rolling Stones Concert (plus two tickets to the magazine’s conference on development in the West). Don’t wait too long – the contest deadline is the 30th.
Sure, the conference part doesn’t sound too hot, but the Rolling Stones would work. Plus, as King (or Queen), you’d get to issue decrees left and right. (Anyone who’s read the Heart of Darkness knows how that’s going to end up…)
I issue decrees all the time, but nobody listens. But they’d have to if I was… KING. Even Wally the Wonderdog.
[tags]missoula, new west, rolling stones[/tags]
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Long live the king! Murdock(Quote)
I had tenatively penciled in Underground Montana Correspondent Sully for the “King of Missoula” slot, but his solution to the area’s development questions tend to involve sharp objects, flammable liquids, and developers stacked like cordwood.
Laudable to be sure, but hardly fodder for a winning “I want to be the King” essay.
Surely, somewhere out there rests the once and future king… Tom Chandler(Quote)