About a year later, most of the folks who were working on that farm left the project to go start farming in Arkansas, but I was still a California boy and I'm not ready to go to Arkansas. I'm not ready to live in the Ozarks.
thought a monastic community was. So the Church was viewed as a sacred place. Everyone in Europe, everyone in quotes, is nominally Christian, and the Church is an area of safety. It's a literal ark from the troubles of the world that you can flee to. I believe there are even rules in England, for example, that if you had killed someone, you could flee to a church and the civil authorities were not allowed to enter for up to 40 days. So you could have sanctuary
These were businesses that were imperiled and we're going to have to shut down their doors. And Arkai raised over $70,000 to help sustain them. And there were salons, there were local bars.
And there were salons, there were local bars. And Arkai felt empowered and connected through their art and storytelling. And in terms of journalists, we have two young journalists from Afghanistan right now in our Peace Studio Fellowship program who fled the Taliban about a year ago.
yes, this was the concept, it was this regional guide, and it was really awesome. I got to have the drawings done. Little regional drawings of the white people. It was really funny, I did a lecture in Arkansas, at the University of Arkansas and when I got there, these two seniors, two senior graphic designers had done 100 unique "Stuff White People Like" posters for my appearance and I was just blown away.
favorites um and I love mysteries detective stuff and I love things centered in LA and I literally went to the uh the ark light and sat at the the Dome and they're doing things with the cameras I'm watching them they're very nice um but uh I sat at the in the dome watching this film and literally the dude across from me in the aisle was
Sameness. and I do think that her period as White House Press Secretary did her a lot of good with that Republican base. she doing in Arkansas? I don't even know. From what I hear, she's quite liked.
How do you especially focus on your strength? So I lived in Arkansas for 12 years, while I worked with Walmart.
How do you especially focus on your strength? So one day in Arkansas, I'm at a community swimming pool.
I work for the Colorado Department of Corrections. I work at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility. That's about two hours east of Pueblo.
When we get to college, that may be the first time that we start reading texts by black authors. by way of Arkansas and Tennessee.
And some people said it's a rite of passage and all that stuff. But growing up in Arkansas, it was very mixed. Because I had a very, in some ways, ideal childhood.
Dracula. I have this Batmobile, the exhaust is on the front, so it's always shooting flames. And I made Arkham look like Transylvania Castle. So Batman's become like the devil in the city, sort of a storytelling line.
When you think wow, a skateboard, that's a door. So this is rural Arkansas-- house here, little shed-y thing here.
I worked on "Epic Mickey" and then most recently, the first "Dishonored" game and the second "Dishonored" game-- I keep forgetting that's public-- with Arkane Studios. I went to grad school for English literature, which is very, very useful on the job market, it turned out.
They both would say we didn't know a dang thing about science. They're in southern Arkansas, in Texarkana. This is not by any means a technical hot bed in the US, not much infrastructure at all.
since at that point we barely had any money in our checking accounts. Merle did his job well and he did it in style -- Arkansas style. The next afternoon, we had a repaired car and an interesting story to tell. So that was my adventure with Merle. I put in a chapter about my first daughter. Having children is wonderful. There can
To be an employee at the new Ark Park, which is to get tax breaks or some sort of revenue stream from the Commonwealth of Kentucky for tourism--
in order to work at the Ark Park, which is supposed to be for tourism, you have to write something about your walk
We had a student in rural Arkansas, first generation, looking for a way to explore his passion in teaching.
but I'll speak about two. One is a string duo called Arkai. And they were with us at our very first Peace Studio gathering.
And on the forearm of Arkangel Gabriel, blowing in the wind is the knot of Isis.
I go to visit my brother at Arkansas State, and I was showing him some pictures of my different teammates, and he picked out
And I tried throughout the book to really leaven that with some beauty and with an attention to sentences and an attention to the kinds of beauty that was available to me in Arkansas. And you know, it's a very beautiful state, if you just ignore a lot of other things.
So I think this rural Arkansas example definitely highlighted certainly a lot of the pitfalls
So the second stop he makes in Arkansas is a fictional town.
I think that there is-- Arkansas is doing BMI, body mass index, with every child in the state that's in their K-12 program.
This small company out of Arkansas, out in California, and the US Army, all have these mission zero goals of getting
in hot unav ly Hotels Oklahoma Arkansas
When you don't have Nazis and an Ark of the Covenant, you've got to find a new way.
Dinosaurs. Ark . Ate everyone.
And what he did was he took the ratio of the Ark of the Covenant, which was 1.5 cubits by 2.5 cubits, and he created
our language like the word bear there as in the animal ark to carry or make it there
And I'm pointing at Bob. And so I hopped in the car and drove to Arkansas Valley.
So there was this other project in rural Arkansas, where a nonprofit heard this pitch about if opportunity isn't around you,
So "Slant'd" could be something for that lone kid in Arkansas who might not have a community that looks like him or goes through the same experiences that he does.
I've known him since he was governor of Arkansas.
you read my blog I thought oh my God the arking guy
they have there was this Boarding House near miskatonic University in Arkham where these sorts of stories were
sorry to interrupt Mrs Peasley still refuses to come back to Arkham for any reason Alice
So you just breathe and you change the dialogue-- Arkansas, there you go.
Rock, Arkansas. Then they wouldn't give those documents to me.
Worst than Mississippi, Arkansas.
their family while they were in the internment camps of Arkansas.
What excited the archaeologists was that they were now able to date the Ark ages from the 4th century to the 5th century.
And the Chinese save the world by building the ships to the Noah's ark .
Yes. That didn't quite-- The Ark Park.
The second thing I would not recommend that you do is play Noah's ark .
Shame to have ousted your betters thus, Taking ark while the others remained outside!
And that felt like the last scene of Raiders of the Lost Ark .