Guinness door drunken documentary

Mingus O’Bannon, an outstanding Irish musician from Seattle, put together this short documentary sort of thing about the Guinness door at the Galway Bay Irish Pub in Ocean Shores. It includes a cameo from our violin player Monica. They may have been drunk while doing this. I thought I would share.

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Video from massive vacant house fire in Aberdeen

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First Ale House show

Mike and Monica play a cover of Maid of the River by The Levellers. First time live, never together. I was pretty impressed.

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Rock me mama — like an Irish music fest

We cover “Wagon Wheel” with the help of Art from Darby O’Gill on Sunday during the Celtic Music Festival at the Galway Bay Irish Pub in Ocean Shores. Some amazing acts. Please ignore the one ridiculously wrong chord I hit. Thanks Elizabeth for running the camera. We’ll be going back to the pub Wednesday night [...]

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Some kick-grass lawnmowers

Spent much of yesterday standing in the rain watching people race some high-powered lawnmowers. Kind of fun. Kind of ridiculous, but everyone seemed to be having a decent time.

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“What do you think of our toothpick?”

That’s what the Site Manager Kent asked when we walked in. Steven and I headed out the to Grays Harbor Historical Seaport’s Spar Shop to see them turn a massive log into a massive 114-foot mast for the Zodiac. It was kind of interesting, so I shot a video of it for last Saturday’s newspaper. [...]

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Missing in McCleary: 5 seconds of fame

My editor asked me to go on CNN with Nancy Grace yesterday to help get the word out about missing 11-year-old Lindsey Baum. It wasn’t that fun.

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Lots of fun at Finnegan’s Wake

Here’s a video from our St. Paddy’s show that I finally got around to putting online. And I don’t really have anything better to post today. Well maybe later.

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Bringing down the house

We finally got another video up. It’s getting a little easier every time. Check out the demolition of this 102-year-old building.

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A video without video

So we finally did it — video! Almost. We posted our first edited video piece today with a story about the derelict vessel, the Northern Retriever. The problem is that the video doesn’t have any video in it. It’s just a video/audio slideshow built in a video program. For some reason the editor (iMovie) won’t [...]

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