The Blackboard Free Press to gallop back from a dusty sunset - By N.L. Belardes
Bakersfield's Blackboard Free Press is coming back into existence? What could this mean? Newspapers on every street corner? Media gunfights on Eye Street? It's like an old Honky Tonk rising from the dusty Central Valley topsoil, only this in the form of parchment. In an email titled, "Like a Phoenix", Richard Bramer has announced "The Blackboard will rise again!!"
Richard writes,
I am now the proud owner of a practically non-existent newspaper. I have the business license and dba under my name. I would like to start meeting with interested parties - to start the network back up again...
I would like to have a meeting Saturday afternoon at Dagny's to help start things up. Hopefully we can have a paper on the street for January.
Richard followed up with a comment post in the blog entry "Baby got BIFF 2.0" by writing:
Speaking about all the press that wasn't there...
The Blackboard will be starting up again and is looking for your help. All interested parties email me at dirtyshirt@sbcglobal.net. If you're interested AND want to write or work on the rebirth, show up at Dagny's Saturday December 2 at 1:00. Meet the new editor/owner Richard Bramer.
I'm cleanin' mah guns...
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Wednesday, November 29, 2006.
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The Blackboard riding the streets of Bakersfield again... can't wait to see what they turn out.
And to see who attends the meeting at Dagny's: old cowboys, shadowy figures, Matt Drudges of Bakersfield, media sneaks, reporter tumbleweeds, lookylooz, and the ghost of Buck Owens...
YAAAY!! This is fantastic!
Ya know dadgum-rootin'-tootin'-well I'mma gonna be thar...Yessssirrrreee!
I've got spurs that jingle jangle jingle...
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWW!
They should have AD/DC playing back in black in background while they burn a news paper!
Back in black! Yeah Back in BBLLLLAAACCKKKK! Hey Hey Hey *Newspaper on fire* Back in black! Yeah!
it's a historical name, so i'm glad at least in one way it will continue to be kept alive...
yeh ol tumbleweed says you jus git dem dang doodles a scratchin and a makin up a hollerin' hoedown that'll shake a corn stalk looser than a two bit wagon wheel! Daylites a burnin' boys by golly diggity, so best fetch me up sum ol' varmit viddles and a ready up for one dognammit gosh darndest honky tonk knee slappin hillbilly a hootinanny this side a Punkin Center!
YEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAW!!!Blackboard's back in town!!!!
That's a Brave Bramer. Onward!
But will the website return with the archive?
That's a great question. I hope the archives return. There are a lot of great articles on Bakersfield history there...
Retrieving the archive and rebuilding the website has to be high priority. Second thing on the agenda (first being to get a paper out for December!).
Thanks for the encouragement, y'all. Truly appreciated.
Woo whooooo!!!!
I think this will be an interesting and beneficial meeting. I'll show up, snap photos, ask questions, and report on what's going on... :)
Oops. Did I say December? Should read January. My bad.
I'mmma be sure not ta miss this git-ta-gethur fa nuthin! Maw an' Paw alwaze a-told meh I could do anythin' I wanna. Writin' for them thar BBPress has always been ma callun'. Dagnabbit!
The archives have to come back.
All my travel stories can't die in vain!
DeejayOS
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